And it can only be removed if all the employees assigned to the unit have removed their individual blue tag, either from the sign, (what the little holes are for) or their little mag base flashing blue light with name tag. The system isn't foolproof, but it has been accredited with the saving of many lives. The steel is unforgiving and makes mush of you easily!
I posted this a few years ago. https://www.trainboard.com/highball...oto-fun-10-26-3020.128186/page-2#post-1161188
Today's 238 at Hopkins, SC, destined for Charleston. I'd been wanting this shot for a while, as I like the composition with the old jointed light rail sidetrack. South Carolina's flat "lowcountry" makes this a very fast piece of railroad. The entire foreground of my picture was covered in beercans, so I hastily gathered up as many as I could before train time. Someone sure likes their Bud Light in Hopkins.
From yesterday, CSX L644 (formerly F779) at Devine Jct. in Columbia, SC, UP power trailing. For a reason few can figure, CSX is renumbering all of its trains.
Neat screen capture there! That's one of the Ventura County Railway's GE 70 Tonners. Hope that the l'il MG or whatever it is wasn't crunched for real.
1 May 22, and that is snow on the ground. Unknown westbound, perhaps 445 (St Paul-Calgary) or 245 (St Paul-Edmonton) manifest at milepost 481, CP Portal Sub.
Took a walk yesterday early and walked around these. The SW1200 is former NP! Unit 165. I am sure it is being set up to get shipped elsewhere for disposition as the SF doesn't want them.....The 40's are constantly in use here in local service. We have 5 different local jobs, that I know of.
And part two, I had to miss the self start getting going! Some one was driving in to work, so I had to stop the first one...
I love patched locomotives-it’s the only way my proto-freelanced WC gets any “modern” power and patches are fun to model. But that’s a particular jarring contrast. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
No smiles there. Photos like these with the tenders having come forward to crush cabs are frightening. Looks like the opposing train was double headed.
Anyone who's railfanned has one or more episodes where a train is on the way and you're expecting something grand, but are dismayed when it shows up. My wife and I waited quite a while at a nice spot at the Santa Fe's bridge over the Colorado River at Topock, AZ, so were quite excited when my scanner came to life. We were rewarded with a diminutive local. Not bad, but given what we'd seen elsewhere that day, it was a bit disappointing. [03/21/1997]