NS Pittsburgh Sub (Large Pics)

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I am currently messing around with locomotive bogies and swapping them out with better bogies as Eye candy. I done it with the Santa Fe FP45's on the DLS, better bogies actually have made the FP45's look slightly better!
 
 
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No mains open as of right now, Hulcher apparently has only now just arrived and with all the twisted metal there, cars with gasoline in them ( very small amounts but they have it in there) its probably going to be slow going on things.

Pretty insane derailment for them though, ought to be interesting once a cause is found.
 
There must be gridlock galore on the CSX lines, with hundreds of rerouted freight trains !

There sometimes are in excess of 60 trains per day through Altoona.
 
I don't think much was getting rerouted. I talked to the breakman of C42 today in Mifflin and he said most stuff was just getting tied down. The news in Johnstown said stuff will be moving again tomorrow.
 
Yeah they combined a few intermodals and sent them up north via the Buffalo line in Harrisburg and some manifest freight was running south on the Lurgan then west via CSX, same deal..larger trains. There is alot parked though.

As of this AM though track #3 is passable...some trains are starting to move via that track. It'll be a slow go most of the week I'd imagine as they do work on the other mains and get it back to 100%
 
I1E-20 with the NS 1072 cameup the Buffalo line to Sunbury and then up the CP Sunbury Sub to Binghamton. Then west on the Southern Tier of New York. The Train was massive, almost 2 miles long and had 6 locomotives. It was by far the largest train i have even seen on the Sunbury Sub.
 
jointedrail said:
No mains open as of right now, Hulcher apparently has only now just arrived and with all the twisted metal there, cars with gasoline in them ( very small amounts but they have it in there) its probably going to be slow going on things.

Pretty insane derailment for them though, ought to be interesting once a cause is found.
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I agree with everything you say, with one exception. Even the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (The rules that dictate how stuff is transported over Land) allows for whats considered "Normal, or Negligible" amounts of what would otherwise be considered a Hazardous Material to be carried without special considerations (Note the lack of Placards for instance on Auto-Carriers). Now, if one of those Auto-racks had burned, then the NTSB would have gotten involved and we probably would be seeing something similar to whats gone on with the Oil Industries ability to Transport by Rail. But it didn't. Because Gasoline is actually alot more difficult to ignite then most people think, at least accidentally anyway.

Not trying to pick on anyone. Just trying to set things straight.

My thing is, what's the insurance payout gonna be like? lol.

Falcus
 
Some one on Altoona Works facebook page said that it was a 107 car autorack. With the thing loaded, it would have had the weight equivalent of a 200 car train, so maybe it was a breaking issue and a bad switch. A friend of mine and I toured the line today from MP148 to MP200. It was pretty dead. We saw the N&W heritage unit at Mt. Union and caught 2 trains at Huntington. Not much else other than that. Amtrak 42/NS 04T was canceled while Amtrak 43/NS07T was able to go.
 
Sundays can be dead at times, as can mid day for 4 hours at a time ... then a flood of trains show up, and you see a dozen in an hour or two.

I sit back in the shade of a tree at Cassanda RR Overlook Park, in a chaise lounge ... Once you go there, you will rarely go back to the Horseshoe.

The old Rockville Tower location is a great place, you see all the action, except the Enola activity.
 
Many funs were had after setting up the portals and trying to run a local over the line picking up at various points :) 3 Hours I spent in one session of driver! Thats a record for me...







 
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