>Conductors blowing their horns
>Casey Jones being a conductor

That shit always irritates me.

>>132005

>Currently, train conductors lay on their horns almost at random

This is some really shitty journalism. A quick Google search will reveal that trains blow their horns for crossings (which I'm sure there are plenty of in Tempe, hence the 6-figure price tag for a bunch of signs) never mind the high-school level writing throughout.

>>132010
That's how nearly every single one of these articles is written. No matter how old or new, they all usually refer to the crews as "perverse," "cruel," or "sadistic" when it comes to blowing the horn at night.

As if the crews are even thinking of people sleeping let alone waking them up.

Is it perverse of me to think that a railwayman's chief thought is to make it home, safe and sound?

>>132010
>>132013
Welcome to the era of cheap journalism. When papers don't have enough funds to hire reputable journalists we get stuck with people who write sensationalist bullshit.
That being said, the Class 1s should counter this nonsense with a PR campaign of some sort. As long as they don't communicate the facts to the public then these articles will keep being printed.

I hate Quiet Zones
Can't tell when a different road loco comes thru
BUT the city of Gering, Nebraska was the 1st city to install Wayside Horns in the USA!

It's a recession, silly.

I know that makes me a "Alex Jones freak", in today's business world, but that's how it is.
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Picture unrelated.

>>132052

This is clearly Obama's fault.

Back in my day we shot Mexicans at the border and used nigga for coal

Car loads are down, but not 50%.

It's most likely just a coincidence. You can't get a full idea of car volumes by looking at a few manifest trains. Most of the decline in volume has been due to coal anyways.

>>132055
Didn't gas shipments also massively decrease tee?

The Coast Starlight is down one car in each direction, now that the Pacific Parlour Cars are in the shop.

Thanks, Obama.

>>132065
Crude oil, yeah. But still, petroleum products aren't down by much.

>>132071
Considering how much congestion was caused by the fracking boom I imagine that the Class 1 networks are now flowing a lot better?

>>132072
yup. Also why they're running a lot of tie and rail gangs in this down time.

I lol'd

Im weak, NYP is the biggest piece of shit that this grate city has produced

>thisisbait.tga

>he lived

Holy shit!

Another Darwin Award Runner-Up.

DMU is a great excursion vehicle, btw. It will run on any kind of track. They can get into harbors, industrial sidings and recently closed sections where mainline loading gauge equipment has no business to be in.

What's more, the railway operators weren't so skittish about their monopolies (they had a legal monopolies back then), so many were just given to preservationist associations. Now everything goes to scrap with strict no reselling contracts.

>>132039 -- Wasn't that when the operators still owned the vehicles they used?

>>132040
They still own their stock too. But consider today, freight is completely competitive, suburban passenger traffic is open and intercity is open to independent operators on routes where there is no monopoly traffic (should be completely open by 2019, I think), so any old stock - into the bin it goes.

>>132042
In the UK at least, the passenger operators and most of the freight operators don't really own their stock. Most is leased from stock holding companies, who also finance the purchase of new stock. This means that when a unit reaches EOL it's handed back to the ROSCO who have no interest in giving away for free to preservation that which they could sell for scrap or sell/lease on around the world. I believe we've got stock that's ended up in at least Canada, the Netherlands and Poland.

Reckon the ROSCOs' MO is "flog 'em to death, then flog 'em to the knacker's".

>>132043
This is the Finnish case, I'd say this applies to much of Nordic and German countries.

There are whopping 12 working motor cars and 6 trailers and several more in static display, owned by 5 different associations.

The canonical configuration is 2 motor cars and one optional trailer in between, so the number isn't that big in reality.

>>132001
I'd love to see this machine in action.

>Siemens

Fuel tank is torn up pretty good

I've been watching 66 run along Route 66 for years.
It hit a bacon truck last year.

>>132021 What's the red thing (not the stripe)? Is it a line with off-road diesel?

By the time I heard the news, it was off the tracker. How'd they recover it?

>>132023

I didn't take the pics....but....

It sure looks like dyed tax free diesel to me

>>132023
>>132024
Yup, railroad diesel is the same as farm diesel in that it's dyed red to denote that highway tax hasn't been paid.

Hiway tax, yes.
But this is Illinois, sooooooo...

We have an "off-road diesel tax".

I live in the best, if the greater states of the union.

>>132028
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/motorfuel/sales_taxes_exemptions.htm#illinois

Interesting list there. That some states are very detailed in their exemptions and some far less so.