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Cool grab absolutely love the shot passing the station. Military equipment was from 2nd Brigade Combat Team; 82nd Airborne returning to Fort Liberty, NC from Joint Readiness Training Center (Training) Rotation 22-06J @ Fort Polk, LA in support of 2nd Battalion; 3rd Special Forces.
Great catch, equipment was from 2nd Brigade Combat Team; 82nd Airborne Division heading from Fort Liberty, NC to Joint Readiness Training Center (Training) Rotation 22-06J @ Fort Polk, LA in support of 2nd Battalion; 3rd Special Forces Group Airborne.
46:47-52: Takes 5 seconds to announce no defects. 46:56-47:01: Takes 5 seconds to call signal and arrive at Rippon. Combine it. Jesus Christ. There could be an emergency broadcast and these Keolis morons wouldn't know about it because they're too busy talking on the radio. CSX crews hate you. CSX dispatchers hate you. Amtrak hates you.
What kinda cab car is this?, my father worked on BN and i used to go to work with him and ride with the engineer ....i remember being higher then this....also here no radio chatter....
1:22:00 Crystal City Station: A great place to get mugged. One way in, one way out. 1:26:00 Serious tree work needed 1:30:00 What is this? A nature preserve? My conclusion: Don't waste your time (or life) riding VRE
1. Crystal city isn’t dangerous nor is the station 2. Trees are not obscuring trains line of view 3. Ballas is a very normal thing Track ownership falls under CSX and Amtrak after Lenfant VRE isn’t at fault. My conclusion: You’re not very bright and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Metra Conductor here, and I actually work on the Electric District. On select weekends at Millennium Station (Randolph St./South Water St.), Metra trains utilize the South Shore Depot due to maintenance being performed in the Metra Depot rendering tracks out of service. During the week of scheduled weekend maintenance, signs are posted in both the South Shore and Metra Depot stating that Metra trains will utilize the South Shore Depot over the coming weekend. The Metra train in this video is #8520 which is a 2-Car Consist, this train pulled into Millennium Station (South Shore Depot Side) behind another 2-Car Consist already on Track 11 which is a 6-Car Island Platform, the platforms in both the South Shore Depot and Metra Depot don’t offer a lot of wiggle room so to speak, meaning engineers have to pull up close to the bumping post or, as seen in this video, pull up close behind equipment already sitting at the platform, in order to properly spot all the doors on the platform and make room for any other equipment that may pull up behind them. So once again 2-Cars were already sitting on Track 11 when this Train #8520 (2-Cars) pulled in, so when the engineer pulls this close behind sitting equipment this leaves room for 2 more Cars to pull in on Track 11 which then Track 11 would be at its 6-Car capacity. If the Millennium Station Depot Tracks were let’s say as long as the Depot Tracks at Chicago Union Station then our engineers wouldn’t need to pull so closely to the bumping post and/or pull up so closely behind sitting equipment.
I will never understand why CSX requires that an Engineer recite his entire life's story over the radio for every signal. Oh, and if that isn't bad enough, anything and EVERYTHING unforeseen, you have to copy an EC-1. Like okay, let me stop my train, pull out my pen, and spend 5 minutes copying a dissertation from the dispatcher because a MOW foreman pulled his flags 12 seconds before his work zone was scheduled to end. Great work on the video.
