The locomotives in the video are still around today. 6089 is currently GECX 7316 6858 is currently NS 6712 6845 is currently NS 6703 6384 is currently NS 3344 And 6387 is currently NS 3346
Not anymore. The 6858 and 6845 have been retired & scrapped in 2019. 6089 probably met the same fate, not 100% sure. 3346 was retired this year and sold to a recycling company in Illinois, presumably for scrap. Only the 3344 remains
No. They were slated to be part of the SD60E rebuilds but NS ended the program in 2017. Out of the 135 units rebuilt, there were no ex Conrail SD60s included
A couple of years ago on a pizza delivery I was stuck at a UP crossing and about the middle of the train I started hearing BANG,,,, BANG,,,, BANG!!! Then saw a car pass and I could SEE one wheel with about 1/4 to 1/3 of the flange gone. I immediately called the UP 800 number on the box at the crossing and told them. They were happy a foamer called to tell them. The guy I was talking to quickly knew which train I was talking about. That’s the 3rd broken flange I have seen. It’s makes a distinct and loud noise like a Gorilla whacking an anvil with a sledgehammer and you can easily hear it over the noise of the train. One railroad employee told me years ago to call the railroad or police if you see one because it can cause a derailment. If I see one again I want to get a video of it.
i think that was a special occasion, when i believe planetcatfish that breeding is not often reported. This is the only youtube video i think documenting the actual reproduction of L187 in a tank.
It was a big surprise for us at the time and hasn't happened again since then. That looks like a '59 Chevy in your avatar. My dad had one of those when I was a baby. I had a '61 Nomad wagon for more than 15 years.
RS3Ls sound fantastic on these things with their overpressurized air systems. Much better results than the K3LAs that went on ATSF SD75Ms of similar era.
b3j8: With the wheels on the outside of the curve, they would probably run there for a while UNTIL the train went into a right hand curve. Everything would fall apart then. The pushers are not going to cause a derailment under these circumstances because they cannot push that hard. They can only pick up a portion of the rear half or less of the train. The other thing that will cause the derailment 'before' the right hand curve is to finally have the wheels dig in and flip the truck sideways and the crap hits the fan at that time irregardless of curved or straight track.
Lucky, that could have turned out much worse! I've heard of derailments happening where one set of wheels drag for a couple of miles before finally coming apart and derailing the rest of the train.
That is because of the AC traction motors that were under the "Conrail Cadillacs" and as told by the EMD field rep when we got our orientation on them he stated that "They are a little slow to take off but when they get rolling they are the equivalent to a 9 axle locomotive"...
We aren't professional breeders, it just happened in our bedroom 90 gallon tank. We used smooth aquarium gravel over a sand substrate and had several flat rocks arranges somewhat haphazardly around the tank, some leaning up against others to form semi-open "caves." In addition to flake food (it was a community tank) and natural algae we fed the plecos algae wafers regularly.
+Nathan Vitchner It depends on how serious the derailment is. It can be as simple as using a frog to walk an axle back onto the rail and as complex as using one or more cranes to lift entire cars. In this case the flanges were ground off of the axles on the derailed truck so the gondola was set out until the axles or the whole truck could be replaced. I don't know exactly how it was done in this case, but it could have been as simple as using some cribbing and jacks to roll the old axles out and the new ones in.
In the coal mine. We run em through the "right side". Like u say through the frog and they pop right back on. Lil rough on the switch . Lot easier that jacking.
