Western Railroad Discussion > SKOL at Carona

Last Sunday (Aug 24) the Heart of the Heartlands sponsored a slide and media show at their museum in Carona, KS. While we were watching some cool shots around Kansas City taken in the 60s, the alert ear of the projectionist heard an approaching train. It was South Kansas & Oklahoma's Pittsburg turn heading back to Pittsburg, KS from Sherwin, KS. A pair of WAMX SD40-2s wearing SKOL lettering had about 60 or so cars in tow as they passed through the museum grounds. It's always nice to have a real train interrupt photos of trains.

Bill Gillfillan
Tulsa, OK

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Nice catch and shots with some very interesting background props!

Good catch! Really like the first shot

PQM

Looks like only a flag on the rear, surprised they are able to take a sixty car train down the main without a FRED?
JB

You don't need one if you are just doing a class 3 break test

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For those of us who don't know come here from sic 'em about brake tests, what does that mean, exactly?

Bill G.

It does not mean anything. An EOTD (or FRED if you prefer) is not a required piece of equipment for ANY brake test, whether Class 1, 2, or 3. A gauge on the rear will do just fine. Without getting into extreme detail here all you need to know to perform a proper brake test is a pressure reading on the rear car of the car(s) being tested. If you are running a 90 pound train line then pressure on the rear must not be less than 75 pounds (I won't get into brake pipe leakage here but that's also part of a proper brake test). And an EOTD is not necessarily required for movement on the main line outside of yard limits - a red flag in the daytime and an illuminated marker at night is all that is necessary. Having an EOTD generally makes life much easier, particularly on a long train, and lack of an EOTD or failure of an EOTD enroute can affect your maximum speed under certain conditions (tonnage and grades figure into all of this).



TTownTrains Wrote:
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> For those of us who don't know come here from sic
> 'em about brake tests, what does that mean,
> exactly?
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> Bill G.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/14 19:06 by Rathole.