Steam & Excursion > Where to find 4449 location updates?

I've looked for 4449 location updates, tried Twitter, Facebook, Trainorders, and sp4449.org, with no luck.

If anyone has a source, or can post the current location, I'd be interested. (I'm free in Portland at present, would like to see it come in if it hasn't already).

TIA, Ted in OR

Heading off the Columbia River bridge at Wishram now (1713).

S_W

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Just hit Avery.

Posted from iPhone

Sitting in a siding on Washington side...don't know milepost

4-4-0LiveSteam Wrote:
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> Sitting in a siding on Washington side...don't
> know milepost
That siding is AVERY WA where teh SP 4449 has been stopped for a few minutes.
This is Milepost 103 . The mileposts count starting in Portland OR eastward direction.
---Daniel



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Rolling

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4-4-0LiveSteam Wrote:
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> Rolling
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> Posted from Android
OK that would be departing the AVERY WA ,MP 103, area at 6:03PM
---Daniel

Go to the ORHF-Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's FB page, scroll down, and you will see the link to their Twitter feed. They've been doing updates both days as to where they are when cell phone service is viable.

As mentioned, underway again. Likely going to stop again at Lyle (MP 87.1) for another eastbound.

S_W

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This is the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/ORHF_PDX

Updated ETA to Portland is 10:00 PM.

mikecnorthwest Wrote:
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> Updated ETA to Portland is 10:00 PM.

Must be a LOT of Heat-relates speed restrictions with the very HOT weather of late.
I hope everyone stays SAFE out there.
---Daniel



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Can Doyle work more than 12 hours?

Yes.

Legally? No. But there are other qualified engineers aboard.

S_W

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> This is the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation Twitter feed.
> https://twitter.com/ORHF_PDX

Thanks for the info! They could use a link to that from the various sp4449 social media sites.

Ted in OR

8:43 PM 4449 AAPPROACH MEDIM

8:40PM 4449 APP MEDIUM WE WILl XOVER at 8th ST

8:32PM 4449 DIVERGING APP MEDIUM

829PM 4449 APPRAOCH MEDIUM (radio call)

8:30PM 4449 APPROACH MEDIUM

8:19PM PDT by 25.2 DETECTOR HOT JUOURNAL---90 AXLES

8:12pm 4449 CHANGE RADIO CHANNELS


8:04PM PDT somewhere east of WASHOUGAL WA
BNSF Detector 37.6 You have a defect.
HOT Journal R side ax 6 HOT JOURNAL Left AX 6 INTEG FAILURE --90 AXLES


745PM PDT
4449 train just tripped the detector at MP 48.4 at 7:54PM PDT with 90 AXLES==Detector said
INTEGRITY FAILURE and HOT JOURNAL.

(location is about 6 mles east of SKAMANIA WA)
----Daniel



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Yup, it gets a little hot just about axle number 6. In 2006 they stopped to check. Now, I don't think they bother. They just know it's the firebox.

Ed

Auburn_Ed Wrote:
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> Yup, it gets a little hot just about axle number
> 6. In 2006 they stopped to check. Now, I don't
> think they bother. They just know it's the
> firebox.
>
> Ed

Some of the questions in this thread were answered "real time" for those listening to the scanner during the chase.

Pasco West dispatcher issued a Form C where SP 4449 was exempt from following certain procedures when the hot axles were detected between First and Eighth axles is what I heard on the radio as the train was about to cross the Celilos Bridge. Something about "at the discretion of the trainmaster."

Hours of Service issues were addressed when SP 4449 was Avery, where Pasco West dispatcher asked when does the crew die (19:20?), then the crew answered that they have replacements that are good until 21:00. I'm guessing the dispatcher was pondering a strategy to minimize delays to trains, because he knew Amtrak #28 was coming. I overheard him chat with another crew that both "Amtrak Steam" and Amtrak (#28) were going to be delayed, so he was trying to figure out the best way.