Nostalgia & History > What is So Unusual About This Pic?

What is so unusual about this train? This track often sees around 3o trains a day. This dates from June 03.

Sneebly

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well the upper headlight is burnt out. And it appears that an ETD is wedged into the plow portion up front, firemans side, but it's not hooked up.

Its a UP train and it is moving. Very ODD to see!!

Ian

Milepost/Station sign?

SP7615

This is on the UP's Hiawatha Subdivision. It is TWC/ACS. No wayside signals what so ever. Those are Aspect Change Points. This one is MP 52.4. The odd thing is that the train is heading eastbound on a typically westbound only subdivision.

We do occasionally run east. Most recently a light power move shortly after the elevator explosion in Atchison last week. And many times during the flood this summer.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/07/11 19:10 by imrl.

There is no caboose?

I figured IMRL would know the answer as this is territory he runs over. This was a tri-weekly local from what the crew told me. This is one of a few GP38-2s equipped with cab signals. So it is an eastbound running agaist the current of traffic.

Sneebly

The 820 is still kept around for this local along with the 818. When they run this job now, it runs west on the Hiawatha Subdiision performing it's work along the way, runs all of the way to Marysville, runs around it's train, and then runs east towards Kansas City with a road crew.

I love this picture! Thanks for sharing, Sneeb!

30 trains a day and no signals----geeeee. Talk about needing CTC!

tomstp Wrote:
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> 30 trains a day and no signals----geeeee. Talk
> about needing CTC!


Yes, but they ALL are heading west. This line is run directionally in conjunction with UP's still single tracked portion of the Kansas Sub. In the roughly 70 mile Hiawatha Sub, there is only one siding and it is only about 3000' long. I have only seen it used once, to store a Jordan spreader work train a last winter.

While there are no way side signals, this line is set up as automatic block but with cab signals. There are signs, as in the OP's picture, labeled as Aspect Change points where a signal would be. This is the point where a signal would change to a more restricting signal indicating block occupancy ahead.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/08/11 08:41 by imrl.