Railroaders' Nostalgia > Another D&RGW delay report...

For 6/25/91.

Train: 1DVROT1-25 (Denver to Roper Yard, UT Trailers).

41 loads, 26 empties, 5238 tons, no footage listed.

3.5 HPT (horsepower per ton)

Crew: Bower, Bailey, Hendricks, Clark

Delays:

2:10 at North Yard Denver for "air test and held for arrival of ATK #6"

:09 at Plain "met train 2OACHF-23"

:40 at East Portal for "emergency brake application"

:14 at Tabernash - "ABS 669 red"

:30 at Granby - "inspect engine brake rigging on #1 truck unit 3059. Bent truck/wire rigging away from wheel"

:18 at Dotsero "to set out 5 empties"

:05 at Allen - "met 1GJNSM1"

:06 at Shoshone - "10mph MP 351"

:02 at Palisade - "25mph MP 434.6 to 434.9"

Arrive Grande Junction

Depart GJ with crew of Hickman, Woodard, Tucker, Hayes.

27 loads, 11 empties, 3106 tons

5.0 HPT

:15 at Westwater - "steel gang"

:25 at Grassy to "meet 5389 East and ATK #6"

:10 at Colton - "red signal"

:10 at Ironton - "meet MPI 9013 East"

:10 at Midvale - "red signal"

Arrive Roper Yard 5 hours and 15 minutes late.


Allen

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Hard luck train with all that horsepower

tomstp Wrote:
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> Hard luck train with all that horsepower


I don't see any problems here that had anything to do with horsepower.
Red signals, slow orders and UDE's are just stuff that happens everyday.

PHall Wrote:
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> I don't see any problems here that had anything to
> do with horsepower.
> Red signals, slow orders and UDE's are just stuff
> that happens everyday.

You had all that horsepower to make a good run and and everything else conspired against you...yes it happens all the time....get a one engine wonder and you'll poke along all day but never stop....

Right, nothing to blame horsepower for.  I was just saying in effect, all that horsepower and he doesn't get any benefit of it.

Pretty heavy train on the Moffat

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> Pretty heavy train on the Moffat

Especially for being a TOFC train.

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> Especially for being a TOFC train.

Not a lot of TOFC. Symbol was bigger than what the train really was. Mostly a DVROM

WAF Wrote:
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> Not a lot of TOFC. Symbol was bigger than what the
> train really was. Mostly a DVROM

I figured that there was a pretty good amount of fill tonnage that got moved by this train.
The Rail Blazer it wasn't.

I had the pleasure to meet/work with/manage/enjoy time with a number of those former (now UP) DRGW folks at Roper.   DRG&W had (and still has) a reputation of quality management,  excellent front-line employees in all departments,  and good customer service.  The former DRG&W managers I worked with as UP manager were all class acts.  The level of professionalism and pride-in-work of the TE&Y folks was very impressive.   I wish I could have had those guys cloned. 

I was working on the Rock Island when they established trains 55/56 Trailers from Chicago to DRGW Denver.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY