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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves"Date: 07/22/17 08:53 Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: mp208 Date: 07/22/17 08:54 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: Englewood Don't fret, he is loading up his oxygen bottles in the pick up truck
and is heading your way to help. Date: 07/22/17 09:03 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: DJ-12 Has anyone actually observed the elimination of helpers or is this just rumor at this point? FWIW, I was rather amazed to watch helper less trains climbing Rogers and Kicking Horse Passes on CP several years ago, although a great many of them operate with DPUs.
Date: 07/22/17 09:04 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: mp208 Date: 07/22/17 09:13 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: inCHI The source I saw saying the helper bit was last week and said implementation would not be starting until about no (something like July 20th or later)
Posted from Android Date: 07/22/17 19:19 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: BRAtkinson EHH = Easy to Hire Hulcher?
Date: 07/22/17 21:43 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: JLinDE A DPU is a helper, just without a separate crew. In the long hauls of the west on many routes there are numerous up and down significant grades over great distances and it makes sense to use them. With just a few exceptions, most mainlines in the east just have one major obstacle....getting over the Appalachian Mountains. The grades are 11-20 miles long and manned helpers make more sense. The remaining undulations in the profile can be handled by today's modern mostly AC units.
Date: 07/23/17 02:42 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: DubyaM So what happened in photo 2, a hard coupling?
Date: 07/23/17 07:00 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: BigSkyBlue I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for decades.
If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort would be more legitimate if photos of actual incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure are used, instead of random stock images of rail accidents. BSB Date: 07/23/17 08:00 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: ALCO630 And the first photo could be caused by bad train handling. How does an engineer who mishandled his train become Hunters' fault?
Posted from Android Doug Wetherhold Macungie, PA Date: 07/23/17 08:03 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: ALCO630 BigSkyBlue Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a > type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for > decades. > > If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort > would be more legitimate if photos of actual > incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure > are used, instead of random stock images of rail > accidents. BSB It just shows what a silly obsession bashing EHH has become. Posted from Android Doug Wetherhold Macungie, PA Date: 07/24/17 21:44 Re: Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves" Author: SRSD45 BigSkyBlue Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a > type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for > decades. > > If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort > would be more legitimate if photos of actual > incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure > are used, instead of random stock images of rail > accidents. BSB In the first photo, the auto rack with a car looking like a Ford is from the 70's. Earl... Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/17 21:45 by SRSD45. |