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Post by highvoltage on Nov 30, 2022 20:15:19 GMT
Highvoltage, that is unique about the fire engine with the train horn. Alfred I'll tell this, it certainly gets your attention when it's behind you!
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Post by atsda on Feb 8, 2023 4:47:52 GMT
It has been amusing to have been working on the layout over the past two weeks at night when there has been a good deal of freight traffic on nearby tracks. i have heard the grade crossing horn signal many times. It got me wondering if the duration of the blasts is automated when initiated by the engineer, or does the engineer have complete control. Alfred
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Post by af3020 on Jun 16, 2023 14:22:33 GMT
Lots of trains in and around where I live....for example  |
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Post by curtis on Jun 17, 2023 11:08:48 GMT
Alfred
All train crossings are done by the engineer. It is a set pattern of two long, one short and one more long as they start to enter the crossing. This long is held until at least the engine is through the crossing. There are also QUIET zones where no horn is blown but are at restricted speed.
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Post by fanwoodguy on Jul 6, 2023 13:50:50 GMT
New jersey transit station half mile away. When the weather is right can hear the njt line a few miles up the hill and conrail shared assets a few miles in the other direction. Northeast corridor is about 6 or 7 miles away but can never hear them, have to drive or ride a bike over there.
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Post by seayakbill on Mar 6, 2024 14:42:52 GMT
When I lived in Prairie Township, near Columbus Ohio the NS mainline into Columbus was about a mile away. Heard the diesel horns numerous times through the day. Only time I would check out the trains was when I would be sitting at the crossing wondering how long this freight will be. Since it was 2 main lines at the crossing every once in awhile there would be a second freight coming from the opposite direction hitting the crossing at the exact time the first was finishing, so a lot of freight car watching.
Bill
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Post by af3020 on May 1, 2024 17:08:58 GMT
Some more neighborhood action - Eastbound Amtrak in the predawn hours.  |
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Post by ron045 on May 4, 2024 12:31:29 GMT
I am VERY fortunate to have many opportunities all within an hour or so of home. Plenty of NS in and around the Harrisburg Area including Enola Yards and the Y at the Rockville Bridge. The Lurgan branch runs near home so we get to hear the trains all day. We also have another branch that services some industrial and warehouse distribution that we get to watch. Mostly boxcars, tank cars and hoppers. Pioneer Lines in Gettysburg CSX down in the Shippensburg area. If we want to stretch a little the Reading & Northern. I guess I should list Amtrak...  Then for excursions we have... Middletown & Hummelstown (Milk and Honey) Northern Central Strasburg Winchester and Western Everett Railroad Walkersville Southern Allentown & Auburn Colebrookdale Railroad Lehigh Gorge Railroad (Really Reading & Northern) |
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Post by healey36 on May 5, 2024 18:27:33 GMT
Maryland Midland (at Westminster, Maryland):  Taken in June 2019.  |
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Post by ron045 on May 5, 2024 19:47:48 GMT
Maryland Midland (at Westminster, Maryland): Taken in June 2019. Nice .... We head that way every couple of years to chase and watch it go around it's own version of horseshoe curve. . 
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Post by atsda on May 6, 2024 15:51:01 GMT
Post by ron045 on May 4, 2024 at 8:31am
I am VERY fortunate to have many opportunities all within an hour or so of home.
Plenty of NS in and around the Harrisburg Area including Enola Yards and the Y at the Rockville Bridge. The Lurgan branch runs near home so we get to hear the trains all day. We also have another branch that services some industrial and warehouse distribution that we get to watch. Mostly boxcars, tank cars and hoppers.
Pioneer Lines in Gettysburg
CSX down in the Shippensburg area.
If we want to stretch a little the Reading & Northern.
I guess I should list Amtrak...
Then for excursions we have...
Middletown & Hummelstown (Milk and Honey)
Northern Central
Strasburg
Winchester and Western
Everett Railroad
Walkersville Southern
Allentown & Auburn
Colebrookdale Railroad
Lehigh Gorge Railroad (Really Reading & Northern)
That is a great line up of excursions. It is great to have the sounds of trains in the neighborhood as well. Alfred
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Post by Joe Saggese on May 6, 2024 19:04:44 GMT
Sometimes I catch this one running through town. (NJT)
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Post by Adam on May 6, 2024 20:08:24 GMT
Sometimes I catch this one running through town. (NJT)
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Post by oace on May 6, 2024 20:47:18 GMT
In my neighborhood there's nothing interesting. The sole engine of interest - and the sole & latest rolling steam locomotive in France to be of importance in size - is located at the city of Le Creusot ( Bourgogne Franche-Comté region) and is the 241P17 from the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer (SNCF) :  -1496394777.jpg) This steam engine has been built from 1947 to 1949 at La Société des Forges et Ateliers du Creusot SCHNEIDER. She was commissioned in the city of Lyon (in my neighborhood) in 1950. It was the biggest steam engine ever we had in France, with a power of 4000CV and a cruise speed of 120km/h. She was decommissioned in 1969, narrowly escaped demolition, stayed abandonned in a depot. She was fortunately recommissioned in 2006, thanks to 13 years of relentless restoration by railways and boilermaking passionates. In 1990 this 241P17 was classified as a French Historical Monument... Never too late for the latest ! Now that 4-6-2 pulls touristic trains in France, and even in Europe. OACE |
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Post by Adam on May 7, 2024 12:09:13 GMT
Neat Oace!!
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