A friend of mine was fanning the ex-B&O east of Garrett, IN and noticed the defect detectors announcing mileposts that were out of order. Did B&O do something funky when they set up the mileposts or did CSX play “musical detectors”?
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Is it possible, that some parallel routes were merged, and some trackage removed, that would cause the official mileposts to be out of sequence?
Were the detectors actually on the same line? At Folkston, there are defect detectors on two different lines in radio range of the platform. Gets a little confusing until you figure it out.
As was also mentioned, this could be the result of two lines being merged. Some historical review would be in order to determine this. If two essentially parallel lines were built by competing lines since merged, the best of each could have been kept, crossing over where possible…
Here in Baltimore on the CSX main,there is a defect detector that works on three tracks.
Keep in mind the detector is at the same location,track 1,and track 2 are at milepost 9.0 on the Capitol Sub.
The third track is the Old Main Line Sub. (technically track 3) milepost 7.0
The two subdivisions start at different locations,the Cap. starts near Locust Point yard,and the OML starts at the B&O museum origionally the begining of the first 13 miles of railroad to Ellicott City.
Carl T.
csx likes to run trains in bunches. there are detectors at milepost 93,108 and 121.so you could have trains passing a different detector at the same time.csx has also had its share of maintanence issues with detectors and signals and its not winter yet.Did matt and i see you at hicksville hill a couple weeks ago?
stay safe
joe
Joe,
That was probably my friend who had the question. He drives a red truck and he was hearing:
The defect detector at Hicksville is 108 but the defect detector near Defiance is 53 (or something like that). The defect detector east of Defiance goes back up to the 70’s.
By listening to the car counts and the crew repeat the detector, you can “follow” a train across the line, so I don’t think he was confused. Have you heard the same thing on the B&O?
you can follow the crews as they call the signals or detectors if your scanner is strong enough.the detector west of defiance is at milepost 93.the next detector isn’t until after holgate at milepost 73(73.3).the dispatchers also use the crossovers to get around trains that pick up in the defiance yard or that are low priority.
stay safe
Joe