Hi guys
Does anybody have a website that I can find schedules of freight trains for any major railroad.
Jeremy
Nowadays, the terms “freight train” and “schedule” are pretty much mutually exclusive. Most RRs do have a regular slate of trains that they run, at around the same time each day/week, but you don’t want to set your clock by them. Too many variables factor in.
Try The Bull Sheet - all about CSX.
Many such websites have been taken down due to security concerns and rightly so.
LC
Oh, and Larry how much snow do you have up there now? 3’+?
LC
hmmmmmm…I’ll be on the lookout for one.
Intrigued Mookie here - Does journal grease really have a smell?
Good, bad or indifferent? Or just a statement?
Mook
About 6" in my yard, half of that from the last two days. Go about 15 miles south and you’ll find that 3’. I’m j u s t north of the lake effect area. [8D]
Mookie
I’m not too sure about journal grease, but I do know the journal oil we use on all our friction bearing equipment does have a disdinct smell to it, just like lube oil and diesel have distinctive odors from gas. Journal oil is somewhat pleasant until it gets hot.
And the smell of that can change by what’s causing the “hotness”. On some old movies of trains, when all they had were the friction bearings the heat from the brakes when the train descended a grade would oil the oil right out of the journal anddown onto the wheel where the brakeshoes would set it on fire. Quite a site comming down, say, Donner, Cajon or Sherman.
Mookie: Crawl under your car after the steering and suspention componets have been lubed and smell…there’s about how journel grease smells…although I haven’t smelled it in 25 years [:D].