We see a lot of cars being taken out to our repair shop.
I know they are marked to be shopped, but how does the shop know what needs to be done to them? Is it always obvious? My thinking is someone either sends the paper work with the crew or they notify the shop by puter what is coming and what to do with it?
Anyone know for sure?
Thanx
Mook
There’s a whole laundry list of things to inspect a car for, and I’d guess that everyone in the Car Department knows what these things are.
At our yard, the trains are inspected after they arrive at the receiving yard and before they’re humped. The inspectors put a bad-order tag on the car (both sides) if they find something wrong, and the fact that the car is bad-ordered, along with a general defect category, is noted in the computer.
I’m sure somebody who has firsthand knowledge of inspection procedures would be able to elaborate.
BC
I have a form that a car inspector gave me
1st line is going across
Location/date/arrival time/train symbol/company/inspector
Next line
Lead unit/1st car/last car/caboose/EOT/total cars/track
Next line
Car initial/car #/principal defect/shop to/remarks
The form is captioned A.A.R. Original Record of Inspection-Interchange
Mook
The B/O tag has the problem written on it.
Mookie for some odd reason I though u were talking about “car”, cars you know the ones you drive on the highway and stuffs. lol I was going to explain what diagnostic proceedures some techs go throuh. really lol I’m an idiot. hehehehe
In the UK cars are labelled with defects on or they can be assigned as can coaches and locomotives on TOPS ( a computer system) and the receiving depot either looks at the paperwork or looks on TOPS to see what code has been booked to vehicle. With this information an effective repair can be made.
On a locomotive there is also a drivers book and he/she logs any faults in this. Sometimes this information can be very vague indeed and diagnosis of a fault can be down to experience or common fault patterns.
Expressions in the book like “this locomotive is a bag of crap” do not help fault diagnosis and these are the politer comments written. Some comments are very detailed and allow instant diagnosis.
I think someone posted a list one time for airplanes, problems and solutions. It was a real side-splitter.
I know we have quite a few cars that head east to our shops and they have cards and “post-it type” notes all over them. Can’t read them sometimes. Now I know!
Thank you!
Mook
No worse than when I drove a tuck and told the shop here is the probelm the rear end is going to blow. I could turn the pinion shaft about 3/4 of a turn before the slop ran out of it. Foreman with the boss there told me I was just a dumb *** driver and did not know what i was talking about. That night in Des Monies IA I lost that rear end and when it BLEW IT WENT BIG. Took out the thru shaft and the rear end housing for the rear gear and also took out 2 rear airbags for the suspension. cost the boss 15grand to get the truck fixed. Loved it when I got back to the yard the boss told the foreman looks like that dumb A** driver knows more than you.
The day you are an idiot is the day I sell all the trucks and buy a ricer…
Adrianspeeder
OH my that will be a sin for you!!! lol