morning
last night I saw 2 sd 60’s pulling newer looking coal hoppers with just ns= on them.It is parked in archbold oh on the nyc line right now.is this a talconite train for gary indiana on ns? just curious.
stay safe
joe
It’s not that new-fangled electro-pneumatic braking train is it?
Did you get shots of the hoppers, Joe? I saw new NS hoppers of both the steel and composite varieties when we were out east last May.
If they have a dedicated train for taconite (from where to Gary?), I’d expect new hoppers to be smaller than those used for coal.
They started building brand new coal hoppers up in Roanoke here a while back. So there are alot of new ones floating around out there. We get several of the ECP trains down my way. A heck of alot better than the old braking system. Makes running a train alot easier.
the cars are the same size and are built like the hoppers csx uses for the k 185.I’ll see if they are still in the siding tonight.
stay safe
joe
Heh nice. That was a joke, right? I read it as such.
Out here at Shelocta, we had virtually nothing but SD80MACs for the past several years, until this summer, when an ECP train started running back and forth here. It had been getting stuck on the final grade a number of times, just before coming to the power plant, when one of its locos (consist of 3) kept dying, and they had to double the train in.
A couple nights ago, they were ready to leave the plant around 9 PM, but they started having a bunch of problems, with their brakes fading, and different car numbers popping up as the problem according to Mr. Computer. They finally found a bad connection a ways back in the train, and things got better after that. They left the plant after 1 AM. I still haven’t been able to catch it at day to get daylight pics of it, but I was there one of the nights that the train got stuck.
How many of these ECP trains are running around the northeast?
Was it on the NKP line?
ed
Joe, I hope you get a number series when you see the cars again.
Had an eastbound train the other day symbol ns 400 with all brand new NS hoppers (the black ones) it came into Toledo with BNSF power and was hauling Powder River Basin coal. Maybe the train you saw was the emptys returning west for a refill.
nope they had a conrail and Ns sd 60’s for power.they were on the nyc line in archbold ohio.They did have new ns hoppers on them.the train was gone last night so maybe next time.
stay safe
joe