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I went to Rochelee Sunday before last. Took photos of the old and new diamonds. I really didn’t see any difference. I don’t think it is the diamond discussed in the Trains article. I could be wrong. I have not examined my photos side by side to detect any design differences.
I think the pads described in Trains would be very difficult to see in a photo unless you have extreme closeups of the diamonds.
Well, I was right on top of the diamonds when I took the photos.
Second of two on a long WB mixed consist train by at 0915 CDT.
Bruce
That one will escape me- headed out of town today for family gathering. Thanks for the heads-up, though!
Red Flag (Sign) is out …
Just watched at EB UP - predominately covered hoppers with a trademark of CHS on the sides of most of them - throughout the train were groups of 8 to 10 tank cars, some of which also hat the trademark CHS on the sides of the cars. Unable to view car numbers.
BNSF surf gang working on #2 track just west of the diamonds. Probably working on the 10mph slow order.
Does anyone else see streaking on the bottom of the picture? No, not naked people. The bottom inch or two looks like someone put a ruler on wet paint and dragged it down. It varies in height and it comes and goes. It looks like this:
Not seeing that on my end …
Nor am I.
That is caused by a lost of data between the server and you. Somewhere along the line the last few lines of the image scan get lost and the last real line that is received is repeated to take the place of the lines that have been lost. Normally that only happens right at the camera to computer interface because the hardware has lost sync between the two, and the program processing the incomming data keeps getting the same data from the hardware buffer. Why you would see it happen in a “streaming” data from a server is rather odd, but I suppose it could happen (or at least that is what seems to me to have happened!)
A veritable parade of every concievable type of MOW equipment just went west on the far UP track. At least 2 dozen machines (including a couple of port-o-poties). It must of been there whole department! Anyone know what they are up to?
There’s a rail gang working between Clinton and Rochelle. Not sure which end they started at. Might be associated with that.
Jeff
Saturday morning, while visiting Fairfax, IA for a community festival, my wife, grandson and I watched an eastbound coal train roll through town with eight engines up front and one DPU on the rear. Pretty unusual, or so I thought. Just now on the webcam I watched the same configuration roll through on Track #2. Could it be that it’s the same train and have been parked somewhere between us for three days?
Nope, that train you saw did show up on Saturday in Rochelle.
The repeat is proabably just an odd coincedence. UP is likely moving power around which is in storage, or at least, that is my conjecture.
Yup. Looks like there will be another one tomorrow.
Jeff
I saw one Monday afternoon (a WEPX train) on the approach to Proviso. There were a lot of units on the point (eight wouldn’t be an unreasonable guess), but as far as I could tell, only the lead unit was powered. There were two DPUs on the hind end, both on line.
Did anyone see the big goof waving at the webcam with his wife today about 1pm?
Greetings from Rochelle. I’m on vacation.
Jeff
Nope!