Semi-official Rochelle webcam discussion thread

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Congratulations, Balt, on the millennial reply to this thread!

Check the number of posts. Balt was probably the odds on (strange phrase!) favorite to win this honor. [;)]

Watching a BNSF MofW conga line roll by. Before they showed up an employee went to the far side of signal cabinet by the fire pit.

I wonder if he was lining the signal for them?

That’s probably a signal maintainer applying a lock against the UP tracks to protect the movements

1609 UP westbound, One engine, six or seven short walled gondolas, and A BLUE GREEN, BAY CAB CABOOSE!

A “gang car” assigned to MOW service. It provides limited office and storage space and seating for transporting MOW gangs. Transporting between the daily originating point and the work site, not between project locations. Also gives the conductor a place to ride when shoving the MOW train to/from the daily work site.

Jeff

Ah yes, all that’s left for the lowly cabooses (cabeese?), aside from restaurant decorations and museum pieces. I miss them; for those of us old enough, a freight train without a caboose at the end looks woefully incomplete.

By the way, there’s a couple of well-restored cabooses at the Danbury (CT) Railway Museum, where my wife and I stopped back in August. You can even climb into the cupolas. And they have a NYC E9 you can walk through and sit in the cab–impressive! Well worth a visit, if you’re passing by on I-84, as we were.

Here’s the DRM website: http://www.danbury.org/drm/

/Mr Lynn

With the size trains being operated these days, being on a manned caboose would be next best thing to a death sentence. Slack action, even if belted into one’s seat could be leathal.

Ive always wondered about these locomotives. why is it re lettered but not painted in the UP paint scheme? Is it still owned by Sothern Pacific?

Paint is protection for the metal surfaces - no matter what the colors that are being displayed. Union Pacific owns what was at one time the Southern Pacific. Painting locomotives is not a cheap undertaking, I am guessing somewhere in the area of $20K to $30K - maybe more. If the SP paint is adequately protecting the metal, it will continue to do so until UP decides a particular unit is in need of repainting in addition to whatever other upgrades UP wants to apply to the unit.

WB UP tank cars (oil empties?) on #1 and lonnnnnng train of every kind of covered hopper you can imagine (grain?) EB on #2 at the same time. THAT is called producing transportation.

I am always impressed when I see a couple of EB UP loaded coal trains interspersed with an EB BNSF oil train or two.

Bruce

I saw an D&RGW engine earlier today, which made me look this up on Wikipedia. Scroll down to the section about the merger with UP and you’ll see a small bit of info on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_Railroad

Thanks for the answer!! Im a beginner model railroader and railfanner so I dont know much, Thanks again!

Balderdash! Or something like that. I’ve been railroading in all scales from 1:160 to 1:1 for 70+ years and I still don’t know much. I’ve often said that when I quit learning, I’m just going to quit [PERIOD]. But so far, my plan to live forever is working just fine. [:D]

And if you haven’t been welcomed to these pages yet (or even if you have, I claim CRS and don’t remember it): [#welcome]

Off topic, but for Trains cam managers:

In the news today is yet another serious Adobe Flash vulnerability:

https://bgr.com/2015/10/15/adobe-flash-player-security-vulnerability-warning/

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Just one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches for various software including Flash Player, the company confirmed a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. You read that correctly… all versions. Adobe said it has been made aware that this vulnerability is being used by hackers to attack users, though it says the attacks are limited and targeted. Using the exploit, an attacker can crash a target PC or even take complete control of the computer.

Thank you very, very much for this tip, /Mr Lyn, although you make me feel a bit guilty that I had to find out about this problem indirectly. I feel like there’s something I should be doing for myself that I’m not; I don’t like this feeling of a lack of self reliance … particularly in my field. Again, thank you very much. [bow]

Now, let me tell you my experience with this matter. Maybe it will help others.

First, I followed the Adobe link in your post and found that, apparently after your post, Adobe has developed a fix for this security vulnerability. They recommend updating your system (installing if you followed their earlier advice to uninstall) to version 19,0,0**,226**. They also provide a link to a page that will tell you what your current release is (again, unless you followed their uninstall advice). Mine, in Windows 8.1, was 19,0,0**,185**. Clearly, some action was needed.

The Adobe site also had the standard ‘apply other Microsoft updates before updating’ Adobe Flash. When I checked for outstanding updates, I found 9 (?) including KB3099406 that updates Adobe Flash. Like a good little boy, I applied all of these updates before proceeding.

Back to the Adobe site

1958

EB BNSF one engine three passenger cars. Last car had spot lights shining off to the side.

Overtime at the diamonds tonight, got the spot lights on, with trucks and blinky lights.

Just saw a bit underpowerd UP autorack train go by. It seems like all autorack trains now are a bit underpowerd?