Last weekend me and the wife were out at Stanley yard (should say driving over) and there was a CSX track crew with a HUGE amount of track completely on fire? There was also a remote job switching with a SD40-2 in the smoke. The smoke was so bad that you could not even see the engine. Not sure what they were doing but we took a complete photo shoot of it. Have some wild looking pictures too. The track crew must have been surprised becuse they were laughing and one guy said O man we gotta put this out now! I have herd of heating tracks but for work? i was gonna post the pictures here for you guys to check out but I need to figure out how. I love the fact that CSX tried to buy that road off of lake township and the trustees said to bad! They did the same down at the TORC facility and put up a sign that said they own the road? I think it was becuse some union members were on strike and they did not want them to have a place to strike at anywhere near. We are both union members but I wont get into politics here. That area is almost impossible to rail fan unless you know some RR people which we do. Oregon is not rail fan friendly at all. Seems everytime we stop to take photos the PD pull up behind and watch. O well guess the US ARMY sticker, FOP sticker, union stickers and the fact that I am a vet and my son is getting ready to leave with his unit for afghanastan again does not matter. We even have a “serving” star sticker.
You can’t post pictures here; you can only link to them. You will have to post it on another website.
Cool, thanks brother. I have not posted them anywhere. I have them on my computer. O well no big deal. thanks for the heads up. Plus I dont post on any other web site.
Post them on flikr or photobucket, then link them here.
You can also make an attempt to cut and paste them, it might be possible still.
Andrew
I’d love to see them, post them up!
Where is Stanley Yard ? If it’s in ‘cold-weather’ country, there’s a good chance the CSX track crew was heating the rail to expand it back to the proper length to close up at a joint after a repair of some kind - usually a pulled-apart weld due to contraction from the cold, or a broken rail from the same or some other cause, etc. A common method is to get a 1" - 1-1/2" diam. rope made out of fiberglass, soak it in a bucket of diesel fuel, lay it out along the base of the rails, and then light it with a fusee (flare) or a cutting torch, etc. It makes a lot of smoke, but the heat expands and moves the rails back together.
- Paul North.
Paul, Stanley Yard is CSX’s old Conrail facility in Toledo…I was going to ask if that SD40 had the number 8888 on it–this is where the real-life “unstoppable” train originated.