Due to some unforeseen circumstances with new services and higher carloads, we are all safe until the end of the 1st quarter of 2024. The only problem now with more business is that we don’t have the extra people and the extra locomotives. The locomotives that have been placed on storage look like skeletons robbed to the bones. I can’t believe how bad they look. Even the traction motor wires have been cut out for the copper. I hope that all of the equipment does not look like this. For the skeleton locomotives at the bone yards, might as well refurbished them from the ground up. Don’t know if the big yards have the people for this. Highly doubt it. Anyone know if the rolling equipment are also bare bones?
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Not a late night fortune teller just a person who knows things. It will get around soon enough but Denver cut every carman this morning at 7 am.
@2pde+1pTW9WEU When you say tomorrow, what day is that exactly? Your comment was 21 hours ago so that means your tomorrow was Tuesday (today) and nothing happened. I was just wondering if your from the future and trying to warn us or your a late night fortune teller who got it wrong.
The power axle rating with rail cleaner is higher than without based on being able to hold tractive effort at a lower speeds with more consistent adhesion. For this reason, having a DC loco in consist nullifies the advantage since they need to hold speed or you toast the motors.
Make sure you tell the rip tracks and mechanical employees at the yards that all get cut this month how safe they are. 1st one is happening tomorrow.
Speaking of loco shenanigans...
Can someone honestly explain how an air blower AKA"rail cleaner" converts a 12.1 EPA unit into a 14.4 EPA unit? because they sure don't seem to pull any harder...
And I notice they don't consider these magical units as 14.4 EPA IF they're pulling a UPS train...
Just more lies to make a train appear to be sufficiently powered on paper yet underpowered in reality?
Don’t worry, managers will step in and help out. They will drive the defective locomotives without question, because in their eyes it will make them look good so that Vena will keep them. Helps with their yearly bonus too. Can’t get in trouble for defective equipment if you’re the one making the rules, right?
In one yard in the desert southwest the locomotives are a haven for the homeless. In the 80’s there was a fully staffed round house w/ 3 shifts fixing locomotives. Now there are 2-3 guys and the round house is empty. Used to have 40 PO’s too. The PO’s never let the homeless get into, sleep in, and rob off the locomotives nor were there homeless encampments in the yards and on the right of ways either. It was a safer place to work back then when engineering and mechanical crafts did not have to encounter the homeless on railroad property while trying to do their jobs.