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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:00:43 AM EDT
LOL!
I thought shoveling your stuck car was a bitch! 
I am told this is near Mandan ND. 
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:04:17 AM EDT
[#1]
that sucks
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:06:01 AM EDT
[#2]
Dang. He may not even be on the tracks at this point.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:09:03 AM EDT
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Dang. He may not even be on the tracks at this point. I'm going to say this. Engines don't seem to be in alignment |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:10:47 AM EDT
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Bring back the rotary snow plows.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:11:11 AM EDT
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Dang. He may not even be on the tracks at this point. My guess is that those engines were tied down and then snow storm came. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:12:13 AM EDT
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How does this happen? It seems like the train was stopped on the tracks and it was snowed in and not that it was moving forward and was stopped by the snow?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:12:36 AM EDT
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Isn't Mandan where the pipeline "protests" are?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:12:46 AM EDT
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Bring back the rotary snow plows. They still use them a lot. Sometimes when the loco crews are plowing along they kick up enough snow fog that the don't see the big drifts or blow ins and they get stuck in them. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:13:17 AM EDT
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OOPS.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:22:58 AM EDT
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That does not look like fun.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:26:54 AM EDT
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Just for reference, it was 70° at 0500 when I as diving to work today.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:29:37 AM EDT
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Poor penetration, must have low sectional density.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:30:15 AM EDT
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with this cold might have had a "pull apart"
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:32:40 AM EDT
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From the amount of snow that had to be in place for a few days.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:42:47 AM EDT
[#15]
I've been working on railroad
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:47:29 AM EDT
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From the amount of snow that had to be in place for a few days. They usually don't park loco sets in the middle of the boonies. It's not uncommon to see them punch through deep snow here some winters. I was in Mandan last week and it was blowing snow in on the roads within a couple hours in places in the hills. I can't say for sure. But it's not uncommon to see loco sets punching snow. In their case a punch plow or rotary would have been useful. |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:51:04 AM EDT
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Wonder if "MrPlow" makes calls on the road?
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:52:17 AM EDT
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Poor penetration, must have low sectional density. What is the ballistic coefficient of a locomotive? |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:53:11 AM EDT
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in this thread, people start to learn how a train operates.
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:53:38 AM EDT
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From the amount of snow that had to be in place for a few days. You haven't seen how fast drifting snow can fuck shit up, have you? |
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Posted: 12/19/2016 9:55:28 AM EDT
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They usually don't park loco sets in the middle of the boonies. It's not uncommon to see them punch through deep snow here some winters. I was in Mandan last week and it was blowing snow in on the roads within a couple hours in places in the hills. I can't say for sure. But it's not uncommon to see loco sets punching snow. In their case a punch plow or rotary would have been useful. Trains and engines tie down all the time in what people would probably consider the middle of nowhere. When the crew is close to outlawing on their time (they can only work so many hours), they duck into a siding and call a van to come pick them up. Most of the time, they bring a replacement crew, but if it's a work or production train (not through freight) it may sit for hours, or even days. |
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