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Re: BIZZAAAAR - (Height of shipping containers)
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 11-20-2009 - 20:45
>So, if I understand this right, what is being said here is that double stacks with hi-cube containers must still thread their way around on the CTC in some stretches, because one track has better clearances than the other. Did someone imply that is why one track has the new CTC on certain stretches while the other track adjacent to it didn't get it?
CTC was on #1track from Rocklin to Newcastle, then on #2 track Newcastle to Bowman. This was for the Auburn CC service (and paid for by guess who?). This "new" CTC extends on #1 track from Bowman to a new control point 2 miles west of Colfax at MP 140, which has been named "Colfax". The plan is eventually to have CTC on #2 track Rocklin-Newcastle (they're already installing the new intermediate signals), and Bowman - [New] Colfax. This is what is called "phase 2" and includes notching all the tunnels on #2 between Bowman and [New] Colfax. Long term plans call for reinstallation of the missing track between Sw 9 and Shed 10, possibly next year, and CTC over the whole Mountain with universal crossovers at Verdi, Floriston, Midas, and Gold Run although not for some time. There is a remote possibility of putting #1 track back in over the top, but don't hold your collective breaths.
>Wow! -- How long will it be, before some dispatcher makes a mistake! A really easy mistake to make it would seem - especially since they too really are human. Of course, the engineer and the conductor would also have to have missed the high car listed in the manifest - if the clerk didn't forget to put in on the list in the first place. Who knows what the dispatchers excuse might be. Maybe because all the red bars on his display look the same.....
There is a new temporary (wood poles) wire high load detector just east of Bowman on #2 track, and a more permanent one (aluminum cantilever) just west of [New] Colfax.
>Imagine a hi-cube 174 platforms back, meeting the tunnel on the wrong track! What crew member up front would even notice. Probably get noticed when the next train hit the pile of rubble left behind - or maybe the neighbors would be nice enough to call it in sooner!
Late one night about 35 years ago I saw regular pigs strike the underside of the old overpass just west of Quint Street (east portal of tunnel #3) on the Peninsula.
CTC was on #1track from Rocklin to Newcastle, then on #2 track Newcastle to Bowman. This was for the Auburn CC service (and paid for by guess who?). This "new" CTC extends on #1 track from Bowman to a new control point 2 miles west of Colfax at MP 140, which has been named "Colfax". The plan is eventually to have CTC on #2 track Rocklin-Newcastle (they're already installing the new intermediate signals), and Bowman - [New] Colfax. This is what is called "phase 2" and includes notching all the tunnels on #2 between Bowman and [New] Colfax. Long term plans call for reinstallation of the missing track between Sw 9 and Shed 10, possibly next year, and CTC over the whole Mountain with universal crossovers at Verdi, Floriston, Midas, and Gold Run although not for some time. There is a remote possibility of putting #1 track back in over the top, but don't hold your collective breaths.
>Wow! -- How long will it be, before some dispatcher makes a mistake! A really easy mistake to make it would seem - especially since they too really are human. Of course, the engineer and the conductor would also have to have missed the high car listed in the manifest - if the clerk didn't forget to put in on the list in the first place. Who knows what the dispatchers excuse might be. Maybe because all the red bars on his display look the same.....
There is a new temporary (wood poles) wire high load detector just east of Bowman on #2 track, and a more permanent one (aluminum cantilever) just west of [New] Colfax.
>Imagine a hi-cube 174 platforms back, meeting the tunnel on the wrong track! What crew member up front would even notice. Probably get noticed when the next train hit the pile of rubble left behind - or maybe the neighbors would be nice enough to call it in sooner!
Late one night about 35 years ago I saw regular pigs strike the underside of the old overpass just west of Quint Street (east portal of tunnel #3) on the Peninsula.
