Re: How does one perform a COT&S?
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 11-03-2013 - 11:06
jbbane Wrote:
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> When Court's (or whoever the actual owner is)
> caboose showed up in Elgin last year, I noticed
> the K brake cylinder had no COTS stencil. I am
> pretty sure it was ran that way a few trips. I
> guess I'll look at it the next time I'm in Elgin
> to confirm if it ever got a service stencil, but
> then Court ran one of the GP7's pulling the RDC's
> for a passenger consist to Joseph without
> repairing the numerous defects to bring it above
> FRA excepted track, so why bother about a pidling
> brake service stencil.
I've seen ex SP fire train equipment in Redding whose COT&S was out of date by SOMETHING LIKE 25 years! This was back around back in the mid 2003 or so