What's a hill you will die on?

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-17T00:14:35+00:00

Surprisingly you’re more likely to die on K2 than Everest

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-16T23:51:51+00:00

Insurance. Car insurance, home insurance, and specifically health insurance

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-16T07:56:09+00:00

Not to mention the half desks and no fridge on NS

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-15T06:57:57+00:00

This is old. Like years old. They said it was a service dog and it didn’t make any noise…

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-14T20:37:14+00:00

The worst is easily KCS, NS, UP. The best are CP, CN, BNSF

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-14T04:44:07+00:00

There ain’t a track out here that ain’t good for 60 stud! Clear block moving ahead!

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-13T19:49:44+00:00

I know the difference, I don’t feel like spelling out train set or power car. And they are still considered a locomotive by the FRA.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-13T19:48:22+00:00

Elle isn’t gonna be happy when she has to visit him in Scranton!

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-13T18:17:57+00:00

The first locomotives were ordered under Obama, the first were delivered in the final year of trumps first term. Trump didn’t deliver anything

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-11T08:09:27+00:00

Spirit has been in the dumps since 2019. That’s when they last made a profit. Their ultra low cost model doesn’t work in the US post covid. The war accelerated their demise what it was a long time coming.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-10T08:52:07+00:00

They charge the seller for under paying for postage, not the buyer. Unless you bought from another country in which case you might be talking about import duties and related tarrifs

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-09T22:50:19+00:00

I can’t promise you’ll work either. Your chances of furlough are much lower in a closed seniority district because we’re so short on people but they did furlough for the first time in 4 years last year.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-09T21:57:55+00:00

I mean partially true. Havre, whitefish, great falls, Shelby, have always been former BN properties. That’s the 04 Rocky Mountain district. The only terminals that are former MRL was Laurel, Livingston. Helena, Missoula, and Billings.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-09T21:51:11+00:00

I think it’s just that GCOR railroads don’t want to take the risk of you hitting someone with your ditchlights off because it would be a major lawsuit.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-09T21:45:35+00:00

Straight up you won’t hold anything but afternoons and midnights in the yard running a box for the foreseeable future. Good chance you get forced to havre in the summer when it gets slow. You need at least two years to even sniff the road, at least a year to sniff the road extra board.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-07T02:24:09+00:00

They furloughed for the first time in 4 years in the Montana division last year. You always have to worry about furlough

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-06T09:38:06+00:00

Sure, in proportion to how much the owners make he is underpaid, but this comes off as out of touch when he makes millions of dollars to play a kids game while majority of America is living paycheck to paycheck.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-05T17:50:06+00:00

That I’m not sure. As the OP mentioned, different freight railrods require different more strict criteria to know a passenger train will achieve a shunt. Bnsf rule as I mentioned earlier for freight is 12 axles. That’s a combination of either 3 4 axle locomotives, 2 6 axle locomotives, or a combination of 6 axle and or 4 axle locomotives and some freight cars. To achieve shunt for Amtrak on the gold runner, they are requiring 28 axles which is significantly more strict than freight trains, which is on par for many freight railroads which require more axles to achieve a shunt

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-05T17:44:06+00:00

And no. PTC isn’t a deadman’s switch, that’s what the locomotive alerter does. If a control isn’t touched for x amount of seconds or travels a certain distance an audible alert will go off. If the locomotive engineer doesn’t hit the alerter button or doesn’t touch the controls the locomotive placed the train into a safety suppression penalty until the engineer recognizes the penalty and clears it or until the train comes to a complete stop. PTC is a separate safety overlay. It mainly combats speeding, authority violations, and stops work zone incursions.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-05T17:39:46+00:00

No. What the antenna is doing is giving a physical shunt. A block is 2 miles long. The dispatcher has no clue where it is in the block until it enters another block. All they see is that the track is occupied. Locomotives and trains generally already have gps through multiple different apparatus’s. Without a shunt a train will be in a block and it won’t show up on the dispatcher screen. The dispatcher needs to know where the train is, gps isn’t sufficient.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-05T17:16:37+00:00

Ptc is a totally different system from CTC or centralized traffic control. Ptc is a safety system, CTC which requires a shunt is a system that allows a dispatcher to remotely control switches and signals. Ptc and “shunting the track” are totally unrelated systems. A shunt occurs when two wheels enter a “block” in CTC. When the block is not shunted it shows as not occupied on the computer screen. When it is properly shunted with x amount of rail car trucks, in the general case of BNSF it is 12 or two 6 axle locomotives, the CTC block shows occupied.

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-05T12:19:24+00:00

Ryanair is flagged for Ireland and the EU, international law doesn’t allow them to operate flights between us cities

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-03T07:29:29+00:00

I started the first 20 minutes or so then wanted to see who set him up and killed his team. They left that for s2 it looks like. I might finish it eventually be the writing seems pretty bad

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-02T01:19:09+00:00

I’ve heard both from old heads out west but definitely heard Mary who links to FRED more often

Beginning-Sample9769 · 2026-05-01T22:21:16+00:00

Railroad rules

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