2/10/24

Chasing Trains .... But Things Go Wrong!

** READ: at 26:00, what REALLY happened was HA-1 dropped their train off and went to Harrington lite power!**

Railroading can be awesome and rewarding, but sometimes things can happen and they can go wrong! Our professionally trained rail workers know how to handle a situation, but it wasn't entirely the railroads fault of what happened here in this video! For example, the near some 60 year old canal bridge didn't quite line right, causing a 4 inch gap misalignment, which may not sound much, but definitely can cause a train to plunge in the water if not detected! Also, this really messed up the DO-1 local, which in the radio audio you will it becomes apparent!

Another thing that went wrong: we chased K64 but they got held up by not one, but two boats at the canal bridge!

Find out in the video describing the sequence of events as best as I can!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Disclaimer and intro

1:23 - K64 coming into New Castle, DE, passing Loram on Tasker siding before the canal bridge held them up

4:06 - radio conversation between dispatcher and K64

10:06 - DO-1 passing Blackbird Station Rd

11:40 - Working Townsend

15:30 - passing under sunset

17:11 - day one summary

17:21 - day two, K55 extra crew with massive train

22:06 - passing through New Castle and passing tasker with the k64 that was stuck at the canal prior to the other day

24:38 - going through the diamond at Porter

25:51 - K55 gets held up by two boats, turns out ha-1 left their train and went home

29:26 - Townsend

37:40 - Clayton.

36:56 - day two summary

37:08 - day three - port of wilm, GP59E OLS #5670 passes

38:47 - k64 passes over

41:00 - passing new castle

42:10 - picking up the K64 that got held up, combining into one train

49:00 - Boyds Corner Rd

50:10 - Townsend

53:30 - Clayton - HA-2 crew was dispatched to do interchange!

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