Creosote ties have to be gathered up and moved to a place where they are run through a chipper. The creosote is then rendered and reused. They used to just burn everything in place. The ties are no longer supposed to lay around. They have had quite a while do catch up as this reg has been in place for quite a while now. They might need a reminder with photos.
Hunting on train tracks?
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Creosote ties have to be gathered up and moved to a place where they are run through a chipper. The creosote is then rendered and reused. They used to just burn everything in place. The ties are no longer supposed to lay around. They have had quite a while do catch up as this reg has been in place for quite a while now. They might need a reminder with photos.
there is one hulofa pile of RR ties just north of the Selkirk gun range along 59. Not sure what they are going to do with all of them. I would buy a trailer load if they are going to sell them. I'm worried that some of these clowns that burn every stalled out vehicle on the shoulder that they see, might torch that giant pile. I'm actually surprised that it hasn't happened already! I hope there are trail cams up.
About knowing when a train is coming: One time right around Christmas when I was a lad, a guy in ski clothing picked me up hitchhiking because he wanted directions to the nearest police station (in a decade of hitching, it was the only ride I ever got from a skier from the city). He seemed calm and self possessed but physically was trembling like a leaf and even as the young idiot I was I could tell there was something very wrong and I went an extra distance through town with him until the directions to the cops was very clear. I later learned that a car containing seven of his friends had been hit by a train at a level crossing just before then and he was looking for the authorities to get news about them. He wanted to know what hospital they'd been taken to but in fact six were killed, cut to pieces, and just one survived with drastic injuries. The story from the single survivor was that their car windows were fogged up (too many people breathing inside) and the driver had the music on loud and the car got nailed even though there was a flashing signal at the crossing and the train was blowing its whistle and all. Respect the train.
For a quite a while after that, the train engineer would go nuts leaning on the whistle at that crossing, made people in the nearby town pretty angry but you could hardly blame him.
For a quite a while after that, the train engineer would go nuts leaning on the whistle at that crossing, made people in the nearby town pretty angry but you could hardly blame him.
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People used to put them in their vegetable gardens as dividers and such. My dad used an old 'rescued' telephone pole for kindling to start his charcoal BBQ going, you could taste creosote in the burgers. Drove me nuts but the old man just laughed about it.
We're discussing driving your car on the railroad tracks back in the day, and you are saying common sense is no longer common? Sounds like it wasn't back then either...
An old joke my uncle told me. Three hunters were out hunting one fall and decided to split up. The first two meet back at camp both with tags filled. The first guy starts explaining how he found these fresh tracks and followed them all of twenty yards and there was the buck, bang flop down. The second hunters story mirrors the first, found some fresh tracks, followed them for a bit and there was a buck. Bang flop. It's getting late now and they're wonder where there newfy(sorry gotta stick to the original story) buddy is, shoulda been back and it's getting dark. Well lone behold he comes staggering up to the camp in tatters and beat to ####. What the hell happened to you Jimmy!? "Well, I didn't get my deer but you see I found theses nice tracks and decided to follow them, next I know bang! A dam train hit me!" Lol forgot about this joke until this thread, hadn't heard it since I was kid and shot my first blue eyed moose, hit him right in the head, one eye blue that way, the other blue that way!
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Look bothways while you walk. Stick to the bushline as much as possible. Engineers in trains won't be blowing that whistle unless they see a whistle post. You wont see or hear him comming from behind you till its too late.. If you have to cross.. Look both ways and cross. Dont travel lr walk directly on track. Never mind the ticket. Dont risk your life. If you have to follow the track. Again stick to the nushline well away from the track. The first train that spots you may report it to the rtc if your anywhere near the
track. Be safe out there ...trains and railways are no joke. I should know i operate their damn track equipment.
track. Be safe out there ...trains and railways are no joke. I should know i operate their damn track equipment.
One thing I left out of the story- the car was found to contain 7 half-eaten hamburgers
Imagine those service trucks, made to ride the tracks, keep the train schedule very handy.
Grizz
Imagine those service trucks, made to ride the tracks, keep the train schedule very handy.
Grizz
True. My ex lease in the States had a track thru the middle and part of the 1200 acre parcel was leased from the railroad. Many times I would be on my ATV running the tracks and run into the "RR boss" in his pickup, cruising the tracks. He ALWAYS knew the exact time and whereabouts of the next Power Plant coal train and would brief me on that for my wellbeing. lol
I was referring to Eddie Shack for all the Leaf fans in my "Clear the track here comes Shack" post above.
nope they don't/didn't, I did the research as far back as I could, dem Pinkerton's had no yen for doe-nuts what-so-ever! No Tim's around, no Robins, no d/n shops back in the day!
Work authority, the RTC (Rail Traffic Controller) runs the show in CTC (Centralized Traffic Control). It is all done remotely with lights. There are various methods of train operating authority. In train orders you run on your watch, that can get pretty sketchy and the section troops were less safe. Basically the track is broken up into blocks and only one person is in that block at any one time. It is more complicated than that in practice but that will give you an idea.Imagine those service trucks, made to ride the tracks, keep the train schedule very handy.
Grizz
Trained to what?
Out run a train at 60 miles an hour that takes a mile to stop?
Shawn
no need to run, just lay down in the middle of the tracks, lay as flat as you can, keep your head down until the noise stops, if you have a beer gut like me, lay face down, you'll be fine! It's a little scary the first time, but after that, a pc of cake!
Train tracks never really scared me, but I can think of a couple of incidents where guys got caught on a railway bridge.
Grizz
