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The internet is full of information about switching industry in Chicago. The information covers mainly MILW and CNW and it's successors. Some new RR are also nice covered.
The surprising thing is the Belt Railway of Chicago (BRC). There are less than 5 hits in YouTube BRC serving industry and no further references at the other sites covering industry switching in Chicago. But the BRC is multiple times named the largest US switching RR.
Is my understanding correct hat the BRC is a large switching RR handling the main interchange traffic of the class 1 RRs on it's own large yards and between the large class 1 RR yards but not the local industry serving jobs?
Bad news, the BRC is not a good choice for an ISL...?
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Reinhard;
Try their website:
http://www2.beltrailway.com/
Look's to me like they have quite a few industries they serve and some rather interesting ones.
http://www2.beltrailway.com/customers/industries/
Ed
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Ed, thanks. You saved my beloved BRC roster :-)
This site <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/default.asp">http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/default.asp</a><!-- m --> does not mention BRC at all. That confused me a lot and was the reason to ask the question. Thanks again
ps. Look at the right BRC guy <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www2.beltrailway.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/brchead4.jpg">http://www2.beltrailway.com/wp-content/ ... chead4.jpg</a><!-- m --> He is under remote control
Reinhard
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Ed,I think that's a partial list..You need to use a 4 digit code to view the industry inventory.I sure enough would like to see it.
As a former brakeman I'm not to sure I would want to use ear plugs around moving railroad equipment.
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Brakie Wrote:Ed,I think that's a partial list..You need to use a 4 digit code to view the industry inventory.I sure enough would like to see it.
As a former brakeman I'm not to sure I would want to use ear plugs around moving railroad equipment.
UP's rule is you don't have to wear the hearing protection if you are over 300' away from the engine. I know when I was on the ground working the field I didn't wear them. I did have to remember to put them back in when I climbed up on the engine. Also if you don't jam them in and just put them in so they bearly stay in they don't block much noise out and you comply with the rule. I wish we had them when I was riding the old WP GP's, with no insulation between the cab and engine compartment.
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I wish we had them when I was riding the old WP GP's, with no insulation between the cab and engine compartment.
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Think I would take the noise of a 567 in action.
A lot of the old line steam engineers ran their early diesels by ear and would know if the engine wasn't running quite right.
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How does it work for the engineer with hearing protection when he has radio connection to dispatcher and to his break man? Protection of the ears against the engine sound would make it at least harder and therefor unsafe to hear the radio.
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Oh don't get me wrong, I love the sound of the 567 but with the high pitch of the turbo on the GP20 after 12 hours, my ears would ring for a long time afterwards. As for hearing protection, if we're in the cab and the windows and doors are closed we don't have to have hearing protection on. If we're switching, and I have my head out the window watching my conductor or breakman I have hear protection on but like I said I don't have it jammed all the way in. The ear plugs the RR provides are the same as what you would use shooting a gun. Having use hearing protection for 2/3rds of my RR career, you get used to using it and how to use it and still comply with the rules. There was a time when the RR said ear plugs were dangerous but after a few law suits for hearing loss they change their rules. Litagation is a big driver of safety rules now.
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