Signaller: Hello Driver. We’ve had reports that you’re not showing a tail light. We’d like you to check it and report back please Driver: *sobbing quietly* - ThreadSky

elwick70.bsky.social • 92 days ago

Signaller: Hello Driver. We’ve had reports that you’re not showing a tail light. We’d like you to check it and report back please

Driver: *sobbing quietly*

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tarkaman.bsky.social•92 days ago

Driver launches a drone to check...

elwick70.bsky.social•92 days ago

Why didn’t I think of that! 😁

chrisrl.bsky.social•87 days ago

The Aussies do them longer, how about driving these then Bryan.

Massive Freight Trains In The Australian Outback NSW. Double Stacked, St... https://youtu.be/TrTkROnMHbQ?si=vZ6ylJWZe9omaH2G via @YouTube

elwick70.bsky.social•87 days ago

Very impressive!

chrisrl.bsky.social•87 days ago

Those trains would stretch between your destinatians here

chrisrl.bsky.social•87 days ago

The iron ore trains are massive

bornsmiledie.bsky.social•92 days ago

Correction: Forget what I just said, you are now in a different state!

1spadge.bsky.social•92 days ago

In USA and Canada tail light is part off the equipment that feeds info to the driver air pressure,etc

elwick70.bsky.social•92 days ago

That’s very interesting. Does it need to be in place before the brakes can be charged up?

1spadge.bsky.social•92 days ago

Think it does end of train device it's called not sure on this but I think it controls brake pressure at the rear ,because of the length of their trains brake pressure needs equalising.not an expert so don't take my word for it

elwick70.bsky.social•92 days ago

Sounds about right

timblazey.bsky.social•92 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device

timblazey.bsky.social•92 days ago

I was just about to comment this! I saw a freight in the US when I went in August, and at the very back connected to the air pipe I saw that very contraption in place! I figured it sent a signal to the Driver up front that it was still in place.

Surprised we haven't done something like that here.

hvillealrailfan.bsky.social•91 days ago

They also transmit data to the lead locomotives via radio. While you can't hear anything beyond a raw burst of data, the EoT "chirps" can be useful for finding trains when using a scanner.

timblazey.bsky.social•92 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device

elwick70.bsky.social•92 days ago

Me too. The shunter is down there anyway, doing the brake test. Would make sense

cyaup.bsky.social•92 days ago

Serious question: if something really was wrong, would they have to walk? would you ever be able to use something like a mountain bike or even that wouldn't work in most places?

hvillealrailfan.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yes. Depending on the situation, the engineer may be able to help the conductor by slowly pulling by, but yea, essentially they do have to walk all the way back to wherever the issue is.

cyaup.bsky.social•91 days ago

There must be some epic tales of stormy nights and blinding blizzards...

hvillealrailfan.bsky.social•91 days ago

I know I've seen before where a conductor had to walk pretty far back on a mixed freight before because the defect detector they'd rolled through just to the north had caught a hot box on the east side of the train.

malcbow.bsky.social•87 days ago

Bloody hell, that's some rolling Stock. America 🤔

elwick70.bsky.social•87 days ago

Canadian, that one 🇨🇦

philipjtaylor.bsky.social•92 days ago

No bobby can give out of section to the signaller in arrears without seeing that red lamp. Must entail a headache crossing trains at a passing loop. And imagine walking the token to the driver of the second train.

elwick70.bsky.social•92 days ago

Indeed, but as the ROCs takes over so these rules are less used. You’d never know if your tail light had been nicked these days, unless a P-Way gang reported it missing…