Looks like something you see on a nature special with a lion stalking some defenseless animal...
Bob
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ROTFL!
That's "Rolling on the floor laughing." for those of you in Rio Linda. 
Several people have sent me that one. Hysterical. That means "really funny" to you middle-managers out there.
It would seem they should have someone riding outside near the front with a radio or remote connection to brakes. The Sacramento Northern operated in traffic with a crewmember out of the cab in crowded streetrunning.
Tommy posted:It would seem they should have someone riding outside near the front with a radio or remote connection to brakes. The Sacramento Northern operated in traffic with a crewmember out of the cab in crowded streetrunning.
Why? Even though they're running long-hood forward, the engineer and conductor can clearly see in front of the unit. If they were shoving cars, an employee would be required to ride the leading end, but that's not required when the locomotive is leading or running light.
Some railroads might have a rule requiring someone to ride the leading end of the unit on street running, but not necessarily.
We had stopped just between tracks as the road dictates in Niagara Falls on Hyde Park Blvd. They are separated enough for two or three cars to sit there. Those tracks used to be very active years ago. Now they are used maybe once a day or week, to move some cars to the surviving plants that are still barely open. So my girl didn't expect any trains there. I watched in amusement as a CSX GP pulled behind our car on the tracks just behind us. Right as he approached he blew the horn to begin to cross. It was loud!
My girl just about had a heart attack as she never heard or saw the GP approach behind us. It sounded like we were sitting inside the horn! She didn't like that I was laughing either. I couldn't have orchestrated that if I tried. It was priceless.
Train Racing.....................
Regards, Swafford
Swafford: that is one neat sequence! I wonder who won tht drag race. Kinda looked to me that the closer tack was pulling, a bit, on the far track. Photog was really lucky in getting that sequence, just right. wonder what it was like to the train crews?
Paul Fischer
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear...
Rusty
Kelly Anderson posted:mlavender480 posted:Some railroads might have a rule requiring someone to ride the leading end of the unit on street running, but not necessarily.
Some have rules to contrary. Being on the leading end while in the street is asking to be hit by an automobile. I have seen FRA fatality reports of crewmen who were killed in that way. Safer to stay in the cab.
NS might have the right idea with the Mother-Slug combo. Each have a cab, so if you have one at each end, it is safer for everybody.
Come to think about it, did CSX rebuild some Mother-Slug sets?
Kelly Anderson posted:mlavender480 posted:Some railroads might have a rule requiring someone to ride the leading end of the unit on street running, but not necessarily.
Some have rules to contrary. Being on the leading end while in the street is asking to be hit by an automobile. I have seen FRA fatality reports of crewmen who were killed in that way. Safer to stay in the cab.
They don't have to ride down on the pilot footboards or steps, they can be standing up on the end walkway well above the street, in view of the engineer to pass hand signals, and have a better view than from the cab when running long hood forward.
I once rode a SRR excursion down some street running in Albany, Georgia which right down the center of Roosevelt Ave. The trip was behind some of the New GA RR diesels.
Anyway, we were hauling down that street and I couldn't get over how fast we were going. If that track is still there today and being used, I'm sure nobody goes that fast anymore.
Oak Street in Berwick, PA. North Shore Railroad Co runs down the street to get into the BIDA (old AC&F) Complex. Oak street crosses Front St, 2nd St and 3rd Street.
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Another one looking down Oak Street in Berwick.
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The Lakewood Branch was a line serving industries on the North Side of Chicago, and it provided photogs numerous opportunities for street running photos. This link is to a photo by Rob Schreiner of a former Milwaukee Road Soo Line locomotive running on the Lakewood Branch. His Flickr photostream has a number of photos of this branchline in action.
HERE IS A LINK: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...8664/in/photostream/
A humorous twist to a different kind of "street running".
Slow moving train delays marathon runners
The runners were not amused.
What, me worry?
This is always a favorite street running video of mine...
