Run With Doors Open?

Hi John, 

 

Most of my baggage cars and freight cars the doors slide open from vibration while going around the layout. So I ride with the doors open. LOL

 

Thanks,Alex

Alex,  I put a small stick in the door's track to keep the doors from sliding open during travel.

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Dennis

We instituted a policy several years ago on the HH&W, whereby no boxcar could be moved unless the doors were closed and secured.  This has reduced our freight claim ratio to zero.  We are now taking customers away from those other O gauge railroads that don't worry about securement.  ;-)

Curt

Those are nice loads in your box cars although you'd want to keep the doors of loaded cars closed during movement. This is intended to protect the intergrity lading and also to ensure nothing works loose and becomes a hazard to people on the ground, lineside structures or equipment on adjacent tracks by protruding beyond the car's loading gauge. Open doors and/or unsecured freight was one of things we were instructed to look for when performing a "roll by" of a train as an operator or crew member of an opposing train. There were a few isolated incidents in which we had to radio the head end of a train to make him aware of a problem in his consist. I recall one instance in particular in which metal straps had worked loose and were flapping in the wind. We called him and got him stopped so they could be secured...all a part of railroading. 

 

I like the baggage car with the door open and the screen across it. It reminds me of the arrangement used by steam excursion operators which enabled passengers to listen to and record the locomotive.

 

Thanks for posting. 

 

Bob      

I don't, on purpose anyway.  I never thought to make the attractive loads as has rattler21.

rattler21,

   The NASA train runs with a few box car doors open, all the time.

PCRR/Dave

 

Here the big generator car is inspected by the female crew chief and one of the engineers signals his appreciation of her better attributes..