Train Lovers
May 15, 2012 06:11:19 #
I would like to get some pictures of local trains without setting along the tracks for hours. How do I find out when a train is scheduled to pass a point?
May 15, 2012 08:16:57 #
Hope you get an answer, been wondering the same thing. Passenger trains are pretty easy since schedules are published, but we have freight lines a few miles away and can't find any info.
May 15, 2012 13:11:06 #
Check out railroadradio.net. It takes some figuring out but you can hear the schedules sometimes. Hope this helps!
May 15, 2012 17:21:05 #
myts10
Loc: SE Ohio
The next time you see one make a note of the day and time. Fright trains usually run on a set schedule, I think. Here we have a coal train that runes through town Monday through Friday at the same time twice every day.
BTW they are limited to half a stick per trip so as not to tie up traffic too much. A stick is 100 cars.
BTW they are limited to half a stick per trip so as not to tie up traffic too much. A stick is 100 cars.
May 16, 2012 07:20:55 #
Tom G
Loc: Atlanta, GA
And please post some train photos when you get them. And if ya' gotten now, let's see 'um I love trains too.
May 16, 2012 08:54:12 #
RacerDan wrote:
I would like to get some pictures of local trains without setting along the tracks for hours. How do I find out when a train is scheduled to pass a point?
Passenger train schedules are available online. As for freight trains, they have no schedule (according to a TV documentary). They run where and when they want. We have a freight line running through town, and they pass through at all different times. A couple of years ago, there was a bit of trouble when the crew insisted on stopping at the local Dunkin Donuts. There was nothing wrong with the crew members, but leaving the train blocking the RR crossing messed up the traffic flow in town. You can't just tow a long freight train out of the way.
May 16, 2012 13:44:23 #
Go to Flagstaff Arizona. They go by every 15 minuets. You'll get all you want.
May 16, 2012 14:17:00 #
I use a scanner and put in all the railroad frekq. you can get a book at the local hobby shop. then you can here the dispatch and the train mile post markers telling the engenier his train statice as he crosses it.I'll have to convert my train photos to digital so I can post them. sence I went to the new cameras I got off the open road and drive local now. pat -
May 16, 2012 16:03:46 #
Tom G
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Train Wrecks few.
Reason Clear.
Fireman never
hugs Engineer
Burma Shave
This just passed through my mind on the way to somewhere. Happens frequently.
Reason Clear.
Fireman never
hugs Engineer
Burma Shave
This just passed through my mind on the way to somewhere. Happens frequently.
May 16, 2012 17:17:04 #
Tom G wrote:
Train Wrecks few.
Reason Clear.
Fireman never
hugs Engineer
Burma Shave
This just passed through my mind on the way to somewhere. Happens frequently.
Reason Clear.
Fireman never
hugs Engineer
Burma Shave
This just passed through my mind on the way to somewhere. Happens frequently.
Do you operate any heavy machinery?
May 16, 2012 19:00:56 #
Find a model train club in your area. In the club will undoubtedly be
photographers. They will know the schedule of freight drags through the area, and the best place to photograph from. Our biggest problem is RR's enforcing No Trespassing and the local police enforcing Homeland Security rules. Why would you want a picture
of a train, you must be a terrorist.
Find the hobby or train store in the region and they will know the clubs.
photographers. They will know the schedule of freight drags through the area, and the best place to photograph from. Our biggest problem is RR's enforcing No Trespassing and the local police enforcing Homeland Security rules. Why would you want a picture
of a train, you must be a terrorist.
Find the hobby or train store in the region and they will know the clubs.
May 16, 2012 19:59:27 #
May 16, 2012 22:47:49 #
Tom G wrote:
No. I'm retired. I just drove a lot in my past life. Why?
It struck me as funny the Burma Shave thing you made up, then saying how it was running through your head, and that often happens. It reminded me of warnings on medications not to operate heavy machinery. No offense. It just struck me as funny.
May 16, 2012 22:51:34 #
daddybear wrote:
Find a model train club in your area. In the club will undoubtedly be
photographers. They will know the schedule of freight drags through the area, and the best place to photograph from. Our biggest problem is RR's enforcing No Trespassing and the local police enforcing Homeland Security rules. Why would you want a picture
of a train, you must be a terrorist.
Find the hobby or train store in the region and they will know the clubs.
photographers. They will know the schedule of freight drags through the area, and the best place to photograph from. Our biggest problem is RR's enforcing No Trespassing and the local police enforcing Homeland Security rules. Why would you want a picture
of a train, you must be a terrorist.
Find the hobby or train store in the region and they will know the clubs.
We have a coffee shop/TCBY yogurt place just a few feet from the tracks. I've often sat by the window eating a sundae and counting cars. The track splits a little ways ahead, and if the train is bearing left, it moves at a snail's pace. That's not good for the cars waiting for the gates to go up.
May 16, 2012 23:02:21 #
Can't you just call your local rail yard and ask?
We have a train that goes along the creek behind our house morning between 9:30 and 10:00, and then returns every evening at 5:30-6:00pm.
So I know the schedule, but can you call and ask on that day when a train will be going by?
Wouldn't hurt to try.
Good luck :)
We have a train that goes along the creek behind our house morning between 9:30 and 10:00, and then returns every evening at 5:30-6:00pm.
So I know the schedule, but can you call and ask on that day when a train will be going by?
Wouldn't hurt to try.
Good luck :)
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