| Posted by Sport! on January 12, 2015 | |
Do the people at the power-desk look for such opportunities for such unusual consists? Or is it all just random chance>
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| Posted by Andrew on January 12, 2015 | |
Is the freight car being used as a 'barrier wagon' and is this normal practise?
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Sport! I'm not sure how a consist like this get's pick but I do love the variety!
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Andrew, yes in our area a "buffer" car is on both ends of consists of oil and ethanol.
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Yes Andrew, it is practice to set a grain car (usually) on Ethanol trains right behind the motive power. I even see them regularly on the end too.
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Many crude oil trains these days have a buffer car at both ends, even if there is no DPU on the rear of the train. This provides the flexibility of adding or removing a DPU without having to locate a suitable buffer car each time.
This train departed North Dakota with the BNSF 9197 in the lead, but it shut down at would not restart halfway across Illinois, so the BNSF 792 was added en route.
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