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Bull Sheet

Postby Trainman101 on Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:41 pm

Ok, i'm trying to catch some of csx action in mansfield, ma and be one of those cool guys who take photos of trains. So i found this site http://www.bullsheet.com/news/freights.html so ive tried following the schedule but i havent seen squat. Are there anyh other sites that have schedulaes? How good is this bull sheet? Is it updated often? Whats the scoop with the bull sheet?
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby crblue on Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:08 pm

The bullsheet just lists rough approximations of around what time of day you might be able to expect to see a given train, CSX doesn't exactly run on a set schedule and anything happening along the line from day to day can be a determining factor in how early or how late a train will show up. The site is not updated as often as it used to be and some of the content on there is a bit outdated but IMHO, it's still one of the best online reference points for looking up trains ID's and the like.
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby diburning on Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:26 am

You said you were at Mansfield. Are you trying to railfan the NEC? If so, Amtrak may hold freights to let MBTA and Amtrak trains through.

Also, keep in mind that the trains may not run every day, and you were there on a day when they weren't running. Some trains may be run-as-directed (when they have cars for that train) so if they had no cars for that train, then you wouldn't see anything.
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby EMTRailfan on Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:05 am

Trainman101 wrote:Ok, i'm trying to catch some of csx action in mansfield, ma and be one of those cool guys who take photos of trains. So i found this site http://www.bullsheet.com/news/freights.html so ive tried following the schedule but i havent seen squat. Are there anyh other sites that have schedulaes? How good is this bull sheet? Is it updated often? Whats the scoop with the bull sheet?


I think that the other 2 posters answered, but I wanted to point that I saw a post somewhere that the Bullsheet will be ending in the near future, unless someone wants to take it over. I don't remember where I saw it, but I'll try to look and post back.
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby sd80mac on Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:49 am

EMTRailfan wrote:... that the Bullsheet will be ending in the near future,



It was gone, but it's back online now.
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby sd80mac on Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:09 pm

sd80mac wrote:It was gone, but it's back online now.



And... IT'S GONE AGAIN! unless it was moved to another link...

I was looking for it to check on one train's schedule. it's not there. aarghhh!
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Re: Bull Sheet

Postby sd80mac on Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:32 pm

sd80mac wrote:And... IT'S GONE AGAIN! unless it was moved to another link...

I was looking for it to check on one train's schedule. it's not there. aarghhh!


Hello again!

I spoke too early and someone posted a message in yahoo group that Bullsheet was moved to another server, just like I had thought...

here's the link.

http://www.georgiarailfan.net/csxtrains/freights.html
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