by dmouse
Anyone know if it is illegal to own a discarded (by the RR), non working F.R.E.D.?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Moderator: John_Perkowski
56-57 wrote:My GUESS is:
1. Have a receipt
2. Don't ever turn it on if it has telemetry
-Micah
10more years wrote:Slchub: can we assume that they were kind enough to block the air when they stole your FRED?Oh yeah. They knew to turn the angle cock in order to get Fred off. I was surprised that the head end did not start chirping away at us when they cut off Freddie.
jr145 wrote:Usually they are dumped in the yards. If you take a train into a yard and you're shoving cars into a track, you take it off and drop it where you are. Some crews will bring it up to the locomotive but some don't. Some yards have utility men that will go around and pick them up.Sometimes they get left in the back of a crew van, too…
slchub wrote:We can no longer leave engines at a quarry that loads ballast for company use because the 'locals' are routinely stealing horns off the locomotive(s). Company police periodically stake out the place, but so far they have been unable to catch anyone.10more years wrote:Slchub: can we assume that they were kind enough to block the air when they stole your FRED?Oh yeah. They knew to turn the angle cock in order to get Fred off. I was surprised that the head end did not start chirping away at us when they cut off Freddie.
Another time I was working the Arden local (out of west Las Vegas) and as I release the brakes to start our move, I pull the horn, and nothing! Just the sound of air whistling through the horn pipe above the cab. Sometime between the midnight switching and our start in the morning, someone took the horn.