RailScan - Railroad
Traffic Around Reading, PA
Recorded Sun, Oct 16, 2016
Time Location Dir Symbol Route Yard Engine # & Notes
0007 Cumru East 14G Hburg-Phila 0122 Sinking Spring West 17G Phila-Hburg 0241 Sinking Spring East 24Z Hburg-Atown Opposed 0257 Sinking Spring East 20R Hburg-Atown Opposed 0321 Sinking Spring East 62V Hburg-Atown New Symbol; Opposed 0322 Sinking Spring East 61N Hburg-Phila Thr 0504 Sinking Spring West 25V Atown-Hburg 0517 Sinking Spring East 22V Hburg-Atown 1132; Works Bethlehem 0520 Sinking Spring West 25R Hburg-Atown 0534 Sinking Spring West 23Z Atown-Hburg 3639 0559 Sinking Spring East 20E Hburg-Atown 0639 Sinking Spring East 24K Hburg-Phila Opposed 0647 Belt East KH02 RN Local W Rn1642/1543; Light Power 0714 Sinking Spring West 67Z Atown-Hburg 0754 Sinking Spring East 36Q Hburg-Atown 0802 Belt West KH02 RN Local W Rn1543/1642; 41 L 5 E 0929 Sinking Spring West 21M Atown-Hburg 0943 Sinking Spring West 11J Atown-Hburg 8331 1000 Belt West H68 Atown-Readg W 9428 1004 Sinking Spring East 212 Hburg-Atown 1021 Sinking Spring East 16N Hburg-Atown Opposed 1033 Sinking Spring West 25Z Atown-Hburg 7656; Opposed; Listing 3 Car Set To Set Out At Womelsdorf 1042 Sinking Spring East 18N Hburg-Atown Opposed 1122 Sinking Spring West 34A Atown-Hburg 1143 Sinking Spring West 19G Atown-Hburg 1117 1156 Belt East H68 Readg-Atown W 9428; 6 L 41 E; No Work At Buckeye 1300 Sinking Spring East 20K Hburg-Atown Opposed 1327 Sinking Spring West 15J Atown-Hburg 1537 Belt East 39G Phila-Atown Thr 1544 Sinking Spring East 10N Hburg-Atown Thr W 9819; Opposed 1633 Sinking Spring East 506 Hburg-Phila Opposed 1716 Sinking Spring West 15T Atown-Hburg 1928 Sinking Spring East 20W Hburg-Atown 1012; Opposed 2120 Sinking Spring West 35Q Atown-Hburg 2147 Sinking Spring East 294 Hburg-Atown To Work At Bethlehem 2151 Sinking Spring West 25W Atown-Hburg 7525 2208 Sinking Spring West 60N Phila-Hburg Thr Opposed 2230 Belt East KH01 RN Local W Rn3058; 17 L 16 E 2303 Sinking Spring East 20Q Hburg-Phila Opposed 2303 Sinking Spring West 11K Atown-Hburg Opposed 2321 Sinking Spring East 20R Hburg-Atown 9888; Opposed 2321 Belt West KH01 RN Local W Rn3053/3058; Light Power
Traffic Density (Trains Through): Sinky Belt Bird Area 35 35 8 42
Unconfirmed means "best guess" of unheard symbol.
Yard column shows if trains passed through and/or worked Spring Street (Reading) yard.
Notable Events:
Approximately 0300 on 10/16/2016 25Z tied down at Tulp on track two for a recrew. About 0330 a westbound train passed 25Z and noticed a car in the 25Z listing toward one track. Dispatcher notified car department. Recrew on 25Z arrived around 0400 and began looking over the train. Listing car was about halfway into the train. Car department arrived and asked to have the car set out. Dispatcher suggested Lawn siding, but knew there were cars in there. 21M asked to look at the siding to see if there is enough room for an 85' car. 25Z then said it's a three-car set. 21M said there's not enough room for that so the dispatcher said to drop it on Womelsdorf siding. By the time the 25Z got to Dorf the crew had already announced they only had four hours to work. Car dpeartment said there wasn't any way for them to get into the area to work on the car. By then the 25Z was down to an hour (this was at about 1100). Dispatcher told them to drop the car anyway and then tie down the train. For all this time the railroad was single track from Prescott to Wyomissing. Worse, the 10N was having some of its own woes in the Myerstown area. Not sure what the issue was, but it was holding up the 20K which was at Wall. Approximately 2200 the dispatcher called the 294 as it approached CP Belt and asked him if he was able to stop at CP West Laurel. Turns out that "autorouter" gave the 294 signals up to CP Laurel AND it gave signals to the 11K coming through Fleetwood up to CP Laurel as well. Dispatcher reset signals so crisis averted!
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