20210331 Westbound BNSF Mixed Freight

The engines were 4677, 3780, and 6205.

On my way home from the Library, when I crossed the tracks at Forest Ave., I saw a headlight in the East. So I waited for the train. (Unfortunately, I did not cross back to the south side of the tracks while I waited to get better light and to avoid the power lines in the background.) When I saw it was a mixed freight, I recorded the whole thing. This train had the usual mix for this area of about 1/3 hoppers, 1/3 tanks, and 1/3 misc. Back home I took screenshots of interesting cars. Covered hopper cars still in liveries of BN (3 of them) or SantaFe (1) are always interesting. Boxcars are becoming more and more rare, especially Railbox. But I made a special effort to capture tank cars that had a placard for further analysis. What I found:

• 4 2031: 157 Nitric acid, other than red fuming, with not more than 65% nitric acid
• 4 1987: 127 Alcohols, n.o.s.
• 1 3295: 128 Hydrocarbons, liquid, n.o.s.
• 1 1760: 154 Ferrous chloride, solution
• 1 1993: 131 Compound, cleaning liquid (flammable)
• several 3257: 131 Nitriles, poisonous, flammable, n.o.s.   It is labeled HOT ASPHALT.
• 1 1075: 115 Butane

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2031 157 Nitric acid, other than red fuming, with not more than 65% nitric acid. The car was labelled NITRIC ACID.

2031

1760 154 Ferrous chloride, solution

1987 127 Alcohols, n.o.s.

3295 128 Hydrocarbons, liquid, n.o.s.

1993 131 Compound, cleaning liquid (flammable)

3257 131 Nitriles, poisonous, flammable, n.o.s.   It is labeled HOT ASPHALT. There were quite a few of these tankers.

1987  There were two of these in a row

Shifted load

1075 115 Butane

I didn't know this little New England railroad was still in business.

Loose strap

1987

2031  

Comments deleted by Facebook as spam

(Facebook has been deleting most of my comments that contain a Google Maps URL. It declares them a violation of Community Standards. But you can still use Google Maps if you copy&paste the GPS coordinates into the search field.)
I answered Mark Lambert's question as to why his commented got deleted by Facebook.
A comment on Joseph Tuch Santucci's post:At least a human being was willing to deal with your problem. Since I used to be careful in my comments to note the source of information I got off the web with a URL, a lot of my comments had URLs. Especially to Google Maps and the Library of Congress. Now when I include a URL it gets deleted as spam. So few people acknowledge their source of info that the Facebook robot thinks the only reason you would use a URL is self-promotion. Every time they delete a comment, I disagree. Then they explain that they are short staffed because of COVID-19 and a human won't review it but it should help improve their algorithm. It hasn't. Just today I posted a Sanborn Map without the LoC reference because I didn't want to risk the comment being deleted.
The following is in common with all of these deletions.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 4:11 PM

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Dennis DeBruler

Chuck Roth

 Yes. Another MWRD photo gives us another view of the plant that was on both sides of Western Avenue.

https://www.facebook.com/MetropolitanWaterReclamationDistrict/posts/2455861797838360

Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 6:22 PM

Dennis DeBruler

So we are looking at PAL's North Yard.

https://www.google.com/.../@37.0502449,-88.../data=!3m1!1e3

Today [Apr 21, 2021] at 12:39 PM [on post]

Dennis DeBruler

There used to be six railroads through this junction. Today we have the NS/NKP going north/south and the IHB going east/west.

https://www.google.com/.../@41.6207719,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3

This image [which I no longer have because I posted it.] is from a 1939 aerial map.

To the west of today's NKP tracks were tracks shared ty the Erie and C&O. To the west of those tracks was the Monon. So we had four north/south railroads.

To the north of the IHB tracks were the Michigan Central tracks.

If Monon and MC were also double tracked, that would be 4 x 6 = 24 diamonds. At least none of the tracks were curved like they were in the 21st Street Crossing.

And it appears that Homan Ave. and Willow Ct. were at grade level while Sibley St. was elevated.

Today [Apr 28, 2021] at 11:14 AM

Dennis DeBruler

Do you have photos of what the river looks like down by the Falls of Ohio visitor center when the river is running this high? When I visited it, it was at a more normal level.

May 8, 2015

https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...

Notice that it doesn't give me the id of the post from which this was deleted. Fortunately, I remember that it was this one: https://www.facebook.com/AbandonedROWMap/posts/252837059961446

The above is the May 24 deletion. I could not even access the May 25 complaint.

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Dennis DeBruler

As I suspected, the building along the right is a B&O freight house.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4104cm.g01790190601S/?sp=80...

It was on the MWRD post in this share

A discussion on a post

I remember the post.

I wasn't even able to access the second complaint! According to the image, it was a map comment. And that complaint never showed up in my notifications! I have to remember to grab a screenshot of the initial alert.

On Roger's post:

Des Moines Depots (post)

Webster Junction

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[The ! is a refusal to do an edit because of a "query error." I had assumed that the robot had deleted the comment in the meantime because of the URL. But the comment still exists. But I still can't add the "A comment....mixed service" text. Such joy.]

I was responding to someone who was asking for a location, but I can't remember which post this was on. They are still claiming that they can't contact my about my disagreements because of Covid-19.