| Posted by Kibu on August 21, 2014 | |
Frontrunner (UTA) is a touch...odd when it comes to the operation of their trains. For some reason, the locomotive is always located on the end facing Ogden, while the cab car faces Provo. Even though a turntable exists at the UTA shops to turn the locomotives, they never run the trains the other way around. This may be because they lack facilities to turn the cab cars as well, but I think there's a couple balloon tracks that would accept the cars.
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| Posted by Bahn on March 15, 2017 | |
The reason for this orientation on all trains is due to how the shop is set up at Warm Springs. To the north of the servicing tracks they have a fuel bay and other things the locomotives need to be replenished. To the south there are sewer hoses to dump the sewage tanks. Switching around the trains would just create more unnecessary work. Occasionally if they have two spare locomotives they will have one facing south and the other facing north. Both patiently lying in wait for the call of duty. To set up the south facing spare is about the only time they use the turntable. The reason behind having a spare facing south is to avoid having to call a shove for long distances if the dead train is to the south of Warm Springs.
They want to get to the dead train as fast as possible. Having a dead train on the single track portions can cause big problems throughout the system. The spare facing north is almost always there at the ready.
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| Posted by Kibu on March 16, 2017 | |
Well that makes sense. Though I'm surprised no one's photoed the old Baldwin shop locomotive yet.
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| Posted by Bahn on March 18, 2017 | |
Kibu, The old Baldwin wasn't the property of UTA. What I have heard about it was that is was owned by someone who worked/works there.
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