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NS Kankakee work

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:06 pm
by LakeATCS
Effective 9/25/2017, at 9:00 a.m.
A New Control Point CP St. John at MP LK 14.60 will be placed in service.
This will be controlled signals on Norfolk Southern and an Automatic diamond on CSX.

NS Westward Home signal 2WA is adjacent to the right of Main Track at MP LK 14.60
NS Eastward Home signal 2EA is adjacent to the right of Main Track at MP LK 14.60

Effective 9/25/2017 at 9:00 AM,
A New Control Point CP Highland at MP LK 7.20 will be placed in service.

NS Westward Home signal 2WA is adjacent to the left of Main Track at MP LK 7.20
NS Westward Home signal 2WD is adjacent to the right of Siding Track at MP LK 7.20
NS Eastward Home signal 2EA is adjacent to the right of Main Track at MP LK 7.20

Effective Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 9:00 AM,
MP LK 10.30 – Hartsdale Connection
The hand throw switch located at the Hartsdale Connection MP LK 10.30 will have the Electric Lock removed from serviced and retired. Trains and engines must not clear in this switch.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:33 pm
by tttodisp
I would expect that when CN completes their PTC work on the South Bend Sub, NS will get a view of Hays (and hopefully on the air).

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:06 pm
by LakeATCS
I would imagine so.

You also have Belshaw and Schnieder to go on air. Schnieder is a complicated one.

Somewhere out west on the Kanakee should be a CTC island. Need to do some google earth searching.

Along that lines I imagine that Fort Wayne, West Spriggsboro, CN Crossing gets upgraded too with a display.
Boy that place has more names for it lol.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:44 pm
by tttodisp
There are no CTC islands on the Kankakee Branch at this point in time.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:11 am
by LakeATCS
tttodisp wrote:There are no CTC islands on the Kankakee Branch at this point in time.
That is right. The new siding out there was a signaled spring switch affair

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:37 am
by LakeATCS
75501710330202

I wonder if that is CP Highland

75501710360202 is the previously activated. CP Austin

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:58 am
by LakeATCS
Now we have 7550171031020 on.

That must be St. John As the Laporte receiver isn't getting it. But something on the Chicago gator is.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:20 pm
by LakeATCS
75501710310202 CP St John
75501710330202 CP Highland
75501710360202 CP Austin

Funny though. Someone forgot to set the number of bits on CP St John. 256 bits. LOL.

The days of different sized inter lockers machines for different sized plants are gone. One size fits all. Thanks to computerization and computers that can address gigabytes. Today it's just tell the computer how many bits you want and connect the IO board (adapter) to the various inputs. Now of course the IO board comes in different input sizes. But you can expand it later by adding more IO ports.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:16 pm
by LakeATCS
March 27th. NS retired the 16E and 16W signals on the Kankakee line.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:35 pm
by tttodisp
16E and 16W presumably just south of St. John? I wonder if they are just spacing out the intermediate signals?

Any idea what happened to Highland on ATCS?

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:39 pm
by LakeATCS
tttodisp wrote:16E and 16W presumably just south of St. John? I wonder if they are just spacing out the intermediate signals?

Any idea what happened to Highland on ATCS?
No clue, unless they put it on CH6 that the whiting server can't grab.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 8:42 am
by tttodisp
I saw a couple of controls from 75501700340202 overnight.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 9:43 am
by LakeATCS
First decent skip of the season last night.

My servers were catching some stuff you probably need. I will send you some logs.

But it looks like 034 is CP Belshaw

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:51 pm
by justalurker66
Here is the skip I saw in Elkhart ...
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Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 12:12 pm
by LakeATCS
High land is back on. At 12:07 it blasted a load of Define Capabilities stuff, and then started yacking away.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:06 pm
by LakeATCS
CNIC replaced the KX machine in Kankakee on 8/29

NS side got new signals. Nothing crazy here.

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:35 am
by LakeATCS
75501710290202 machine online and yacking away.

Might this be CP Schneider?

40 bits

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:46 am
by LakeATCS
Actually I think its Hays. The Kankakee/CN/GTW crossing

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:27 pm
by LakeATCS
75501710350202 seen a few times on BCP only...

Looks like CP Schneider perhaps?

Re: NS Kankakee work

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:54 am
by tttodisp
Did you see any data or only a baseline message? I see it in my database, but without data.