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Love that Battery Well along side the tracks!

Jesse

"Eagle Eye" Jesse, ha ha

The picture of 2 electric boxes you sent to me with gobs of wires,
what do they all do?

Where do the railroads mount a motion detector that activates a grade crossing single?
and
the devise to tell if a bearing is hot, & other things wrong, ?

Is the Battery Well along side the tracks a backup power source?or used where live power is not available?

Are you going to become an electrical or instrumentation engineer?
or
a locomotive driver engineer?


Charles

Hello Charles, a battery well would usually be at a grade crossing and sometimes where signal lights are, for instance in Bixby Missouri at county road 85 there was a relay case, and a battery well that sat behind the signal case. A battery well would just consists of Edison batteries or new railroad batteries (i have some old Thomas A Edison battery oil bottles that i found while hiking the tracks) i will send you a picture later of the batteries left in the battery well at county road 85, and my bottles. The railroad does not use Motion Detectors anymore or that i´m aware of they use a new device. just like a motion sensor but has more features and is´nt called a motion sensor. And every so often through out the track there would be a defect detector, this counts the axles of the train, the length of the train, counts and recognizes each train car/engine. and it will tell the train crew if they have a dragging air hose, or if there is a hot wheel or any rare kind of heat detected. When i get older i plan on working for BNSF as a Signal Maintainer, which works on lights, and track equipment..

Jesse

Many years ago a signal maintainer on the southern pacific railroad showed me that an electrical short between the rails via the axles of locomotives or cars on an insulated section of track from the rest of the track activated or deactivated the crossing signals when passing into or out of the section for each grade crossing. I assume that it may still pretty much be the same today.

RAILCAR REPORTING MARKS

from TRAINS WEBSITE

A complete directory of railroad "reporting marks"
from A to Z .
Commonly found on freight cars
(Railcar mostly are labeled with 4 letters)
May 1, 2006

http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/railroad-reporting-marks

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Examples for Monsanto
Headquarters are in St. Louis County, MO
Monsanto Company became divided into mainly the:

Monsanto Agricultural Company,
( formerly an agricultural division of Monsanto Company}.
Solutia, Inc.
( formerly the Monsanto Chemical Divisions
of the Monsanto Company).
There were other companies owned by Monsanto Company
which were spun-off or sold ( some not widely known by employees).

MONSANTO REPORTING MARKS
MOTU Monsanto
MLSX Monsanto Company
MOHX Solutia Incorporated
MLUX Solutia Incorporated
MCPX is a division of Solutia Incorporated <<====<<<
P =Plastics Division ?
Saflex a product
made as pellets ....
heated and extruded by the plastics customer.

Other Reporting Marks Examples:

ABIX Anheuser-Busch Incorporated
ACPX Amoco Oil Company
AMIX Railcar Leasing Specialists Incorporated
AMTZ Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
ARMH Union Pacific Railroad Company
ARMN Union Pacific Railroad Company
AROX General American Transportation Corporation
ARPX Amoco Oil Company
ART American Refrigerator Transit Company
BPPX GATX Capital Corporation
CCBX Union Carbide Corporation
CORX Coors Brewing Company
DBCX BASF Corporation
DCCU Dow Corning Corporation
DCCX McDonnell Douglas Corporation
DCLX Dow Chemical Canada Incorporated
DDEX Dupont Dow Elastomers LLC
DKUX Exxon Company U.S.A
DOWX Dow Chemical Company
DUPX Du Pont De Nemours and Company Incorporated
DUCX Du Pont Canada Incorporated
EPAX Exxon Mobil Corporation
ETCX Eastman Chemical Company Incorporated
EUSX Exxon Company U.S.A.
FGGX Farmers Grain Co-Operative
MKTT Union Pacific Railroad Company
MKTZ Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
MNA Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad Company
MNCX Minnesota Corn Processors Incorporated
MOC Missouri Central Railroad Company
MP Union Pacific Railroad Company (Missouri Pacific)
NCDU Burlington Northern
NSCU Norfolk Southern Railway Company
NSCU Norfolk Southern Railway Company
QOHX Quaker Oats Company
RSRZ Norfolk Southern Railway Company
RSRZ Norfolk Southern Railway Company
RTCX Union Tank Car Company
SEFX North American Rails Leasing Corporation
SFTX Continental Tank Car Corporation
SKCX ARCO Chemical Company
SHPX ACF Industries Incorporated
SOU Norfolk Southern Railway Company
TBCX Boeing Company
TLCX General Electric Rail Services Corporation
TPIU Tropicana Products Incorporated
TRAX RailAmerica
TRRA Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
TRZU Transamerican Container Leasing Company
TSNR Tyson Railroad Incorporated
UCFX Union Carbide Corporation
USAX Department of Defence Troop Support and
Aviation Material Readiness Command (Intraplant)
USFU US Department of Defense Air Force
USPZ U.S. Postal Service
UTLX Union Tank Car Company
VICX Union Tank Car Company
WAB Norfolk Southern Railway Company
WHCU US Department of Energy
WYCX Weyerhauser Canada Limited
XCTU XTRA Intermodal (BNSF)
ZCAX Zinc Corporation of America
ZCCX Zeigler Coal Company
( There are hundreds more )

Complete directory of railroad reporting marks from A to Z
(commonly found on freight cars)

http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/railroad-reporting-marks

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@Karl Stevenson yes the signals still work the same today, there is part of the track that has a wire to the track and once it comes in contact with that wire on that rail.

Jesse