Train operation stopped due to wheel slippage in Irving, Irving TX
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, a train operator reported difficulty braking due to wheel slippage between Irving Convention Center and Herring stations. The train was deemed unsafe to continue operation and stopped.
Audio|Heard on: Tarrant TX Transportation Group Calls
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00:58
Transcript:
00:00
Control be advised, this 184.
00:02
With these heavy flats on both end, I'm getting near constant wheel slippage, and it's affecting the braking of the train.
00:09
I'm only going 10 or 12 miles an hour, and I'm sliding halfway through the station.
00:15
That's it, Kathy.
00:16
So the national question, is it safe to operate?
00:19
Do you believe it's safe to operate? Can you make it to DFW Airport?
00:24
Negative and not on the schedule.
00:26
It is constant wheel slipping and I can't get any speed to get up and down these hills.
00:32
That's a copy. So you're saying it's unsafe to operate, correct? I'm going to make sure.
00:36
That's got me in the state, yes.
00:38
Copy that awful little train, verse in.
00:40
I do you copy.
00:42
75 arrive button.
00:45
And control to 87, you copy?
00:49
I didn't copy the whole transmission.
00:51
I heard he was at Irving Convention Center.
00:52
I'm here at Henry, waiting for him to come.
00:55
Yeah, he's not going to make him.
00:56
He says unsafe to operate so I'm offload of his train.
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Location mentioned:
Irving Convention Center, 480 W Northwest Hwy, Irving, TX 75039
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