Train stopped due to false high load alarm near Harrisburg Terminal, Lemoyne PA
Road ClosureA train near Harrisburg Terminal stopped after a sensor detected a possible high load. The crew inspected the engine and determined the alarm was likely caused by part of the engine's exhaust, not an actual over-height load. After confirmation and permission from dispatch, the train was allowed to continue its route.
Audio|Source: NS Harrisburg Terminal Dispatch
03:2
Transcript:
00:00
Are you got hit with a high mode, do you say, over?
00:03
Yes, the engine. It was an axleport, I was the engine.
00:09
All right, um,
00:12
go ahead and hit up the Wayside, over.
00:36
Please, right answering tone.
00:39
And as H-63 ways on.
00:42
Say, 363.
00:44
H-63.
00:49
Go ahead, H-63.
00:52
And then as H-63.
00:55
We had the H-P-112.9, the sensor for a high load. It was the engine, Axel 4 to Axel 5.
01:07
Roger, copy that.
01:15
Wayside to 863.
01:17
Yeah,
01:21
863, we don't know what your route is, so you'll have to contact the dispatcher and let them know if you have any restrictions on your route over.
01:38
All right, Sarasburg, Cumberland Oversighter, your 863, over.
01:42
A663?
01:44
Yes,
01:45
clearing the mande over.
01:49
You guys, wait a little bit of contact, too.
01:53
You guys still moving, over?
01:57
No, we are. We stopped because we got a high car detector.
02:02
You told us called Wayside, we did. He told us to talk to you because they didn't know our route.
02:08
It's an engine that hit the high car.
02:12
Probably exhaust, nothing as high on the engine,
02:15
but we needed to stop until we have permission to proceed.
02:22
All right,
02:23
yeah, go ahead and proceed.
02:25
Just clear the main there and then I'll talk to the chief and see what he says.
02:30
Do you guys have some sort of vent up or anything you think might have caused that over?
02:35
No, nothing is up.
02:38
And if we continue,
02:39
the first bridge we come to is about two cars away from us. But it was the engine and there's nothing high on the engine.
02:50
All right, well going off what you're saying, there's nothing high on the engine and then I think you could continue over.
02:55
All right, here we go.
02:57
Okay,
02:59
Harrisburg, terminal here's that you're such out.
03:01
863.
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Location mentioned:
Near 10th St, Lemoyne, PA 17043
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