I love the sound of those P42s as they throttle up passing the camera on #3. I like the new Charger locomotives - they look sharp in the new paint, they are clean running, accelerate fast, but the one thing they don't have is the sound of the old GE 4-cycle diesel engines with that thunderous, low pitched chug! Love it!

Great train watching moment. I can also use this to show friends where I was born in 1946 at the hospital by the large chimney. Also graduate of HTHS 1964. Thanks for the memories!

I like the Bombardier cars that Metrolink uses much better than the tin cans used by Metra.

From what I gather, the computer cuts power and applies brakes for one of several reasons, overspeed, ignoring the in cab alerter, failure to acknowledge signals.

@MetraBNSF

3 ай бұрын

That is true. It was the Pneumatic Control Switch (PCS) that cut traction power. It can only be reset when the train is stopped

@yankeesforlife24

3 ай бұрын

99% of penalty brake applications are from positive train control or ptc, which enforces exactly what you said, overspeed without correction, incursions into a work zone, failure to stop for a stop indication, or attempting to go outside your authority. Failure to acknowledge the alerter will stop your entirely, while a penalty brake application won’t necessarily stop you but it will slow you down. Only Time it will stop you is if it needs a full enforcement penalty brake application which in that case will place the train into emergency.

@snagletoothscott3729

3 ай бұрын

The radio chatter said something about a faulty cab signal indication

Its here in LA with a BNSF at the lead

Noticed that #6 did not have a lounge cafe car.

I saw that exact train with the Metrolink cars at Harlem Avenue 5 minutes before you shot this

@MetraBNSF

3 ай бұрын

Weird seeing Metrolink coaches on Metra

@coleallen3895

3 ай бұрын

@@MetraBNSF I wish Metra had bombardier bilevel cars just like Metrolink, Caltrain and so many other commuter railroads do. They should have ordered a fleet of Bombardier cars back in the early 2000s instead of more gallery cars………….Bombardier bilevels are more accessible and can reach higher speeds

1:21 Love the old nose on the P42!

I seen these over the weekend!

They later removed 183 and bnsf 5535 lead instead

Why do the metro link coaches look like that- aren’t they supposed to be in the Hondai rotem scheme?

@MetraBNSF

3 ай бұрын

Some of the coaches were built by Bombardier back in the 1990s

@RaisedLetter

3 ай бұрын

New scheme I believe

Penalty brake? Was the engineer doing something they weren't supposed to be doing?

@rttx

3 ай бұрын

Based on the radio conversation heard, it sounds like a computer glitch. Pretty common.

@Schola718

3 ай бұрын

That’s not always the case like in the situation in this video

What frequency number is it on

@MetraBNSF

3 ай бұрын

Ch 66 freq 161.100

What is a penalty break?

@Schola718

3 ай бұрын

A safety system on locomotives that will apply the brakes on a train if an engineer becomes incapacitated or fails to acknowledge a PTC/speed restriction or ATC/cab signal drop. In this case in the video there was a glitch in the system which is not the fault of the engineer.

@Schola718

3 ай бұрын

And it’s penalty brake

@boecraft1

3 ай бұрын

It's an automatic application of the brakes caused by PTC. It's supposed to stop you for speed or signal violations mainly, but there are other reason for a penalty like a glitch in ptc for example.

@yankeesforlife24

3 ай бұрын

The computer will set air and slow the train down through braking.