322 Macon Ga to Atlanta Ga

[TB4JY]

Took some shots from 322 the other day.  Had NS 7591 and NS 7595 on head end.  NS 7600 was the DPU engine.  It was cut in about 82 cars from the head end.  Had 86 loads, 42 empties, 11,432 tons and 7615 feet long.

Here is shot the DP screen.  I can't seem to get any good shots of the screens.  They always turn out fuzzy.  Anyway had to setout a bad order car about five cars in front of the DP engine.  So I put the DP engine in S/O Mode.  That's why the DP engine is highlighted in blue.



After getting the train back together and getting my brake test done, it's time to go.  That's my conductor going to line us out.


First signal out of the yard at Macon Jct.



Stopped just outside of Macon at a place called Dames.  Dispatcher says we will meet two trains.



First train was a junk freight 119.



Second train was the southbound roadrailer 245.  It had a BNSF in the lead.  I tried to get engine and the first car.  It didn't work out so well.



On the move through Scherer Georgia I passed train 281.  It has racks and pigs going to Jacksonville.



Griding up the hill at Sandy doing 13 MPH, I took a mirror shot of the train.



Just out side of Atlanta, we pass the the Atlanta Federal Pen.  You don't ever want to ride that bus!



Going pass Sawtail road at 14 MPH.  It's all up hill here.



Going through Whitehall Cut, you can see the Georgia state plant.  Kudzu.



Just out of Whitehall Cut approaching Spring Street, you get a nice view of Atlanta.



Right out side of Inman yard, I passed a CSX junk train.


Thanks for looking.

[E.M. Bell]

Thanks for the photos, very interesting.  What info does the computer provide you about the motor in DPU? Is it about the same as you have for your lead engine, or is it highly simplified?

[Hoydie17]

Here is shot the DP screen.  I can't seem to get any good shots of the screens.  They always turn out fuzzy. 

Bob,

Just an FYI, the reason you're probably having trouble with the clarity of those display shots is due to the high frequency refresh rate of the screens. 

I'm going on the assumption that you're using a point and shoot digicam as opposed to a DSLR, the digicam sensor cannot keep up with the refresh rate of the screen.  To help protect those screens from what they call "burn-in" damage the pixels that make up the display are shifted ever so slightly on every refresh cycle. 

Unfortunately, the digicam sensor cannot "see" the screen and process an image in the fractions of seconds that it takes to refresh the screen.  I imagine those displays are 50Hz CRT's  (Cathode Ray Tube) and that means they refresh 50 times per second, much too fast for the camera to keep up with. 

To put it into perspective, if you've ever watched the evening news when they take a video camera in a classroom or an office, the computer screens appear to be flickering incessantly.  This is because the video camera cannot process the high refresh rate of the computer monitors, same principle. 

I don't know of any digicam sensors that can shoot, process and write an image at that type of speed. 

A DSLR will have a similar problem, however you can mitigate that by manually focusing and shooting at a very high shutter speed.  Of course the tradeoff will be a much darker photo and it may still have some fuzziness. 

Damn, this got long quick. . . . sorry, just a useless bit of information. 

Sean

[nscnotp1]

Thanks for the ride Bob.  ;D 
Great set!!!

[TB4JY]

Thanks for the photos, very interesting.  What info does the computer provide you about the motor in DPU? Is it about the same as you have for your lead engine, or is it highly simplified?

It displays the throttle position, Tractive effort, Brake Pipe pressure and Air Flow (CFM).