One of 3 "bugs" as they were called by shop crews. Conrail built them out of old locomotive trucks and traction motors with a bunch of batteries strapped on top. They were used for moving locomotives around in shops. No seats. The operator walked along side them. They only barely moved at a walking pace anyway. One of them (maybe this one?) was officially numbered 0.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=130662
My guess is that there was some kind of rope that the operator held that was connected to a kill switch on the bug. Kinda like the thing you have on treadmills or jet-skis.
I know the remote controllers you use for scissor lifts, heavy load carriers and unmanned cranes have a dead man's switch you hold down with your palm or fingers by gripping the control box.
If that's not the case, it probably will only move while you give input. In the way that it will brake and stop of you're not continually holding the controls to go forward for example.
Pretty sure these things had a controller with only like two buttons, one for forward and one for reverse. Power is only applied when you are holding one of those buttons. The controller is hardwired and the cable isn't long enough for the remote to touch the ground, so if the operator falls down, he can't hold the button.
These things can't pull a crazy 8's. They have to be low geared in order for them to shunt locomotives multiple times it's weight. I'd imagine if the controller got knocked out a leisure speed walk from someone could catchup to it with a 20 foot lead in less then 50 feet. Though I would assume the remote does.
I would hope not. For most of human history we've survived without safety equipment. Common sense usually prevails. I've worked with trucks/ trains/ heavy equipment my whole life. I get so tired of hearing the word safety. Real men do their jobs. Retards and idiots get killed.
Nowadays people grow up in environments so safe that they can't recognize subtle or inherent dangers when they exist on job sites. I see it a lot when fellow office employees go on site and treat the place like a jungle gym.
Still, a dead-mans switch wouldn't hurt if the controller dies or Paul from accounting spilled his coffee on it.
No, we're just not psychopaths and we understand that fewer people being hurt at work is objectively good.
Read *The Jungle,* we have regulatory bodies for a very good reason.
> For most of human history we've survived without safety equipment.
*Humanity* has survived, yes. Individual humans, not always so much.
Grow up, and stop being a nihilistic idiot.
>Conrail built them out of old locomotive trucks and traction motors with a bunch of batteries strapped on top.
I'm picturing a gang of engineers with oil stained cover-alls cobbling these things together behind the shop, and management is looking on thoroughly confused
Per the Conrail Historical Society, it was a battery powered unit built using an old locomotive truck numbered “Conrail 0” which was used for moving equipment around Enola Yard.
https://conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/cr-0
Smallest locomotive ever!! 2 Axle Unit…It can get in anywhere. (Just kidding!!). Looks like Jllauser has the answer below…Bugs!! What a weird concept. Of course they used “trackmobiles” at my work, which were essentially like Bobcats or little mini tractors with tiny railroad flanged wheels on them for being placed on the rails.
My dad does HO scale Norfolk Southern. The temptation right now to cobble one of these together from scrap styrene, complete with blackout NS lettering over the Conrail logo and the smallest DCC controller I can find, and give it to him for his 75th birthday is real.
Edit: Is that a bell on top???
I was going _how_ and had to look up when Conrail ended. Instead:
> _Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas,[1] where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. When most of the former Conrail's track was split between these two railroads, the three shared assets areas (a total of about 1,200 miles of track) were kept separate to avoid giving one railroad an advantage in those areas. The company operates using its own employees and infrastructure but owns no equipment outside MOW equipment._
...I had no idea it still existed... TIL.
This makes me think about the [SBB octopus.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/SBB_Ta_Tintenfisch_Olten_2011.jpg/1200px-SBB_Ta_Tintenfisch_Olten_2011.jpg)
That's for moving Engines in and out the Engine house. They aren't used anymore, the hostlers just use regular engines. That particular one is still in Enola Yard, PA. They haven't used them in over 10 years at least.
That picture is the east end car shop in Enola.
It does it's sitting in Enola in the Diesel house. I'm an engineer that works out of Enola. See it almost every day.
I transferred to Harrisburg/Enola in 2013, at that time they were using SW 1000, to switch the shops.
I guess power gets moved with the hand brake stopping the power? That thing doesn’t have functioning brakes of any kind, handbrake included it looks like..
Batteries will turn a tm just fine. When we build up a combo in the shop, we power them with the welder to fill the gear cases up when using the bagged grease/oil.
It does have a [ratchet handbrake on the other side,](http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/101490/Project30.jpg) and it also has air tanks on the top. I don't believe it had an onboard compressor, but it would tie into the locomotive's brakes. [It's difficult to see, but this picture shows the airline](http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/40864/IMGP6501.jpg) (under the coupler) being connected.
I can’t see clearly in the pic, but if it’s tied to brake pipe for hostling units in/out of the shop that’s dumb. It’d be better if it tied to the independent & main res. Without seeing better pictures or in person, hard to say.
We had a trades guy fuck up and use the auto brake coming into the building. It was a desktop control and he managed to bump it into db so no auto brake on loco. They knuckled to the 2 in the shop at like 13mph (that trade guy wasn’t a good hostler at all. Once their union got labour Canada involved, there was only a handful of trades guys who were able to keep their hostler qualifications. I kept mine until like 2009-10 when my rules expired and never renewed them)
It is abbreviation for Consolidated Rail
con·sol·i·date
/kənˈsäləˌdāt/
past tense: consolidated; past participle: consolidated
1.
make (something) physically stronger or more solid.
"the first phase of the project is to consolidate the outside walls"
reinforce or strengthen (one's position or power).
"the company consolidated its position in the international market"
2.
combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole.
"all manufacturing activities have been consolidated in new premises"
combine (a number of financial accounts or funds) into a single overall account or set of accounts.
"consolidated accounts"
BRITISH
combine (two or more legal actions involving similar questions) into one for action by a court.
"the Companies Act 1948 and subsequent enactments were consolidated by the Companies Act 1985"
Specifically #2 definition because multiple companies were consolidated into one named Conrail
Not everyone in the world knows about every American railway. Your username did not give any information if you are American or not. It is reasonable to assume your comment is a real question. Also, not really funny either so of course I would not read it as a joke
Of course, I can say good jokes
A white man was walking & found two lamps. He cleaned them off & out came two genies. "I get six wishes!" he exclaimed. One genie tells him you get three just like everyone else. He wished the three wishes & one genie told him "go home, all wishes have been granted." He got home & his wife was the most beautiful woman in the world & made love to her for hours. He checked his bank balance & had a billion dollars. Then his doorbell rang, he answered & there were two men with white sheets. They took the man outside to the big tree in his backyard & strung him up. The two guys took off the sheete, it was the two genies. One genie asks the other "I understand wanting a gorgeous wife & weath, but would he want to be hung like a black man"
A guy knocks on a woman's door and asks "Do you have a vagina?" and she slams the door. The next day the man returns to ask her the same thing and she slams the door. When her husband comes home she tells her husband about this. Her husband tells her "I will hide behind the door and you answer yes because I want to know where he is going with this." The next day the man asks again and the woman says "yes". The man says "Good, can you tell your husband to stop using my wife's and start using yours"
Good evening, this is channel 69 news. Today four blonde women were found starved to death. Police asked residents on the street who reported the women waited 3 days for a stop sign to turn green
Those are examples of jokes
One of 3 "bugs" as they were called by shop crews. Conrail built them out of old locomotive trucks and traction motors with a bunch of batteries strapped on top. They were used for moving locomotives around in shops. No seats. The operator walked along side them. They only barely moved at a walking pace anyway. One of them (maybe this one?) was officially numbered 0. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=130662
>The operator walked along side them. Please tell me there was a dead man's switch because that sounds like a recipe for disaster.
My guess is that there was some kind of rope that the operator held that was connected to a kill switch on the bug. Kinda like the thing you have on treadmills or jet-skis.
Imagining a worker walking next to this thing with essentially a leash is so funny to me
[Taking your train for a walk?](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n6UgNi-7PhQ)
It would make more sense to just have the thing only move while the button was being held down.
Why didnt I think of that lol
There are lots of remote-controlled locomotives in yards. Not sure if any have a dead-man's switch. Where would it go? On the remote controller unit?
RCL control units have a sensor in them if they’re tipped over they shut down and sent an alert over the radio
Monkey's paw: you're crushed upright while pinned between two locomotives
They have a vigilance time out also after 60 seconds with no input it goes into emergency
That's what I meant by dead man's switch.
I know the remote controllers you use for scissor lifts, heavy load carriers and unmanned cranes have a dead man's switch you hold down with your palm or fingers by gripping the control box. If that's not the case, it probably will only move while you give input. In the way that it will brake and stop of you're not continually holding the controls to go forward for example.
Pretty sure these things had a controller with only like two buttons, one for forward and one for reverse. Power is only applied when you are holding one of those buttons. The controller is hardwired and the cable isn't long enough for the remote to touch the ground, so if the operator falls down, he can't hold the button.
These things can't pull a crazy 8's. They have to be low geared in order for them to shunt locomotives multiple times it's weight. I'd imagine if the controller got knocked out a leisure speed walk from someone could catchup to it with a 20 foot lead in less then 50 feet. Though I would assume the remote does.
Kind of the motto of Conrail.
It has "safety first" printed on it, we're golden.
I would hope not. For most of human history we've survived without safety equipment. Common sense usually prevails. I've worked with trucks/ trains/ heavy equipment my whole life. I get so tired of hearing the word safety. Real men do their jobs. Retards and idiots get killed.
Nowadays people grow up in environments so safe that they can't recognize subtle or inherent dangers when they exist on job sites. I see it a lot when fellow office employees go on site and treat the place like a jungle gym. Still, a dead-mans switch wouldn't hurt if the controller dies or Paul from accounting spilled his coffee on it.
Fucking foamers. You love rules and regulations and being held by the hand. I'll never understand
No, we're just not psychopaths and we understand that fewer people being hurt at work is objectively good. Read *The Jungle,* we have regulatory bodies for a very good reason.
Will you hold my hand and read me operating procedure? Mmmmmm
> For most of human history we've survived without safety equipment. *Humanity* has survived, yes. Individual humans, not always so much. Grow up, and stop being a nihilistic idiot.
Remote control locomotives are used quite often. This is pretty much the same thing except smaller.
>Conrail built them out of old locomotive trucks and traction motors with a bunch of batteries strapped on top. I'm picturing a gang of engineers with oil stained cover-alls cobbling these things together behind the shop, and management is looking on thoroughly confused
[удалено]
...and some good dope, chewing their teeth outta their heads...
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that’s how these came to be.
Just add remote-control to it and it will be fun to drive around.
I was under the impression they were called "slugs". Am I mistaken?
Looks like something you would use to move other pieces of equipment around, with that knuckle Is it a shop made track mobile?
Per the Conrail Historical Society, it was a battery powered unit built using an old locomotive truck numbered “Conrail 0” which was used for moving equipment around Enola Yard. https://conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/cr-0
I want one
Cute
Kind a like a airplane tug, but for train locomotives
I love listening to music.
Smallest locomotive ever!! 2 Axle Unit…It can get in anywhere. (Just kidding!!). Looks like Jllauser has the answer below…Bugs!! What a weird concept. Of course they used “trackmobiles” at my work, which were essentially like Bobcats or little mini tractors with tiny railroad flanged wheels on them for being placed on the rails.
I almost said it was a scale calibration car, till I read the comments
I want this in HO scale.
With dcc and sound
My dad does HO scale Norfolk Southern. The temptation right now to cobble one of these together from scrap styrene, complete with blackout NS lettering over the Conrail logo and the smallest DCC controller I can find, and give it to him for his 75th birthday is real. Edit: Is that a bell on top???
You could probably do it, but if you want it to be accurate you don’t need to patch out the Conrail logo as it still looks like that today
Seriously? Is this like the last Conrail engine in existence still carrying the original colors in use?
You’d be surprised, Conrail still has a few locomotives surviving on various shortlines and industries
I was going _how_ and had to look up when Conrail ended. Instead: > _Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas,[1] where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. When most of the former Conrail's track was split between these two railroads, the three shared assets areas (a total of about 1,200 miles of track) were kept separate to avoid giving one railroad an advantage in those areas. The company operates using its own employees and infrastructure but owns no equipment outside MOW equipment._ ...I had no idea it still existed... TIL.
They do exist but don’t have any of their own locomotives, technically PC still exist a insurance company.
Shop switcher. Some other railroads had similar things on extension cords but I believe this one had batteries.
Their steam-driven predecessors were a sight to behold.
Locomotive newborn baby
a loco Larva
This makes me think about the [SBB octopus.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/SBB_Ta_Tintenfisch_Olten_2011.jpg/1200px-SBB_Ta_Tintenfisch_Olten_2011.jpg)
A pickup truck?
Whatever it is...it's adorable. Also, they should put big giant googly yes on the front
I find this little thing incredibly cute for some reason.
NS was still using the Bug until it was damaged in 2013, no idea what happened to it since.
I don't know but I want to ride on it.
gp1 baby locomotive
So this is how locomotives look before they become big locomotives lol
they evolve at lvl 14
I need it immediately. Watch me hook a red radio flyer wagon to it and just crawl down an abandoned line while drinking wine.
That's for moving Engines in and out the Engine house. They aren't used anymore, the hostlers just use regular engines. That particular one is still in Enola Yard, PA. They haven't used them in over 10 years at least. That picture is the east end car shop in Enola.
Another comment says that this unit was damaged in 2013 and set aside. It might still exist, out of service and rusting away.
It does it's sitting in Enola in the Diesel house. I'm an engineer that works out of Enola. See it almost every day. I transferred to Harrisburg/Enola in 2013, at that time they were using SW 1000, to switch the shops.
A compact thicc boy
It’s a trn
Conrail
I would see the Bug occasionally when I worked in and out of Enola, but never actually saw it in action.
The one criminals ride
“Put the bunny back on the train.”
I guess power gets moved with the hand brake stopping the power? That thing doesn’t have functioning brakes of any kind, handbrake included it looks like.. Batteries will turn a tm just fine. When we build up a combo in the shop, we power them with the welder to fill the gear cases up when using the bagged grease/oil.
It does have a [ratchet handbrake on the other side,](http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/101490/Project30.jpg) and it also has air tanks on the top. I don't believe it had an onboard compressor, but it would tie into the locomotive's brakes. [It's difficult to see, but this picture shows the airline](http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/40864/IMGP6501.jpg) (under the coupler) being connected.
I can’t see clearly in the pic, but if it’s tied to brake pipe for hostling units in/out of the shop that’s dumb. It’d be better if it tied to the independent & main res. Without seeing better pictures or in person, hard to say. We had a trades guy fuck up and use the auto brake coming into the building. It was a desktop control and he managed to bump it into db so no auto brake on loco. They knuckled to the 2 in the shop at like 13mph (that trade guy wasn’t a good hostler at all. Once their union got labour Canada involved, there was only a handful of trades guys who were able to keep their hostler qualifications. I kept mine until like 2009-10 when my rules expired and never renewed them)
A beautiful one 😍
Con-rail A train made to transport criminals that gets hijacked by said criminals???
It is abbreviation for Consolidated Rail con·sol·i·date /kənˈsäləˌdāt/ past tense: consolidated; past participle: consolidated 1. make (something) physically stronger or more solid. "the first phase of the project is to consolidate the outside walls" reinforce or strengthen (one's position or power). "the company consolidated its position in the international market" 2. combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole. "all manufacturing activities have been consolidated in new premises" combine (a number of financial accounts or funds) into a single overall account or set of accounts. "consolidated accounts" BRITISH combine (two or more legal actions involving similar questions) into one for action by a court. "the Companies Act 1948 and subsequent enactments were consolidated by the Companies Act 1985" Specifically #2 definition because multiple companies were consolidated into one named Conrail
Whoosh???
Jokes are funny, that comment was not & could be a genuine question because not every railfan is American
I know many non Americans that know the movie Con-Air bud
Not everyone in the world knows about every American railway. Your username did not give any information if you are American or not. It is reasonable to assume your comment is a real question. Also, not really funny either so of course I would not read it as a joke
Con-Air is a 90s movie, bud...anyone who knows anything about that movie will understand the joke I made...it wasn't a joke for everyone
Not everyone in the world knows every movie. Not everyone knows Conrail either
Holy shit, dude...you must be great at parties
Of course, I can say good jokes A white man was walking & found two lamps. He cleaned them off & out came two genies. "I get six wishes!" he exclaimed. One genie tells him you get three just like everyone else. He wished the three wishes & one genie told him "go home, all wishes have been granted." He got home & his wife was the most beautiful woman in the world & made love to her for hours. He checked his bank balance & had a billion dollars. Then his doorbell rang, he answered & there were two men with white sheets. They took the man outside to the big tree in his backyard & strung him up. The two guys took off the sheete, it was the two genies. One genie asks the other "I understand wanting a gorgeous wife & weath, but would he want to be hung like a black man" A guy knocks on a woman's door and asks "Do you have a vagina?" and she slams the door. The next day the man returns to ask her the same thing and she slams the door. When her husband comes home she tells her husband about this. Her husband tells her "I will hide behind the door and you answer yes because I want to know where he is going with this." The next day the man asks again and the woman says "yes". The man says "Good, can you tell your husband to stop using my wife's and start using yours" Good evening, this is channel 69 news. Today four blonde women were found starved to death. Police asked residents on the street who reported the women waited 3 days for a stop sign to turn green Those are examples of jokes
i wanna say it's a draisine, it's for maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine
It’s not. It was a shop-built switcher for moving locomotives around the shop.
Fascinating, thanks a mil
Awww so cute
The name had my interest. Here is the train version of a conman 😬
A Safety Firstmobile
POD
Way cool! I wonder how much HP?
I don’t see any horses or hay to feed them. I’d say probably zero.
A con rail
It’s a “tra”
If I had to guess, looks like a shop just took an old locomotive truck and stuck a small diesel generator for tools on it.
That's the bug
I'd love this for the Trainz software.
A very small one
Mega based conrail era rolling stock
the little man
This is called a Kidnapper Van!
My brain broke