RailScan - Railroad Traffic Around Reading, PA
Recorded Mon,
Oct 22, 2018

  Time    Location         Dir Symbol   Route          Yard     Engine # & Notes
  0006    Sinking Spring    East    294      Hburg-Atown
  0030    Sinking Spring    East    ???      Atown-Hburg             Not Calling With Symbol
  0036    Sinking Spring    West    34A      Atown-Hburg
  0108    Sinking Spring    West    25T      Phila-Hburg
  0113    Sinking Spring    East    I12      Hburg-Atown
  0144         Belt         East    H73      Readg-Atown         W   5661/5304; 12 L 0 E; Lions Then Lentz
  0207    Sinking Spring    West    35Q      Atown-Hburg
  0213    Sinking Spring    East    20R      Hburg-Atown
  0253         Belt         West    H89      Atown-Readg         W
  0403    Sinking Spring    East    26E      Hburg-Atown
  0408         Belt         East    H89      Readg-Atown         W
  0435         Belt         West    H73      Atown-Readg         W   5304/5661; Worked Lyons; To Lentz
  0439    Sinking Spring    East    22V      Hburg-Atown
  0442    Sinking Spring    West    24Z      Hburg-Atown             Opposed
  0604    Sinking Spring    East    20E      Hburg-Atown
  0632    Sinking Spring    West    23Z      Atown-Hburg
  0641    Sinking Spring    East    965      Hburg-Atown    Thr      5611; Light Engine; Via 2 Runner
  0709         Belt         West    H47      Atown-Readg         W   3001/5303; From Evansville
  0709    Sinking Spring    East    36Q      Hburg-Atown             Not Calling Signals
  0712    Sinking Spring    West    I5Z      Atown-Hburg             9753/8407
  0716         Belt         West    KH01       RN Local          W   Rn1541/1540; Light Power
  0802    Sinking Spring    West    11J      Atown-Hburg
  0838         Belt         East    KH01       RN Local          W   Rn1540/1541; 45 L 22 E
  0858    Sinking Spring    West    21J      Phila-Hburg             Opposed
  0910        Walnut        East    94M      Readg-Phila         W   9129/9675/5314/5296/3031; To Bird For Turkey Path Then Abrams
  0926    Sinking Spring    West    212      Hburg-Atown             Opposed
  1013         Oley         East    H49      Readg-Phila         W   5304/5661; Timac, Lead, Steel, Bengal
  1025    Sinking Spring    West    21M      Atown-Hburg
  1112         Tulp         West    905      Atown-Phila             4074
  1124    Sinking Spring    West    23M      Atown-Hburg             7323; Opposed
  1222        Laurel        East    H47      Readg-Atown         W   5303/3001; To Evansville
  1303         Cumru        East    38G      Atown-Phila             7675
  1326         Belt         West    H68      Atown-Readg         W   3039
  1400    Sinking Spring    West    65K      Atown-Hburg             9444; Recrewed At Tulp At 1215
  1422    Sinking Spring    East    20K      Hburg-Atown             Not Calling Signals; Unconfirmed
  1427    Sinking Spring    West    11K      Atown-Hburg             9502/9926; Spun Power; Parked Belt 0300; Recrewed
  1457    Sinking Spring    East    16T      Hburg-Atown             9395
  1529    Sinking Spring    West    15T      Atown-Hburg             6960
  1552    Sinking Spring    West    19G      Atown-Hburg    Thr  W   1025
  1639         Belt         East    H68      Readg-Atown         W   6710/736/3039/5618/3038/5316; 1 L 34 E; No Buckeye Work
  1855         Oley         West    H49      Phila-Readg         W   5661
  1928    Sinking Spring    West    11K      Atown-Hburg             9180
  1944    Sinking Spring    West    H31      Readg-Hburg         W   3001/5303
  2100    Sinking Spring    West    M7G      Phila-Hburg
  2302    Sinking Spring    West    34A      Atown-Hburg             9931
  2312         Bird         East    62X      Readg-Phila             9563/6306; Worked Dyers; To Cromby
 
Traffic Density (Trains Through): 
Sinky	Belt	Bird	Area
30	37	10	46

Unconfirmed means "best guess" of unheard symbol.
Yard column shows if trains passed through and/or worked Spring Street (Reading) yard.
 
Notable Events:
 
 0005 - Dispatcher spoke to 506 in Stowe (train was parked)
 0027 - Heard 14G call signals all the way to signal 39!
 0250 - 11K was waiting at the east side of Belt for a taxi;
        Dispatcher said the taxi had no radio for communications;
        Taxi was actually parked over at the west side of Belt in the Kia parking lot;
        Dispatcher asked H89 to stop at the west side of Belt to inform the taxi to go to the east;
        H89 stopped at the east side and picked up the crew of the 11K to take them west;
        Just about then the 20R had pulled up to a stop at Belt west side;
        20R reported to H89 that the taxi just left the parking lot to Clover Farms!;
        Dispatcher was not impressed that the 11K did not inform him!
 0930 - Maintainer to do welding at CP-Lorane on both tracks until 1100
 1100-1800 H33 worked yard only

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