Mile Posts - Trains Magazine
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BNSF now identifies its bridges with a painted or posted sign MP identification.
andadd to that a partial quote from the THREAD here that Mudchicken authored:
M C, said; "...See the old posts about long and short miles (usually due to line changes)
The FRA programmers need to join certain GIS mapping programmers about whining about physical miles being something other than 5280.0000 feet. They all need to get a life. (For that matter, FRA line segments change like the weather and some railroads don't use them at all or know what they are .... and then the "fun" with the confusion between line segments and USRA/PC/CR line codes
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The Denver-Pueblo "joint line" used to drive operating people nuts. The 1998 re-mileposting by BNSF to kinda-sorta changing the mileposts to match ATSF mileposts to DRGW/C&S caused much havoc with recordkeeping, especially in the Denver and Pueblo terminals.
(and then there was the issue/ running gag of "fuzzy" math with train crews pooling enough fingers and toes to get over the district, especially when "stubby" was on your crew)
And then there is Mile Marker (MM) sneaking-in from the rubber-tired bubbas lexicon, usually via transit operators... Except on old UP mapping trying to show differences between a sign and a pole versus the true map location..."
Thew average personn simply equatesn the term mileage measuremen to mean, a mile beteween ,measurements. Whodda thunk it would get so complicated?
Recently, I took a short tour out to see the new construction on BNSF's line (Rose Hill,s. to Augusta,Ks.) I had hoped to record what I saw by noting mieage MARKERS(?)
It seemsthat they have olaced 'none' (?). The various signal bungalows and signals, all seemed to be identified, currently ,with a sgn that seems to list an alpha numeric, code. (a couple of letters- AT-(?),and numbers(?). I wound up using street and road signs, and then guessing the distances....
Makes one wonder how a train crew will report their location to a Dispatcher in Ft. Worth,Tx ?
