Private Rail Operations?

[SKYNET156]

I am not to sure about anywhere else, but my family lives in CT, and i come up to visit them from NYC, i usually go to branford CT,
They have a railroad track out there that runs a few miles for a company called Tilcon,
They do major blasting and quarry work as well as highway construction,

They have their own track that runs into wooded area's, which i imagine is to export large rocks, Ect from blasting zones,

As i have never seen the track active as of yet, I wonder if they have an AAR channel or are they exempt because they are the only company to use that track?

How does it usually work for situations like that?

[DPD1]

I see 153.035 licensed to them for use in NY. They might use it there too. But no, it doesn't have to be a RR band channel. They could use 400 or whatever.

[Drafin]

This may or may not help but there is a private railroad around here and they use business bands for comms.

Oddly enough they use some railroad band stuff too.

Draf

[FLRAILMAN]

Dave,thanks for steering us in the right direction. I queried the FCC & Cityfreq. databases for Tilcon Inc. in Connecticut & came up with the following:

KCF706
152.87 MHz
North Haven

KJM978
47.44 MHz
47.48 MHz
North Branford

KJM979
47.48 MHz
Branford (Pine Orchard loading dock)

KQU415
156.45 MHz (Marine Ch: 9)
156.8 MHz (Marine Ch: 16)
156.9 MHz (Marine Ch: 18A)
Branford (Pine Orchard loading dock)

KQU751
152.87 MHz
North Haven

KTY775
152.87 MHz
North Branford

WPLZ283
452.0125 MHz
462.8625 MHz
North Branford

I seriously doubt that all of these frequencies are for rail ops, however SKYNET156 can plug them into his Connecticut scanner & figure it out. Thanks again.

www.tilconct.com

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page

Scanner Frequencies

FLRAILMAN

[SKYNET156]

I will def throw those in the 396 when i go up to CT, i am usually in milford or branford, i will check them out, as i said, i have never seen the rail used, it looks rusty, but they have bridges that cross over main roads, so i am not sure how long ago they were used? and if they even still use them?

[DPD1]

I bet the low band ones are for field mobiles on trucks.

If they're really rusty, it's unlikely they still use it. Rail is a thing of the past in most quarry stuff now days. But there's a cool place called Fletcher Granite

and they still have a line that goes right up to the granite quarry. You can see it in photos on Bing maps.

[FLRAILMAN]

Dave, you think the engineer dreams of being an AMTRAK Acela pilot?

FLRAILMAN

[DPD1]

He's probably just happy not to fall in the pit.