Extremely quiet on the railroad frequencies....

[karldotcom]

I live in Southern California, and I can tell you there are spaces of ten minutes or longer without hearing a single squelch break on the railfroad frequencies. I am talking 33 frequencies of UP, BNSF, Metrolink, LAJ, PHL main lines, yards, etc.

In fact, the entire western half of BNSF Hobart Yard is empty (had 1.3 million lifts a year recently)....looks like a ghost town.


Anyone else noticing similar traffic reductions?

 

[Mick]

In the last five minutes (0115-0120 hours) L.A. Co. MTA has been busy on 161.565 and 161.265 MHz.

I'll listen in tomorrow for some activity on the rest of the train allocated frqs.

 

[Mick]

Hardly a minute goes by without hearing activity while in search mode between 160.215/161.610 MHz.

Time-Freq----User
1342 160.560 SoCal Regional Railroad Authority
1343 160.560 SoCal Regional Railroad Authority
1344 160.515 UPRR “Dispatch” “Metrolink”
1345 161.505 L.A. Co. MTA Red Line Road; simulcast of 160.935
1346 161.565 L.A. Co. MTA
1348 160.515 UPRR “Dispatch” “Metrolink”
1349 160.515 UPRR “Dispatch” “Metrolink”
1349 160.560 SoCal Regional Railroad Authority
1349 160.425 L.A. Co. MTA maint
1350 160.425 L.A. Co. MTA maint
1351 161.145 L.A. Co. MTA Green Line Road
1352 161.265 L.A. Co. MTA Gold Line Road
1353 160.935 L.A. Co. MTA Red Line Road

Many other frqs like 160.740 UPRR Road & 161.415 SoCal Regional RR Auth “Metrolink” “San Gabriel Sub” have been active outside the above 10 minute time window.

 

[NWtoSFO]

Plenty of activity around Sacramento. Sunday is a bit slow anyway, but Roseville yard is busy. Hard to tell if things have slowed way down, though. It's not like there aren't trains running, by any means.

 

[karldotcom]

What I meant was freight activity.....after hearing the hundreds of positions cut on Jan 2 by UP and BNSF....

 

[Allan_Love_Jr]

If things don't start turning around in the economy real soon. You'll be hearing and seeing less Rail action. The only thing that will keep the Railroads afloat is the Coal and the Grain moves. BNSF is Big in Coal. The BNSF Omaha/Council Bluffs stream is bustling with Railroad Radio Traffic all the time. Later.

 

[Mick]

Sunday afternoon's activity

160.3200 csq UPRR Road
160.3650 csq Alameda Corridor Trans Auth
160.4250 136.5 L.A. Co. MTA maint
160.5150 csq UPRR “Dispatch” “Metrolink” (L.A. Sub L.A. To Riverside)
160.5600 csq “Amtrak” SoCal Regional Railroad Authority “S.D. Sub”
160.6500 csq BNSF “San Bernardino Sub” “Metrolink”; Amtrak Soto to Fullerton
160.9350 123.0 L.A. Co. MTA Red Line Road
160.9800 csq “Kaiser Yard”; prolly Pacific Harbor Line, Wilmington
161.0700 csq BNSF
161.1300 csq BNSF
161.1450 123.0 L.A. Co. MTA Green Line Road
161.2650 103.5 L.A. Co. MTA Gold Line Road
161.4150 csq SoCal Regional RR Auth “Metrolink” “San Gabriel Sub”
161.5050 123.0 “Red Line”; simulcast of 160.935
161.5650 103.5 L.A. Co. MTA “WPZF332”

 

[BigC801]

Union Pacific in Kansas city has laid off 500-1000 or so, getting real thin here.

 

[KE7JFF]

Been busy up here in Oregon; hearing lots of movements on some of the smaller lines.

 

[jmp883]

Can't speak for your part of the country but things here in the metro NJ/NY area seem to humming along just fine. Plenty of rail and radio traffic on NS, CSX, and the NYS&W. Of course NJT, Metro-North, and Amtrak are always busy with commuter/passenger ops.

 

[JESSERABBIT]

Radio transmissions on the CSX and NS lines in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia are very numerous. No reason to believe that will abate anytime soon.

 

[WisconsinRailfan]

That's cause they are all here sitting around.

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