Railfan in McPherson County Ks.

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WX_LAK167

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Hello!

i just recently moved here from Florida to Inman KS, Can anyone help me out in what Union Pacific subdivison covers Inman and McPherson county? or any other railroads in this area. I've checked the database but didn't see any mention of McPherson county

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This tool can help identify subdivisions in a given area.


Not familiar with what channels are in use in that area, my suggestion would be to just scan the 97 channels and see what is being used.
 

WX_LAK167

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This tool can help identify subdivisions in a given area.


Not familiar with what channels are in use in that area, my suggestion would be to just scan the 97 channels and see what is being used.


yes i've been doing that. so far it seems 161.550 is the main channel thru Mcpherson
 

tornado911

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The UP Herrington Sub uses 161.550mhz (AAR 96).
The Kansas & Oklahoma (aka the K&O) McPherson Sub and Newton Sub uses 160.995 (AAR 59).
 

Papagei

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The feds have a map with all the big railroads on it. At high zoom levels, it only shows lines that have Amtrak trains, but keep zooming in and it'll show all of the freight railroads too. No frequencies, but it does have the mileposts, and some of the station/siding/junction names. https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/

For UP only, a (now retired) engineer posted his own versions of track charts for most of UP's system. Archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20160330215920/http://fogchart.com/FOGCHARTED.htm . Not all of them have radio information, but they do have the mileposts, station names, etc, that might be interesting. (The radio information on those charts is usually the AAR channel number, and not the frequency, but you can look it up.)

BNSF apparently doesn't mind about having their employee timetables online, as long as they are at least 10 years old. These will have the radio frequencies as AAR channels, station names, mileposts, and other goodies. There isn't any BNSF real close to you, but if you're interested, see BNSF Timetables – Phase 4 – FOBNR.ORG .
 
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