BNSF radio traffic between Belton and Eureka area. Three dispatchers, Glacier and Boyer East and MMT dispatchers and on occasion MRL dispatcher in Missoula. Whitefish yard switching and all Mras maintenance channels between Belton and Brimstone.
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This Uniden BCT8 scanner is scanning these railroad dispatchers: Boyer East, Glacier, Missoula MRL, MMT RR, plus local 'road' channel and maintenance of way channels. You might also hear hotbox detectors talking to the trains near Olney and Columbia Falls and Coram.
This feed is near the siding of Lupfer which is about 11 miles west of the Whitefish train depot. You'll hear trains as far away as the Coram siding to the east and Brimstone siding to the west. On occasion, under the right atmospheric conditions the Missoula MRL railroad dispatcher will be heard as well. Mission Mountain Railroad has been added, they operate from Columbia Falls to Kalispell and Stryker to Eureka.
Railroad: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company
Frequencies monitored:
Mainline Chan 54 Boyer East dispatcher 160.920 pos 2
Mainline Chan 76 Glacier dispatcher 161.250 pos 3
MRAS Ch 37 Red 160.665 pos 35
Whitefish remote switching yard Chan 87 161.415 pos 5
Mras Chan92 Rx Yellow 161.490 pos 6
Mras Chan 29 TX Green 160.545 pos 7
Mras Chan 68 Rx Green 161.130 pos 4
Mras Chan 15 Rx White 160.335 pos 9 This channel used by MRL almost exclusively
BNSF chat? Chan 47 160.815 pos 10
MRL Missoula Chan 56 160.950 pos 11
Chan 19 160.395 pos 12
Mras Chan 80 Rx Orange 160.310 pos 15
Mras Chan 34 Rx Blue 160.620 pos 16
MMT Railroad Kalispell 160.785 Just added Mission Mountain Railroad
On occasion, you can also hear the remote-controlled locomotives in the Whitefish yard. It will be a computer-generated voice announcing various
functions as controlled by the switchman on the ground.
Added BNSF rail information.
PTC in this area seems to be all up and running with occasionally bugs and problems with engines linking or not linking, 05-12-17
PTC is partially installed in the Whitefish area, (12-8-2016), I hear 5 stations polling from this feed site near Lupfner on the 220 bands.
You will hear trains at these sidings starting from the east most extent of reception:
Belton siding also called West Glacier Park
Coram siding, Coram hotbox detector might be heard on occasion
Conkelly , beginning of double track and location of Columbia Falls aluminum plant
CP 1213, this is a double crossover near Columbia Falls, a hotbox detector is near here as well that you can hear temperature too.
The Whitefish road crew switches loads here for the Mission mountain railroad that takes them on into Kalispell.
Whitefish East, this is a double crossover where trains also divert into the north Whitefish Yard to park awaiting new crews.
Whitefish West, this is the beginning of the single track to the west and starts coverage on my Dispatchers layout feed on ATCS_Monitor.com
With the ATCS program, you can see the dispatchers layout, see the trains coming out of the yard, the switch position, and the color of
the signals for the trains.
Vista siding, this siding is just west of Whitefish, it's a remote inaccessible siding along the shores of Whitefish Lake. Used frequently, you can also see the trains occupy the siding as this is all new ctc territory with indicating sidings.
Lupfer siding, this siding is near my home and the feed for this radio and also the feed for the dispatcher's screen layout. Heavy use on this siding.
The eastbound Amtrak always goes by Lupfner siding at 7 am each morning.
Brimstone siding, named after the red rock in this area. This is about the last siding I can feed to ATCS Monitor and to the audio feed.
On occasion you can still hear trains and track forces further west of this area, e.g. the next siding is Twin Meadows, a siding just on the east side of the Flathead Tunnel. My reception of the controls for the huge door covering the east portal of the tunnel does work so you can see the dispatcher open the doors for trains.
At least for west bounds, for east bounds, the door opens gradually as the train is coming through the tunnel and builds air pressure in the tunnel. As the pressure rises the door is opened gradually. This trick forces air back behind the lead locomotive to give the engineer and the engine fresh air. The train acts much like a piston in a closed cylinder this way. After the train is by the door the dispatcher commands a 'flush', and huge fans turn on to blow the air westward out the tunnel for about 20 minutes. The noise is deafening and sounds much like a jet engine taking off.
Just added by request freq 160.785 MMT railroad, which works out of Columbia Falls serving there to Kalispell. They bring freight up to BNSF mainline in Columbia Falls for pickup.
I just took down the Discone antenna and replaced it with a Tram 1491 3 element colinear, I hope it improves this audio stream and the ATCS_Monitor stream.
So far audio is cleaner, and in atcs I see more control points coming in. September 29th.
You can watch the same trains you listen to on ATCS_Monitor.com, download the program and layout called Elmira East, this covers Elmira to West switch Whitefish.
Update 9/26/2018 It is rumored big changes on the railroad up at Marias Pass/ Summit. Talk is the Marias crossovers may go back in and/or double track extended to Bison East.
Leo Yudysky K7ONI
Retired signal supervisor BNSF railroad Whitefish, Mt.
Jonathan Wichter Posted 7 years ago
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