AAR Radio Channel 44 (160.770)
The Reading, Blue Mountain, and Northern Railroad was formed in 1983 primarily as an Anthracite Coal Hauling Short Line Railroad. Today RBMN’s system has expanded to over 300 miles of track on two divisions and includes a roster of over 20 locomotives and in excess of 1000 cars. Headquartered out of Port Clinton, PA, Reading, and Northern has become one of the larger and well run Regional Railroads in the country. The RBMN connects with 6 railroads which include Class I’s Canadian Pacific at Taylor, PA and Norfolk Southern at Lehighton, PA and Reading, PA, as well as short line and regional railroad’s Lehigh Railway, Luzerne & Susquehanna, Shamokin Valley Railroad and Delaware Lackawanna. The railroads Reading Division which include trackage between Reading, PA, and Lehighton, PA is primarily utilized as a vital transportation link to the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania. The RBMN Reading Division is host to over 50 customers and is served by numerous RBMN unit trains, road trains, locals and yard jobs each and every day. The other division on the RBMN system is known as the Lehigh Division (commonly referred to as the “Northern Division”) which runs between Lehighton, PA and Mehoopany, PA and operates primarily on ex. Lehigh Valley trackage. The Lehigh Division also services dozens of customers through 3 daily road locals, a daily pair of road trains and 2 scheduled yard jobs at both Penobscot Yard near Mountain Top, PA and Pittston Yard in Duryea, PA. The Lehigh Division also hosts 4-6 run through trains per day from both Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific, operating between the Canadian Pacific Sunbury Subdivision connecter at Dupont, PA and NS’s Allentown Terminal in Allentown, PA. Freight Operations are not RBMN’s only business, as recently passenger operations have become a very busy and lucrative business for Reading and Northern. Through the acquisition and creation of the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (a subsidiary of the RBMN), Reading and Northern operates scheduled passenger operations based out of Jim Thorpe, PA and into the Lehigh Gorge State Park. In addition to the LGSR operations, RBMN also hosts dozens of other very popular long-distance passenger trips across their system. RBMN rosters a large fleet of passenger equipment ranging from Office Cars to Coaches and even RDC (Rail Diesel Cars). Additionally, the RBMN also rosters and operates 4-6-2 Pacific Class # 425 which commonly pulls a number of RBMN’s excursions and passenger trips throughout the year RBMN is a very active railroad and most of their system operates off of AAR Radio Channel 44 (160.770). This radio feed will give you the opportunity to listen in on RBMN’s operations on both the Lehigh Division and the Northern portion of the Reading Division on their system by monitoring transmissions on AAR Channel 44. There will be numerous trains heard throughout the day on the radio feed including RBMN jobs QAMC/MCQA, QAJT/JTQA, PIME/MEPI, PISB/SBPI, PILE/LEPI, YJPI, and various other local and unit trains, as well as CP trains 258/259 and NS trains 12/13T. For additional information on the radio feed and the train operations covered by this feed, a yahoo group dedicated to this coverage can be found at the following link: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RBMNRR/conversations/messages Our receiver for the feed is located in Bear Creek Twp, 2100ft above sea level, equipment is Motorola Quanter Base station, connected to PD-220 station master antenna atop 180ft tower. Equipment is connected to the site generator and backup UPS. Expected little or NO downtime. 24/7 feed.
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NS Port Road Branch between Harrisburg, PA, and Perryville, MD. We will be setting up a dual audio feed for NS and Amtrak CETC3 to hear dispatch from Harrisburg and on and off the Northeast corridor by CETC3. Also, trains will be heard between Columbia and Lancaster, PA, as well as detectors, MoW and maintenance crews. We are planning on setting up directional antennas in both directions to enhance received radio traffic.
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BNSF DS 17 on Channel 63 (161.055 MHz) from Newton, KS. Monitor radio is presently an Icom v8000 using a 4 element beam.
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Norfolk Southern Railway Company traffic in and around Moberly, Missouri. 160.27500, 160.29000, 160.38000, 160.44000
Norfolk Southern railroad around Moberly Missouri in Randolph County.
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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.
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.
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
AAR channel 77, 161.265 MHz in Midland, Texas. This site is dispatched remotely from Omaha, NE. Check out www.fwarailfan.net/ATCS.htm. The actual train movement on a significant portion of the Toyah Sub may be viewed using ATCS.
UPRR Omaha dispatch AAR 46 160.800 MHz. Using a Motorola M1225 with Barix Instreamer. Transmitter located in Midland, Texas.
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Mainline Road Channels through Sandpoint, ID UP AAR-42 160.740 MHz "Dispatcher #41" BNSF AAR-54 160.920 MHz "Boyer East Dispatcher" MRL AAR-56 160.950 MHz "Missoula West Dispatcher" BNSF AAR-76 161.250 MHz "Boyer West Dispatcher" POVA AAR-87
BNSF:
Union Pacific:
Montana Rail Link:
Pend Oreille Valley Authority
Equipment:
Monitored Frequencies:
160.800 MHz - CSX Road Channel
160.560 MHz - CSX NC Dispatcher
161.070 MHz - CSX Yard
Equipment: Uniden BCT15X Scanner with a 'Train Tenna Blade' indoor antenna.
Webcam located at QB108: http://www.westfieldwebcam.com/index.php/green-bridges
This Uniden BCT-8 and its dedicated PC are physically in Hampshire county (Huntington), although most monitored activity is in Hampden county. The following frequencies are monitored;
- 160.920 Amtrak MRS (Hartford) line dispatcher
- 161.295 Amtrak MRS line police
- 160.560 CSX NC (Berkshire sub dispatcher (Agawam, Russell and Chester bases)
- 160.680 CSX NC (Boston sub dispatcher (Agawam base)
- 161.070 CSX W. Springfield yard
- 160.800 CSX road
- 160.770 NEC dispatcher (Palmer)
- 161.160 PanAm District 3 dispatcher (Springfield base)
Alpha tags are provided. Most of what you'll hear is CSX between CP105 (Westfield) and CP123 (Chester) on the Berkshire; the other freqs will become more active and useful once we solve some interference issues affecting our planned replacement antenna (it's about sixty feet higher).
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