[Scan-DC] Railfans: extra rail traffic in Montgomery County?

[Shawnerz]

The voice comm traffic is one side but there is
another side of the railfan hobby that monitors the
transmissions of track switches.  Sounds kinda boring,
but when the information is overlayed a map, you can
infer a trains position and route.
The data mode is called ATCS.  There is a yahoo group
for it.  There is software that is similar to Trunker
that's use to monitor the traffic.  You connect the
output of your discriminator into a sound card to
demodulate the data if you want to hear the local
traffic.  You can switch modes and connect to servers
to "see" a region if you like.
The learning curve is a little steep and because of
all of the new people asking the same questions, it's
hard to get answers.  I was lucky find somebody
locally and we set up a phone call, and he got me on
the right track. (Ha! I kill me!)
-Shawn


--- b_thom at juno.com wrote:

> A post at Trainorders.com suggests that, due to the
> snowfall in upstate
> New York, many trains are being rerouted from that
> corridor to the
> Cumberland-DC-Baltimore corridor. As there is more
> snow forecast for
> upstate New York this week, things should be busy
> for the next few days. 
> 
> Try some of these frequencies, shown according to
> their Association of
> American Railroads channel number:
> 
> 				Railroads
>       8	160.230	old C&O/B&O dispatcher (AAR channel
> 8)
>      12	160.290	west end car department, Cumberland
>      13	160.305	signal department, Cumberland
>      14	160.320	CSX road 2, AU dispatcher
>      24	160.470	east end car department, Cumberland
>      28	160.530	CSX ch. 3. West hump, Cumberland;
> Brunswick YM
>      36	160.650	locomotive shop and ready track,
> Cumberland
>      45	160.785	CSX ch. 8, MofW and signals, Sand
> Patch (AAR 45)
>      52	160.890	CSX PBX for Sand Patch area
>      58	160.980	CSX PBX
>      62	161.040	west end car department, Cumberland
>      70	161.160	CSX ch. 4, east hump, Cumberland
>      74	161.220	locomotive shop and ready track,
> Cumberland
>      77	161.265	CSX PBX, Baltimore-Martinsburg
>      94	161.520	CSX CM dispatcher, for Sand Patch
> (AAR 94)
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