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I heard Matt's train call out a signal just East of Erie a few hours ago with a CP 6017 leading.

Pulling into Collinwood, on my previously mentioned, CP 6017. I heard Crestline Clerk loud and clear telling a train to pull down to Beam Rd. and tie it down. That is about 85 or so miles.

Sitting at the Brantford Ontario station one Friday night and hearing CSX talking at North Baltimore.

Aleks wrote:Sitting at the Brantford Ontario station one Friday night and hearing CSX talking at North Baltimore.

Holy master of all skip, Batman.

Jochs wrote: I heard the RM dispatcher talking to a train at Hoytville, OH.

RM doesn't handle anything in Hoytville. Perhaps you meant Holgate. It's easy to confuse the two.

Anyway, what I've been hearing over the past 12 hours or so. I decided to unlock a few more channels on my house radio, and was picking up Walbridge Yard again, Toledo East, Toledo Yard, and Toledo West. I've been hearing several different NS dispatchers from Bluefield on channels 76, 22, 72, and 92. I unlocked channel 18 and have been hearing the Huntington dispatcher from Montpelier to Peru. One time he gave a train yarding instructions at Peru and it registered full signal strength. I also heard the New Castle dispatcher and the Muncie yard cab conversing as clear as though they were in the driveway. I may have also picked up the East Wayne yardmaster but I wasn't entirely sure.

Over on the CSX side I was picking up the HJ, LA, LB, LC, IO, IP, ID, RM, and RL dispatchers. The HJ dispatcher handles the CC Sub (ex-L&N from Cincinnati to Corbin). I was hearing him talking on channel 84, which is the road channel, and when he told a train to come to 32 I programmed it into my radio and of course heard him.

As always, this was heard at my Hilliard, OH base.

Jochs wrote:On the car scanner yesterday, heard RA, RB, RN, and IP dispatchers. I heard CN desk 8 talking to a train at Trowbridge, as well as the NS Chicago Line from around Kendalville to CP 509. I heard trains clearing signals on the Garrett Sub between Gravelton and Miller,IN. I heard the RM dispatcher talking to a train at Hoytville, OH.
All of this in Berrien County Michigan.

I don't know if it's best skip or not, but I was hearing the Toledo NS dispatcher loud and clear down at Oak street in Wyandotte, on just the rubber ducky antenna Friday night.

I just heard the defect detector on the Garrett Sub at 186.5, near Bremen, IN I believe. This is about 45-50 miles south of me and normally out of my scanner range.

awesome reports. i heard friday was the day for radio skips.

the radio skips were flying tonight. i was hearing stuff from erie, pa on ns and csx very well tonight in buffalo, ny.

Driving up to Muskegon this morning I heard a UP dispatcher giving a EC1 to a train on the Milwaukee sub. Direct line....88+ miles. Second time in a week I've heard this skip.

This morning driving to Marion, Ohio from Columbus I was picking up the NS Detroit Dispatcher giving a maintainer time at Montpelier.

trnwatcher wrote:Driving up to Muskegon this morning I heard a UP dispatcher giving a EC1 to a train on the Milwaukee sub. Direct line....88+ miles. Second time in a week I've heard this skip.

Lake helps that a lot too though.

While in NW PA this past weekend I was getting FM radio stations from Toronto and London Ontario. Of course, Lake Erie helps that too. That was pretty wild though!

Practice Safe CSX

usually around erie, pa you can hear stuff from toronto on am radio too, especially tsn 1050.

Currently, from SW MI...I am getting talk from over in Chicagoland...currently hearing the RA dispatcher, and heard the RB dispatcher as well.
I also heard a train crew member loud and clear at East Curtis, IN.

I used to set at Judd in GR and hear the South shore on a regular

I regularly hear trains calling for signals at Temple, GA from Rome, GA. Thats 50+ miles away.

the radio skips were flying tonight. in buffalo on csx i was hearing stuff from ashtabula, ohio and erie, pa very easily. also heard the ns down near conneaut, ohio. i even heard foreman keppel talking to the ih ds cancelling his ec-1 between 128 and 113.

The GR scanner picked up X203 clearing the signals at Saugatuck this morning. Really clear, just as if they were at Seymour! Never heard them at Wells though....

Oak Harbor all-nighter, August 1993, "Conrail, Painseville, Ohio. Milepost 151, track 1, no dragging equipment."