For the Railfans: Post what your Defect Detectors sound like

Thats right, make a video response to this video,of what your defect detectors for your railroads sound like. This is what my defect detector sounds like located at MP 34.5 on the NS Harrisburg Line. Im curious and want to see all of the similarities and differences. Have fun with this!

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• ns
• harrisburg
• line
• norfolk
• southern
• defect
• detector
• scanner
• train
• railroad

[mafarnz]

This was a great little video response project, there is a HUGE variation of detectors out there, even on the same railroad sometimes!

[Hickler90]

Yeah this turned out great, I wasnt expecting such a feedback when I made this purely out of pure boredom LOL

[Juggylocko]

Where Do You Get These Scanners?

[Hickler90]

Purchased mine over 2 years ago at Radioshack.

[deathstarmygnr]

How can I find out where the defect detectors are where I live? I have a scanner and can get some chatter here and there from the railroad yard we have here. Are defectors in the rail yards usually? Where?

[Hickler90]

Hey, sorry this is such a late response. Go on Google and look up frequencies for the Railroad that is near you. Look up the EOT transmission frequency and whenever the train hits it, youll hear the DED and whatever Milepost it is located at. For example, NS uses 161.115 for the EOT and my defect detector is on MP 34.5 on the NS HARL.

[mikeyRavens52]

so whenever is says this kinda stuff, a train is near?

[Conrail6370]

I really can take the critted for having the Defect detector put in Linfeild,Pa. I was friends with an head M&W formen, He told me they wanted to in stall another dragger on the Harrisburg Line, but didn't know where, I sujested to put it at Linfield, because in was cenral location between the Mona dragger and the Forge dragger. He said I'll say something to my Bosses, well in two months the dragger was installed at Linfield.

The Formans name was The Late Dan Calvaresi.

Len.

[TopThrillDan]

Nice video I railfan the CSX Toledo Sub fifteenth miles north of Cincinnati Ohio, have not heard what the Norfolk Southern reads out but CSX.

CSX detector mile post 13.5, track main one, no defect repeat no defect, total axe 358, total car 88, length 8310, detector out.

[tylerbwell80]

Mine goes like this Norfolk Southern Milepost 513.7 No Defects.

[lnsertwhatwhere]

I only heard ours once so far. It goes " Norfolk Southern Milepost four five dot three, hotbox detected, axel seven eight. Stop train immediatly. Then it repeats. Then the trains stops for a couple hours. I just got my scanner.

[rbjplay13]

@spiritwingsvirtual Same here. The NEC doesn't have any. :(

[Mainsail76]

My local UP detector doesn't transmit anymore. I don't know what happened to it. I used to hear it all the time, but one day it was gone and it has never come back.

[spiritwingsvirtual]

We don't have them here...

[train2589]

I would post a video response but i dont have a scanner. Dang!

[owensri2]

Mine goes like this: "Conrail equipment defect detector, Wyandotte, Michigan, Track 2, No Defects, Speed 2 9, Total Axles 2 9 4, Over."