Waiting for a shipment by UPS?

CHPMustang

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Many of ya'll get this kind of tracking info?:D Apparently the railcar my order was on was involved in a 29 car derailment in SoCal Monday night:doh:

How computer processors hold up to large physical movement shocks?
 

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:eek:

When the UPS guy arrives, Shake the box before he leaves. If it sounds like a box of cereal, send it back with him. :sorry

Barrett
 

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Bill, I didn't think UPS used rail cars for short hauls like that, I don't think they use rail cars at all come to think of it.

Is it possible that the truck your package was/is on was delayed by the derailment not involved in it?
 

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Bill, I didn't think UPS used rail cars for short hauls like that, I don't think they use rail cars at all come to think of it.

Is it possible that the truck your package was/is on was delayed by the derailment not involved in it?

They use pig trailers. TOFC Trailer On Flat Car.
 

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They use pig trailers. TOFC Trailer On Flat Car.

Ahhh ok. As much as I have been in and out of CSX and NS railyards this last month I've never seen a UPS trailer in either one.

Learn sumptin new everyday :sweet
 

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:eek::eek::eek: Who's humping in the railyard?!!:eek::eek::eek:

Hump yards
These are the largest and most effective classification yards with the largest shunting capacity — often several thousand cars a day. The heart of these yards is the hump: a lead track on a hill (hump) over which the cars are pushed by the engine. Single cars, or some coupled cars in a block, are uncoupled just before or at the crest of the hump and roll by gravity into their destination tracks in the classification bowl (the tracks where the cars are sorted).
 

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