LOUISIANA STREAMER HOME PAGE- CN channel 72. The most interesting time to listen is in the early afternoon when the Amtrak City of New Orleans come through, trains 58 and 59 often meet here.
- The receive site is near mile post 855.2 on the McComb Subdivision and the detector at that location will alert you to trains passing between Jackson, Mississippi and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Amtrak Trains 58 and 59, the City of New Orleans, usually pass each other here around 2-3 PM each afternoon on the CN. Between 1 and 4 PM local time is when the most activity occurs on this railroad. In June 2009 there is a work window which calls for train 59 to operate 45 minutes later than Amtrak's posted schedule. CN has cancelled regular trains 319 and 320 due to economic conditions, so the number of trains passing through this area is now less than in the past. They may still run as extras, and on day's they don't most of the traffic is on 301/301 which travels the Hammond Subdivision to and from Baton Rouge instead of the using the McComb Subdivision that Amtrak uses. We recently changed sites for the stream, so the geographic coverage has been much reduced to just the area between Hammond and Amite, Louisiana. The stream coverage will be upgraded again in the future as a preamp and more antenna has been planned.
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 RECEIVER #3 - NORTHWEST LOUISIANA - KCS ALEX & BEAUMONT SUBS / UP RABBIT & REISOR- We are currently off the air some of the time due to power interruptions causing our windows operating system to go down. The test stream will return to the air with a more reliable Instreamer when conditions permit
- CH 13 KCS BEAUMONT SUBDIVISION. Console 4 Dispatcher. This radio is currently in a test mode only, antenna has not been improved as of yet. This is the KCS NAFTA route, which is being upgraded by KCS at the present time with many improvements between Houston and the Mexican border.
- The KCS Beaumont Subdivision runs from milepost 553.3 at Shreveport, to milepost 786.1 at Port Arthur, Texas. The line passes through its namesake city of Beaumont at milepost 766. We anticipate that when economic conditions improve, the number of trains on this line is going to increase dramatically.
- Our receiving location is near the Loring siding south of Zwolle, Louisiana (milepost 621.8). There is not much going on here locally, other than Millenium Railcar has a shop, and some freight cars are picked up and dropped off. Locomotive engineer signal calling can be heard in this area. Reportedly some of KCS's new southern belle style locomotive paint jobs are being performed here. There are a number of through trains on a daily basis that pass through the area and the dispatcher will often give the listener an idea of what is coming or going.
- CH 10 KCS ALEXANDRIA SUBDIVISION, Console 3 Dispatcher. This comes in pretty well, presumably from a tower west of Natchitoches, LA You can tell console 3's tower from console 4 because it has clear, and not garbled audio like one of console 4's towers.
- We have added a couple UP channels, and not sure yet where they are picking up from, but probably skip coming in from Longview and Marxhall area of Texas. They seem to only come in at night. The Amtrak references are to the Texas Eagle, Train 21 and 22. Apparently the UP29 dispatcher is coming off a taller tower east of Marshall, Texas. It covers the REISOR SUBDIVISION into Shreveport. The dispatchers out of Spring, Texas on the RABBIT LINE (LUFKIN SUBDIVISION) can be heard sometimes, particularly at night.
- The antenna system has not yet been improved, we plan on working on that when we can get our ladders, brackets, and equipment over here.
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TROPOSPHERIC ENHANCEMENT SUMMER ESPECIALLY Things sometimes go nuts on the VHF radio around here due to weather and water conditions. Stuff that is nor normally heard on the radio may show up (DX in ham-speak). For a discussion of tropospheric activity along the coast, check out the links povided in the forum pages. We have Lake Ponchartrain and Lake Maurepas near by, as well as the Gulf of Mexico not too far away. If you are interested in that sort of thing, as we are, I'm sure you will find the links and discussion of interest. One of the links we have is to the tropospheric activity maps generated from amateur radio packet transmission paths. This is relatively real-time, and shows the reception paths of various stations, which can routinely reach several hundred miles at this time of the year. While much of this is at 144 mhz, which is below the rail radio band at 161 mhz, it is relevent, as when there is an event that affects 144, it often spreads to and from other frequencies as well. Here is a link for almost real time maps. http://tiny.cc/tropo217 |
