Waiting for a shipment by UPS?

[CHPMustang]

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

How computer processors hold up to large physical movement shocks?

 

[architect-builder]

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

Barrett

 

[jharvey]

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?

 

[trackspeeder]

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.

 

[trackspeeder]

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

Barrett

Depends on the clean up crew. It might show up flat. Or not at all.

 

[Big K]

Bill, I have seen some strange stuff in the past for sure!

 

[jharvey]

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

 

[Crumm]

How computer processors hold up to large physical movement shocks?

I doubt they hit any harder when they derail than when they hump them in the rail yard.

 

[Fine69]

I doubt they hit any harder when they derail than when they hump them in the rail yard.

Who's humping in the railyard?!!

 

[Crumm]

Who's humping in the railyard?!!

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).