Miscellaneous

You need a sort of police scanner to monitor these bands. To be honest I just run mine on the marine band (which 160 and 161 MHz are a part of) and when there is some activity it finds it. Generally speaking you usually hear the train give out a district 4 message saying where they are, if you even get that. There is also a hot box detector in Zoar about 1/2 mile before the road the goes up towards Rowe center (just a stones throw east of the mile marker 411).You can find out what the source and destination of a train is through the messages they broadcast. 

Please remember this: if you have a 2 way radio with these frequencies it is flagrantly illegal to broadcast on them! The FCC licenses these channels for a reason!