I absolutely love watching "Maintenance of Way" operations ! Everyone has their job and it has to be done, JUST SO; for the safety of all trains that use the track ! I applaud all the workers and the camera-person and editor that made this video possible !!!
It would have been helpful if someone from the Industry was Narrating and explaining the process as the work on the Track was taking place. Enjoyable and informative video to watch.
I would love to play a railway track building simulator that incorporates all the machines seen in the video. Some would find laying down track piece by piece and tightening every bolt a bit tedious but I'm the type who enjoys stuff like that.
Very well documented but lack of explanations for each of the task performed.............A narrator would help to complement this Super Engineering show piece.......
At 7:20 you have a little rail riding excavator with a magnetized head picking up the steel tie plates, fumbling with them and setting them back down. I guess in a more convenient spot. Really..... A person walking along could have done it faster and better. I think sometimes we take mechanization a little to far.
I'm amazed at how the railroad's can seem to put down tracks thru hills, valleys, mountains, deserts, over rivers and whatever else seems to get in the way.
True, but, remember that when the transcontinental Railroad was built, the crews That laid the track over the Sierras had to do all the tunneling and excavation by Hand. So it took longer to Put in the tracks, vs the other part which was done On flat land
As mentioned below this would be much more interesting video if there was a good Narrator explaining each step in rail laying and repair. Can one imagine how hard the work was laying rail tracks in the 1860s across America and doing it mostly by heavy labor.
Enjoyed every second of this MOST EXCELLENT professional video. Kudos to the Engineers that designed these wonderful machines along with the skillful operators. My beloved late Father worked 38 years on a bridge gang and carpenter for Southern Pacific. R.I.P, wonderful Dad.
Very interesting. Would like to see brief captions of what each machine does, how and why. Also why workers do part of a job by hand and use tools finish it. (IE: the splice bar bolts)
MY Grandfather was a Laborer and retired from The Illinois Central Railway (I C) What you see here, men did this back breaking work. FYI, Illinois Central, change name to Illinois Central Gulf, then to Amtrak. Peace and Blessing for the people who retired and still work for the Railroad, a hazardous and dangerous job. I'm very proud of my Grandfather. RIP!
There was nothing easy about railroad work back in the day. The guys like your grandfather doing this kind of work were either "section hands" or they were on the "steel gang". Your grandfather had to be one tough man. I saw countless guys go to work on those old crews and quit the first day cause it was too hard, dirty and dangerous. They don't make men like your grandpa anymore. He would be proud of you too. ;)
In the last days of the Rock Island RR, I worked on tie gang #3. We went to Warren, Arkansas and waited for our equipment to show up. Rock Island put us to work with the section gang. One old white man was the boss and the crew was black. On rainy days the men drank beer and whiskey and played poker. The black guys let the old white man win a few bucks and they made a full days pay,"good pay". We went out in a large van and we all sat in the back, pulling a trailer with cross ties and short pieces of rail. when we did find a broken rail or tie that needed replacing, it was a wonderful thing to see. This was not "ribbon rail"but short rails with angle plates to hold them together. To cut the rail the men would mark the rail on both sides with a cold chisel on a long handle, pull all the rail spikes from the part to be cut, put a jack under the part to be removed, then hit with a sledgehammer. The rail broke straighter than you would think. To drill the holes for the angle plate, they used a hand driven drill the hooked over the rail. Two handled, it drilled right through. When the crew put spikes in the ties, two men set the spikes and the men with spike mauls drove them down with two blows. They rolled the large hammers off their shoulders and never missed. We had spike drivers on the tie gang but watching how it was done in days gone past was a wonderful thing to see.
Love it!! You... all of y'all that did that back breaking work should be proud. You should write that stuff down. As a railfan, I love hearing about it 🌞
I still can't get over how...noodly..rail track is while it's being handled. I mean I always knew it was both tough, hard and strong, but it's still a trip to see it all flopping around as it's being set.
worked at ConRail in NJ summer 76. It was awesome. Replaced those ties manually with crow bars, hammers, sweat, blood and me crying on the side. I liked the spike hammer, fun slamming tall spikes and walking the rails. Got to ride the train for free and meet young females coming down to the jersey shore to party. Was a great summer. wish I stayed with ConRail. Great to see all these machines to the hard work precision. You can see why they call it "ribbon rail" as it jiggles like a worm!!!
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While this seems like a lot of equipment and manpower, I could only imagine the amount of manpower when these tracks were originally laid. Great work by the RR guy's, and good video. John
Think of the equipment manufacturers that build this stuff then have to sell it at a profit to stay in business. Then there's the skilled operators needed to run it. Don't forget those engineers that design the stuff.
And don't forget the overlooked mechanics that have to repair and maintain these machines! Without them, the skilled operators are out of work and the trains don't move!
Where is this happening? Which company makes such machines for rail track laying? I am amazed at the design engineering manufacturing of these machines. I hues it is used in USA, Europe and Japan.
CSX... gotta love the faded colors on the tie gang machines... along with the fact that every other tie is being replaced... I guess from not being serviced at all for the past 50 years. At least NS can afford to repaint their track machines so they are mostly brand new and don't break down every five minutes. There is a NS video on YT that shows and explains every piece of machinery and its function in detail.
These are just random clips one after another. They don't follow a sequence or form any sort of connected whole. It's just techo wallpaper. What a pity.
On behalf of the poster, I offer an apology for trying to show you more than one thing at a time, but if you ever learn to read, go back and look at the title. The word "compilation" is clearly mentioned. Here, this might help: www.dictionary.com/browse/compilation?s=t
Thumbs down for making me feel like an idiot, not knowing what the hell is going on in the video. Some text/voice over would be nice too. Are they getting rid of the bacteria & viruses on the rail track ? 0:57
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This is in order to bring the rail into the desired temperature range. This is used for huge solid rails with a length of more than 100 meters for countries with a large temperature range, such as Russia. Where long rails improperly fixed due to incorrect temperature calculation will destroy the track due to accumulated temperature stress
@@DVXDemetrivs Wrote "This is in order to bring the rail into the desired temperature range. This is used for huge solid rails with a length of more than 100 meters for countries with a large temperature range, such as Russia. Where long rails improperly fixed due to incorrect temperature calculation will destroy the track due to accumulated temperature stress" Ahhhhhh, interesting. That makes sense. If I remember correctly some bridges (or maybe all bridges) have some sort of gap with rubber or something in-between the sections, so that it can expand and contract. If the rail tracks have incorrect temperature and they get stressed destroyed, how does it destroy the track? Does is move out of place or get cracks in them ? BTW thanks for the reply
@@ZergRadio The simplest thing that can happen is that the rail will crack. Because the rail either expands or contracts depending on the time of year, the bolts at the joints may burst. The most disgusting thing is when, due to the accumulated stress, the rails can bend like a snake together with the sleepers and part of the gravel underneath them. If this happens under a train, it will not be a pleasant experience. The rails can simply fly off the rail fastenings without moving the sleepers. I don't know how it is in English, but in Russian we officially call long rails longer than 100 meters "whip", so a tense "whip" can hit to the side like a whip, of course not that quickly, but The effect will be fatal. There are videos on the Internet showing how this happens. For example "выброс рельса"
"Modern" or not, railfan or not, watching that equipment in person is cool. (Hearing protection is recommended tho) And look at the big picture. Where would we be, and what wouldn't we have, without the railroad.... 🌞
some of this stuff is different here in Australia but best guess explanation: 0:01 and 0:56 The fire machine at the start of the video of never seen, i'm guessing that it's to heat the rail due to colder temperatures, if say the rail is put in when it was new at 25+ degrees during the warmer seasons and now is 5-10 degrees or less the rail shrinks causing a lot of tension, any works being done on that rail is more prone to breakages. At 0:17 is a regulator with a shit operator that's pushing more ballast(rocks) down the hill than up, the regulator apart from pushing the ballast like a grader/bulldozer also has a broom box on the back that's got a load of spinning rubber dildo looking bits that spray the ballast in there, evening/leveling it out and filling in low spots. At 1:30 is a rail drill, the pump bottle next to him is connected to the drill bit and sprays it with a coolant/cutting fluid mix 2:53 Is a dogging machine that hits dogspikes into the sleepers. 5:00 Is a tampa which lifts,lines/straightens the rail and then vibrates the ballast under so it doesn't just go back to how it was, different types use different methods for measurements and calculating track positioning. 5:33 Tie removal machine, operator is lifting that track higher than he needs to 6:55 Electromagnets on excavators picking up the fastenings(we call them jewellery here) we normally do it by hand because as you can see it really rubbish at doing something as simple as moving a plate and fastings blend in and are hard to see sometimes even out of the machine. The excavators behind are picking up sleepers, they're really good for that. 10:00 Looks like another electro-magnet machine for actually gathering the fastenings rather than moving them out of the way 13:52 No idea, i don't really see a point to this machine, it's not removing the plates totally and i'm pretty sure he's fucking up those anchors on the side by stretching them. 15:39 Machine removes dogspikes, that also would never be used here, we have a type of wood sleeper that strikes fear into any old rail worker called "wandoo", even at 50+ years old and dissolved into a mesh of wood strands you would snap the head off the dogs or derail the machine before they come out. 19:00 Machine puts the plates under the rail, seems like overkill to use this sort of machine for such a simple job 22:09 Ballast cleaner, has a chainsaw type part that goes under the sleepers and undercuts them, the old material is then put through a grid to filter out sand and other crap and the clean material is fed back into the track. Dirty ballast causes all sorts of issues so if it gets too bad then they may use this machine. And the thumbnail is a rail spreader, really just some hydraulic rams on wheels that let a single person move/lift rail around in its area. TBH i'd love to be a fly on the wall when the project manager is asking the tie removal guy and that regy operator where all his ballast has gone, ballast is one of those things managers hate losing because it's not until the end of the job when you realise what it's going to cost and it's too late to tell people to stop wasting it.
As a railfan here in southern US, that first flaming one is a new one on me. I have seen most of the ones that were working on the track, with wooden ties. Not much around here with the cement ones. So that was interesting... to me anyways 😊 I appreciate your descriptions 🌞
THOUGH TRACK LAYING BY MACHINES WAS FAST WHILE CONSTRUCTING KONKAN RAILWAY WE USED THE MANUAL LABOUR JUST TO GIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY TO DESERVING LABOUR AND REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT. EVEN WITH MANUAL LAYING ALSO WE COULD ACHIEVE 99 % PERFECTION IN THE TRACK PARAMETERS.
My grandfather we called him daddy work for Santa Fe Railroad Southern California from 1939 to 1967 he saw all of the early 20th century steam technology all the way through first gen diesel technology and then the transfer over in 1952 to 100% diesel rail transportation and shipping He died in 1997 and he didn't live long enough to actually see videos of all of the modern transportation and Freight Line Construction Technologies that were introduced mainly in the last 20 + years
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Onboard custom tools inbuilt into the railway repair coach is quick for use. Mostly taking to a repair shop is difficult. These days the modern trends of railways where the coach is used as a bulldozer and truck and repair floor and tools factory etc is easy. Secondly repairs can be performed anywhere and during rain hazard.
Yes some clever pieces of kit out there now. But dont forget, all this used to be done with man power. Shovel or a Kango hammer, much more personal than a Tamper. Lol
That's magic ,scientific yet real scientific magic , but one of the things duzzled me(which is many) how steel rail bends like a jello in machine's arms , I never expected it to be so flexible .
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They are removing the old wooden railroad ties with new concrete ties and tracks , different machines are doing different task such removing spikes, collecting the shoes, and tracks etc. Now you know
И даже тут Укладочный кран в помощь, - и инвентарь соберет, и тележкой плети сразу на место поставит... И раза в 2 быстрее. Это даже без учета того, что инвентарь здесь еще отдельно собирать надо будет и вывозить.
@@yardlimit8695 the "flimsier" track mostly used with the concrete ties?? I've seen track replaced on the CSX line (wooden ties), and it didn't seem so floppy 🌞
Please add captions explaining the details of what we're seeing. Also, there's nothing "modern" about this equipment. As others have noted, this stuff has been around for a lot of years.
Nice balasunderstop baitermasjine I works before on Plaza rail Soud Africa that takes me back on track to do it again Thanks to sow me this video God bless you
Yup, this is frankly pathetic technology compared to what china is doing, this doc has an extensive run down of what modern railway development and equipment looks like: th-cam.com/video/_THGI7p3BPw/w-d-xo.html
An interesting selection of videos, but I had no idea what was being done. If no commentary, then at least add some text. You obviously put in quite some work to video and then compile this and it was wasted alas.
Very nice video, good closeups etc. As most commenters explained, there cold have been sutitles, example “tamper” . The video also goes back and forth between American and European railways.
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Just awful. There's no explanation of what each machine is doing. There is no logical sequence in which the various tasks are being done. Work on track with wooden ties is inter spaced with track with concrete ties. Having a narrator like Mike Rowe would help.
To be honest if you are upset and need to be told what any of these machines are doing you need to go back to your bedroom in your mothers basement and polish that participation trophy you got in 4th grade. Not to bright are you lol.
I regret that my comment upset you so profoundly. Since there are so many other terrible things in this world that are much more worthy of your umbrage, I am honored by your attention.
Jim Culbertson you did not upset me however your comment on there are so many other things I. The world to worry about is strange seeing as how you were the one making the comment on how bad the video is. Your ignorance is not even a worry to me there are a lot of people like you that are clueless. Now go polish that participation trophy so you will feel better about yourself.
What I do find remarkable is that how flexible these tracks are.
It can be very dangerous to those of us working around it as well.... has a true mind of its own!
They're like jelly!
And everything else looks like a piece of cake ;)
I thought the same thing never knew they were that flexible
There's a lot of technology in rails these days, they have complex layers of hard and soft.
I absolutely love watching "Maintenance of Way" operations ! Everyone has their job and it has to be done, JUST SO; for the safety of all trains that use the track ! I applaud all the workers and the camera-person and editor that made this video possible !!!
It would have been helpful if someone from the Industry was Narrating and explaining the process as the work on the Track was taking place. Enjoyable and informative video to watch.
pretty self explanatory
I would love to play a railway track building simulator that incorporates all the machines seen in the video. Some would find laying down track piece by piece and tightening every bolt a bit tedious but I'm the type who enjoys stuff like that.
Very well documented but lack of explanations for each of the task performed.............A narrator would help to complement this Super Engineering show piece.......
True. NO music though!
At 7:20 you have a little rail riding excavator with a magnetized head picking up the steel tie plates, fumbling with them and setting them back down. I guess in a more convenient spot. Really..... A person walking along could have done it faster and better. I think sometimes we take mechanization a little to far.
I'm amazed at how the railroad's can seem to put down tracks thru hills, valleys, mountains, deserts, over rivers and whatever else seems to get in the way.
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True, but, remember that when the transcontinental
Railroad was built, the crews
That laid the track over the
Sierras had to do all the tunneling and excavation by
Hand. So it took longer to
Put in the tracks, vs the other part which was done
On flat land
These people work hard so that we always have a safe & sound journey.
Thank you all😌
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As mentioned below this would be much more interesting video if there was a good Narrator explaining each step in rail laying and repair. Can one imagine how hard the work was laying rail tracks in the 1860s across America and doing it mostly by heavy labor.
My thoughts exactly. Back
Then it was all done by hand
& Pick & shovel, sledge. And
What's really amazing is they
Were laying over a mile a day
It was done by slaves and extremely low paid Chinese workers
Man, this is serious business. Can you imagine what work would be like if we didn't have machines? I wouldn't want to go there.
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Enjoyed every second of this MOST EXCELLENT professional video. Kudos to the Engineers that designed these wonderful machines along with the skillful operators. My beloved late Father worked 38 years on a bridge gang and carpenter for Southern Pacific. R.I.P, wonderful Dad.
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thank to all train workers are doing great jobs to take cares of the train tracks...
be safety tracks
Incredible to see how technology has revolutionized railway construction! These machines make the whole process look so efficient
Very interesting. Would like to see brief captions of what each machine does, how and why. Also why workers do part of a job by hand and use tools finish it. (IE: the splice bar bolts)
MY Grandfather was a Laborer and retired from The Illinois Central Railway (I C) What you see here, men did this back breaking work. FYI, Illinois Central, change name to Illinois Central Gulf, then to Amtrak. Peace and Blessing for the people who retired and still work for the Railroad, a hazardous and dangerous job. I'm very proud of my Grandfather. RIP!
Dennis Fisher Imagine doing all this by hands poor workers .
There was nothing easy about railroad work back in the day. The guys like your grandfather doing this kind of work were either "section hands" or they were on the "steel gang". Your grandfather had to be one tough man. I saw countless guys go to work on those old crews and quit the first day cause it was too hard, dirty and dangerous. They don't make men like your grandpa anymore. He would be proud of you too. ;)
I'm from Vietnam, nice to meet all of you guys working on Railway.
In the last days of the Rock Island RR, I worked on tie gang #3. We went to Warren, Arkansas and waited for our equipment to show up. Rock Island put us to work with the section gang. One old white man was the boss and the crew was black. On rainy days the men drank beer and whiskey and played poker. The black guys let the old white man win a few bucks and they made a full days pay,"good pay". We went out in a large van and we all sat in the back, pulling a trailer with cross ties and short pieces of rail. when we did find a broken rail or tie that needed replacing, it was a wonderful thing to see. This was not "ribbon rail"but short rails with angle plates to hold them together. To cut the rail the men would mark the rail on both sides with a cold chisel on a long handle, pull all the rail spikes from the part to be cut, put a jack under the part to be removed, then hit with a sledgehammer. The rail broke straighter than you would think. To drill the holes for the angle plate, they used a hand driven drill the hooked over the rail. Two handled, it drilled right through. When the crew put spikes in the ties, two men set the spikes and the men with spike mauls drove them down with two blows. They rolled the large hammers off their shoulders and never missed. We had spike drivers on the tie gang but watching how it was done in days gone past was a wonderful thing to see.
Love it!! You... all of y'all that did that back breaking work should be proud. You should write that stuff down. As a railfan, I love hearing about it 🌞
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Needs to tell the viewer what's going on in each step, and why.
Yes, could be so much more informative, nothing fancy, just simple voice over
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Yes, I stopped after a couple of minutes. No good without explanation.
Whatcha wanna know?
@@kaseyaldrich4746 what's the thing that pokes in the gravel on either side of the ties?
I still can't get over how...noodly..rail track is while it's being handled. I mean I always knew it was both tough, hard and strong, but it's still a trip to see it all flopping around as it's being set.
Like a wet noodle!! Lol
Real flexible stuff
I am amazed how flexible the rails are, yet can take the weight of the locomotives.
worked at ConRail in NJ summer 76. It was awesome. Replaced those ties manually with crow bars, hammers, sweat, blood and me crying on the side. I liked the spike hammer, fun slamming tall spikes and walking the rails. Got to ride the train for free and meet young females coming down to the jersey shore to party. Was a great summer. wish I stayed with ConRail.
Great to see all these machines to the hard work precision. You can see why they call it "ribbon rail" as it jiggles like a worm!!!
Interesting,but would be GREAT if there was some detailed explanation.
I could sit and watch this all day
These railroad guys sure have some REALLY NEAT toys.
👍👍👍 super.
I really enjoyed the clips. Fascinating and impressive even without commentary. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow the tracks wobble around like rubber. It's like rubberized steel.
Lithuania ? Yes very good the sceneries - the same I filmed in my homeland.
While this seems like a lot of equipment and manpower, I could only imagine the amount of manpower when these tracks were originally laid. Great work by the RR guy's, and good video. John
I think the same thing when I see MOW and track replacement equipment.
COMMENTARY IS NEEDED ! ==== MATTS'
Think of the equipment manufacturers that build this stuff then have to sell it at a profit to stay in business. Then there's the skilled operators needed to run it. Don't forget those engineers that design the stuff.
i thought the engineers pilot the things!
And don't forget the overlooked mechanics that have to repair and maintain these machines!
Without them, the skilled operators are out of work and the trains don't move!
Amazing 2. mins on a drill. So modern
Where is this happening? Which company makes such machines for rail track laying? I am amazed at the design engineering manufacturing of these machines. I hues it is used in USA, Europe and Japan.
Its great they are using concrete planks for the track rather than oak
Would have been interesting if an explanation had been included.
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Shit whatcha wanna know
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Część sprzętu jaki tutaj jest prezentowany, widzę po raz pierwszy w życiu.
Technika kolejowa idzie jednak szybko do przodu.
CSX... gotta love the faded colors on the tie gang machines... along with the fact that every other tie is being replaced... I guess from not being serviced at all for the past 50 years. At least NS can afford to repaint their track machines so they are mostly brand new and don't break down every five minutes. There is a NS video on YT that shows and explains every piece of machinery and its function in detail.
WOW, IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU TOLD US WHAT THE MACHINE IS DOING SO I CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND !
These are just random clips one after another. They don't follow a sequence or form any sort of connected whole. It's just techo wallpaper. What a pity.
Nor are they working on just one set of tracks. There are at least three different sets of ties - almost certainly at multiple sites.
On behalf of the poster, I offer an apology for trying to show you more than one thing at a time, but if you ever learn to read, go back and look at the title. The word "compilation" is clearly mentioned. Here, this might help: www.dictionary.com/browse/compilation?s=t
@@buggsy5 -multiple continents
@@roderickwhitehead Did I write something that implied otherwise? It certainly was not my intent.
@@buggsy5 - No, I was just expanding on you mentioning multiple sites.
Very Good ideal railway construction 👍
Alot of it looks (Hard to say) 20:59
India needs such machines for fast track projects of railways infrastructure constructions to complete in time.
We already have
Wow very Informative Video
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Thumbs down for making me feel like an idiot, not knowing what the hell is going on in the video. Some text/voice over would be nice too. Are they getting rid of the bacteria & viruses on the rail track ? 0:57
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This is in order to bring the rail into the desired temperature range. This is used for huge solid rails with a length of more than 100 meters for countries with a large temperature range, such as Russia. Where long rails improperly fixed due to incorrect temperature calculation will destroy the track due to accumulated temperature stress
@@DVXDemetrivs Wrote "This is in order to bring the rail into the desired temperature range. This is used for huge solid rails with a length of more than 100 meters for countries with a large temperature range, such as Russia. Where long rails improperly fixed due to incorrect temperature calculation will destroy the track due to accumulated temperature stress"
Ahhhhhh, interesting. That makes sense.
If I remember correctly some bridges (or maybe all bridges) have some sort of gap with rubber or something in-between the sections, so that it can expand and contract.
If the rail tracks have incorrect temperature and they get stressed destroyed, how does it destroy the track?
Does is move out of place or get cracks in them ?
BTW thanks for the reply
@@ZergRadio The simplest thing that can happen is that the rail will crack. Because the rail either expands or contracts depending on the time of year, the bolts at the joints may burst. The most disgusting thing is when, due to the accumulated stress, the rails can bend like a snake together with the sleepers and part of the gravel underneath them. If this happens under a train, it will not be a pleasant experience. The rails can simply fly off the rail fastenings without moving the sleepers. I don't know how it is in English, but in Russian we officially call long rails longer than 100 meters "whip", so a tense "whip" can hit to the side like a whip, of course not that quickly, but The effect will be
fatal. There are videos on the Internet showing how this happens. For example "выброс рельса"
"Modern" or not, railfan or not, watching that equipment in person is cool. (Hearing protection is recommended tho) And look at the big picture. Where would we be, and what wouldn't we have, without the railroad.... 🌞
some of this stuff is different here in Australia but best guess explanation:
0:01 and 0:56 The fire machine at the start of the video of never seen, i'm guessing that it's to heat the rail due to colder temperatures, if say the rail is put in when it was new at 25+ degrees during the warmer seasons and now is 5-10 degrees or less the rail shrinks causing a lot of tension, any works being done on that rail is more prone to breakages.
At 0:17 is a regulator with a shit operator that's pushing more ballast(rocks) down the hill than up, the regulator apart from pushing the ballast like a grader/bulldozer also has a broom box on the back that's got a load of spinning rubber dildo looking bits that spray the ballast in there, evening/leveling it out and filling in low spots.
At 1:30 is a rail drill, the pump bottle next to him is connected to the drill bit and sprays it with a coolant/cutting fluid mix
2:53 Is a dogging machine that hits dogspikes into the sleepers.
5:00 Is a tampa which lifts,lines/straightens the rail and then vibrates the ballast under so it doesn't just go back to how it was, different types use different methods for measurements and calculating track positioning.
5:33 Tie removal machine, operator is lifting that track higher than he needs to
6:55 Electromagnets on excavators picking up the fastenings(we call them jewellery here) we normally do it by hand because as you can see it really rubbish at doing something as simple as moving a plate and fastings blend in and are hard to see sometimes even out of the machine. The excavators behind are picking up sleepers, they're really good for that.
10:00 Looks like another electro-magnet machine for actually gathering the fastenings rather than moving them out of the way
13:52 No idea, i don't really see a point to this machine, it's not removing the plates totally and i'm pretty sure he's fucking up those anchors on the side by stretching them.
15:39 Machine removes dogspikes, that also would never be used here, we have a type of wood sleeper that strikes fear into any old rail worker called "wandoo", even at 50+ years old and dissolved into a mesh of wood strands you would snap the head off the dogs or derail the machine before they come out.
19:00 Machine puts the plates under the rail, seems like overkill to use this sort of machine for such a simple job
22:09 Ballast cleaner, has a chainsaw type part that goes under the sleepers and undercuts them, the old material is then put through a grid to filter out sand and other crap and the clean material is fed back into the track. Dirty ballast causes all sorts of issues so if it gets too bad then they may use this machine.
And the thumbnail is a rail spreader, really just some hydraulic rams on wheels that let a single person move/lift rail around in its area.
TBH i'd love to be a fly on the wall when the project manager is asking the tie removal guy and that regy operator where all his ballast has gone, ballast is one of those things managers hate losing because it's not until the end of the job when you realise what it's going to cost and it's too late to tell people to stop wasting it.
As a railfan here in southern US, that first flaming one is a new one on me. I have seen most of the ones that were working on the track, with wooden ties. Not much around here with the cement ones. So that was interesting... to me anyways 😊
I appreciate your descriptions 🌞
1960's single bank tampers and ballast cleaners for a 1960's railway. Sums up CSX to the T
Can you elaborate more please?
THOUGH TRACK LAYING BY MACHINES WAS FAST WHILE CONSTRUCTING KONKAN RAILWAY WE USED THE MANUAL LABOUR JUST TO GIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY TO DESERVING LABOUR AND REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT.
EVEN WITH MANUAL LAYING ALSO WE COULD ACHIEVE 99 % PERFECTION IN THE TRACK PARAMETERS.
My grandfather we called him daddy work for Santa Fe Railroad Southern California from 1939 to 1967 he saw all of the early 20th century steam technology all the way through first gen diesel technology and then the transfer over in 1952 to 100% diesel rail transportation and shipping
He died in 1997 and he didn't live long enough to actually see videos of all of the modern transportation and Freight Line Construction Technologies that were introduced mainly in the last 20 + years
my gran daddy too, paymaster on the north east FL railway
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Onboard custom tools inbuilt into the railway repair coach is quick for use. Mostly taking to a repair shop is difficult. These days the modern trends of railways where the coach is used as a bulldozer and truck and repair floor and tools factory etc is easy. Secondly repairs can be performed anywhere and during rain hazard.
Remote location complete assembly and repairs and construction and parts manufacturing and construction.
1:03 What is this process called and can someone explain it ?
Yes some clever pieces of kit out there now. But dont forget, all this used to be done with man power.
Shovel or a Kango hammer, much more personal than a Tamper. Lol
Did you know that a good 20 volt cordless saws all will cut a rail in half in under 3 minutes with WD-40
What exactly does the 1st machine (the fire) in the video do ? Is it retempering the steel or something ?
Abu dhabi Italy worker good job.
That's magic ,scientific yet real scientific magic , but one of the things duzzled me(which is many) how steel rail bends like a jello in machine's arms , I never expected it to be so flexible .
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An explanation of wtf is being done would have been great. I watched 3 minutes, had no idea what was happening, and moved on to another vid.
Same for me. Mindless compilation for what purpose?
Me too. Needs some explanations.
it’s just rail wank fodder !
Ha! Just what I was going to write. I stopped it at 3:06. I should have checked the comments before wasting 3 minutes of my life.
Use some common sense, and you'll figure it out...
They are removing the old wooden railroad ties with new concrete ties and tracks , different machines are doing different task such removing spikes, collecting the shoes, and tracks etc. Now you know
I didn't see them doing any such thing. It appeared that the work on the wooden sleepers was simply selective replacement of the badly damaged ones.
Would be nice for a few captions on what was happening 😊
И даже тут Укладочный кран в помощь, - и инвентарь соберет, и тележкой плети сразу на место поставит... И раза в 2 быстрее.
Это даже без учета того, что инвентарь здесь еще отдельно собирать надо будет и вывозить.
why is the third rail so flexible? is it not made of metal?
What makes the rail so ‘rubbery’ and the next one , stiff ? Great ad for I-beams.
because they're made from heavy duty plastic............and it depends on the length how rubbery they look.........
@@yardlimit8695 the "flimsier" track mostly used with the concrete ties?? I've seen track replaced on the CSX line (wooden ties), and it didn't seem so floppy 🌞
Its like watching an engineering ballet, especially, when u see them all lined up, each doing a different job...
Ear protection is a good idea while watching em in person, but you're right. It really is. Ya gotta be a railfan to appreciate it 👍🌞
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Really great, technology to repair rail. All the sophisticated equipment Greeting from Indonesia. I'm newcomer.
Please add captions explaining the details of what we're seeing. Also, there's nothing "modern" about this equipment. As others have noted, this stuff has been around for a lot of years.
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The undercutter is my favorite.
I've been worken on the railroad all the live long.......
I wonder, what works more man or machine ?
Competition is to be seen to be enjoyed.
??? No reason given for what they are trying to do, when what they are doing is even apparent..
I agree. If the clips had been in some semblance of start to finish order it would have been helpful.
I have no idea what these machines are doing. Some explanation would be nice.
Nice balasunderstop baitermasjine I works before on Plaza rail Soud Africa that takes me back on track to do it again
Thanks to sow me this video
God bless you
Take a look at the latest Chinese railway equipment real 21st century gear, this stuff is 20 or 30 years behind the chinese
Yup, this is frankly pathetic technology compared to what china is doing, this doc has an extensive run down of what modern railway development and equipment looks like: th-cam.com/video/_THGI7p3BPw/w-d-xo.html
Superb Video
Can you imagine any of this being possible without hydraulics?
An interesting selection of videos, but I had no idea what was being done. If no commentary, then at least add some text. You obviously put in quite some work to video and then compile this and it was wasted alas.
A wonder, the video, the workers and the machines!
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Very nice video, good closeups etc. As most commenters explained, there cold have been sutitles, example “tamper” . The video also goes back and forth between American and European railways.
Exactly- track laying, tamping, regulating ballast, and much more. There is a lot of uncredited variety in the video.
Min 11:31 Plasser Theurer 09-32 CSM Continuous line Tamper 20:13 Plasser American GRM-3000 similar to model 08-16 Split Head in Europe
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Really amazing. Please, put short description to help what machines are doing. Thank so much!
9:50 I thought that railway lines will be strong.
I think they are flexible to make custom curves but idk
Never seen any of these.....machine wise. Only the ready power diggers and dozers and tamper
bij het boren van het gat in de rail watervet gebruiken dat houd de oxidatie tegen tot wel 10 jaar.
Machine at 7:50 made the railroad track look like gummy worms.
stu skivens Yeah...why ?
Haha. 16:42 there's a bar code sticker on the rail. "Hey, run to Home depot and buy a 10' piece of rail road rail."
Gut less labour less contractor less cost quick work
Thanks for not adding an ear shattering hard Fock soundtrack
Just awful. There's no explanation of what each machine is doing. There is no logical sequence in which the various tasks are being done. Work on track with wooden ties is inter spaced with track with concrete ties. Having a narrator like Mike Rowe would help.
Jim Culbertson nice ok
Are you kidding you need an explanation as to what these men and machines are doing ?
To be honest if you are upset and need to be told what any of these machines are doing you need to go back to your bedroom in your mothers basement and polish that participation trophy you got in 4th grade. Not to bright are you lol.
I regret that my comment upset you so profoundly. Since there are so many other terrible things in this world that are much more worthy of your umbrage, I am honored by your attention.
Jim Culbertson you did not upset me however your comment on there are so many other things I. The world to worry about is strange seeing as how you were the one making the comment on how bad the video is. Your ignorance is not even a worry to me there are a lot of people like you that are clueless. Now go polish that participation trophy so you will feel better about yourself.
This is standart in Europa to built tracks fully automatically!
It would have been nice if you were to have told us what each machine was doing