Locomotive Remote System keeps Goofing Up
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- Listen to the Delightful sounds of an EMD SD 40-2 ramping up as you will
be inside the cab in this video. Because the remote system wants to keep
throwing the train into emergency, we will be running the locomotive to
finish loading the coal hopper cars.
1. The Big Radio Conundrum:
Last week a company came in and plumbed into the RR radio a system
that will make an announcement over the radio if and when the locomotive
fire suppression system would happen to go off. This would be handy to
know if you were in the lead loco and fire suppression went off in the
end of train loco. We unplugged those alerter units from the radios and
that solved the radio interference problems.
2. Hump Control on Locomotives:
Hump Control: To turn on there is a toggle switch on the hump control unit.
Then put the throttle in the run position you want. When loading cars it is usually
in one or two throttle run. Using the hump control gives a smooth steady rate of
travel for the loco. You modulate the speed with the hump control dial instead
of with the throttle. It works by increasing or decreasing the amps to the traction
motors within the throttle run 1 or 2 position. Besides loading or unloading the
train, it is also great for using when spreading ballast.
Made June 03, 2023
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Iron Senergy at Cumberland
Mine. My job is railroad track maintenance. I am very fortunate to
have this job and everyone at the mine is very fortunate to have
Iron Senergy as it's current owner. Our past owners had every
intention of shutting this mine down, but Iron Senergy took
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That was Priceless David! You crack me up sometimes. For those
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shop, he is a perfectionist when it comes to metal working which
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www.youtube.com/@opieshomeshop
@@ccrx6700 Aww thanks mate. I appreciate that more than you know.
@@opieshomeshop Your welcome and I do know David. I do watch
your videos and this will be a really good test to find out some things
for you.
Can Ryan Reynolds be the comic relief character?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The RF filter in one of the two way radios is bad had this happen a couple of times one system bleeds into the other old systems great video Dave
i was thinking the same thing.
I have dealt with problems like that many times over and the only people using two way radio is the railroad last place in the world not to go to the web communication
I expect the filters are a bit over heated at 90 degrees. I had the same issue in 450-460 repeaters I maintain back in the day!! The sound of the radios were a bit scratchy for FM gear, also could be caused by an inversion that is causing skip to roll which could happen all the way up in the bands. I have seen skip all the way up to 460 and I had a qso with another station on 146.52 fm on my HT on Field Day several years back…
DE N2JYG
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Gary. Will pass that info on, I have no idea if the radios even have a filter? I just push buttons and run the darn thing....LOL Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
@@franklinwerren7684 90f shouldn't really be hot enough to effect the RF filters. Now if it was 90c I would understand, but not 90f.
Love these updates. You bring the REAL railroad to all of us, with all its flaws and all its glory!
Dave is the man when it comes to railroading
Thank you for the very nice comment Stephen. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
Thank you Mr Fingerlakes
You know its a good day... when Dave gets to run a locomotive!! 😀
Always a good day when an MOW guy gets to run Mike! Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Remotely operated locomotives have been around for decades, and yet they are still finicky to this day.
@birds_on_the_pier I have been a proud union member (teamsters) , I have been a very irate union member (ATU), some times I think they are fantastic, sometimes I think they get in the way. Anyways on this topic, I believe (though siding with the union only by coincidence) that remote control locomotives are more problematic than just running the locomotive yourself.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Arkay and you are so
correct. My engineer friend from NS tells me their remotes mess up all the time too and Wabtec is around at least once a week to work on them. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
Anything having to do with wireless communication can be finicky as they can be effected by a lot of things, atmospheric conditions, solar conditions, RF noise and so on.
As you might rightly assume, I am a ham radio operator. Today was my day to run our local news and information net(work). I live in Reno, Nevada. Our analog repeater system covers nearly all of northwest Nevada and also eastern California (I can see California from my window). Today, our technology team decided it was a great day to replace the repeater radios which link all of our repeaters together so that we have communication all across northern Nevada. It was the correct decision. However, it left me, the net control operator down to just a single radio repeater. We got through it just fine. We were reminded that when all else fails, the Radio Amature community is given a lot of frequencies for a reason. When disaster happens, we are on the air when your cell phones and 911 are not. Anyway, if you happen to see an antenna in someone's backyard, go talk to them They are the one you want when disaster happens. I will guarantee that they will have the communication system setup before you even knock on the door.
I'm not far from you living in yerington Nevada. I have a neighbor who is part of the local ham radio network
Thank you for the nice comment Rev. Kirk. Actually one of our train operators is a ham radio operator. He is now retired but I'm sure
he would be willing to help if needed anytime. A foreman for
our RR contractor is also one, although he too is now retired, but
I know both of them very well. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
It’s odd that the systems started interacting strangely like they have out of the blue. The radio alert for fire suppression activity is probably performing a self test to make sure it’s still functioning and doesn’t realize it’s sending out an emergency trip signal. That’s something that we find happens when newer equipment is married to older equipment. That’s why we do a V&V (validation and verification) before doing the upgrade. Just guessing of course. It’s a real challenge for you I am sure. Thank you for sharing this very real problem. We all learn something from your videos.
We unplugged all the FS radio pug ins and nothing has goofed
up since, company that installed the FS radio system has been
called to come out and fix things Edward. Thank you for reading
the description! Too many folks don't, then ask me questions
that were answered in there. Oh well.... :-) Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Thank you Dave! I am really enjoying your channel!
I like the sound of our SD40-2's and SD40T-2's on jointed rail.
Nothing like that sound is there Michael. CWR is the way to go,
but nowhere near as romantic a sound as jointed rail is. Always is
a good evening when you pay us a visit and I get to hear from
you my friend.
Outstanding production as usual, David. There are a lot of great TH-cam railroad productions available, but I'd have to say that I like your productions the most. A lot of narrators have great speaking voices and extensive railroad knowledge in an administrative sense. Your videos are mastered in blue collar, git 'R' done style that is much more focused on the practical aspect of railroading. I guess I've always been one to learn easier when I can see how things are done, and more importantly, why they're done that way. Your presentations on the crosstie sleepers are by far the best I've ever seen. And cribbing...who knew??? The administrative type productions will often just read the rule book, be way better at rolling stock operations and identifications than I'll ever be, but not really put things in terms of anything other than class 1 operations. The fun, excursion type railroads are produced to put fanny's in the seats and are usually operated largely with volunteer employees and other types of governmental "assistance". Your videos focus in on the reality that the trains have to be productive or they go away. You give a great sense of understanding as to things that railroads must do to remain profitable. That understanding directly translates to knowledge that can't be found almost anywhere else. In fact, you can tell your boss that I think you're an AWESOME ambassador between your company and railroad fans everywhere! Or just show him this message before you ask for your well-deserved raise! Continued good health and happiness...That's Railroadin'!
Wow Pete what an exceptional comment, so kind of you to speak in so many superlatives about me, i'm blushing..... I just do my job
and am an advocate for coal and our company here. Very much
appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Think any day you get to drive a loco is good one Dave! You've got a lot going on there and I sure hope all the bugs are sorted soon. And yes, that sound is like a symphony 🙂
It certainly is Richard for an MOW guy. Not so good for production
when they have problems like they did, but all worked out in the
end. Guys all pitched in and did a great job at keeping the train
and coal moving. This is a pretty good bunch of guys to work with
here we have now, well, except for that one....:-) Glad you enjoyed and we do appreciate your watching and writing in my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Isn't it amazing that no matter where you work there's always that ONE guy....
"I will follow your "DESTRUCTIONS"⁉⁉😂 ... It's nice to see that you all maintain a good sense of humor ... even in troubling times ! 👍💪❤🏝
My mother in law used to say that all the time Tom, the destructions, I like that. We just like you were, don't get all shook up when things go wrong. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Isn't it exciting when your day is never the same. That's the way my job was. Never a boring moment. Great video!
Thank you for your always nice comments Valerie, yep this job has a ton of variety. Running a loco is a lot nicer than fixing track joints tho..... LOL Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
Spectrum issue with bleed over into remote control frequencies….might be a rare occurrence since your slave remote system is probably not a widely used system…the manufacturer of that suppression system needs to be informed which you probably have done…radio frequency and power output would need to be evaluated with what has existed in your units before the install of fire alerter transmitter…
Thank you Kevin for reading the description! Far too many folks
don't, then write in with questions or comments that were answered
already in the video description. Always a pleasure to have you
drop by and write in my friend.
we have a radio tech here, thanks for chiming in.
You are the man Dave! Way to make it happen🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲👷♂️⛏️🙋
Thank you Doug for the nice comment. All the guys here are
a pretty good bunch of guys who pitch in when needed and do
what it takes to keep trains and coal running. Always a pleasure
my good friend to have you visit with us and watch.
Sadly nothing is forever, but for me the sound of a 2-stroke EMD will always be the sound of railroadin'. Glorious
You got that right Oedus. Love that sound. Got another video coming out soon on our SD 38-2 sounds. Hope you will enjoy that
one also. Thank you for the nice comment and for taking the
time to watch my friend.
@@ccrx6700 I look forward to it!
Love the cab videos. Thanks Dave.
I'm very pleased to hear that William. Glad you enjoyed and certainly do appreciate your taking the time to watch and
write in my friend.
Great video Dave! I love the videos from inside of the cab of the locomotive. If I worked there, I would actually hope for a bit of failure of the automatic stuff now and again just to get up in the loco and operate it!
Thank you for the nice comment Mojo. It is cool cause when we
haul ballast I can run the loco any time I want, you would really
like that too. But the thrill is gone for that. Loading cars like we
did in the video we so rarely do anymore so that was a treat for me. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
love the sound of EMDs so much nicer than the ge units
I'm answering this on my laptop wolvesone or if I was on my
cell phone would give you 3 thumbs up! For sure on the differences
in sound, EMD has it all over GE in that department. Thanks so
much my friend for taking the time to watch and write in tonight.
@@ccrx6700 of course my friend keep up the good work and stay safe :)
That was very interesting. I didn't know that the radio system could mess with the controls.
Thank you for the nice comment Cameron, glad you enjoyed. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
I am not a fan of remote operations. Engineer, conductor, and brakeman if needed. Even though retired, I still advocate seat of the pants railroading.
More opportunities for criminals/ terrorists to hack into as well! If ransomware has taken down hospitals, imagine what that would be like for a railroad.
Good many accidents when remote system is being used, we've
had our share over the years too Gary. I agree with you, but company thinks they are saving money. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
You are very correct indeed. That engine sound could keep me sleeping all night and with wonderful dreams! 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed Bradley, thanks for the nice comment. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
3098 sounds great Dave, prime mover sounds smooth like the old girl is just nicely broken in. When I was on sea duty I made the (to me at the time) surprising discovery that a number of the Navy harbor tugs here in Norfolk had EMD 567 powerplants and they sounded great.
Thanks for bringing us along and showing us more of what goes on "behind the curtain."
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Robert and you are welcome.
Lot's of old river tug boats around here used the EMD engines and perhaps still do. Great old engines that keep going forever. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
@@ccrx6700 There is a very good reason that EMD and Fairbanks Morse prime movers were selected by the Navy in the 1930s to power tugs, submarines and small ships ... they were designed for use in the roughest service imaginable - railroads.
@@robertf3479 👍😊
I always thought that all EMD/GE loco's used the same multiple working system be it via direct cable or remote setup for DPU etc. That being the case any loco from FNBS or UP or CSX can be lashed up together and work in absolute harmony because it all falls under the AAR compatible ideals, so even an emd yard goat can be plugged into a AC4400 etc
You are so correct in your thoughts Leon. What is missing is we
do not fall under AAR, we do not interchange with any other RR
and we have a goofball remote system that no one else out there
has, it would not be compatible with LocoTrol which almost everyone else uses so they are compatible. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
I'm on my loco and the ammeter starts going up and down by itself- I'M FREAKING OUT! IT'S WITCHCRAFT!!! Dave, you are doing a great job, full respect from an English engineer! Stay safe! ☺
Thank you for the nice comment perrystalsis. We've had that happen before too, weird strange railroading stuff..... LOL Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my fellow railroader.
Dave what grade of coal come out of the mine..where does most of it go too
It is the Pittsburgh #8 seam Jack and is thermal coal, we have
no metallurgical coal at our mine. Gonna have a video out sometime this month that will give you a list of our customers, all of our coal is for electric power generation except we do sell several
unit trains (CSX) to a cement plant in Florida. Glad you could
take the time to visit with us tonight my friend.
@@ccrx6700 thanks for getting back with the answer...I was a miner we had mostly #5 sent are coal out west too power plants...love. the video's..
Seems like a RF filter failure on the remote, the remote system would have RF filters to reject anything thats not on the frequency the remote is using, and if they (one or both) failed then thats why its getting interference from the radio.
But that being said anything having to do with wireless communication can be finicky as they can be effected by a lot of things, atmospheric conditions, solar conditions, RF noise and so on.
A ground issue can also lead to funky behavior with radios.
Same with bad coax or a bad antenna.
Thank you forr sharing your thoughts and for trying to help out
madmax. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Wow!!!!!! It is awesome to see you at the throttle , call you Super Dave the man who can do anything and everything!!! You have earned even more of my respect
Thank you for the nice comment Eugene. That was very kind of you
to say that. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may
you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thanks for this, another informative video!
El ectronics, if not updated, can behave quite queerly!
Glad you enjoyed Robin, you are right about that behavior! Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
I hear that quite often with N/S on the scanner. If all fails they usually tell the engineer to run it in manual. Cool video Dave.
Good old manual lead Michael, hardly ever fails..... :-) Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
It's never a dull day on the railroad. Good video as always.
Glad you enjoyed Wondering Lens, thanks for the nice comment. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
I used to have a 65 mustang with a gas 6 cylinder…it didn’t sound as good as this engine does….jus sayin..
Guess you'll have to drop an EMD 645E3 in it then Jim, no RPM but sure would sound good..... LOL 0 to 60 in about 40 seconds....-) Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Though I haven't done it very many times, that walk to the cab in the opening scene is one of the coolest most anticipation-filled walks a diesel railfan can take...especially when the big beast is awake and breathing. And you're right, Dave, that is such a magnificent sound. 😍👍
Hope you can come visit me sometime Scotty, you can walk the deck to your heart's content... :-) Appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and write in my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Boy, I would sure like to come out to PA. So many neat places there...and now an invitation to walk on some cool EMD's and to meet the Legend himself! If ever I find myself out that way, I'd sure let you know.
@@espeescotty 😊👍
On my bucket list before I die is to operate an SD40-2
I hope you get your wish SIGINT. It's an awesome feeling to
control 3,000 HP. Glad you could stop by tonight and watch my friend.
they are wonderful!! it set the standard for all locomotives since 1972. The IRM will let you run a sd40-2, or a sd45-2.
@@rearspeaker6364 In UK we have driver experience days on some of our heritage lines. You can choose to drive either steam or diesel. Do you have anything like that in US?
Dave your videos make it real, Just watching trains go by is blaze' compared to actually seeing how thing are done. you prove that you are never too old to learn more about anything you don't already know about. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you for the nice comment gastech. That was very kind of you
to say that. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may
you have a most blessed day my friend.
Oh I love the sd40 we have three and they are wonderful
Actually Robert this is an SD 40. Was built for SP as that. The dash 2 upgrade came after SP/UP merged and this got sold to
Boise Locomotive Works who did the upgrade. Really swell of
you to come out tonight and take in the presentation my fellow
railroader.
Fun watching you in the cab, thanks Dave
Thank you for the nice comment Tom and you are definite welcome. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may
you have a most blessed day my friend.
04:45 We need to start a Go Fund Me, to get you a new safety vest.
That safety vest is beyond dead!😵
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Time For Beans, I just need
to go to Tractor Supply and get a new one, you are right. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Some very interesting things learned here! I don't know what I thought the traction motor amperage response was going to be, but what I saw wasn't it :) And then loading cars with coal is one of those processes that shows me that one has to have a lot of experience to know how to do it correctly. So there is no napping in the cab - LOL! Thank you, Dave!
Thank you for the nice comment Brian. it is very rare we ever load
like we did today with an actual operator running the loco, so this
was a treat for me to do that again. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
I'm puzzle here, what just happen in this video?
Remote system didn't function so had to load the train manually
(move the cars) because the loading operator could not do it
with his remote control box. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Today's video takes me 'Back in Time' to the same headaches I went thru. 'Been There, Done That' !
And we sometimes did the same thing by putting the brakeman or myself on the other engine to keep the 'Alerter' happy on Industry Jobs or Yard Transfers.
And back then we could get away with a fellow crew member running the other locomotive.(the 'Statutes of Limitations' is Ten years - lol)
Thanks for todays video !
Thank you for the nice comment Wes, glad you enjoyed. We've done the same thing many times another man to keep Mr Alerter happy....LOL Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
Dave, if I ever had the opportunity I would love to get together with you and have a cup of coffee. I’m a dark roast man myself.
That would be a pleasure for sure Brad. You know where our RR
is so if you're in the area, just let me know. Coffee with a dash of
creosote in it is a railroader's go juice....LOL Always a pleasure
to have you visit with us my friend.
@@ccrx6700 I live in southeastern Minnesota in a major medical community
Always love cab footage from 3098. Pretty cool about that hump control. So basically it's a fine adjustment for the traction motors to really dial in your crawling speed for loading?
Thank you for the nice comment Shane. You are exactly right in the fine tuning of amps to the traction motors. Wish the darn thing would have worked or I could have shown you the amp draw and how different it is in hump and without hump. Roughly figure about 10 amps on each turn of the hump control dial. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Great to see you at the controls Dave A nice change for you out on the track. I bet you enjoyed that as much as we did watching you. Good to see you got the problem sorted out, I was taught to look for the last thing that changed before the fault and that's what happened here. I am no expert on radio systems but see a few in the know have suggestions to stop it happening again. Some locomotives here have slow speed control similar to your hump control but use a sensor on an axle to keep the train speed at 1/2 mph, it looks to me like you are still controlling the speed manually but with finer control than the throttle notching up and down.
Thank you cedarcam for the nice comment, always a fun day when
a MOW guy can be in the loco cab. Reason things goofed up is in the video description, yep the last thing that changed did it. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
hope you don't have another (crazy 8"s) incident haha
Me neither MRTJBIGA. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
$1M locomotive and still not enough cup/bottle holders.
That is changing, they are now putting microwave ovens in the cabs, so the crews can have hot meals on the road. (As per my son-in-law CN engineer.)
When you have 1 million dollar machines you'll have that Perry....LOL Thanks for the chuckle tonight. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Great video. Thanks for working us all in on it.
Thank you for the nice comment Kevin. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Dave you seem to be a jack of all trades railroader
Here Jason everyone fills in and helps each other out, whatever
it takes to keep trains and coal moving. This is a pretty good bunch
of guys we have here, all of which are willing to pitch in when needed. Thanks so much my friend for paying us a visit tonight.
@@ccrx6700 Dave that's great that you have that on your railroad. The railroad I worked for did not want you doing anything like that.
As much as we don't like problems, this is the real deal. Oh how I love that sound, it is hypnotic. Great video Dave. Thank you for another one.
Thank you for the nice comment Larry. That was very kind of you
to say that. Does seem like problems make for good videos tho.....LOL Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may
you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 A blessed day to you as well my friend .
😢is it a physical wire connector to the radio and control box for the throttle, or is it wireless, transmitting digital data over the air, like the HOT/EOT FRED system uses ?
Is this serendipity or not ocsrc. Actually was thinking about you today, haven't heard from you in awhile and was wondering if you
were doing okay. Good to hear from you tonight my friend.
There is no connector between the radio and remote system,
however the remote system and the control box the operator
has while loading is radio transmitted as is the signal from loco
to loco. Hope that helps.
@@ccrx6700 I am having serious health problems. My levels are high and I have to get more tests. Been really sick and really tired. Very worried about myself. I hope I don't die from this. I hope they can fix me
@@ocsrc I am so sorry to hear that ocsrc. The wife and I will keep you in
our thoughts and prayers. We are pulling for you my friend. When you get a chance
please keep us informed.
Whoa! Lots to keep an eye on! Sounded like music, beautiful. Glad you can work together to help get things done. You sounded proud as a peacock being in there! Thanks for bringing us all along! Hope you get the bugs worked out. Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you for the nice comment Trena, glad you enjoyed. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Those locos sound really nice. I've been reading up on Iron Senergy, yeah, they sound like a great company to work for, I'm sure Cumberland mine will go on for many years to come. My mom's family were all miners here in the UK.
We are lucky that Dave gets to make and share some great videos, I've learnt a lot about how it all works to transport coal by rail. Thanks for all you do Dave, appreciate ya!
We are lucky Iron Senergy took this mine over or else it had
been scheduled to be closed Neil. Great to hear you have miners
in your heritage. Glad you are enjoying the home movies and
we really appreciate your watching them. May you have a very
good day my friend.
When problems happen it sucks,
However, solving the new problem with troubleshooting is alot of fun.
Can learn somthing new each time there is an issue.
Great Video - Salute!!
Thank you for the nice comment Vicious. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Another great one Dave. They should pay you engineer wages while running the Loco.
No such luck 'eh? LOL
Thank you for the nice comment Michael. Actually I get paid the same as the train operators do. If they did make more, then contract says the company must pay me that higher wage rate if I do the job. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Yes Dave, enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the ride along, sorry your having problems, but if it were me, I'd wish for problems everyday, just so I could run the loco. 🤣🤣🤣
Glad you enjoyed Pappy, thanks for the nice comment. Only problem with your wishes is usually a mechanic gets to do this fun stuff, but there were no mechanics there that day, so it fell on me, not that I minded, better than fixing track at 90 degrees out! Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Outstanding Dave!! Love the sound of an SD40-2 or any first generation locomotive.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video Fred. You are right, those locos do
sound great! We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave hougoing to take load all the to e dumped?😊
They got their radio problems figured out to be able to take the
train and get it unloaded Michael. Details on the problem I had
put in the video description if you haven't read it already.
Milwaukee Road had a limited amount of remote control operations for helpers in the Pacific Northwest but it always seem to be getting some fine-tuning and I'm quite sure it was pretty much gone when they retrenched back to the Midwest. Listening to 3098 reminded me of an SD40 trying to break free of a snow drift. Somehow I can Envision those Hoppers not looking like a loaf of bread on top after being loaded. Hopefully the problems get rectified fairly quickly as usually it's transportation department waits for production Department not the other way around
Great video, would love to see more running from inside the cab.
Thank you for the nice comment Front Range Railfan, glad you enjoyed. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
Where I live we have lot of C36-7i in use. They have been converted to a 1520mm tracks to be used. Most things in the cabin area of the C36-7i and SD-40-2 seem to be the same. A few things are different, there is a different track current indicator, a button that the engineer needs to press at a fixed or random interwall so the train dose not go into emergency. Some cabs also have retrofitted air-conditioning. For a old locomotive these things are still going strong.
Thank you for sharing that Steve, very interesting info. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
nothing beats the sound of an emd locomotive 🙂
Zero argument with me on that CHB. But I do also love a steam loco under load sound. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
AI is BAD BAD BAD!
Hmmm, AI will be taking over the word Eric at some point.
it is scary. We were indoctrinated way back with the Jestons
on how the future will become.Japan has an AI robot named
Erica. If I showed you a pic of her/it you could not tell if it was
human or not, she is one very pretty looking AI robot! Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
If CCRX’s operational efficiency was a golf score, ESPN would be filming this instead. Someday I want to see a video called “CCRX: Nothing broke or derailed today.”
Not sure if your comment being made is facetious or sarcastic
or what you consider as truthful. Any of the above it's your right
to say what you want. However we ran over 6.5 MGT over our
track last year, actually the percentage of problems we have
had is less than 1% of that. And that is in reality an excellent
track record. I've got many videos of trains running here with
no problems on my home page. But people want to see disasters
and screw ups. If our operational efficiency was a golf score
we would win every outing.
Gather this is older Control Chief remote control not their newer 900 MHz CPFSK frequency hopping stuff.
Of course it's an old on NMCCW. We have no clue there is an
newer one, we need something better than this for sure. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
That train sounds like it was a firetruck in its passed life. Btw I love the sound of the whirling diesel.
I'll ask it tomorrow, perhaps it was a fire truck.... :-) I had a wife
like that one time LOL Thank you for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very nice day my friend.
Always enjoy watching your videos educational your a blessing Tommy
Thank you Tommy for the kind words and for checking out the video. Glad to hear you are enjoying. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
If you set a couple pounds of air on the train, then shove against it, you might get a slower movement on the train while loading? would be trial and error to see what pressure you would need. Also those shots looking down the long hood brings back memories of looking down the long hood of a Conrail unit switching Chrysler yard years ago. great stuff Dave, thank you.
That's also a good technique for spotting cars precisely in a tight spot when you're close to a bumper post or fence or something like that. Put a few pounds in the cylinders and shove in run 1 or 2. Everything stops very quickly when you go back to idle!
They've gotta know that stuff, is it almost SOP or a no-no for a technical reason, or just because the brake is left on & forgotten about too often?
@@alro2434 It is common practice. I was not talking about setting the hand brake, I was saying just slightly applying the brakes on the train cars so you shove against something trying to stop. It allows better control and more precise stopping as Clarkpj said above on my comment here. :)
Actually you are correct in the Bryan. Usually when we start with
all empties we do set a few pound reduction on the car brakes, it
you don't the cars just push back and forth. Once you get around
half the train loaded take them off because of the weight on
the other ends helps prevent that coupler run in run out. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
First time I've seen inside of a loco cab.
It's not exactly a Mercedes but looks functional. 😂😅😂
What are those two big dials on the left side there. The ones that go up to 160 with red and white needles? Are they brake air pressure gauges? I just couldn't read the plates under them.
Traveling Tom showed the diesels and generators on one of these once. They are humongous.
He couldn't show the traction motors. They must be ginormous! 😅
Glad you enjoyed Werner, here is a video I made of locomotive
controls which will give you close ups and greater detail on what
you are wanting to know: Appreciate your watching my friend.
th-cam.com/video/ZdNhuhmK_z0/w-d-xo.html
I was wondering Dave if you have considered uploading to Rumble. TH-cam has become rediculous in silencing free speech, I'd like to get off TH-cam but I would miss your vids if I did.
I know nothing about Rumble Johnny. I can't keep up with just
one YT channel let alone expand. Thought about doing an interactive Facebook where guys could share pics, but I couldn't even begin to keep up with that. I get thousands of comments on YT, 200 or more a day and try to answer every one of them. Even the stupid ones.
Blame it on 5G... I grew up in Mendota Calif where the tracks were lined with Cantelope processing sheds. Every summer night I'd go to bed with the soft whine of the locomotives revving up and they would shift the cars back and forth. Open window with a honeysuckle vine right outside, easy breeze bringing in the sweet smell.
That sounds like a delightful time in your life obsolete professor.
Thank you for the nice comment and, glad you enjoyed. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
LOOK out people Dave's running a locomotive! Get way back off the tracks, no telling what will happen. Somehow missed this video. another great video
Hope everyone's life insurance is paid in full Ryan.....:-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to visit with us and check out the loco
remote goof up show my friend.
Stop relying on computers put a person driving
I did a better job than that computer did anyway didn't I Richard! LOL But you're right on computer operated locos things may
save fuel, but they break a lot of couplers too when the computer
runs the train instead of a human.
@@ccrx6700
Yes you did like I said too much computer not reliable as a person
@@ccrx6700
A lot better than that screwy system tell you company your followers said get rid of it
Dave, I have a question. Are you working with a commercial coal company, a small freight railroad or an independent carrier working with a coal or whatever company. WOuld your company ever consider using a real steam locomotive. SO many are being restored with no place to go. Could you folks use a locomotive to haul your coal cars. You certainly have the fuel.
Our mine has private owners currently organbuilder. The mine owns the RR. They will never have steam here, logistics are
just not there, steam is high, high maintenance compared to
diesel plus getting the parts all must be custom made. While it
would be an awesome PR campaign, it would cost way to much
to do. Perhaps after the mine shuts down then a steam
excursion train would be a possibility??
They will make an engineer out of you yet DAVE,... good job. Buddy.
Running train here is a way too cool job Wayne, well for about 2 months, used to run many, many moons ago. After couple months it's the same old thing, track maintenance is much more varied and
interesting and challenging. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Also here’s your issue: The outside controller unit is in Female mode, hence the nonstop mixed signals and causing problems. Do you have a #32 framing hammer?
Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
The easiest way to gravity load coal is to put the loco in N1 or 2 and use the independent to control your speed. Watch out the window straight down to the ground and go a little slower than walking speed. .5-.7 mph is your target speed. Most of those Wabtech speedo units won't measure that slow. Also if you'd set it back up in box car the alerter wouldn't keep going off.
Thank you for the advice on that Travis. You are right watching the
ground is the way to go. It's so rare we ever have to do this now. It used to be when we only had 1 loco and no remote system have a guy
all the time in the loco when loading or dumping the cars, but that
was over 30 years ago. Very much appreciate your taking the time to
pay us a visit and watch the remote system keeps goofing up
video my friend.
Fun watching you make the loco run. Since I am not knowledgeable, I wondered, when the engine revved, was that when an empty car was pulled into position to load? There is so much to learn about being a loco operator. Thank you, Dave, for sharing.
I think he's shoving . seems to know what he's doing.
Cars keep moving along at a steady pace when being loaded, have
to modulate the throttle up and down to keep it at a steady pace Shirley. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Are the two frequencies harmonically related? Are there notch filters installed? Chokes?
Sorry The Treegodfather I have no clue about giving you any
kind of accurate answer on that, ask me something easy like
about rail or spikes....LOL Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Another great video! Thank you Dave!! What's this I read in Railway Age where you folks will be getting 3 electric railcars?? Should be a bit of an interesting experiment!
I was there the day the sales rep came down but didn't talk to
them, they were with the train operator that morning. I did not
know we purchased any guess that just came a couple of days,
hopefully we will get them this fall, that will make for a cool
video!!! Thanks so much for sharing that with me MTH. I get emails daily from RA but don't always read them. I found the one you were
referring to.
I really enjoy watching your videos, but it’s not clear what your “role” is with the railroad. I’ve watched you do everything from moving ballast to this example of addressing a whacky loco. So is your title simply “Mr. Fixit”? ‘Cause I’d love that job!
I get involved in a whole big variety of stuff here Scott. My official
title is track maintenance tho. Thank you for the nice comment and for taking the time to check out the video my friend.
Why is that dashboard placed where it blocks your view to the left? ( not that you could avoid something coming in from your left😳)
You'd have to ask the installers who put it in many moons ago Tom,
I don't know. Thank you for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Boy howdy, I'm not a fan of remotes, and I've run 'em enough to know. They do have advantages over a two man crew, and they save the company money (I guess), but they're dangerous, in my opinion, and a pain in the butt.
Yes the remotes have their pros and cons but the cost savings of not
needing another man will never go away here, we've have remotes
since the 1980's where they did away with the 2nd man in the cab.
Thanks so much for watching and writing in my friend.
Lots of troposphere skip, where radios, from a long distance away, interfere with local radios. Just wondering if this might be the case?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us Kent. Interesting idea. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take
in the video my friend.
I used to load sand like this in cuts of 11, 22, or 33 cars. I ran the conveyor and hopper to load the cars while directing the engineer where I wanted him. Then we went a few (15 or 20) miles to unload into a pit conveyor and had to use a sledge hammer to pop the outlet gates open. It was fun. I miss it.
Was swell of you BigDave to write in with the nice comment. Lot
of fun to load cars isn't it. Glad you could take the time to pay us a visit and check out the video my friend.
Too bad you're having problems, but golly, that was swell!
Problems often make for good videos Stubby. But all operations
in all industries have problems. We have a pretty good bunch of guys here who pitch in and do whatever it takes to keep trains and
coal moving. This is a good place to work. Railroading is not
all about trains, but also about the guys you work with. Thank
you my friend for all your wonderful support of the channel.
"Come with me if you want to live"
-Cyberdyne Systems Model 101
Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and write in. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Nice conductor seat.
LOL Yes it is Shawn....:-) Appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
@@ccrx6700 keep up the good video's. I really appreciate them. And stay safe.
@@shawnhill1938 👍😊 Thank You
I love to see you operate the train, Dave!
Thank you for the nice comment Mike, glad you enjoyed. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Question unrelated to the subject of the video. What is the sigh (shown in TS 17:20) for?
Sign you mean Colin. Many years ago we had a train operator
not go back far enough coming from the side track, When he went ahead he picked the switch and rolled the rail over. That sign was
put up after that, by me, to inform loco operator to back past that
sign before he went towards the load out on the main. Have
had zero problems since that horrible night. I worked all night
long putting that track back in service. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Problem? What problem? Dave driving the train looks like a good day at the office to me. 😎
Thank you for the nice comment Neal, glad you liked this one. Always a good day when I get to operate the loco! Appreciate your watching the video my friend.
Dave: you should have a heterodyne combination between the two, or more, radio transceivers, like cell phones have, to separate their signals into individual heterodyne combinations, on the same frequency, so more than one broadcast can happen at the same time on the same frequency and be separate broadcasts. It may take more than one combination code variation per transmission and reception to be obstructed by another combination on the same frequency.
Oh dear that information is way over my pay scale, you need to write
Control Chief and tell them, it's their system, I'm good at driving spikes
not electronics....:-) Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
Yea,those radio waves and the like are something else. If we could see all the waves about us we couldn't see anything else huh?
That;s for sure Johnny, there is a book in print called the Body Electric by Robert Becker, an old book, we are bombarded with
waves all the time, it's scary and then we wonder why there are
so many mental diseases and people with various disorders out there.
Might try some type of shielding or something over the wires. Reason i say that is we have a 4 wheeler at work and when its aftermarket lights are the handheld radio acts up. Good luck
Thank you for sharing that opium extract, none of the wires on
the loco are shielded, sadly...... We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
I would suspect the inclusion of new hardware some sort of mistake made perhaps or a software issue conflict leading to false positives. Loco control systems are by design super hair triggering and it may need the whole waveform signal to be analysed to catch the errant false positive that leads to emergency conditions. Problem too is usually when new stuff goes on, it can force old stuff to climb over the failure ceiling whether because its forced to work harder or get hotter, trouble with loco's especially is they are working in hot hard environments so failure has to be triple protected against and I suspect your erroring loco is warning something is just not right.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Watson's World of Wonders. problem was a new hook in to the radio for a fire suppression alert, unplugged that and problem went away. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
R Hall Has there been any additions of pagers, portable radios or pagers to your radio system recently?
Yes sir Robert, read video description to find out details on what
happened. Thank you for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
I'm assuming that the morse code is the ident for a repeater for the companies 2 way radio system?
You are correct in that Stephen. We appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
What a job you lucky guy awesome vid Dave thanks.
Thank you for the nice comment Lawrie, glad you enjoyed. How
is Mrs. Taber coming along? Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.
So when operating the locomotive does the sensation feel really slow or fast, like some vehicles on the road feel faster than others...
Fairly slow truckercowboyed. That ain't a Ferrari....LOL Thank you for your checking the video out my friend.
A video on how the remote control works, how they are connected, etc., would be nice.
Ye sit would be J V. That is one area I am lacking on knowledge
on is the remote system, I know enough to be dangerous....LOL
I will learn and do a video on that, but it may be a year or so
before it comes out. Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
DAVE! We all want to know, are you going to be buried in a caboose?
Nope. When i die, cremate me then spread my ashes on the
track in various problem spots then tamp me in and I will haunt that spot forever after. I use to tell my old boss that. Already given directions to my old boss and old buddy on where to spread me!
Appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
If you put caption on the engine sound is described as music. I agree. :)
Gonna have another one out soon on our SD 38-2 up close and
personal sounds, it's even better than this one. Week or so it
will be out. Appreciate the nice comment pederb82. Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
sounded to me like you were having RF interference.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts bubba, it could have been,
definite RF link lost. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and take in the video my friend.