One of the very few hump yard operation videos where there is no stupid music, full of subtitles, and focuses on the hump operation and not mostly on incoming and outgoing trains, thank you, great job!
I really need to put this on my bucket list. I read somewhere that 50% of the town works at the yard. That screeching noise is just so relaxing. I'm shocked it doesn't piss off the townspeople.
Wooden tripods work really well at high magnification. Ther aren't intended to be too portable. Their mass and composition tends to dampen vibration. If you can ever find a secondhand one with metal spikes on the legs, grab it. Put a decent adjustable mount on it and you're set. They even make them new esp for photography. For photographing water flowing in a creek in low light with long exposure (or using a polarizing filter) the wood absorbs the vibrations the water creates.
I can see a logic in sorting cars in this video that I haven't been able to fathom in watching the hump yard near Zurich in operation, where, on the surface, it seems to be almost random. Here I saw three-of-a-kind being moved together. Would be great to do a video using a camera drone.
+hughvane By and large cars connected together are routed to the same destination but only the unloaded cars. Apparently loaded cars at Bailey are not coupled together. That explained the discrepancy I noted that consecutive cars seemed to be routed to the same track. I presume that the reason pertains to the fact that a consist of loaded cars can result in more momentum than the retarders can handle. There's a couple of videos that show what can happen when cars collide at excessive speeds. These videos are long since out-dated and not reflective of current practices but still fun to watch. Try the "Santa Fe Payday" video and the "Getting Off On The Right Foot" video.
+Mark Duxberry yes you are in fact looking at the largest rail yard of the type in the world. and they run a double hump yard which according to the wikipedia entry on it are pretty rare, the whole yard I think read that it was 8 miles long, but yea now thats what Im talking about not just one car at a time going down like the last video but a continuous flow of cars moving down the classification tracks, not just one roll hitch up and send the next one, this are in motion the whole time before the first one is all the way to a stop.from the wikipedia entryAn average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day,[3] and the yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard’s twohumps. The eastbound hump is a 34 feet (10 m)-tall mound and the westbound hump is 20 feet (6.1 m) high. These are used to sort four cars a minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks, 49 tracks for the westbound trains and 65 for eastbound.[1] The bowl tracks are used to form trains headed for destinations across North America, including the East, West and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Canadian and Mexican borders.[3]The yard also includes 3 locomotive fueling and servicing centers called eastbound run thru, westbound run thru, and the service track that handles more than 8,500 locomotives per month, a locomotive repair shop that can repair 750 locomotives monthly,[2] and a car repair facility that handles nearly 50 cars daily. The car repair shop replaces 10,000 pairs of wheels each year. The yard features an in-motion wheel defect detector developed by Union Pacific that uses ultrasoundtechnology to inspect each wheel. It is the only such detector in the world.[3] UP has also developed a method for changing wheels in the field on empty westbound coal trains, which enables three workers to use a hydraulic jack under the couplers between two cars and exchange the trucks.[2] This has reduced the time needed to replace trucks from up to 12 days to 8-12 minutes.[2]Locomotives can be serviced in a NASCAR-like pit stop facility called a Run-Thru staffed by four different crafts-an electrician, machinist, fireman oiler, and a carmen.[2] Locomotives are serviced in 45 minutes without detaching them from their trains. The cars go through the car department to get fixed and the locomotives go to the diesel shop. [4]Because of the enormous amount of products that pass through Bailey Yard, Union Pacific describes the yard as an “economic barometer of America.”[1]
This is the biggest railroad yard in the world and it has 315 miles of track in it and more than 970 switches. 976 switches if I am not wrong. Its located in State of Nebraska USA. Owned and run by Union Pacific Railroad company.
yes pretty much the largest, about 8 miles in length, though they dont do their heavy rebuilds there, they do those at other shops, though they do have facilities for some minor repair work on the locomotives, from what I see
One of the very few hump yard operation videos where there is no stupid music, full of subtitles, and focuses on the hump operation and not mostly on incoming and outgoing trains, thank you, great job!
Love the sounds. Very cool video, hump yards are very cool
I really need to put this on my bucket list. I read somewhere that 50% of the town works at the yard. That screeching noise is just so relaxing. I'm shocked it doesn't piss off the townspeople.
Kevin Howard You can't hear it for very far.
Wow! That is one huge railyard!
that must be such a cool place to work
Nice to see both humps working, love the video
FYI, Shakiness can occur when a camcorder is shooting on zoom. It's on a tripod but the wind is blowing.
Wooden tripods work really well at high magnification. Ther aren't intended to be too portable. Their mass and composition tends to dampen vibration. If you can ever find a secondhand one with metal spikes on the legs, grab it. Put a decent adjustable mount on it and you're set. They even make them new esp for photography. For photographing water flowing in a creek in low light with long exposure (or using a polarizing filter) the wood absorbs the vibrations the water creates.
This is like trains before locomotives were invented
Hump yards I'd say were a great invention for trains
🚂🚂 the world’s largest railyard
I can see a logic in sorting cars in this video that I haven't been able to fathom in watching the hump yard near Zurich in operation, where, on the surface, it seems to be almost random. Here I saw three-of-a-kind being moved together. Would be great to do a video using a camera drone.
+hughvane By and large cars connected together are routed to the same destination but only the unloaded cars. Apparently loaded cars at Bailey are not coupled together. That explained the discrepancy I noted that consecutive cars seemed to be routed to the same track. I presume that the reason pertains to the fact that a consist of loaded cars can result in more momentum than the retarders can handle. There's a couple of videos that show what can happen when cars collide at excessive speeds. These videos are long since out-dated and not reflective of current practices but still fun to watch. Try the "Santa Fe Payday" video and the "Getting Off On The Right Foot" video.
David Majors
10,000 cars over the hump and 15 cars down every 10 minutes
I heard they are shutting down one of the humps in 2021. Great video man!
nice video and great catch of the up hump yard.
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Great video.
awesome video
Great video!
Hello JCSTrains now thats what I call a yard
+Mark Duxberry yes you are in fact looking at the largest rail yard of the type in the world. and they run a double hump yard which according to the wikipedia entry on it are pretty rare, the whole yard I think read that it was 8 miles long,
but yea now thats what Im talking about not just one car at a time going down like the last video but a continuous flow of cars moving down the classification tracks, not just one roll hitch up and send the next one, this are in motion the whole time before the first one is all the way to a stop.from the wikipedia entryAn average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day,[3] and the yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard’s twohumps. The eastbound hump is a 34 feet (10 m)-tall mound and the westbound hump is 20 feet (6.1 m) high. These are used to sort four cars a minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks, 49 tracks for the westbound trains and 65 for eastbound.[1] The bowl tracks are used to form trains headed for destinations across North America, including the East, West and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Canadian and Mexican borders.[3]The yard also includes 3 locomotive fueling and servicing centers called eastbound run thru, westbound run thru, and the service track that handles more than 8,500 locomotives per month, a locomotive repair shop that can repair 750 locomotives monthly,[2] and a car repair facility that handles nearly 50 cars daily. The car repair shop replaces 10,000 pairs of wheels each year. The yard features an in-motion wheel defect detector developed by Union Pacific that uses ultrasoundtechnology to inspect each wheel. It is the only such detector in the world.[3] UP has also developed a method for changing wheels in the field on empty westbound coal trains, which enables three workers to use a hydraulic jack under the couplers between two cars and exchange the trucks.[2] This has reduced the time needed to replace trucks from up to 12 days to 8-12 minutes.[2]Locomotives can be serviced in a NASCAR-like pit stop facility called a Run-Thru staffed by four different crafts-an electrician, machinist, fireman oiler, and a carmen.[2] Locomotives are serviced in 45 minutes without detaching them from their trains. The cars go through the car department to get fixed and the locomotives go to the diesel shop. [4]Because of the enormous amount of products that pass through Bailey Yard, Union Pacific describes the yard as an “economic barometer of America.”[1]
Amazing
This is the biggest railroad yard in the world and it has 315 miles of track in it and more than 970 switches. 976 switches if I am not wrong. Its located in State of Nebraska USA. Owned and run by Union Pacific Railroad company.
yes pretty much the largest, about 8 miles in length, though they dont do their heavy rebuilds there, they do those at other shops, though they do have facilities for some minor repair work on the locomotives, from what I see
That's so sweet.
How are the cars released? Is there some guy running along releasing the knuckles on each car before the train backs up to the hump?
Yes.
Dwight Stewart pretty much yeah
Cool video....shocked at how much graffiti are on those cars though....
If it doesn't interfere with the operation of the car, why bother cleaning it off? Then again the graffiti is probably 30+ years old.
GOOD VIDEO COMPUTERS ARE TAKING OVER
Relax!
Idea. Walk in to a hump yard and yell hump day. HAHA
How Without Loco Wagans are moved
A loco moves the cars uphill to the hump, but since that loco is probably pushing a good number of cars it takes a good patience to see it in action.
Gravity
NEVER KNEW COMPUTERS DID THIS WELL THANKS FOR VID
This is illegal in my company.
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literally attention deficit in real life.