You can help me do a roll by car inspection as the train leaves the mine loaded. Someone does a roll by almost every turn out of the harbor with empties.
Thank you, I am really blessed to love what I do and to be able to make these, many railroads wouldn,t allow this, but we got a pretty cool company to work for. Every company got it,s downs and ups, but here they've done a phenominal job at selling coal and keeping us working, and done very good at keeping safety on the front burner. A lot of pretty good guys work here and keep the coal moving, thanks for watching
@@ccrx6700 You'll do great on TH-cam. A lot of people love hearing about trains. The cab rides are especially cool. Thanks for putting the videos out! 😁
I may not be as quick as you are but Spring and Summer are coming and I know where a crossing is that I can watch for cars that need repair. You have taught me much. Thanks, Dave!
All crossings have the RR's phone number on them, if you spot a defect, such as a hot bearing, call that number, it could save lives Shirley. They will want to know the crossing number which is posted on that sign with the phone number. Many folks have written me asking if when they find a track or car defect should they call, I tell them yes. Many have written back and said the RR came out and fixed the track there and thanked them for calling.
I checked the crossing signs here in Sioux Falls. No ohone numbers on signs. I sent a text to BNSF about a bad crossing. Took 2 years for repairs. It was a spot where some ambulances crossed to get to a hospital emergency room. When it was repaired, I sent a thank you to their website. Things are kinda slow here. I appreciate your videos and your encouragement.
Glad you called out the flat spot wheel that could damage the rails. I have seen some videos that do not report them. Nice job and always informative and fun! Thanks.
Here is another one I missed somehow. Glad to see what you were up to here. Those wheels must crush the coal when they make the "PING!" noise. A lot to look for in helping keep the rails going safely! Kudos!
You are correct Trena, that popping is the wheels crushing the coal on the rail head. Can never get enough eyes on the RR watching trains roll by. Way back trains were watched at every switch tower along the line, plus head end brakeman and also the guys in the caboose. Those days are long gone
Dude! Where have you been hiding?? Loving all your videos. Can tell you're just having fun. Makes me smile watching and listening to you. Hope government doesn't make coal a thing of the past. Happy rails to you too.
Notice some cars having markings for rotarty dumping...so these cars would have been emptied either way...From top or bottom depending what a off-load facility had for emptying...
I have a couple VHF mobile radios (Motorola CDM1250, CM300, and M1225) that were pulled from KCS MOW equipment that Need new homes if your railroad needs more radios that is. The CDM is loaded with all the railroad stuff I think but I since reprogrammed the M1225 and CM300 to some local fire dept stuff.
I love you enthusiam for your job. Most of the jobs I had I think I was the same liking and trying to do a good job. I watch a lot of US videos, and heard a lot of what I think are wheel flats. Could this be detected by microphones and a computer like hot axel boxes on the main lines. We had one think it wa near Southampton where one wagon brakes were on permanently it eventually derailed. I had a chance of an job on the Grate Wastern Railway GWR wish I had applied for it. Thanks for the video.
There was a derailment of an oil train in Wales, UK Aug 26th 2020 caused by a non rotating axle. Left the refinery okay, but on the journey the axle locked due to a brake fault. It got dragged several miles causing a massive 9" long flat and a false flange on the outside edge of the wheels. When it got to a switch it distorted the track due to the huge groove in the wheels and derailed the train. Some cars ruptured and leaked diesel which then caught fire, no doubt ignited by the red hot wheels on the non rotating axle. As you'd know, diesel has quite a high flashpoint so would require more than a spark to ignite it. Luckily it happened at just 30mph and in a relatively remote location. It's route was via the city of Cardiff and Cardiff Central station along with other major towns, so it's a blessing it derailed where it did.
Oh wow, what a mess that must been! Thanks for the great story and an excellent reason why we do run bys to prevent stories like you told from happening. Stuff like that is big buck repairs plus lost revenue cuz down time, thanks again for sharing that with us all
@@ccrx6700 It not just the recovery costs, repairs, and losses, the spilt diesel also contaminated the soil at the scene and contaminated a river. Situations like that can lead to big fines in the UK, both for the derailment and any fault i.e. poor maintenance, plus also for the environmental damage and impact. A lot of diesel was spilt, the fire lasted 33 hours. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangennech_derailment
Great video👍🏼. The SD40-2 is my all time favorite locomotive, they sound so good. It's amazing the sound difference between the 40 and the 38, the 40 being turbocharged and the 38 being roots style supercharged.
@@michaelball760 Awesome Michael. Our 3098 loco was original SP 8477 built in may 1966 as an sd 40, went thru SP, GRIP program, re numbered to 7330. It was retired when UP bought SP, then sold to Boise Locomotive Works where it was rebuilt to a sd 40-2 and renumbered to 3098
Thanks for the video. How many cars do You use in the train? The length of it? What's the weight of a loaded train and un unloaded? Having "dynamics" they are of cours used. What made the locomotive designers develop it in the first place? Long down hill tracks and burning wheel brakes on the cars? As far as I know such brakes are not common around the world.
Your welcome Stefan. WE have 38 cars on our train here. Each car load limit is 286,000 pounds. Dynamic breaking was a very big advance when the diesel electric locos came out, really helped with saving brake shoes on the cars. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
All the trains that I’ve seen are 38 cars, carrying about 100 tons of coal each, so close to 4,000 tons per cycle. How many cycles do you run each day, and are you a 7-day a week road? Love the videos! I work for a Class-1 road, but never get to see the steel wheels on steel rails aspect of the business.
Another cool video Dave. I'm happy to get a close up of the loader, because I plan to use that as a rough idea for a coal loader on my train layout. Keep up the great work. By the way, any updates on No.1?
Depending on the operator, they put about 115 tons of coal in a car. Light weight on these 5 bay aluminum cars is around 51,000 pounds, they vary from car to car by a couple hundred pounds. Appreciate your watching and hope you enjoyed
@@ccrx6700 Thank you for your response from San Antonio, TEXAS. What amazes me too are the couplers so far as their strengths especially when say more than 100 cars are being pulled?! That's amazing! I love your information from your videos. Be blessed!
Good evening, was wondering how many miles you might get out of a wheel set before they are replaced or rebuilt/hardsurfaced whatever they may do? Probably a lot of factors that play into that. How long would a wheel bearing last? Appreciate your knowledge and enthusiasm thanks!
Wow, what an excellent question! You have a great inquisitive mind sir. No one here has ever made a study of that sorry to say. FRA has established requirements for certain dimensions to be maintained on wheels, am goimg do a future vid on trucksets where I will go over those and show what wear on a wheel is acceptable or not. There are as you say a lot of factors involved as to wheel wear, track conditions play a vital part in the wear also. If we were in person could talk for hours bout this. As for bearing wear, pretty much same as above. Ive never seen an official study on that either. There are certain things you look for on a truckset that indicate bearing wear which will be included in that vid also. Appreciate your watching and wish I had more definitive answers to a great question
What company is the load out system using? I worked for a weight and load out company called Kanawha scales & Systems (KSS) in the 90s so have some ideas about the systems
Stephen, I do not know the manufacturer. At the harbor where the coal is loaded onto barges the original feeders in the bottom of the silo were Kanawha, they replaced some of those over the years, but there are still 4 left. They are feeders that roll back and forth on side rollers. That cool you worked there, thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
Mark very good question, we do have run arounds on both ends, we used them when we only had 1 loco. After the 2nd loco came we went to a "push pull" system. This eliminated having to un couple, run around then re couple, saved bout 20 minutes per turn. It much easier and way more efficient doing it this way. Thank you for watching
We unload at our own facility. Coal travels little over 16 miles on our track where it is unloaded and put on barges. I have a vid on how we dump the cars if you'd like to watch
Wow, how do you check all that when they roll by so fast? I noticed the center truck springs on a lot of the cars appears to be very rusty. Do you have to keep an eye on them?
Quick eyes ... someone also usually does a walk by on a stopped train bout every day or so, that person also has a hand held temperature gun to check bearing heat temps
Sorry boys & girls but what is killing coal is fracking for natural gas. Just plain economics. Clean coal was probably a fantasy anyway but adding cost on the coal side can't help as I see it. Heck I think natural gas is the cause of Nuclear plants shutting down. My son has a theory that the automobile contributed the the great depression of the 1930's because they wiped out thousands of jobs in horse transportation. I don't see many 1918 farriers becoming 1922 auto mechanics. Over the next 20 years as cars become electrified we will have another giant technological shift, ready or not!
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"I get to watch this every day" It's great to love your job. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thank you, I am really blessed to love what I do and to be able to make these, many railroads wouldn,t allow this, but we got a pretty cool company to work for. Every company got it,s downs and ups, but here they've done a phenominal job at selling coal and keeping us working, and done very good at keeping safety on the front burner. A lot of pretty good guys work here and keep the coal moving, thanks for watching
@@ccrx6700 You'll do great on TH-cam. A lot of people love hearing about trains. The cab rides are especially cool. Thanks for putting the videos out! 😁
I may not be as quick as you are but Spring and Summer are coming and I know where a crossing is that I can watch for cars that need repair. You have taught me much. Thanks, Dave!
All crossings have the RR's phone number on them, if you
spot a defect, such as a hot bearing, call that number, it
could save lives Shirley. They will want to know the crossing
number which is posted on that sign with the phone number.
Many folks have written me asking if when they find a track
or car defect should they call, I tell them yes. Many have written
back and said the RR came out and fixed the track there and
thanked them for calling.
I checked the crossing signs here in Sioux Falls. No ohone numbers on signs. I sent a text to BNSF about a bad crossing. Took 2 years for repairs. It was a spot where some ambulances crossed to get to a hospital emergency room. When it was repaired, I sent a thank you to their website. Things are kinda slow here. I appreciate your videos and your encouragement.
Though I knew almost everything about rail roading. You taught me a lot. Great to find someone who is well steeped in the job & enjoys it so much👌👍
Steve, glad you liked what you saw. Thanks for watching 😊
Love how my blood gets going as the trains momentum gets going. I LOVE THE RAILROAD! Thanks Dave!
Glad you enjoyed OregonCrow. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch the video my friend What's not to love about railroading! :-)
You have the world by the tail!!! You have a great job!!! I'm a retired engineer!!!
Glad you called out the flat spot wheel that could damage the rails.
I have seen some videos that do not report them.
Nice job and always informative and fun! Thanks.
Thank you very much Dadmezz for the really nice comment.
Appreciate your visiting with us and watching. May
you have a most blessed day my friend.
Here is another one I missed somehow. Glad to see what you were up to here. Those wheels must crush the coal when they make the "PING!" noise. A lot to look for in helping keep the rails going safely! Kudos!
You are correct Trena, that popping is the wheels crushing the coal
on the rail head. Can never get enough eyes on the RR watching
trains roll by. Way back trains were watched at every switch
tower along the line, plus head end brakeman and also the
guys in the caboose. Those days are long gone
Dude! Where have you been hiding?? Loving all your videos. Can tell you're just having fun. Makes me smile watching and listening to you. Hope government doesn't make coal a thing of the past. Happy rails to you too.
Notice some cars having markings for rotarty dumping...so these cars would have been emptied either way...From top or bottom depending what a off-load facility had for emptying...
Donald, yes sir you are absolutely correct in that observation, someday im gonna do a vid on these hopper car markings
Sliding wheels = flat spots = bad business. If its close to the locomotive you can feel the flat spot "thump" which can be annoying AF on a long trip.
Yes sir, sounds like you got some real life railroadin in your blood! Excellent comment bout feelin the thump! Hope lots folks read your comment
Glad to se you guys are busy we need that all over
Jeff, yes sir, hopefully we will see a bright future
Another great and informative video. Have a great day.
Glad you enjoyed Lester, we do appreciate your writing in
and for watching sir.
Coal on the track sounds like someone hitting the track with a hammer
Yep, it "pops" not a common sound on most RR's, lot
of coal fines fall out of hopper car door gaps causing this.
Thank you Ronald for watching
I have a couple VHF mobile radios (Motorola CDM1250, CM300, and M1225) that were pulled from KCS MOW equipment that Need new homes if your railroad needs more radios that is. The CDM is loaded with all the railroad stuff I think but I since reprogrammed the M1225 and CM300 to some local fire dept stuff.
I love you enthusiam for your job.
Most of the jobs I had I think I was the same liking and trying to do a good job.
I watch a lot of US videos, and heard a lot of what I think are wheel flats.
Could this be detected by microphones and a computer like hot axel boxes on the main lines.
We had one think it wa near Southampton where one wagon brakes were on permanently it eventually derailed.
I had a chance of an job on the Grate Wastern Railway GWR wish I had applied for it.
Thanks for the video.
There was a derailment of an oil train in Wales, UK Aug 26th 2020 caused by a non rotating axle. Left the refinery okay, but on the journey the axle locked due to a brake fault. It got dragged several miles causing a massive 9" long flat and a false flange on the outside edge of the wheels. When it got to a switch it distorted the track due to the huge groove in the wheels and derailed the train. Some cars ruptured and leaked diesel which then caught fire, no doubt ignited by the red hot wheels on the non rotating axle. As you'd know, diesel has quite a high flashpoint so would require more than a spark to ignite it.
Luckily it happened at just 30mph and in a relatively remote location. It's route was via the city of Cardiff and Cardiff Central station along with other major towns, so it's a blessing it derailed where it did.
Oh wow, what a mess that must been! Thanks for the great story and an excellent reason why we do run bys to prevent stories like you told from happening. Stuff like that is big buck repairs plus lost revenue cuz down time, thanks again for sharing that with us all
@@ccrx6700
It not just the recovery costs, repairs, and losses, the spilt diesel also contaminated the soil at the scene and contaminated a river. Situations like that can lead to big fines in the UK, both for the derailment and any fault i.e. poor maintenance, plus also for the environmental damage and impact. A lot of diesel was spilt, the fire lasted 33 hours.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangennech_derailment
Great video👍🏼. The SD40-2 is my all time favorite locomotive, they sound so good. It's amazing the sound difference between the 40 and the 38, the 40 being turbocharged and the 38 being roots style supercharged.
Absolutly correct dear sir
Our whole fleet is ex up and sp sd40's
@@michaelball760 Awesome Michael. Our 3098 loco was original SP 8477 built in may 1966 as an sd 40, went thru SP, GRIP program, re numbered to 7330. It was retired when UP bought SP, then sold to Boise Locomotive Works where it was rebuilt to a sd 40-2 and renumbered to 3098
Really enjoy your videos.
Nice video. Cool sound of the coal popping on the tracks.
Thank you Brian, wish i woulda said coal popping on track in vid, that is Excellent description my friend, popping is exactly what it's doing
Do hopper cars come with graffiti or do you have local artists...
No locals, thats the way they came to us
You have an awesome job love videos.
If I remember right,it takes 47 cars to fill 1 standard barge,120,000 thousand pounds of coal.
When loading, you load cars front to rear..or rear to front.
Coal fines look like they get everywhere,
Noticed a car or two had one air line mounted higher-up than the other.
Yep ==> good eye Kenn 👁
Different designs specs. Some also have shelf couplers as well
@@Elfnetdesigns yep, good eye there sir! Watch my vid on slack action, give ya a close up of a few
If anyone could spot something not right it would be you Dave.
Thanks for the video.
How many cars do You use in the train? The length of it?
What's the weight of a loaded train and un unloaded?
Having "dynamics" they are of cours used. What made the locomotive designers develop it in the first place? Long down hill tracks and burning wheel brakes on the cars?
As far as I know such brakes are not common around the world.
Your welcome Stefan. WE have 38 cars on our train here.
Each car load limit is 286,000 pounds. Dynamic breaking was
a very big advance when the diesel electric locos came out,
really helped with saving brake shoes on the cars. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Loved watching this!
Thank you
Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing!
Eric, thank you, glad you are enjoying
@@ccrx6700 You're welcome, I love these videos I'm always learning new information!
All the trains that I’ve seen are 38 cars, carrying about 100 tons of coal each, so close to 4,000 tons per cycle. How many cycles do you run each day, and are you a 7-day a week road?
Love the videos! I work for a Class-1 road, but never get to see the steel wheels on steel rails aspect of the business.
115 ton in one car
Another cool video Dave. I'm happy to get a close up of the loader, because I plan to use that as a rough idea for a coal loader on my train layout. Keep up the great work.
By the way, any updates on No.1?
Thank you CR, waiting on parts 4 #1.
Why do open hopper cars have two brake hoses? I have only seen this feature of the side dump cars.
Second air line is for air to open the doors with corsaro nero. Thanks
for stopping by and checking out the video today my friend.
What is the coal capacity of each hopper, please? ~110 tons of coal, I am estimating? What is the weight of an empty coal car too?
Depending on the operator, they put about 115 tons of coal in a car.
Light weight on these 5 bay aluminum cars is around 51,000 pounds, they vary from car to car by a couple hundred pounds. Appreciate your watching and hope you enjoyed
@@ccrx6700 Thank you for your response from San Antonio, TEXAS. What amazes me too are the couplers so far as their strengths especially when say more than 100 cars are being pulled?! That's amazing! I love your information from your videos. Be blessed!
Nice
The loading tower at the beginning, is that the only loading point.??
Yes sir
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching, appreciate the comment
Curve 6 just east of loading tower...what is MP
So you have 5 curves from load tower west to MP 0.. ???
Good evening, was wondering how many miles you might get out of a wheel set before they are replaced or rebuilt/hardsurfaced whatever they may do? Probably a lot of factors that play into that. How long would a wheel bearing last? Appreciate your knowledge and enthusiasm thanks!
Wow, what an excellent question! You have a great inquisitive mind sir. No one here has ever made a study of that sorry to say.
FRA has established requirements for certain dimensions to be maintained on wheels, am goimg do a future vid on trucksets where I will go over those and show what wear on a wheel is acceptable or not.
There are as you say a lot of factors involved as to wheel wear, track conditions play a vital part in the wear also. If we were in person could talk for hours bout this.
As for bearing wear, pretty much same as above. Ive never seen an official study on that either. There are certain things you look for on a truckset that indicate bearing wear which will be included in that vid also.
Appreciate your watching and wish I had more definitive answers to a great question
What’s your hourly wage for having so much fun and freedom?
LOL, not enough... 🤔
I know your a captive shortline but still do you not run a light on the trailing end of the pusher for safety reasons?
Hsy thanks for sharing
What company is the load out system using? I worked for a weight and load out company called Kanawha scales & Systems (KSS) in the 90s so have some ideas about the systems
Stephen, I do not know the manufacturer. At the harbor where the coal is loaded onto
barges the original feeders in the bottom of the silo were Kanawha, they replaced some
of those over the years, but there are still 4 left. They are feeders that roll back and
forth on side rollers. That cool you worked there, thanks for watching hope you enjoyed
Why are there two train lines? Is one main reservoir air for the dump doors?
That is correct Bill, thanks for watching, upper hose for doors
Just curious how come locomotives at both ends and not tied together is there no run around track up there ?
Mark very good question, we do have run arounds on both ends, we used them when we only had 1 loco. After the 2nd loco came we went to a "push pull" system. This eliminated having to un couple, run around then re couple, saved bout 20 minutes per turn. It much easier and way more efficient doing it this way. Thank you for watching
Interesting
TOOT TOOT.
Why is it stopping about every 38 seconds.
Probably a You tube glitch Michael, it happens sometimes to me
also. The video itself is fine.
What railroad company takes those cars
We unload at our own facility. Coal travels little over 16 miles on our track where it is unloaded and put on barges. I have a vid on how we dump the cars if you'd like to watch
Why not video the weels and look at it in slow motion?
I might try that sometime, first i gotta figure how do a slo mo video
Wow, how do you check all that when they roll by so fast? I noticed the center truck springs on a lot of the cars appears to be very rusty. Do you have to keep an eye on them?
Quick eyes ... someone also usually does a walk by on a stopped train bout every day or so, that person also has a hand held temperature gun to check bearing heat temps
👍👍👍
Thank you Aleu. Appreciate very much your taking the time to tune in and check out the video my friend.
Sorry boys & girls but what is killing coal is fracking for natural gas. Just plain economics. Clean coal was probably a fantasy anyway but adding cost on the coal side can't help as I see it. Heck I think natural gas is the cause of Nuclear plants shutting down.
My son has a theory that the automobile contributed the the great depression of the 1930's because they wiped out thousands of jobs in horse transportation. I don't see many 1918 farriers becoming 1922 auto mechanics. Over the next 20 years as cars become electrified we will have another giant technological shift, ready or not!
Hope business stays busy,hope Biden doesn't shut ya down like the pipeline. It's going to be a long 4 years.
You can always attack the capitol building again!
Yee ha I'm first
You win the teddy bear... lol 🐯