That's my husband changing that knuckle! And in all the years he's been on the rails I've never actually seen him work. I can't wait to show our children! Thanks for the video!! :)
Awesome!! Thanks for getting back to me. I'm glad you like the video. Your husband is a nice guy and I was happy I could help him a bit. For me, it was also interesting to see how they do changing a knuckle. I hope he likes the video, too. I have told him that I would upload it as soon as possible. But then I actually did the editing immediately in a night shift from Sunday to Monday, because I'm currently traveling again. Greetings to him! If they need help in the future again, I'll stand by :-)
This is wholesome. I know this guy is a fan of trains so he feels more inclined to offer assistance but it still makes their job a hell of a lot easier. Put a smile on my face. Even little acts of kindness like this goes a long way. Bravo.
Thanks so much, I appreciate your comment. I know other people who have done the same, but I was privileged that I could film the knuckle replacement procedure, which was really cool.
That was really nice of you to help out Conductor Ricky and CSX that day. Looks like a 100% break on the knuckle. That means filling out a Seperation Report and sending it to the Road Foreman. And then getting grief from them about the knuckle. What a roller coaster piece of railroad....wow. If I had to stop anywhere down there I would stretch brake everything to a stop. Thanks again for the help. Love your work.
The trains aren't as long anymore; I haven't heard of an emergency of this kind in a long time. CSX is about to change everything here. Not sure what it leads to...
A salute to my fellow brakemen who worked in the long ago without benefit of radios and who, like me, lugged a 90 pound knuckle back to usually the middle of the train in the dead of night. In my case, the track had a lot of curves, so I had to climb to the top of a boxcar and give lantern signals hoping the engineer or conductor on the caboose could see said signals. At least the caboose in those days had a radio and could communicate with the engineer. We won't even talk about a car with a wooden floor and containers of plastic chips that caught on fire due to a hot box and of course it was in the same area. At night. A miscommunication between me and the old head engineer had me riding a car on fire as we hauled the train to Navasota, Tx, where the local fire department awaited while we shoved said car into a siding. Then it was back to the rest of the train with me riding on top of a car so the engineer could see my lantern signals. That was on the Houston & Texas Central [SP].
My father worked as a brakeman during his young years in northern Quebec during the 50's. He told me stories of long walks beside the train in pitch black forests to the nighttime howl of nearby wolves. He told me of having been spooked during those moments.
Browsing random old train videos and and I see Navasota, TX. That's actually where I live and do most of my railfanning. Very nice story about the box car fire. Glad everyone was alright.
Lol. I don't think the upper charges think this way, but conductors and engineers are really grateful for this kind of help and for me it was a nice adventure anyway.
AwesomeDesertTrains Nope, it's not a flare and it's not a fuse. On the railroad, it's called a fusee (pronounced fyoozee). The difference between a standard road flare and a fusee is burn time... the RR fusee MUST burn for 10 minutes while most road flares burn much longer. Some fusees also had spikes in them to stand them up on a tie. Remember, a fusee is no different from a red flag. It means STOP!
I used to be super into trains as a kid, but I really wonder how I grew away from it. This is the first time I've seen someone do work like this, really inspiring.
Life takes its turns. I was crazy for trains as a kid, too, then haven't had the time to pursue this hobby for more than 20 years because of my work that caused me to move several times. Now that I'm settled I have somewhat more time for hobbies like this again.
Probably the best 22:40 minutes of RR videos I've recently had the pleasure of seeing. Pro all the way. That's one hell of a long lens too !!! A+++ work. David
Subscribed. Fantastic cinematography. Given the immense forces involved, I'm amazed this doesn't happen way more often than it does. And given how litigious our society is, I'm surprised there's not some rule that forbids train crews accepting any form of assistance from outsiders. Bravo for providing it & thumbs up to conductor Ricky for accepting it even if it's against policy. Screw the lawyers!
I know many railfans who have assisted crews in this way. It's not a big deal. For me it was an interesting adventure. I always wanted to see how they fix issues like train separations "on the road".
How about a military train (Abram's, Bradley's, Paladin's, Humvee's, etc) passing through a college campus known for its famous corps of cadets during a 4th of July evening while a fireworks display was going on?
SUPER-GREAT VIDEO OF BIG CSX MULTI-UNIT TRAINS, GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY, EMD POWER, GE POWER--JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR SHARING SUCH AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF TRAINS!!!!!!!!
Omg. I love trains and I live 5 minutes away from Dacula GA and you filmed it on my birthday so this is like one of my favorite videos now. I subscribed.
Ever since i was a kid i would always love to see the trains stop go and even pass i even lived near railroad tracks at one time and even feel the engines shake the house my face would be like 😮 Great video
Excellent catch. Here in the UK this would have been a major drama, requiring numerous call outs. Not that you would ever see a mile long train in the first place. Thank you.
Especially an 80 to 120mph passenger train ... those things are quiet as hell! So are 70mph freight trains...very quiet. The only time you hear them is when they ring the bell or blow the horn
I’ve a favorite spot in Idaho that has eastbound freights coming down a 2.2% grade around a blind corner-you bet you can be surprised! Something that I found interesting the first time I witnessed it.
I understand your point, but I also think that the mystery of not exactly knowing every detail makes it more interesting. I have talked to railroad employees who's initial excitement about trains slowly degraded while actually working for a railroad.
That track is very difficult for long and/or heavy trains. Because it has so many small hills, it is very hard to control the in-train forces, leading to snapped couplers, or worse, a derailment (but the former is much more likely).
i love the transition from full daylight to evening to night time ! kind of sort of felt like spending time with the crew ! awesome video ! this is the kind of stuff i just love youtube about ! yep Mr Scott would of said............""AYE LADDIE !"
You just got a new subscriber from the UK. What an outstanding video, I normally only watch the British videos and the odd few US and Australian Diesel loco videos but I think you may have converted me. I'll be sticking around for sure. Thanks for sharing from across the pond.
@@mbmars01 When I was a child we had a steam train, every weekend passing through Frankfurt Germany and I loved it and feared it hhh this made me love trains lol
That's awesome and I can fully imagine that this experience inspired your interest in trains. I was born way too late to experience steam trains, unfortunately :/
Awesome video you guys down in GA are so lucky your trains are pretty long. Up here in NY I see lots of stack trains but they usually are 100-150 cars rarely do i see a over 200 cars.
Did you capture it on video? If not, what a loss. In EMS and an Operation Lifesaver presenter, I try to prevent such mishaps. Video can be a powerful tool. Morons do staged grade crossing collisions.
That was really interesting! Also, the video towards the end was really well done! Those were great shots at dusk and later, especially showing the crossing signals glowing and their reflections in the passing railcars. Very, very cool.
Pretty cool to see how they change those knuckles. Also its good to note, I didnt see any shearing in that break, so theres a good chance this is just basic wear and tear of those things.
Nice adventure. I would have the time of my life helping these guys. He had a nice beard by the way. Nice video. You also got nice lighting at the end at night.
Everyone has to realize that there is a tremendous amount of force that is being applied to the knuckles of every one of them. The longer,heavier,or more up and down grade changes, and/or the cumulative stress,fatigue will occur.
Yeah, it's always fun. I actually once got a call by an engineer who asked if I was near the line, because they had a problem. Unfortunately, I wasn't in this case.
As a conductor for CSX . I've only had one knuckle I had to get off the train to to change .. we dropped on the ground at the locomotive pulled the train ahead loaded on the last car. Hopper on it road it back to the separation, after replacing the knuckle I shoved the train back to load the old busted knuckle and myself back on the train .. then we were gone.. the whole experiment took about 45 minutes.. and it was all done in a siding..
Yes, I heard many times how unusual it was that this train Q616 broke a knuckle on an almost daily basis. The procedure you describe would have worked here as well; it was just more convenient (and probably faster) to do it the way we did as I accidentally happened to be around.
Ha, cool. - Could it be we briefly chatted (you sitting in your car) at the railroad crossing in Dacula after I filmed a train there several months ago? I thought I remember you from your picture :)
That was neato, boy that poor knuckle must went thru hell when they hump them cars in yards hitn each other very hard causen it loose it's strength and finally gave out. Thanks for sharing this with me 👍
mbmars01 Mate.. I miss it all, me Dad drove here in NZ.. while we didn’t have those big units.., we did have GE U26C ... I got to drive these from about 10yrs old😂👍... they arrived in 72.., and now living out their days hauling our heavy coal trains through the 1-33 uphill grade of Otira Tunnel in our Southern Alps...., good American iron😂🤔👍
No, but there wasn't much more. Most time was spent on removing a pin that holds the rod around which the flexible part of the knuckle can rotate. This was when the conductor used the flare to make the hole, in which the pin stuck, larger. Other than that it was a bit of hammer-and-chisel work to get the pin out. Mounting the new knuckle was just a matter of seconds. Since I assisted a bit, I couldn't film it.
at the beginning at harper siding when it comes up out of a dip and at the end when you can see the sand blowing and the EMDs blowing smoke going up out of another one , real nice
I have a good guess the container train came from a port in North Carolina going to Oklahoma. I was just there in a major move in Aug and saw a ass load of rail cars waiting to roll out.
Lol, of course not. The hump yards in Atlanta and Hamlet closed, so there's no need to run this train anymore. Don't ask me where all this freight travels now - I don't know. Maybe they do all this now in Waycross, GA.
Thanks for the film. I am interested in the two unusual tank cars at 22:07, running on double bogies. They look cool. Shame that explosive cars only need to carry a class warning diamond without the UN number, you can't tell what specifically is being carried, articles I guess if it was military.
Agreed! And we pay attention to any & all train activities! Snow or tornado warning....oh yes...no trains for hours & it's eerie! Then the plow comes through & people run to the back porch to watch it bust open the tracks! Wouldn't live anywhere else! !!!
I once gave assistance to a couple of tugboat crew members, many years ago on a snowy winter day I went to pick up my mom at the supermarket, she didn't drive, when I arrived she was talking to these two guys who were the cooks on a tugboat that was at a nearby oil storage facility, it was Hess at the time, they had two carts full of groceries had called for a taxi but because of the snow they were running late so I told them I would be happy to give them a lift, I had a station wagon so there was plenty of room, I drove them right up to the dock, they insisted on paying me, I didn't want the money but they said they'd have to pay a cab anyway and were very grateful because the tug was leaving soon.
Great video, as usual! Keep up the good work! So... as for manifest Q616... should it be renamed 'knucklebuster?' Or renumbered to 'Q666...?' I can hear the engineers' locker room conversation now-- "Which manifest you taking out today?" "Driving Q616..." "Better take a couple dozen knuckles and a real stout conductor, then..."
+Bear Cat Thank you! I'm pretty sure that 616 is not particularly liked by the crews to put it mildly. Not only the crew of this train, but also the ones 616 is gonna meet. If an overlong 616 with 11,000+ feet is on the line, all southbounds have to let him pass, because no siding is long enough to accommodate him.
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That's my husband changing that knuckle! And in all the years he's been on the rails I've never actually seen him work. I can't wait to show our children! Thanks for the video!! :)
Awesome!! Thanks for getting back to me. I'm glad you like the video. Your husband is a nice guy and I was happy I could help him a bit. For me, it was also interesting to see how they do changing a knuckle. I hope he likes the video, too. I have told him that I would upload it as soon as possible. But then I actually did the editing immediately in a night shift from Sunday to Monday, because I'm currently traveling again. Greetings to him! If they need help in the future again, I'll stand by :-)
ok now this is awesome , it actually put a smile on my face .
mbmars01 way to go that was the right thing to do to him
Do we take it your husband's a lazy so n so?? lol
I know .... it was a light hearted comment, I promise
This is wholesome. I know this guy is a fan of trains so he feels more inclined to offer assistance but it still makes their job a hell of a lot easier. Put a smile on my face. Even little acts of kindness like this goes a long way. Bravo.
Thanks so much, I appreciate your comment. I know other people who have done the same, but I was privileged that I could film the knuckle replacement procedure, which was really cool.
Thank you for no music. I love the sound of trains!
Great you like it, thanks!
Same
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Me too the audio is as if not more important than the pictures.
That was really nice of you to help out Conductor Ricky and CSX that day.
Looks like a 100% break on the knuckle. That means filling out a Seperation Report and sending it to the Road Foreman. And then getting grief from them about the knuckle.
What a roller coaster piece of railroad....wow. If I had to stop anywhere down there I would stretch brake everything to a stop.
Thanks again for the help.
Love your work.
The trains aren't as long anymore; I haven't heard of an emergency of this kind in a long time. CSX is about to change everything here. Not sure what it leads to...
A salute to my fellow brakemen who worked in the long ago without benefit of radios and who, like me, lugged a 90 pound knuckle back to usually the middle of the train in the dead of night. In my case, the track had a lot of curves, so I had to climb to the top of a boxcar and give lantern signals hoping the engineer or conductor on the caboose could see said signals. At least the caboose in those days had a radio and could communicate with the engineer. We won't even talk about a car with a wooden floor and containers of plastic chips that caught on fire due to a hot box and of course it was in the same area. At night. A miscommunication between me and the old head engineer had me riding a car on fire as we hauled the train to Navasota, Tx, where the local fire department awaited while we shoved said car into a siding. Then it was back to the rest of the train with me riding on top of a car so the engineer could see my lantern signals. That was on the Houston & Texas Central [SP].
Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
At least it wasn't a tank car ... that'd be worse lol.
My father worked as a brakeman during his young years in northern Quebec during the 50's. He told me stories of long walks beside the train in pitch black forests to the nighttime howl of nearby wolves. He told me of having been spooked during those moments.
Browsing random old train videos and and I see Navasota, TX. That's actually where I live and do most of my railfanning. Very nice story about the box car fire. Glad everyone was alright.
CSX should give this guy a thank you for saving 2 hours of precious mainline track time.
Lol. I don't think the upper charges think this way, but conductors and engineers are really grateful for this kind of help and for me it was a nice adventure anyway.
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They could have, at the very least, let you blow the horn!
they used to give people a "series E bond" but times have changed
I grew up living next to Verona yards in Michigan...never get tired of listening to the trains!
I can imagine!
It was nice to see a well experienced conductor that knew to use a fusee to heat a stuck pin and get it out. Great job and a great video, thank You.
Although I have to say that I wished the companies would send out their crews with better tools. Thank you, I'm happy you liked it!
Thomas Thompson it's a flare not a fuse
AwesomeDesertTrains
Nope, it's not a flare and it's not a fuse. On the railroad, it's called a fusee (pronounced fyoozee).
The difference between a standard road flare and a fusee is burn time... the RR fusee MUST burn for 10 minutes while most road flares burn much longer. Some fusees also had spikes in them to stand them up on a tie.
Remember, a fusee is no different from a red flag. It means STOP!
@@andrewheld2475 you are right. It is a fusee. Not a road flare.
I would've sat back in the cab and make them send a car knocker
Ive helped crews out in the past they are grateful for any help they get
I used to be super into trains as a kid, but I really wonder how I grew away from it. This is the first time I've seen someone do work like this, really inspiring.
Life takes its turns. I was crazy for trains as a kid, too, then haven't had the time to pursue this hobby for more than 20 years because of my work that caused me to move several times. Now that I'm settled I have somewhat more time for hobbies like this again.
Probably the best 22:40 minutes of RR videos I've recently had the pleasure of seeing. Pro all the way. That's one hell of a long lens too !!!
A+++ work.
David
Thank you, wow, this is a very nice compliment :)
I would agree... awesome encounter indeed!
@@mbmars01 good thing the cars didn’t go up! That would’ve been a disaster!
Good of you to spare the conductor a 4-way walk, not to mention carrying the new knuckle!
I know. He was happy that I was accidentally there and could give him these rides.
I done the same thing for kcs train conductor
Subscribed. Fantastic cinematography. Given the immense forces involved, I'm amazed this doesn't happen way more often than it does.
And given how litigious our society is, I'm surprised there's not some rule that forbids train crews accepting any form of assistance from outsiders. Bravo for providing it & thumbs up to conductor Ricky for accepting it even if it's against policy. Screw the lawyers!
Thank you very much!
Thats the way to go my friend! Givin' a helping hand when needed...we need more of that in today's world! 👍👍👍👍
I know many railfans who have assisted crews in this way. It's not a big deal. For me it was an interesting adventure. I always wanted to see how they fix issues like train separations "on the road".
@@mbmars01 very cool! I'd do the same myself 👍👍👍👍
2:40 what more of an American thing than a train loaded with explosives just sailing right by a baptist church
I have had the same thought so many times when I stood there filming... It's kinda weird.
How about a military train (Abram's, Bradley's, Paladin's, Humvee's, etc) passing through a college campus known for its famous corps of cadets during a 4th of July evening while a fireworks display was going on?
its being blessed while passing by.......
@@rearspeaker6364 Oh Lord, bless this thy holy hand grenade ...
@@whiteknightcat my favorite episode on youtube!!!! i have the same rabbit but he eats grass and dosen't fly.
Big up respect to the American drivers and engineers. Love the way the just do the repair themselves and get on with it👍💪
SUPER-GREAT VIDEO OF BIG CSX MULTI-UNIT TRAINS, GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY, EMD POWER, GE POWER--JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR SHARING SUCH AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF TRAINS!!!!!!!!
+CHARLES LASSITER I'm happy you like the vid(s)! Very much appreciated.
Omg. I love trains and I live 5 minutes away from Dacula GA and you filmed it on my birthday so this is like one of my favorite videos now. I subscribed.
Haha, that's awesome. Thanks!
Give Ricky a pay rise for such good work.
Ever since i was a kid i would always love to see the trains stop go and even pass i even lived near railroad tracks at one time and even feel the engines shake the house my face would be like 😮
Great video
Yeah, it's so cool. Good you like the video!
Excellent catch. Here in the UK this would have been a major drama, requiring numerous call outs. Not that you would ever see a mile long train in the first place. Thank you.
Thanks! Well, we have these dramas here in the US on an almost daily basis. Some of the trains are simply too long and heavy.
@@mbmars01 It's called "Precision Scheduled Railroading" (PSR)
11:00 For people who believe a train cannot sneak up on you (and mow you down before you notice). STAY OFF THE TRACKS!
Especially an 80 to 120mph passenger train ... those things are quiet as hell! So are 70mph freight trains...very quiet. The only time you hear them is when they ring the bell or blow the horn
Shhh.. . It's tip-toeing!
That's how most Metro trains are here in Los Angeles California
I’ve a favorite spot in Idaho that has eastbound freights coming down a 2.2% grade around a blind corner-you bet you can be surprised! Something that I found interesting the first time I witnessed it.
Very interesting. Nicely presented. Use of ambient lighting of night shot was fun. Thanks.
Thanks! Great you enjoyed it!
love everything about trains this should have been my calling..
I understand your point, but I also think that the mystery of not exactly knowing every detail makes it more interesting. I have talked to railroad employees who's initial excitement about trains slowly degraded while actually working for a railroad.
Keep it as a hobby. Don't make it a career. You will regret it.
That track is very difficult for long and/or heavy trains. Because it has so many small hills, it is very hard to control the in-train forces, leading to snapped couplers, or worse, a derailment (but the former is much more likely).
i love the transition from full daylight to evening to night time ! kind of sort of felt like spending time with the crew ! awesome video ! this is the kind of stuff i just love youtube about ! yep Mr Scott would of said............""AYE LADDIE !"
Great you like it. Keep watching!
Your videos never fail to entertain me...Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work.
I'm glad to hear that. Thank you so much!
You just got a new subscriber from the UK. What an outstanding video, I normally only watch the British videos and the odd few US and Australian Diesel loco videos but I think you may have converted me. I'll be sticking around for sure. Thanks for sharing from across the pond.
That's awesome! Well, have fun with the 400+ videos on this channel :)
That was great you helped them out and I love how he came out the door and thanked you and even got a wave from the engineer
I'm sure everyone else would have done the same, but yes, the crew was really grateful.
Very cool. Great that you were able to help them get going again.
It was a nice adventure, for sure.
I've always loved freight trains. Magnificent and the beautiful scenery
Yea, it's exciting to watch these "steel monsters" :)
@@mbmars01 When I was a child we had a steam train, every weekend passing through Frankfurt Germany and I loved it and feared it hhh this made me love trains lol
That's awesome and I can fully imagine that this experience inspired your interest in trains. I was born way too late to experience steam trains, unfortunately :/
@@mbmars01 I am only 40 but in some regions they keep them for tourism as nostalgia trains
Yes, right, this makes sense. I know; I visited the Brockenbahn last year. It's always nice to watch steam trains in action.
Oh hell, a 75 car walk with that knuckle, then a 75 car walk with the broken knuckle, I bet he was glad you were there that day.
He definitely appreciated my assistance and for me it was a great adventure!
They just leave the broken knuckle on the ground.
no!no! they don't walk that far with the knuckle, engineer drops knuckle off, pulls up, condr puts on rear car and then sets back.
Im amazed that something so sturdy looking and something that is put under such pressure can randomly break.
Metal fatigue is a real thing.
That Ricky seems like a cool guy. Great video :-)
He definitely is a cool guy! Many thanks!
Awesome video you guys down in GA are so lucky your trains are pretty long. Up here in NY I see lots of stack trains but they usually are 100-150 cars rarely do i see a over 200 cars.
Thanks! This is also history here. Trains on this line aren’t that long anymore.
Of all your vids, I always find myself revisiting this one. Awesome stuff.
I'm glad you like it! This one is indeed special because it tells a great story.
They're wise enough not to send explosives by Q616 ...
youre sooo right
it would be like the movie ATOMIC TRAIN!!! A GREAT MOVIE AND U NEED TO WATCH IT OFF OF TH-cam
8:51 "On, on, faster, faster" the naughty trucks chuckled
Lol
Noice
You have caused confusion and delay
@mbmars01 what’s lol mean
@@AndrewTrainFilmsProductions laugh out loud
Thank you so much for posting this video I love the sound of trains
Cool, great you enjoyed watching the video!
a great shot from 8:00 to 8:40 shows the lay of the land , those GEs and EMDs are putting on a show you get an A+ on that one.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Very nice! Thanks and keep watching. Many of my videos have these kinds of shots.
It amazes me as to how well knuckles hold up the way they do. The thickness seems to be less than 3" yet it is pulling millions of pounds.
beautifully filmed, again. thank you
Thank you. Glad you liked watching it!
American trains carry so many rail cars... it’s like incredible!!!!
Train crews are always nice people, I don't know why, but it shall stay that way, they are pretty cool.
Nice video! Thank you. Love that you show detail and other things. Alwayshow a train enteringrade crossings in case a vehicle is hit.
Cool, thank you. Well, I don't want to film an accident...
@@mbmars01 News media may payou for such video. May also be useful for educational and legal purposes.
I understand, but I already witnessed one such accident and that's more than enough.
Did you capture it on video? If not, what a loss. In EMS and an Operation Lifesaver presenter, I try to prevent such mishaps. Video can be a powerful tool. Morons do staged grade crossing collisions.
You got some awesome videoing technique......thanks for sharing!
Many thanks. Good you enjoy the videos.
That was really interesting! Also, the video towards the end was really well done! Those were great shots at dusk and later, especially showing the crossing signals glowing and their reflections in the passing railcars. Very, very cool.
Very cool. I'm happy you enjoyed it :)
excellent and well done for helping the crew with there broken knuckle
Thank you!
Pretty cool to see how they change those knuckles. Also its good to note, I didnt see any shearing in that break, so theres a good chance this is just basic wear and tear of those things.
Nice adventure. I would have the time of my life helping these guys. He had a nice beard by the way. Nice video. You also got nice lighting at the end at night.
Absolutely. It almost happened to me before (in April), but a local CSX employee who came quickly to help took care of the conductor.
Tough terrain not to get a knuckle, and god forbid a draw-bar, thanks for the vid
Yeah, it's not an easy job. You're welcome!
Every man who works on the railroad should have a long beard. Thats the style of the engineers and conductors from the 1860/1870s!
Love trains since I was a little kid.
Same here!
Everyone has to realize that there is a tremendous amount of force that is being applied to the knuckles of every one of them. The longer,heavier,or more up and down grade changes, and/or the cumulative stress,fatigue will occur.
Indeed, but proper maintenance and reasonably sized trains as well as DP should take care of it.
Ricky is the man!
Kin gambrell yep and his beard
An adventure for you. But for them, at least they know a rail fan is always willing to help.
Yeah, it's always fun. I actually once got a call by an engineer who asked if I was near the line, because they had a problem. Unfortunately, I wasn't in this case.
Most won't let you help them, they love to tie up the railroad
As a conductor for CSX . I've only had one knuckle I had to get off the train to to change .. we dropped on the ground at the locomotive pulled the train ahead loaded on the last car. Hopper on it road it back to the separation, after replacing the knuckle I shoved the train back to load the old busted knuckle and myself back on the train .. then we were gone.. the whole experiment took about 45 minutes.. and it was all done in a siding..
Yes, I heard many times how unusual it was that this train Q616 broke a knuckle on an almost daily basis. The procedure you describe would have worked here as well; it was just more convenient (and probably faster) to do it the way we did as I accidentally happened to be around.
Great video, really enjoyed the pictures of the repair in progress.
Thank you! Yeah it was cool to watch it. One doesn't see this every day, right?
I went to Dacula High, seen in the background for a moment. Every time a train rolled through, class stopped for a moment.
Ha, cool. - Could it be we briefly chatted (you sitting in your car) at the railroad crossing in Dacula after I filmed a train there several months ago? I thought I remember you from your picture :)
over here in the uk we love train spotting.. you've made my day and a new sub
Excellent, I'm happy you enjoyed it. Train spotting - or railfanning as called in the US - is great fun!
That was neato, boy that poor knuckle must went thru hell when they hump them cars in yards hitn each other very hard causen it loose it's strength and finally gave out. Thanks for sharing this with me 👍
Lol, that's right, knuckles have a hard life :) You're welcome!
Nice video! Very cinematic with the heat blurring in the beginning.
Many thanks. good you like it!
Tks a mill really enjoy these videos
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Your'e welcome! Glad you like them!
That's an epic beard the conductor has
Shame🌹 the greatest thanks those guy could give you is the sound of those beauties starting the load again👍
This was a very nice crew and both they absolutely grateful for my little bit of help.
mbmars01
Mate.. I miss it all, me Dad drove here in NZ.. while we didn’t have those big units.., we did have GE U26C ... I got to drive these from about 10yrs old😂👍... they arrived in 72.., and now living out their days hauling our heavy coal trains through the 1-33 uphill grade of Otira Tunnel in our Southern Alps...., good American iron😂🤔👍
mbmars01
Of late we’ve purchased Chinese with men diesel 😞..
Shame rail crews are a friendly lot eh.., they learn they have to get on with other...
Awsome catch this this sad emagency
I’ve also cotton this emergency too with a CSX auto rack
Will you have a separate video showing the whole process of changing the knuckle? I think that'd be very interesting to watch
No, but there wasn't much more. Most time was spent on removing a pin that holds the rod around which the flexible part of the knuckle can rotate. This was when the conductor used the flare to make the hole, in which the pin stuck, larger. Other than that it was a bit of hammer-and-chisel work to get the pin out. Mounting the new knuckle was just a matter of seconds. Since I assisted a bit, I couldn't film it.
I wonder how much pulling pressure is applied at 15:45 when pulling. Interesting to know.
at the beginning at harper siding when it comes up out of a dip and at the end when you can see the sand blowing and the EMDs blowing smoke going up out of another one , real nice
Good you like it!
LOVED THE VIDEO AND THE LONG TRAINS AND LOCOS ,GOOD JOB HOW TO CHANGE BROKEN KNUCKLES YOU WAS IN A GOOD SPOT TOO FILM
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this great train video.Joe
Cool, thanks!
Gives new meaning to the term 'fast freight'!
Lol
Great video.....you were in the right place at the right time.....Great work.
I surely was! It was great fun. Thank you.
suppose he wasn't there, look how long it would have taken, hours
When I was a kid my spending money came from selling broken knuckles to the scrap metal dealer.
CSX 2044 and CSX 2014 are some good looking trains.
Those train drivers: "oh no, he's filming again - prepare for a broken knuckle!" :D
Lol, I could almost bet on it in those days :)
I have a good guess the container train came from a port in North Carolina going to Oklahoma. I was just there in a major move in Aug and saw a ass load of rail cars waiting to roll out.
You think, if they retired Q616 and gave the run a different ID, they'd stop having so many problems?
Lol, of course not. The hump yards in Atlanta and Hamlet closed, so there's no need to run this train anymore. Don't ask me where all this freight travels now - I don't know. Maybe they do all this now in Waycross, GA.
In my hometown!!!
Can never get enough!
Cool, me neither 😀
job well done nice to see a friendly crew
That was too cool! great video and what a crew!
Thanks! I definitely agree. This was an awesome crew.
Thanks for the film. I am interested in the two unusual tank cars at 22:07, running on double bogies. They look cool. Shame that explosive cars only need to carry a class warning diamond without the UN number, you can't tell what specifically is being carried, articles I guess if it was military.
those double bogie tank cars no longer exist.
Dang good thing there wasn't any fighter jets strafing trains!! That's getting a little close to home!!
Haha, probably so.
Main lines for CSX & Amtrax goes right behind my house...People ask is it not noisy?
My response is "yup and it put's me to sleep every night"....
That's the right attitude! I wish I'd live that close to an active line.
Agreed! And we pay attention to any & all train activities! Snow or tornado warning....oh yes...no trains for hours & it's eerie! Then the plow comes through & people run to the back porch to watch it bust open the tracks! Wouldn't live anywhere else! !!!
What is your intro video
I once gave assistance to a couple of tugboat crew members, many years ago on a snowy winter day I went to pick up my mom at the supermarket, she didn't drive, when I arrived she was talking to these two guys who were the cooks on a tugboat that was at a nearby oil storage facility, it was Hess at the time, they had two carts full of groceries had called for a taxi but because of the snow they were running late so I told them I would be happy to give them a lift, I had a station wagon so there was plenty of room, I drove them right up to the dock, they insisted on paying me, I didn't want the money but they said they'd have to pay a cab anyway and were very grateful because the tug was leaving soon.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing your story!
Excellent Video it was awesome watching them repair that broken knuckle
Thank you. I also like to watch and learn those things behind the scenes.
how would you like to change (3) at night, pouring rain, no one to help, i did,.
great, come on out when it's raining and cold and watch them change one./
Another great video
Cool, thanks!
Awesome video!!! Very rare catch
Thanks!
Looks like a straight overload fracture. No fatigue or anything.
There's a lot of this in the last few years, I just wonder if the long lengths and DPU's are connected with the event? 😎
Yes, it could have been both. If the DP isn't located where it balances forces best, it can cause more trouble then help.
That is one fine specimen of a beard on Ricky. He should enter the Beard and Moustache World Champs with that mane
good catch on the ordinance train...those are even harder to catch .....
8:30 - look at that grade !!! Wales UK (The land of Narrow Guage !)
It's nuts, isn't it? Evel Knevel would've jumped a Harley off that!
I don't know why I like railcar graffiti, but I do. Some of it is amazing! My artistic talent is at stickman level so no tagging for me lol
In some occasions railcars look indeed better with artistic graffiti than without, but most of the graffiti is just nonsense and ugly.
Great opening shot!
Thanks!
Great video, as usual! Keep up the good work!
So... as for manifest Q616... should it be renamed 'knucklebuster?' Or renumbered to 'Q666...?'
I can hear the engineers' locker room conversation now--
"Which manifest you taking out today?"
"Driving Q616..."
"Better take a couple dozen knuckles and a real stout conductor, then..."
+Bear Cat Thank you! I'm pretty sure that 616 is not particularly liked by the crews to put it mildly. Not only the crew of this train, but also the ones 616 is gonna meet. If an overlong 616 with 11,000+ feet is on the line, all southbounds have to let him pass, because no siding is long enough to accommodate him.
Wow those engines look nice and clean
Cool conductor and engineer.