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🕺🏻ABOUT DJ: DJ is a locomotive engineer for CSX Railroad since 1999. He has built dozens of layouts, gave presentations for model railroaders, is a TH-camr, licensed drone pilot, and a great father.
![[SFS] This is a boxcar that ruined our week.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/F-Jb1L8ShrY/mqdefault.jpg)
2:11 Takes garden railroading to the next level lol. 3,000 bonus points.
3:38 Scrap R US. 3,000 bonus points.
4:44 Trespassing on Mr. Rogers's abandoned trolley tracks. 3,000 bonus points.
5:31 EMD 645 prime movers go Brrr lol. Cab forward ops. Smoke screen. Jointed rail 12,000 bonus points.
7:54 Caboose. 6,000 bonus points.
55,500 Total YT competitive railfanning points awarded.
spit laughing again!
You are still both the modelers and the railfans BEST friend. Thank you.
Wow, thanks!
The EMD MP15 series are work horses. I grew up on Long Island and we had MP15 ACs pulling commuter and freight trains. Some are still being used today (since 1984). The Union RR uses MP15 DCs. The DCs have the radiator in the front and the ACs have them on the sides.
I like those switchers, especially the H10-44. They are very nice looking for any layout. This is Cory Mears.
An old end-of-life tank car filled with concrete is another common way to have a scale car. Sometimes painted blue and decaled as “SCALE CAR” in giant white letters.
Love your videos. Keep on rockin’.
Thanks for the info! Cool modeling idea!
Love your videos. Great job.
Still missing the old EL. I live between Warren and Youngstown.
Used to be EL Country.
Thanks DJ. John in Ohio
Great work as always DJ, love your videos! I have a new place for you to check out while in central PA for your train talk. It is a club in Mechanicsburg Pa called the Keystone Model Railroad Historical Society, they have a website that you can check out but they have open houses for the public on the weekend of September 17th and 18th. I know you will love the amazing piece of artwork they made there!
I will check it out
I love the sound of train shows. And I agree.
Very nice video👍👍. Those little engines were really earning their keep 😁😁
I bet they are powerful but I think they would look better if they were not in reverse on the front of the train.
Just a bit of history for those who don't know. When DJ showed the footage of the class yard with the highway bridge over it, there's a huge vacant field in the background. That's the former site of the huge USS Duquesne Works.
Excellent as always and thanks for the shout out
Hey DJ! Great video! Wow that yard and all those different kinds of cars. Very cool
Yes, I love that too.
I love the curved layout yard! I'm modelling a local yard section similar to that in my home town... and fitting it on a 2' by 8' 'shelf'/table layout. A sea barge facility at one end and a 'tribute to coal and forest industry' at the opposite corner. Facilities around here are mostly in the running-down phase so those gondolas with shrubbery! growing gives me more ideas. Love it. Thanks, DJs Trains!
I do like D.J.s Trains videos.
You have always been a great supporter, my friend.
My favorite two locomotives are the switcher engines, and the SD 40 locomotives
My favorite is the H10-44.
Interesting yard layout and many details.Great sound and video. Would be hard to model all being on curves. Thanks for the upload !
Yeah, I know things are different in the real world as opposed to a layout, but I never understood all the curved yards either. There were dozens of other yards that are long gone that were straight, but not near this prime location for the different branch lines.
Great video and tutorial abt part 3 of the Union Railroad. Quite a nice railyard from up above thanks to the drone footage. I too got a kick out of the vegetation growing in the Gondolas which isn't surprising either. Bcuz it'll certainly grow if its moving as well but those noticeably haven't moved lately! Those MP15's sounded so good pulling those open hoppers. Had a BIG surprise today, 2 NS AC4400CW's pulled a 128 car Grain Train near us heading to Perdue Farms in Salisbury, Md. Thanks again Dj for all you do to share your videos with us along with your time and effort my friend!
Salisbury! I used to live in Ocean City, not far away.
@@djstrains yes I recall you mentioning that when you sent me the pic of you w your locomotive you operate! I was so excited to see the Grain Train bcuz normally that line has the 2 MP15AC'S that pull an average of 20-40 pieces of rolling stock. Also excited to see my name as a new Patreon member!
Actually I modeled a couple of HO hoppers with bushes and trees on them. I call them flower pots on wheels.
hahaha
Hi Dj, I love the footage of the rail yard and the gondolas full of trees and bushes. I have been putting some graffiti on my HO scale houses and businesses on my layout. I even put a lot of weathering on a shop. I have been thinking about recommending gorilla super glue to you because it is so strong. It is able to dry in 10 seconds and I love it when it does that because I hate to wait for 30 minutes to an hour to use my trains and my buildings. I am not a patient person because I like to put a piece on and hold it on for only 10 seconds and then use the trains. I think that it is easier to have the piece accidentally slip when the glue is slow drying. Oh by the way, I have just gotten a new train engine and some figures and even female train crews that are all young and healthy. They even look great. Thank you, Cory Mears
Awesome!
@@djstrains I'm glad you liked my comment.
I just love the railroaders perspective mixed with railfan interest.
10 ☆ ratings!
Really interesting video with the yard.alot of weight for those switchers.so much cool stuff to see in this area.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow DJ this was a amazing commentary. I really enjoyed this catch and btw my name middle name is Dukane like the yard sweet!! thanks again.
The switchers were working hard to pull there consist. Great video.
Yes, thanks
The 'heavy train' sound is the best. Although i don't think my phone speakers can really give the full gist. It must be overwelming in person.
In my other videos in this series, when 5 units come past you, the ground rumbles. You feel the bass in your chest like a rock concert.
I also loved that. It put me 'back in the day' when I worked at CN Signals ... I wonder what's in that bungalow with the graffiti - I've wired many of those once-upon-a-time. I can smell the hot creosote on the ties and feel the rumble as each wheel clanks over that noisy joint... It's music to my ears - almost as pleasant as an old airliner radial engine firing up! ;-)
A good number of Class1 railroads are being back hump yards as they found that flat switching takes more time to make up a train. just read this in the last 2 days (8/7)
wow ...what goes around, comes around. It's like in the airline industry where 'point to point' routes become The Fashion - then they get replaced by the "hub and spoke' (bus connections) model until that just creates over-crowded connection airports and delays, then ... around we go again. Each new series of MBA grads always have a "new and improved" idea they need to try, I suspect.
I love the entire series! Once again I am learning so much. I really think that you missed your second calling-you should be a teacher.
I do plan on leaving CSX one day. I'm open to a whole new life actually.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO DJ. Thanks for sharing. Hope to get to Strasburg on the 10th
It would be awesome if you can make it!
Loving the drone footage gives me the real feel I want for my layout in the uk . Thanks for sharing DJ quality narration too 👍
Many thanks!
That would be a good model
I caught some cold slabs being moved eastbound on NS recently.
Thanks for sharing. Grate video!!
Those mp15s sound awesome!
Hi DJ, Great video, totally loved the drone footage over the Duquesne class yard. I agree and highly recommend all of Rich's books on local railroads, they are all worth adding to your book collection. "Ask a real engineer anything" Hmmm. Oh you know me DJ, just pulling your leg. Would love to attend the event at Strasburg, but sadly I have to work on the 1:1 scale that day. I'll see you in Altoona, hopefully you still have some good stuff left? Cheers, Rich S.
Awesome footage
Great work thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Woooooowwww me and a friend literally just was planning a trip to Strasberg to take a ride and check out the museum that weekend !
Fantastic timing!
👍👍👍Great video DJ
Glad you enjoyed it
great job
So, a few things...
If I have to leave Denver, Pittsburgh is on my short list. There's just too much good stuff there to pass up.
That footage of nonturbo EMD switchers singing that EMD "song" in my Kali LP6 studio monitors was not lost on me. Thank you for that.
All of these vids about Pittsburgh and related areas has been an excellent follow-up to the Pentrex video about Pittsburgh railroads, and I always enjoy them.
HAHA, I wore out all my Pentrax videos from over playing them! They were always inspiring!
I had never heard the RR angle, but Sandy Lake was a pay fishing lake just off of Pgh/McK Blvd. The trolley rails were part of the 56 line which also passed UNDER the URR Mifflin branch at Buttermilk Hollow rd.
Wow I live literally at the top of the hill never new there was a highway coming through. 😒. 2nd wish I could fined some old videos or photos of the old yard at the UNRR shops in Wilkins twp I remember seeing it when I was we little guy growing up a long time Ago. I here them coke trains all the time talk about thunder in the valley off of Grant St ex lol 😆 notch 8 full power my house be vibrating & rumble at the same time
We have all the maps of the URR at the historical society. The yards there was Santiago yard if I recall. I remember riding my bike there when there was a tower near the road.
@@djstrains Thx DJ I remember seeing the old Hall yard under the bridge when I was 6 or 7 I'm 40 now 😆 time be flying. But after they pulled it up never could find any old pictures of it.
@@Dachamp2001 oooh oooh oooh, I just remembered in the 2nd book there is a couple shots!!
@@djstrains ooh ooh Thx D.J that will work yrs ago when I seen it from the bridge I never seen so many B&LE hoppers in one spot. You could sneeze and trip over one 😆
Those MPs were pullers!
On the subject about things you don't see modeled on peoples layouts something I don't see much is piles of sand on yard tracks where locomotives have set and tested the sanders, maybe spilled from gondolas and hoppers, or for whatever reason it's there but there are many piles of sand in yards. In the overhead view of this yard you can piles of sand everywhere on almost every track and not just one pile on each track but many up and down them.
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Yo DJ blow my speakers up!
Hahaha haha
I love the sound of those engines! Great audio on this one. 😎👍🚂🚃🚃
So do I
*Thank You DJ* 😊💜
I was wondering why flat switching has been replacing hump yards recently. One of the most compelling reasons I found was that "single car shippers" have migrated into containers shipped intermodally and sorted by the cranes that move them about initially at the docks. Thoughts Anyone?
The railroads have moved to a “Block Swapping” model with PSR which they find eliminates the need for so many hump yards as you keep cars going to the same or similar destinations together in blocks which is beneficial for flat switching. Hump yards are very expensive pieces of infrastructure to maintain and staff and flat switching is much cheaper.
@@Stoker58 *Thank You* 😊💙
I was wondering too. I worked for CN Signals "back in the day" when the Edmonton hump yard was created at the main yards, which was pretty close to residential neighbourhoods. The braking mechanisms on the wheels made so much screeching noise that the residents were up in arms over it all - and rightly so. The quick and dirty solution (until new materials could be found for the braking pads etc.) was we-the-lowly signalmen had to man a 24-7 oil-pump spray device that lubricated/quieted the squeal... but if we added too much oil ... the 'BANG' from an un-decelerated car smashing into the other cars was pretty loud too!!! d'oh..
@@gcorriveau6864 I worked for NS at their Conway Hump yard I can still hear the retarders screeching away haha no noise control there. I’ve seen a few cars with slick wheels slide through the retarders and slam into cars in the bowl.
Yessir. Railroads continue to quote rates to customers that highly encourage multi-car shipments. More and more single car moves have been driven to the highway. This reduces the need for some of the classification which in turn means the expense associated with 'some' hump yards are no longer needed.
D J have you done any switching operations at Any harbors like they do by the sea I am wondering how they do switching operations is it similar to regular operations in the yard but like in Pittsburgh in a similar way and I hope you have an awesome day DJ
no harbor switching for me.
I assume the yard will still exist after the highway is built over it. Right?
Yes, DJ said the yard will look different when it happens.
cool man love the video dj. wanted to ask you if your going to altoona in sept, lots to see and do there you know that
Yes, I have a table sept 17/18 at n scale show.
@@djstrains that is great will see you there
Great video of diverse rolling stock in Duq Class Yd featuring those various scrap gondolas with plate, turn, shredded, and baled loads. Any idea what’s in the tank & box cars and purpose? Interesting distinct weathered High Side Gondolas and lime hoppers hanging around also. By the way I noticed diverse rolling stock in the BLE/CN & URR North Bessemer via like Center Beams, Hi Cube Box Cars, Hoppers w/plastic pellets Any idea what’s happening there…traffic changes etc…oh by the way I have a scale car B&O marks from an estate sale. As always great content in your vids !
I was wondering, does the Union RR have horns and/or bells in their cabooses since they must push many long trains over crossings?
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@@djstrains That's cool. I somehow missed that video. Thanks for getting back to me.
That is true.
What highway that will be going though there
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I use your video for ideas on Transport fever 2 & I want to say thank you
Glad to help!
I can’t believe how close the track spacing is. I bet a lot of side swipes have happened here.
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Those coke trains are on 15MPH on the remote box once they start the climb out of Clairton all the way too the tunnel. They average about 10mph the whole way up
Great insight!! APPRECIATED!!
4 cabooses in a working yard what planet did you film this on? unheard of in 30 plus years!!
HAHAHA Now you understand why this is my favorite railroad
D J I noticed on the cabooses have horns do they control those horns remotely from the locomotive or is it controlled individually by driving the train and the guy in the caboose also is it really loud for the people in the cabooses because of the horn and I hope you have an awesome day D J
The conductor has the control for the horn on the caboose.
Why are the railroads removing hump yards?
Look up Precision Scheduled railroading PSR.
Part of the reason is cost. They can be expensive to operate and maintain. WIth more and more rail traffic moving in multi-car rates there is less 'classification' needed. I'm not of the opinion they are not needed. I also feel some were retired too early.
Yeah that is not right at all. I'm not happy about that.
The vegetation & trees have won and beat us all up and down Union RR, NS, & CSX. 1989 I went to preschool at IC in Irwin NS MP 332 there was no trees and you could see Conrail Trains unobstructed from every road from Altoona to Pittsburgh. I've said this before PA is a tinder box with the amount of dead brush out here and if combined with a bad drought, high winds, and a Forrest fire. My past fire training & seeing the issues out on the West Coast - says that WV, OH, PA, & NY would get completely consumed by a Forrest fire in 24hours - as I hope this scenario & situation NEVER occurs in our or any PA citizens lifetime. There really really needs to be not a state but a major Northeast regional clean up and controlled removal of all dead brush & undergrowth vegetation and it's not the dead brush I fear the most it's the abandoned exposed coal seams that litter every squarer mile of this landscape. I've been watching the Centrila, PA Mine Fire stories closely and it's got smoke coming out of the ground in places they never imagined it would - I'm not saying it's threat to us out here but I won't let it cross my mind that one day in the distant future it might be. I started documenting the dead brush, the litter, the graffiti, bad drivers, and the crap in general I see around this state because i know people like you and me will be the generations to inherit PA and the next ones leading the much need fixes our PA leaders are currently ignoring.
I went to Mt. Washington for July4th and you can no longer see the csx tracks and half of the river, because the trees are too tall. I think by next year you won't see much of the city.
Why did the signal 296 not light up?
My basic. Layout is 3'x6'. I've struggled with it for a long time. Trying to add a 16"x 3' L. The other day I turned my layout plan upside down and it all fell into place
THATS AWESOME!!
I'd like to see your presentation. I hope you record it and share it to your tube. I can't make it to Pennsylvania, that's a little far from California. I really enjoy your videos and I know I would this presentation.
I will see what I can do.
brings back a lot of memories. i used to work in the blast furnace division at duquesne in the 70s. can any one know were to get the union railroad decals that they used for ho?
try the union rr Facebook groups. I have a few left in n scale.
CMR products/Netzlof design has some URR decals for HO scale.
@@termitevomit thanks dave, bought 6 union rr decals from cmr products thank you,john lockwood.
@@djstrains hi dj love your drone pictures. also i used to live on 21 clearview st duqusne in the 70s and could se the duqusne class yard from my window, all the bangs when they making up trains in the yard. also the sound of the bar mills and bast furnaces [when the explosion doors on top the furnaces would open.
Can you explain the move away from hump yards?
I assume its cost savings on the maintaining the complexity of the retarders. Also, The hump was better for when there were way more industries for them to sort cars for. Now, its just a few industries and interchanges.
@@djstrains You pretty much nailed it in this answer. Railroads more and more quote favorable rates based on multi car moves. That in turn reduces the need to classify.
raiders if the lost ark at the ending of the movie
I had to walk through some high wet grass for that shot, lol.
Enola rail yard of Norfolk southern can always come in handy for the ending of raiders of the lost ark for all the big rail fans in Pennsylvania area and you look at the map where the railroads of pa you will see a big parking lot of raill that looks like fingers of lines on a map that is enola Norfolk southern rail yard
If you can’t find either book could we go to a library and copy them off of a microfiche machine?
I'm not sure. The second should have better availability. The first may require some calling around of hobby stores. in Pittsburgh: Esters hobby, Hobby express in cranberry, and Bradys.
Do the people who broker the car lose track of them and then the cars sit then become growing medium
Thats one aspect of the industry I don't have much knowledge of.
They’re usually M&W cars, wrecked cars, or storage cars that sit for long periods of time generally not in “active” service. Although scrap gondolas tend to fill up with dirt after awhile and after heavy rains even those in service can sprout some leaves.
In this day and age there are very very few "lost" cars in the USA and Canada. (Not saying there are none). Gondola cars tend to go through cyclical demands based on the need for moving scrap and aggregate. Sometimes older cars are shoved off to the side and stored in the event they might be used later. Others are pushed on siding for possible MOW use. Eventually they'll be scrapped or brought back to service when management "gets around to it"
why do tank train cars make a roaring sound
Sounds like they aren’t totally full and your hearing an echo of them splashing around? Kinda like a washing machine?
@@djstrains something like that
I only have one question: Why do you say "ray-road" instead of "railroad"?
THAT is your one question? Of all the things you could have asked me regarding the content, or the fact that I have 24 years as an engineer and almost 400 videos, you wasted the one question on my accent? Kinda lame, don't you agree? I stuttered as a kid, had trouble pronouncing some words like "steel", but I'm still making TH-cam videos for 11 years. What are you doing?
@@djstrains sheesh - hey DJ please don't let the bone-head comment ruin your fun in creating all this. ( I know there's some psychological study claiming one bad feedback can require as many as 10 positive ones to overcome the negative impact - the way our minds work) So let this be the first off-setting POSITIVE feedback. I love all accents and wonder how others perceive my way of speaking. Thanks for putting yourself out there, man. I really appreciate it and I love your sense of humour and obvious enjoyment in what you're doing!
I wanted to know, so I asked. I didn't know you'd go ballistic. Chill dude. Love your channel and watch every episode.
good morning dj !!! hope you are well ! just love your informative videos and as i am retired now from westinghouse (via pittsburgh/west valley ny) i have tons of time to watch and learn from you !!! i do have several questions for you...
1) i am a lifelong bills fan and live 20 minutes from the stadium and also follow the steelers intensely.... coach tomlin and coach mc dermott are the best. are you a steelers fan ? together they would be nuclear grade !!! WOW !!!
2) i am guessing you have grown up " on the yock" (phonetically)/allegany/and mon... therefore do you walleye fish ? october 9th is a very blessed day as my 2 favorite teams play in orchard park, so early that morning we are fishing for monster walleye (8,9,and 10 pounders !!!) on lake erie out of barcelona ny which is 28 miles east of erie pa... would you like to go with us ??? i can make arrangements easily as i have a 21 foot alumacraft all set up for walleye trolling... i am having a small get together at my house with friends i grew up with playing ball/hunting/fishing and chasing the girls all over the place !!!
keep in touch with me at armesdennis1@gmail.com please... if you can bring the primanti fixins' i will fry up the best wings you ever had along with a nice bowl of walleye chowder !!! keep up the good work dj... blessings to you and your crew !!!
I'll email you!
dj... email will be fine !!!