Wow, that's impressive. I didn't think you could do such a task without removing the car from the train. They didn't even have to uncouple any cars. Good work!
AKA Insane Repairs? Seems sane to maintain rail cars. Usually I don't watch videos with dumb titles, but I will watch this one- because it's an interesting repair, one I've never seen.
I've watched traction motors done before but never anything like a "simple" wheel change. Neat fixture for the forklift, as well. Thanks for sharing this.
I worked for Railcar I had FND due to Nuclear Radiation exposure while in the Military. I miss it but I make more now on Disability. I did like the job.
My grandfather worked on the old C&O Line at a local repair yard in Chesterton, IN and retired in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s. He would replace everything from rail car doors to wheels and axles - I’m sure he would have enjoyed these new hydraulic tools.
My gramps did the same at the B&O, then Nickelplate. Retired in 1955 ? then his boy(my dad) continued with the N&W. They havent updated the garbage since. Third World rail system...rrrrrr. Even Chile's is better.
My father would love to have seen that! A 35 year Railroader, he passed 6 years ago! He took me into the Roundhouse many times to watch locomotive and car repairs and I remember the trucks being stacked everywhere, waiting to have the wheels ground and trued!
Would have been nice to actually see them unbolting the old set and bolting the new set in. Excellent job though I've never seen that procedure before.
@@HKsOutdoorAdventures just curious what your calling a frame key We might have different slang terminology for parts but if your lifting the truck with the car and allowing the wheel to roll out there would be nothing to cut unless it had wheel locks on the side frames
my coal mine maintenance crew used a cherry picker to pick up the cars by the coupling. took about 30 seconds to chain it, lift it and hold it. several more minutes to roll out the wheel, use a CAT Iat28 with a grappling arm to set the new in and take the old out. Only took about 3-4 minutes to change out an axle. Great crew!!
I guess I missed the insane part as mentioned in the thumbnail. The Canuck Car Toads got it going on! The right machinery, proper training and working as a team made this wheelset changeout easy. Sure noticed a lot of erroneous theories on truck construction though. Gravity holds everything together.
@@textiles9562 it was a CP Rail engine, if the car really needed it, it's very possible that CP Rail took it upon themselves to do it then send the bill to BNSF
@@kevo05s that’s exactly how it works. All required maintenance on any car must be done by any railroad as needed, and billing is controlled by the AAR.
I just watched 2 hours of railroad stuff and seen nothing but White men no black men can repair rail cars and tracks and make this easy money using car lifts and fork lifts wow I guess we did all the hard work building the actual rail road system a long with the Chinese and Irish fuck I want a repair rail cars and locomotives damn
I lived around the railroad train yards pretty much all of my life. Seen this done numerous times but never that easy and that quick. Thanks for the upload
+Alex those Duff Nortons are dangerous. I've seen them give out and drop cars. You must be working for a scab company to still be using those. Stay safe and be ready for anything with those pos jacks.
I just saw a crew doing this exact same job in Temple, Texas yesterday. Had seen the forklift and the odd looking yellow platform, wondered how it was used. I now know!
Wtf with all the antiunion know it alls? Union or nonunion, those men want to go home that night, so..you take the time needed to insure that happens...safety first, last, always. ..helluva job men!
@@rearspeaker6364 mechanical safety mechanisms (steel latches) are safer then pure hydraulic line locks. Especially when you want no movement in the system while repairs are performed or the repairs take longer and must stay put.
on the apparatus is pilot operated (PO) check valve that,as a fail safe,also locks the hydraulics cylinders,this PO check valve prevents the platform from coming down in case of hose failure. www.valvehydraulic.info/linear-actuators/hydraulic-pilot-operated-check-valve.html
Kille78 it is not a good comparison. What you did not see here was all the planning and scheduling and moving equipment into place and staging prep work gained from years of experience that went into making this a 10-minute job. The way they make it look easy is because they had it all planned out ahead of time. And replacing a rail wheel is pretty much the same every time so you only need one good process on how to do it. Most auto mechanics don't have any idea what is coming to their shop next. They can't plan ahead too much.
I would have loved to see the old wheel close up. I would like to see the wear on it and the reason for changing it. Norfolk Southern runs right past my house in Pa. and I swear some of those railcar wheels must be square. ( LOL )
I cringed every time I saw also not having any blocks in place should the hydraulics fail was pretty bad too, you'd think guys like that would know better
The only thing I saw was insane that you kept your hand on top of that wheel. I know you know what you're doing but if experience has taught me anything, it's that anything can happen at anytime. Don't put all your trust into the tools. Still impressive work. I've always wanted to work with trains.
I wanted to see how the wheel assembly was disconnected from the rail car. And the video ended too soon. Besides that, fascinating! I'm an F-35 aircraft mechanic, but am intrigued by all areas of heavy maintenance.
Have a look at us pushing wheels off axles with oil injection ,70,000 psi makes people nervous, if they get stuck we add a 100 ton puller, always entertaining.
Interesting stuff.I would never have guessed that they would pick up a train car by the coupler.Seems like it would put a lot of stress on the coupler, but then again where else would you put the jack? I would be very nervous being so close to something so big and heavy sitting up in the air like that.
It's always nice to have the right tools for the job. That little lift has a hell of a lot of power, im impressed. That would make a nice all purpose shop lift for engine's and bikes if you had a way of making it move around like with a pull handle.
Surprised there's no mechanical ratcheting safety on that jack like on an auto mechanic shop lift. If those hydraulics let go, those cars are coming down in a hurry
that, maybe the only fault with this setup!! hope there are restricting valves on those cylinders in case a hose fails.---edit,--i see counterbalance(line lock)valves attached to the cylinders on their scissor lift.
The cylinders have load holding valves so if a hose goes then the cylinders don't move. the shear weight of the train cars would squash a typical car or even semi truck jack stand
Ask yourself why they also had to run an electric cable and look up pilot-check-valves. When there's no electricity for the solenoid, a hose break won't be catastrophic. It's the kind of thing needed for hydraulics because they're used in riskier situations.
@@jameswyatt1304 actually, that is the control cord for the electro-hydraulic control valves that are part of the scissor lift jack platform-those line lock-counterbalance check valve are on the outside of the cylinders as seen on 6:11 on the video. the hand-held control for those calves can be seen at 2:03-it is a dirty yellow,with a cord coming out of the bottom.
I'm surprised you can lift the cars from the bogie coupler and at such an angle. It would've been nice if you'd shown the truck lowering onto the wheel bearing closeup. The video ended too abruptly also.
Got a lot of trust in that one hydraulic. There's no kind of jack stands you boys can use JUST IN CASE?? This is one of those things that give no seconds chances if say a $2.00 seal fails...
Not sure that they could put a stand under those... They are lifting at a pivot point between cars, thus both cars would have to be supported by a stand. Even if a hose burst the cars falling most likely wouldn't kill anyone. If you pay attention, they keep their hands and bodies clear of all things that could be crushed if the car fell. Almost no chance the car would fall side-ways as they are being lifted at a pivot area. Keep in mind, that the section still has one wheel set attached, so if it did fall, it wouldn't be all the way to the ground.
Cylinders have hydraulic fluid locks mounted right on them. If the supply hose blows, they won't retract. Same thing track hoes and lots of other heavy equipment have for safety of the boom not crashing down.
cmonster6 Good crew as far as time wise, but could be done much safer. A wheel's flange will cut like a surgeon's scalpel when you have one end of a 30 ton car pressing against it. Grab the wheels by the bearings!!
yeah this could be true. but i saw crashed trains and videos were the waggon came up and the wheels were just rolling away on the rails without the waggon. i try to google it
In most cases it's just the weight of the rail car resting on the wheels roller bearing adapter's. Some truck sets do have the retainer clips that bolt on to the side frame. These do keep the wheel from coming out of place from the trucks. You see one at beginning of the video when he remembers it from his trailer. Looks like a wedge with a bolt hole on one end.
Nice ERP Hydraulics I was watching them real close to see if they might Fail, but NO they were All Goods, Thanks for the Up-load I've Never seen Railway guys doing Work Like this out-side of a Railyard Work-shop, in fact I've Never Seen a Wheel Change Done Before Lol that was Epic Man .. .
ordonezno don't know the mileage, but it's steel on steel, and debris, sand, and dust gets up on the rails and can wear them down, naturally though friction will wear them down after a while, I don't remember but I think sometimes they take the outer metal tire band off and replace it, i think they just heat it up and it expands and then they heat up a new one and press it on and it shrinks to a tight fit. I think if they do, this case was probably they needed a quicker solution to replace it, so instead of removing it they just took the whole wheel/axle out and replaced it maybe because the had a dead line or couldn't replace a band out here. Don't quote me on this though.
ordonezno there could be a number of things wrong with it, say the flanges are worn down or the steel cracked or something, but it is much faster just to pop the wheel out like this than to take the whole car out of revenue freight
In most rail car applications the bearing that allows the wheel to spin freely is a part of the wheel itself. If that bearing fails the wheel can't turn, thus the need to replace the wheel.
Ok here is THE simplest way I can explain. That little lip on the inside of the wheel called a flange is the only thing keeping that on the tracks after going around so many corners and carrying such a heavy load on steel with steel wheels it wears it down if that flange breaks it could derail the train costing the rail company millions depending on how bad it is where it's at what's damaged so there hoped that helped
I love work like this...worked in a mach metal fab shop ..BEST JOB EVER..I miss it to this day..u had to use ur mind n skills ..nowadays the youth can't change a tire ..wow n woe..the times they have changed ..I worry about the future you can't make fix maintain stuff on a video game controller...wisen up kids. n parents.grands teach them as much as u can my 4th old grand knows righty tightly..and most 20 somethings dont ..woe SAD....gr8 times
How does the truck stay attached to the car when it's being lifted? I thought the car just simply sat on the truck kingpin without actually being attached to it.
SparkDalmatian there is another video titled "tank car wheel change part 1" at the 12 min mark you can see the same operation with the chains holding the truck to the car
Man, that operation does seem very dangerous. Shifting weight spread widely over eight wheels (the two trucks/bogies) to a single narrow point (the coupler) obviously makes everything above that far less stable.
It's actually less dangerous doing this than separating them and jacking the car individually. Those are F style couplers. It'd take a lot for that train to fall over. It's pretty damn stable.
This doesn't stress anything too much. Couplers & associated parts are designed to take thousands of puonds of force to break. A single knuckle can hold over 10,000 tons. I watched that on a video once.
@@talonpilot You want to raise both to balance the pull on the knuckle. The knuckles are amazingly strong since they hold the pull of every car behind them.
No stress at all .... they are barely even touching the overall capacity of those knuckle couplers , it would be similar to a 200 lb. Man carrying a 5 yr. old on his back .... they are Superman Stout , rest assured !! Peace Out !! -WM
Nice video but I wish you'd shown how the axel is released from the truck. I've been offered to apply for Railcar Mechanic with Tropicana and would love to get the job. Trying to educate myself on the job as much as I can in preparation for interviewing and whatnot. You sound Canadian, eh? 😉 I'm a Floridian, Tropicana in Bradenton likes my indeed resume. After watching this, it looks like something I could definitely learn to do. Thanks for the vid 😀👌👍
Wow, that's impressive. I didn't think you could do such a task without removing the car from the train. They didn't even have to uncouple any cars. Good work!
AKA Insane Repairs? Seems sane to maintain rail cars. Usually I don't watch videos with dumb titles, but I will watch this one- because it's an interesting repair, one I've never seen.
3 points of contact while moving up and down the car, PPE, communicating with each other you guys are real deal about safety. Good Job!
Didn’t see any hearing protection
@@Tangaroa775 huhhh?? Lol
Exactly what I was going to say and it was the number 1 comment
@@Tangaroa775 hello rabbi
I've watched traction motors done before but never anything like a "simple" wheel change. Neat fixture for the forklift, as well. Thanks for sharing this.
Crew just left our shop for White River Ont. to do a traction motor yesterday
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Wow I can't imagine how powerful that thing is to pick up two full size train cars like that pretty cool
Hydraulics = 💪💪💪 😉
I like how they got their little service wagon set up.
Man I used to do this every day. Worked for a train repair company. I’ve rebuilt thousands of trains.
And here you are watching it on TH-cam. 😄
did you enjoy doing this? Ive been thinking about joining something similar. any advice?
I worked for Railcar I had FND due to Nuclear Radiation exposure while in the Military. I miss it but I make more now on Disability. I did like the job.
My grandfather worked on the old C&O Line at a local repair yard in Chesterton, IN and retired in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s. He would replace everything from rail car doors to wheels and axles - I’m sure he would have enjoyed these new hydraulic tools.
My gramps did the same at the B&O, then Nickelplate. Retired in 1955 ? then his boy(my dad) continued with the N&W. They havent updated the garbage since. Third World rail system...rrrrrr. Even Chile's is better.
This is about to be in everyone's recommended for no reason
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Only reason I’m here
They're the Indy 500 pit crew of the railroad yards!
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I wish railroading had a sport
My father would love to have seen that! A 35 year Railroader, he passed 6 years ago! He took me into the Roundhouse many times to watch locomotive and car repairs and I remember the trucks being stacked everywhere, waiting to have the wheels ground and trued!
Dope
Watched this procedure more than once in 30 years of railroading...Helped me appreciate being a clerk, for sure....
Man working with a chill group like you guys is what I miss. Looks like a fun job.
Would have been nice to actually see them unbolting the old set and bolting the new set in. Excellent job though I've never seen that procedure before.
Nothing to unbolt, cut the frame key for the wheel being changed, chain it up and lift
The whole reason I watched this is to see how they are attached
@@scootersonlyrepair6773 I guess they just set on the axles then. The only thing holding them together seems to be gravity.
@@mayshack what about the other ones in the air, that don’t drop?
@@HKsOutdoorAdventures just curious what your calling a frame key
We might have different slang terminology for parts but if your lifting the truck with the car and allowing the wheel to roll out there would be nothing to cut unless it had wheel locks on the side frames
DANGEROUS , DANGEROUS work, my hat is off to the crew.
my coal mine maintenance crew used a cherry picker to pick up the cars by the coupling. took about 30 seconds to chain it, lift it and hold it. several more minutes to roll out the wheel, use a CAT Iat28 with a grappling arm to set the new in and take the old out. Only took about 3-4 minutes to change out an axle. Great crew!!
I guess I missed the insane part as mentioned in the thumbnail. The Canuck Car Toads got it going on! The right machinery, proper training and working as a team made this wheelset changeout easy. Sure noticed a lot of erroneous theories on truck construction though. Gravity holds everything together.
Hydraulics - Making your heavy iron look like balsa wood.
these guys are incredibly Canadian
Yet its a BNSF train car
@@textiles9562 it was a CP Rail engine, if the car really needed it, it's very possible that CP Rail took it upon themselves to do it then send the bill to BNSF
@@kevo05s but this is all about one train car
It literally said Canadian pacific on the train 0:15
@@kevo05s that’s exactly how it works. All required maintenance on any car must be done by any railroad as needed, and billing is controlled by the AAR.
how the fuck did I end up watching 2 hours worth of rail road stuff?
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it's like cat videos for men
Same wtf
Because you found the great side of youtube. :D
I just watched 2 hours of railroad stuff and seen nothing but White men no black men can repair rail cars and tracks and make this easy money using car lifts and fork lifts wow I guess we did all the hard work building the actual rail road system a long with the Chinese and Irish fuck I want a repair rail cars and locomotives damn
The rail industry is crucial to our functioning society. We love to see amazing technology and engineering in the industry!
I lived around the railroad train yards pretty much all of my life. Seen this done numerous times but never that easy and that quick.
Thanks for the upload
new tech
I do not think Canada has to strong of unions, and the workers are to polite to take advantage of their employer by gold bricking
So much easier with the right tools. Otherwise it's a whole days job, jacking it up, blocking, wrestling the wheel set in place.
+Alex those Duff Nortons are dangerous. I've seen them give out and drop cars. You must be working for a scab company to still be using those. Stay safe and be ready for anything with those pos jacks.
Wow!... Hydraulics! Now that is some insane POWER! 😲😆
I just saw a crew doing this exact same job in Temple, Texas yesterday. Had seen the forklift and the odd looking yellow platform, wondered how it was used. I now know!
Wtf with all the antiunion know it alls? Union or nonunion, those men want to go home that night, so..you take the time needed to insure that happens...safety first, last, always. ..helluva job men!
Hell, it only took these guys 10 minutes, and everyone seemed to be contributing in some way. Not like they dragged it out or anything.
when a harbor freight bottle jack just won't do.......
riphaven this thing probably cost as much as the entire hf store
first time I've seen a Honda engine with that much torque
Yup
You could always buy 200 HF bottle jacks and hire 200 union workers to run them.
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Nice work. these guys are pros, who have done the job quite a few times!
Gee, I did a few thousand of these back in the day. Albeit at a Repair Yard. Good Job.
I'd be extremely nervous around those train cars being lifted so high...makes me think I'd be like an insect under a shoe.
A lot of faith in your hydraulics
hydraulic line locks on the cylinders keeps them safe in case of a hose failure.
Specialized hydraulic lifts usually have safety latches....like car lifts....
@@michaelmccarthy4615 i have a snooper that has something like this, and i walk under it with 6 tons above my head, no worries.
@@rearspeaker6364 mechanical safety mechanisms (steel latches)
are safer then pure hydraulic line locks.
Especially when you want no movement in the system while repairs are performed or the repairs take longer and must stay put.
on the apparatus is pilot operated (PO) check valve that,as a fail safe,also locks the hydraulics cylinders,this PO check valve prevents the platform from coming down in case of hose failure.
www.valvehydraulic.info/linear-actuators/hydraulic-pilot-operated-check-valve.html
I love how the cars stayed coupled while they were lifted.
I need one of those contraptions to lift my fat assed mother-in-law out of the La-Z-Boy
its not rated THAT heavy...................better call mammot!!!
You have got the best comment award... LMAOOOOOOO
I've forwarded your comment to your wife.
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That gives me an idea. GrannyGantry.
Lifting 2 cars like they weighed nothing. Great job love it.
That's some specific equipment there,and one hell of a Jack!!🔧🔩🔧
Years ago, I hauled a few truck assemblies away from a railcar refurbishing shop. Just one axle weighed 2,500 lbs. The whole assembly was 10,000 lbs.
I can't believe that was done without some kind of cribbing. One blown hose or seal and there's a lot of guys missing hands, or worse.
That lift has lock if hydraulics fail it still wont fall
@@MickNJ1979 how's that?
'Insane' is a good description! Lifting those two cars with the trucks was an insane amount of weight. Any mistakes would be catastrophic.
I've watched 3 grown men take 30-60 minutes to swap a damn tire and these guys swap a damn train wheel in barely over 10
taking the tire of the rim or just a new tire with the rim already on it?
yup go to a garage its slow as molasses in January go to a train yard indy 500 why beats me
im sorry but english is not my first language.
Eltontv don't sweat that guy. Some people forget youtube is an international website and want to act like pricks if someone makes a mistake.
Kille78 it is not a good comparison. What you did not see here was all the planning and scheduling and moving equipment into place and staging prep work gained from years of experience that went into making this a 10-minute job. The way they make it look easy is because they had it all planned out ahead of time. And replacing a rail wheel is pretty much the same every time so you only need one good process on how to do it. Most auto mechanics don't have any idea what is coming to their shop next. They can't plan ahead too much.
Best forklift driver ever,he didn't hit or touch the railway track when loading and unloading the wheel
Paul has a ton of patience and is good at it, as long as the supervisors do not stick their noses in, things go smoothly
I would have loved to see the old wheel close up. I would like to see the wear on it and the reason for changing it. Norfolk Southern runs right past my house in Pa. and I swear some of those railcar wheels must be square. ( LOL )
Flange looks worn and wheel is probably no longer cone-shaped. Usually they are cone shaped so they can take corners better.
I used to live in Enola Pennsylvania and we lived right around the corner from Norfolk Southern
Wow what some massive power that jack has. You guys are awesome.
You all need to watch where you put your hands. You all had my anxiety freaking out
Yeah, I was feeling anxious for them. Everything works perfectly... until it doesn't.
@Damnit Bobby That's the Canadian way, I suppose...
Maybe they have excellent disability insurance.
one mangled hand, and live the rest of the life relaxing and getting pensions.
I cringed every time I saw also not having any blocks in place should the hydraulics fail was pretty bad too, you'd think guys like that would know better
I never would have thought they would lift it between the two like that! Awesome :D
Nobody:
TH-cam: wanna watch how they change out a wheel on a railcar?
With The Right Crew, Hard Work Is Always Easely Done💪😎🏆
The only thing I saw was insane that you kept your hand on top of that wheel. I know you know what you're doing but if experience has taught me anything, it's that anything can happen at anytime. Don't put all your trust into the tools. Still impressive work. I've always wanted to work with trains.
I wanted to see how the wheel assembly was disconnected from the rail car. And the video ended too soon. Besides that, fascinating! I'm an F-35 aircraft mechanic, but am intrigued by all areas of heavy maintenance.
Have a look at us pushing wheels off axles with oil injection ,70,000 psi makes people nervous, if they get stuck we add a 100 ton puller, always entertaining.
@@garethjones7182 Cool! Is there a video?
Are ya
Little machines doing big work. Love it.
My gf sayes the same thing
Incredible but quite risky task especially when performing under wagon when it is uplifted by pressure jack... Good Job all involved members...👍🏻
My father said they cheated. He had to jack them by hand. He is a retired railroad carman.
Yea.....well we cant be perfect like ur dad
Work smarter not harder...
If I didn't know any better I'd say these gents are having some fun on the job 👍
It is a great job, take the good with the bad, not so fun in -35c and 2 feet of snow, but we still got the job done
Interesting stuff.I would never have guessed that they would pick up a train car by the coupler.Seems like it would put a lot of stress on the coupler, but then again where else would you put the jack? I would be very nervous being so close to something so big and heavy sitting up in the air like that.
Well i tough they have to do just like in cars
I think the blocks of wood go under the frame.
i made wheelsets for trains its nice seeing these types of videos. i didnt know cpkc allowed you guys to record i would love to record what i do
Learn something new everyday. That was cool. Thanks for sharing.
It's always nice to have the right tools for the job. That little lift has a hell of a lot of power, im impressed. That would make a nice all purpose shop lift for engine's and bikes if you had a way of making it move around like with a pull handle.
harbor freight has them for motorcycles and it can be pulled around.
The new wheels are so pretty and shiny
Thanks for the post ! "Keep on truckin'..."
Surprised there's no mechanical ratcheting safety on that jack like on an auto mechanic shop lift. If those hydraulics let go, those cars are coming down in a hurry
that, maybe the only fault with this setup!! hope there are restricting valves on those cylinders in case a hose fails.---edit,--i see counterbalance(line lock)valves attached to the cylinders on their scissor lift.
The cylinders have load holding valves so if a hose goes then the cylinders don't move. the shear weight of the train cars would squash a typical car or even semi truck jack stand
@@02Franxx said same thing...............
Ask yourself why they also had to run an electric cable and look up pilot-check-valves. When there's no electricity for the solenoid, a hose break won't be catastrophic. It's the kind of thing needed for hydraulics because they're used in riskier situations.
@@jameswyatt1304 actually, that is the control cord for the electro-hydraulic control valves that are part of the scissor lift jack platform-those line lock-counterbalance check valve are on the outside of the cylinders as seen on 6:11 on the video. the hand-held control for those calves can be seen at 2:03-it is a dirty yellow,with a cord coming out of the bottom.
Thuoghly impressive! What a great view into the railroading maintenance.
go-pro head swivel is hard to watch. interesting subject though.
I was looking for a jack to lift my pickup... I think I could like the whole neighborhood with one of these!
I'm surprised you can lift the cars from the bogie coupler and at such an angle.
It would've been nice if you'd shown the truck lowering onto the wheel bearing closeup. The video ended too abruptly also.
I heard a story years ago about a shopman on the Atlanta & West Point who changed a wheelset out on a boxcar all by himself.
One of the mechanics did all this with a cigarette hanging from his lips and Union Pacific won't let you smoke on their property.
Can't spell stupid without UP.
@@andrewarmstrong7310 I did a first aid course and there was a CP conductor there. Their slogan is "at cp we make dollars not sense"
Cp doesn’t allow this either. They use it to fire you if they really want to.
Coming from a ex locomotive engineer, you can smoke as long as your not hauling/pulling/near flammables
This isn't Union Pacific this is Canada my boys
That is incredibly impressive! Well done good sirs!
Great video Make some more like it
amazing work on a system we all take for granted
Got a lot of trust in that one hydraulic. There's no kind of jack stands you boys can use JUST IN CASE?? This is one of those things that give no seconds chances if say a $2.00 seal fails...
Not sure that they could put a stand under those... They are lifting at a pivot point between cars, thus both cars would have to be supported by a stand. Even if a hose burst the cars falling most likely wouldn't kill anyone. If you pay attention, they keep their hands and bodies clear of all things that could be crushed if the car fell. Almost no chance the car would fall side-ways as they are being lifted at a pivot area. Keep in mind, that the section still has one wheel set attached, so if it did fall, it wouldn't be all the way to the ground.
there's a latch that locks the jack in place.
Cylinders have hydraulic fluid locks mounted right on them. If the supply hose blows, they won't retract. Same thing track hoes and lots of other heavy equipment have for safety of the boom not crashing down.
That’s one hell of a jack💯. Thanks for sharing
Very impressive scissors lift! Damn!
Soo cool just applied to cpfor diesel mechanic. Coming from the automotive service dept. Hoping for the best!
Wish you all the best Ollie
Video stopped too soon. Need moar footage!
What is Moar?
Moar😂😂
@@karagregory69 more. Think Canadian in him came out before he spell checked it.
maor is like more but, eastern european version. lol
When your jack needs a jack truck you know your big time :)
Cant believe that Forman is standing next to that high pressure hydraulic line (3000 psi?)
@Nancy Pelosi ugh Nasty Nancy! Who voted for you?🤔🤢🤮
this is so cool, my dad worked on the old erie, car nocker, had to use train jacks by hand. longggggg time ago.
Good crew,give yourselves a pat on the back.
cmonster6 Good crew as far as time wise, but could be done much safer. A wheel's flange will cut like a surgeon's scalpel when you have one end of a 30 ton car pressing against it. Grab the wheels by the bearings!!
Dylan Baldwin i learned something! Wheels are sharp
Brett Cheeseman if the flange is worn thin you have a 36 in diameter 3000 lb pizza cutter.
Wow that is a lot of pressure on that lift. Impressive af.
Damn, that's like calling in the Wolf.
haha nice 1
That was cool. Thanks for posting that. I learn something new every day!!!
Thanks Phil
@@HKsOutdoorAdventures thank YOU!!
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AvE'd be proud
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When it started showing, it appeared to me that the train in the background was stationary and you guys were on a moving train !
so the only thing that is holding the wheels to the waggon is its own weight? interresting
Eltontv not necessarily, they probably removed the devices holding it before jacking as evident due to the other sets not falling off
yeah this could be true. but i saw crashed trains and videos were the waggon came up and the wheels were just rolling away on the rails without the waggon. i try to google it
In most cases it's just the weight of the rail car resting on the wheels roller bearing adapter's. Some truck sets do have the retainer clips that bolt on to the side frame. These do keep the wheel from coming out of place from the trucks. You see one at beginning of the video when he remembers it from his trailer. Looks like a wedge with a bolt hole on one end.
Lance Landreneau oh yeah now i see it. The other wheels are still attached to the waggons. So yeah they have to be locked in place by a bolt
Lancashirelad i think on top of the wheels attached to the waggons
Nice ERP Hydraulics I was watching them real close to see if they might Fail, but NO they were All Goods, Thanks for the Up-load I've Never seen Railway guys doing Work Like this out-side of a Railyard Work-shop, in fact I've Never Seen a Wheel Change Done Before Lol that was Epic Man .. .
Why change the wheel, did it go flat? What's the expected mileage on a set of these wheels?
ordonezno don't know the mileage, but it's steel on steel, and debris, sand, and dust gets up on the rails and can wear them down, naturally though friction will wear them down after a while, I don't remember but I think sometimes they take the outer metal tire band off and replace it, i think they just heat it up and it expands and then they heat up a new one and press it on and it shrinks to a tight fit. I think if they do, this case was probably they needed a quicker solution to replace it, so instead of removing it they just took the whole wheel/axle out and replaced it maybe because the had a dead line or couldn't replace a band out here. Don't quote me on this though.
ordonezno there could be a number of things wrong with it, say the flanges are worn down or the steel cracked or something, but it is much faster just to pop the wheel out like this than to take the whole car out of revenue freight
5109lover j
In most rail car applications the bearing that allows the wheel to spin freely is a part of the wheel itself. If that bearing fails the wheel can't turn, thus the need to replace the wheel.
Ok here is THE simplest way I can explain. That little lip on the inside of the wheel called a flange is the only thing keeping that on the tracks after going around so many corners and carrying such a heavy load on steel with steel wheels it wears it down if that flange breaks it could derail the train costing the rail company millions depending on how bad it is where it's at what's damaged so there hoped that helped
I've seen and used railroad jacks to lift printing presses. Hand operated clickers. But never seen a table lift set on the tracks 😅
No time to clean the Honda???🇾🇪
I love work like this...worked in a mach metal fab shop ..BEST JOB EVER..I miss it to this day..u had to use ur mind n skills ..nowadays the youth can't change a tire ..wow n woe..the times they have changed ..I worry about the future you can't make fix maintain stuff on a video game controller...wisen up kids. n parents.grands teach them as much as u can my 4th old grand knows righty tightly..and most 20 somethings dont ..woe SAD....gr8 times
How does the truck stay attached to the car when it's being lifted? I thought the car just simply sat on the truck kingpin without actually being attached to it.
SparkDalmatian I think they wrapped chains around it to hold them up..otherwise they stay on the ground
No they don't use chains,they lock them in place with brackets see 3:29
Col. Angus at 0:49 sec you can see the chains that keep the truck assembly tight to the train car..
Col. Angus between 5:50 and 6:00 you can see the loose end hanging and the other end go thru the truck to hold it up.
SparkDalmatian there is another video titled "tank car wheel change part 1" at the 12 min mark you can see the same operation with the chains holding the truck to the car
Cool Video..lots o respect for the Car Department..Imagine what they did 60s years ago.. I do everytime i clean up after a derailment..
Man, that operation does seem very dangerous. Shifting weight spread widely over eight wheels (the two trucks/bogies) to a single narrow point (the coupler) obviously makes everything above that far less stable.
It's actually less dangerous doing this than separating them and jacking the car individually. Those are F style couplers. It'd take a lot for that train to fall over. It's pretty damn stable.
Very. Quick. This. Crew. Kicks. Ass !
Wonder how many of the 2 million views are CP managers
These are the videos i watch at night. Good job
And just like that we have a new wheel 😁
Some high looking flanges on that bad wheel… I would want to check the wedges on the truck set to see if was hunting or attacking the rail.
Getting motion sickness...
Ye gad, STOP waving that camera around; you are making me seasick!
How much weight is up in the air? That's pretty cool. thanks for sharing.
So much stress weight going through the knuckle..
Agreed.....not sure why they need to lift both cars to remove one axel. Seems safer to just lift the one car’s rear end.
This doesn't stress anything too much. Couplers & associated parts are designed to take thousands of puonds of force to break. A single knuckle can hold over 10,000 tons. I watched that on a video once.
@@talonpilot You want to raise both to balance the pull on the knuckle. The knuckles are amazingly strong since they hold the pull of every car behind them.
ski house only place to lift the idea is not to break the train.
No stress at all .... they are barely even touching the overall capacity of those knuckle couplers , it would be similar to a 200 lb. Man carrying a 5 yr. old on his back .... they are Superman Stout , rest assured !!
Peace Out !! -WM
Nice video but I wish you'd shown how the axel is released from the truck. I've been offered to apply for Railcar Mechanic with Tropicana and would love to get the job. Trying to educate myself on the job as much as I can in preparation for interviewing and whatnot. You sound Canadian, eh? 😉 I'm a Floridian, Tropicana in Bradenton likes my indeed resume. After watching this, it looks like something I could definitely learn to do. Thanks for the vid 😀👌👍