Hey man, for future reference! The lift points, are those circles you see just outside of the trucks where the axles are. Next to the side ladders for climbing up... Just a conductor tryna make things a bit easier for you next time!! Lol
For future jobs: the barrier at the end of a railroad or tram track is called a stop block or bumper, and when a RR car is off the rails like that, it's said to be "on the ground".
@@PepesTowingService The squared openings directly above the center of each truck on both sides (pause at 5:34 timestamp for a good view) are part of the body bolster and can be used for pulling. Also other than the rods that make up the brake rigging between the car body and the trucks themselves, the weight of the car is only resting on the trucks and kept centered by a large pin that is part of the car body and gravity. So when lifting, you would need to chain the trucks to the car otherwise they will separate.
@@timothybarney7257 You absolutely know your stuff! Good information to have for the next job. Hopefully I get another one soon and will use this knowledge to make it more smooth.
Hi Josh, Sometimes we got to listen to the Old Timers but since he's your Dad. We'll listen all the time because of his great amazing experience and knowledge, skills of cart man ship. Big Flipper! Is strong as hell, those Jake's are sounding Great ! That's Miller Power Industry!! Can people's understanding WHY It Taken One Year To Manufacture Big Flipper!😁😆☺ Looking Great And Sounding Great Nothing Is To Impossible For Pete's Towing Service. Enjoy Your Day Thank You Brother.
Rail cars have lifting points on all 4 corners right above the truck assemblies; note the square hole integrated into the frame of the car, but you did great grabbing the coupler/draft gear.
For those wondering.... yes you can push an empty railcar by hand. The design of the wheels calls for hardly any resistance. Now u know why a single locomotive can pull so much with such little effort.
I wouldn't say little effort but yeah a single locomotive could push or pull a good amount of cars before needing help from a second or multiple locomotives.
@JosephCee lots of our trains down here in Houston run with only 1 locomotive due to flat terrain. I should've been more clear on that. Some only require about 2 or 3 notches to get moving, most of them are chemical trains and such so lightweight is key.
@@AbelG8781 sure, i wasn't contradicting your original comment. all i was saying is that at a certain point one locomotive wont cut it. clearly in the scenario you just hgave it hasn't reached that therefore no extra locos are needed. so i dont get why you felt the need to reply like if im arguing aginst you.
You guys always surprise. I didn't know it was possible to move a railcar by hand! What a neat job you did! And heh goes to show, always film when allowed, it's going to be interesting!
This is the stuff us rotator operators live for. Wrecks are cool but odd ball stuff where we get to flex or trucks and brains are way better. Wait till you need to rerail a locomotive. Big Flipper can do it. There is a picture from a few years ago on Stepps towing service Facebook where they lifted the front end of a locomotive with their 75ton twinsteer.
You guys do everything! (I am going to share this with a hobo whose channel I follow: Hobo Shoestring. He knows a lot about train cars but I doubt he ever pushed an empty!)
@@PepesTowingService my late father worked for the railroad when I was a kid in several of their car repair shops near where I grew up in Pennsylvania. They regularly moved cars around by hand by wedging crow bars between the wheel and rail and prying up. Not fast, but rather easy on level rail.
@@timothybarney7257 It took about 8 of us, but it makes sense. It's on wheels on the track, so once we break the friction it's just a matter of keeping the momentum going.
@@PepesTowingService I suppose bearing friction but the usual thought is overcoming inertia (The tendency of an object at rest or in motion to remain in that state) see Newton's laws of motion. Before you get a loaded car moving you need to know how and where you will stop it.
Back in 1973 there was a derailment, it knocked my grandmother’s fence out destroyed her garden, thank God In didn’t go inside her home. I was only two years old at the time. So my father told me about this big cranes they used to lift the engine. Now that I see this video, it’s kinda funny.If they had a derailment now, thirty years from now, they would say they called Pepe’s rotator service to clean up the mess..Lol they are basically mini cranes on steroids.. lol
Every video seems to be crazy challenging what situation your in but all some and I suppose the crazyer the better maybe and I can't spell but eny way your videos are so cool 😎😎😎😎
Great video that train was really impressive. See you and your dad are Supermen. Pushed a grain car. 😂. That was totally awesome what you all did there... Thanks for sharing... Much love... Stay healthy and safe.
DUDE, I had no idea that you could push a train car manually! I always pictured those train cars as probably weighing 50,000 pounds empty. But I guess when they are on tracks, they glide on them like a king pin grease plate lol.
That was a plastic pellet car not a grain car. Looks similar but the piping on the bottom is to move pellets. The probably mold those tanks in that warehouse building.
9:25 Where the car come from , cars go under the gate look for the broken support wire on the bottom , ive seen a few cars end up in school yards with 3 fences in the way none damaged but the tire marks .
99% of the crane lifts by the railroad are done with the drawbar like shown. Very few cars have a crane lifting hole, but they all have jacking points, this hopper did not have any lifting hole. The hole shown is for a car puller to move the cars for unloading/loading, hence you cannot put a hook upward only sideways. If this car was empty it weighs 30 tons so one end is 15 tons and if it was empty the preferred method is to try and pull it back on the track, if empty and the wheels are not twisted you have a good chance of sucess. By lifting 1) you run the chance of the adaptor cup on eack bearing getting out of place, 2) not all cars have the axles keyed in and they might stay on the ground 3) not all trucks(bogie) are keyed to lift with the car. The center bearing on the bolster should of been inspected to see if it seated properly (meaning the car is off centre). I would make two recommendations, the customer should get 20 yards of sand dumped on the end of rail, this works much better than stop blocks, and unless totally familiar with railcar rerailing, ďo not do it, if that car derails in the next 2,500 miles you could be partially liable for a 20 million dollar train derailment.
Couldn't quite tell if forward wheels on container were seated on track. If they were, could they have connected an engine and pulled it a few feet to seat the rear wheels?
Possibly, but it would take portable rerailers, a locomotive, and at minimum a four-man RR crew. As this was a private siding, and not railroad property, it was probably a lot cheaper to call Pepe's. And the rerailers might not have worked given how far off the end it was and, apparently, a bit tangled up in the failed stop block.
I think this was a case of, GTA in real life. I am honestly surprised an officer wasn't there over this whole ordeal. Cause I am fairly certain that car being down there was a violation lol. This was a great video, thanks for sharing!
Moving a 32 ton (empty weight) vehicle by hand isn't something you do every day! Good thing you didn't lift the coupler much farther, else the truck would've dropped out of the kingpin on the car, then you'd have a bad day. Back in the 90s, I worked in a shop next to a steel mill in Seattle. There were mountains of scrap metal, loaded into gondolas (strangely all ex-Alaska Railroad) so overburdened that they were bent into a "U" shape, and shunted around by GE 45 ton locos. Occasionally, they'd derail (hell, you couldn't even see the track for the mud) and a crane would come in to lift them back on track... until the next derailment. Good times. Whole place shook when they fell off the track, lol.
not the usual over the mountain side car fishing but still a nice catch. did you use a spinner or a jig to catch that one, or was it a simple worm on a hook? LOL..... As for the train car.....DAMN! that one was cool I liked it....definitely not something you see every day let alone even sometimes. glad you're back to filming I missed you guys. always a fun time watching your videos.
Those rail cars can weight 200,000 lbs full... I don't know if that's true because a crazy guy from the railroad told me that, but he's worked for the railroad forever so I think it may be.
@@PepesTowingService 20-30tons depending on type. Those grain cars are called "covered hoppers" (because they have a roof, vs open top) so they're a little heavier. They will roll really really easily on flat rail because rail has very very little resistance compared to, say, a truck on road tires. Getting it stopped, however ... even a "mere" 30 tons once in motion is going to very much want to stay in motion. That's of course the entire car. You were only picking up roughly half of one truck; the cars weight was mostly on the 3 axles still on rail. Of course in the railroad world, nothing is small or light - that single truck is about 7 tons, so you were probably lifting about 3.5 tons or thereabouts.
You can't lift the train car wheels (Truck) because the truck has a kingpin that allows the truck to rotate. If you lift the tank the tank will separate from the truck. I'm glad you used the coupler.
Two things: (1) If you took a poll on this -- or any -- of your videos, I don't think you would find many people who would vote for "BORING." (2) I like you respectful use of "my father" rather than "the old man" or something like that.
the only way that railcar could of rolled off the end of the track is the fact that someone from the railroad didn't set the hand brake (that large wheel at the end of the car) or someone intentionally released the brake causing the car to roll off the end of the track.
Pushing a train car isn't hard one you get it moving. Stopping it can be a real bear. Lol The rail carrier should've been able to bring a switching motor down there and pull the car while they re-railed the truck that was off the end of the rails with oak blocking.
Oh, I get how it works, believe me. And you guys did a great job. I'm just saying, whoever shoved the car on the ground should be responsible for rerailing it. That's just sloppy work on the part of a train crew. When you tie cars onto the end of a string in a yard track, you should always check to see what you're shoving against and how much room you've got. Your videos are great- I always enjoy them. 👍
I call BS on the “bearing” failure causing a derail! My money is the groundman messed up the car count and ran it into the ballast rock, and they tried to pull it back. It’s conveniently to close to the end for a bearing failure
I rerailed freight cars for 30 years. You were pretty lucky the wheels did not come out when lifting or the car car off center. A word of advice, contact the railroad and find out how to lift railcars. You dont know how many times i could of used a rotator. I could be a whole nother division PEPES RERAILING.
Would the car come off the wheels when pulling only enough to get a bit of height? If you see the video, the rear end lifted up ever so smoothly and barely enough to get the clearance I needed. It's not like I skied it high. The last big train job I did (which made the recent cover of American Towman Magazine, google it and check it out!) I lifted from the same spot in the front per the supervisors on scene. But the axle was also chained to the car to prevent exactly what you are talking about. If I was going to do a hard pull or get any serious height, that would have been done here as well.
@@PepesTowingService yes. There is actully nothing holdind the car body to the wheels. If you lifted it 2 inches it could of came off center. But putting it back on center with a rotator would be easy, if the car was empty, there are so many what ifs. Like i suggest, contact your local railroad mechanical department. And ask for lifting information. I like watching you videos and would not like to see you get hurt or damage your equipment.
The burning question of how the car got there in the first place wasn't answered to my satisfaction, LOL. Not buying the owner's explanation. Something else happened.
He's the owner and has always been in my videos from the beginning. He's still very active in the recovery scene, of course he's going to be in the videos
@@PepesTowingService Yep, but you would have to rotate counter-clockwise to follow the train car. Clockwise would be going away from it. Just saying...
Wow you're smart, you should be an engineer! Jokes aside, if that was an option they would have obviously done that. It's easy to play arm chair quarter back, but they are on a private yard and didn't have that option available to them for the day.
Love you're father! Still calls you Son!
I'll always be a kid according to him 😂
I love it when his father laughs :) And yes, its great to have a father who loves you, and cares about you, no matter how old you get.
Tokyo drifting that was hilarious. Great service! You guys are amazing 🤩
Thanks!
Hey man, for future reference! The lift points, are those circles you see just outside of the trucks where the axles are. Next to the side ladders for climbing up... Just a conductor tryna make things a bit easier for you next time!! Lol
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Rerailing a railcar with a heavy wrecker, AWESOME!! I LOVE seeing you work with your dad. ALWAYS good stuff!!
For future jobs: the barrier at the end of a railroad or tram track is called a stop block or bumper, and when a RR car is off the rails like that, it's said to be "on the ground".
Good to know, obviously trains aren't my specialty. Now I know!
@@PepesTowingService The squared openings directly above the center of each truck on both sides (pause at 5:34 timestamp for a good view) are part of the body bolster and can be used for pulling. Also other than the rods that make up the brake rigging between the car body and the trucks themselves, the weight of the car is only resting on the trucks and kept centered by a large pin that is part of the car body and gravity. So when lifting, you would need to chain the trucks to the car otherwise they will separate.
@@timothybarney7257 You absolutely know your stuff! Good information to have for the next job. Hopefully I get another one soon and will use this knowledge to make it more smooth.
@@PepesTowingService don't necessarily know that, but what I do know is now that the video is over, I have to go shovel snow.
Sir Josh !!!! Great recoveries on both units & NO it wasn't boring at ALL !!!! Waiting till the Next ""HULK"" adventure & ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!
Dad becoming the star of the show
The best team together again.Hulk and Flipper and professional operators.
You guys are the best Of the best ! Great job sir Josh I enjoy watching your videos . We missed you here . Glad you’re back
Hi Josh, Sometimes we got to listen to the Old Timers but since he's your Dad. We'll listen all the time because of his great amazing experience and knowledge, skills of cart man ship. Big Flipper! Is strong as hell, those Jake's are sounding Great ! That's Miller Power Industry!! Can people's understanding WHY It Taken One Year To Manufacture Big Flipper!😁😆☺ Looking Great And Sounding Great Nothing Is To Impossible For Pete's Towing Service. Enjoy Your Day Thank You Brother.
Rail cars have lifting points on all 4 corners right above the truck assemblies; note the square hole integrated into the frame of the car, but you did great grabbing the coupler/draft gear.
Never saw a recovery like this one.....nice Job
You guys are great. Your Dad is fearless. Love it.
Yes he is!
For those wondering.... yes you can push an empty railcar by hand. The design of the wheels calls for hardly any resistance. Now u know why a single locomotive can pull so much with such little effort.
I wouldn't say little effort but yeah a single locomotive could push or pull a good amount of cars before needing help from a second or multiple locomotives.
@JosephCee lots of our trains down here in Houston run with only 1 locomotive due to flat terrain. I should've been more clear on that. Some only require about 2 or 3 notches to get moving, most of them are chemical trains and such so lightweight is key.
@@AbelG8781 sure, i wasn't contradicting your original comment. all i was saying is that at a certain point one locomotive wont cut it. clearly in the scenario you just hgave it hasn't reached that therefore no extra locos are needed. so i dont get why you felt the need to reply like if im arguing aginst you.
It's nice to see you back to car fishing again!
You guys always surprise. I didn't know it was possible to move a railcar by hand! What a neat job you did! And heh goes to show, always film when allowed, it's going to be interesting!
Another two great jobs completed by Pepe's Towing Service ~ Great to see you working alongside Dad 💛 🇺🇸 💯
I most certainly miss my Dad !!!
Good morning of Tahiti , good vidéo thanks.
Two for one, great jobs as usual. Thanks for sharing. Kevin
First a rail car and a short fishing trip! That fish was easier than those canyon ones!
Much much much easier than hiking 300' down lol
That was definitely interesting to see a car that far into the canal!
You and your crew are just the very best
great job on both sites.
Love seeing that you and dad can work well together! Been cool seen how much it weigh
You guys are the best at what you do god bless you all at PEPES
First time I’ve seen a rotator rerail an ACF hopper. Very impressive!
By the way, you can tell they're empty by the springs on the wheel trucks. Tough to do when it's in the dirt like, though.
It was tough, but we have the equipment to handle it thankfully
I work for the railroad and usually have a sencer to tell us to stop
THANKS FOR POSTNIG AGAIN!! Missed Ya!!
Thanks for the video.
Can see why auto insurance is so high...
Big flipper is impressive and a beast.
Hey hey hey...it's about that abrupt ending to this video What's up with that gentlemen. I do enjoy your videos. Love your sense of humor.
This is the stuff us rotator operators live for. Wrecks are cool but odd ball stuff where we get to flex or trucks and brains are way better. Wait till you need to rerail a locomotive. Big Flipper can do it. There is a picture from a few years ago on Stepps towing service Facebook where they lifted the front end of a locomotive with their 75ton twinsteer.
I had to get a drink and a bag of chips! Good work, thanks! 👍
You guys do everything! (I am going to share this with a hobo whose channel I follow: Hobo Shoestring. He knows a lot about train cars but I doubt he ever pushed an empty!)
I never knew how easy they are to push empty!
@@PepesTowingService my late father worked for the railroad when I was a kid in several of their car repair shops near where I grew up in Pennsylvania. They regularly moved cars around by hand by wedging crow bars between the wheel and rail and prying up. Not fast, but rather easy on level rail.
@@timothybarney7257 It took about 8 of us, but it makes sense. It's on wheels on the track, so once we break the friction it's just a matter of keeping the momentum going.
@@PepesTowingService I suppose bearing friction but the usual thought is overcoming inertia (The tendency of an object at rest or in motion to remain in that state) see Newton's laws of motion. Before you get a loaded car moving you need to know how and where you will stop it.
Moar Dad!
you'd be really surprised how easy it is to push these train cars by hand on flat ground....empty that is with all the air bleeded out, but still.
Back in 1973 there was a derailment, it knocked my grandmother’s fence out destroyed her garden, thank God In didn’t go inside her home. I was only two years old at the time. So my father told me about this big cranes they used to lift the engine. Now that I see this video, it’s kinda funny.If they had a derailment now, thirty years from now, they would say they called Pepe’s rotator service to clean up the mess..Lol they are basically mini cranes on steroids.. lol
Very nice job 😁
Every video seems to be crazy challenging what situation your in but all some and I suppose the crazyer the better maybe and I can't spell but eny way your videos are so cool 😎😎😎😎
Great video that train was really impressive. See you and your dad are Supermen. Pushed a grain car. 😂. That was totally awesome what you all did there... Thanks for sharing... Much love... Stay healthy and safe.
Superman....or the hulk 😂
DUDE, I had no idea that you could push a train car manually! I always pictured those train cars as probably weighing 50,000 pounds empty. But I guess when they are on tracks, they glide on them like a king pin grease plate lol.
That was a plastic pellet car not a grain car. Looks similar but the piping on the bottom is to move pellets. The probably mold those tanks in that warehouse building.
@@stellarproductions8888 Steel wheels on steel rail has low friction. You can push a empty car relatively easily on level ground.
i will say for a young man you work smart safety is also number 1
Interesting Endeavor, Stay Safe & All Thè Be$t
9:25 Where the car come from , cars go under the gate look for the broken support wire on the bottom , ive seen a few cars end up in school yards with 3 fences in the way none damaged but the tire marks .
99% of the crane lifts by the railroad are done with the drawbar like shown. Very few cars have a crane lifting hole, but they all have jacking points, this hopper did not have any lifting hole. The hole shown is for a car puller to move the cars for unloading/loading, hence you cannot put a hook upward only sideways. If this car was empty it weighs 30 tons so one end is 15 tons and if it was empty the preferred method is to try and pull it back on the track, if empty and the wheels are not twisted you have a good chance of sucess. By lifting 1) you run the chance of the adaptor cup on eack bearing getting out of place, 2) not all cars have the axles keyed in and they might stay on the ground 3) not all trucks(bogie) are keyed to lift with the car. The center bearing on the bolster should of been inspected to see if it seated properly (meaning the car is off centre). I would make two recommendations, the customer should get 20 yards of sand dumped on the end of rail, this works much better than stop blocks, and unless totally familiar with railcar rerailing, ďo not do it, if that car derails in the next 2,500 miles you could be partially liable for a 20 million dollar train derailment.
Good information, you know your trains!
Couldn't quite tell if forward wheels on container were seated on track. If they were, could they have connected an engine and pulled it a few feet to seat the rear wheels?
Possibly, but it would take portable rerailers, a locomotive, and at minimum a four-man RR crew. As this was a private siding, and not railroad property, it was probably a lot cheaper to call Pepe's. And the rerailers might not have worked given how far off the end it was and, apparently, a bit tangled up in the failed stop block.
@@lindasherman9921 Thank you, to an armature, it looked like it should be an easy rerail!
Josh, you need to do a fleet shot of all your trucks & equipment
First time I ever got excited about a Toyota Camry, America's Most Boring Car.
you see the pileup in Ft. Worth this morning, and all the rotators on scene?
I think this was a case of, GTA in real life. I am honestly surprised an officer wasn't there over this whole ordeal. Cause I am fairly certain that car being down there was a violation lol. This was a great video, thanks for sharing!
Nice 👍
Moving a 32 ton (empty weight) vehicle by hand isn't something you do every day! Good thing you didn't lift the coupler much farther, else the truck would've dropped out of the kingpin on the car, then you'd have a bad day.
Back in the 90s, I worked in a shop next to a steel mill in Seattle. There were mountains of scrap metal, loaded into gondolas (strangely all ex-Alaska Railroad) so overburdened that they were bent into a "U" shape, and shunted around by GE 45 ton locos. Occasionally, they'd derail (hell, you couldn't even see the track for the mud) and a crane would come in to lift them back on track... until the next derailment. Good times. Whole place shook when they fell off the track, lol.
This is awesome 👏😎
This content is awesome
Happy to hear that, these are my favorite types of comments!
not the usual over the mountain side car fishing but still a nice catch. did you use a spinner or a jig to catch that one, or was it a simple worm on a hook? LOL..... As for the train car.....DAMN! that one was cool I liked it....definitely not something you see every day let alone even sometimes. glad you're back to filming I missed you guys. always a fun time watching your videos.
Got that big stiiiizy, or you vapin? 🤘🏽
Good video.
you dont have any hydraulic press available to lift the car some inches up?
i am surprised you didn't use some snatch blocks on your dads lines to make the pull easier.
Those rail cars can weight 200,000 lbs full... I don't know if that's true because a crazy guy from the railroad told me that, but he's worked for the railroad forever so I think it may be.
284,000 is the max weight
I did one once that was just about 200,000lb almost fully loaded. I'm told they weigh about 20 tons when empty.
@@PepesTowingService 20-30tons depending on type. Those grain cars are called "covered hoppers" (because they have a roof, vs open top) so they're a little heavier.
They will roll really really easily on flat rail because rail has very very little resistance compared to, say, a truck on road tires.
Getting it stopped, however ... even a "mere" 30 tons once in motion is going to very much want to stay in motion.
That's of course the entire car. You were only picking up roughly half of one truck; the cars weight was mostly on the 3 axles still on rail.
Of course in the railroad world, nothing is small or light - that single truck is about 7 tons, so you were probably lifting about 3.5 tons or thereabouts.
You can't lift the train car wheels (Truck) because the truck has a kingpin that allows the truck to rotate. If you lift the tank the tank will separate from the truck. I'm glad you used the coupler.
Good job guys #1
Are you guys going to get the Century M100 Heavy?
No
Does the 60 ton not have a remote?
Nope it's super old school
Did u ever find out how it got down in the ditch
If a train derailed. I would use sidewinders, Cranes & rotators.
You could of let me watch getting it completely out!
Fence left side maybe there
Two things: (1) If you took a poll on this -- or any -- of your videos, I don't think you would find many people who would vote for "BORING." (2) I like you respectful use of "my father" rather than "the old man" or something like that.
the only way that railcar could of rolled off the end of the track is the fact that someone from the railroad didn't set the hand brake (that large wheel at the end of the car) or someone intentionally released the brake causing the car to roll off the end of the track.
OMG! I mean Damn!
How tf did that car get down there?? 😂
Did you ever find out how that guy got his car down in the wash?
Pushing a train car isn't hard one you get it moving. Stopping it can be a real bear. Lol
The rail carrier should've been able to bring a switching motor down there and pull the car while they re-railed the truck that was off the end of the rails with oak blocking.
It was a private yard, and it's not as easy as picking up the phone and requesting that. Would have taken days.
Oh, I get how it works, believe me. And you guys did a great job. I'm just saying, whoever shoved the car on the ground should be responsible for rerailing it. That's just sloppy work on the part of a train crew. When you tie cars onto the end of a string in a yard track, you should always check to see what you're shoving against and how much room you've got. Your videos are great- I always enjoy them. 👍
I call BS on the “bearing” failure causing a derail! My money is the groundman messed up the car count and ran it into the ballast rock, and they tried to pull it back.
It’s conveniently to close to the end for a bearing failure
chulada de miaz blanco
I rerailed freight cars for 30 years. You were pretty lucky the wheels did not come out when lifting or the car car off center. A word of advice, contact the railroad and find out how to lift railcars. You dont know how many times i could of used a rotator. I could be a whole nother division PEPES RERAILING.
Would the car come off the wheels when pulling only enough to get a bit of height? If you see the video, the rear end lifted up ever so smoothly and barely enough to get the clearance I needed. It's not like I skied it high. The last big train job I did (which made the recent cover of American Towman Magazine, google it and check it out!) I lifted from the same spot in the front per the supervisors on scene. But the axle was also chained to the car to prevent exactly what you are talking about. If I was going to do a hard pull or get any serious height, that would have been done here as well.
@@PepesTowingService yes. There is actully nothing holdind the car body to the wheels. If you lifted it 2 inches it could of came off center. But putting it back on center with a rotator would be easy, if the car was empty, there are so many what ifs. Like i suggest, contact your local railroad mechanical department. And ask for lifting information. I like watching you videos and would not like to see you get hurt or damage your equipment.
Funny
The burning question of how the car got there in the first place wasn't answered to my satisfaction, LOL. Not buying the owner's explanation. Something else happened.
Pop has been working with you a lot the last couple of videos. Trying to be a rock star? He already is. What's up? Staffing issues?
He's the owner and has always been in my videos from the beginning. He's still very active in the recovery scene, of course he's going to be in the videos
Clockwise?
You don't know what that means?
@@PepesTowingService Yep, but you would have to rotate counter-clockwise to follow the train car. Clockwise would be going away from it. Just saying...
"No lift points", since nobody lifts a rail car.
Not from the top anyway. For wheel changes rail cars are lifted from the bottom, with jacks under the frame of the rail car.
$3500 job or $6000
Where’s Dave?
Working?
Literally all the RR would have to do is hook an engine up and pull the car back on the rail..
Wow you're smart, you should be an engineer! Jokes aside, if that was an option they would have obviously done that. It's easy to play arm chair quarter back, but they are on a private yard and didn't have that option available to them for the day.