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Stephen Johnson
United States
Приєднався 16 лют 2019
For those who inquired about shoving trains upgrade on a model railroad
I did this on my model Railroad after a trip to Pittsburgh, where I watched the Union Railroad do this many times. I’m shoving up loads of scrap and gondolas and most of what you see is real steel so the cars are very heavy. Just like you see on the videos I posted a few days ago, where the Union Railroad is shoving upgrade with gondolas, it can be done on a model railroad.
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Switching the Local and a celebration!
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You can’t beat this for gritty industrial railroading!
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You can’t beat this for gritty industrial railroading!
Doing what they do best, making me happy by running so many trains!!
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Doing what they do best, making me happy by running so many trains!!
Clairton Job and some Yard switching 07302024
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Switching Out Clairton Coke Mill Operations Take 2
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Extra Crew Yard Switching Operations 07122024
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In Between Op Sessions 06192024
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A brief video explaining how my "behind the scenes" between operating sessions works.
Road and Yard Operations 05272024
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Mill Jobs and Yard Jobs and Locals, oh my!!
Clairton Job 05182024
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Going to try a voice over as I work the Clairton Works Mill Job.
Yard Classifying 05-14-2024
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3:00 I'm guessing they're geared super low and thus are great at yard work but can't do high speeds and long distances.
@@ravenzbot They are geared differently than road power yes. Maximum authorized speed is 20mph
Those four switch engines sound really good in notch 8. Thanks for uploading. ❤
@@etiennedauphin You’re welcome
Looks like a 3% grade
@@rc4lifebnsf I believe it is about 2 1/2
Give a like if you think model railroad at first then see it's a real railroad at the end!!!!
@@christophertmunro4503 I wish I had the space to model this
Thanks again Stephen for sharing with us. A lot of scrap metal rolling up the hill. Think I told you I like that background building. Interesting to watch as usual. Quiet a foursome of MP15dc. Keep on your good work.
@@lucgagnon5241 Thank you and I will. There are more videos coming
Ive been watching your vids and just Subscribed . I have a 12 x16 layout and will put out vids soon
@@gp9wildbill please do, I would like to see what you have created
that was really nice
@@gp9wildbill Thank you
Excellent video my friends awesome like 👍🏻 and Greeting from Argentina 🇦🇷 suscribete 😊
@@MarcelosalivaTRENESArg Thank you and welcome
Very nice video👍
@@kaho1545 Thank you
Just like the prototype.
@@hoscalemodeltrains1221 That was the goal, thanks
Now that is a cool run buy! 👍👍👍
@@cbrailroader642 Thank you!
The only thing missing is black smoke. No HO genius has figured that out yet. Yet. Very cool run. Thank you.
@@ModelingSteelinHO I agree, smoke would make the scene. Thank you! 😊
Where was this filmed.
@@user-rv9wy9sc9p East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Very, very cool video. I love switch engines. When i was a little kid Mom & Dad would drive us out near the tracks or the railyard to watch trains.
@@chrishauser5505 That is how every kid should grow up!!
Where is this?
@@daphetidroberto797 East Pittsburgh, PA
A derailment at the curve on that incline would have been a bad day, even with empties. I would have thought some operation like this would be running slugs to boost the traction effort, maybe that's just an SP phenomenon.
@@tauncfester3022 They get plenty of horse power from those engines
Can we get some context here?
@@markmartindale7215 What would you like to know? The location is East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Railroad is the Union Railroad, they are shoving 39 slab loaded gondolas up what is known as the low-grade from the Valley Yard and are going to interchange those cars with the Norfolk Southern Railroad on the other side of the Monongahela river.
@@stephenjohnson26 That might have been a good thing to add in the description. If we hadn't seen the Edgar Thompson name on the building on the right, we'd have had no idea where this was, or when, or what we were looking at.
@@whiteknightcat I will endeavor to add more content in the future.
@@stephenjohnson26 many thanks
@@markmartindale7215 You’re welcome
Can't beat the sound of a quintet of MP15s with Roots-blown 645s under the hoods!
@@anb7408 I totally agree
If you want some good photos of the area, read "Pennsy In The Steel City". It also has a map. Shows such lost places as U Jct, which curved into ET Works
@@dannyhonn973 thank you
Where is that location PA?
@@Birdsfly11 Correct, East Pittsburgh, PA
The western politicians have done everything they can to shut this type of thing down, and bring poverty to the working class.
What is that grade?
@@TheWizardGamez about 2 1/2%
That looks like Gritter Yard on the Grit Line in Grittsville, Gritsconsin! Excellent footage of switching operations, thank you. Those units are working hard - would they be GM, about 1,000hp each?
@@mikeuk4130 Thank you and yes they are EMD MP15’s and one SW1500, each 1500 HP
Wow, that is a real incline.
@@dennisk5818 About 2 1/2%
That is one very steep grade. No wonder those engines were smoking.
@@stanleyj.mitchell4851 It is a struggle
Environment? What environment?
@@u2bear377 Mother Nature will clean it up
I love this! I identified your location. How often do they make this move, and is it at a specific time of day?
@@SteamCrane Almost every time I have been there I have seen this move. There are slab trains that stay on the Union RR that go to the Irvin Works usually twice per day. This is a busy railroad.
@@stephenjohnson26 Thanks!
@@SteamCrane You’re welcome
You bribed the yardmaster, how could you do such a thing. 😃
@@andyknott8148 He likes coffee!!😂
I wish there was information in the description box. What city was this? What year? Were the gondola cars empty or full? What were they going to haul? Great video, just no info, lost in history? 🤔😔 🚂🚃🚃🚃
@@dennisammann9104 city: East Pittsburgh, PA, Date: August 2, 2024, gondolas were loaded with steel slabs going to interchange with the NS
Let's see you do that uphill shove on your model railroad!
@@SteamCrane I have done it, not with 39 cars but 22 with 3 engines
@@stephenjohnson26 You have good track!
@@SteamCrane I made a video of it a few months ago
Turn the squelch control on your scanner to cut down on the harsh sound.
@@FranksPlace-jk7pj it isn’t a scanner it is a railroad issued radio, I am an Amtrak Engineer
@@stephenjohnson26 Isn't there a squench control?
@@FranksPlace-jk7pj not on these radios, all pre programmed
@@stephenjohnson26 Bet you have an exciting and challenging job.
@@FranksPlace-jk7pj unfortunately I do not work there and am now retired from the railroad
Yes, very gritty! Great footage !
@@travisnull273 Thank you
Were is this at, location?@@stephenjohnson26
@@johnnest617 East Pittsburgh, PA
Burning a cheap grade of whale oil...
@@jz1340 Whatever it may be it makes me happy to see them doing what they do
Gotta Be Pittsburgh
@@golfberg1 East Pittsburgh to be exact
Where and when is this? Why isn't that in the title?
@@brianjacobs3102 this is East Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania this past Saturday August 2, 2024
What a sight for sore eyes! Love it!
@@Isochest I am glad
At least the main is clear
@@johnparker7874 Right!!
It's a track work problem. No need for a piss test
@@johnparker7874 You are correct, my switch was gapping and this car decided to pick it. Car was re-railed and the switch has been fixed. Thank you
Where is this, please? I take it it is somewhere in the USA. I certainly liked it thanks!! 😀
@@davidcrook5511 It is in the USA, it is East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania just a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh
@@stephenjohnson26 Thanks for that! 👍😊
@@davidcrook5511 you are welcome
Edgar Thompson Works Braddock, Pa
@@rogerthornburg8794 Thanks for that Greetings from UK it's ten to six in the morning here 🙂
Yikes. They are really flogging the hide off those little switchers. 😮
@@lineshaftrestorations7903 yes they are! And the best part is this is an every day occurrence
That is one of the coolest rail vids I've seen in quite a while.
@@chrisclements1169 Thank you! I have posted many over the past few years, feel free to watch all of them
I am a Brit (71 now) who grew up with steam and a lot more rail use than the current day. I loved watching rail yards work. The thing is many watching this, will think this is the interest of geeks or weirdo's. The thing is that, it is a recording' people in the next millennium will watch with awe. All because some weirdo recorded a bit of real history. I married a Yank in 97 and spent many years in USA. I loved the railways there as much as UK. Thanks for taking the time and effort to snapshot this little bit of life today.
@@abestm8 I appreciate that, thank you. I never really thought about future generations, but now that you have brought it up it seems even more meaningful to do these videos because the future generations won’t know what this is all about. Thank you for helping re-energize me.
I'm 66 and basically just missed Steam here in the USA. I catch whatever Steam excursions I can and going to catch Big Boy somewhere.😊
As a 10 year old, I would sometimes go with my father to work. He was a driver (engineer) for Rhodesia Railways in the 1970s. There were often people running around taking photos or filming the locomotive, a Bayer Garrett 20th class. Seemed strange to me at the time because all the locomotives were steam, where we lived, the coal mining town of Wankie.
@@ivorscruton5121 I imagine those are wonderful memories for you. Can’t tell you how many railfans took pictures of me over the years
Stunning quartet at the end of that haul. Thank you. Love the scenery, so many colours in that industrial palette.
@@SouthDown It is a wonderful place to watch trains
Yes a great video but where is this?? What railroad???
@@PeterDowdy This is the Union Railroad in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
@@stephenjohnson26 thank you, great videos my friend 👍👍👍
@@PeterDowdy Thank you, glad you enjoy them
I wonder where that is? It reminds me a lot of West Virginia where I grew up in the 60s and early 70s totally reminiscent of my childhood.
@@pisceanogre East Pittsburgh, PA near Braddock, PA
I am not a railway person but would think it's harder and less economical to push, rather than pull? How do they synchronize the engines? Nice capture.
Yes and no that is why now day you will see a few locomotive in the front maybe one in the middle and one at the rear of trains . The middle and rear locomotive are called (DPU ) distribution power unit pushing and pulling at the same time remotely controlled by the front locomotive 🚂
@@fredMplanenut the locomotives are capable of multiple unit operation. The reason they shove up the grade out of the mail is because when they reach the top of the hill, they stop in reverse direction to go down the main track.
@@stephenjohnson26 many thanks for those explanations.
@@fredMplanenut My pleasure
It doesn't matter whether you push or pull, physics is the same.
Union Railroad doing what it has been doing forever!
@@sop2510 and I hope they will continue to do for many years to come
Never imagined that a caboose could pull a train of that size😂 great catch!
@@jamest151 🤣🤣 good one!
As a freight train ( hopper , a few $$ for the engineer ? ! ) some decades ago , you would be spoilt for choice in this yard ... and end up in the wrong town ( or state ! ! ) ... Ha - Ha ..... DAVE™🛑
That’s a very steep gradient for those switchers! Even if the cars are empties. A runaway on that incline would be very bad.
@@abloogywoogywoo You are correct it would make for a bad day. Those cars are all loaded with steel slabs