That was A very gentle, caring, impressive coupling, not TO hard and not TO soft, JUS RIGHT!!!!!/ PERFECT!!!!!👍✌️ NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE SEEN AN ENGINE HAND BRAKE WHEEL SPIN ON ITS OWN, I KNOW, NO FRIEGHT CAR DO NOT DO THIS. GREAT CATCH, MORE PLEASE.✌️👍💯
This is really awesome video I just started working for Union Pacific Railroad as an MSO shop labor I have to learn all this from scratch great experience very dangerous work but very rewarding
Hi what exactly was the conductor doing to 1989 during the minutes 2:27and 3:15? He appeared to be turning something behind the front steps and turning something else under the body near the frame. Thanks.
Damn. No 3 point contact, didn't seem to be enough time to 3 step before going under. However this is the first time I've ever seen an automated handbrake.
Conductor needs to use ONE hand and hold on with the other. Camera operator needs to stay on target and stop moving all over the place and STOP zooming in and out.
the 1st inside one is for the main air Reservoir the middle one is for actuation meaning when engineer activate the train brakes engineer hit the lever inside of a locomotive which bails off the locomotive brakes the last one is for the sander
Close but it's either the middle or the outside hose one is as you identified the actuation line the other is the application line to apply the locomotive brakes only otherwise know as the independent brake on a locomotive be it diesel or steam or electric. With only three air lines on either side of the drawbar there are three used with electric sander control through the 27 pin mu cable. When you have pneumatic sand control you have 5 hoses on either side of the drawbar on both sides as one hose is forward sand and the other is reverse sand control so the could control the sand on first generation diesels F units GP-7's and Gp-9's/18's. From I believe the GP30 up EMD came out with electric mu sand control but prior to those engines most engines had 5 mu lines/hoses to control the old school air operated sand control from a more modern locomotive. I was promoted locomotive engineer I'm March 9th 1974 so I worked the first generation EMD locomotive's and the first generation GE locomotive's IE: the U25B through the U 36B, also all the ALCO 539 switchers and 244 powered road switchers as well as the few FA's left in service. Even saw a rare bird on a eastbound freight, a Santa Fe GE U30CG passenger locomotive regeared for freight as only 6 were built for passenger service but after a derailment on the Grand Canyon the 6 engine fleet was assigned to freight service. I don't remember the engine number but we were just about to tip over at the top of the mountain at Washington, Massachusetts on the old Boston and Albany railroad and that was the only Time I ran across one of those units.
ArantiusVulpes on the BNSF we can use hand signals to go in between, (our version of a red zone).But we also don’t ride to a joint, and I’d be telling the conductor to get out of my line of sight because I can make light power joints without him.
Man, when I was a conductor, I couldn't stand guys like you and neither could the rest of my coworkers. If the job gets done, just shut up and leave me alone.
If these guys work as a team all the time, usually they know what each other is doing. For me, less talk on the radio is great. Even captain obvious knows that the conductor will need 3 step protection.
Dominick DiLeo wow, getting on a guy who follows safety rules, which were put in place because dumbasses in the past couldn’t keep from killing or mangling one another. There’s a reason guys who cut corners eventually get fired or killed.
It doesn’t take a genius to know that the conductor is going to need 3-step after a hitch is made. These guys probably work together day in and day out. As the video shows, they are seamless together. If they use a hand signal for the red zone, then why the hell should anyone else care?
That was A very gentle, caring, impressive coupling, not TO hard and not TO soft, JUS RIGHT!!!!!/ PERFECT!!!!!👍✌️ NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE SEEN AN ENGINE HAND BRAKE WHEEL SPIN ON ITS OWN, I KNOW, NO FRIEGHT CAR DO NOT DO THIS. GREAT CATCH, MORE PLEASE.✌️👍💯
One horny engineer
Wowwww that was amazing, i never knew a brake wheel could turn by itself, that was a little weird,🤯😵😱. Lol.😅😂
Air brakes, check, MU cables, check, chain, check, flipping the bird, check
This is really awesome video I just started working for Union Pacific Railroad as an MSO shop labor I have to learn all this from scratch great experience very dangerous work but very rewarding
I didn't know the parking brake wheel could turn on its own.
Super. I wonder how long until a model railroad business includes that self turning handbrake on one of their locomotives? 💙 T.E.N.
Wow nice catch getting the Rio Grande heritage unit stopped right in front of you.
I think im a bit late...
Hi what exactly was the conductor doing to 1989 during the minutes 2:27and 3:15? He appeared to be turning something behind the front steps and turning something else under the body near the frame. Thanks.
I wish there was a safer way to connect the air lines. I didn't like the first guy situated between both engines!
HERITAGE UNIT OMGOMGOMGOMG
I would watched the video IF the camera handling wasn't so crappy, jumping all over the place and zooming in and out.
You wanna zoom in and out makes for a better video it's when people don't zoom that it sucks some videos it helps though.
What a beast locomotive
Hai from Indonesia...
That train engine has more of a love life than I do
Damn. No 3 point contact, didn't seem to be enough time to 3 step before going under. However this is the first time I've ever seen an automated handbrake.
3 step is given when he hits the horn.
Ill give u the 3 point of contact though. That was sketchy at best
I still like the old hand cranks on the side of the standard cab locomotives.
Next time tell us what each step is. How are the engines synced and controlled as one?
yea computer and RF
Do not have to 'sync' them.
At 3:20 I always wondered what that hand wheel at the rear of those engines was for
Handbrakes
It's the Parking Brake to tie down the locomotive
First time I have seen a power handbrake.
How was that wheel spinning by itself
It supposed to, that’s the locomotives hand break and it helps tie down the locomotive
It’s Magic 😎
Liked 'magic' answer to the question that was answered just by watching.
The hand signals were awesome.
What is a red zone hand signal?
You couldn't have filmed the Rio Grande more?
interesting. also you gotta love 1989🤷♂️
Too short. Should have made longer the complete process to give your viewers a clear understanding of the hooking up process.
The onedmc
That's my life #railroader #conductorlife
You still out there or promoted to supervisor now?
That sound was smooth 👌
That's re-heal maun's work... Yes, Sir!
What are the chains at the top of the guard railings for?
Tippy pretty sure they're just safety chains for walking from unit to unit while the train is moving
@@stretchlimo7275 Exactly what they're for.
I want to know what the little contoller box is that they wear on the front of their body.
Remote control for yard engine
A portable radio
@@victorvaida4272it’s a radio
Conductor needs to use ONE hand and hold on with the other. Camera operator needs to stay on target and stop moving all over the place and STOP zooming in and out.
He did a good job
Agreed! Stay on target, remember your subject and cut out the zooming. Makes much better videos.
Nice catch
An electric handbrake, looks so weird! It’s probably very convenient though.
Was this video taken in Savage, MN?
Bryan ,Texas
Does freight Locomotive have sleeper birth like semi Tractors, and Boeing 747?
NO !
I really wish this becomes my job in the near future
You may change your mind after trying.
When more then one engine is hook up together. Dose one train control the other engines? Or is there other engineers running the other engine's.
One engine controls the others
When coupled, are both engines running at the same time or can the 2nd engine be started remotely?
I think they have doubled power
Perfect!
what dose the rest of those lines do i know one for the brakes and the others are what
the 1st inside one is for the main air Reservoir the middle one is for actuation meaning when engineer activate the train brakes engineer hit the lever inside of a locomotive which bails off the locomotive brakes the last one is for the sander
Close but it's either the middle or the outside hose one is as you identified the actuation line the other is the application line to apply the locomotive brakes only otherwise know as the independent brake on a locomotive be it diesel or steam or electric. With only three air lines on either side of the drawbar there are three used with electric sander control through the 27 pin mu cable. When you have pneumatic sand control you have 5 hoses on either side of the drawbar on both sides as one hose is forward sand and the other is reverse sand control so the could control the sand on first generation diesels F units GP-7's and Gp-9's/18's. From I believe the GP30 up EMD came out with electric mu sand control but prior to those engines most engines had 5 mu lines/hoses to control the old school air operated sand control from a more modern locomotive. I was promoted locomotive engineer I'm March 9th 1974 so I worked the first generation EMD locomotive's and the first generation GE locomotive's IE: the U25B through the U 36B, also all the ALCO 539 switchers and 244 powered road switchers as well as the few FA's left in service. Even saw a rare bird on a eastbound freight, a Santa Fe GE U30CG passenger locomotive regeared for freight as only 6 were built for passenger service but after a derailment on the Grand Canyon the 6 engine fleet was assigned to freight service. I don't remember the engine number but we were just about to tip over at the top of the mountain at Washington, Massachusetts on the old Boston and Albany railroad and that was the only Time I ran across one of those units.
Wow red zone hand signal.
Great video
Can i please have your job?? 😂
what the heck that nihao Andy
Perfect Kiss-Coupling!
Have same scanner!
Sharp as a black kitty with white booties
no 3 point contact, and you cannot use handsign to ask for a red zone and before you jump on me I am a up conductor
ArantiusVulpes on the BNSF we can use hand signals to go in between, (our version of a red zone).But we also don’t ride to a joint, and I’d be telling the conductor to get out of my line of sight because I can make light power joints without him.
Man, when I was a conductor, I couldn't stand guys like you and neither could the rest of my coworkers. If the job gets done, just shut up and leave me alone.
If these guys work as a team all the time, usually they know what each other is doing. For me, less talk on the radio is great. Even captain obvious knows that the conductor will need 3 step protection.
Dominick DiLeo wow, getting on a guy who follows safety rules, which were put in place because dumbasses in the past couldn’t keep from killing or mangling one another. There’s a reason guys who cut corners eventually get fired or killed.
It doesn’t take a genius to know that the conductor is going to need 3-step after a hitch is made. These guys probably work together day in and day out. As the video shows, they are seamless together. If they use a hand signal for the red zone, then why the hell should anyone else care?
riding equipment to a hook? wow
WAR DADDY on CN you can do that if youre riding an engine. Not sure about UP
WAR DADDY You can be up and riding to a hitch as long as the piece of equipment you’re on is the power.
Murica.
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