So good to see you back, Brian . Watching this episode of East Terminal Railroad feels like I got a college level semester of "Handling Heavy Loads" in the ETR University of Railroad Engineering and Business.
Billlaird, I agree about the college level. It's nice to see a little follow through with freight transport. What happens to some stuff, when the train delivers? I think that we just found out. I'm am by no means an expert, but I'm surprised that they didn't use a caboose for the train. I can't imagine a time savings with the double locomotives, nor a money savings. Would somebody chime in about this, please? I think that this video's type of content is worthy of Practical Engineering UA-cam channel.
@@eastterminalrailway5975 Merry Christmas, Brian. I agree about Jesus being about the reason for the season. Happy New Year. I still hope that you'll let us contribute to improve the ETR by volunteering on the tasks and planning. I thank God for you & the ETR.
So many comments Brian in just a short amount of time since this video released. You have many of us pulling for you. Thank you for reminding us of the time of year and the big guy upstairs. Can’t wait to hear from you again.
Worked at a transformer company for 3 years. Learned a lot. Started in the controls department. After a year, moved up to engineer/design. Recognize the majority of the components. Lost the job because of corporate downsizing! 25 + me were handed their walking papers one day! I sure miss that job! The company did both land units and total mobile substations! I thought it was fun to see a unit leaving the facility on a truck!
With the shortage, it is very troubling the US isn't making more of their transformers where the supply chain is strongest, right here at home. Some transformers are backordered for years.
@@durgan5668 Makes you wonder how it would go down if a major solar event took out hundreds of big transformers around the country. If transformers are backordered for years right now, how would we deal with an emergency?
I remember when you started clearing out the ETR with just a brush hog. Since then, you’ve never failed to disappoint me with your content. With me being a Columbus native, I love watching railroads of the area.
Hope you and your Family had a Merry Christmas. Wishing you a Safe, Happy and Healthy 2024. Thanks for your Strong 💪 Efforts in 2023. GOD Bless You! 👍🙏
ESPN in Quakertown PA has B23-7 working the Quakertown Branch and the Perkiomen Branch, old Reading lines. I remember when through trains ran on both these lines from Allentown and Bethlehem to Philadelphia every day😢 Really miss those days
I think how the transformer is held on with welded plates some notched should be enough to stop it from moving around. I also have always liked the center depressed rail cars, so cool! Great informative video! Thanks and Happy New Year!
Moved my share of heavy transformers back in my railroading day. Let me tell you, it was a slow moving process going through tight clearances, low hanging power cables, as well as walking them at a snail pace under low bridges. Always got good pay on those extra runs, but man, they could be white-knuckle moments at times. Mighty glad you're back, Brian. Here's to a better New Year to you and all here in the ETR community.
@@eugenetswong Never did. Most I used was two diesels pulling with two cabooses at each end of the transformer. The cabooses was for the personnel that used long wooden poles to hold up any low hanging wires we went under and to observe the movement going under low bridges and around areas of close clearances. Nearly all my transfer runs was down a 10 MPH branch line that the utility company used as a off loading at the end of the line due to a wide area that was level and easy for those heavy duty tractor trailers and cranes to get in and out. Plus, it had a decent runaround track that made it easy on the return back. Only moved a few during my railroad time, but it was an experience none the less.😁
@@eugenetswong One usually does it, but the railroad I worked for assigned two because the day the transformers needed to be at the delivery site was based on the cranes being there that day for off loading and they charge by the hour so any delays would be costly if a diesel failure occurred. Having two was mainly insurance and I would have one isolated in movement, but if I needed it, I could bring it back on line.
My dad was a salesman for Enerpac for about 10 years in the late 60s/early 70s; main reason my brother and I were born in NC while the rest of the family is from WI or Upper Michigan. Enerpac was expanding operations and Charlotte, NC, was one of several locations my father was offered relocation to. I remember having a couple boxes with a dozen decks of Enerpac playing cards in the house while growing up. He was out of the company and had his own hydraulic shop by the time I was going to elementary school, so I don't remember much about him working for them other than the playing cards.
I saw some of them pass by my bridge job just outside 33 near Plain city, Ohio. PSC had a big oshkosh army truck pulling it through the roundabout. Saw one go by on December 21. Greetings from Scioto county!!!!!
I worked at the Wadsworth Brick Company for 18 years. We shipped cubed brick by rail as far away as California. Sometimes a recorder would be placed in the boxcar to record shifting and damage control. And all our cubed brick was plastic wrapped beforehand and then strapped in with one inch straps once loaded. Plus an airbag went in the middle to keep the brick from sliding. The airbag held no more than 13 pounds of pressure, but did its job of keeping the brick stable to its destination.
Good to see new content Brian; keep fighting the good fight. 35 years ago, when I was still an OCAW Brother, we received and installed a new backup transformer for an oil refinery here in CA. It was ordered two years in advance from a German manufacturer and there was a lot of slow and easy with that massive chunk of steel and copper. That one was at least three times as large as the one you're sharing with us today and it took two huge cranes to lift it off the special rail car that was carrying it. Of course it cost millions even back then. Thanks for bringing back some good memories from my younger years...
I have been inside a large transformer. It had been moved to the factory high voltage test area. Connecting it up they discovered internal open circuits. A couple of hundred gallons of oil were drained off. Turned out I was the only nine stone weakling slim enough to enter via an inspection hatch. I squeezed in with a couple of spanners tied round my neck. Made the connections & squeezed my way out again.
Hi, Brian. A great video and good to see you on-line again. In my youth I was one of the engineers at the old Westinghouse Large Power transformer plant (which incidentally is now Progress Rail's locomotive plant) in Muncie, IN. We shipped lots of huge transformers. Many of the biggest on one of the four Schnabel cars the company owned and the rest on depressed center flats. Those old 1 inch rods you mentioned were then required by AAR regulations but they were considered by us to be so many rubber bands added to the real blocking tie downs we had near the base plate of the units. it was frowned on then to weld to the finished transformer itself and one of my colleagues had developed large steel donuts welded flat against the end of the unit in the building process. At shipping, matching large steel pins (several inches in diameter) were placed in the ID of the donuts and these pins then welded to plate gussets which in turn were welded to the railcar deck. As proof of how effective these were, a train leaving town once spread the rails and entire cars were flipped into an adjacent swamp. The transforner landed upside down with the railcar still attached in the air above it! Lots of stories to be told about shipping big electrical equipment by rail and by truck by many old-timers! Also, why were you using a White Castle mug while I had my official ETR mug in hand? Support the nation (ha, ha)!!
Charles If the way we lived our lives was to be compared to a type of wood, lets be OAK! strong, enduring, and gets a lot of work done! Not balsa, blown around or cork, bobbing on the waves, lets be compared to the wood of strength and endurance. Brian
Hi Brian, Nice to see you back at it. Thank you for a great video. Very interesting subject. Very enjoyable to spend time with you.(even though it’s only via you tube). I agree with you that the reason for the season we should not let the division to let separate us and just enjoy the reason for the season. Stay safe and healthy.
Haven't heard from you for awhile, glad to see this video. The problem with the power grid is they keep making it more robust but there's less generating capacity feeding it. Excellent tratise on heavy loads, thanks much!
I worked in the electrical dept at an aluminum smelter. We had 5 transformers per line with 5 production lines. With 3 back up xfmrs, there were 28 total. All xfmrs had 4 railroad style wheels, 12 inches in diameter. All xfmr bays had rails that they sat on during use, and also provided a path to move when need switch out for service. We use flat rail cars with rails secured to the deck for roll-on/roll-off movement. The rails were sunken to facilitate movement. Once loaded, BNSF supervised the securing. They used 1" chain on the four corners and 2 on each side. We were told they the company bought additional moving insurance since any accident where the transformer left the rail car left the transformer unusable.
Great video! I do this in NYC for a crane/heavy haul company. We move transformers all over NYC for Con Edison, but never did a railhead unload, just barge cranes onto our SPMT's, 19 axle trailer, or Goldhofer's
Hello, Brian! My wife and I just "landed" in Venice, FL! After 76 years in the SanFran Bay Area, enough was enough! Looking forward to more of your videos (we met in Fullerton, about a year, ago) and to meeting up with Danny Harmon. Just love the premise of your channel and the challenges you have overcome! Well done! Best always! PK
Hey Brian Thanks for your enthusiasm with old machines. I also have a JD350B which I inherited from my dear old Dad who passed 2 years ago. It was leaking water past the cylinder liners, so I’ve fixed that and it’s nearly ready to go. I’m 64, in Australia and have done all the work myself. Also have some Bitcoin! You’ve been an inspiration. Thanks again. Craig
As one of your English viewers, it is good to see you are learning proper bacon terminology 😉. Great to see you back, love these detailed looks at specific traffic. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Worked in the electric transmission and substation maintenance department for KAMO Electric Co-op while in Missouri. We unloaded substation transformers from flat cars by the jack and slide method. Railroad rail jacks were used to raise, and lower the transformer, wood cribbing was placed in the desired direction of travel. Then two short sections of light railroad rail were placed under the transformer that rode on two lengths of "C" steel channel iron placed on the rails, transformer lowered down and the transformer was dragged by winch cable to the end of the cribbing and light rail. Then we started the whole procedure over and over until the transformer was off the railroad car and lowered down on the 18 wheeler low-boy trailer. Much brute strength and awkwardness involved and we slept very soundly all night long. No cranes or fancy sliding stuff, very basic, hard work.
Thank you for showing this procedure! I've always wondered how they get those transformers off the rail cars. I'm so happy to see another ETR video. I am praying for your success. (and yes, the Baby Jesus was the redemption connection, Amen)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family Brian. Hope to see more vidoes of the ETR. Even if you're just walking around the site. Most of us here are ETR junkies and are starved for any videos of the railroad. 🙂
Good to see you back Brian. I would love to see the railroad since I too am in Columbus proper. You are correct, we do need the baby at Christmas to make us one with the creator.
What a cool bit of footage...I worked on a twin train steam turbine coal powerplant in Collie Western Australia. They are named Bluewater. Anyways...the turbines were transported much the same up the hill and must have been hot that day. I drove to work the next day and there were rails in the Asphalt (Bitumen) from the trailer heaving the material. Road was totally ruined. I hear it had 3 tuggs and 2 push units to get up to site. Merry Xmas and Best wishes for the new year 🎉🎉🎉
It’s been over a year since I’ve watched any of your videos and I don’t know why… I subscribed to your channel on UA-cam for quite a while and enjoyed thoroughly watching your adventures but then some health issues on my part seemingly got in the way plus I wasn’t seeing any new videos pop upon my UA-cam subscriptions list, but now I have found your channel again and will continue to watch as before.
We use to have this happen at a siding call Carbona in Tracy, Calif. They would bring a big crane put it on a truck and go to transformer farm called Tesla, Calif. It feeds about 1/3 or more of San Franisco Bay Area.
Thank you Brian, I enjoyed this vid. A Merry Christmas to you and yours old mate, from down under, where it is 33 Celsius in the shade (91.4 f), right at the moment in my part of the country.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year BrIan! Thank you for sharing this video. Let us know what the status is on the ETR when you can. I hope you and your family are well and living the good life!
I worked at a boiler manufacture in the 80's and we shipped large boilers by depressed center flat cars. The manufacture, Cleaver Brooks has their own depressed flat.
I’ve actually moved one of those around Roanoke, Va terminal as a conductor for Norfolk Southern. There is really no good place to stand on those spam bolster cars when doing shove movements
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Glad to see you again Brian! Don’t give up, keep the faith! Looking forward to more videos!
Potato…potadoe….whatever! It all eats the same!
Wish you would post on what's happening on the ETR.
same
It is SOOO good to see you still going. Keep your dream alive and moving on. Merry Christmas , with all the best for 2024.
Need to get back on the ETR, we want to see cars off the main line sitting on the ETR. Merry Christmas Brian.
ETR DPU's
Hey no haters here. Like the fact that your restoring an old site and putting it to use. We need more folks like you. Happy New Year 🎉
"OVER SIZED LOAD". That's an understatement.
So good to see you back, Brian . Watching this episode of East Terminal Railroad feels like I got a college level semester of "Handling Heavy Loads" in the ETR University of Railroad Engineering and Business.
That's humbling, I love this stuf but have so much to learn. My strong suit is I have a camera and I talk a lot!
Billlaird, I agree about the college level. It's nice to see a little follow through with freight transport. What happens to some stuff, when the train delivers? I think that we just found out.
I'm am by no means an expert, but I'm surprised that they didn't use a caboose for the train. I can't imagine a time savings with the double locomotives, nor a money savings. Would somebody chime in about this, please?
I think that this video's type of content is worthy of Practical Engineering UA-cam channel.
@@eastterminalrailway5975 Merry Christmas, Brian. I agree about Jesus being about the reason for the season. Happy New Year.
I still hope that you'll let us contribute to improve the ETR by volunteering on the tasks and planning.
I thank God for you & the ETR.
Thanks for educating us on things we don't get to see normally, sometimes never !!
My pleasure, its kinda what I do for me, so I really like to have the ETR gang along!! B.
So many comments Brian in just a short amount of time since this video released. You have many of us pulling for you.
Thank you for reminding us of the time of year and the big guy upstairs.
Can’t wait to hear from you again.
Worked at a transformer company for 3 years. Learned a lot. Started in the controls department. After a year, moved up to engineer/design.
Recognize the majority of the components.
Lost the job because of corporate downsizing! 25 + me were handed their walking papers one day! I sure miss that job!
The company did both land units and total mobile substations!
I thought it was fun to see a unit leaving the facility on a truck!
With the shortage, it is very troubling the US isn't making more of their transformers where the supply chain is strongest, right here at home. Some transformers are backordered for years.
@@durgan5668 Makes you wonder how it would go down if a major solar event took out hundreds of big transformers around the country. If transformers are backordered for years right now, how would we deal with an emergency?
Agreed!
Enjoyed the video very much. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
I remember when you started clearing out the ETR with just a brush hog. Since then, you’ve never failed to disappoint me with your content. With me being a Columbus native, I love watching railroads of the area.
What part of his content disappointed you??
Oh this is fantastic. I didn’t think we’d see another video. Keep em coming if you can.
Wow ! Really interesting. Thankyou for sharing Brian 😀👍
Great to see you again, very informative video.
You are always welcome to ride along , we learn best when we learn together! Brian
Thanks for sharing this! It was really interesting to see how this works behind the scenes!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for the video's Brian. Love them all. Still praying all this works out for you!
Hope you and your Family had a Merry Christmas. Wishing you a Safe, Happy and Healthy 2024. Thanks for your Strong 💪 Efforts in 2023. GOD Bless You! 👍🙏
Nice to see where the unloading is done, and how it's done. Thanks for sharing.
So good to see and hear from you again Brian. Thank you for holding forth the true meaning of Christmas
ESPN in Quakertown PA has B23-7 working the Quakertown Branch and the Perkiomen Branch, old Reading lines.
I remember when through trains ran on both these lines from Allentown and Bethlehem to Philadelphia every day😢
Really miss those days
Is the old Train Station building and Farmers Q market still there?
I don’t know
All your viewers would really appreciate a quick update on the goings on Brian. Pse?
same
Great video and Christmas message! Have a wonderful 2024!
I think how the transformer is held on with welded plates some notched should be enough to stop it from moving around. I also have always liked the center depressed rail cars, so cool! Great informative video! Thanks and Happy New Year!
Always a delightful video, both informative and entertaining....thanks!
Great video Brian! Always fascinating to learn something new! Thanks for the lesson!
Moved my share of heavy transformers back in my railroading day. Let me tell you, it was a slow moving process going through tight clearances, low hanging power cables, as well as walking them at a snail pace under low bridges.
Always got good pay on those extra runs, but man, they could be white-knuckle moments at times. Mighty glad you're back, Brian. Here's to a better New Year to you and all here in the ETR community.
Did you use 2 locomotives with 1 car in between?
@@eugenetswong Never did. Most I used was two diesels pulling with two cabooses at each end of the transformer. The cabooses was for the personnel that used long wooden poles to hold up any low hanging wires we went under and to observe the movement going under low bridges and around areas of close clearances. Nearly all my transfer runs was down a 10 MPH branch line that the utility company used as a off loading at the end of the line due to a wide area that was level and easy for those heavy duty tractor trailers and cranes to get in and out. Plus, it had a decent runaround track that made it easy on the return back. Only moved a few during my railroad time, but it was an experience none the less.😁
@@georgecarter838That's great info. Thanks. Why did you need 2 diesels? I thought that 1 diesel would be strong enough.
@@eugenetswong One usually does it, but the railroad I worked for assigned two because the day the transformers needed to be at the delivery site was based on the cranes being there that day for off loading and they charge by the hour so any delays would be costly if a diesel failure occurred. Having two was mainly insurance and I would have one isolated in movement, but if I needed it, I could bring it back on line.
@@georgecarter838That's great info! thanks for sharing.
I ask, because I'd love to help somebody get a railroad started.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks for your post,
a great Christmas gift...👍
Great to see you again and another interesting video! Keep up the good work, can't wait for more!
Great to see you again Brian...Interesting move...thanks for bringing ETR Nation along!
Great to see you pop back up ... I did enjoy this video..Thanks
My dad was a salesman for Enerpac for about 10 years in the late 60s/early 70s; main reason my brother and I were born in NC while the rest of the family is from WI or Upper Michigan. Enerpac was expanding operations and Charlotte, NC, was one of several locations my father was offered relocation to. I remember having a couple boxes with a dozen decks of Enerpac playing cards in the house while growing up. He was out of the company and had his own hydraulic shop by the time I was going to elementary school, so I don't remember much about him working for them other than the playing cards.
Merry Christmas Brian and family!! It was great seeing you post another awesome video.Stay safe my friend.
Brian, thanks for the Christmas gift! Videos are always good, just would love to see things on the ETR.
That's great to watch missing you guys hope you had a good Christmas
Brian, Great video that was a nice christmas present. Glad to see you still posting. Keep them coming.
Glad to see your back Brian, hope to see more videos. Hope you & your family had a blessed 🙏 Christmas 🎄👍🚂
I saw some of them pass by my bridge job just outside 33 near Plain city, Ohio. PSC had a big oshkosh army truck pulling it through the roundabout. Saw one go by on December 21. Greetings from Scioto county!!!!!
Brian glad to see you back on the ETR....
Glad you back Brian, I really enjoyed the video. Keep them coming.
This was very interesting. Sure would like to see your yard full of rail cars. Cool video. 👍❤️
I worked at the Wadsworth Brick Company for 18 years. We shipped cubed brick by rail as far away as California. Sometimes a recorder would be placed in the boxcar to record shifting and damage control. And all our cubed brick was plastic wrapped beforehand and then strapped in with one inch straps once loaded. Plus an airbag went in the middle to keep the brick from sliding. The airbag held no more than 13 pounds of pressure, but did its job of keeping the brick stable to its destination.
did you sale the railroad?
Happy New Yar Brian. Thanks for the video.
VERY interesting!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Hope the new year brings more ETR news and and some business for the ETR!!!
You ever coming back?
Glad to see you back!
Good to see new content Brian; keep fighting the good fight.
35 years ago, when I was still an OCAW Brother, we received and installed a new backup transformer for an oil refinery here in CA. It was ordered two years in advance from a German manufacturer and there was a lot of slow and easy with that massive chunk of steel and copper.
That one was at least three times as large as the one you're sharing with us today and it took two huge cranes to lift it off the special rail car that was carrying it. Of course it cost millions even back then. Thanks for bringing back some good memories from my younger years...
I have been inside a large transformer. It had been moved to the factory high voltage test area. Connecting it up they discovered internal open circuits.
A couple of hundred gallons of oil were drained off. Turned out I was the only nine stone weakling slim enough to enter via an inspection hatch.
I squeezed in with a couple of spanners tied round my neck. Made the connections & squeezed my way out again.
So glad your back great video👍👍
Hi, Brian. A great video and good to see you on-line again. In my youth I was one of the engineers at the old Westinghouse Large Power transformer plant (which incidentally is now Progress Rail's locomotive plant) in Muncie, IN. We shipped lots of huge transformers. Many of the biggest on one of the four Schnabel cars the company owned and the rest on depressed center flats. Those old 1 inch rods you mentioned were then required by AAR regulations but they were considered by us to be so many rubber bands added to the real blocking tie downs we had near the base plate of the units. it was frowned on then to weld to the finished transformer itself and one of my colleagues had developed large steel donuts welded flat against the end of the unit in the building process. At shipping, matching large steel pins (several inches in diameter) were placed in the ID of the donuts and these pins then welded to plate gussets which in turn were welded to the railcar deck. As proof of how effective these were, a train leaving town once spread the rails and entire cars were flipped into an adjacent swamp. The transforner landed upside down with the railcar still attached in the air above it! Lots of stories to be told about shipping big electrical equipment by rail and by truck by many old-timers! Also, why were you using a White Castle mug while I had my official ETR mug in hand? Support the nation (ha, ha)!!
Hope you and the family had a great Christmas and I'm wishing you a wonderful New Year. So nice to see you again!!
Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot. Having worked in a boatyard, it amazes me what wood cribbing can do.
Happy new year!
Charles If the way we lived our lives was to be compared to a type of wood, lets be OAK! strong, enduring, and gets a lot of work done! Not balsa, blown around or cork, bobbing on the waves, lets be compared to the wood of strength and endurance. Brian
Perfect video timing and a Conrail Quality unit my favorite railroad Merry Christmas to you and your family...
Those units still look good! Almost like a heritage units but they are original! WAY COOL!
Hi Brian,
Nice to see you back at it. Thank you for a great video. Very interesting subject. Very enjoyable to spend time with you.(even though it’s only via you tube).
I agree with you that the reason for the season we should not let the division to let separate us and just enjoy the reason for the season.
Stay safe and healthy.
Thanks Brian. Good to see you on the channel. Great catch. Hope to see you again in Fullerton. Jon
Haven't heard from you for awhile, glad to see this video. The problem with the power grid is they keep making it more robust but there's less generating capacity feeding it. Excellent tratise on heavy loads, thanks much!
Thanks Brian. Very interesting operation.
I worked in the electrical dept at an aluminum smelter. We had 5 transformers per line with 5 production lines. With 3 back up xfmrs, there were 28 total.
All xfmrs had 4 railroad style wheels, 12 inches in diameter.
All xfmr bays had rails that they sat on during use, and also provided a path to move when need switch out for service.
We use flat rail cars with rails secured to the deck for roll-on/roll-off movement. The rails were sunken to facilitate movement.
Once loaded, BNSF supervised the securing.
They used 1" chain on the four corners and 2 on each side.
We were told they the company bought additional moving insurance since any accident where the transformer left the rail car left the transformer unusable.
Enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work.
Good to see you Brian. Merry Christmas, which is available to all who will, regardless of our past.
He is a rebuilder, restorer!
Great video! I do this in NYC for a crane/heavy haul company. We move transformers all over NYC for Con Edison, but never did a railhead unload, just barge cranes onto our SPMT's, 19 axle trailer, or Goldhofer's
Hi Brian thanks for the tour and lesson today , that was pretty interesting . Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Jerry its the kind I dig! B.
I miss the updates. I hope you're both doing well. Please come back with any kind of an update. Would like to hear what's going on.
Very interesting. Thank you, Brian.
Hello, Brian! My wife and I just "landed" in Venice, FL! After 76 years in the SanFran Bay Area, enough was enough! Looking forward to more of your videos (we met in Fullerton, about a year, ago) and to meeting up with Danny Harmon. Just love the premise of your channel and the challenges you have overcome! Well done! Best always! PK
It’s so great to hear from you Brian
As always, thanks for the video!
Hey Brian
Thanks for your enthusiasm with old machines. I also have a JD350B which I inherited from my dear old Dad who passed 2 years ago. It was leaking water past the cylinder liners, so I’ve fixed that and it’s nearly ready to go. I’m 64, in Australia and have done all the work myself. Also have some Bitcoin! You’ve been an inspiration. Thanks again. Craig
I really enjoy this challenged railway. The railway will exist AND EVOLVE. Hank in there friend and educator. Happy New Year
Very Interesting, welcome back! Merry Christmas Brian!
As one of your English viewers, it is good to see you are learning proper bacon terminology 😉. Great to see you back, love these detailed looks at specific traffic. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Thanks! You guys are a lot of fun!
Worked in the electric transmission and substation maintenance department for KAMO Electric Co-op while in Missouri. We unloaded substation transformers from flat cars by the jack and slide method. Railroad rail jacks were used to raise, and lower the transformer, wood cribbing was placed in the desired direction of travel. Then two short sections of light railroad rail were placed under the transformer that rode on two lengths of "C" steel channel iron placed on the rails, transformer lowered down and the transformer was dragged by winch cable to the end of the cribbing and light rail. Then we started the whole procedure over and over until the transformer was off the railroad car and lowered down on the 18 wheeler low-boy trailer.
Much brute strength and awkwardness involved and we slept very soundly all night long. No cranes or fancy sliding stuff, very basic, hard work.
Been missing you, glad you are back.
Hey that’s the yard behind 84 Lumber in Pataskala where I live. They are doing another transformer move today 12/29/23. Love the channel.
good to see you back on.
Thank you for showing this procedure! I've always wondered how they get those transformers off the rail cars. I'm so happy to see another ETR video. I am praying for your success. (and yes, the Baby Jesus was the redemption connection, Amen)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family Brian. Hope to see more vidoes of the ETR. Even if you're just walking around the site. Most of us here are ETR junkies and are starved for any videos of the railroad. 🙂
Love this stuff.❤
Brain, was just thinking about you as I pasted the ETR driving down I 270 yesterday (12/26), good to find this this morning.
Happy Christmas and new year Brian good to see you m8
Love your channel! Hope you all had a great Christmas!
Thanks for the encouragement! B.
Welcome back!!! I've been wondering what you were up to!
Good to see you back Brian. I would love to see the railroad since I too am in Columbus proper. You are correct, we do need the baby at Christmas to make us one with the creator.
Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear from England.
Thank you for sharing 👍
Bacon butty with plenty of rashers, yum. (UK resident loving the channel).
What a cool bit of footage...I worked on a twin train steam turbine coal powerplant in Collie Western Australia. They are named Bluewater. Anyways...the turbines were transported much the same up the hill and must have been hot that day. I drove to work the next day and there were rails in the Asphalt (Bitumen) from the trailer heaving the material. Road was totally ruined. I hear it had 3 tuggs and 2 push units to get up to site. Merry Xmas and Best wishes for the new year 🎉🎉🎉
Wonderful video! Thank you!
Thanks Don!
It’s been over a year since I’ve watched any of your videos and I don’t know why… I subscribed to your channel on UA-cam for quite a while and enjoyed thoroughly watching your adventures but then some health issues on my part seemingly got in the way plus I wasn’t seeing any new videos pop upon my UA-cam subscriptions list, but now I have found your channel again and will continue to watch as before.
We use to have this happen at a siding call Carbona in Tracy, Calif. They would bring a big crane put it on a truck and go to transformer farm called Tesla, Calif. It feeds about 1/3 or more of San Franisco Bay Area.
Great to see you again!!!!
Thanks for waiting around. Brian
I’d say the cops were on overtime. Nice “side-gig”!
Thank you Brian, I enjoyed this vid. A Merry Christmas to you and yours old mate, from down under, where it is 33 Celsius in the shade (91.4 f), right at the moment in my part of the country.
Chris That's hotttt!
ETR LIVES!
They just built a radio tower near my house, and you'd never think such a big structure could easily fit onto a single flatbed trailer...
I said to myself self you've seen this overhead crane before it's a common brand for moving intermodal shipping containers at branchline stubs.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year BrIan! Thank you for sharing this video. Let us know what the status is on the ETR when you can.
I hope you and your family are well and living the good life!
I worked at a boiler manufacture in the 80's and we shipped large boilers by depressed center flat cars. The manufacture, Cleaver Brooks has their own depressed flat.
I’ve actually moved one of those around Roanoke, Va terminal as a conductor for Norfolk Southern. There is really no good place to stand on those spam bolster cars when doing shove movements
Well, you know what you are talking about, I don't know why its called spam bolster, where did that name come from?
@@eastterminalrailway5975 It's a typo for "span bolster". 😀