Think I saw the Kershaw on another video. Glad the new guy was learning and I hope he will be there for years to come. Thanks for tying in the crib explanation (pun intended)! May you, too, have a great day!
I can't believe there are only two full time rail employees. You guys to a great job and thank you for sharing your experience it is greatly appreciated. Happy holidays!
Yep that's all. We often rely on contractors which is a big help! We do normal everyday stuff trying to work between trains, but there's only so much that can get done with limited time and man power. Do appreciate your writing in and for watching Brandon.
Lots of work needs to be done, but we are constantly plugging away at it, and it's difficult cause they constantly want to run trains, we did have a blessing last month with a 7 day shut down of the track and got a tremendous amount accomplished, much needed. Thanks for the encouraging words!
I retired from a major RR doing different jobs but never anything on the rails so these videos are interesting for me. Part of my career I was a control station operator and at times I had to issue track time to rail gangs either working the rails or traveling from point A to point B to protect them from moving rail traffic. You may get a chuckle from this as we referred to these gangs as maintenance in the way instead of maintenance OF way.
Bennie, glad you are enjoying, railroading has so many different aspects to it and they are all important. No doubt your work was just as important as ours is. You really did make me smile with in the way ! Loved that one 👍👍👍
@@ccrx6700 I always found our MW people easy and cooperative to work with. We always looked out for each other even when minor errors were made we kept these to ourselves as there were no negative results so no need to create major issues when there were none.
@@benniepierce6283 excellent way to do things Bennie! Guys working together like that and watching each other's backs is now a price less commodity. I'm glad you had that kind of work environment. I used to have it too, not anymore, but now realize what a good thing we had back then. Thanks for sharing with me sir. 😊
I have always had a Love for the Rail Road, weather the trains themselves or the machines that build and maintain the tracks themselves, of which in upon themselves are very interesting, I grew up in A town in Az. and my back yard was literally the Santa Fe Rails, I actually thought it was exciting when I was in bed at night and I could hear and see the Train through my back window of my Bedroom and I would pop my head up to watch that is how close my house was to the tracks, in fact on slow moving trains I would hop on and grab a ride into town, even seeing HoBo"s in the box cars where sleeping on big pieces of card board, my friends and I sometimes would walk by and bang on the cars and wake them up, some where not to pleased , but was fun anyway, but I would have to say I never really seen the track maintenance crew very often may be a speeder here or there but that was about it, the tracks themselves where as far as could see always in good shape, but I knew at times they would conduct tie repair every so often I would see a load of brand new Rail ties stacked along side the road bed, but I have always had a love for the rail road, and trains, but as life would have I did not ever wind up working for any RR, and I moved from my small town in Az. and moved back east to Long Island, and did become a Transit Police Officer for the NYC subway system, so in the end I still was around the trains, but that is my RR story, sorry so winded, and long.
Must agree, I have worked with a guy in my line of work and each of us knew the next step, without having to say a word, makes life so much easier. It was as if we could read each ithers mind.
Found your channel recently and subscribed after watching maybe 2 videos. Love the information and appreciate the length. Too many videos of all types are 40+ minutes often requiring I watch in shifts or skip them. Keep up the great work Dave and I'm hoping the videos keep coming.
Sweet! So glad to have you with us Bibber P. Very glad you are enjoying. Here is a link to get a primer on what all we do here if you would care to watch. Thank you so much for your visit with us and for watching my good man. ua-cam.com/video/oOug0z34118/v-deo.html
Your welcome, if you're interested you can sit in the machine and watch as we actually do the digging in this video ua-cam.com/video/dKRoGNKD6ls/v-deo.html
Your videos are really great to watch. I have always wondered about what all it takes to maintain a railroad and you do a great job of explaining things and do so in an interesting way.
Very informative! Working on the rail road in east Tennessee and on a 4 man track crew, but we are also the tie replacers, as well as we run the temper, ballast regulator, back home, and payloader. We are trying to get a couple of extra hands to help.
Thanks Steven, i understand what you are dealing with sir. Same way here, we do all kinds of different jobs with only 2 of us on track. Never enough help to get everything done. Do appreciate your writing in and for watching the video my good man .
I'm sure I've mentioned hauling some of these regulators for UP and being a bit fascinated by their operation ever since. I never had any idea how big the "bristles" on the broom are (more like paddles, aren't they) until looking at it on the truck. They'd have to be, though, considering the wear and tear. The dust clouds can be huge, too... These are pretty versatile, it seems, though having the wings like a Jordan spreader would be handy for their reach. My first impression upon seeing that cribbing bucket was "tiny" but it's obviously a good fit for the purpose. I'm curious to see the difference between this and the banana bucket, though, for I am assuming the other bucket will get into the narrow portions of a frog better? Lastly, how long does it take to crib out a segment of track with the little excavator, on average? Thanks for sharing! :)
Dave I’m in Vancouver with my grand kids. The passing of there mother and my daughter has hit me hard. I’ll not go into details for the world to read. But she has gone home to be with Jesus. Might be helping to make my place with the Lord.
All right! I know what Cribbing is now, Lol I knew If I watched enough of your schooling/entertaining videos I would find out..Lol Thank you Dave, Stay safe.. ✌
Got several videos of me cribbing, it is an important job that we have to do here with all the coal in the tracks and the mud spots we have. Really appreciate your stopping by and watching the presentation my friend.
The only thing better than working on a railroad is working on a railroad in spring! 😎 Make sure to do a video on weed control. I've seed trains with brush cutting equipment, but have never seen what you spray with. I have seen what tracks look like after a few years of no weed control, and it isn't pretty! Have a great day Dave!
Thanks my friend. We don't spray 30 some years ago they decided to do weed control mechanically. Unfortionately not every year we can rent the machine to do it, and you are right, it grows up fast and overtakes. We use the ballast regulator to eliminate weeds from the ballast shoulder it does a good job and quick in doing that.
@@ccrx6700 That's interesting as well! I watch a few 'abandoned places' type channels, and the railroads they explore have pretty big trees growing between the ties after a very short time. I always wondered what they do to keep functioning railroads free of weeds. Never even thought of them doing it manually!
The regulators and other ballast machines aren't very sexy, but they do perhaps one of the most important jobs out there. The condition of the ballast stone is critical to both drainage and the geometric stability of the track. Fouled ballast or improperly shaped bed formation will very quickly cause multiple problems with rail head damage, track shifting, and be prone to washouts or other weather related failures. The tamper can't do it's job until the ballast stone is correct, then after the corrections are applied to the track geometry, the regulators have to reshape the shoulders and ensure the ballast is at the correct crib depth. Never let anybody say your job isn't important.
My job is very important! Your right in your synopsis. Every machine has to do it's job to keep trains running. Thank you very much for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Our original Kershaw had cable wings and the air conditioning was opening the doors. Ran it for a lot of years, took some skills and fortitude to operate. I don't remember what motor it had in it tho, that was a lot of years ago. This one came to us around 1995/96 brand new. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Appreciate the nice comment Bill and glad you are enjoying the home movies. Thank you very much for taking the time to visit with us to watch the regulator video my friend.
What ?..Super Dave gets mean comments?.....oh How Sad.?You do a great job...HOPEFULLY SOME TRACKAGE MACHINE MANUFACTURER WILL SPONSORS "SUPER DAVE "...WOW HOW EXCITING 🤔...HOPE YOU SHARE WHEN THEY DO....
Some comments are a bit on the mean side, but never from you Bradford! We really do appreciate all your kind words you have sent in and all the wonderful support you have given the channel my friend.
I noticed that when you were showing the cribs and explaining what they were that some seemed to narrow to work with your bucket. Were these ties just to close together??? I learned something today, thanks...
When there is soft material in between the ties and not sufficient anchoring of the ties, then they will move due to the dynamic forces of the trains passing over them, thus they move close together. Almost always I am able to space the ties with the bucket, a few times with very tight spikes may need to pull the spikes up a bit to get the tie repositioned. Very observant on your part and great question David.
I got put on the regulator and i dont like it, i caught on pretty quickly but this is the first machine i dont like. Ive ran a tamper, tr10, spike puller, spiker, tie crane, plate jack, speedswing, loaders, backhoes and skidsteers but the regulator i dislike.
Mike, I had seen them when I got these, they looked gruesome. You guys feel they work pretty good then next order i make will give them a try out. THANKS!
Thanks for the suggestion Brian. We do appreciate your taking the time to watch and write in my friend. This regulator has seen some hard use over the years by some not so deft operators.
Never have, Detroits always sounded really good to me tho, hard to start sometimes, but like the song way back by Ten Years After, "You Got Me Running Like A Detroit Diesel" ....LOL
@@terrydavis8451Terry, glad you are enjoying. Dont jold your breath on seeing inside the mine. In the over 40 years i been here, have only gone underground twice.
Only two full time people to maintain the rails. The rest are contract workers then? Do they hire to come with the hired equipment or are they a crew that works from railroad to railroad from a union? I wonder if that's the reason the repair I contacted them with took 2 years to fix.
That is correct Shirley, only 2 of us maintain track. We don't often get contractors in, except on a shut down or an emergency. We do what we can with the limited amount of track time, money, and equipment they give us.
Bill, yep your are surely right about that, they are a pain. this is an old unit that was built in Mexico, part numbers on this one don't always match Kershaw's parts book either, we've gotten fooled many times on those too. Appreciate your watching and your comment sir
That's a really Shame that people have to be such Jerks and Say stupid Crap about anything they have No Ideal about what they are talking about. Awesome video as always Thank You Appreciate it Very Much Love your Video's
Thank you Kenny and really glad you like these. some people are angry, but it's okay the vast majority of folks that write in are very nice people like yourself, so that more than makes up for the others. I do appreciate you sir
Coal in your ballast is bad huh? Here in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania they used to build the railroad beds out of anthracite. Some people made a small fortune reclaiming the anthracite from under the old railroad beds
Joe, that's interesting, thanks for sharing. Coal isn't a bad ballast until it gets wet, then it turns mushy and the track surface won't hold very well over time, at least here.
@@ccrx6700 yeah I guess the bituminous would break up easy and then become like mud. The anthracite really doesn't do that until you get into like the number 5 that is really like a fine powder. We shall most of that as metallurgical coal that they use in EAF steel-making, but we have to dry it first. They injected into the melts mostly to promote slag formation. I kind of gathered most what you guys do is steam coal?
@@joecummings1260 yes Joe, it's all steam coal we have. Most of what leaks from the cars is fines not lumps also. Anthracite from way I understand is much harder coal so can believe what you sayin bout it for ballast
@@ccrx6700 yeah the anthracite is a lot harder, it's almost pure carbon. I'll tell you what though, that bituminous that you guys mind down there is really excellent steam coal, it has a good heating value. It's much better than that stuff that they mine out of the powder River basin. That stuff is damn near lignite
@@joecummings1260 yes it is great for steam. I didn't know PRB coal was like that, thanks Joe for that! There sure is a lot of it coming from there. Had do some research on your comments tonight, learned somethings bout coal I didn't know. Thank you for your writing in sir! It's been interesting
Thanks. There's a spot near one of our farm crossings that has a spring. Brings clay and mud into the stone, lubricates the stone and it smashes out from under the ties. The grade looked good in the video, I hadn't considered coal coming in from the top.
How does this track work compare with Europe? I am surprised that wooden ties (sleepers) and spikes are still used. Not quite a freight line: ua-cam.com/video/tMXfU8blPMM/v-deo.html
Concrete isn't all it's cracked up to be yet, this article may interest you www.rtands.com/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/new-paradigm-design-concrete-crossties/
@@SubTroppo they are doing more experimenting with high psi concrete, i think they will find the magic number and in the future almost all new construction will be concrete ties. Im surprised they still allow creosoted bridge timbers over streams here!
I suppose cleaning the stones of the coal/mud/dirt is not economic? It seems that the difference in the density of the materials would facilitate an industrial process to clean the ballast stone and make it reusable. Perhaps economics is the determining factor? Just seems wasteful to simply push it aside to install new material.
Good observation. We have mulled over this for years. Some of the ballast is reusable if cleaned some is just to contaminated. We are looking currently into some kind of sifter bucket for the excavator, so we'll see what happens with that, I think it's a good idea, save a lot of money. Appreciate your watching and writing in
Bobby, on typical track construction rails are curved manually using lining bars and muscle power. You would be surprised how 2 guys using the right leverage can shape a straight piece of rail to make it follow the curve. Final curvature thru the curve is done with tamper. Commonly rails are not factory pre bent. Now in certain sharp curve conditions rail is factory pre shaped, this occurs most often for transit for very sharp degree curves and other specialty applications. Great question sir and hope that explanation helps
If you woukd like go back and read description I edited it tonight to give a detailed explanation of why we doing it. Shoukd have said that in video, it just didnt come to my.mind at the time. Quick one is ballast gets contaminated with coal, then no drainage so we dig out old and put in new
@@ccrx6700 Wonderful. Many thanks. My G,G,Grandad was a civil engineer for the Santa Fe for 50 years surveying and maintaining the Oklahoma District from Ks into Colorado and New Mexico from the 1870's into the 1920's.
@@KB4QAA your welcome. That's awesome bout your GG grandad! Wow would I ever to have loved to talk with him!!! Santa Fe what a great RR that was. Love RR history. Thank you so much for writing back
@@ccrx6700 p.s. We have a photo of him in N.Mexico on a burrow with his Winchester, Colt pistol, which we still have along with one spur and some of his surveying equipment. Cheers. b.
Think I saw the Kershaw on another video. Glad the new guy was learning and I hope he will be there for years to come. Thanks for tying in the crib explanation (pun intended)! May you, too, have a great day!
Appreciate your tuning in to this video and watching Trena. That
guy has since retired and I have another person with me.
Dave, it's great to hear someone enthusiastic and enjoying their job for a change. Thanks - it's refreshing.
Your welcome John and thank you so much for the very nice
comment my friend.
This is great to see some of the "less glamourous" (but still awesome) aspects of railroading. Thank you for sharing!
I can't believe there are only two full time rail employees. You guys to a great job and thank you for sharing your experience it is greatly appreciated.
Happy holidays!
Yep that's all. We often rely on contractors which is a big help!
We do normal everyday stuff trying to work between trains,
but there's only so much that can get done with limited time
and man power. Do appreciate your writing in and for
watching Brandon.
Good job both of you, hate to think someone wouldn't love this type work. It is peaceful, only stress would be the train coming. thanks for sharing
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed viewing the show, appreciate your
watching
Thank you for sharing your experience. You have an amazing job & glad I'm you enjoy it. It shows.
Your welcome, really great to hear you enjoyed, we do appreciate
your watching
Definitely fighting a losing battle with dirty ballast. At least you'll never be out of work 👍. Keep up the good work
Lots of work needs to be done, but we are constantly plugging away at it, and it's difficult cause they constantly want to run trains, we did
have a blessing last month with a 7 day shut down of the track and
got a tremendous amount accomplished, much needed. Thanks
for the encouraging words!
I retired from a major RR doing different jobs but never anything on the rails so these videos are interesting for me. Part of my career I was a control station operator and at times I had to issue track time to rail gangs either working the rails or traveling from point A to point B to protect them from moving rail traffic. You may get a chuckle from this as we referred to these gangs as maintenance in the way instead of maintenance OF way.
Bennie, glad you are enjoying, railroading has so many different aspects to it and they are all important. No doubt your work was just as important as ours is.
You really did make me smile with in the way ! Loved that one 👍👍👍
@@ccrx6700 I always found our MW people easy and cooperative to work with. We always looked out for each other even when minor errors were made we kept these to ourselves as there were no negative results so no need to create major issues when there were none.
@@benniepierce6283 excellent way to do things Bennie! Guys working together like that and watching each other's backs is now a price less commodity. I'm glad you had that kind of work environment. I used to have it too, not anymore, but now realize what a good thing we had back then. Thanks for sharing with me sir. 😊
Appreciate you explaining your MoW work. Informative and interesting.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the show sir
I have always had a Love for the Rail Road, weather the trains themselves or the machines that build and maintain the tracks themselves, of which in upon themselves are very interesting, I grew up in A town in Az. and my back yard was literally the Santa Fe Rails, I actually thought it was exciting when I was in bed at night and I could hear and see the Train through my back window of my Bedroom and I would pop my head up to watch that is how close my house was to the tracks, in fact on slow moving trains I would hop on and grab a ride into town, even seeing HoBo"s in the box cars where sleeping on big pieces of card board, my friends and I sometimes would walk by and bang on the cars and wake them up, some where not to pleased , but was fun anyway, but I would have to say I never really seen the track maintenance crew very often may be a speeder here or there but that was about it, the tracks themselves where as far as could see always in good shape, but I knew at times they would conduct tie repair every so often I would see a load of brand new Rail ties stacked along side the road bed, but I have always had a love for the rail road, and trains, but as life would have I did not ever wind up working for any RR, and I moved from my small town in Az. and moved back east to Long Island, and did become a Transit Police Officer for the NYC subway system, so in the end I still was around the trains, but that is my RR story, sorry so winded, and long.
Must agree, I have worked with a guy in my line of work and each of us knew the next step, without having to say a word, makes life so much easier. It was as if we could read each ithers mind.
Good for you Philip! Makes going to work a lot easier when
you get along with co worker. Appreciate your watching the
video sir
there is so much I'm learning about railroads.thanks
Thanks Sean, nice to hear your enjoying what you see
😊
Found your channel recently and subscribed after watching maybe 2 videos. Love the information and appreciate the length. Too many videos of all types are 40+ minutes often requiring I watch in shifts or skip them. Keep up the great work Dave and I'm hoping the videos keep coming.
Sweet! So glad to have you with us Bibber P. Very glad you
are enjoying. Here is a link to get a primer on what all we
do here if you would care to watch. Thank you so much for
your visit with us and for watching my good man.
ua-cam.com/video/oOug0z34118/v-deo.html
Now I know what cribbing ties means. Thanx for the explanation.
Your welcome, if you're interested you can sit in the machine
and watch as we actually do the digging in this video
ua-cam.com/video/dKRoGNKD6ls/v-deo.html
Your videos are really great to watch. I have always wondered about what all it takes to maintain a railroad and you do a great job of explaining things and do so in an interesting way.
Thank you very much for the really nice comment, it's swell to
know you are enjoying these
Educational....never to old to learn new things...thank you
Glad you enjoyed the video Roy, we do appreciate your writing in
and for watching today.
Looking Great!
Thanks Rick, lot of work there but we got it all done.
Very informative! Working on the rail road in east Tennessee and on a 4 man track crew, but we are also the tie replacers, as well as we run the temper, ballast regulator, back home, and payloader. We are trying to get a couple of extra hands to help.
Thanks Steven, i understand what you are dealing with sir. Same
way here, we do all kinds of different jobs with only 2 of us on track.
Never enough help to get everything done. Do appreciate your
writing in and for watching the video my good man .
Just started watching and I think you do a great job explaining your work and equipment, keep up the good work,you can tell you enjoy the job as well
Thank you Doug, glad you are enjoying the home movies and
welcome sir to our group, happy to have you with us
I'm sure I've mentioned hauling some of these regulators for UP and being a bit fascinated by their operation ever since. I never had any idea how big the "bristles" on the broom are (more like paddles, aren't they) until looking at it on the truck. They'd have to be, though, considering the wear and tear. The dust clouds can be huge, too... These are pretty versatile, it seems, though having the wings like a Jordan spreader would be handy for their reach.
My first impression upon seeing that cribbing bucket was "tiny" but it's obviously a good fit for the purpose. I'm curious to see the difference between this and the banana bucket, though, for I am assuming the other bucket will get into the narrow portions of a frog better?
Lastly, how long does it take to crib out a segment of track with the little excavator, on average?
Thanks for sharing! :)
Dave that cool job. Two works one camera man.
Dave I’m in Vancouver with my grand kids. The passing of there mother and my daughter has hit me hard. I’ll not go into details for the world to read. But she has gone home to be with Jesus. Might be helping to make my place with the Lord.
All right! I know what Cribbing is now, Lol I knew If I watched enough of your schooling/entertaining videos I would find out..Lol Thank you Dave, Stay safe.. ✌
Got several videos of me cribbing, it is an important job
that we have to do here with all the coal in the tracks and
the mud spots we have. Really appreciate your stopping by
and watching the presentation my friend.
The only thing better than working on a railroad is working on a railroad in spring! 😎 Make sure to do a video on weed control. I've seed trains with brush cutting equipment, but have never seen what you spray with. I have seen what tracks look like after a few years of no weed control, and it isn't pretty! Have a great day Dave!
Thanks my friend. We don't spray 30 some years ago they decided
to do weed control mechanically. Unfortionately not every year we
can rent the machine to do it, and you are right, it grows up fast and
overtakes. We use the ballast regulator to eliminate weeds from the
ballast shoulder it does a good job and quick in doing that.
@@ccrx6700 That's interesting as well! I watch a few 'abandoned places' type channels, and the railroads they explore have pretty big trees growing between the ties after a very short time. I always wondered what they do to keep functioning railroads free of weeds. Never even thought of them doing it manually!
@@PlanetMojo all that limestone dust from the ballast really makes things grow 😏
@@ccrx6700 It's like the whole system was designed to keep you working. Not a bad system right there... 😉
CFE east of Fort Wayne needs this!
I'm on my way Eric...LOL
The regulators and other ballast machines aren't very sexy, but they do perhaps one of the most important jobs out there. The condition of the ballast stone is critical to both drainage and the geometric stability of the track. Fouled ballast or improperly shaped bed formation will very quickly cause multiple problems with rail head damage, track shifting, and be prone to washouts or other weather related failures. The tamper can't do it's job until the ballast stone is correct, then after the corrections are applied to the track geometry, the regulators have to reshape the shoulders and ensure the ballast is at the correct crib depth.
Never let anybody say your job isn't important.
My job is very important! Your right in your synopsis. Every machine
has to do it's job to keep trains running. Thank you very much
for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
That's Railroadin'!
Enjoying your videos keep up the good work
Thank you, glad you are liking what you see 👍
I started out on a 26-1-2 cable wing had a Detroit motor no heat no air
Our original Kershaw had cable wings and the air conditioning
was opening the doors. Ran it for a lot of years, took some skills
and fortitude to operate. I don't remember what motor it had
in it tho, that was a lot of years ago. This one came to us
around 1995/96 brand new. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Awesome
👍😊
i love you youtubes
Appreciate the nice comment Bill and glad you are enjoying the home movies. Thank you very much for taking the time to visit with us to watch the regulator video my friend.
@@ccrx6700 ya, i look forward to your shows, my family were coal miners
Great content 👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the show today. I appreciate
your watching. Inside every fdl is an Alco screaming to get out....lol
You are very awesome
Thank you Raymond for the kind comment and for watching
the show sir
What ?..Super Dave gets mean comments?.....oh How Sad.?You do a great job...HOPEFULLY SOME TRACKAGE MACHINE MANUFACTURER WILL SPONSORS "SUPER DAVE "...WOW HOW EXCITING 🤔...HOPE YOU SHARE WHEN THEY DO....
Some comments are a bit on the mean side, but never from you
Bradford! We really do appreciate all your kind words you have
sent in and all the wonderful support you have given the channel
my friend.
Dedicated to the craft. Do you have a video with you loading and moving your Kubota up the track to your worksites?
Jim no I don't sir
I noticed that when you were showing the cribs and explaining what they were that some seemed to narrow to work with your bucket. Were these ties just to close together??? I learned something today, thanks...
When there is soft material in between the ties and not sufficient
anchoring of the ties, then they will move due to the dynamic forces
of the trains passing over them, thus they move close together.
Almost always I am able to space the ties with the bucket, a few
times with very tight spikes may need to pull the spikes up a bit
to get the tie repositioned. Very observant on your part and great
question David.
I imagine after a spell the old ballast builds up on side of track, you have someone come by and pick up excess?
The old soiled ballast we usually just spread out or throw it over
the hill, it's not worth the money to spend to try and clean it.
I got put on the regulator and i dont like it, i caught on pretty quickly but this is the first machine i dont like. Ive ran a tamper, tr10, spike puller, spiker, tie crane, plate jack, speedswing, loaders, backhoes and skidsteers but the regulator i dislike.
Try the twin tiger teeth..is easier to dig out ties. We use those teeth here at UPRR
You work on the UP ,. I'm out in Oklahoma
Mike, I had seen them when I got these, they looked gruesome. You guys feel they work pretty good then next order i make will give them a try out. THANKS!
@@terrypbug yes I’m in Chicago... work equipment mechanic for the villa grove sub
You better check the front end on that regulator those are known to go out.
Thanks for the suggestion Brian. We do appreciate your taking
the time to watch and write in my friend. This regulator has
seen some hard use over the years by some not so deft operators.
Seen any of those running with 4-53 Detroit power units?
Never have, Detroits always sounded really good to me tho,
hard to start sometimes, but like the song way back by
Ten Years After, "You Got Me Running Like A Detroit Diesel"
....LOL
Awesome channel new sub!
Thank you Terry, very glad you like what you see. There's a bunch more on my channel if you sometime would like to see them. 😊
@@ccrx6700 Been working my way through them. Maybe one day you could tour the coal face & long wall.
@@terrydavis8451Terry, glad you are enjoying. Dont jold your breath on seeing inside the mine. In the over 40 years i been here, have only gone underground twice.
Only two full time people to maintain the rails. The rest are contract workers then? Do they hire to come with the hired equipment or are they a crew that works from railroad to railroad from a union? I wonder if that's the reason the repair I contacted them with took 2 years to fix.
That is correct Shirley, only 2 of us maintain track. We don't
often get contractors in, except on a shut down or an emergency.
We do what we can with the limited amount of track time,
money, and equipment they give us.
The only bad part of those Kershaw regulators is the wiring is a PIA to work on. Nothing labeled, just a ton of wires going everywhere.
Bill, yep your are surely right about that, they are a pain. this is an old unit that was built in Mexico, part numbers on this one don't always
match Kershaw's parts book either, we've gotten fooled many times
on those too. Appreciate your watching and your comment sir
Why are you kicking that perfectly good track rock over the side?
I thought the same thing. Apparently it had coal mixed in.
@@karenmariotti4148 I've been around rock quite abit. I'm very skeptical of coal dust having any effect on the ballast doing it's job.
What area are you in.
Cumberland Mine RR Terry. We run coal from a mine located near Kirby Pa. to a river barge loading facility at Alicia Pa. 16.8 miles of track.
😃coool
That's a really Shame that people have to be such Jerks and Say stupid Crap about anything they have No Ideal about what they are talking about. Awesome video as always Thank You Appreciate it Very Much Love your Video's
Thank you Kenny and really glad you like these. some people are
angry, but it's okay the vast majority of folks that write in are
very nice people like yourself, so that more than makes up for
the others. I do appreciate you sir
Coal in your ballast is bad huh? Here in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania they used to build the railroad beds out of anthracite. Some people made a small fortune reclaiming the anthracite from under the old railroad beds
Joe, that's interesting, thanks for sharing. Coal isn't a bad ballast
until it gets wet, then it turns mushy and the track surface won't hold
very well over time, at least here.
@@ccrx6700 yeah I guess the bituminous would break up easy and then become like mud. The anthracite really doesn't do that until you get into like the number 5 that is really like a fine powder. We shall most of that as metallurgical coal that they use in EAF steel-making, but we have to dry it first. They injected into the melts mostly to promote slag formation.
I kind of gathered most what you guys do is steam coal?
@@joecummings1260 yes Joe, it's all steam coal we have. Most of what leaks from the cars is fines not lumps also. Anthracite from way I understand is much harder coal so can believe what you sayin bout it for ballast
@@ccrx6700 yeah the anthracite is a lot harder, it's almost pure carbon. I'll tell you what though, that bituminous that you guys mind down there is really excellent steam coal, it has a good heating value. It's much better than that stuff that they mine out of the powder River basin. That stuff is damn near lignite
@@joecummings1260 yes it is great for steam. I didn't know PRB coal was like that, thanks Joe for that! There sure is a lot of it coming from there. Had do some research on your comments tonight, learned somethings bout coal I didn't know. Thank you for your writing in sir! It's been interesting
New guy..... probably going to find the answer in an older video....but why dig the crib out?
The ballast is contaminated with coal. Its not draining the way it should and creating soft spots in the track structure.
Vincent, read reply from rebelrailroader, he gives excellent explanation
@@rebelrailroader Thank you my friend, excellent explanation 👍
Thanks. There's a spot near one of our farm crossings that has a spring. Brings clay and mud into the stone, lubricates the stone and it smashes out from under the ties. The grade looked good in the video, I hadn't considered coal coming in from the top.
@@vincentphelps6325 your welcome, lots of RR's have mud problems at crossings, it a never ending battle try to get rid of the mud
How does this track work compare with Europe? I am surprised that wooden ties (sleepers) and spikes are still used. Not quite a freight line: ua-cam.com/video/tMXfU8blPMM/v-deo.html
Concrete isn't all it's cracked up to be yet, this article may
interest you
www.rtands.com/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/new-paradigm-design-concrete-crossties/
@@ccrx6700 Thanks for that.(I thought that I was so modern, and then...)
@@SubTroppo they are doing more experimenting with high psi concrete, i think they will find the magic number and in the future almost all new construction will be concrete ties. Im surprised they still allow creosoted bridge timbers over streams here!
I suppose cleaning the stones of the coal/mud/dirt is not economic? It seems that the difference in the density of the materials would facilitate an industrial process to clean the ballast stone and make it reusable. Perhaps economics is the determining factor? Just seems wasteful to simply push it aside to install new material.
Good observation. We have mulled over this for years. Some of
the ballast is reusable if cleaned some is just to contaminated.
We are looking currently into some kind of sifter bucket for the
excavator, so we'll see what happens with that, I think it's a good
idea, save a lot of money. Appreciate your watching and writing in
TMI...
an easy way to think, the eurpoeans call ties, sleepers, so you crib the sleepers.
Confused my mom the first time I told her I was at work cribbing,
she thought I was putting a baby to sleep.... : - )
@@ccrx6700 could have said you misspoke and were actually clubbing
Real railroads are not like model railroads,... You can't BUY curved track lengths... How are curved rails made in real railroads?
Bobby, on typical track construction rails are curved manually using lining bars and muscle power. You would be surprised how 2 guys using the right leverage can shape a straight piece of rail to make it follow the curve. Final curvature thru the curve is done with tamper. Commonly rails are not factory pre bent.
Now in certain sharp curve conditions rail is factory pre shaped, this occurs most often for transit for very sharp degree curves and other specialty applications.
Great question sir and hope that explanation helps
Make no sense since you haven't explained WHAT and WHY you are doing.
If you woukd like go back and read description I edited it tonight to give a detailed explanation of why we doing it. Shoukd have said that in video, it just didnt come to my.mind at the time. Quick one is ballast gets contaminated with coal, then no drainage so we dig out old and put in new
@@ccrx6700 Wonderful. Many thanks. My G,G,Grandad was a civil engineer for the Santa Fe for 50 years surveying and maintaining the Oklahoma District from Ks into Colorado and New Mexico from the 1870's into the 1920's.
@@KB4QAA your welcome. That's awesome bout your GG grandad! Wow would I ever to have loved to talk with him!!! Santa Fe what a great RR that was. Love RR history. Thank you so much for writing back
@@ccrx6700 p.s. We have a photo of him in N.Mexico on a burrow with his Winchester, Colt pistol, which we still have along with one spur and some of his surveying equipment. Cheers. b.
@@KB4QAA Wow, how awesome is that 👍