Another Broken Rail, but Easy Fix this Time
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Winter is hard on track in SW Pa. If the break had been at an angle we would have had to put a plug in or replace the whole stick of rail. See Also: broken rail cumberland mine railroad, and broken rail fixed
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I admire craftsman who use their experience and senses to keep things working. Something didn't "sound" right .... and you fixed it. No fancy computers just good old human ability. Well done sir.
Bill, why thank you very much for the nice comment, am glad you enjoyed. There's a lot more vids of our railroad and what we do on my xhannel if you're interested.
I just recently found your channel and absolutely think it’s Great. Big thanks to your employer’s for letting you show us all the work involved in properly maintaining there track. It really give a better understanding of what it takes and all the tools that are required. I love how you show all of just what you do. THANKS
Thank you very much Kevin for the really nice comment. We're
glad to have you with us. Stay tuned cause we got a lot of really
great stuff coming out this year my friend.
Another nice one. I also admire the way you reply to comments and questions. Thats great. Thanks again.
Bill, thank you. Get a lot of really great comments, a lot of them really enhance the quality and scope of the video.
Thanks. Keep em coming. We are wstching. By the way. We are boiling here in SA. Yesterday we hit 33 deg Celsius.
Your videos are amazing. Some people could care less about rail repair and maintenance. Being a railfan and mechanically oriented, I find this stuff facinating. Your work ethic is beyond compare.
Thank you Rupert, really glad you are enjoying them sir. Appreciate your watching 👍
Very Interesting piece we never get to see on the Other Railroad videos out there. Thank you! 👍
Ken, thank you very much. I am lucky get to do this because as you say, not a lot of other videos out there like these. Thank you for watching and the nice comment
Nice work on that find, that winter on the railroad for sure. Hopefully it doesn’t migrate horizontally through the bolt holes but with the speed restrictions it should be ok. You guys do nice work and know your business that’s for sure .
Thanks again. Another fine job. I'm originally from Mt.Pleasant and my friend worked as a mine engineer when US Steel owned the mine. Always interesting.
Thank you, glad you liked it. Who was your engineering friend? I may have known him
@@ccrx6700 Rick Myers. He was a management associate around 1980. He graduated from Penn State with a degree in mining engineering.
@@IHVA-ir9gp i,ve heard that name but never met him, thanks
I was talking about Waynesburg yesterday. I also used to work for a company out of Washington PA called RAME. We used to set iron and run alot of school roofs. Beautiful part of the country for sure , people and wilderness. Be safe take care.
Yes this is nice country, we rather like it. Have not heard of RAME.
real good repair ...dave....I wish all breaks were like that!
Thank you Dave. Yes sir me too. That was an easy one, we have
since then changed the rail out there, you will see a video of
us changing the rail, but it might be a year from now before
that one gets shown.
I enjoyed this video and hit the subscribe button.. I’m one of the few that actually enjoy getting stopped by a train… And or rail crew! Fascinating seeing what it takes to keep the freight rolling!!
Thank you Paul and welcome to our community, we are glad to have you with us and hope you will continue to enjoy.
Here is an introduction video to get you a feel for what all we do here at the Railroad and a bit about our mine:
ua-cam.com/video/oOug0z34118/v-deo.html
Lot's of cool RR videos on our home page if you would sometime care to check any of them out.
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Good thing you spotted that break! Doing your job well!
Thank you, that what i do, keep the train on track ... lol
Good job of track inspection finding rail break. I like your videos so I subscribe to your channel. My I suggest doing videos on differences between #115 and #136 rail(Base/Weight). Also the difference between #115 and #136 joint bars. I work for Canadian National Railway I use your videos for new hires. Keep ‘Em on the Rails!
Awesome! thank you for the very nice compliment, I'm impressed that you would use these,
but that kinda why I do them, so many now a days go to utube to find info so I make a lot of
these to help younger railroaders learn. I am lucky in that I learned a lot from some real
old time railroaders first hand. I'm over 40 years railroad and totally cool is that I still learn new
stuff. Great railroad CN! Got a good friend who runs loco on CN, William Beecher, great guy
if you would happen to know him. And yes I am planning a vid sometime soon on rail identification that will include difference tween different size rail plus another one on
joint bars so stay tuned. Thank you so much for
your wonderful comment! That's Railroadin!!! Also got some up already and more in future
on rail defects that may be of help, not much of that kind of info currently on tube
PS my friend runs old SOO line from Wisconsin to Chicago
I’ve work for a few railroad companies over the pass 25 yrs in the Chicagoland Area. CTA(Chicago Transit Authority), Amtrak, US Steel Transtar (Gary Railway), now Canadian National. I’ve work in different department Car Repair and Maintenance Of Way. I’m currently a Trackman Foreman. Your videos are a great help for new trackman. We can’t use our cell phones here so I can’t make videos to help with basic railroading. Keep up the good work
I love watching train videos they never show how the track is maintained that's what I love about your videos because you show to maintain the track to keep the trains running
search UA-cam for: Repairing rails with thermite.
OKS !!! Seen the "" GEOMETRY RAIL CAR ""on the other rail lines ,,but weren't shown what they do ,,but with your personal explanation of the problems ,,the viewers get the whole answers !!! Thanks & ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!
Years ago after a cold night I found a 1-1/2" pull apart at a crossing, near Chowchilla, CA. The wheels sounded like I was in a bell tower. Called it in and they patched it with joint bars, until a crew could fix it right.
Hope you had Fire Snake to pull that gap back together! Thanks for
sharing Mark and for stopping by and watching the video my good man.
Thanks for putting out your video’s I really like the track defects I volunteer for the C&CV RR in NY as track inspector thanks again
You are welcome sir, very nice of you to help out there, I'm guessing it is a scenic RR?
Yes it is a scenic RR with 18 miles of track but we only use upper 8 miles of track for trips to Cooperstown NY from Milford NY
@@16grrr sweet, i,ll look it up, back in very late 1960' s was at Baseball Hall Fame, i was really into BB then and I loved that
Great catch on the broken rail
Thank you Rick, appreciate your support my friend.
Good catch! Nice clean snap. I imagine you fire snaked it back together but I didn’t see any ashes along the base of the rail.
Thanks but it didnt pull apart luckily
Great insights and video. Thanks!
Thanks for watching today's video Daniel, glad you enjoyed the show my friend.
I wonder if the break in that rail was where it was welded at one point. Generally speaking, the actual weld is a lot stronger than the base metals. But the area just at the edge of the weld is usually where it will break at, where the solidified weld meets the base metals.
Robert, no it was not on a weld, however we did have one on a weld a few weeks before this one, and it broke exactly as you describe.
Watch here:
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I run a Metro Tamper up in Boston, very nice video.
Happy Rails to you , another great saying!
😊
4:14. That train is like like Flynn from Thomas and Friends
Thank you very much Jake for taking the time to tune in
and watch the video today my good man.
@@ccrx6700. Um 😶 anytime?
Cool video, That has to be a Cummins in that Freightliner ! sounds good ! Liked and subscribed to your channel Great Videos and really good insight on railroad maintenance. I really appreciate the effort for the content & presentation. thank you !
Thank you Sam, really glad you are enjoying. Sure wish it was Cummins, but is a small Mercedes, although it has been relatively trouble free, just needs a lot more ooomph, its a dog on hills
You know you’re a railroad God when you’re the track inspector and the tamper operator lol.
Lol, there only 2 of us, so get to do a variety of things, keeps life interesting. Chief cook and bottle washer 😄 thanks for watching Joseph
@@ccrx6700 haha too cool. Thank you for the videos sir.
@@ccrx6700 cool you are a cook also? I would love to get some recipes from you if you should ever have the time. Thank you I love your videos, fellow railfan here!
@@chessiesystemrailfanman3741 😊
The skinny bars used on the gauge side come in very handy when we have to replace a sperry defect in curve worn rail. I make sure no other Subdivision or Roadmaster knows I have these on hand. Or else it would be gang bang of material stripping us of this type of stuff for the big main.
That track was moving a lot. I don't recall if you mentioned what class the track is but as the class goes up, the rules get more stringent about defective tie ratio, ballast condition, cross level issues and things like that.
So is the camera, or is MJ Fox operating it?
We have class 2 track sir. Don't believe I said that, our max speed
is 25. Sorry for the late reply, just found your comment. We have a lot
of problems with mud, no doubt a major contributing factor in
this break. We are constantly working cribbing ties out, there's a lot
to do and too little time to get to everything, and working live track all
the time really gives us little track time, plus there are only 2 of us
who maintain our 17 miles. We got a lot of challenges to deal with.
Appreciate your watching and your comment is absolutely correct.
Cool stuff. I would have enjoyed this as a career.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed.
GOOD find! Did you hear the ping when you rode over it or did you feel the climb of your high rail wheel ? Also where there is one TD rail defect watch out for another break in same rail. Have you learned how to use a ultrasound hand test scope. It would really give you a little piece of mind if you could test the rest of that rail. Could you tell us the Rail weight and year made.
Thomas, excellent comment sir! Heard the ping. Yep on the rail defect, this gonna get a rail
change out once it gets warmer. We try do rail testing twice a year by Sperry or Herzog, they do the hand testing,
we do not. It is 132 rail
Wow that's crazy, a straight vertical break, you did get lucky with that one! So do you just use a locknut on those rail plates? Do you ever have to double nut them? Great informative video as always👍🏼😎
Thank you. There is a lock washer on each bolt, will do a vid in future show all that in greater detail. Gonna wait till it warms up to make that vid... lol
@@ccrx6700 we do that all the time with ordinary breaks on our low speed yard tracks.
@@michaelball760 yep, dont mind that kind of break, easy fix. We got a Honda powered rail drill, works great, thanks for watchin
Thank you sir..✌
You are certainly welcome, we appreciate your writing in and
for watching Renegade.
Awesome job WOW
😊
Keep the videos coming!
Yes sir! Got lots of them coming your way Darron. Really
appreciate your watching and for your wonderful support
of the channel my friend.
no rest for the wicked, better days coming at least better weather in a month or so. I sent you the channel about those hoppers as a reply on a past video the other day. catch ya later.
Now Kenn you know im not wicked lol, but you reminded me of my dad, he used say that a lot, a great loss for us when he went on to greener pastures 4 years ago. I know you understand. Got your link but havent had chance look it up, thank you for tellin me bout it, i love learn new things
I see you staggered the bolts in that repair.
Yes sir, all our joint bars are milled so that is the way the bolts go in.
Will do a future video on joint bars so you will get a good look at
how the holes are drilled, so hope you'll stay tuned for that, just give me some time, but it's on the list to do. Thank you for watching the video, hope you enjoyed
Didn't know they put a metal splint on busted rails , hope it's replaced that looks iffy
it was a temporary fix and yes the rail did get replaced
at a later date Eddie. Certainly appreciate your checking out
the video today my good man.
I like train videos on UA-cam 👍
Thank you Denise for watching glad you enjoyed the show
Great video. Thanks
Donald thank you glad you liked it
Excellent job......
Thank you Charles
I'm sure you have seen this many times before: Didn't you mother tell you not to drive on the tracks?" Every time I see trucks driving on the tracks where I work, I think that.
LOL, your right, I find something wrong I gotta fix it,,,sigh thanks for watching Casey, that
a great railroadin name!!!
We don’t get to drill and bar rail breaks anymore. The rail has to be changed out the same day found.
Devin, thanks for your comment. That is excellent practice! We have class 2 track with all freight, and this is a secure and safe fix until we can change the rail. If we ran passenger or in higher classes with much greater track speeds than our 25, we would change it immediately also. We also are maintaing a 15 mph slow order thru this area until then. Thanks for watching sir
I have a question. In the places where water stands on a section of track, could you place an iron drainpipe between the ties to let the water flow out to the drainage ditch?
Jennifer good question, we often cut the shoulder out on the side, then sweep in between the tie to get water to drain until we can get there and dig all the ballast out. Thanks for watching
Another great video Dave. What causes the mud build up between the sleepers ? I've watched more of your videos this week than I've watched the television. 🤣👍
Thank you and glad you enjoyed. Mud comes from poor drainage, the
water can't get our of the track so it goes down when the train goes
over that section, then when track unloads it pulls mud up. Glad you like the channel better than TV...LOL
This video brought up the same. WORRIES...ON our Shortline. Railway ....broken rail ......What do you thick of ultra sounding rail for Cracks.? WE run loaded and light tankcars.....We want to get and more tools for track maintenance...(We are proud of our "Super Dave tie Switcher ") we are making .........wow The owners don't want to spend money to fix stuff....You are lucky to have your exculator....yes we are Jealous....how do you convince Your bosses on track EQUIPMENT.......Well "Super Dave" love the Show.............very inspiring....It be cool to install a ultra Sound system on front of your hyrail truck....(That was the first thing We thought of when you filmed your Crack rail and your beautiful hyrail truck...)
We typically get the unltra sound testers in here twice a year.
Very good insurance policy. They just came last week in fact.
I'm not sure you can get an ultra sound equipment for a pick up
truck. You can get laser equipment for a pick up that will
test for track geometry, although using that will not simulate
loaded track, only the weight of the pick up. Rail testing outfits
are pretty expensive, if you decide to get one in, try Ultra Traxx,
they are out of Canada and seem to be cheaper than the others.
Thanks for watching and writing in my friend.
Hi Dave, so this is still a fix? And the difference between a repair... is new ties, termite welding the rail and ballistic? February right around the corner, it'll be better. How many miles of track is there?
Yes sir, it is a temporary fix until we can replace the entire 39 foot stick of rail, but it is
a good temp fix! I hope your right on February.... LOL We have 17 miles total, 16 main, 1/2 mile on either end which the train uses when it loads or unloads, those 2 parts are called
"excepted" track, which means it's a constant 10 MPH or less and inspection requirements
are much less frequent than are for main line. Thanks for the nice comment and great questions, I appreciate your viewing
@@ccrx-xu1wc
I appreciate the maintenance-of-way learning opportunities you are providing us.
In your reply above you wrote that, in warmer weather, after you correct the dip at the break location, you plan to replace the entire broken-and-then-bolted-together stick of rail.
The joint bars that you have bolted in place at the break make the new joint look like any other normal bolted rail joint, so why must you replace that rail after correcting the dip? Are you concerned about additional fatigue cracks that might exist due to extra flexing that occurred near the break location, before the actual break? I am not questioning your expertise, just trying to learn from you.
Thanks again and stay safe - and warm.
@@haroldsmith45302 Harold, Great comment sir! And you are absolutely correct as to
what I was thinking. Love questions! Not only does questions like yours help
to enhance the entire video experience for everybody watching, but also keeps
me on my toes thinking! Lol And by the am, I am not an expert, after all these years,
I still learn new things all the time about railroadin, and that's great. Many, many other
folks have commented on various videos and brought new information that I did
not know. It's fantastic that so many railroaders and fans watch these and share
with others their knowledge. Thank you again Harold
Good thing you found that
Hey David, thanks for the comment, yep on finding it, but that my job,
no different than what you do in yours. Take care of what needs to be done.
Good clip thanks
Your welcome Andrew, appreciate your watching the show 😊
How do you get mud pumped up that far though what looks like at least 2-3 feet of ballast? Is there a spring or something that's providing water?
Looks bit deceiving on phone cam, there really not that much ballast under track and its contaminated with coal fines from leaky hopper car doors, plugs up ballast and water wont drain away, constant battle we have to rehabilitate ballast
Nice repair.
Thank you Brian
your expertise found the break
David, well thank you, got lucky, they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then...lol thank you for watching sir
Nice fix for a lucky snap of the rail. Do you think the mud contributed to the rail flexing to split the rail where it did? The cars you run are after all the same length. That constant regular force from the mud may of contributed to the snapped rail.
You are absolutely correct Philip
Glad you found that break. An trains keep rolling making money.
Trains keep rollin = my paychecks get comin LOL
Hi from Merseyside, UK.
When you repair your mud holes, do you put a geotextile material like Terram on the ground first to mitigate the effects of the soil and the pumping effect?
When they built the famous Liverpool to Manchester railway around 1829 (it opened 1830) they had to cross marshland at a place called Chat Moss. They had to make a mattress type of arrangement using heather bundles, brush wood and timber and in effect float the railway formation over the peat bog. The track formation is still in use to this day.
Thanks for the info in your comments, nice to hear how our overseas neighbors do things. They make nowadays a product called a geo mat for mushy sub surface, we have not used them. We have in past used a geotextile road fabric under the track with very good results
@@ccrx6700
Great. I used to work on civil engineering sites as a plant operator, excavators and ADTs mainly, so have seen both geotextile and geogrid materials used in the past. Also soil stabilisation using lime and/or portland cement. It's amazingly effective on poor soil and saves a fortune in removing old spoil and importing fresh material. Quarries have to charge a tax of £2 per tonne (1000kg) of aggregate. As you would know, a tonne (2,204lbs) doesn't go far.
@@neilcrawford8303 It goes about 10 feet (3 meters).
Does anybody know of the sturdiest rail fastening system for use on a concrete base? I have a 150' parabolic dish antenna that runs on four train wheels. I'm about to spend serious $$$ on recondition it all including the foundation, rail, and fastening system.
Is the break caused by the dirty ballast and the dip in the rail at that point
Dan, i believe that was a major contributing factor
I'm just a dumb plumber but that gap, to me looks like where two rails meet. Funny to me how the gap falls dead center of the splice plates.
Jim we drilled holes in the rail spaced so that is how it looks like that. Appreciate your watching 👍
@@ccrx6700 So is this a view of the finished repair ?
@@jimgresham5529 yes Jim, although sometime we gonna replace that stick of rail, eventually, you know how things go being a plumber, always something else gets in the way to do first 😉
@@ccrx6700 Yeah....right.
Nice!!!!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😊
Question, to keep the nuts from backing off, why not track weld the nut to the bolt ?
Keith, that certainly would hold the bolts tight, but remember we got 17 miles of jointed
track, to weld 6 bolts on every joint would be a monumental task for sure
Mud holes…..the worst! It’s hard tamping ballast when all you have is dirt and mud. You know it’s a bad hole when mud pumps out as the trucks go over the section.
Looking at the thumbnail, I thought that was a rail joint and the break was the chipped rail head. I guess technically it is a rail joint now.
Another stress fracture from the track flexing up and down in the muddy areas?
That it absolutely is Samuel, very good observation sir
Like to see you fix that break? Do you bring out the welding copper pot thingy?
Is the steering wheel of your truck locked as long as it's on the rails?
On my big hi rail truck no because the front wheels are up
in the air, on my little hi rail yes the steering is locked because
the tires are on the rail. If they weren't locked then in a curve
that would cause the little truck to derail easily.
I came up with a question..... I was walking around the edges of the yard in Anchorage, AK today. It was -12c. Ice and snow was being pushed out of the way by the wheels and flanges. I noticed where snow and ice was potentially compacting at the road crossings. Is it possible to get enough ice between the rail and the crossing to derail a train. In other words, can the grove be filled in enough to cause a problem. It appeared to me, there was sand and salt applied heavily on the crossing. Not sure if it was from sanding the roads or from the RR keeping the ice out. Thanks. The switches were heated. That was cool or....not cool hahaha.
William, excellent observation and question. Yes sir ice buildup can and will derail. We had a loco derail many years ago cause of ice in a crossing. I derailed my tamper once cause same thing. Now we try keep problem areas salted
@@ccrx6700 thanks for the answer. I went back down and checked more carefully. It appears that most of what is in the crossing groove is salt. Thanks for the answer.
@@P61guy61 your welcome, we learned the hard way , we,ve also used fire snake to melt the ice, but the melting ice water wants to extinguish the snake fire
New to this channel. Could you weld that rail with thermite or is that something you can't do legally?
Welcome and there is no illegality against thermite welding, we
do it in several places. This one would not be a good candidate,
need to replace the rail there, appreciate your watching
Nice find and great explanation. I liked riding the train or a heavy piece of track equipment to find stuff I normally wouldn't find in the hyrail pickup. Tampers are famous for breaking rails while tamping. I like those kind of clean breaks. Winter and summer are hell on the track structure. What class track are you currently at? Are you trying to upgrade the track class?
Thank you for great comment. Over the years i,ve broke 6 rails with tamper, sounds like a shotgun goin off when that happens. Old tamper guy once told me, we dont charge extra to find rail weak places. He heh
We have class 2 track. Ballast plugged up in this spot full of coal fines
@@ccrx6700 yes, it always startled me when running the tamper breaking a rail. You've not too bad. I've done more broke rails and pull aparts than I can count. I've dealt with a few sun kinks too, my least favorite to deal with.
@@rebelrailroader you got that right, much rather have pull apart than a buckle
how long do rails lifespan actually last normally on High Traffic etc?.
No signal bond at the break ?
Mark, we do not have any public grade crossings, we do have 1 private road crossing into old Robena mine, but since the mine shut down years ago we no longer have signals at thay location either. Thanks for watching
@@ccrx6700 ok thanks for the info . Stay safe !
Looking at Google Earth, at your River Yard, there's a string of 9 cars up against the rock ledge..are they extra or bad order...
Can't make out where the switch point is for that string...
Does the railroad have spring road restrictions?
No we do not Greg. It's class 2 track and speed is 25 MPH year
round. Thanks for writing in and watching the video today sir.
You have help when making repairs, or are you flying solo...???
There are 2 on track maintenance, if we have a big job then get help or get a rr contractor
How old is that rail? How long does it last?
This was original rail here Wayne, made in 1975. Rail on high
degree curves lasts far less as long as rail on tangent track, there
is no formula on how long a rail will last, although the addition of
flange greasers does significantly increase the life of rail in curves.
i assume the fix for this is a thermite repair? couldn't find the town of kirby on google maps. only Kirby, Whiteley Township, PA. this has to be right there. i didn't even try looking for curve 14. lol
Yep you are there. We gonna replace this stick of rail soon, I don't like how it all looks and will feel more comfortable just putting a
stick of relay rail. Thank you for watching the movie
@@ccrx6700 So what causes the fracture in the rail? Is it an imperfection in the rail it self or just the fatigue of continuous bending as the wheels roll across it?
@@frotobaggins7169 can be both, as you know constant pounding of the wheels, metal against metal over 40 years time wears things out
@@ccrx6700 for sure. I grew up near the Enola yard. back in the 70's that place was busy as a bee's nest. They would get 2, 100 car coal trains everyday plus all the freight trains. And of course all that rail is made down in Steelton. you could see a mile of train cars just stacked with rail. they would pull it out of the mill in one big long piece and run it through special cars with rollers to store it.
seems like that kind of break could be welded up pretty easily, at least temporarily.
Yes it could have been. However all our welding is done by
contractors who are not always available plus the travel time
for them to get here plus the hour and half to do a weld, so
this was the quick way to keep the train running. Since then
we have just replaced the entire stick of rail because I wasn't
real happy with the wear on the rest of it. Appreciate your
writing in and for watching my good man.
@@ccrx6700 that makes sense. thanks for posting these vids. i enjoy learning about the railroad biz.
dont they use a geotextile to seperate the mud from the ballast?
Derrick, when we move the entire track out and bull doze down to
solid, we do put a geo textile down, but that takes a lot of time and we
don't often get that much time to have down track, they run a lot of
trains so we have to make do with then limited amount of down time we
have, sure wish all the track had geotextile under it, sure would alleviate
a lot of the problems I have to deal with. thanks for the comment and
excellent question!
where is the mud coming from?
Mel, coal fines from leaky hopper car doors over the years have plugged
up the ballast so water is unable to drain away from the track. Instead
it lays on top, when the train goes over track, it pushes track down, this
takes water down with it, then when train unloads it acts like a pump
sucking mud from below up into the cribs and under the ties. Perpetual
cycle, we have to remedy that by digging out the old soiled ballast from
the cribs (area between the ties) and replacing with new ballast, the
tamping and raising track so good ballast is under the ties and good
drainage occurs. Very good question and thank you for that. Hope that
helps explain
@@ccrx-xu1wc dumb question,
wouldn't it be cheaper to fix
the car doors, than the row
msintenance? ;-)
@@melperry3576 Mel, well that's a long story. short version is that we are understaffed in the maintenance department and they have so many other things that they need to take care of besides car maintenance. These cars are old and take a real beating getting dumped 6 to 7 times a day, a normal car on another railroad may only get dumped once a week. But in a perfect world you are absolutely correct sir. And, no it was not a dumb question, really wish I could talk with you in person and explain a lot more and you would understand much better what is going on here, there's just some things I don't wish to say here on chat about all that. It really was a perfect
question with only a few tidbits of an answer. You would make a good car repair foreman!
5 degrees?!! What the heck. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Are you ever involved in spraying the roadbed for weeds? What do you use if you are?
Gary no we dont spray, we do rent a big track mounted brush cutter, does a very good job
@@ccrx6700 thank you. The reason that I asked is I used to soil sterilization for a steel plant in our area and I used to see the Union Pacific spraying their right of way using a product that I was also using. It has a bad reputation for leaching and I could see where it had. Thanks again!
@@garyacker7388 Thanks for telling me that Gary, perhaps that why they dont spray cause of EPA concerns bout leaching, lot of streams close to our tracks
You mean you couldn’t highball?
Why not weld it ????????
Albert, great question, 2 answers. 1. We will replace the entire stick in the near future, so those joints will have to be bolted because of the pre existing holes in railnon either end. 2. We contract out all our welding and they are not always available, hope that answered sir. Thank you for watching
@@ccrx6700 thanks for telling me, my dad worked for ATSF. He was badly injured working on a turn table. He suffered greatly and die from the injuries and cancer .
DAYS OFF?!?!?!
YOU GET TIME OFF?!?!?!
Come on, Man! Get back to WORK!!!
LOL
Sorry to disappoint you Steven, i will go back tomorrow 😊
Wouldn’t the track circuit detect that?
David, if we had a track circuit yes it would but we are not that sophisticated to have that, only track circuit we have is me riding the rails looking for stuff like this...lol appreciate your watching
how in the world do you drill thru iron rail like that ?:
We have a special rail drill that does it pretty nifty, got special bits and we use a cutting solution. Thank you for watching the movie
Dave, you gotta stop makin work for ur self, lol
I know ... 😭
@@ccrx6700 Talk about "Job Security" !!! Kinda like myself, your "Qualification" to my "Sail Endorsement".....Plenty Captains but very few w/Sail Endorsement. I missed this very informative video the first time around...glad I caught it now! When i think about it I can realize how that "PUMPING" can be so powerful as to snap a rail like that !
@@capttom7772 from watching the news, I think they are in need of your expertise right now at Suez. Wow what a mess they have.
Why not thermite weld it?
Todd, thank you for asking. I felt since the rail had broke in the middle of the stick, that it was a good idea to change out the whole stick when we had a chance. We contract out all our welds and it costs 550 to do 1 weld, I have a stick of relay rail that will fit there, so it far cheaper that way than weld. Thank you for watching
@@ccrx6700 had No idea of the cost of the things involved , thanks for sharing .
@@heartland96a your welcome, nothing on railroad is cheap
Hello!! We are doing a project which involves railway tracks. we needed assistance.how can we contact you?
Via these comments sir.
@@ccrx6700 ohk
I am a final year engineering student. I along with my team are working on a project for flaw detection of railway tracks using Deep Learning.
We were successful in implementing the crack detection using the images clicked by us locally.
But for other types of flaws such as flaking , corrugation, spalling etc we are not having dataset.
Seeing your work from UA-cam channel we were hoping that you could provide us with some of the images of different types of flaws on railway tracks.
Please help us with this.
My team would be grateful to you.
Thanks
@@chidanandpudakalakatti3039 awesome wish you the best on your project sir, sounds intriguing. I dont have any pics of defects but got several videos that may be of help. Check out the playlist on my channel: Rail Defects and Rail Anomalies. Channel is ccrx 6700. Unfortionately there are a lot more rail defects than on those vids but just havent gotten around to making more vids on them. Keep me informed how your project goes please
Your track bed has more dirt and mud than ballast. Water is the enemy of rail bed.
Robert, thank you for your comment. We do have some problems, we also have some really good track. But if we didn't have some challenges then there would be no need for a track crew and I would
be out of a job, if that happened, then no more videos could I make.
So with that convoluted logic, thank goodness we have some mud
so I can keep my job...LOL Appreciate your watching
Looks like a jointed rail to me.
That's an old BNSF section truck!
I could have fix that with some JB weld
Kenney, if you can do that, you're gonna be my next new trackman! Lol Appreciate your watching
That's a track joint, not broken😅
Almost no diffetence now, you are right. Appreciate your watching 😊
No problem
Thats ben pumping a long time ,, y fix in when frozen,,??
This looks like a rail joint to me not a broken rail also the rail is wirn out because the wheel flanges are hitting the joint plates
Call dispatch
I didn't see the broken rail.....all I saw was the rail joint?? Click bait??
Bill, sorry, I didn't make a video of the before, only after it was fixed. Apologize for that, hope you will forgive me. I didn't have time to make a vid of the break, had to get it fixed so the train could run so was in a hurry. I do appreciate your watching sir
Great video. Thanks
Thank you Kevin, glad you enjoyed watching