My real name is Michael McCluskey. I'm in Canton, Ohio. You don't need to thank me for watching. If anything, I'd thank you for posting all the videos you do. I always like trains and railroads most of my life. Back in 1967 to 1969 I used to hop freight trains to go on adventures. Back in 1967, I made friends with a train crew in an industrial yard.
Hi Michael, been football hall fame many years ago, went thru Canton on our way Cuyahoga Scenic RR this summer, it sure has grown since we were there 20 years ago, traffic was immense
Nice work. I just recently retired from Con Edison of New York, and I can tell you watching your videos makes me think twice about retirement. I do miss working
Congratulations on your step into a new way of life Joe. I'm lucky I can still be working and I do enjoy it for the most part, but as you know, there are those days when retirement looks pretty good. Appreciate the very nice comment and for watching the show today sir.
Good to see you again. There sure is a big difference in those bolts. Thank you for taking the time to share this with all of us. We all really appreciate you and what you do! Take care and stay safe.
Got my three in, what were you doing! Oh, sitting on the bumper drinking iced tea, well ok. You're the boss and yes I know, now I can put the other three in! Thanks Dave, enjoyed the video as always. Keep em rolling and stay safe buddy!
Just doing my job as you would too, lucky I can get to show a small part of what goes on to maintain a track, it's really special to me that I can and also that great folks like you enjoy seeing these!
Well thank you very much Matt, and you're right, who needs TV, everyone should just watch my channel. I'd make millions and then donate a huge part of that money to Age of Steam and a few others doing steam restoration work!!! Sure would like to see WM Scenic 1309 riding the rails soon, they need help
Those are quite beefy bolts Dave! My daughter just installed 1/2" grade 2 hot-dip galvanized bolts on the woodshop posts yesterday - girly bolts compared to those track bolts! That hydraulic wrench was a beast as well. Very enjoyable video Dave, I love learning about railroading! 😁
Thanks my friend. We were working on putting in drains on a new construction pole barn today. They did the sono tubes and bottom braces like you did, but they should have watched your vid on how to install them! Those steel braces were all over the place on one end of the concrete and the other. No perforated pipe available here, had to use solid pipe and drill the holes in, every hole I drilled thought of you! Had a DeWalt 18V drill and a Milwaukee M18, that Milwaukee was impressive! Drilled a lot faster than the DeWalt, totally suprised me how much faster it drilled.
That manual wrench was a beast, and even with the hydraulic one my back was killing me watching you, I do heavy lifting at my job pretty much all day, but that bending over stuff .....wow great informative video, always a pleasure to watch thanks Dave.
@@ccrx6700 oh totally agree on the hydraulic one, but pretty bad when it won't break it free and you have to cut it. Just shows what the old timers had to deal with back in the day.
Jointed track is a maintenance nightmare, but that sound you are saying sure is romantic. I love to hear it also. Thank you for dropping in on us and watching the repair job my friend.
Just found your channel Dave. Love your channel. I'm a trackworker in Toronto Canada. I find pride in my job and I get the same attitude from you. Keep up the great work and videos 👍
Thank you Matthew, welcome aboard and glad to have you with us, lot more RR vids on my channel page if you would care to watch, Always good to hear from a fellow railroader!
JT!!! Good see you again my old friend, hope you are well and doing good. you're right about the vest, was thinking that myself! Great minds think alike. Gonna be your busy season soon! Please keep in touch sir
You have nice ballast shoulders along the track but I see what you mean about the pumping which will, no doubt, cause the bolts to loosen up. Thank you for bringing us this very interesting and informative video presentation, which is very much appreciated by the people.
Thank you John, appreciate the nice comment and for watching sir. You will be happy to know this video was taken many months ago and since then, this section has been cribbed out and tamped up and is now like new track, a huge improvement for sure. Joints will stay tight now
And all this time I thought all you did was ride around!! :) Missed your last few videos I'm playing catch up. Wrapping up my last week with the rail road. It's been a good ride thanks to dedicated mow workers like yourself. Also been busy with new fence around pastures and trying to stay dry in all the rain. Good to see ya sir !
@@ccrx6700 yes sir once I get the fence up and the new pole barn built and the honey do list complete!!!! Wait that's right I'll have time now to do things! Well till the first of the year any way !!
That's how it's done! I haven't seen any MOW equipment on the big RRs to deal with joints, so that makes you the expert! 😊 Thank you for sharing some necessary but difficult work on the tracks!
Your welcome Brian, great that you enjoyed sir. They do make a machine that tightens the bolts as you ride along although we've never had one here. With 17 miles of jointed track that would be a blessing to have one of those
Hi Dave, I would like to thank you for your great videos. One thing I noticed though was that the outer rubber layers on both hydraulic hoses hooked to you impact gun were badly damaged. I think you should get them changed for your safety and maybe get Kevlar protection on them.thanks again
Thank you and glad you are enjoying. You are correct in your observation and correct in I must get those hoses changed, been putting it off and I accept all blame for that. Appreciate your concern and for writing in my friend.
Oh dear, we can't have that happen Mark! I generally put out 2 a week, hope you've hit the notification bell to receive all new videos, a good many folks have not then wonder why I'm not posting.
@@ccrx6700 yep. I think I get the notification. I don't know why I haven't been seeing them. UA-cam does crazy things sometimes. I just need to make sure I look at your channel so I don't miss anything.
My dad still slips up sometimes and says “worshington” and “worsher” he’s been in the South for 36 years! When I heard you say “worshington” the first time I knew you were in my briar patch. Been meaning to tell you that here in Tuscaloosa is home to the longest wooden train trestle still in operations that crosses the black warrior river between Tuscaloosa and Northport. Norfolk Southern runs. I’ve been seeing Union Pacific locomotives a bit more here as well not sure what’s going on there but they’re gorgeous engines! I love seeing that flag thunder by shaking the ground! Oh FYI that trestle, over 3500 long! Google it sometime!
The UP locomotives are just cross country power. NS locomotives go all the way to the west coast as well. It’s easier to leave the power mixed all the way across the country than to break up a train when you go off the home rails.
@@macinfloydvolk It depends. The led unit must be set up to handle both the DPU (if any) and the thru the rail signaling (if any) of all subdivisions it will be traveling. Most major railroads will assign a group of locos to run-thru duty with one partner and use another group of locos with another partner, and not mix them. It saves time not needing to swap locos at an interchange as well as at the terminals when changing direction. Just make sure the lead and trailing loco cabs are both pointing out and you are good to go at all times.
@@thomasboese3793 such good information. What has changed! I have lived in Tuscaloosa since I was 9 and only within the last few years have I seen Union Pacific engines … I chalked it up to maybe Norfolk Southern had a deal with Union Pacific or maybe regulations have changed… loved trains my whole life but I took a step back for many years because I was bitter that I couldn’t drive one
Thanks Pete, always a joy to hear from you too my friend. Gonna have 6 videos out end of November on all the track work we did at W&W with the last one in that series of #4 out front lite up with the head light on. You'll get to see your buddy Rodney driving spikes in one of them. When he came to the harbor and bid on running the short trip, I called him Gravy Train Grimes....LOL
Thank you my friend, great to hear you enjoyed. Winters can be rough here, but I'd rather have a winter that freezes and stays cold than one that is constantly freeze and warm up. Freezing and staying that way is much easier on track than the opposite
Your welcome John, if we had 17 miles of welded rail the maintenance would be considerably less, but we don't. Over the long years I've probably replaced 75% of the bolts in this track believe it or not. Appreciate your tuning in to the show today my friend
Here in the UK, we call them fishplates. I replaced a fair few of those bolts. Either by hand, using spanners or using a petrol powered nut runner or bance as we called it. Worked 11 years on the railway. Enjoy watching your videos
Glad to hear you enjoy them. Do you know why they are called fishplates? The part of the rail under the head and on the web where the joint bars contact, those parts of the rail is called the fishing. Space between those contact points is the fishing space. Thus that is why they are fishplates and it makes good sense
@@ccrx6700 never really gave it a thought as to why they are called fishplates. When I joined the railway, I had to do a personal track safety course (PTS) to get a job on the railway. It was a 3 day course, just teaching you what to expect on the job, basic terminology of the 4 foot. What to do in a emergency, stopping trains and the correct way to contact the signaller. Amongst other things. The pts qualification lasts two years. Later, they introduced a track induction course lasting 7 days, giving a more indepth look at the railway, going into more detail about the components that make up the railway. This was brought in, as so many were starting and didn't have the experience. Do they have anything similar in America?
@@WaylandJoe yes most RR do have safety courses. We had a 2 week training when I hired in but it was for mining since we are a coal mine, they didn't do anything here for RR, was all learn as you go back in them days
Your welcome Turbo Tim, am working on getting shirts and I may have to sneak some bolts off the property and sell them on Ebay....LOL Great to hear you are enjoying these
Thanks Thomas, glad you enjoyed, actually this video was taken many months ago, I got quite a back log of videos on Tube yet to be made public. totally agree on the being outside!
Always, but that's my job, if there wasn't maintenance do on track then I wouldn't have a job and you wouldn't get any videos....LOL Appreciate your watching sir
Thanks Jeff, glad you liked it. Sure would have liked to talk with your uncle, learn about railroadin in those days. I will never forgive my beloved PRR for merging with NYC, that was a totally stupid move, but it's history. PC was doomed from the beginning
Pretty much in my career I always wore my brain bucket with the visor to the rear as I did not like the visor acting as a blinder on my peripheral vision, plus it was a lot easier to use a face shield when needed as well...... I was always staunch about use of PPE long before it really started being mandatory!
Some brain buckets are not designed to be worn backwards as they provide no protection from what normally would be the rear. The ones we had at work were designed and rated for either way. Like you, I wore mine with the visor to the rear as it is hard to get your head in close when to the front. A US Army Corps of Engineers site safety person chewed me out for having it on backwards according to him. I pulled the instruction sheet out of mine and handed it to him. "Read this!" Never heard another peep out of him on any of my inspection trips.
@@gravelydon7072 I was a Sheet Metal Worker so pretty much ours were the Hard Boiled Plastic version of the Fiber Glass ones worn by the Iron Workers.....some areas they were issued by the Local Unions by color so as to ID the Trades one was associated with
Good for you, despite what anyone says, you got to keep yourself safe by wearing whatever you feel is needed to do that. congratulations sir. I wear visor front to shield against sun, but understand your reasoning and it's okay
@@ccrx6700 high viz around my arse, shirt off getting a tan, hard hat in the van, track levelling with Chippings. Bent over shoveling 99% time. First thing driver sees is my arse . My dad told me . Be safe out there Dave. 👍😎
every time I watch one of your videos im impressed.. on both the quality of the video and content and honestly thank you for having it with rail rode fans
Wow, what a nice comment sir. I really do appreciate that and very glad you are enjoying these, it's great folks like you that inspire me to try and make these better and show what you guys want to see
Nice video Dave ,,, we have been using the Milwaukee 18volt fuel 1 inch drive battery impacts very impressive i believe better torque then the hydraulic units (lighter too😀),,, keep on railroading sir
Thanks Mike, my buddy works BNSF text me some vids of the M18 wrench, he said it was great. I put in suggestion for it here, still waiting. Mechanics here got a Milwaukee 3/4 battery impact, it's totally impressive for putting on tamping blades, want one of those too...LOL Do appreciate your comments my friend
Thanks for giving us another glimpse into your daily workin' on the railroad (🎵 all the live long day!) Oops...couldn't help but break into song. Stay safe and keep having fun.
Oh man, driving kills my back! I often drive with a tennis ball stuck under my leg or on lower side of back, that helps. Thanks for watching Charles and thanks for the concern, you too. Driving truck is a hard job
Glad you enjoyed and welcome to our community here on You Tube, happy to have you with us. Lots more RR videos on my channel if you would care to sometime check them out.
Hey Dave, 80 pound rail is monstrous for mine rail. That stuff comes in weights as light as 8 pounds (that's EIGHT) pounds per yard. I have a switch stand for the small stuff and I'll send you a picture.
Talked to an old guy John that told me they used 15 lb rail on sections under ground where the horses used to pull the carts in, havent heard of 8, but don't doubt your are right for some mines. Thanks for sharing that. A whole lot of folks out there don't realize what all happens with that kind of stuff
We still get the thick washers. When I order, I specify that we want the thick washers. Same as the track spikes, they started sending us 50-pound kegs so I have to request 100-pound kegs to get them.
Awesome Matt, I was told those thick washers were no longer available, but maybe that was just from our particular supplier. I like them much better. thanks for writing in and watching today sir.
If I was a RR worker trainer, or craft training supervisor, I would make your videos mandatory training material. Your videos and OJT would make for some very good new generation trackworkers. Well done sir.
Well thank you very much Bill for the kind words and for your watching sir. Believe this or not, some time ago a foreman for CN wrote me and said he uses these videos for training his new hires since he is not allowed to make videos on his RR. I was totally flattered by that
I worked on a Section crew (Maintenance of Way) crew during the summers during my college years in the late 60’s. No powered tools, everything was muscled powered. Kept me in shape for sports. And on the CB&Q, now part of the BNSF, they were called Angle Plates.
Thanks Don. We used to use all track wrenchs too way back, but once we got an impact, wow what a difference, go so much quicker and way easier on the back and neck than trying to wrench off a frozen bolt. I'm sure you know what I mean there. Appreciate your watching
I have about 700ft of the old Frisco Parsons Sub on my property that was removed from service around 1979. The rail is gone but I have found several joints, bolts, nuts, spikes, tie plates, and even knuckle pins. Amazing how much of that stuff gets used along 700ft it track over 100 years
Hey Dave !!! Great work with explanations of the bolts // nuts & washers !! Now for that ''PUMPKIN PIE "" as that was a workout !! HAHA Have a good week on the rails & Thanks !! ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!
Unrelated note- my uncle used to run the hot box of rivets up the iron in nyc for the unions for years. The smell became him. Just really a lifestyle, and it is something to enjoy.
We were required to wear a hard hat when we moved 20 ton coils of steel. Since hard hats weren't required anywhere else in the plant, guys used to ask why they had to wear one back in the crane bays. I always told them it was to give paramedics something to scoop up the mess in if a coil ever fell on you. We did get an object lesson though, when a mechanic left a wrench on one of the cranes (bridge and trolley crane, floor pendant control) which eventually fell off. If it would have hit someone on the head, it would have left a bit of a mark. So, hard hats.
Thank you for your reply, I mis quoted it was Grease and not oil. I. Figured that you just didn't have time to cover what a I was asking about. I do appreciate your quick response and the different things that you have covered. But not all items are released for view, the latest is using the BRUSH HOG, showing just much area is covered. Thank you for your videos. JW MCCLANAHAN
Great video, I really enjoyed watching the track work segments that you show everyone. I would sure be glad to help out if I could but unfortunately we are not close enough for a quick jaunt over.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed and very intelligent question! Yes in this case because of the unstable ballast conditions. Most generally in good ballast where track surface holds good, we don't need to re torque them. There is no set time frame for re torque, every joint is different
I have no idea either Andy, like you, someday I'm gonna have find that out too. No idea why they call them that under ground here either. Do appreciate your watching sir
Angle bars, joint bars, splice bars, all are correct terms, we have always called them joint bars here. Thanks for watching Ken and Alco. Just wondering if Alco is perhaps looking for a date? Our dog (not a RR dog like yours...) Missy is kinda lonely and could use a night out with a real RR canine.... LOL
We do have 6 solar powered wayside flange greasers. They don't actually put out oil it's a special grease. Ours are made by LB Foster Co. Someday i will make a video on them but that will be far in the future before I get to it. Don't know what that guy said, but flange greasers are very important for preventing curve wear, wheel wear and also derailments. Easiest way to derail a car is by having dry rail with curve wear on it and a new wheel on the car believe it or not. flange greasers a perfect way to prevent this type of derailment. Thanks for writing in and watching this video Jw.
Was first time I put the GoPro on a tripod, so it gonna take some more experimentation to get a close up, but I do appreciate your suggestion J D, will work on getting one, may take some time got so many other vids already made and waiting to be posted. Thanks for watching sir
Wish I could try an air impact wrench on the bolts, pneumatic hand spikers are awesome with the power they have, much better than my hydraulic hand spiker. Thanks for watching David
greetings Dave At work we had the tracks replaced at work in 2012, a few months ago I keep an eye on the tracks as I walk down them daily, I found 3 broken bolts on a joint all on one side, is that common? all were broken in half like they were over tight, or had a extra stress on them. but the balist support was good the day before there was a delivery and I did not see excessive movement anywhere on the tracks. You make very informative and interesting videos, thanks for the railroad education.
Well that's interesting. Usually when there are 3 bolts sheared off only on 1 side that means a car wheel was off, but you'd have more than 1 joint if that occurred. I've never seen here when all 3 on one side were broke in half. That is strange, but there are some weird strange things happen on the railroad! Sorry I can't be of more help but great to hear you are enjoying these videos my friend.
May be one idea but if they were measuring the holes with something that's a bit too short you'd end up with each hole having less and less room, if the rail pulled tight the bolt with the least room would shear 1st then putting pressure on the 2nd repeating the process to the 3rd.
@@matty101yttam greetings Matty When I found the broken bolts only on one side of the joint. I thought it could be due to bad support under the rail on that side. but nothing was out of place. once repaired with new bolts I watched the CSX engine go across the repair with no extreme movement of the rail under load. so it was not support issue. also the broken bolts were not tight in the holes, or out of alignment. each split in the middle of the bolt. that is all I know at this time.
I used to think 150ft-lbs of torque on CAT 3408 cylinder heads was tough. Trying to manually crank 300ft-lbs... That takes incredible effort. Thank goodness for power tools.
Sometime I can show the rail going into the mine, but I don't have state certified miners papers so am not allowed under ground. I've never been under ground either as a worker, only twice on a tour, it's definitely a different world 700 feet below the surface. You might be interested to know that everything is white under ground. They rock dust everything to prevent fires from coal dust from happening
I will do that for you sometime Bradley, however don't expect it anytime soon, may be next year before I get to it. Got almost 100 videos now already made and just waiting to get published. Thank you for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Yes John it is the forces from the train along with the track moving up and down that can cause bolts to loosen and also break. Plus after many years they just get worn out also at times. Metal fatigue. Very much appreciate your visiting with us and taking in the presentation my good man.
You have a really great job your outside making your railroad great seems like a fun job it shows on your face love to do that job I would even do it for free
We use cordless Rad torque guns at work and they're terrific. They're no bigger than a cordless drill and not much heavier. We have a few sizes from 500lb-ft on up. Our biggest will torque all 324 lug nuts on a Cat 797F to 2500lb-ft with one or two batteries.
Do you find that the lock washers break in two and fall out ? I'm a HD mechanic and we would never use lock washers on U bolts because they could break and the U bolts would be very loose.
On occasion they do, but we have 17 miles jointed track, with 6 bolts in each joint, that means there are over 27,000 washers on our track and the few washers that do break is very small in comparison to that amount. More bolts break than washers. I appreciate your writing in and for your thoughts on that.
Hi Dave, great video again and thank you. I was curious why you wouldn't pretreatment with wd40 or other penetrating oil since they are designed to help loosen bolts just like those. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see that curve fixed too!
No need to as these bolts have good clearances that allow them to be self cleaning once you loosen them and they don't take much to turn once you are off the lock washers. It is the lock washer that prevents them from coming loose. Well most of the time. That is why you have to inspect the track as they will loosen sometimes if the lock washer doesn't bite into the nut.
Great question Lyndon, and if I was using a hand wrench, then yep we'd use 40 or Blaster, the hydraulic wrench or the liquid wrench (torch) doesn't seem to care either way...LOL
I'm not really sure I understand what you are trying to find out Edward? On a wheel that has a wrong profile (concaved) then there will be a shiny silver mark on top of the joint bars. Other than that everything is below the flange on a wheel. Was that what you were driving at?
@@ccrx6700 yes, that’s what I was wondering. I wasn’t expecting to see from the video if the wheel would rub on the joint bar but I did wonder how you checked. Is there an extra measurement needed? Or, are the components made to fit and you can tell by visual inspection the wheel flange will clear the bar?
@@edwarddavis507 They make wheel gauges to check the wheel specs. Once in a while a bad wheel happens and if I see a series of joint bars that have the shiny streak near the middle of the bar, then time to investigate the wheels for concavity further. Once in a while that streak will happen on joint bars where the track is pumping up and down also, not a wheel problem, but a track surface problem with that.
Hey 👋 section man Here again in terrace bc. Now how do you hot cut on a 40°C day where you are from . When you gotta hot cut out from misalignment put a plug in to take out some steal, cut out hot cut torch out is fastest and plug rail it in . But with a rail saw . Half through the head down to the base flip saw over cut rest of the baseband finish on the head of the rail is how we do it I would love to hear how you guys would do it if you needed to make a hot cut on a really ot hot ya know?? 👍
We have had indications of a heat buckle starting to form several times in the past Brandon. You are so right a rail saw will bind up and you ain't getting it out once it does. We torch cut the rail and then having a gap, will saw cut whatever we need out to put a plug in. Thanks for asking and for taking the time to watch the video today my good man.
We use a lot of hydraulics but if I may recommend for your wrench get an IR Impact, they look like a mini-gun. They use two big batteries, get yourself a charger for your truck and two more batteries and then your set so you can charge two and use two simultaneously
Thanks for your suggestion dje. Guess what, I had them order me one and I simply love it. It's not quite the wrench my hydraulic one is but it sure is nice, no hoses to mess with and also I can take it with me in my small hi rail truck which doesn't have hydraulics on it. It has been a real blessing. Here's a video I made when it was new of the IR wrench: ua-cam.com/video/zxKlmzt76Ws/v-deo.html Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch the video and write in my friend.
Would you please measure the diameter of the holes on the joint bars/fish plates. Please provide the size of the joint bars also. The reason I ask is I'm starting a 1/8 scale Live Steam locomotive build of a SBRR ALCO S4 in honor of my late Papa who was a locomotive engineer for many years on the South Buffalo Railway until his retirement and I would like to be as prototypically correct as possible on my mission to honor my Dad. Thanks for all the great videos of railroading, keep up the great work.
Great question and when we replace a bolt I always use new washers and nuts, maybe it just me, but I like all new instead of used, same with spikes, pull a spike out and use a new one.
can you come to Romania to put them on right tracks, seeing you much you love your worck you are perfect cadidat to run Romanian Rails :D never seen trains and rail tracks like i see after i saw some of your video, keep going and take care ;)
Just ordered my plane tickets! How could I pass up a request like that....LOL I did get a real job offer several years ago to go to Panama to run tamper for KCS there, Thanks for watching, we do appreciate that
@@ccrx6700 i am truly honest, i watch your videos after worck like a watch some cartoons when i was a kid :D i am so impress and i lostmyself watching you:D new things to hear and also you conquer us with your kind and amazing atitudine i dont think i ever see someone worck and explain and do thinks like you do :D please keep us up to date and take care and i vote for you in Romania even if i move out to Belgium 2 years ago :D
Track wrench =Fish spanner Track bolt= Fish bolts Fish plates. I could argue all day with you Dave. On pretty sure we would have an enjoyable time . Cant beat British Steel. 👍😎
Do you know why they are called fish plates? On the rail underground here they call them fish plates on the outside track we call them joint bars. The surface area the plates have against the rail head and the rail base which you call foot, that area is called the fishing. Thus that is why they use fish plate because it rests against the fishing. We would have fun, I really enjoy learning about how other countries have their terminology.
What an enjoyable video - thank you so much for sharing! It's so interesting to see what all goes on behind the scenes in railroading. Your videos are so informative!
@@ccrx6700 Thank you, sir! I'm doing well enough here. I'm still around and watching but for one reason or another, haven't been quite as active in the UA-cam community recently.
My real name is Michael McCluskey. I'm in Canton, Ohio. You don't need to thank me for watching. If anything, I'd thank you for posting all the videos you do. I always like trains and railroads most of my life. Back in 1967 to 1969 I used to hop freight trains to go on adventures. Back in 1967, I made friends with a train crew in an industrial yard.
Hi Michael, been football hall fame many years ago, went thru Canton on our way Cuyahoga Scenic RR this summer, it sure has grown since we were there 20 years ago, traffic was immense
I love what you’re doing much better than watching videos where the trains are miles long and boring.
Really glad you are enjoying the home movies broadwayltd.
Thank you so much for watching them my friend.
Nice work. I just recently retired from Con Edison of New York, and I can tell you watching your videos makes me think twice about retirement. I do miss working
Congratulations on your step into a new way of life Joe. I'm lucky I can
still be working and I do enjoy it for the most part, but as you know,
there are those days when retirement looks pretty good. Appreciate
the very nice comment and for watching the show today sir.
I'm glad I could help! My wife and I are so glad that we found your channel, we enjoy watching very much. Thanks Dave.
Your welcome my friend and we do appreciate your both watching
Good to see you again. There sure is a big difference in those bolts. Thank you for taking the time to share this with all of us. We all really appreciate you and what you do! Take care and stay safe.
Thank you Valerie for the very nice comment, you are always so
sweet
Got my three in, what were you doing! Oh, sitting on the bumper drinking iced tea, well ok. You're the boss and yes I know, now I can put the other three in! Thanks Dave, enjoyed the video as always. Keep em rolling and stay safe buddy!
LOL... Glad you enjoyed Rick, thanks for viewing the show today
my friend
Appreciate you out there keeping that line together and knowing what is happening in every area by the foot. Impressive, a big responsibility.
Just doing my job as you would too, lucky I can get to show a small
part of what goes on to maintain a track, it's really special to me that
I can and also that great folks like you enjoy seeing these!
With videos like these who needs cable tv. Thanks for the info! I seem to learn something in every one of your videos.
Well thank you very much Matt, and you're right, who needs TV, everyone should just watch my channel. I'd make millions and then
donate a huge part of that money to Age of Steam and a few
others doing steam restoration work!!! Sure would like to see
WM Scenic 1309 riding the rails soon, they need help
Those are quite beefy bolts Dave! My daughter just installed 1/2" grade 2 hot-dip galvanized bolts on the woodshop posts yesterday - girly bolts compared to those track bolts! That hydraulic wrench was a beast as well. Very enjoyable video Dave, I love learning about railroading! 😁
Thanks my friend. We were working on putting in drains on a new construction
pole barn today. They did the sono tubes and bottom braces like you did, but
they should have watched your vid on how to install them! Those steel braces
were all over the place on one end of the concrete and the other. No perforated
pipe available here, had to use solid pipe and drill the holes in, every hole I drilled
thought of you! Had a DeWalt 18V drill and a Milwaukee M18, that Milwaukee
was impressive! Drilled a lot faster than the DeWalt, totally suprised me how
much faster it drilled.
That manual wrench was a beast, and even with the hydraulic one my back was killing me watching you, I do heavy lifting at my job pretty much all day, but that bending over stuff .....wow great informative video, always a pleasure to watch thanks Dave.
Glad you enjoyed Sir Pappy! Hard to break frozen bolts with that
wrench tho, hydraulics is the ticket. Glad you enjoyed the show today
my friend
@@ccrx6700 oh totally agree on the hydraulic one, but pretty bad when it won't break it free and you have to cut it. Just shows what the old timers had to deal with back in the day.
It just occurred to me that nearly everything about your job is on the ground. My old-man back is dying just watching you work.
Well it better all be ok the ground, I don't think we've created flying trains yet! 😆
My hurts sometimes too, not as young as we used to be...LOL
Thanks for watching the show today
I always loved those sections "before seamless welding replaced them" to hear that ( ting ting , ting ting , ting ting , ting ting ) always made me smile .
Jointed track is a maintenance nightmare, but that sound you
are saying sure is romantic. I love to hear it also. Thank you
for dropping in on us and watching the repair job my friend.
Railroad job description: hard dirty work! ✔️
Great job Dave 👍
Thank you David, glad you enjoyed sir. I never understood why
the Dinah part to that song, one of my life's great unsolved mysteries....
Just found your channel Dave. Love your channel. I'm a trackworker in Toronto Canada. I find pride in my job and I get the same attitude from you. Keep up the great work and videos 👍
Thank you Matthew, welcome aboard and glad to have you with us,
lot more RR vids on my channel page if you would care to watch,
Always good to hear from a fellow railroader!
Now that’s an Open End Wrench like I’ve never seen before. WOW! 👍
Indeed. Me too.
@@Ron4885 need one of them to tighten up the head bolts on a honda v-tec engine.
Yep, can't go to NAPA and get one of those...LOL Thanks for
watching Ken
Yep. Most of the ones I've used had a chisel end on one end and the open end on the other.
@@gravelydon7072 sweet, never saw one like that, it would come in handy break ice off switch plates
Always a pleasure watching ol boy! I think its time for a new vest though, as much character as that one has.
JT!!! Good see you again my old friend, hope you are well and doing good. you're right about the vest, was thinking that myself! Great minds think alike. Gonna be your busy season soon! Please keep
in touch sir
You have nice ballast shoulders along the track but I see what you mean about the pumping which will, no doubt, cause the bolts to loosen up. Thank you for bringing us this very interesting and informative video presentation, which is very much appreciated by the people.
Thank you John, appreciate the nice comment and for watching sir.
You will be happy to know this video was taken many months ago
and since then, this section has been cribbed out and tamped up
and is now like new track, a huge improvement for sure. Joints will
stay tight now
Another quality how-to in the world of railroading ! Thanx Dave
Your welcome Kurt, great to hear you enjoyed my friend, do
thank you for viewing the show today
And all this time I thought all you did was ride around!! :) Missed your last few videos I'm playing catch up. Wrapping up my last week with the rail road. It's been a good ride thanks to dedicated mow workers like yourself. Also been busy with new fence around pastures and trying to stay dry in all the rain. Good to see ya sir !
Last week????? Congratulations! I've still got 13 years lol
@@michaelball760 good luck Michael you will get there !!
Oh wow, best to you my friend, but just think, once you're retired,
you can spend all day watching my videos. NS is gonna miss you sir!
@@ccrx6700 yes sir once I get the fence up and the new pole barn built and the honey do list complete!!!! Wait that's right I'll have time now to do things! Well till the first of the year any way !!
Congrats on your retirement. Today, 10/7/21 is my 25 year anniversary, only 5 more to go on my sentence in the locomotive shop.
That's how it's done! I haven't seen any MOW equipment on the big RRs to deal with joints, so that makes you the expert! 😊 Thank you for sharing some necessary but difficult work on the tracks!
Your welcome Brian, great that you enjoyed sir. They do make a
machine that tightens the bolts as you ride along although we've never had one here. With 17 miles of jointed track that would be
a blessing to have one of those
@@ccrx6700 I would like to see one of those!
Hi Dave, I would like to thank you for your great videos. One thing I noticed though was that the outer rubber layers on both hydraulic hoses hooked to you impact gun were badly damaged. I think you should get them changed for your safety and maybe get Kevlar protection on them.thanks again
Thank you and glad you are enjoying. You are correct in your
observation and correct in I must get those hoses changed,
been putting it off and I accept all blame for that. Appreciate
your concern and for writing in my friend.
Thanks Dave. I was starting to have withdrawals without one of your videos! 😁
Oh dear, we can't have that happen Mark! I generally put out 2 a week,
hope you've hit the notification bell to receive all new videos, a good
many folks have not then wonder why I'm not posting.
@@ccrx6700 yep. I think I get the notification. I don't know why I haven't been seeing them. UA-cam does crazy things sometimes. I just need to make sure I look at your channel so I don't miss anything.
@@stlfomoco yep Mark, sometimes tube sends notifications to my wife who is subbed and sometimes she doesn't get them, go figure
My dad still slips up sometimes and says “worshington” and “worsher” he’s been in the South for 36 years! When I heard you say “worshington” the first time I knew you were in my briar patch. Been meaning to tell you that here in Tuscaloosa is home to the longest wooden train trestle still in operations that crosses the black warrior river between Tuscaloosa and Northport. Norfolk Southern runs. I’ve been seeing Union Pacific locomotives a bit more here as well not sure what’s going on there but they’re gorgeous engines! I love seeing that flag thunder by shaking the ground! Oh FYI that trestle, over 3500 long! Google it sometime!
Warsh the winder with werter is Pennsylvania all day.
The UP locomotives are just cross country power. NS locomotives go all the way to the west coast as well. It’s easier to leave the power mixed all the way across the country than to break up a train when you go off the home rails.
@@ralfie8801 even as the lead engine?
@@macinfloydvolk It depends. The led unit must be set up to handle both the DPU (if any) and the thru the rail signaling (if any) of all subdivisions it will be traveling. Most major railroads will assign a group of locos to run-thru duty with one partner and use another group of locos with another partner, and not mix them. It saves time not needing to swap locos at an interchange as well as at the terminals when changing direction. Just make sure the lead and trailing loco cabs are both pointing out and you are good to go at all times.
@@thomasboese3793 such good information. What has changed! I have lived in Tuscaloosa since I was 9 and only within the last few years have I seen Union Pacific engines … I chalked it up to maybe Norfolk Southern had a deal with Union Pacific or maybe regulations have changed… loved trains my whole life but I took a step back for many years because I was bitter that I couldn’t drive one
There is nothing like made in the U.S.A. for any products. Thanks Dave for another great video.
Your welcome Russell, I too like American made, although
Geismar products come from France and I believe Australia and they are top of the line tools
It is always enjoyable and educational watching your videos Dave. Thanks for sharing and be safe.
Thank you very much, great to hear you are enjoying, we do
appreciate your watching Lt. Dan
Dave, it’s always such a joy to be with you when you work! Keep that hard hat on! 😃
Thanks Pete, always a joy to hear from you too my friend. Gonna
have 6 videos out end of November on all the track work we
did at W&W with the last one in that series of #4 out front lite up
with the head light on. You'll get to see your buddy Rodney
driving spikes in one of them. When he came to the harbor and bid
on running the short trip, I called him Gravy Train Grimes....LOL
Holy moly those bolts are huge! Gotta love good old jointed rail!
Jointed rail is romantic, but sure is a lot of maintenance. Thanks
for watching Eric.
@@ccrx6700 Yessir! You're welcome!
Great video. That must be brutal work in a PA winter. Glad you had good weather to work in.
Thank you my friend, great to hear you enjoyed. Winters can be
rough here, but I'd rather have a winter that freezes and stays cold
than one that is constantly freeze and warm up. Freezing and staying
that way is much easier on track than the opposite
Another educational video. Thankyou for sharing. Never realized how much maintenance goes in to railroad until watching here. 👊👍
Your welcome John, if we had 17 miles of welded rail the maintenance would be considerably less, but we don't. Over the
long years I've probably replaced 75% of the bolts in this track
believe it or not. Appreciate your tuning in to the show today my
friend
Here in the UK, we call them fishplates. I replaced a fair few of those bolts. Either by hand, using spanners or using a petrol powered nut runner or bance as we called it. Worked 11 years on the railway.
Enjoy watching your videos
Glad to hear you enjoy them. Do you know why they are called fishplates? The part of the rail under the head and on the web where
the joint bars contact, those parts of the rail is called the fishing.
Space between those contact points is the fishing space. Thus
that is why they are fishplates and it makes good sense
@@ccrx6700 never really gave it a thought as to why they are called fishplates. When I joined the railway, I had to do a personal track safety course (PTS) to get a job on the railway. It was a 3 day course, just teaching you what to expect on the job, basic terminology of the 4 foot. What to do in a emergency, stopping trains and the correct way to contact the signaller. Amongst other things. The pts qualification lasts two years.
Later, they introduced a track induction course lasting 7 days, giving a more indepth look at the railway, going into more detail about the components that make up the railway. This was brought in, as so many were starting and didn't have the experience.
Do they have anything similar in America?
@@WaylandJoe yes most RR do have safety courses. We had a 2 week training when I hired in but it was for mining since we are a coal mine, they didn't do anything here for RR, was all learn as you go back in them days
Who else wants one of those bolts, I do! "Thats railroading T-shirt" and a Bolt please! Love the videos Thanks you from England
Your welcome Turbo Tim, am working on getting shirts and I may
have to sneak some bolts off the property and sell them on Ebay....LOL Great to hear you are enjoying these
Looks good. You have still green leaf on the trees.I'm envy you and your work it’s better to be outside than to be in an office.
Thanks Thomas, glad you enjoyed, actually this video was taken
many months ago, I got quite a back log of videos on Tube yet
to be made public. totally agree on the being outside!
That is some heavy hardware! Nice job Dave, thank you for another great video!
Thank you Raymond, really glad you enjoyed, very much
appreciate your watching my friend
It always seems to me that your always doing track mantinence. A never ending chore of keeping the railroad moving.
Always, but that's my job, if there wasn't maintenance do on track
then I wouldn't have a job and you wouldn't get any videos....LOL
Appreciate your watching sir
Great video dave , I had a uncle who was signal maintainer for penn cent
Thanks Jeff, glad you liked it. Sure would have liked to talk with
your uncle, learn about railroadin in those days. I will never forgive
my beloved PRR for merging with NYC, that was a totally stupid move,
but it's history. PC was doomed from the beginning
Love watching a man who enjoys his work!
Glad you enjoyed the show today my friend, we do thank you for watching
It's always a pleasure to watch your work and your enthusiasm you have with the job at hand,also the way you explain the problem and the fix,thank you
Well golly Doug, thank you very much sir, great to hear you are
enjoying these home movies, we do appreciate your watching and
writing in sir
Pretty much in my career I always wore my brain bucket with the visor to the rear as I did not like the visor acting as a blinder on my peripheral vision, plus it was a lot easier to use a face shield when needed as well......
I was always staunch about use of PPE long before it really started being mandatory!
Some brain buckets are not designed to be worn backwards as they provide no protection from what normally would be the rear. The ones we had at work were designed and rated for either way. Like you, I wore mine with the visor to the rear as it is hard to get your head in close when to the front. A US Army Corps of Engineers site safety person chewed me out for having it on backwards according to him. I pulled the instruction sheet out of mine and handed it to him. "Read this!" Never heard another peep out of him on any of my inspection trips.
@@gravelydon7072 I was a Sheet Metal Worker so pretty much ours were the Hard Boiled Plastic version of the Fiber Glass ones worn by the Iron Workers.....some areas they were issued by the Local Unions by color so as to ID the Trades one was associated with
Good for you, despite what anyone says, you got to keep yourself
safe by wearing whatever you feel is needed to do that. congratulations sir. I wear visor front to shield against sun, but
understand your reasoning and it's okay
@@ccrx6700 high viz around my arse, shirt off getting a tan, hard hat in the van, track levelling with Chippings.
Bent over shoveling 99% time. First thing driver sees is my arse . My dad told me . Be safe out there Dave. 👍😎
every time I watch one of your videos im impressed.. on both the quality of the video and content and honestly thank you for having it with rail rode fans
Wow, what a nice comment sir. I really do appreciate that and
very glad you are enjoying these, it's great folks like you that inspire
me to try and make these better and show what you guys want to see
Nice video Dave ,,, we have been using the Milwaukee 18volt fuel 1 inch drive battery impacts very impressive i believe better torque then the hydraulic units (lighter too😀),,, keep on railroading sir
Thanks Mike, my buddy works BNSF text me some vids of the M18
wrench, he said it was great. I put in suggestion for it here, still
waiting. Mechanics here got a Milwaukee 3/4 battery impact, it's
totally impressive for putting on tamping blades, want one of those too...LOL Do appreciate your comments my friend
Thanks for giving us another glimpse into your daily workin' on the railroad (🎵 all the live long day!) Oops...couldn't help but break into song. Stay safe and keep having fun.
Your welcome John, glad you enjoyed and it's okay if you sing
to us.... :-)
You have a great job
I like it Paul, I'm very fortunate to be able to do this, much appreciate
your watching sir
I'm sure when you finish with this project it'll look pretty good as always. Like they say, "perfection is the best."
Thanks William and yes it is a pretty good section of track now!
Was a mess before. Thanks for watching my friend.
Dang. My back is killing me just watching you work. And I thought 3 and a half million miles driving killed my back. STAY SAFE OUT THERE. ! 😎🤔🇺🇸
Oh man, driving kills my back! I often drive with a tennis ball stuck
under my leg or on lower side of back, that helps. Thanks for
watching Charles and thanks for the concern, you too. Driving truck
is a hard job
You sir have just earned another sub, just came across your bluing rail video. Great content keep it going buddy
Glad you enjoyed and welcome to our community here on You Tube,
happy to have you with us. Lots more RR videos on my channel if
you would care to sometime check them out.
Keep up the good work. I really appreciate your uploads.
Thank you John, really swell comment sir, much appreciated
Hey Dave, 80 pound rail is monstrous for mine rail. That stuff comes in weights as light as 8 pounds (that's EIGHT) pounds per yard. I have a switch stand for the small stuff and I'll send you a picture.
Talked to an old guy John that told me they used 15 lb rail on sections
under ground where the horses used to pull the carts in, havent
heard of 8, but don't doubt your are right for some mines. Thanks for
sharing that. A whole lot of folks out there don't realize what all
happens with that kind of stuff
Awesome video! It's awesome to see what type of work is done. Stay safe out there!
Thank you and really great to hear you enjoyed the home movie,
we do appreciate your watching sir
Great video Dave and that’s railroading
Thank you Mike, great to hear you enjoyed the show today, very
much appreciate your watching my friend
Great stuff as always! You got a beautiful day there. 😊
Thanks Jeff, glad you enjoyed my friend, this was taken many months ago and just getting round to posting it, was a nice day tho
Beautiful Video, Scene Very nice explanation & information thank you so much.
Your very welcome, great to hear that you enjoyed the show today,
we do appreciate that
We still get the thick washers. When I order, I specify that we want the thick washers. Same as the track spikes, they started sending us 50-pound kegs so I have to request 100-pound kegs to get them.
Awesome Matt, I was told those thick washers were no
longer available, but maybe that was just from our particular
supplier. I like them much better. thanks for writing in and watching today sir.
@ccrx 6700 - No problem. I order from Atlantic Track ... not sure who you guys use.
If I was a RR worker trainer, or craft training supervisor, I would make your videos mandatory training material. Your videos and OJT would make for some very good new generation trackworkers. Well done sir.
Well thank you very much Bill for the kind words and for your
watching sir. Believe this or not, some time ago a foreman for CN
wrote me and said he uses these videos for training his new hires
since he is not allowed to make videos on his RR. I was totally
flattered by that
Dave. Joint fixer professional.
Thank you for the kind words StoneDay, glad you enjoyed. Appreciate your taking the time to check out the bolt repair video and write in my friend.
Thanks for bringing us along….
Your welcome Richard, great that you enjoyed the show today sir,
we do appreciate your watching
I worked on a Section crew (Maintenance of Way) crew during the summers during my college years in the late 60’s. No powered tools, everything was muscled powered. Kept me in shape for sports. And on the CB&Q, now part of the BNSF, they were called Angle Plates.
Thanks Don. We used to use all track wrenchs too way back, but
once we got an impact, wow what a difference, go so much quicker
and way easier on the back and neck than trying to wrench off a
frozen bolt. I'm sure you know what I mean there. Appreciate your
watching
Awesome. Finally caught one of your videos within a half hour of it being posted. Keep up the awesome work and stay safe buddy.
Glad you enjoyed Robert, we do appreciate your watching my friend
I have about 700ft of the old Frisco Parsons Sub on my property that was removed from service around 1979. The rail is gone but I have found several joints, bolts, nuts, spikes, tie plates, and even knuckle pins. Amazing how much of that stuff gets used along 700ft it track over 100 years
Awesome Tyler, that's pretty cool. Thanks for watching the video sir
Sure miss the days of made in the USA. In my line of work, it's hard finding DOM tubing for roll cages
What size is that there track wrench? The manual one I mean.
inch and 7/8's
Hey Dave !!! Great work with explanations of the bolts // nuts & washers !! Now for that ''PUMPKIN PIE "" as that was a workout !! HAHA Have a good week on the rails & Thanks !! ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!
Thank you K B, glad you enjoyed my friend
Unrelated note- my uncle used to run the hot box of rivets up the iron in nyc for the unions for years. The smell became him. Just really a lifestyle, and it is something to enjoy.
Wow, iron workers were a breed of their own back then, totally
tough fearless guys, my hats off to your uncle sir
Thank You La Pine Oregon
Your welcome Howard, glad you enjoyed sir
We were required to wear a hard hat when we moved 20 ton coils of steel. Since hard hats weren't required anywhere else in the plant, guys used to ask why they had to wear one back in the crane bays. I always told them it was to give paramedics something to scoop up the mess in if a coil ever fell on you. We did get an object lesson though, when a mechanic left a wrench on one of the cranes (bridge and trolley crane, floor pendant control) which eventually fell off. If it would have hit someone on the head, it would have left a bit of a mark. So, hard hats.
Thank you for your reply, I mis quoted it was Grease and not oil. I. Figured that you just didn't have time to cover what a I was asking about. I do appreciate your quick response and the different things that you have covered. But not all items are released for view, the latest is using the BRUSH HOG, showing just much area is covered. Thank you for your videos. JW MCCLANAHAN
I knew what you meant JW, many that would have read your
comment would not have known tho. Many railroaders have
called them oilers in the past.
Great video, I really enjoyed watching the track work segments that you show everyone. I would sure be glad to help out if I could but unfortunately we are not close enough for a quick jaunt over.
Thanks my friend ❤
Fantastic track work!.I got ya on deck putting in a new switch on the layout for next video.Give ya 6060 for work train&speeder.🚂🚃🇨🇦🇺🇸
Sweet, can't wait to see it! Appreciate your tuning on for today;s
show my friend
Your layout work has been posted on the Tube fine sir👷♂️hope your having a good day RR'n
Great video. I was wondering if those bolts will need retorquing after a few trains have passed over the joint.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed and very intelligent question! Yes in this case because of the unstable ballast conditions. Most generally in
good ballast where track surface holds good, we don't need to re torque them. There is no set time frame for re torque, every joint is
different
Another awesome railroadin video!
Thank you Dennis, appreciate the nice comment my friend
Fascinating. Yep in the UK they are fishplates, no idea why, maybe I will look it up one day.
I have no idea either Andy, like you, someday I'm gonna have find that out too. No idea why they call them that under ground here either.
Do appreciate your watching sir
Another excellent video Dave. Enjoyed watching! 🚂🚂🚂
Thank you Tom, really appreciate your watching my friend
Alco the Railroad Dog approves of this video. In Poconos Anthracite county the old men call them fish plates, I call them angle bars.
Angle bars, joint bars, splice bars, all are correct terms,
we have always called them joint bars here. Thanks for watching
Ken and Alco. Just wondering if Alco is perhaps looking for a date?
Our dog (not a RR dog like yours...) Missy is kinda lonely and
could use a night out with a real RR canine.... LOL
I was watching another RR he was showing the oiler on curves, do you have oilers on the curves Thank you. JW MCCLANAHAN
We do have 6 solar powered wayside flange greasers. They don't
actually put out oil it's a special grease. Ours are made by LB Foster Co. Someday i will make a video on them but that will be far in the
future before I get to it. Don't know what that guy said, but flange
greasers are very important for preventing curve wear, wheel wear
and also derailments. Easiest way to derail a car is by having
dry rail with curve wear on it and a new wheel on the car believe it
or not. flange greasers a perfect way to prevent this type of
derailment.
Thanks for writing in and watching this video Jw.
Nice job Dave thank you for a great video.
Your welcome Derrick, great to hear you enjoyed my friend
Is there any use for those massive bolts it seems like they could be
Other than RR applications I'm not aware of any other Jacob.
Thanks for watching sir
Closeup of the pneumatic wrench at work?
Was first time I put the GoPro on a tripod, so it gonna take some
more experimentation to get a close up, but I do appreciate
your suggestion J D, will work on getting one, may take some time
got so many other vids already made and waiting to be posted.
Thanks for watching sir
Sounds like the air impacts I use evening Dave
Wish I could try an air impact wrench on the bolts, pneumatic
hand spikers are awesome with the power they have, much
better than my hydraulic hand spiker. Thanks for watching David
greetings Dave At work we had the tracks replaced at work in 2012,
a few months ago I keep an eye on the tracks as I walk down them
daily, I found 3 broken bolts on a joint all on one side, is that common?
all were broken in half like they were over tight, or had a extra stress
on them. but the balist support was good the day before there was
a delivery and I did not see excessive movement anywhere on the
tracks. You make very informative and interesting videos, thanks
for the railroad education.
Well that's interesting. Usually when there are 3 bolts sheared off
only on 1 side that means a car wheel was off, but you'd have
more than 1 joint if that occurred. I've never seen here when all
3 on one side were broke in half. That is strange, but there
are some weird strange things happen on the railroad!
Sorry I can't be of more help but great to hear you are enjoying
these videos my friend.
May be one idea but if they were measuring the holes with something that's a bit too short you'd end up with each hole having less and less room, if the rail pulled tight the bolt with the least room would shear 1st then putting pressure on the 2nd repeating the process to the 3rd.
@@matty101yttam greetings Matty When I found the broken bolts only on one side of the joint.
I thought it could be due to bad support under the rail on that side. but nothing was out
of place. once repaired with new bolts I watched the CSX engine go across the repair
with no extreme movement of the rail under load. so it was not support issue.
also the broken bolts were not tight in the holes, or out of alignment. each split
in the middle of the bolt. that is all I know at this time.
I used to think 150ft-lbs of torque on CAT 3408 cylinder heads was tough. Trying to manually crank 300ft-lbs... That takes incredible effort.
Thank goodness for power tools.
Big wrench = Big Torque....LOL Hard get a wrench that size on a
cylinder head bolt! Thanks so much for watching Stephen
Warsher, I love it.
why do you alternate the side the nut is on?
That's the way the joint bars are made, I believe it's because
they seem to think the staggered bolt pattern gives better holding
power
@@ccrx6700 thank you. I saw that in your new video.
@@frotobaggins7169 👍
would you be able to show us the rail inside the mine?
Sometime I can show the rail going into the mine, but I don't have
state certified miners papers so am not allowed under ground.
I've never been under ground either as a worker, only twice on a
tour, it's definitely a different world 700 feet below the surface. You
might be interested to know that everything is white under ground.
They rock dust everything to prevent fires from coal dust from
happening
Could you do a segment on how to string line a curve
I will do that for you sometime Bradley, however don't expect it
anytime soon, may be next year before I get to it. Got almost 100
videos now already made and just waiting to get published. Thank you for taking the time to watch and write in my friend.
Thank you for another great video. I enjoy watching them. 😀👍❤🇨🇦
Thank you Ray for the nice comment and for tuning in sir,
we really do appreciate that
Dave those bolts sounded tight to me is it the vibration of the trin that caused them to loosen or track movement
Yes John it is the forces from the train along with the track
moving up and down that can cause bolts to loosen and also
break. Plus after many years they just get worn out also at
times. Metal fatigue. Very much appreciate your visiting
with us and taking in the presentation my good man.
You have a really great job your outside making your railroad great seems like a fun job it shows on your face love to do that job I would even do it for free
Thanks Paul, glad you are enjoying sir, we do appreciate your watching
We use cordless Rad torque guns at work and they're terrific. They're no bigger than a cordless drill and not much heavier. We have a few sizes from 500lb-ft on up. Our biggest will torque all 324 lug nuts on a Cat 797F to 2500lb-ft with one or two batteries.
Now that's impressive! Am gonna look those up, thanks for the
info Dylan
Do you find that the lock washers break in two and fall out ? I'm a HD mechanic and we would never use lock washers on U bolts because they could break and the U bolts would be very loose.
On occasion they do, but we have 17 miles jointed track, with 6 bolts in each joint, that means there are over 27,000 washers on our track
and the few washers that do break is very small in comparison to
that amount. More bolts break than washers. I appreciate your
writing in and for your thoughts on that.
Hi Dave, great video again and thank you. I was curious why you wouldn't pretreatment with wd40 or other penetrating oil since they are designed to help loosen bolts just like those.
Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see that curve fixed too!
No need to as these bolts have good clearances that allow them to be self cleaning once you loosen them and they don't take much to turn once you are off the lock washers. It is the lock washer that prevents them from coming loose. Well most of the time. That is why you have to inspect the track as they will loosen sometimes if the lock washer doesn't bite into the nut.
Great question Lyndon, and if I was using a hand wrench, then yep
we'd use 40 or Blaster, the hydraulic wrench or the liquid wrench (torch) doesn't seem to care
either way...LOL
How do you check for interference with wheels? Thank You!
I'm not really sure I understand what you are trying to find out Edward? On a wheel that has a wrong profile (concaved) then
there will be a shiny silver mark on top of the joint bars. Other
than that everything is below the flange on a wheel. Was that
what you were driving at?
@@ccrx6700 yes, that’s what I was wondering. I wasn’t expecting to see from the video if the wheel would rub on the joint bar but I did wonder how you checked. Is there an extra measurement needed? Or, are the components made to fit and you can tell by visual inspection the wheel flange will clear the bar?
@@edwarddavis507 They make wheel gauges to check the wheel specs.
Once in a while a bad wheel happens and if I see a series of joint
bars that have the shiny streak near the middle of the bar, then time to
investigate the wheels for concavity further. Once in a while that
streak will happen on joint bars where the track is pumping up and
down also, not a wheel problem, but a track surface problem with that.
Like you own it Dave, Thank you Sir!
Thank you David, really great to hear you enjoyed the home movie my friend
Hey 👋 section man Here again in terrace bc. Now how do you hot cut on a 40°C day where you are from . When you gotta hot cut out from misalignment put a plug in to take out some steal, cut out hot cut torch out is fastest and plug rail it in . But with a rail saw . Half through the head down to the base flip saw over cut rest of the baseband finish on the head of the rail is how we do it I would love to hear how you guys would do it if you needed to make a hot cut on a really ot hot ya know?? 👍
We have had indications of a heat buckle starting to form
several times in the past Brandon. You are so right a rail saw will bind
up and you ain't getting it out once it does. We torch cut
the rail and then having a gap, will saw cut whatever we need
out to put a plug in. Thanks for asking and for taking the time
to watch the video today my good man.
We use a lot of hydraulics but if I may recommend for your wrench get an IR Impact, they look like a mini-gun. They use two big batteries, get yourself a charger for your truck and two more batteries and then your set so you can charge two and use two simultaneously
Thanks for your suggestion dje. Guess what, I had them order me one
and I simply love it. It's not quite the wrench my hydraulic one is but it
sure is nice, no hoses to mess with and also I can take it with me in
my small hi rail truck which doesn't have hydraulics on it. It has
been a real blessing. Here's a video I made when it was new of
the IR wrench: ua-cam.com/video/zxKlmzt76Ws/v-deo.html
Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch the video
and write in my friend.
Good job
Thank you Gary! Appreciate your watching the video my friend.
Your a great guy still doing hard job
Are the any torque specs for the bolts,or just reef em down?
I should of watched it before commenting,sorry.
Thanks for watching Brian, do appreciate that sir
Would you please measure the diameter of the holes on the joint bars/fish plates. Please provide the size of the joint bars also. The reason I ask is I'm starting a 1/8 scale Live Steam locomotive build of a SBRR ALCO S4 in honor of my late Papa who was a locomotive engineer for many years on the South Buffalo Railway until his retirement and I would like to be as prototypically correct as possible on my mission to honor my Dad. Thanks for all the great videos of railroading, keep up the great work.
Joint bars are 30 inches long, 5 inches high . Bolt holes are 1 1/8 inch diameter. That is bars for 132 pound rail.
I get that the bolts can wear out, but do you reuse the nuts?
Great question and when we replace a bolt I always use new
washers and nuts, maybe it just me, but I like all new instead of
used, same with spikes, pull a spike out and use a new one.
@@ccrx6700 The nut might be the least expensive of the three! Always recycle
@@shopshop144 👌 thanks
can you come to Romania to put them on right tracks, seeing you much you love your worck you are perfect cadidat to run Romanian Rails :D never seen trains and rail tracks like i see after i saw some of your video, keep going and take care ;)
Just ordered my plane tickets! How could I pass up a request like that....LOL I did get a real job offer several years ago to go
to Panama to run tamper for KCS there, Thanks for watching, we
do appreciate that
@@ccrx6700 i am truly honest, i watch your videos after worck like a watch some cartoons when i was a kid :D i am so impress and i lostmyself watching you:D new things to hear and also you conquer us with your kind and amazing atitudine i dont think i ever see someone worck and explain and do thinks like you do :D
please keep us up to date and take care and i vote for you in Romania even if i move out to Belgium 2 years ago :D
Love that impact gun! What kind of torque does it produce?
Somewhere around 300 not sure on exact. I love that impact too Brian! Sure is easier and quicker than with a track wrench
Track wrench =Fish spanner
Track bolt= Fish bolts
Fish plates.
I could argue all day with you Dave. On pretty sure we would have an enjoyable time .
Cant beat British Steel.
👍😎
Do you know why they are called fish plates? On the rail underground here they call them fish plates on the outside track we call them
joint bars. The surface area the plates have against the rail head and
the rail base which you call foot, that area is called the fishing. Thus
that is why they use fish plate because it rests against the fishing.
We would have fun, I really enjoy learning about how other
countries have their terminology.
What an enjoyable video - thank you so much for sharing! It's so interesting to see what all goes on behind the scenes in railroading. Your videos are so informative!
How you doing my friend, haven't heard from you in awhile. Really
appreciate the nice comment and glad to hear your still enjoying them
@@ccrx6700 Thank you, sir! I'm doing well enough here. I'm still around and watching but for one reason or another, haven't been quite as active in the UA-cam community recently.
@@TheyCallHimDietSeth gotcha, no problem, thanks