TRRS 419: CSX Local Train Y195 Switching PCA
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Y195 is the job responsible for switching out customers around Wyoming Yard. This includes Wolverine Scrap, Hager, Wyoming Warehouse and Columbian Storage. But, it also includes one customer outside of the yard limits: Packaging Corp of America, or PCA for short.
PCA is located a little over a mile from the yard limits at Lamar, and it usually the first duty of the Y195 crew.
Today, we see the crew westbound from the yard, passing tied up N913, a coal train for West Olive. The conductor then uncouples the inbound cars and throws the mainline switch to begin the process.
Along with the foreman and conductor trainee, the threesome pulls three boxes from the plant, and then spots three new ones in their place. Because the plant only holds three cars, extras are routed to Columbian Storage on the City Market lead, to be unloaded there.
Those extras account for the remaining boxes on their train. The centerbeam will go to Hager Lumber, while the CHs and Gons will go to Wyoming Warehouse.
After completing their switching moves, the crew puts their train back together, before shoving back to the yard using their Operation Lifesaver caboose, with the conductor on the point, once more passing the tied down N913.
Consist:
CSX 2630 [GP38-2]
16 cars [Mixed]
CSX 904091 [Operation Lifesaver Caboose]
Location/Time:
CSX GRT Sub, Grandville, MI, Along Viaduct St/Ivanrest xing, on 1-2-15 from 11:15 to 11:55 EST
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It's 1:55am Friday morning, and IDK what it is about late nights but I always end up watching...trains.
As a kid always love freight trains and that I got older I still love freight trains
Being an engineer with a remote control is like having the ultimate model railroad-it's the same scenario in HO Scale-a DCC equipped locomotive you control with a handheld remote. The only difference is these guys operate 1:1 scale and get paid for their "operating sessions." Great video. I was happy to see the old Guilford (Boston & Maine) boxcar.
Great shot of industry being switched!!
Thank you
Keep these coming if you can.
I haven't shot many like this in awhile because it kinda unnerves the train crews, who fear they'll break a rule and their boss will later find it.
Very nice.It was very interesting to see the locomotive being operated by remote control.That impatient truck driver almost took out the crossing gate at the beginning.
Awesome video! Switching is always very entertaining, and interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing!
An excellently shot video which also shows the efficiency of the best transport system humans have ever come up with. Self guided and so captivating that few things have ever come close to its appeal. Railways.
I really appreciate these kind of videos,much more interesting than the typical "Runbys"
I like train videos videos on UA-cam 👍
Nice Guilford boxcar! We get a lot of those here in Massachusetts. Cool to see they go out your way, too.
Your videos are just great. I enjoy everyone. Great photography, editing and narration.Thanks much, Bob
Well shot, and lots of information (for the modellers like me). I am going to incorporate this location and switching action into my new layout that I am building. Thanks very much. I'll be sharing the video on my blog also.
You're welcome, and thanks for the sharing! Could you send me a link to your blog? You can usually sneak it past the URL filter by going [DOT] com or whatever :)
Thornapple River Rail Series My blog is at huntervalleylines.wordpress.com
This should come through as I have posted other links in comments before.
The post should be up within the next hour.
Thanks again and keep posting. Love the rail action in your area. I model the US but live now in Australia. Spent 10 years in Texas (Austin and surrounds). Just love how you can reach out and touch the trains in the US. Not the same here in Australia.
Best wishes
Andrew
Very good movie: we see the daily and real work of railroad men...
First time I've ever seen a CSX locomotive remote controlled in a video, A little while ago I saw a genset remote controlled down at Curtis Bay yard close to where I live.
When I drove for Smurfitt/Stone Corrugated. In Orange Ct.The train use to drop the cars inside like that Sidings off the Old New Haven line to New York;
It's nice to see the strobe light flashing.
The strobes are always flashing when in RC mode, since that's the indicator to the world that there is nobody on point.
Whoa!! The RC mode was activated in here.
The boxes hanging off their vests didn't give it away???
GEES44DC oh my! I wasn't paying attention.
A flashing light always means a Remote Control locomotive.
This engine look like one big remote-control model train set
I love trains.. don't know a thing about them.. have one at home that goes back and forth on three foot track.
THANK YOU DETAIL VIDEO ON OPERATION
I love this!
Awesome video mate 🚂
Awesome video 👍🏻 👍🏻
Love the 3rd gen K5la on that Gp38
i temp there once and its been probably 4 yrs ago right outside the door that was messed up and i saw a boxcar jump the track. unfortunately i was still on the clock otherwise i probably would have watched them rerail it
Another cold day in the shuntering yard.
Oh man...I wish my warehouse still has this happening...I love trains! But then again the maintenance, and time it takes for the trains to shuffle the cars around, no wonder why only very few warehouses, and other businesses, still have the trains delivering/ and taking the cargo away
it actually takes longer to do it with trailers you know like park the trailer open it gt a forklift and take 1 thing at a time out and then organise in the warehouse then ship it out again ( if they do that )
It's more cost effective in most cases to drop a container off. Railroad still has the load but doesn't have the hassle of spotting and pulling the car.
Man! That looked like one cold day! Remote control what will they think of next trains that go from point to point with a operator in Jacksonville, Lincoln or Fort Worth that's controlling multiple trains. Even better a computer coordinating remotely all the trains in a subdivision. Scary that's sky net stuff.
Any idea what or how CSX charges for this type service?
nice video
One more comment. In Mansfield, MA there is a similar customer setup as in this video. There is a customer called Milton's Distribution in Mansfield, MA, and the boxcars go right inside the building, just like in your video. The conductor has to open and close the door before and after they switch them out, respectively.
Is it still a chain operating door, or electronic?
wait... that locomotive is being remote controlled??
Nice action. Are the 2 tracks on the left the mainline or auxiliary tracks?
Cool!
Not sure if good idea if guy on ground has something go wrong chance of runaway stick to 2 guys when working
Does the yellow blinking light on top of the engine mean it is being radio controlled? If so, is the operator one of the 3 crewmen or are they somewhere else?
Yes, the yellow light means they're in RC mode. Two of the crewmembers have belt packs for control. The RC is never done by a non-crewmember. The third crewmember in this scene was a conductor trainee.
One of the two guys wearing the belt packs.
Uses remote control locomotive. sees news report on unstopable 2630 :)
Is it normal to just...snap the brake hoses like that? I can't imagine that's good for them
Yeah the airhoses are designed to part in that manner. Doing so, versus a slow release, triggers the car's emergency air brakes, so the cars left behind, while also tied down with handbrakes, are not sitting there with their airbrakes released.
@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries no handbrake were applied
@@kennetha.oehrlein2415 yes there were, it’s just not shown in this video.
wait... that locomotive is remote controlled? ?!
14:12 why are all three people on there?
Radio controled?
Looks like they are using radio control for the engine.
Nice video ! Like ! Martin
That so cool
0:20 what road was this
I don't trust radio control locomotive.
Is that remote control i do not see the driver in the cab
Yes, it was a remote job.
that locomotive is remote controlled? ?! wait...
IS it Gp38?
REMOTE CONTROLLED👍
nice video
wait... that locomotive is remote controlled? ?!
that's been a thing for a long time.
wait... that locomotive is remote controlled? ?!