Plant City Platform Update & Railgrinder 0813
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Progress on the new Plant City train viewing platform plus some of the trains that run through PC. Also caught the Loram rail grinder working there in the evening.
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First time seeing one of these at work myself! Excellent catch, Danny! Crazy how it really is, essentially, on fire. Also looks like a train in serious emergency..
Love the way the thumbnail looks like a "Train won't stop!" scene from an action movie.
Have never seen the rail grinder at work. What a spectacle with the noise and the sparks.
Working my way back in time, and I really loved this video. You have a knack for getting the best shots!
Cool video, always nice to see the LORAM!
Nice Video! I saw the grinder sitting in a siding at Folkston a couple weeks ago!
I wonder how many times the Loram guys have to explain to firefighters that they arent accidentally on fire
Keyword being accidentally
Very cool! I didn't even know these existed or were needed until now.
One of the best rail grinding videos I've seen. Thanks.
Impressive. Seen them on the NS in NC. Good catch Danny.
very cool to see the rail grinder in action!
I have become a fan of you and your videos Danny. You have a voice that should be on radio or television. I watch the trains that used to be part of The Penn Central, then Conrail, and now Norfolk, CSX, and The Central Ohio Railroad with their purple engines. Greetings from Columbus Ohio.
Craig Zahniser he is on television. If you check his likes page on Twitter, he has one of my tweets on there which has a link to a tv commercial he did a voiceover for.
Well done Danny! Another one of you amazing catches. With my luck, that Loram would have shown up the one time I'd lay my camera between the rails to get a ground shot.
Thanks Danny. For your awesome train video from Florida..
Next month I'm headed to loram to start working there! So odd how you came up in ny feed and I watched a bunch of your videos hahah. Awesome!
Besides some added comments below here is some additional information. Each stone is attached to a motor which is raised or lowered by hydraulics. The amount of metal to be removed by each group of stones is carefully planned and the angles to be used. Each motor has a voltmeter and ammeter in the control car and the amount of metal being removed is directly proportional to the amps drawn by the motor. The metal removed is where most of the fine cracks start that would grow into large enough cracks that would cause the rails to break if left to grow. These cracks develop just under the surface because of the metal movement created under the wheel loads. A 100 ton car is 263,000 lbs GVW which works out to about 33,000 lbs per wheel and applied to an area about the size of a quarter the steel is almost at the end of elastic deformation so it doesn't return to its original state by a minute amount.
Each train needs motive power for travel but a lot of power for all of the grinding motors and pumps.
If you look at the rail after the rail grinder treatment the crown of the rail appears knurled or etched with a tread. Listening to a train going by, the wheels of the cars appear to emit a humming sound coming from the wheels passing over the newly treated rail surface. It's kind of neat.
Those guys that work on that railgrinders you have to give credit with the smell and the dirty working conditions Thank God they have their own power units and don't have train crews on them I got called for for this assignment years with a GP9 as the power and a van for the tailed The tail end crew had 24 cans of beer And for some reason a General Yardmaster along with us You for the most part walked outside the entire time At one time when a railgrinder was working It would operate under a Rule 42 for protection to protect machines and equipment Before entering the working limits contact had to be made with the foreman of the Rule 42 If a train was carrying special danagous commodities the railgrainder had to stop working before the train was allowed to proceed
1972 through 2017 my calcupuncher says that is 45 years. 45 years a resident of Lithia, Fl. ( Keysville to be exact a hoot toot and whistle from CSX Edison Jct.) Now due to age and health with family in VA. this is first I have heard about railroad viewing platform in Plant City Florida.. Must have been one heck of a secret.Ferroequineologist pro.
Just watching some older videos. A fun fact is Loram does not use their own employees to put out fires. That is the reponsibility of the railroad and they ride our grinders to do just that and also pilot them in territory, such as this.
I'm on a dirt machine, but hoping to nail a chance of getting on a grinder.
Just started a job with NS, funny enough the rail grinder just came through our territory last week. I think the rail grinder runs at night so that it doesn’t slow down daytime freight traffic. The one up here starts work around 5:30 and usually finishes a section by 11 pm
Walter Parks, a former NS carman, has a channel called pwalpar. He has a video of a Loram grinder starting a brush fire near Griffin, GA. Someone called the local fire dept. but the Loram train backed up and put it out just as the fire truck arrived.
4:30 I've always wondered why wig-wag lights kind of freak out a bit and go really fast until they settle in to their normal timing.
I saw one of these operating at night once in Columbus Georgia. I started to call in what I was sure was about to become a derailment. Glad I didn't. I too found it mesmerizing and didn't mind the holdup
There was a few Chessie System Hoppers in that train.
Great job Mr. Harmon, I can't wait to come back to Florida and see all this, once its all completed, between the work on the S line and the new depot, it will make railfanning in central fl more attractive, hope to be back for a visit in 2014, thanks again
Larry
Those rain clouds would be a welcome site for the rail grinder. As a matter of fact, they would prefer the rain when grinding for obvious reasons, cools the rail as well to reduce breaks due to the heat. Another fact, keep a safe distance from the grinding operations if a grinding wheel breaks, you may not have a good day. Worse than hanging debris off a train at speed.
Great video as always Danny! Love the Loram footage! Very impressive machine for the work it does! Thanks for sharing!
I was there! It was such a fun location to watch trains! I just wish I brought my radio scanner to listen to the engineers. :(
Awesome catch
That railgrinder is awesome. It's almost eerie as it comes down the tracks "on fire" like that. Really nice catch Danny! :)
Great video...first time watcher of your stuff and the narration is fantastic Dan. Keep up the great videos and keep them coming and a regular basis!!!!!!
Hey Danny. Just wanna say your vids are awesome. Greetings from a fellow railfan from denmark
Amazing they would develop that area considering so few trains a day pass that area daily.
Now THAT was mighty interresting Danny...thanks.
I got some awesome footage of it coming out of the siding in Folkston 2 weeks ago but only managed meager shots of it working. But still this is an impressive beast! Most excellent catch!!
You should be a radio show host. your voice is amazing.
He does voice-over.
I have never seen one of those. Just awesome video again Danny!!!
Wow! That WOULD be a sad day. I doubt if things leave much alive after they pass :-))
DH
Danny, missed the opportunity to get a shot of the rail right after the grinder been passed, would be interesting to see, Chas,uk.
Thanks Gregg.
DH
That's a new siding going in around Knights. Looks to be about three miles.
DH
i was up in altoona PA and i missed it and now im back in florida and i miss it!!! oh my gosh my life isnt fair!!
That railgrinder sounded like it had EMD 12-645C prime movers, or a derivative of anyway. They'd have a good time grinding the rails here in NZ, we don't have a railgrinder here, only a few track tampers and ballast cleaners
Great video!
I think T081 normally runs around 4500 feet, but I'm not much of a car or rivet counter. :-))
DH
Very nice video as always Danny.
Great video! Very informative. Well done.
Good stuff.
Great catch of that special train, that has got to be so loud!
All last year. The three trains were caught in 2012
Great video Mr. Harmon. Thanks for adding me into it. Keep up the great work
Great video, Danny. Pretty upset I didn't chase it on the Miami Sub when it worked in July. Heard them getting EC-1s much like you got on audio.
Very interesting , thanks for sharing !!!
Amazing!
I've gotta make it to Plant City one of these days; how many trains per day go through there? Always a treat to see a rail grinder at work. Looking forward to your next video!
nice video!
I live not too far from where Loram is located in Medina, Minnesota. I drive past there quite often and can usually see one full set of grinders. Often there are others on flatbed cars awaiting shipping to overseas customers.
Awesome video!
cool video
Setting at a rail yard now. There is one parked not from from where my guys are working. I would like to eat some acid and watch one grind by one night on my days off.
Great shots of the grinder Danny!, I work with them occasionally down here, the newest one has a converted caboose as a rear control car!, possibly the only caboose on track in Australia??
Cheers Gregg
Very cool!! Thanks for posting!
Nicely Done
Ive seen the Loram Rail Grinder by my house a month ago. I live outside Chicago
I happened to turn on the plant city cam about 2 weeks ago and 1 happened to be passing
Fantastic!
Great video Danny! You should've done a runover shot. :)
That's interesting never seen one work myself
Odd to see a train put in the hole for a coal train. Usually the other way around where I'm from.
Also, what is going on north of Plant City? There's a stretch of 2-3 miles where there's work being done adjacent to the rails.
I caught the Loram grinder on the NS end of the Chicago Line one evening. The character on the rear with the hose watching for tie fires shot a brief spray into the air near me when he saw me watching and laughed. Boring job I guess.
Amazing, are you planning on doing coverage of the SunRail updates. Apparently some of the station are already almost complete!
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Great video as usual. It is now December so has the Plant City Platform opened for business. Can we get another update video?
it did
Nice video, when did you take the video of Q652? I thought they had made that one depart Tampa at 10PM this year?
Wish i had seen the crossing grind, if there was one.
Because of the flangeways in the frogs, turnouts and crossings are usually taken care of by the railroad's welders.
I visited Plant City back in March and all I saw was a tied down local at Sammonds Rd which had CSX 4319 & about 20 cars with a CSX caboose, any idea what the symbol was?
Now that was very cool! Excuse me! I mean very HOT!
what horn is that on the T-081 locomotive?
Now ain't that sumpthin'. I wonder how it could be modeled.
Same thing.
They use electric in urban areas and the diesels are not really diesel powered. The diesel engine powers an electric generator that turns electric traction motors on the axles. The USA is too wide open to electrify hundreds of thousands of miles of rail line.
Where I went to high school
Do they do any sidings and track 2 areas or just the main?
Whatever track the railroad wants them to do. Where the grinding train works is determined by the engineering department while the pilot is supplied by the operating department.
How big is T081, car wise and what is the train's frequency per week?
How does one obtain a schedule for trains passing through Plant City?
What is the train at 2:32
Better not show the EPA that thing!
Why is it called the Big Ben power station when someone says Big Ben you now think Big Ben the clock or Big Ben the power station? LOL
I mean Big Ben the bell
Ha! That's true. But it's actually The Big BEND Power Station. Named for the point where the eastern shore of Tampa bay makes a sharp bend to the south and west.
Noisy as shit. o-o
0:56
Im deaf.
Its like people jak off to trains