Not making light of it (new bridge deck) but it made me remember my LINCOLN LOG set from 60 years ago. Great ~ thanks. Now Dave knows why a "backup camera" is called a backup camera.
Your welcome Trena. Lucky is a great guy, he always tries hi best to do a good job for us when he comes. Very much appreciate your dropping by and taking in the presentation tonight my friend. Stay tuned, tomorrow night video we will start to replace the bridge deck.
How do you aleays find something interesting to give us? Always something up your sleeve. Thanks Dave. My father-in-law was a carpenter on our South African Railways and so was my Dad. They both worked for Reef Construction, that was the civil side of our Railways. As a wee lad I used to visit my Dad on site and get to ride around with the site lorry driver. The lorry was an ex army Ford. Little did I know that some 17 years later I would be marrying my father's work mate's daughter after meeting her at The Langlaagte Railway Mission. He was later transferred to the Railway Signals Repair workshop where he prepared Ties or what we call sleepers or in Afrikaans, Dwarsleiers. Cutting notches and grooves on massive machines for fitting points machines etc.
Always something going on here Bill, wanted or mostly unwanted....LOL Awesome story thanks for sharing. Hope that things are looking up for you. Always is a pleasure to hear from you my friend.
Great video! On a side note, I like how those trailers with separated wheels eat the road taking curves. It’s amazing the wheels don’t come off when it has tons of weight. Lol
Thank you, nice to hear you enjoyed the show. That's why I showed those trailer wheels, not something everyone usually ever gets to see. Slides easier on loose gravel than road tho. Always is a pleasure to have you visit with me my friend.
You have way too much fun on your job. How great to have job you enjoy. Every video you bring something different. No two days the same. That’s the best job when it’s always a new project. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, Lucky is an awesome guy. He is a good man and always tries his best to please us when he comes. Guess we gonna have to start a Lucky fan club for him. Appreciate your stopping by and taking in the video today my friend.
I will tell him. He is a good man and a very good operator. We like when Lucky shows up. Certainly appreciate your dropping by and checking out the show today my friend.
Every video is a new adventure! Life is exciting! Thanks for filming and all the rest of the work you do, to share this with your fans! Stay healthy, happy and safe!
Always an adventure on the Cumberland Mine RR. But it does make life interesting and makes for a lot of good videos....LOL. Cannot thank you enough Valerie for all your wonderful comments and support you have given us my friend. More great stuff to come just for you.
Thank you Lewis, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do a good job for us.
WOW!, putting that new grapple truck on the rails was slicker than a penguin on a downhill sheet of ice! Theres no possible way i could hold a camera still while bouncing around in a Hi-Rail truck, nope, nada, nyet, nein, etc! 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸❤❤👍👍😀😀❗
Just found your channel . I love anything with TRAINS. Other channels just show trains. Your channel "Explains" things, which sets it apart from others. Now, for all the new viewers, like me. Could you give a brief intro about the company, what and where they operate? Thanks, love the channel!
Thank you 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. ua-cam.com/users/ccrx6700
Yes sir Kenn, we keep the trains running, without us maintenance then the trains would soon not run. Gotta keep the nation's freight moving and the lights and heat on in the homes. Always is a pleasure to have you stop by and visit with me my good friend. Hope all is well your way.
Oh yeah, I meant to tell you. I now work for a welding fabricator in Columbia (part time) and the fella that runs the water jet table lives along where the old Philadelphia & Columbia RR used to be. He found a piece of rail the other day that's really old. We're figuring 1850's vintage. He gave me a small piece, around 7". It's in remarkably good condition too. You'd appreciate it. Wish I could put up a picture here.
Oh wow, 1850! Keep that baby! I'm guessing that would be cast iron rail. Thanks for sharing that Anthony and for taking the time to watch the show my friend.
The ride along with lucky was cool. Just the interaction of 2 great railroad guys shooting the breeze. The day to day is great Dave. Just a day at work..
Thank you Pappy for the very nice comment. Lucky is a good man, he makes life much easier for me when he comes. I cannot say enough good things about him and he's a very good grapple truck operator. Before this he hauled MOW equipment including tampers. Big stuff. Always is a pleasure to have you visit with us my good friend. PS: you beat Valerie here tonight....LOL
Dave, I really like that truck and can tell in your voice "That you Want it"😏 ... Nothing like the new truck 🚚 smell 😀 . Being March, I see 👀 the coal and the timber were still there from that cold day. They cleanup was another video 📹. Thanks for mentioning me😀. I would of loved to have gone along. Stay safe and Have fun 👍. Richard Bause
Thank you Fireball. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do a good job for us even if he is a WV fan....:-) Always a pleasure to have you visit with me my friend.
When the front hyrail valve squeals like that, there’s another valve next to the valve lever with a cap, remove the cap with a wrench and turn the valve counter clockwise a little at a time with an Allen wrench and that allows more hydraulic flow to eliminate the squeal, our trucks have the same DMF hyrail gear with locking pins and the newer trucks like my grapple have the air locking pins up front and rear.
Thank you Gary for the very nice comment. They say when you're having fun you don't age nearly as fast. Well tell that to my old bones and aching muscles....LOL Very much appreciate your stopping by and taking in tonight's home movie my friend.
The high rail ride with Lucky was great. I know you said before how well you get on with him and now see you both love your jobs. I see the timbers have small holes in, the same on ours. I was told they are made by spiked rollers that take them through the creosote and it helps it go deeper into the wood. Looking forward to seeing the bridge work and what problem you had to solve.
Very glad you enjoyed cedarcam. Lucky is a good man, he always tries his best to do a good job for us when he comes. Lucky me got to tour the tie plant this summer where we buy our ties from. The owner didn't want me to make video for YT, but wow what a cool video that would have been to see all the stages of how they make ties. Those small holes are punched into the ties by an incisor. It's a big round drum with spikes sticking out. Would make mince meat out of you and me if we went thru it. Anyway at some point next year I will have a video on the life of a tie, I do have a picture of that incisor that I will show in the video. And yes, you are exactly right, the ties are incised to allow the creosote to penetrate deeper into the wood.
@@ccrx6700 I would of loved to of seen the tie plant, I remember you saying on another video you were not able to put it on youtube, at least we can see the incisor in the picture though. I bet it would be a one way trip if you were to get caught in it. A few videos ago you asked if I had any video of our S160 well I found someone has made a compilation video of her running, so here is a link for you. I will see if I can get more close detail of her when I go there again. ua-cam.com/video/GJdLKnadsd0/v-deo.html
Thank you for bringing us this fascinating video presentation. This oak timber for the bridge will last a long time so it will be good once this bridge is done. It was nice to meet Lucky, it is a great skill to operate these trucks. It is great to see the investment in the railroad.
Your welcome John. Glad you had a good time with us. Lucky is a great guy, he always tries his best to do a good job for us. Really appreciate your taking in today's home movie my friend.
Thanks Doug. Someone else suggested getting some air fresheners that smell like creosote, you and me would have one in every truck if they sold those! For anyone who is reading this, please check out Doug's awesome YT channel, it's superb, I never miss one of his videos: www.youtube.com/@user-oc4ng2pn7n
@@ccrx6700 haha a whole line of man air freshers. creosote&cut carbon steel, Perkins diesel exhaust,100 low lead av gas& maple bacon&cherry hard wood. Sure they'll sell lol. Thank you Dave for the shout out🙏
Your welcome Bill. Glad you enjoyed the show. Next 2 videos out will be of them replacing the deck, it's gonna be interesting cause we ran into major problems which I will show you. We certainly appreciate all your wonderful comments and support of the channel my friend.
Thanks Barney. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are of the deck replacement, lot of adversity they faced doing that which I will show you. Really appreciate your paying us a visit tonight and taking in the show my friend.
All this new stuff being delivered near Christmas time wow. New truck and then all those Timbers really had you fired up. Enjoying the drive through the rock cuts with the. Forces of Mother Nature and ice and then it looks like an oopsie where the ballast ceases to exist and looks like a car dumped out its load. Looking forward to the bridge work replacement
This video was made last March Paul. However we did get 4 tractor trailer loads of new ties in here about a month ago. Car door opened up at the end of that rock cut last December, if you didn't see that video, here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/a05-vYle4oM/v-deo.html Always appreciate when you pay us a visit my friend.
I would love to have one of those vehicles over here Dave (would be very handy) over here though we call them Road Rail Vehicles or RRV's for short! Thanks for sharing this with us once again Dave and you have yourself a great day 👍
Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do a good job for us. Life is a bit hard for him right now, his wife is not in good health and he has to be on the road away from home far too much. At least when he comes here he can go home at night instead of spending all week at a hotel. Thanks so much for dropping by and taking in the show today my friend.
Thank you. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do a good job for us when he's here. Really appreciate your joining in with us and checking out the show my friend.
It sure is Eric. For those of you who may reading this, please check out Eric's really cool YT channel, he's got some pretty neat RR videos you may enjoy: www.youtube.com/@ericcoffedgp40
Lucky is a good man. He is a good friend and always tries his best to make life easier for me when he comes in here. I cannot say enough good things about him. Thank you so much for stopping by tonight and taking in the video and for all you great support of the channel my friend.
That is a pretty neat ride and glad you liked it. The icicles hanging off those rocks are pretty cool and last a long time since there is little sun hits there in the winter.
That new Grapple Truck is nice!! It's nice riding the rails (no traffic). Them 4 small track wheels must take a beating after a while, must get greased daily. Stay safe Dave.
Lucky is a good man Jim and deserves a nice new truck to play with. We certainly appreciate your tuning in and checking out today's home movie my friend. yep those drive wheels develop a band around them where they meet the rail head which causes extra wear.
My goodness what a big job ahead. Was that a coal spill you went over just before the bridge? My goodness it looked to be a mess. Thank you for sharing, nice to meet Mr Lucky, stay safe and Happy Rails to you!
Yes it was EJ. Here's a link to watch that video, it was a mess. Lucky is a really great guy, he always tries to do his best for us when he comes in. Thanks for watching my friend. ua-cam.com/video/a05-vYle4oM/v-deo.html
Thank you John. I will make a video of it this winter for you and also our 690 rock cut with the icicles it is higher and and longer, totally cool to see. Have always wanted to hang Christmas lights behind those icicles.... Lucky is a good friend, he is a good man and always tries his best to make life easier for me when he comes in. Appreciate your visiting with me tonight my friend. Your support of this channel is superb.
Love me some railroad timbers... they are being used as the main beams in my house... local guys just pulled up a bunch of track, waitin for them to load the timbers in a scrap bin, then I'll buy them off of the local scrapyard
Dang Lawren, if you were here, we would give them to you. We give a good many timbers away to local farmers and the game commission. Put under a roof those used timbers would last forever. Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out the home movie my friend.
@@ccrx6700 The local guys are good to me... when they dump a mess, the salvAGE yard only charges a buck or two... lots easier if I can get permission BEFORE they load 'em up, that way I only have to drag them across the STREET LOL
Thanks Ron glad you enjoyed. Not our truck tho, it belongs to Frontier RR Services, I couldn't be that lucky to get one for me.... :-) Always glad to have you join in with us for the home movie my friend.
We need to make a country western song about that John !!! Probably would make the top ten, but then I'd be a big country star and go on Grand Ole Oprey and wouldn't be able to make any more videos.... LOL Thanks so much my friend for visiting with us today.
Thanks for the informative video Dave! Very interesting about the dapping, and it all make perfect sense! That was a huge amount of oak, I was wondering about the cost as well. We priced timbers for a timber frame and the cost wasn't too bad, but we are in the middle of a heavily oak timbered area. I really like the look of that cut you went through - very cool! 😊
Thank you. Next video I will show you more of the dap in greater detail. Lot's of problems they had on the deck replacement. I'm not sure what oak bridge timbers cost. The regular ties are $80,, so guessing timbers gonna be quadruple that. Ties come from WV and there are tons of mountains full of oak there. Appreciate your dropping by and watching my friend.
DAVE ! As I was thinkin up questions ... You were answering them ! EXCELLENT video. Looks like "Lucky" got lucky for Christmas ! BTW, GREAT IDEA on those end caps on the NEW TIES !
Very glad you enjoyed the home movie Captain Tom. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Lucky is a good man, he always tries his best to please us when he comes in.
Thanks Dave!! You and Lucky make a good team and I wouldn't mind at all to ride along on that trip down the rail. I bet that truck will settle in once the springs relax some. Good video, thanks again!!
Your welcome Rick. Lucky and I get along very well, he is a good man and always tries his best to please us when he comes. He makes life much easier for me when he's here. Always enjoy hearing from you my friend.
It's actually Frontier's new truck Michael, not mine, wish it was mine. A guy can dream can't he.... :-) I sure could use that truck. Thanks for visiting with us today my friend.
Nice ride along Dave. Wish we all had jobs we enjoyed like you do. No matter how hard I try not to, I always learn something new watching your videos, lol. Be waiting for your next one!
Ah now Wilbur, why you trying so hard not to learn from me.... LOL You know we really enjoy having you with us. Thanks so much for all your great support my friend.
It is a nice truck too bad it's not mine, belongs to Frontier RR Services, sure wish I had it tho. could make some cool videos from up in the eagle's nest! Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will be of the deck replacement, they are pretty cool to watch,.
The bridge timbers we got i was told came from Africa! Each timber has a dap fot your metal Real cool Dave! For our switch timber regular ties we take a 14,16 footer (cCut to length or about 10'6 and make a 3.25" dap about 20" long. A few slips and frogs have 25' timber with a dap for a US&S A-5 Pneumatic switch. Nice Truck!
I've heard African timbers and ties are so hard you cannot pull a spike back out of them. My goodness those timbers must have cost a fortune to buy, but will last forever. Thanks so much my friend for visiting with us and writing in today.
Thank you Raymond, very glad you enjoyed the show. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. next 2 videos out will be of the deck replacement.
those ties are huge! I just can not imagine how they did it all by hand! railroading in the past was so labor intensive, now everything is hydrochloric or pneumatic driven lifts, grabbers, and drivers. the cost are leveraged, like at work we buy tons of pallets, all different types. a 49x49-inch double { both upper and lower layer } $2.95 each! you can not buy the wood for that much! all hard woods. I believe most ties are white oak due to their weather resistance and strength, and they are very dense too! it is so neat how the drop wheels go under the truck on to the rails. I was wondering does the rubber tires drive the vehicle when it is on the rails? if so do you get an odd ware on the rubber tires? great video, you always learn so much take care, be safe and have a great day.
Thank you Barry, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Yes sir the rubber tires drive the vehicle while it's on rail. And yes over time there is a band that develops on the tire rubber that is the width of the rail head, it's kinda like a flat spot around the circumference of the tire.
Thank you Bradford. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will be of them replacing the deck timbers, lot of adversity they had to deal with and will show you all that. Very much appreciate all your wonderful support of the channel my friend.
Thank you sparty94, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
Thank you Russell, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. You'll like the next bridge video out, lot's of problems they encountered.
Thank you Wayne, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
Thank you Gary, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will be of the deck replacement.
Stay tuned my friend, next 2 videos out will show the bridge deck replacement. It was HOT out and those guys up on the deck did a marvelous job despite a tremendous amount of adversity they had to deal with as I will show you in those videos. Thank you so very much for dropping by tonight and watching.
Truck belongs to Frontier RR Services one of our contractors William. Sure do wish they had bought it for me tho! Glad you enjoyed the show. We really appreciate your visiting with us tonight my friend.
Your very welcome Robin. Always is a pleasure to have you visit with us. We really appreciate all your wonderful support of the channel and excellent comments my friend.
Thank you darnoldie, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are on the deck replacement.
I am looking forward to seeing how you use the different lengths of timbers. Paying $300+ for 24 ft oak timbers for the new shed. Interesting. Thank you for sharing, Dave.
I guess your grapple truck is still in the shop waiting for parts. Wouldn't it behoove Cumberland to lease a new truck with a service contract? Dapping is an interesting procedure. On one of the short lines I worked for old Nick dapped bridge timbers by hand, what a slow and tedious process. After the timbers were prepared they were loaded onto a flat car and we took them down to the bridge site. No grapple truck, a small excavator loaded on a flat car to load and unload.
Yep truck is still in shop, waiting on parts... no surprise there. Hand dapping not a fun thing to do, but watch next video out where they did have to hand dap the center span timbers. And it was 90 degrees out that week. Those guys were not happy about having to use an adze in that heat. But they did it.
Hey Dave! Good to see your railroad investing in equipment and infrastructure…that’s a good sign! I watched, with great interest, your recent hot bearing burn off video. I sold and serviced HBD equipment with General Electric. My customer was BNSF and it was “full emergency mode” when there was a derailment caused by a burned off journal. Damages can get to hundreds of millions if it happens in a bad place. Their detector spacing averaged about 22 miles, but knowing you won’t catch a roller that comes apart catastrophically between detectors. BNSF has deployed acoustic detectors (in an effort to catch impending failures before they go catastrophic) in recent years, but I’m not sure how they are panning out … (been retired 5 years). You video showing the melted components, especially the roller bearing and the cage, was compelling and eye-opening! Hope your detector(s) are in good order…they take time to care for, but they pay for themselves. Have a Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New 2023 Year!
KC! Always great to hear from you my old friend. Been wondering how you have been. Yes sir a bearing can go bad in a short period of time between detectors. We only have one at MP 8, so when you think about it, train passes then goes 8 miles to load or dump, then another 8 miles to get back to the detector so we are really 16 miles apart. Is the acoustic detector like a wheel impact load detector? I wish we had one of those also. Tech from progress Rail was in here about a month ago and recalibrated the whole thing for us. Thanks so much for watching and writing in.
Lucky is a good man Craig and tries his best to do a good job for us every time he comes in, even if he is a WV fan.... :-) I'm just teasing bout the WV. Thanks so much for dropping by and taking in the show today my friendl
Geezer? I'm only 68 years of age, I though the official definition of a geezer was past the age of 70..... LOL Thank you so much Mike for paying us a visit today and taking in the show my friend. PS: this old geezer can still hand spike with the best of them, just can't do it for much of an extended time tho. And you will see that in a much future video.
Nice video Dave - Oak ties, now I know where Nuts319 logger from just North of you goes and turned into. Good mill work for the bridge schedule for the final placement from the blueprints of the bridge, amazed at the engineers and their math that goes into designing structures. Lucky sure has a nice new Western Star to play with and your getting all ready to make the switch of the deck. Cheers and stay safe my friend.
Glad you enjoyed today's home movie. We certainly do appreciate your joining in with us and checking things out my friend. Lucky is a good man and good operator and deserves a nice new truck. Bully for him.
A great day at the railroad! Nice to meet Lucky :) I hope his wife gets better - hard to enjoy the workday if you're worried about your wife's health (been there). With great folks around you, work is something to enjoy and that's a great thing!
Thanks Brian, I will tell him of your regards and well wishes. It's nice when Lucky works here cause he can go home at night. Most places he has to stay in hotels all week cause they so far away. Lucky is a good man. Appreciate your visiting with us today my friend.
Thank you Dave, always is a pleasure to have you join in with us. Hope you will enjoy the next 2 videos where we replace the deck, lot's of adversity they face doing that.
That truck came down from the NS SWP junction in Radebaugh Pa I also usually see him on the industrial siding in Trafford loading and unloading equipment from truck to train or visa versa. I also filed some covered hoppers being loaded and unloaded in New Stanton a couple weeks ago.
It could have been this truck Bryan. Frontier RR Services has 4 other trucks just like this one, could have been one of those, who knows. Frontier is located in New Stanton. Thanks so much for watching and writing in my friend.
Dave, I love your videos but the new intro gets in the way more than it helps. It's probably best used on your channel's home screen as a video of its own than at the front of your videos. Leaving it out is also less editing work. Keep making videos! I look forward to them.
Thanks for your thoughts. That intro came into the scene this past early summer. Since then I've gotten a lot of comments on it. Mostly are that folks like it. A few others have said same as you. So having 40,000 subs it is impossible to please every person every time. What you will see in the future is some videos with the full intro, some with just a smaller part of it and some with none at all. Appreciate your dropping by and watching the video today my friend.
He's a pretty good dude WheezerOf Juice. You would like him, everyone likes Lucky. He's a very good operator also. I would tell him your compliment but he's got a swelled head already....LOL
Thank you Rusty, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
Another neat informative video, Dave. You got some nice truck action too. That brand new Western Star grapple truck sure is pretty and is a nice handy tool for workin' on the railroad. Thanks again for sharing and being able to show some of other great guys you work with. 👍
Those grapple trucks pay for themselves in a fairly short time, they can do a ton of work in one day. Sure wish we had our own here. Thanks so much my friend for stopping by and taking in the show.
Does your new truck have a provision to move the truck from the operators seat when it's up on Hi rail? Cool to travel down the tracks perched up there. We call the grapple trucks 'Prentice Loaders', after one of the major manufacturers of grapples and boom equipment. Great machine to spot change out ties on the ROW. I've been to ATS down in Sutton, WV. They machine, creosote treat, and also do pre-plating on timber that comes in already cut to basic dimension from sawmills in their area. I was there to confirm that the pre-plating of ties they were doing for the renewal of the Red Line tracks on the Longfellow bridge over the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge MA would accept the special anti-vibration tie plates we got from Pandrol at the proper gauge.
Yes it does have tram capabilities from the eagle's nest. That is nice. All the old trucks had the Prentiss loaders on them, now all the trucks have Rotobecks. We always called the grapple trucks Prentiss Loaders. One of my old buddies was hard of hearing and he called them Printers.... :-) I had the chance to tour ATS this summer, it was awesome. Did you meet Rick? he is part owner and manager and he gave us a personal tour of the place. Too bad, I asked him if I could video the place for YT and he didn't like that idea, but what a cool video that would have been. We saw them plating the timbers. What an interesting place to visit, I've wanted to tour there for the past 15 years and finally got my chance. Rick is a wonderful person. Their boiler was down that day so I didn't get to see them creosoting, but did tour where they have the tubes.
David, I have to say that grapple is one fine looking piece. Forgot to mention about a month ago in Fort Wayne Indiana was stopped by a work gang and because of you I knew exactly what that tamper was up to. I got a chuckle and said “that’s railroading”!!! Hope you have a blessed Christmas and New Year!
Glad you could enjoy the tamping action in person and had a good idea what they were doing. That;s pretty cool, thanks for sharing that with me. That is one big reason why I started this channel to help communicate to folks what railroading on the ground is like and what all it takes to keep trains running. Always is a pleasure to have you visit with us my friend.
Just a suggestion as I watched the other bridge 8 video first, when the ties show up maybe check to make sure that you got what you ordered. Remember that if there is a chance to mess up an order the earlier you catch it the easier the fix.
Your right, had I be given the dapping schedule and could have laid the timbers out, I certainly could have done that. Thanks for the suggestion and for taking the time to watch today my good man.
Dave, Thank you for these videos! Great to watch and be able to learn something. If you are able, see if you could find out how much each tie weighs...approximately. just curious. Thank you, sir! Have a great and safe holiday season for you and you family, and everyone on the R.R.! John & Michele in Southern Michigan.
Thank you John, very glad you enjoyed the home movie today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. A regular cross tie that is oak weighs close to 200, So depending on the length of the bridge timbers, I'm guessing around 500 and up for the longer timbers.
Just be glad that they don't put in another set of tracks and you'd have train loads coming and going all of the time. One unloads at the wharf and the other is loading at the mine at the same time. Think of all of that track maintenance you'd have or the crew that you'd need for the job.
Well if they ran that kind of traffic, I'd never get track time so would get a lot of breaks.... LOL We used to run 2 trains here several years ago, they were back then almost non stop. Was really good to see coal moving, but track time for maintenance was very small. Always a pleasure to have you visit with us my friend.
Good to see someone still using feet and inches Dave, can't be doing with all this milly metric stuff, least if someone says they need 40 ft you know what your dealing with.
You are right about that Moel, I don't even know how to use metric or how to convert metric to feet and inches. Very grateful my friend for your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video.
Yes sir, you know the price of raw lumber and these bridge timbers are all oak. For those of you who may be reading this, please check out Preston's You Tube channel, he's got some pretty cool videos over there you may enjoy including some RR stuff. I never miss one of his videos. He is a very hard worker and a good man. www.youtube.com/@Paw95
Lucky is a good man and deserves a nice new truck. All the grapples used to be made by Prentiss, now they are Rotobeck. They both did the job. Very much appreciate your taking the time to tune in and check out the show my friend.
It was a bit scary. Lucky thinks there may be something not quite right with the air suspension in the back, I've never been in a hi rail truck before that rode that shaky. Appreciate your taking the time to tune in and watch today my friend.
Great video Dave nice truck,,,,I’m thinking your squealing on your hirail is your pressure relief vale may be set to low…keep an eye on the lower pivot on the hirail mount under the spring,,,they are not grease able I just had a year old truck snap the threaded rod off
Thanks Mike for the great comment. You are right, Lucky also said the pressure relief valve isn't set right. For those of you who may be reading this, check out Mike's really cool YT channel, he's got some pretty neat RR videos you won't get to see anywhere else. Mike is a good man and a railroader, I never miss one of his videos: www.youtube.com/@mikejackman4416
I bet all those timbers cost enough that someone could build a small house with the money. Oak is not cheap, even if it is just rough lumber like that but after the processing those beams go through they are probably not much cheaper than a fancy finished beam. This also makes me wonder how often the inside drive tires on that truck need to be changed compared to the outside drive or steer tires. That is quite a bit of weight to be on such a small section of tire even with any support the guide wheels provide.
I do not know what each timber costs but I'm sure they are plenty. A regular tie costs 80 so probably triple or quadruple that cost. Yes the inside drive tires develop over time a band around them where they contact the rail head and will need changed before the outside dual does. Really appreciate your dropping by and taking in the show today my friend.
Not making light of it (new bridge deck) but it made me remember my LINCOLN LOG set from 60 years ago. Great ~ thanks.
Now Dave knows why a "backup camera" is called a backup camera.
LOL I had one of those also, was a lot of fun to play with. Very
much appreciate your visiting with us and writing in today my friend.
You:"Say Hi, Lucky!" Lucky:"Hi Lucky!"🤣🤣 He sure has a nice truck there! I'm glad he let us tag along. Thanks for another fine video!!
Your welcome Trena. Lucky is a great guy, he always tries hi
best to do a good job for us when he comes. Very much appreciate
your dropping by and taking in the presentation tonight my friend.
Stay tuned, tomorrow night video we will start to replace the
bridge deck.
I love your videos. You are a perfect teacher, telling us what things are and what they mean. I love this. Thank you for all you do.
Appreciate the very nice comment Marti.
How do you aleays find something interesting to give us? Always something up your sleeve. Thanks Dave. My father-in-law was a carpenter on our South African Railways and so was my Dad. They both worked for Reef Construction, that was the civil side of our Railways. As a wee lad I used to visit my Dad on site and get to ride around with the site lorry driver. The lorry was an ex army Ford. Little did I know that some 17 years later I would be marrying my father's work mate's daughter after meeting her at The Langlaagte Railway Mission. He was later transferred to the Railway Signals Repair workshop where he prepared Ties or what we call sleepers or in Afrikaans, Dwarsleiers. Cutting notches and grooves on massive machines for fitting points machines etc.
Always something going on here Bill, wanted or mostly unwanted....LOL Awesome story thanks for sharing. Hope
that things are looking up for you. Always is a pleasure
to hear from you my friend.
Great video!
On a side note, I like how those trailers with separated wheels eat the road taking curves. It’s amazing the wheels don’t come off when it has tons of weight. Lol
Thank you, nice to hear you enjoyed the show. That's why I showed
those trailer wheels, not something everyone usually ever gets to
see. Slides easier on loose gravel than road tho. Always is a pleasure
to have you visit with me my friend.
You have way too much fun on your job. How great to have job you enjoy. Every video you bring something different. No two days the same. That’s the best job when it’s always a new project. Thanks for the video.
Thank you Beverly for the very nice comment. It's always a
treat to have you visit with us.Very glad you are having a good
time watching my friend.
More Lucky please. What a legend. Thanks for taking us along Dave.
Thanks, Lucky is an awesome guy. He is a good man and always
tries his best to please us when he comes. Guess we gonna have
to start a Lucky fan club for him. Appreciate your stopping
by and taking in the video today my friend.
Nice.
Thanks to Lucky for allowing us to ride along.
I will tell him. He is a good man and a very good operator. We
like when Lucky shows up. Certainly appreciate your dropping
by and checking out the show today my friend.
Every video is a new adventure! Life is exciting! Thanks for filming and all the rest of the work you do, to share this with your fans! Stay healthy, happy and safe!
Always an adventure on the Cumberland Mine RR. But it does
make life interesting and makes for a lot of good videos....LOL.
Cannot thank you enough Valerie for all your wonderful comments
and support you have given us my friend. More great stuff to
come just for you.
Really enjoyed watching Lucky do his job. I learned more about the track today. Have a great day my friend.
Thank you Lewis, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do
a good job for us.
WOW!, putting that new grapple truck on the rails was slicker than a penguin on a downhill sheet of ice! Theres no possible way i could hold a camera still while bouncing around in a Hi-Rail truck, nope, nada, nyet, nein, etc! 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸❤❤👍👍😀😀❗
Thanks for the nice comment Paul. We very much appreciate
your taking the time to drop by and check out the presentation
today my friend.
Just found your channel . I love anything with TRAINS. Other channels just show trains. Your channel "Explains" things, which sets it
apart from others. Now, for all the new viewers, like me. Could you give a brief intro about the company, what and where they operate?
Thanks, love the channel!
Thank you 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.
ua-cam.com/users/ccrx6700
so much more to railroading than just trains, you have the neatest toys
Yes sir Kenn, we keep the trains running, without us maintenance
then the trains would soon not run. Gotta keep the nation's
freight moving and the lights and heat on in the homes. Always
is a pleasure to have you stop by and visit with me my good friend.
Hope all is well your way.
Oh yeah, I meant to tell you. I now work for a welding fabricator in Columbia (part time) and the fella that runs the water jet table lives along where the old Philadelphia & Columbia RR used to be. He found a piece of rail the other day that's really old. We're figuring 1850's vintage. He gave me a small piece, around 7". It's in remarkably good condition too. You'd appreciate it. Wish I could put up a picture here.
Oh wow, 1850! Keep that baby! I'm guessing that would be
cast iron rail. Thanks for sharing that Anthony and for taking
the time to watch the show my friend.
Dave, thanks for the great video! Always a pleasure to ride along with you. Nice to see Lucky out with his new truck. It is a beauty.
Certainly welcome Tom, it was my pleasure. Lucky is a great guy,
he always tries his best for us. We are always lucky to have Lucky...:-)
The ride along with lucky was cool. Just the interaction of 2 great railroad guys shooting the breeze. The day to day is great Dave. Just a day at work..
Thank you Pappy for the very nice comment. Lucky is a good man,
he makes life much easier for me when he comes. I cannot
say enough good things about him and he's a very good
grapple truck operator. Before this he hauled MOW equipment
including tampers. Big stuff. Always is a pleasure to have
you visit with us my good friend. PS:
you beat Valerie here tonight....LOL
@@ccrx6700 ha, ha, it's a bout time I beat her. Lol 👍 😆
Dave, I really like that truck and can tell in your voice "That you Want it"😏 ... Nothing like the new truck 🚚 smell 😀 .
Being March, I see 👀 the coal and the timber were still there from that cold day. They cleanup was another video 📹.
Thanks for mentioning me😀. I would of loved to have gone along.
Stay safe and Have fun 👍.
Richard Bause
Lucky is a good man and deserves a nice new truck to play with.
We certainly appreciate your tuning in and checking out today's
home movie my friend.
OOOH! Nice truck. Western Star fresh right out of the box.
Lucky is a good man and deserves a nice new truck to play with.
We certainly appreciate your tuning in and checking out today's
home movie my friend.
Nice shiny truck! THanks for the ride alone!
Your welcome Brian. Always is a pleasure to have you come
visit with us my friend. Hope to see ya on the next one.
Great video Dave....and it was nice to meet "Lucky".
Thank you Fireball. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his
best to do a good job for us even if he is a WV fan....:-) Always
a pleasure to have you visit with me my friend.
When the front hyrail valve squeals like that, there’s another valve next to the valve lever with a cap, remove the cap with a wrench and turn the valve counter clockwise a little at a time with an Allen wrench and that allows more hydraulic flow to eliminate the squeal, our trucks have the same DMF hyrail gear with locking pins and the newer trucks like my grapple have the air locking pins up front and rear.
Thanks Jason, I will tell Lucky that, he will be most appreciative.
Always is a pleasure to have you visit with us and write in my friend.
You guys are having way too much fun. LOL. You know when you love your job you never work a day in your life. As always keepem on the rails.
Thank you Gary for the very nice comment. They say when you're
having fun you don't age nearly as fast. Well tell that to my old
bones and aching muscles....LOL Very much appreciate your
stopping by and taking in tonight's home movie my friend.
The high rail ride with Lucky was great. I know you said before how well you get on with him and now see you both love your jobs. I see the timbers have small holes in, the same on ours. I was told they are made by spiked rollers that take them through the creosote and it helps it go deeper into the wood. Looking forward to seeing the bridge work and what problem you had to solve.
It's called incising
@@MsCriticalthinker201 OK Thanks Sarah
Very glad you enjoyed cedarcam. Lucky is a good man, he always
tries his best to do a good job for us when he comes. Lucky me
got to tour the tie plant this summer where we buy our ties from.
The owner didn't want me to make video for YT, but wow what a
cool video that would have been to see all the stages of how they
make ties. Those small holes are punched into the ties by an
incisor. It's a big round drum with spikes sticking out. Would make
mince meat out of you and me if we went thru it. Anyway at
some point next year I will have a video on the life of a tie,
I do have a picture of that incisor that I will show in the video.
And yes, you are exactly right, the ties are incised to allow the
creosote to penetrate deeper into the wood.
@@ccrx6700 I would of loved to of seen the tie plant, I remember you saying on another video you were not able to put it on youtube, at least we can see the incisor in the picture though. I bet it would be a one way trip if you were to get caught in it. A few videos ago you asked if I had any video of our S160 well I found someone has made a compilation video of her running, so here is a link for you. I will see if I can get more close detail of her when I go there again. ua-cam.com/video/GJdLKnadsd0/v-deo.html
What a beautiful place to make an outdoors living.
It is nice around here Mike. Thanks for your nice comment and
for taking the time to check out the video today my friend.
Thank you for bringing us this fascinating video presentation. This oak timber for the bridge will last a long time so it will be good once this bridge is done. It was nice to meet Lucky, it is a great skill to operate these trucks. It is great to see the investment in the railroad.
Your welcome John. Glad you had a good time with us. Lucky is
a great guy, he always tries his best to do a good job for us.
Really appreciate your taking in today's home movie my friend.
I can smell the creosote from here Dave. Thanks for bringing us along
🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲👷🏗⚒️🚃🚃🙋
Thanks Doug. Someone else suggested getting some air
fresheners that smell like creosote, you and me would have
one in every truck if they sold those! For anyone who is reading
this, please check out Doug's awesome YT channel, it's superb,
I never miss one of his videos:
www.youtube.com/@user-oc4ng2pn7n
@@ccrx6700 haha a whole line of man air freshers. creosote&cut carbon steel, Perkins diesel exhaust,100 low lead av gas& maple bacon&cherry hard wood. Sure they'll sell lol. Thank you Dave for the shout out🙏
Learned something! Never knew about dapping ties. I knew there were differences between bridge ties and regular ties, but now I know!
Your welcome Bill. Glad you enjoyed the show. Next 2 videos out
will be of them replacing the deck, it's gonna be interesting cause
we ran into major problems which I will show you. We certainly
appreciate all your wonderful comments and support of the
channel my friend.
Nice kit of 10 by 10 oak. I can't wait to see the work on the bridge!!! Thanks for posting Dave and stay safe out there.
Thanks Barney. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are of the deck replacement, lot of adversity they faced doing that which I
will show you. Really appreciate your paying us a visit tonight
and taking in the show my friend.
All this new stuff being delivered near Christmas time wow. New truck and then all those Timbers really had you fired up. Enjoying the drive through the rock cuts with the. Forces of Mother Nature and ice and then it looks like an oopsie where the ballast ceases to exist and looks like a car dumped out its load. Looking forward to the bridge work replacement
This video was made last March Paul. However we did get
4 tractor trailer loads of new ties in here about a month ago.
Car door opened up at the end of that rock cut last December,
if you didn't see that video, here's the link:
ua-cam.com/video/a05-vYle4oM/v-deo.html
Always appreciate when you pay us a visit my friend.
I would love to have one of those vehicles over here Dave (would be very handy) over here though we call them Road Rail Vehicles or RRV's for short! Thanks for sharing this with us once again Dave and you have yourself a great day 👍
Would love to come over with one John. Hi rail highway to rail,
same as road rail. Glad you could join in with us for the ride
down track my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Always a pleasure to watch your videos Dave 👍
@@PBRJOHN684 😊👍
Telling Lucky “We’re going to make you a big star,” all he has to do is “act naturally.”
Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to do a good job
for us. Life is a bit hard for him right now, his wife is not in
good health and he has to be on the road away from home far
too much. At least when he comes here he can go home at
night instead of spending all week at a hotel. Thanks so much
for dropping by and taking in the show today my friend.
Great vid Dave , we were lucky to meet Lucky ... Keep em coming ... Thx Ole Pal ...
Thank you. Lucky is a good man. He always tries his best to
do a good job for us when he's here. Really appreciate your
joining in with us and checking out the show my friend.
Wow Dave, that grapple truck sure is pretty!
It sure is Eric. For those of you who may reading this, please
check out Eric's really cool YT channel, he's got some
pretty neat RR videos you may enjoy:
www.youtube.com/@ericcoffedgp40
@ccrx 6700 That's Railroadin! Thanks for the shout out Dave, I really appreciate it!
Engineer sir.
Your videos are very different to different
of experience to me by views of these events on your duty. I am waiting for your next videos
Thank you Thomas, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend.
Lucky's a character.... always good to see the guys
Lucky is a good man. He is a good friend and always tries his
best to make life easier for me when he comes in here. I cannot
say enough good things about him. Thank you so much for
stopping by tonight and taking in the video and for all you
great support of the channel my friend.
Thanks, Dave. Riding through that rock cut was really terrific !! James.
That is a pretty neat ride and glad you liked it. The icicles hanging
off those rocks are pretty cool and last a long time since there
is little sun hits there in the winter.
That new Grapple Truck is nice!! It's nice riding the rails (no traffic). Them 4 small track wheels must take a beating after a while, must get greased daily. Stay safe Dave.
Lucky is a good man Jim and deserves a nice new truck to play with.
We certainly appreciate your tuning in and checking out today's
home movie my friend. yep those drive wheels develop a band
around them where they meet the rail head which causes
extra wear.
My goodness what a big job ahead. Was that a coal spill you went over just before the bridge? My goodness it looked to be a mess. Thank you for sharing, nice to meet Mr Lucky, stay safe and Happy Rails to you!
Yes it was EJ. Here's a link to watch that video, it was a mess.
Lucky is a really great guy, he always tries to do his best for
us when he comes in. Thanks for watching my friend.
ua-cam.com/video/a05-vYle4oM/v-deo.html
Thank you and it was a mess, bitter cold day too. Lucky no derailment for sure. Take care
Wow that rock face is awesome looking. I bet it does look cool covered in ice. Great video and conversation between 2 great friends.
Thank you John. I will make a video of it this winter for you
and also our 690 rock cut with the icicles it is higher and and
longer, totally cool to see. Have always wanted to hang Christmas
lights behind those icicles.... Lucky is a good friend, he is a good
man and always tries his best to make life easier for me
when he comes in. Appreciate your visiting with me tonight my
friend. Your support of this channel is superb.
@@ccrx6700 LOL, I bet you'd find a way to hang those lights too. Thanks for the entertaining videos sir.
Love me some railroad timbers... they are being used as the main beams in my house... local guys just pulled up a bunch of track, waitin for them to load the timbers in a scrap bin, then I'll buy them off of the local scrapyard
Dang Lawren, if you were here, we would give them to you. We
give a good many timbers away to local farmers and the game
commission. Put under a roof those used timbers would last
forever. Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out
the home movie my friend.
@@ccrx6700 The local guys are good to me... when they dump a mess, the salvAGE yard only charges a buck or two... lots easier if I can get permission BEFORE they load 'em up, that way I only have to drag them across the STREET
LOL
@@lawrenwimberly7311 👍😊
I enjoy your enthusiasm, Dave.
Thank you for the kind comment. Really appreciate your dropping in
on us and watching the show today my friend.
Pretty Cool video Dave, I'm glad you guy's got a new truck. Well deserved!!!
Thanks Ron glad you enjoyed. Not our truck tho, it belongs to Frontier RR Services, I couldn't be that lucky to get one for me.... :-) Always
glad to have you join in with us for the home movie my friend.
Rocking and Riding with Dave and Lucky.
We need to make a country western song about that John !!!
Probably would make the top ten, but then I'd be a big country
star and go on Grand Ole Oprey and wouldn't be able to make
any more videos.... LOL Thanks so much my friend for visiting with
us today.
@@ccrx6700 You'll need a Gandy Dance to go with that song.
@@johnsimms6778 I can do that 👍😊
Thanks Dave as always 👍
Certainly welcome, very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend.
Thanks for the informative video Dave! Very interesting about the dapping, and it all make perfect sense! That was a huge amount of oak, I was wondering about the cost as well. We priced timbers for a timber frame and the cost wasn't too bad, but we are in the middle of a heavily oak timbered area. I really like the look of that cut you went through - very cool! 😊
Thank you. Next video I will show you more of the dap in greater
detail. Lot's of problems they had on the deck replacement. I'm
not sure what oak bridge timbers cost. The regular ties are $80,,
so guessing timbers gonna be quadruple that. Ties come from
WV and there are tons of mountains full of oak there. Appreciate
your dropping by and watching my friend.
@@ccrx6700 😊👍
OMG I never knew how a truck with regular tires got on the rails. Thanks for show this.
Your very welcome Marti. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a most blessed day my friend.
Another adventure on the Railroad. Thanks for bringing us along! :)
Your welcome, very pleased to have you join in with us for
today's home movie my friend.
DAVE ! As I was thinkin up questions ... You were answering them ! EXCELLENT video. Looks like "Lucky" got lucky for Christmas ! BTW, GREAT IDEA on those end caps on the NEW TIES !
Very glad you enjoyed the home movie Captain Tom.
We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. Lucky is a good man, he always tries his best to
please us when he comes in.
Thanks Dave!! You and Lucky make a good team and I wouldn't mind at all to ride along on that trip down the rail. I bet that truck will settle in once the springs relax some. Good video, thanks again!!
Your welcome Rick. Lucky and I get along very well, he is a good
man and always tries his best to please us when he comes. He
makes life much easier for me when he's here. Always enjoy
hearing from you my friend.
Your new truck looks great.😂
It's actually Frontier's new truck Michael, not mine, wish it was
mine. A guy can dream can't he.... :-) I sure could use that truck.
Thanks for visiting with us today my friend.
Nice ride along Dave. Wish we all had jobs we enjoyed like you do. No matter how hard I try not to, I always learn something new watching your videos, lol. Be waiting for your next one!
Ah now Wilbur, why you trying so hard not to learn from me.... LOL
You know we really enjoy having you with us. Thanks so much
for all your great support my friend.
Cool video and info Dave, nice new grapple truck you have!
It is a nice truck too bad it's not mine, belongs to Frontier RR
Services, sure wish I had it tho. could make some cool videos
from up in the eagle's nest! Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will
be of the deck replacement, they are pretty cool to watch,.
The bridge timbers we got i was told came from Africa! Each timber has a dap fot your metal Real cool Dave!
For our switch timber regular ties we take a 14,16 footer (cCut to length or about 10'6 and make a 3.25" dap about 20" long.
A few slips and frogs have 25' timber with a dap for a US&S A-5 Pneumatic switch. Nice Truck!
I've heard African timbers and ties are so hard you cannot
pull a spike back out of them. My goodness those timbers
must have cost a fortune to buy, but will last forever. Thanks
so much my friend for visiting with us and writing in today.
I am looking forward to the bridge work! Thank you for the ride in the new truck, you always have good things to share!
Thank you Raymond, very glad you enjoyed the show. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. next 2
videos out will be of the deck replacement.
Great ride Dave thanks for the vid very much appreciated stay safe.
Thank you Lawrie, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend.
those ties are huge! I just can not imagine how they did it all by hand! railroading in the
past was so labor intensive, now everything is hydrochloric or pneumatic driven lifts,
grabbers, and drivers. the cost are leveraged, like at work we buy tons of pallets, all different
types. a 49x49-inch double { both upper and lower layer } $2.95 each! you can not buy the
wood for that much! all hard woods. I believe most ties are white oak due to their weather
resistance and strength, and they are very dense too! it is so neat how the drop wheels go under
the truck on to the rails. I was wondering does the rubber tires drive the vehicle when it is
on the rails? if so do you get an odd ware on the rubber tires? great video, you always learn
so much take care, be safe and have a great day.
Thank you Barry, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. Yes sir the rubber tires drive the vehicle while it's on
rail. And yes over time there is a band that develops on the
tire rubber that is the width of the rail head, it's kinda like a flat
spot around the circumference of the tire.
Well as usual fun video Dave.... it's exciting you Lets us see everything
Thank you Bradford. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will be
of them replacing the deck timbers, lot of adversity they had to deal with and will show you all that. Very much appreciate all your
wonderful support of the channel my friend.
Another Awesome Video. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Thank you Kevin, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend.
thanks for all the work you put into this dave, i feel like i'm right there with you.
Thank you sparty94, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2
videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
What a awesome video loaded with great info and Congrats on the new truck. Thanks Dave👍👍
Thank you Russell, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. You'll like the next bridge video out, lot's of problems
they encountered.
Nice explanation Dave thanks love your videos.
Thank you Wayne, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2
videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
Great explanation of ties for a bridge great video thanks Dave for a great video nice new hi rail grapple truck like I said great video Dave thanks
Thank you Gary, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out will be of the deck replacement.
Looks like you’re gonna have some serous building ahead. Nice hi rail crane truck too! Work safe
Stay tuned my friend, next 2 videos out will show the bridge
deck replacement. It was HOT out and those guys up on the
deck did a marvelous job despite a tremendous amount
of adversity they had to deal with as I will show you in
those videos. Thank you so very much for dropping by
tonight and watching.
Cool new toy Dave. Thanks
Truck belongs to Frontier RR Services one of our contractors
William. Sure do wish they had bought it for me tho! Glad you
enjoyed the show. We really appreciate your visiting with us
tonight my friend.
Great video!
Thank you, very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend.
Thanks for the video!
Some tasks still have very basic moves!
Your very welcome Robin. Always is a pleasure to have you
visit with us. We really appreciate all your wonderful support
of the channel and excellent comments my friend.
Terrific video. All the conversation was enjoyable while high railing along. I learn something with every video.
Thank you very much Bob for the nice comment. Really appreciate
your taking the time to tune in and check out the show today
my friend.
Good night Dave
Sleep well my friend. See you tomorrow for another new show.
Thanks for taking us along on nice ride Dave. Always an interesting video from you.
Thank you darnoldie, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. Stay tuned, next 2 videos out are on the deck replacement.
I am looking forward to seeing how you use the different lengths of timbers. Paying $300+ for 24 ft oak timbers for the new shed. Interesting. Thank you for sharing, Dave.
Watch the video on replacing bridge deck timbers to see that Shirley.
Thanks so much for checking out the show my friend.
I guess your grapple truck is still in the shop waiting for parts. Wouldn't it behoove Cumberland to lease a new truck with a service contract? Dapping is an interesting procedure. On one of the short lines I worked for old Nick dapped bridge timbers by hand, what a slow and tedious process. After the timbers were prepared they were loaded onto a flat car and we took them down to the bridge site. No grapple truck, a small excavator loaded on a flat car to load and unload.
Yep truck is still in shop, waiting on parts... no surprise there. Hand
dapping not a fun thing to do, but watch next video out where they
did have to hand dap the center span timbers. And it was 90
degrees out that week. Those guys were not happy about having
to use an adze in that heat. But they did it.
@@ccrx6700 Dave,I look forward to all of your videos.
@@garykuipers2696 😊👍
Hey Dave! Good to see your railroad investing in equipment and infrastructure…that’s a good sign! I watched, with great interest, your recent hot bearing burn off video. I sold and serviced HBD equipment with General Electric. My customer was BNSF and it was “full emergency mode” when there was a derailment caused by a burned off journal. Damages can get to hundreds of millions if it happens in a bad place. Their detector spacing averaged about 22 miles, but knowing you won’t catch a roller that comes apart catastrophically between detectors. BNSF has deployed acoustic detectors (in an effort to catch impending failures before they go catastrophic) in recent years, but I’m not sure how they are panning out … (been retired 5 years). You video showing the melted components, especially the roller bearing and the cage, was compelling and eye-opening! Hope your detector(s) are in good order…they take time to care for, but they pay for themselves. Have a Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New 2023 Year!
KC! Always great to hear from you my old friend. Been wondering
how you have been. Yes sir a bearing can go bad in a short
period of time between detectors. We only have one at MP 8,
so when you think about it, train passes then goes 8 miles to
load or dump, then another 8 miles to get back to the detector
so we are really 16 miles apart.
Is the acoustic detector like a wheel impact load detector? I wish
we had one of those also. Tech from progress Rail was in here
about a month ago and recalibrated the whole thing for us.
Thanks so much for watching and writing in.
As always an awesome view of real Railroading, Thanks!
Thank you for the very kind comment. We really appreciate your
taking the time to tune in and watch tonight my friend.
West Virginia hat on the dashboard, YES !!!!!
Lucky is a good man Craig and tries his best to do a good job for
us every time he comes in, even if he is a WV fan.... :-) I'm just
teasing bout the WV. Thanks so much for dropping by and taking
in the show today my friendl
...couple of geezers still playin with trains............I am jealous
Geezer? I'm only 68 years of age, I though the official definition of
a geezer was past the age of 70..... LOL Thank you so much Mike
for paying us a visit today and taking in the show my friend. PS:
this old geezer can still hand spike with the best of them, just
can't do it for much of an extended time tho. And you will see
that in a much future video.
@@ccrx6700 consider it a compliment Dave....a welcome to the club...thanks for the video
@@mikedee8876 👍😊
Nice video Dave - Oak ties, now I know where Nuts319 logger from just North of you goes and turned into. Good mill work for the bridge schedule for the final placement from the blueprints of the bridge, amazed at the engineers and their math that goes into designing structures. Lucky sure has a nice new Western Star to play with and your getting all ready to make the switch of the deck. Cheers and stay safe my friend.
Glad you enjoyed today's home movie. We certainly do appreciate
your joining in with us and checking things out my friend. Lucky
is a good man and good operator and deserves a nice new truck.
Bully for him.
A great day at the railroad! Nice to meet Lucky :) I hope his wife gets better - hard to enjoy the workday if you're worried about your wife's health (been there). With great folks around you, work is something to enjoy and that's a great thing!
Thanks Brian, I will tell him of your regards and well wishes. It's nice
when Lucky works here cause he can go home at night. Most places
he has to stay in hotels all week cause they so far away. Lucky is a
good man. Appreciate your visiting with us today my friend.
That was a great adventure Dave, liking the new grapple truck! (Dave).
Thank you Dave, always is a pleasure to have you join in
with us. Hope you will enjoy the next 2 videos where we
replace the deck, lot's of adversity they face doing that.
@@ccrx6700 You are welcome Dave!
That truck came down from the NS SWP junction in Radebaugh Pa I also usually see him on the industrial siding in Trafford loading and unloading equipment from truck to train or visa versa. I also filed some covered hoppers being loaded and unloaded in New Stanton a couple weeks ago.
It could have been this truck Bryan. Frontier RR Services has
4 other trucks just like this one, could have been one of those,
who knows. Frontier is located in New Stanton. Thanks so
much for watching and writing in my friend.
Christmas comes early at dave's work!!
Thanks so much rearspeaker for visiting with us and taking in
the show my friend. Dave tried to be a good boy this year.....
Dave, I love your videos but the new intro gets in the way more than it helps. It's probably best used on your channel's home screen as a video of its own than at the front of your videos. Leaving it out is also less editing work.
Keep making videos! I look forward to them.
Thanks for your thoughts. That intro came into the scene this past
early summer. Since then I've gotten a lot of comments on it. Mostly
are that folks like it. A few others have said same as you. So having
40,000 subs it is impossible to please every person every time.
What you will see in the future is some videos with the full intro,
some with just a smaller part of it and some with none at all.
Appreciate your dropping by and watching the video today
my friend.
Great content as always.👍👍👍
Thank you aleu, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend.
It's nice to see good machines put to work.
Yes is is arkay. Thanks so much for paying us a visit and
checking out today's home movie my friend. Hope to see
ya on the next one.
Lucky is hilarious! 😂
He's a pretty good dude WheezerOf Juice. You would like him,
everyone likes Lucky. He's a very good operator also. I would
tell him your compliment but he's got a swelled head already....LOL
That was an awesome video! Please keep them coming Dave!
Thank you Rusty, very glad you enjoyed. Stay tuned, next 2
videos out are on the deck replacement. We really appreciate your paying us a visit today and watching my friend.
Another neat informative video, Dave. You got some nice truck action too. That brand new Western Star grapple truck sure is pretty and is a nice handy tool for workin' on the railroad. Thanks again for sharing and being able to show some of other great guys you work with. 👍
Those grapple trucks pay for themselves in a fairly short time,
they can do a ton of work in one day. Sure wish we had our
own here. Thanks so much my friend for stopping by and taking
in the show.
@@ccrx6700 Always my pleasure. 😊
Great Dave..feel part of the action!
Thank you Bob, really glad you liked it. Always is a pleasure
to hear from you and have you join us my friend.
Does your new truck have a provision to move the truck from the operators seat when it's up on Hi rail? Cool to travel down the tracks perched up there.
We call the grapple trucks 'Prentice Loaders', after one of the major manufacturers of grapples and boom equipment. Great machine to spot change out ties on the ROW.
I've been to ATS down in Sutton, WV. They machine, creosote treat, and also do pre-plating on timber that comes in already cut to basic dimension from sawmills in their area. I was there to confirm that the pre-plating of ties they were doing for the renewal of the Red Line tracks on the Longfellow bridge over the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge MA would accept the special anti-vibration tie plates we got from Pandrol at the proper gauge.
Yes it does have tram capabilities from the eagle's nest. That is
nice. All the old trucks had the Prentiss loaders on them, now
all the trucks have Rotobecks. We always called the grapple trucks
Prentiss Loaders. One of my old buddies was hard of hearing
and he called them Printers.... :-)
I had the chance to tour ATS this summer, it was awesome.
Did you meet Rick? he is part owner and manager and he gave
us a personal tour of the place. Too bad, I asked him if I could
video the place for YT and he didn't like that idea, but what
a cool video that would have been. We saw them plating the
timbers. What an interesting place to visit, I've wanted to tour
there for the past 15 years and finally got my chance. Rick
is a wonderful person. Their boiler was down that day so I
didn't get to see them creosoting, but did tour where they
have the tubes.
David, I have to say that grapple is one fine looking piece. Forgot to mention about a month ago in Fort Wayne Indiana was stopped by a work gang and because of you I knew exactly what that tamper was up to. I got a chuckle and said “that’s railroading”!!! Hope you have a blessed Christmas and New Year!
Glad you could enjoy the tamping action in person and had
a good idea what they were doing. That;s pretty cool, thanks for
sharing that with me. That is one big reason why I started this
channel to help communicate to folks what railroading on
the ground is like and what all it takes to keep trains running.
Always is a pleasure to have you visit with us my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Thanks and have a great day on the rails!
Just a suggestion as I watched the other bridge 8 video first, when the ties show up maybe check to make sure that you got what you ordered. Remember that if there is a chance to mess up an order the earlier you catch it the easier the fix.
Your right, had I be given the dapping schedule and could have
laid the timbers out, I certainly could have done that. Thanks for
the suggestion and for taking the time to watch today my good man.
Dave,
Thank you for these videos! Great to watch and be able to learn something.
If you are able, see if you could find out how much each tie weighs...approximately. just curious.
Thank you, sir!
Have a great and safe holiday season for you and you family, and everyone on the R.R.!
John & Michele in Southern Michigan.
Thank you John, very glad you enjoyed the home movie
today. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching
my friend. A regular cross tie that is oak weighs close to 200,
So depending on the length of the bridge timbers, I'm guessing
around 500 and up for the longer timbers.
Just be glad that they don't put in another set of tracks and you'd have train loads coming and going all of the time. One unloads at the wharf and the other is loading at the mine at the same time. Think of all of that track maintenance you'd have or the crew that you'd need for the job.
Well if they ran that kind of traffic, I'd never get track time so
would get a lot of breaks.... LOL We used to run 2 trains here
several years ago, they were back then almost non stop. Was
really good to see coal moving, but track time for maintenance
was very small. Always a pleasure to have you visit with us
my friend.
Very nice,n shiny. Better then the freightliner junk we got at cn lol
western star and freightliner are owned by the same company--Mercades Benz.
@@rearspeaker6364 ahhh. Its prolly just the guys we got that run them is all 😆 🤣
Yes it is Terence. Nice truck. Thanks so much my friend for
stopping by and taking in the video.
Good to see someone still using feet and inches Dave, can't be doing with all this milly metric stuff, least if someone says they need 40 ft you know what your dealing with.
You are right about that Moel, I don't even know how to use metric
or how to convert metric to feet and inches. Very grateful my friend for your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video.
Big money right there!!!
Yes sir, you know the price of raw lumber and these bridge
timbers are all oak. For those of you who may be reading
this, please check out Preston's You Tube channel, he's
got some pretty cool videos over there you may enjoy
including some RR stuff. I never miss one of his videos.
He is a very hard worker and a good man.
www.youtube.com/@Paw95
That’s a really nice grapple truck we run a robotec too really strong booms
Lucky is a good man and deserves a nice new truck. All the grapples
used to be made by Prentiss, now they are Rotobeck. They both
did the job. Very much appreciate your taking the time to tune
in and check out the show my friend.
@@ccrx6700 thanks Dave love the videos buddy
Cool Dave
Glad you enjoyed today's home movie Curtis. We certainly do
appreciate your checking out today's home movie my friend.
That truck was riding rougher than an old Milwaukee Road SW1200 with type A trucks and square wheels!
It was a bit scary. Lucky thinks there may be something not
quite right with the air suspension in the back, I've never been in
a hi rail truck before that rode that shaky. Appreciate your
taking the time to tune in and watch today my friend.
Great video Dave nice truck,,,,I’m thinking your squealing on your hirail is your pressure relief vale may be set to low…keep an eye on the lower pivot on the hirail mount under the spring,,,they are not grease able I just had a year old truck snap the threaded rod off
Thanks Mike for the great comment. You are right, Lucky also
said the pressure relief valve isn't set right. For those of you
who may be reading this, check out Mike's really cool YT channel,
he's got some pretty neat RR videos you won't get to see anywhere
else. Mike is a good man and a railroader, I never miss one
of his videos:
www.youtube.com/@mikejackman4416
@@ccrx6700 Dave thank you for the kind words
I bet all those timbers cost enough that someone could build a small house with the money. Oak is not cheap, even if it is just rough lumber like that but after the processing those beams go through they are probably not much cheaper than a fancy finished beam.
This also makes me wonder how often the inside drive tires on that truck need to be changed compared to the outside drive or steer tires. That is quite a bit of weight to be on such a small section of tire even with any support the guide wheels provide.
I do not know what each timber costs but I'm sure they are plenty.
A regular tie costs 80 so probably triple or quadruple that cost.
Yes the inside drive tires develop over time a band around them
where they contact the rail head and will need changed before
the outside dual does. Really appreciate your dropping by and
taking in the show today my friend.