Knox Kershaw Tie Crane in Action
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Ride down track in this Tie Crane then see it in action placing ties, plus
we will give you a walk around tour of the machine.
Made June 2022
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Iron Synergy at Cumberland
Mine. My job is railroad track maintenance. I am very fortunate to
have this job and everyone at the mine is very fortunate to have
Iron Synergy as it's current owner. Our past owners had every
intention of shutting this mine down, but Iron Synergy took
over and have kept this mine alive.
Please understand: I am NOT in any way an official or unofficial
spokes person for Iron Synergy or Cumberland Mine. Any viewpoints,
opinions or anything that I show in the videos, or write in the video
descriptions or any answer to any comment, should NEVER be
misconstrued or interpreted as being in any way shape or form,
any kind of official or unofficial statement from Iron Synergy,
Cumberland Mine, any of the mine's management, any of the
contractors that may be shown in any video, nor of any of
my fellow co-wokers.
Any viewpoints or opinions I may make in the videos, in the descriptions,
or in any answer to a comment is strictly that of my own and NOT an
official or unofficial statement or viewpoint that Iron Synergy or
any one at Iron Synergy or Cumberland Mine necessarily has or makes.
Again, we are very fortunate to have Iron Synergy as our current owners.
Please, when making a comment be respectful of Iron Synergy, Cumberland
Mine, my fellow coworkers and also any contractors that may be
shown. Thank You, Dave
#TieCrane#KnoxKershaw
That was wonderful Dave, another insight to railroading that most of us would never get to see! Thank you 👍
Really glad to hear you had a good time with us tonight Richard.
Very much appreciate all the great support you are giving the
channel my friend.
Dave , I enjoy watching your channel as much as watching The East Terminal Railway !
Hi Dave. I appreciate the humor you share in your videos. Right now considering the flooding and devastation in Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky anything that’s of humor is appropriate.
Have a great day my friend
Thank you Johnathan. It is so sad all the current events there. We
were just talking about that at supper tonight. We really appreciate
all the great support you have given our channel my friend.
I really enjoyed watching you take that tie machine down the track. I love the up close and personal look at it also. Have a great day my friend.
Thank you Lewis. Really pleased that had a good time tonight
and so do appreciate all the great comments and support
you have given us my friend.
That's one mighty fine crane
It's seen some use Arkay, the swing has a lot of play in the ring gear,
that's why I was so slow moving the house around at the switch.
Really appreciate your checking out the video tonight and
for all the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
The working man in this country never gets enough credit!! You are bringing the railroad worker some much needed attention. After the East Palestine derailment, we can't give MOW workers enough credit!!
Thank you for the very kind comment Nolan. Really appreciate
your paying us a visit and checking out the video my friend.
Those old ties were in pretty rough shape.
Thanks for bringing us along!
your certainly welcome Bill. Really appreciate your taking the
time to write in and for watching the presentation tonight
my friend.
Thanks for the ride! It looked like a lot of fun! The operator made tossing those ties around look easy!
Your welcome PM. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long
time now my good friend.
@@ccrx6700 😊
Your videos are always great and your knowledge about the machines.
Thank you so much Margaret. Really appreciate all your
very nice comments and the great support you have been
giving the channel my friend.
It's "HYPNOTIC" to watch that guy running the "Tie Crane"👍😎
It's even more hypnotic to run one Captain Tom, they are a lot
of fun. Appreciate your paying us a visit and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thanks for taking us to work with you. As a kid I always wanted to operate large machinery when grew up but back then women did not have those jobs. Thanks for letting me ride along.
Your welcome Beverly and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
Dave thank you and all the other people for all the hard work all of you do to keep the railroad running. Thank you Dave for the hard work you do to bring us these video's. God bless all of you. ❤🇨🇦
Your very welcome Ray. Thank you so much for the great
support you have given the channel. Without great folks like
you who watch and write in, there wouldn't be much of a channel
here. We do appreciate you my friend.
Great video Dave, cool machines you get to run stay safe my friend!!!
Thank you so much Ron. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
@@ccrx6700 You are welcome Dave. I love the channel the content is excellent and I like to learn. I will be a lifetime watcher my friend!!!
@@ronhelman3985 😊👍
Good video Dave! As much fun as that looks, I bet a feller would be glad to get off that crane by the end of the day. You probably feel like you're going back and forth for two hours after you stop and count cross ties instead of sheep at night when you try to go to sleep. I'd still like to run that machine!!
Thank you so much Rick. fully understand counting ties at night,
i get that when I tamp a lot. During the night I tamp ties. So do
appreciate your watching and for all the great comments and
wonderful support you have given the channel my friend.
@@ccrx6700 I’m a locomotive engineer….I rarely get to sleep…let alone count anything🤨
@@jonnycando 😊👍
Another great video Dave. I remember when I had to do that by hand. Thanks again Dave 👍 🚂
Very glad you enjoyed tonight's home movie Christopher.
Thank you so much for tuning in and watching my friend.
You sound normal to me about the different machines. It was really nice to see you in the reflection LOL. Your videos are always interesting. Thank you for taking time to film, and put this all together.
I sound normal? LOL I'm sure many of the guys here would
get a big chuckle out of that! No one that works here is "normal" ....
LOL.... I'm just kidding about that.Very much appreciate your
visiting with us and watching tonight my dear lady.
@@ccrx6700 We appreciate you taking time to put your videos together. Really enjoy your videos a lot.
He makes its look so easy. Thanks for sharing!
The operator is a fairly young guy and he does a very nice job.
He watches my videos too! So I hope he sees this one. That thing
has a lot of play in the swing on it and he handles it very well.
Really appreciate all your great comments and support you have
given us my friend.
VERY COOL DAVID..STAY WELL
Thank you Ralph and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
That was fun to watch just how skilled that operator was in moving those ties. Some of the old ones looked really rough too!
He was very good John. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long
time now my friend.
Nice video Dave. Don`t see that every day. I`m retired and you seem to have more fun than me, lol. 😃👍
Thank you so much Wilbur. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
Great video Dave, cool machines.
Thank you Derrick and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
Fascinating work! It occurs to me that during good weather, there is always some maintenance going on. This work looks like it requires one of those shutdown days to work the main line. Very cool :)
Really glad you enjoyed Brian. We can put ties in with a train
running, however that really slows the process down since
everything must be spiked back in before a train can pass so
there just not a lot of time to do much at any one time. Shutdowns
are a blessing to MOW. Thanks so much for all your great
comments and the excellent support you are giving the channel
my friend.
Nice video Dave,
It was fun to see your reflexion in the window when you turned the cabin near the bridge.
Greetings from The Netherlands
Thank you very much rudolfst. Really appreciate your
stopping by today and taking in the home movie my friend
from The Netherlands.
Dave,
Thank You for sharing the hard work these guys (and you) do, and most important your love for it. I'm not sure how to say this but I envy what you all do. There seems to be no BS, just work hard, work smart, work safe PERIOD.
Your very welcome Thomas. Really appreciate the very nice
comment and for your taking the time to write in tonight and
watching the video my friend.
This is a great video. Thanks also for machine tour. But if I see your gravel bed like this it is time that there is a track bed cleaning. this would be good for drainage and at the same time provide more stability in the track. Thank you Dave for always keeping us up to date on the cumberland mine rail. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Really glad you enjoyed Sven. You are so right, that curve really
needs some ballast cleaning and the new ties will help for sure.
Thanks so much for watching the video tonight my friend.
Thanks for the ride along and machine tour Dave! What a beautiful day you had there! And that machine handles the ties like toothpicks!
Really pleased you could join us Jim. We do appreciate
your nice comment and for taking the time to watch my friend.
Toot! Toot! Here comes the Slo-ball Express. Another interesting post, thank you, Dave.
Your very welcome Barry and very glad you had a good time.
We do appreciate your paying us a visit my friend.
A cool little buggy. I like it🚂🚃🏗 Dave, I'll be going railfanning across Canada for 3weeks. I'll check in when I can👷🙋🇨🇦🇺🇲
Awesome Doug, I really hope you enjoy your trip! Email me lot's
of pictures! Canadian railroads rock! Always look forward to
hearing from you my good friend.
@@ccrx6700 will do👍👍👍👍👷🙋
Dave, you have way to much while at work. Keep enjoying your work I do like your attitude.
I'm very sorry Michael, I will stop having fun at work tomorrow.... LOL
Really appreciate your tuning in and watching the tie crane
tonight my friend.
Thanks for a great video Dave.
Thank you Zach. Really appreciate all the nice comments and for all
of you excellent support you have given the channel for such a
long time now my good friend.
I have a good friend that worked for A.T.S.F. before the merger with B.N. and still worked for B.N.S.F before he retired several years ago. Always talked about running the Jackson Tamper. Always very interesting listening to him. He worked on BNSF Redrock Division in TX,OK and KS. Enjoy your videos.
Awesome Wayne, man would I love to talk with that guy! ATSF
guys were really disheartened when that merger occurred
and Santa Fe got on the end of BN instead of being up front.
it was a lot of changes for everyone, but it proved to be
an excellent merger after all they bugs got worked out. BNSF
is now one great RR. Really appreciate your sharing that
and for taking the time to watch the video today my friend.
Another excellent video Dave. That is one heck of an operator on that machine. Thanks
Thank you very much Doc, really glad you enjoyed. That young
man does a very good job running a worn out machine. He
also watches my videos. Really appreciate your stopping
by and taking in the video my good man.
@@ccrx6700 That machine looks better than one I saw working ties on the West Shore Line (CSX Hudson Valley) a few weeks ago. Stay safe my friend.
GREAT VIDEO !!!!! I have learned a lot about Railroadin watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge and friendship.
Thank you so much Alan. Pleased to hear you had a good time
with us today. We really appreciate all your nice comments and
the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time
now my friend.
It is pretty cool stuff Dave. I have learned so much about railroad maintenance from your videos! The operator is pretty amazing!
Glad you enjoyed Fred and appreciate the very nice comment. Thanks for taking the time to visit with us and check out the tie
crane action my friend.
Great video Dave. Fun to watch the MOW that keeps things running.
Thank you Neal and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
Always awesome to see these MOW machines in action. Great video! Keep em coming!
Your welcome grvolans. Pretty neat I had a friend just
last week send me an Amtrak police patch that he had worn
on his uniform when he worked with them. Really appreciate
your visiting with us and watching the home movie my good man.
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJOR relief! One of the reactions at the beginning was along the lines of, "Oh...Don't EVEN tell me he has to listen to that backup alarm the entire time...Oh. NOPE. It stopped. WHEW!!!!!!!!!!" 😂😉😜🤪😇🤓😎🥸🤡🙃
Wired in several backup alarms on vehicles and they sound EXACTLY like that thing...Just as annoying as well! 😅LOL! The only difference was that for mine, as long as the vehicle's transmission was shifted to "reverse", that alarm was connected. Translation: If that person for some reason was in reverse for 7 minutes, it would be 7 minutes of nonstop, "BEEP...BEEP...BEEP...BEEP..." fun! 🤨🙄😏
SPOOKY...LOL!
Your right Eric, I like the bi directional ones that stop shortly after
you start moving. The one on my hi rail truck is uni directional and
if I'm backing down track for 6 miles have to listen to the
thing beep for 6 miles. Really appreciate all the great comments
and support you are giving the channel my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Humorous. Heard that thing stop in that video and the reaction was along the lines of, "WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!" LOL!!
Thank you for taking us along Dave! You always keep the videos interesting, that railroading has many skills!
Welcome Raymond. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long
time now my friend.
Thanks for the ride Dave and for another awesome video! 🚂👍
Your welcome Rick and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
Being a rail fan starting fifty years ago as a boy it is nice Dave you explain what your doing and take me along for the ride!
We are so pleased to have you ride along with Ted! Thank you
so much for the very nice comment and for your support
of the channel my friend.
This was a good one! Thank you for this video!
Nice to hear you liked the presentation today Robin. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all you excellent support of the channel for a long time now
my friend.
Dave, thanks for the great Tie Crane video. It looked like he was doing a super job! He makes it appear as though those ties were not heavy at all.
Your welcome Tom, really appreciate the very nice comment
and for watching. That young man was doing a very good job
using a worn out piece of equipment, lot of play in the swing in it.
Wow! That's railroadin'! Fascinating, Dave! I enjoyed seeing your reflection in some of the shots, too,.
Glad you enjoyed Pete. Really appreciate all the great comments
you a have sent in and the excellent support you have been
giving the channel for a long time now my friend.
Lifes a learning curve dave, when that stops it's the end. Another great vid thanks 🏴👍
Could not agree with you more on the learning. I'm always learning
new things on the RR even after so many years being in it and
that's pretty cool. So do thank you for watching the presentation.
Thank you for another interesting UA-cam video. Machine looks like an oversized prey mantis . Unless it has air con which I very much doubt must be very hot and dusty at the end of each shift in the cab .
Always good to watch professionals at work . They make it look so simple - which of course it never is .
Looking forward to the next one !
Thank you so much John. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long
time now my friend. And yes, it does have AC.
I think of the human hours mechanization has saved. Thank you for sharing how the machine works.
That's right Shirley, imagine moving all those ties by hand
with a tie tong! Hydraulics rule!
My OCD kicked in when I saw all the zip ties on the hydraulic hoses without the tails clipped off. 😆
I never noticed that Bryan. Really appreciate your stopping by
and taking in the video tonight my friend.
I thought I was definitely the only one 😆
@@ccrx6700 it was my pleasure! I love watching your videos!
Thanks Dave another great video. Thanks for taking me along.
Your welcome John and thank you so much for all your great
support you have been giving the channel my friend.
You just make me smile! Thanks for bringing us along!
Thank you so much Jennifer for the very nice comment. Really glad
you enjoyed and we appreciate your stopping by and watching.
sweet! I'm taking our tie crane out this week to spread some ties.
I'm jealous Michael! I would love to run a tie crane out there on
the gang. So appreciate your visit tonight and all the excellent
support you have given the channel my fellow railroader.
Great video Dave your having fun running that tie crane it's just bass awkward to run makes things interesting
Thank you Gary and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
I like the switch targets on your hand throws, simplifies the route.
They are nice Gary, we got those switch cubes about 2 years
ago, outrageously priced tho, but much easier for the
train operators to see than the old dull flags we had. They really
shine up at night. Thanks so much for all the great comments
and support you have given the channel my good friend.
Dave. Another excellent video. Loved you moving the tie crane, it showed us more of the harbor yard, and then the action of them getting the job done. You can tell he's been on the job a while. He definitely knows what he's doing with it. Stay safe out there.
Thank you Pappy. That young guy did a very good job running
a machine that is worn out. He watches my videos too! Very nice
young man he is and hard working. Really appreciate your
tuning in and watching my good friend.
That man knows how to handle his woody...
Really appreciate your stopping by Donnie and taking in the
presentation my good man. Yep for a young man he's doing
a darn good job on a machine that has a lot of play in the
ring gear and other parts.
You get to play with all the cool toys :)
Dang it Eddie, I never wanted my life to turn out that way, get paid
to play with big boy toys..... LOL Really appreciate your taking
the time to write in and for watching the presentation my friend.
Great video Dave. If you could get those ties over to the UK you would make a fortune, people buy them for their gardens to make steps, raised plant beds etc. You would have to call them "railway sleepers" though otherwise no one would buy them.
Finished our dinner, washing up time now!🙂🙃
Thank you Annette. Dinner entertainment again! I can call them
sleepers, no problem with that. I will arrange for several thousand
to be delivered to your door and you can be my selling agent.
Split the profits fifty fifty. Thanks so much for all you great
comments and for the support you are giving the channel my friend.
Very cool stuff, Dave!
Is creosote still being used to preserve the ties? It looks more black, and shinier than I remember as a kid.
THANKS!
Very pleased to hear you enjoyed Dave. Yes sir, creosote is
the preservative used for the ties we get. Lot of things look
different to me know than they did when I was a kid.... LOL
specially my body!!! Double LOL Thanks so much for stopping by
and watching tonight my friend.
@@ccrx6700 - My pleasure, Dave (Great name!) You always present a wealth of new information.
Pretty neat! I love to see equipment in action!
Really glad you enjoyed Eric, will have some more of the tie
gang out in a month or so. Appreciate your tuning in and watching
today my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Sure thing pal!
That my friend is railroading, and you do a great job filming it.
Well thank you very much for the nice words Rosie. Really
appreciate your tuning in and watching the video today my friend.
Have a great evening Dave.
Thank you Michael, it was a good day today on the RR. Hope
you are doing well and have a good evening yourself my friend.
When talking with you brightens my day. Thank you for being a fried.
22,000 lbs of awesome machinery. I can smell the creosote from here. 🙂
Thank you Bassotronics and very pleased you had a good time with
us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great
support you are giving the channel my friend.
Feel for those guys pickup all the tie plates, that makes a long day. Another video I watched they had an electromagnet on the Tie Crane that picked up all the tie plates. I'd think that would be an easy upgrade to make to save a lot of labour! I suppose the manual way keeps someone employed.
Great Video!
Was very nice of you to take the time and visit with us today
to watch the presentation Will. That would be a really cool
addition, never knew they had a magnet for the crane, they
do for grapple trucks also.
Thanks as always. Very interesting seeing all that goes into keeping the trains running. Was that an oil tank inside a shipping container?
Your very welcome, glad you enjoyed. That shipping container
does a have an oil tank in it for putting oil in the locomotives,
handy to have at the fueling station there. Really appreciate
your visiting with us and taking the home movie my friend.
Thank you Dave.You are a Wonderful 🚹.
Your very welcome Ed. Very much appreciate the very kind
words and for your visiting with me tonight my friend.
Love how you can jump on anything and make it happen!
Thank you so much kurtzbradley for the very nice comment. Really glad you enjoyed and we appreciate your stopping by and watching.
Another thumbs up on the video, thank you
Thank you so much Tom. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long
time now my friend.
The tie crane is a fun machine to run. I ran one on the BNSF in 2004 and 2005.
Very much appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and
watch the video today Steve.
That tie crane is one neat piece of equipment! You got to operate it, too!
Do you have to put the ties in, or do they?
I was hoping you wouldn't fall walking through there.
Thanks for you concern Trena for my safety, I was hoping too.... :-)
They will put the ties in and will be a video of them doing that
out in about a month or so. Really appreciate all your nice
comments and the excellent support you have given the channel
my friend.
My engineer sir.
Your this video is very Beautifull with enjoyfull and different of experience.
I am traveling with you in your that cab ride
❤️🧡💛💚
Thanks Thomas and so glad you are enjoying the home movies.
We really appreciate all your wonderful support my friend.
Will have to look through the catalog next time i go out to the model train shop, and maybe order a few MOW machines..........i noticed youve got an owwwwie on a finger, thats what boys do, they get owwies no matter how old we are! At the beginning of the video, what classification are the turnouts?, #4, #6, etc? Yes, that PRR K4 runs very smooth, wish i had enough room for it to go flat out with that passenger consist! Great video, as all of yours are!
It's pretty cool some of the model mow stuff they got, if I had
the money I'd get a bunch if for nothing more than to just look at.
Yea cut myself fixing my lunch for the day.... Every turnout you
saw in that video was a #8 Paul. Really appreciate all your
nice comments and the great support you have been giving the
channel my friend.
@@ccrx6700 it might be a while before i get out to the hobby shop to get some HO MOW equipment, ive been having issues with a medication that causes a lot of joint pain especially in my hips and knees, makes it painful to stand up and even walk, i am just not ready for that. But, i have all your excellent videos to watch, just in case theres too much damage to all those moving human parts.
@@paulsmith5398 hope you get back in action soon Paul
@@ccrx6700 ive been on a statin for lowering the "bad" cholesterol, the first cardiologist (feb 2021), put me on 40mg, then abruptly retired and left the practice. After 8 months i was starting to feel like a zombie for no apparent reason, so i stopped taking it. Meanwhile, a new cardiologist took the place of the old one, and over a couple months, i was back to near normal. So, the new cardiologist read my charts, etc, and put me back on the same statin, but at a lower dose (10mg). This was back in april, and over the last few weeks, i have been having joint pain in both my hips and knees that gets to the point where i cant stand up. So, i stopped taking that statin again, but the pain is still there, and it irritates me that i feel more like an old geezer than i want to feel. Ive got so many projects going but cant do them because of the pain that drags me down.
Awesome tie crane video. Never ran one but had to take one up with the rest of the machines to the load cars. I think I told you about that story when I drove it up the ramps on the load car?
Really glad you enjoyed Steve. So do appreciate all the very
nice comments and for your excellent support of the channel
for a very long time now my good friend.
@@ccrx6700 Your very welcome Dave.
Cool video Dave very interesting👍
Thank you Russell. Really appreciate all of your great comments
and for the excellent support you have given the channel for
a long time my friend.
@@ccrx6700 You are very welcome Dave
Another interesting machine you got to play with Enjoyed the walk around it. I guess you can haul some trailers if you call them that fitted with brakes as I see connectors on each end of the machine but the one you hauled did not have brakes.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the home movie cedarcam. We really
appreciate all the great comments you send our way and the
excellent support you have given the channel now for a long time
my friend.
Great video. It was very interesting to see the ties removed without disturbing the rest of the track. Will you have to run that geometry equipment to check for alignment?
Great to hear you had a good time watching mustraline.
No geo truck, if track surface appears to have some irregularities,
I will simply tamp that section. These guys were very good at
not disturbing the geometry. Some tie gangs can really do
some unkind things to track surface. I had very little touch up to
do after these guys. I liked that!
I wish you had that machine that Japan has that pulls the spikes and grabs the ties and slides them out and lifts the track and removes all the ballast and dirt and puts in new ties and new spikes and it takes less than a minute for each tie to be removed and replaced
It's a small bulldozer with a special set of claws
I'm sure the operators have the skill to do it that quickly but it is perfectly designed to fit in the very tight spaces between the ties
I saw videos this morning of a series of islands in the Atlantic Ocean that are part of Denmark I think and they built 80 miles of tunnels underneath mountains and underneath the ocean to connect the different Islands
Previously everyone had to use fairies that took hours in rough seas to get from one Island to another and now they can make the same trip in 10 minutes using the tunnel
I remember when America was the leader in the world of so many new technologies and we could design and build anything and do it quickly
Now it takes decades just to get the planning stage done
I remember watching interstate 287 being built from suffern at exit 15 of the New York State Thruway and it took 30 years to build 30 miles of Road
Here in the Lehigh Valley they have been trying to expand route 22 from two lanes to three lanes since the mid '70s and they keep allocating money each year but the work never starts and at the end of the year the money has disappeared and the traffic remains gridlocked everyday
I don't know how we got to this point
Corruption is how we got to this point.
Thanks so much for writing in ocsrc. I agree with you, that our
country is falling behind on some technologies including some
railroading. We have room for improvement. Really appreciate
all your comments and for the excellent support you have
been giving the channel for a long time now my friend.
Hi Dave, boy the interesting railroad maintenance equipment you get to see and or use almost daily? It's almost like you being a kid in candy shop, but on steroids!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Pretty cool isn't it Robert. And, they pay me to do it! Really
appreciate your visiting with us and taking in the presentation
my friend.
Quite an operation!
He is a young man working a worn out machine and doing
very good at it. He also watches my videos. A good man is he.
Awesome interesting great job
Thank you so much Daniel. Very glad you enjoyed. We really
appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for
all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
Dave....
Your channel is contains a wealth of info on track technology, repairs, and failure modes. It seems that Cumberland RR requires an inordinate amount of maintenace. Granted, all of your trains are heavy, but they are short and slow. And of course you don't have to capital resources such as a Class A railroad has to update and improve the system.
Having said all of that, do you think your maintenance, upgrades, improvements, and constant vigilance have reduced maintenance requirements over the years?
We have been cursed from the beginning with so many sharp degree
curves and all jointed track, jointed track is a constant maintenance
item. Then further cursed with having so many years and years
of leaky hopper car doors plugging up the ballast, so yes there
is an inordinate amount of maintenance, plus add into that
SW Pa. weather, winter is hard on track. As long as we have the
same conditions year after year we will continue to have the
same maintenance problems. And I could go on for an hour
about all the other adversity we deal with . So things will never
change as far as maintenance goes.
@@ccrx6700 Understand.... welded rail and concrete ties would be the cat's meow and reduce maintenance, but that is impractical as you have explained, let alone the cost in megabucks. Could you use slightly larger diameter stone for the ballast, that would increase the volume of the interstitial spaces, and accommodate more coal dust, thus extending the interval between cribbing? (There likely is a spec for the ballast, but perhaps you could tweak the as delivered material to the high side of the spec.)
@@physicsphirst191 good thinking but also larger stone size is harder to tamp correctly to get it to pack together right and have best resistance against the ties. Besides that it is really hard to walk on when its on the track shoulder 😊
NS just replaced ties near me here in lucasville Ohio and lots of them looked green.
Those green ties you saw were probably ties that were not properly
seasoned. it takes about 10 or more months, depending
on the species to season a tie before they get creosoted.
12 months for oak.
When a hardwood is not properly seasoned and creosoted
before the right amount of time you will see green on the ties.
Now you know! You may also like to find out that when maple is
creosoted that has not been seasoned at least 3 months, that
tie will rot very quickly, which is not true of the other hardwoods.
Most plants will not even try to treat sycamore as it is full of
water.
@@ccrx6700 wow!! Thanks for that info! I didn’t know that but I do now lol. They have thousands of old ties in piles all over the place right now.
Thanks Dave
Your welcome Frank. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
Interesting video. Dave are the spikes removed at the same time or is that done before???
Very glad you enjoyed Larry. There is a spike puller machine that
goes ahead of the tie puller. Heres a short video of a puller in
action if you would care to watch. I didn't get to video the
spike puller they had here this time, the video is an older one
from a year or so ago.
ua-cam.com/video/Z6zDogmVZys/v-deo.html
Hey Massachusetts (where I was born)! Stephen Demboske just posted a rail train on his channel dropping off fresh rail in central Mass, I bet it's part of the project the rest of this crew is on!
Could very well be Joshua. Vermont Railway got a huge grant
and the project Frontier is on there is immense. They have 4
grapple trucks and all kinds of equipment up there. Really
appreciate your writing in and for watching the video today my friend.
Dave can you tell us a bit more about the road vehicles that are able to drive the tracks please .
They are called hi rail trucks cause they can go from highway to
rail. Not sure what all you would like to know, but here's a video
I had made of setting a brand new hi rail grapple truck on rail
you may like to watch Turbo Tim:
ua-cam.com/video/JLmU_lo_bsk/v-deo.html
Hi Dave,
Great video! How much does each new tie cost?
Thank you very much Bob and Barb. Really glad you enjoyed the
home movie. Tie costs obviously vary across the country
depending on a number of factors such as availability of suitable
wood, transportation costs, labor costs, fuel prices, etc. We get
our ties from Applachian timber in Sutton WV, about 2 hours
straight south of us. They cost us only $60 per tie, which is
very reasonable and they are all grade ties. Grade ties are
those made from hardwoods.
What Dave a new toy to play with lol ha ha ha
They are a lot of fun to play around on, I like my model train set,
it's 1 to 1 scale Joseph.....:-) Thank you for taking the time to write in and to check out the tie crane show my friend.
you have to love that laugh😃
Glad you enjoyed Bill1962us1. Really appreciate your stopping
by and taking in the video my friend.
Always thought tie replacement machines were mostly automated?
Dave,,,,,,,,,,you have entirely,,,,,,,way to much fun and expect to get paid too,,,,,😳,,,,😂😂😂😂😍😍😍🇺🇸enjoy watching,,carry onn,,,😍
Hard to imagine they pay me to play with all these toys isn't
it Edward. Really glad you enjoyed and we appreciate your stopping by and watching.
Wow Thank God For Hydraulics......we can just hear Dave....now "you are not lifting ".....WELL GOOD day ,We changed 3 ties today "??..Dave WoW CUMBERLAND MINE is impressive to invest in tools beautiful trackage those remote control switches ....pretty exciting....We had fun Visiting...But don't be so hard on "SUPER DAVE " THAT tie Crane be soon be ,just another member of "Daves Toys"....AS MY boss tells us..."Just do it" It'll get done".....
Hydraulics rule the day for sure Bradford. Best of luck on your
tie changing adventure. Hope you have an air or hydraulic spiker,
remember to nip those ties up tight. Thanks for watching
the show my friend.
What is the determining factor(s) for the use of a traditional wooden tie versus a concrete one? I would think concrete ones would have a longer lifespan than wooden ones. Curious about that, thanks!
Lot of discussion about the pros and cons of both types Rob,
far too much to get into in a comment reply. If you watch this
video, about 1/3 way into it I get into a god discussion why
we don't use concrete here:
ua-cam.com/video/oOug0z34118/v-deo.html
@@ccrx6700 thanks bud! My partner and I just came clear across the country on the California Zephyr from Oakland, CA to Chicago to the Capital Limited to DC to the Silver Star to Tampa, and I was looking out for rail imperfections and trying my best to remember what you said about them. Also I was explaining the brackets that prevent longitudinal slipping of the rail, I forget what they’re called. So when you speak, we people out in the world are listening 👂
@@MrNurserob 😊👍
Going past the sand tower, has the railroad ever been snow in?
No it hasn't Stephen. When big snows come usually the
train has kept running, however if they are not running coal
trains, then they send the locomotive back and forth to the mine
to keep tracks open. One time they didn't and I had to plow out
the tracks with the regulator. Biggest problem with snow is
if they aren't running trains, the snow getting into the hopper
cars. They learned to leave the doors open if they not running
trains so the snow can fall thru. Loading hopper cars with
a lot of snow in them really messes things up when dumping and
going thru the silo at the harbor.
Looks like a disconnected hose or broken hose just above yourclamper?
Hadn't noticed that Michael, but didn't notice any oil leaks.
the mechanics were in here a few days ago and gone over
that machine so it must be okay. Very much appreciate all
the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
You’re not able to reverse the controls??
I worked at the county dump for a while. One worker did John Deere controls the other worker did cat controls. you are always have to make sure all the settings you’re in before you hopped in it and shift change
My excavator yes, not these tie cranes nor the grapple trucks Kody.
Really messes a person up when the control pattern is different
than what a guy is used to. Thanks so much for taking in the
video today my good man.
Did this machine also pull the old ties after tie plates were removed?
No Jack, sometime in a month or so I will have a video out
on the TRIPP machine that pulled and inserted the ties. Thanks
so much for stopping by and taking in the video today my good man.
Hay David what is the company name that is putting in the tie's
Frontier RR Services out of New Stanton Pa. Keith. Thanks so
much for stopping by and checking out the video my friend.
Thanks for this video, Dave. I was filming the Frankston Doodlebug in Australia today and some of the rail ties were very second hand indeed. My channel is Special Agent Fox Mulder if youve time to chech it out. Your vid showed me how they replace them!!! Thanks again!! 👍
Your very welcome Fox Mulder, so very glad you enjoyed and
we do appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend.
Will do on channel check out, just give me some time to
get there.
Thanks Dave. 👍 That's railroadin'! Some of the rail ties down here are very old fashioned or second hand indeed! Cheers for your great videos!
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Don't they have a valve to change from cat to JD? I know they have that on excavators.
My excavator has that valve Brian, but these MOW machines and
the grapple trucks do not for whatever reason I don't know.
Thanks so much for visiting with me today and taking in the
video my friend.
Yup, rebuilding what use to be Pan Am. 5mph to 25mph.
Thanks for stopping by and watching the video today Jim.
I hate it when people put rocks on the tracks!!! LOL. I used to work for this guy when I was in my 20s in L.A. and he used to drive trains and whenever the subject came up, man would he get triggered. He would start going on about the size of the rocks people would put on the tracks, shopping carts, bikes, motor blocks, you name it. He would be fuming mad while telling these stories. What made him quit was some kids thought it would be a good idea to lay down in between the tracks while the train went over them. In the middle of the train was hopper cars with low hanging spouts..... So needless to say, the kids didn't make it... I decided then Id never ever get into rail roading... My son wanted to, I told him that story, he decided not to as well.
What a god awful way to die, and only because the kids are fucking stupid.
OMG David how horrible that must have been for that guy to
run over those kids. I know it's not his fault and no way he
could have ever gotten that train stopped. Most major railroads
have paid counseling available these days for engineers who hit people, it's not something a guy just puts out of his mind. Really
appreciate your watching and for all the great support you have
been giving the channel my friend. PS: I really like watching
you make stuff in your shop, you are a skilled craftsman. YTube
is having some problems with sending out notifications, so
if you post and I'm not there to watch it within a couple days,
please get ahold of me here and let me know.
@@ccrx6700 Once my shop is operating, I'll be posting better videos more frequently. I also suspect youtube doesn't like me because I'm not too politically correct.
I'm close to being up and running. I'm pouring a concrete slab this weekend for an alcove for my forge and finishing up the press. I'm hoping, I can start making the dies I need by end of the month or early sept.
As for randy my old boss, he had issues because of what he experienced and talking about raIl roading was best avoided with him. I left out the graphic description of what the train did to them. He said he was never the same after that. I drove trains in So Cal mostly.
I'll be heading out next week to shoot that video for you I promised.
You can pick up an old grain drill cheap and run grass seed through that .
Thank you very much Mad Dog for taking the time to
pay us a visit and write in my friend. Hope you have a good day.