Don't sell yourself short Mr. Dave, you know more about this stuff than we do. We appreciate you teaching us about railroading and giving us an inside view of the operations. I've been fortunate enough to be in several steam engines but only one functioning diesel. Thanks Dave, stay safe my friend.
Thank you Rick for the kind and thoughtful words. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
@@eddog6666 A 100 car loaded unit coal train traveling at 50mph can take about a mile to come to a complete stop on flat ground. I am a locomotive engineer at CSX.
Yeah I don't know jack about trains but was fortunate to drive one when I was around 5-6 when me and my dad were walking the tracks, the conductor was extremely nice and it's probably the coolest thing to ever happen.
I'm a van driver who transports UP Crews around Illinois and Missouri. Videos like yours are just great to watch. I will never be able to be a conductor or engineer, but, I love learning more such that I can help new conductors at times.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you find them interesting Jeff. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you Cameron for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I was quite surprised when I saw the air brake diagram. I was drawing them when I started with N&W. Old school, India ink and Leroy lettering guides. The “checked by” initials stand for Donald Jack Barton, a great guy and mentor.
Thank you Allen for the nice comment, awesome about the checked by Mr. Barton. The guy who gave me this piping diagram was old school, started out with Penn Central. N&W was a great railroad in it's day. How cool to hear you were with them. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thanks Dave! Your explanation of the PCS system and the associated problems when it trips made sense to me. I enjoy learning about all the crazy stuff you deal with everyday.
Thank you Dave for the very nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Always is a new adventure on this RR Beverly. Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Dave....Ran these big Old monsters for 40 years if people only knew all the controls switches and circuits that it takes for these big boys to operate....and I will add I loved every minute of it....
Thank you very much Jay for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. it is amazing all the electronics on this loco and I learn new things about how it all works every day. I cannot imagine what the new locos are like with all their computer controlled systems and sensors. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Dave....When they 1st came out we had no idea how all that stuff worked either no training just had one in roundhouse and told us to get on one and fool with it .... then we'd get on one and go to work all by the seat of our pants mostly....
The 26L system entered production in the late 1950s and quickly became the standard. It was superseded by the 30CDW in the 1980s, but this and all the newer electronic air brake valves (CCB, EPIC II, FastBrake) all operate in the same manner. Most if not all of the Class I's still operate some older units with 26L brake systems, though EAB of one type or another seems to have become the standard on new or rebuilt units. Like many steam locomotives, C&O 1309 originally had a 6ET system but it was replaced with a 26 during the recent rebuild. The benefits of going with a 26 or newer system include pressure maintaining (the 26 was the first system to make this standard, it became an option on the 24 and earlier systems did not have it), greater reliability, longer maintenance intervals and parts being a lot easier to obtain. Some other restored steam locomotives have also been upgraded with 26 systems, including CP 2816, CP 2860, CN 6060 and NKP 765. That 'Control Chief' setup is new to me, but you'd be surprised at how often we have to reboot the computers on newer GE and EMD road units. The modern Distributed Power system (brand name for Locotrol III) has had a lot of bugs over the years, it took a long time to get them worked out and every time it or the locomotive computer systems in general are 'upgraded' more bugs seem to appear. DP can be tricky by itself, but DP and Pacesetter (slow speed cruise control) are an especially bad combination.
My Dad was a Locomotive Engineer on Long Island Rail Road,, we talk about Locomotive air brake a Few times, he like the 24RL over the 26L , due to the 24 was more dependibe but the 26 is more easy to use, Dave well done, he was good friends with the Head of Air Brake and would being the Enĝineer- Trainees over the air brake shop for indeep training.
Thank you Bob for the awesome informative comment. Yes that does and I guess not surprise me about rebooting the computers on the new locos. I thought locotrol was top of the line. It was pretty neat when I was in the cab of 1309 to look down and see the same brake stand on it as is on our locos. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I was told in air brake class that the 30CDW is essentially the same as 26L in the air brake compartment. True or not, I’d have to ask a machinist. 30 was designed for desktop applications, although I’ve seen in mounted sideways on a conventional control stand on CN SD70/75M. The electronic EPIC and CCB are part of the requirement for the 184 vs. 92 day inspection. The first electric valves had no resistance in the handle, so it was easy to push the handle too far and take off 13 psi, when only 10 was intended.
These are the things I know nothing about when we are just railfans watching trains roll by. So it is so interesting to see some of the workings of the remote system and the PCS switch system. I also get to see that no system is simple nor is it perfect :) This is another excellent education session - thank you very much!
Thank you very much Brian for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
For years, I wondered how multiple units stayed synchronize, especially when I started seeing a locomotives in the middle of a extra long train with a couple locomotives pulling up the rear, without an engineers....I'm like wowwww that's new.
You cannot speak for everyone!I used to work for csx,and I know a lot more about rce than you do!so don't try to tell me about something that I know doesn't work right!I worked with csx locomotives for 6years, and I know how dangerous this rce can be!
Yes sir Jason, always something new and different coming up here. Variety is the spice of life and makes for interesting video content.... LOL Thank you so much my friend for checking out tonight's home movie.
@@ccrx6700 Dave I sometimes would forget when the air dumped and we had an engine with 26 break that you had to put it into emergency for 45 seconds and then put it back in running position.
Noticed a few sleepers (ties) pumping on curve eight just in front of the loco on your first shot. One thing about working on the railway is it’s never dull. Thank you for another great video Dave
Thank you very much Ian. Yes curve 8 has some mud spots which pump ties. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
That Control Chief was still running Windows CE on a single board computer with AMD Geode LX CPU (looked to be 500 or 800MHz)... man... surprised those things are still kicking!
Wonders never cease do they. It is a decent system when it works! Thank you very much xcesmess for taking the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Glad you found that out Collieman. Great to hear you enjoyed. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
When that motor went into emergency it sure locked her up and did some sliding. Glad it was where you could set on and get to the loco. Don’t sell yourself short Dave! They would sure be in a pickle without you!!
Thank you very much Wayne for the nice comment. I admit there are some things I just don't know, but I am learning with each new adventure. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
One of your vids popped up on my feed. Decided to give it a click ,. Glad I did. I've watched a few of them now. Every good channel has something that draws different types of people. For me it's your passion, and spirit. I think to myself , dang I need to get some of that spirit. Thank you ! And oh I enjoy the railroad stuff too. Never knew any of that stuff worked, fascinating.
Dave, I've learned more about locos and these new operating systems in 18 minutes than the last few years of watching rail fan videos and doing my own research. Believe me when I tell you, that makes my operating engineer's heart go pitter-pat. Thank you very much for taking the time to teach me about this.
Wow, Thank you very much American Warhorse for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. Also we have a unique remote system, it is unlike any other. Most RR's run LocoTrol made by Wabtec, it is a much better system and operates differently. Big thing is on ours, the rear loco does not supply air to the train brake pipe. At the beginning of the video when I shut the angle cocks off, air was not coming out the brake pipe, it was coming out the train dump line for the cars. On most other systems and trains with a mid or end of train DPU, those locos supply air to the brake pipe. So go pitter patter that.... :-) May you have a most blessed day my friend.
We had a lot of trouble with the air connected to the computer, so much so that they finally separated the air brake from the 'puter. They had road trains stopped, unable to recover the air without help from the diesel shop electricians, or some of the younger hoggers figured out how to recover the air, but even with their efforts, sometimes they wound up having to run a train from the 2nd or 3rd unit, just to get the dang train going and get it to the terminal and off the main line. The DPU control boxes were completely different from yours, and I was never on a DPU train. Some of the foreign RRs had a limit on train length so it was only occasionally that we would get a monster train, and they were usually trains with a large block of perishable loads for the East coast, a run through where a crew would get off, we'd get on do an air test get the whole train inspected, fill out an air brake form, and when we'd get to the crew change out point, we'd get off, they'd get on and away they went. That was in Riverdale, with the CSX crew @ the old B&OCT yard.
They have the same problem with this remote system too Thomas, specially in the winter. They dump methanol in the air lines to help prevent water freezing and I think that really messes with the rubber seals/o rings in the system. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I accidentally came across this video, it goes without saying that I know nothing about trains other than what the “normal person” might know, so I’m finding this all very fascinating! Looking forward to learning a bunch about trains and some of there systems.
Thank you very much hansa for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
A little something I learned about the PCS system, like you said all power (both motoring and braking) are shut down unless the locomotive has a Saluda key switch on the control stand. Southern Railway design this system (I haven't seen any others use or even have this on the control stands) for their trains used on the 5% grade of Saluda (the name of the system) in which if the PCS trips it won't cut out the dynamics to help slow the train like what Bigjoes said a few comments down about newer stuff. I don't think your engines have it, it'll be a key hole in front of the throttle handle below the switches, I learned this from a training video Southern railway and NS made years ago for their Belmont coal train.
Awesome Ryan, thank you so much for sharing something I did not know. That would be extremely useful here. On all of our locos throttle as well as dynamics cut off. Only thing is, if EOT unit was on dynamics and it pulled apart, there would have to be a time out limit on it since there is no operator in the cab. But that could easily be achieved I think. Southern was an innovative RR. A great RR in it's day. Guys from them would shudder at what NS has done to their heritage I would think.
Thank you very much Jimmy for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Dummy Dave? Oh hell no. You know your job very well and do a great job doing you. I'm a fabricator and not an engineer. Yes I know what works and what doesn't but the finer points still amaze me. You do very well.
Thank you James for the nice comment. I admit my ignorance when it comes to this remote system, but am learning. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Something going wrong always seems to happen so someone has to get out and walk when the weather is "less than ideal." Could have been worse of course, it could have been snowing or worse, an ice storm. Winter has never been my favorite time of year for that reason. I'm not at all surprised at how far that loaded train slid on wet rail when the brakes came on. But even with all the electronic FUBAR all in all it's a good day ... no one got hurt and no metal got bent. Lots of vitamin C guys, you can guess why. Respects.
@@coreybabcock2023 Elaborate about what? Have you ever heard of "Murphy's Law?" It goes something like this ... "If anything can go wrong it will go wrong at the worst possible time."
You're certainly right in that Robert, could have been a whole lot worse. Very dangerous to walk on frozen or snow covered ballast, it's sometimes treacherous. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Nice video! Well done and instructive. I have heard BNSF folk on the scanner having issues with the same stuff. Point of interest; according to some FRA history, the 26L system was introduced in 1961, so it has been around a while!
Thank you Badland for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed the show. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
what a pain where the sun don't shine. Back in the real days of railroading we had a helper engine with an engineer and fireman on both engines head end and helper. This modern crap is a joke! :( Very cool video showing us life on the RR in modern times.
Thank you Brian, glad you enjoyed. Not too many RR's have helper districts nowadays. I do know NS Altoona/ Horseshoe Curve still has helpers, not sure if their helper has only 1 man or also a conductor with it tho? Back in the 1980's they put in the remote system on our locos and did away with the second man on the loco here. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Your Roadmaster calls you for advice, doesn’t he. Folks, I’ve worked for two railroads and never seen a one man crew quite like Dave. The buildings you see him in, and access to Engines, are closely guarded and monitored even when you think no one is watching. I’m new to the channel and his breadth of knowledge and experience is staggering. Kudos Dave, guys like you are hard to find in any business. Gratifying to see you still hammering away. Still, you don’t see retired railroaders entering three legged sack races for a reason. Be careful out there.
Thank you for the very kind comment. Actually I am roadmaster here along with section foreman, tamper operator, ballast dumper, track inspector and common gandy, I even clean the toilets sometimes... We only have 2 guys on track maintenance so I kind of do it all. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and checking out the video my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Impressed is insufficient. Start that book, there’s a market. You’ve witnessed a lot of the history of railroading, and there’s still a fascination people have with it.
Pneumatic Control Switch. I am not an expert but I think it disables dynamics if the switch opens probably a loss of air. I could easily be wrong. Such a neat video of something we won’t see anywhere else. Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Cheers, Rob
You are correct Rob, when PCS opens it disables throttle and dynamic brake functions via the PCS (power control system) .... PCS acronym for more than 1 thing on a loco... :-) power control system is the electrical part which knocks power to the governor. Thank you so much for stopping by and taking in the video my friend.
On newer locomotives when the train goes into emergency thus tripping the PCS, dynamics will stay engaged. There was a runaway train on CP Rail’s Kicking Horse Pass in the 90’s I believe where the engineer mistakenly thought the dynamics would stay engaged during an emergency application but he was wrong and that perpetuated the runaway. New units will keep dynamics engaged during PCS. If for some reason you lose air and your last resort is an emergency application, at least you still have dynamics to help slow down if they are already engaged when the emergency application occurs. Also, if the train slack was bunched up and the train was in dynamics while an emergency application occurred, the older system and locomotives would disable dynamics causing a massive slack run out as all the cars went to emergency and the engines left dynamics. That slack run out could definitely be severe enough to cause a train separation or derailment due to intensive buff forces, especially if you were in a curve.
Dave you guys have had so many set backs its not funny,if it was my rail road i would shoot the locos,pull up the track,and sell it all for scrap and go get drunk lol.Sorry you all are having stuff to happen but the determination and the refusal to give up is refreshing you take it in stride and you still always manage a smile,my hats off to you sir and the whole crew,hope it will get better for you guys soon
Thank you Gre C. We do have a lot of issues and I'm all for selling everything and buying beer with the money... LOL Always an adventure here, but it does make for some good videos! Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
I’ve seen maybe one or two cab view videos of locomotives operating, but I’ve never seen this side of railroadin’. Just popped up in my recommended. Thanks for sharing, it was very interesting!
"We're sorry but your DPU subscription has expired". We have the same PLC and computer problems at the papermill where I work. Great video, liked it much!
It happens poowg, but that's railroading. Your comment gave me a big smile tonight after a hard days on the RR today. Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
Wow very interesting video Dave. Adventures of the railroad and you never know what to expect day by day. Enjoyed watching and have a wonderful rest of your evening.(Steve)
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video Wade. If you like RR, then this is the channel to watch....:-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to write in and to check out the PCS fault video my friend.
@ccrx6700 love trains in the mountains too. Just something about a coal train.. those ditch lights lighting up the wet rails in the rain coming around the bend under load.
Contrl Chief stuff was not on any Locomotives I rode, I quit in 2017 turned 62 got Deep Low Cost riding Amtrak! Yes, I went from F.T.R.A. to Amtrak Preferred Customer.
Thank you very much Boxcar Johnny for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you andymano for paying us a visit and checking out the video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater. Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco. Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters. Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems with it uncoupling.
@@ccrx6700 I'm just glad that Rear Loco did not lock up and Drag at the train. also I believe you guys have a Original Loco On my Trains calendar this Month LOL. peace Brother, Stay safe. Andy M
I just found your channel through your video here. If the rest of your videos are like this it will be more interesting to me than any of the other creators out there. I love watching trains but this was interesting because more in depth of why. And I couldn't just listen to it while doing something else on my computer, I actually watched the whole thing.
Thank you Robert for the nice comment. Glad you had a good time. Really appreciate your stopping by and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you Dale for the congratulations, if it wasn't for really great folks like you who take an interest in these videos, that never would have happened. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Wow, I’ve always been into watching trains as a hobby but now I definitely want to work on them! This is super interesting!! You’ve earned my subscription!
Thank you Sylvia 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
That movie was a Hollywood production as you know and many things in it were only depicted as trying to capture interest and were not the real way it happens on the RR. Still a very interesting and fun to watch movie. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch what really happens on a RR my friend.
Your quite welcome Seth. Interesting stuff that most folks don't know about. It was my pleasure to be able to share this with you. Glad you could stop by and check things out my friend.
Thank you Michael, very glad you enjoyed. Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Never Jeff. Although when I'm on track am extremely leary of when we have new operators. Older operators I trust with my life, newer ones I contact via radio just to see how they are making out so to remind them I'm on track. You actually ask a very good question. Have to tell you a story. One of our newer operators several years ago was a well liked man by everyone, Gene. he did all right to begin with, but after several months he got very forgetful. Would leave the prep plant with the train and not bother to call track crew. it got scary as you can imagine. I almost went to the safety committee to report him, but made sure I was off track when he was running in plenty of time before I knew he would get train loaded. Well wasn't too long after that he got sick. Went to the doctor and found out he had a rare brain disorder that was caused by eating a lot of deer meat. He loved deer meat. Deer here had a disease and apparently he ate too much meat from a diseased deer. He went downhill fast, within a month he passed away. He was a big man and when he died was almost a vegetable. We all thought he was a big goof up, but little did we know what was going on with an internal brain malfunction. Very sad story.
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Thank you for the nice comment, I really love this job, lot's of variety and challenges. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Excellent video, air systems are an interesting thing trains obviously have more fail safes than semi trucks and don't link another engine but a very similar setup
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You're certainly right about that around this RR Kurt! Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Very interesting situation how it disconnected from the rest of the train. Did the coupler on the last coal car break a knuckle or just open up with all the tension?? The coupler on the locomotive (motor) seemed to be fully closed when you shut the airline valves off. Guess the moral of the event is when the PCS triggers, it quickly becomes a PITA problem!!🙃 Just all in a day's work Railroading!!
Thank you Charles for paying us a visit and checking out the video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater. Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco. Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters. Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems with it uncoupling.
Thank you for the nice comment David and glad you found it to be of interest. Very much appreciate your checking out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
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Thank you Annette for the nice comment and you are welcome. Always appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
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Always a new adventure here on the RR! Thank you very much Arkay for taking the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
It certainly is Anthony, most of the time this system works well. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
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They are a lot of fun to drive down track Red, don't have to worry about anyone tail gating you, just worry bout getting hit by a train.....:-) Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and check out the PCS Fault video my friend.
Glad you enjoyed the video Lars, I try to give you what I can in these. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you very much Steve for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you very much William for the nice comment, Good for you on the restoration, wish you the very best of luck in that! Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the PCS Fault video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
ngl i thought the lead train(s) provided via electronic harness the power.. and the back train only aided with additional required air... not all of them linked.. 2 (3-xx) number.. thats really clever and dangerous.. but theres alot of redundancy.. but as an electrician that schematic was easy to read you did good dave.... learned somthing new today 100% recommend your channel
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Sounds like a pretty good saying and so true! Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Your very welcome Ralph, so glad you had a good time tonight.Thank you for taking the time to check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
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Your certainly welcome Colby, very glad you enjoyed. Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
I know nothing about trains except they choo choo and go chugga chugga, but I also know that a lone locomotive on an active railway is never a good sign. 😂
It could be worse. In the 1980s, forty-some cars of a loaded and stopped coal train fell off a siding at Harrold, Texas, on the Ft. Worth & Denver, now part of Burlington. It was about this time of year after a lot of rain. A culvert was blocked, letting water stand next to the siding. Shortly after the train pulled on the siding, enough soil liquefied the cars fell on their side as the rails spread apart, and the car's wheels cut through old ties and then sunk into clay under the roadbed. They cleaned out the cars and laded the coal on another train. The running gear was torn down and sent to the repair depot. The coal car bodies went on flat cars and back to the repair depot. I stopped and talked to them a time or two. The wheels were all but worn out, while the paint on the cars looked almost new.
Appreciate your sharing that story with us Gordon. Pretty interesting. Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
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I'm emailing the North Pole as we speak DC, that is a total injustice. Barbie doll I can understand not bringing, but no excuse for not bringing a train set. Thanks so much for visiting with us and watching my friend.
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The engine is controlled by a AMD Geode LX with 25mb of ram (a bit blurry so I could be wrong), don't know if its controlled directly by it or is just used for the remote control system with the engine in front. Mite not be the main computer for it since the AMD Geode LX was released in 2005 and I have no idea of the age of the engine it self or I guess the computer could just of been updated at some point. I just fined it fascinating how big machines are controlled by low power/older computer systems at times compared to what people mite have at home for there computer that are 100s or 1000s of time more powerful then the computer in the engine for example in computational power. But I guess that's just how purpose built system's work. Love the videos and how you explain stuff that happens or has happened.
Wow that kind of tech stuff is way over my head Corrupted Save. Thank you very much for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you Mark, very glad you enjoyed. Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
I forgot to latch seat belt Super Hiro, warning drives me nuts tho. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
You are very welcome James, glad you enjoyed. A real railroader puts sure spike or creosote in his morning coffee to flavor it.... :-) Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
It still amazes me how a five horsepower generator for a house is louder than two mountain cats screwing but, a 200 ton loco purrs like a cat on a sunlit windowsill.
A lot of things in life amaze me Mr. Von Duke III. Life is amazing isn't it. Appreciate your visiting with us and watching. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Somewhere, someone left their bluetooth on and is being mysteriously pulled towards this train....dumb joke, i know....but i got nothin better right now till i have my coffe...lol. But this was an awesome video! Subbed!
Thank you Knowledge is Power 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
@@ccrx6700 Nice, I'm absolutely going to binge watch your videos! I'm a bit of an Amtrak buff myself. I've logged well over 10,000 miles on Amtrak, all over America. Coast to coast, north to south. Ive seen a lot and have a lot of awesome stories of my travels. I also have tons of video and pictures as well. I'm like a little kid when it comes to trains! Anyways, thank you for the good times and I'll definitely be watching all of your videos!
Interesting video , seeing real work done on railway , I presume that screen we see restarting was for setting up distributed power , great to see how it works (sometimes not work ) . Its actually a PC based system as it looked like a PC booting into Dos (pre windows) do you get many problems with DP on your loco's ? can EMD and GE loco's work together ?. In UK its all jumper cables for working loco's together , we do have pcm systems for remote control using a train power wires with passenger trains . Always like your videos , its great seeing how things are done your side , just retired (ill health ) after nearly 40years with UK,s biggest freight operator , miss the job but not cold wet winter nights trudging miles to a failed loco (never fail next to road access ) but its great feeling when you fix it though
Thank you nounoufriend for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed this episode of That's Railroading. We really appreciate your taking the time to stop by and check things out. May you have a most blessed day my friend. Hope you enjoy your retirement!
Thank you very much Jeff for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you yellowlab, glad you enjoyed this one. I do have a playlist on my channel home page about locomotives and there are several videos on that list of different parts of the locomotives we have if you would like to sometime check them out. Here's the link to it: ua-cam.com/video/DCakcHg5ukk/v-deo.html
I have not clue about those kind of things Luiz, greater minds than mine know that kind of stuff! :-) Thank you so much for choosing to visit with us and check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thanks for writing in Ramrods Memorious and sharing your thoughts. Imagine what it is going to be like when AI controls everything..... :-) Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
What was the major motivation behind 1/4 mile welded rail? Combination of rail end damage and lesser effects of extreme temperatures expansion and contraction? I realize there are many fewer plates to inspect and repair, but I was working for the ATSF when ribbon rail was introduced and no one explained exactly exactly the full set of reasons for the expensive changes. We just did it. Also, have concrete ties worked out? They were coming online at the time, and the old timers were not fond of them.
Elimination of joints and smoother ride less wear and tear on the rolling stock with cwr. Here's a video I made you may enjoy on why some RR's use concrete and some wood ties ua-cam.com/video/UtyTTijswwg/v-deo.html
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You tell us 'not being an expert' and 'not to know how to'? But you do know how to read and interpret that diagram, AND explain it so that even a nobody like me understands. 😶 If I were you I'd get myself some additional training. Then you'll be the hotshot troubleshooter everybody hollers for. Great clip. I subscribed.
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Thanks for this interesting video! The equipment has been around the block, but still pulls its weight. I thought couplers were designed to be failproof sans fracture,the most common one being a broken elbow. Next, we'll have some descendant of ChatGPT running the show.
Thank you Robin, very glad you enjoyed. Everything around here is getting older and things do wear out and fail. Not to worry, no chat GPT here in the future! LOL Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
What caused the locomotive to separate from cars? When I worked for the railroad there was nothing electrical to uncouple knuckle. Either had to be done manually outside or a broken knuckle for a separation.
Thank you Speed Bump for paying us a visit and checking out the video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater. Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco. Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters. Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems with it uncoupling.
it certainly is Bob and the new locomotives are far more technologically advanced that these old ones we have. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Good to see you again GMCGuy. Hope all is well with you. Thank you for taking the time to write in and to check out the video. May you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you very much Patricia for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Don't sell yourself short Mr. Dave, you know more about this stuff than we do. We appreciate you teaching us about railroading and giving us an inside view of the operations. I've been fortunate enough to be in several steam engines but only one functioning diesel. Thanks Dave, stay safe my friend.
Thank you Rick for the kind and thoughtful words. Was
swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
I heard that a fully loaded 70 car train can take anywhere between 2-5 miles before coming to a complete stop on a level grade. Is this true?
@@eddog6666 A 100 car loaded unit coal train traveling at 50mph can take about a mile to come to a complete stop on flat ground. I am a locomotive engineer at CSX.
Yeah I don't know jack about trains but was fortunate to drive one when I was around 5-6 when me and my dad were walking the tracks, the conductor was extremely nice and it's probably the coolest thing to ever happen.
Concur. I like the boots on the ground atmosphere.
I'm a van driver who transports UP Crews around Illinois and Missouri. Videos like yours are just great to watch. I will never be able to be a conductor or engineer, but, I love learning more such that I can help new conductors at times.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you find them interesting Jeff. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
All the electrics and the routing of the switches and signaling; that's real railroading! Thanks Dave for explaining the routing of the signals.
Thank you Cameron for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed. Really
appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the
video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I was quite surprised when I saw the air brake diagram. I was drawing them when I started with N&W. Old school, India ink and Leroy lettering guides. The “checked by” initials stand for Donald Jack Barton, a great guy and mentor.
Thank you Allen for the nice comment, awesome about the
checked by Mr. Barton. The guy who gave me this piping
diagram was old school, started out with Penn Central.
N&W was a great railroad in it's day. How cool to hear you
were with them. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thanks Dave! Your explanation of the PCS system and the associated problems when it trips made sense to me. I enjoy learning about all the crazy stuff you deal with everyday.
Thank you Dave for the very nice comment, glad you enjoyed.
Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
No two days ever the same. Keeps you on your toes. Takes a lot of knowledge to keep it all running. Thanks for sharing the video and your Knowledge.
Always is a new adventure on this RR Beverly. Was really nice
of you to take the time to visit with us and check out
today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Dave....Ran these big Old monsters for 40 years if people only knew all the controls switches and circuits that it takes for these big boys to operate....and I will add I loved every minute of it....
Thank you very much Jay for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed.
it is amazing all the electronics on this loco and I learn new
things about how it all works every day. I cannot imagine
what the new locos are like with all their computer controlled
systems and sensors. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Dave....When they 1st came out we had no idea how all that stuff worked either no training just had one in roundhouse and told us to get on one and fool with it .... then we'd get on one and go to work all by the seat of our pants mostly....
@@jayfritz7390 👍😊
The 26L system entered production in the late 1950s and quickly became the standard. It was superseded by the 30CDW in the 1980s, but this and all the newer electronic air brake valves (CCB, EPIC II, FastBrake) all operate in the same manner. Most if not all of the Class I's still operate some older units with 26L brake systems, though EAB of one type or another seems to have become the standard on new or rebuilt units. Like many steam locomotives, C&O 1309 originally had a 6ET system but it was replaced with a 26 during the recent rebuild. The benefits of going with a 26 or newer system include pressure maintaining (the 26 was the first system to make this standard, it became an option on the 24 and earlier systems did not have it), greater reliability, longer maintenance intervals and parts being a lot easier to obtain. Some other restored steam locomotives have also been upgraded with 26 systems, including CP 2816, CP 2860, CN 6060 and NKP 765.
That 'Control Chief' setup is new to me, but you'd be surprised at how often we have to reboot the computers on newer GE and EMD road units. The modern Distributed Power system (brand name for Locotrol III) has had a lot of bugs over the years, it took a long time to get them worked out and every time it or the locomotive computer systems in general are 'upgraded' more bugs seem to appear. DP can be tricky by itself, but DP and Pacesetter (slow speed cruise control) are an especially bad combination.
My Dad was a Locomotive Engineer on Long Island Rail Road,, we talk about Locomotive air brake a Few times, he like the 24RL over the 26L , due to the 24 was more dependibe but the 26 is more easy to use, Dave well done, he was good friends with the Head of Air Brake and would being the Enĝineer- Trainees over the air brake shop for indeep training.
Thank you Bob for the awesome informative comment. Yes that does and I guess not surprise me about rebooting the computers
on the new locos. I thought locotrol was top of the line. It was
pretty neat when I was in the cab of 1309 to look down and
see the same brake stand on it as is on our locos. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I was told in air brake class that the 30CDW is essentially the same as 26L in the air brake compartment. True or not, I’d have to ask a machinist. 30 was designed for desktop applications, although I’ve seen in mounted sideways on a conventional control stand on CN SD70/75M.
The electronic EPIC and CCB are part of the requirement for the 184 vs. 92 day inspection. The first electric valves had no resistance in the handle, so it was easy to push the handle too far and take off 13 psi, when only 10 was intended.
These are the things I know nothing about when we are just railfans watching trains roll by. So it is so interesting to see some of the workings of the remote system and the PCS switch system. I also get to see that no system is simple nor is it perfect :) This is another excellent education session - thank you very much!
Thank you very much Brian for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed.
Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video.
May you have a most blessed day my friend.
For years, I wondered how multiple units stayed synchronize, especially when I started seeing a locomotives in the middle of a extra long train with a couple locomotives pulling up the rear, without an engineers....I'm like wowwww that's new.
You cannot speak for everyone!I used to work for csx,and I know a lot more about rce than you do!so don't try to tell me about something that I know doesn't work right!I worked with csx locomotives for 6years, and I know how dangerous this rce can be!
Dave always something to keep you busy on the railroad.
Yes sir Jason, always something new and different coming
up here. Variety is the spice of life and makes for interesting
video content.... LOL Thank you so much my friend for
checking out tonight's home movie.
@@ccrx6700 Dave I sometimes would forget when the air dumped and we had an engine with 26 break that you had to put it into emergency for 45 seconds and then put it back in running position.
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Noticed a few sleepers (ties) pumping on curve eight just in front of the loco on your first shot. One thing about working on the railway is it’s never dull. Thank you for another great video Dave
Thank you very much Ian. Yes curve 8 has some mud spots
which pump ties. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
That Control Chief was still running Windows CE on a single board computer with AMD Geode LX CPU (looked to be 500 or 800MHz)... man... surprised those things are still kicking!
Wonders never cease do they. It is a decent system when it
works! Thank you very much xcesmess for taking the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until
we meet again my friend.
@@ccrx6700 i really like Cattron stuff. I've installed and tested a handful of systems.
Your description of the alerter answers my question before I could ask it. Great video again Dave.
Glad you found that out Collieman. Great to hear you enjoyed. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
When that motor went into emergency it sure locked her up and did some sliding. Glad it was where you could set on and get to the loco. Don’t sell yourself short Dave! They would sure be in a pickle without you!!
Thank you very much Wayne for the nice comment. I
admit there are some things I just don't know, but I am learning
with each new adventure. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
One of your vids popped up on my feed. Decided to give it a click ,. Glad I did. I've watched a few of them now. Every good channel has something that draws different types of people. For me it's your passion, and spirit. I think to myself , dang I need to get some of that spirit. Thank you ! And oh I enjoy the railroad stuff too. Never knew any of that stuff worked, fascinating.
Wow Aaron what a kind thing to say. So glad you clicked on
the video. We do Thank You for taking the time to watch and
write in my friend.
Dave, I've learned more about locos and these new operating systems in 18 minutes than the last few years of watching rail fan videos and doing my own research. Believe me when I tell you, that makes my operating engineer's heart go pitter-pat. Thank you very much for taking the time to teach me about this.
Wow, Thank you very much American Warhorse for the nice comment. Glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch. Also we have a unique remote
system, it is unlike any other. Most RR's run LocoTrol made by Wabtec, it is a much better system and operates differently.
Big thing is on ours, the rear loco does not supply air to the
train brake pipe. At the beginning of the video when I shut
the angle cocks off, air was not coming out the brake pipe, it
was coming out the train dump line for the cars. On most other systems and trains with a mid or end of train DPU, those locos supply air to the brake pipe. So go pitter patter that.... :-) May you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 See! Learned even more stuff! More pitter-pat!
You have a most blessed day as well. 🙂
@@oldgoat142 👍😊
We had a lot of trouble with the air connected to the computer, so much so that they finally separated the air brake from the 'puter. They had road trains stopped, unable to recover the air without help from the diesel shop electricians, or some of the younger hoggers figured out how to recover the air, but even with their efforts, sometimes they wound up having to run a train from the 2nd or 3rd unit, just to get the dang train going and get it to the terminal and off the main line.
The DPU control boxes were completely different from yours, and I was never on a DPU train. Some of the foreign RRs had a limit on train length so it was only occasionally that we would get a monster train, and they were usually trains with a large block of perishable loads for the East coast, a run through where a crew would get off, we'd get on do an air test get the whole train inspected, fill out an air brake form, and when we'd get to the crew change out point, we'd get off, they'd get on and away they went. That was in Riverdale, with the CSX crew @ the old B&OCT yard.
They have the same problem with this remote system too Thomas,
specially in the winter. They dump methanol in the air lines to
help prevent water freezing and I think that really messes with
the rubber seals/o rings in the system. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
I accidentally came across this video, it goes without saying that I know nothing about trains other than what the “normal person” might know, so I’m finding this all very fascinating! Looking forward to learning a bunch about trains and some of there systems.
Thank you very much hansa for the nice comment. Glad you
enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit
with us. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
A little something I learned about the PCS system, like you said all power (both motoring and braking) are shut down unless the locomotive has a Saluda key switch on the control stand. Southern Railway design this system (I haven't seen any others use or even have this on the control stands) for their trains used on the 5% grade of Saluda (the name of the system) in which if the PCS trips it won't cut out the dynamics to help slow the train like what Bigjoes said a few comments down about newer stuff. I don't think your engines have it, it'll be a key hole in front of the throttle handle below the switches, I learned this from a training video Southern railway and NS made years ago for their Belmont coal train.
Awesome Ryan, thank you so much for sharing something I did
not know. That would be extremely useful here. On all of our locos
throttle as well as dynamics cut off. Only thing is, if EOT unit
was on dynamics and it pulled apart, there would have to be
a time out limit on it since there is no operator in the cab. But
that could easily be achieved I think. Southern was an innovative
RR. A great RR in it's day. Guys from them would shudder at
what NS has done to their heritage I would think.
Thanks for the nuts and bolts and depth. Actual hands-on review of what you do sir. It's appreciated
Thank you very much Jimmy for the nice comment. Glad you
enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit
with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Just like all computers, "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
Thank you very much Mike for taking the time to visit with
us and check out the home movie. Happy rails to you until
we meet again my friend.
Reboot Windows.
Might be caused by an automatic update. ;-)
Dummy Dave? Oh hell no. You know your job very well and do a great job doing you. I'm a fabricator and not an engineer. Yes I know what works and what doesn't but the finer points still amaze me. You do very well.
Thank you James for the nice comment. I admit my ignorance
when it comes to this remote system, but am learning. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Something going wrong always seems to happen so someone has to get out and walk when the weather is "less than ideal." Could have been worse of course, it could have been snowing or worse, an ice storm. Winter has never been my favorite time of year for that reason. I'm not at all surprised at how far that loaded train slid on wet rail when the brakes came on.
But even with all the electronic FUBAR all in all it's a good day ... no one got hurt and no metal got bent. Lots of vitamin C guys, you can guess why. Respects.
Can you elaborate
@@coreybabcock2023 Elaborate about what?
Have you ever heard of "Murphy's Law?" It goes something like this ... "If anything can go wrong it will go wrong at the worst possible time."
You're certainly right in that Robert, could have been a whole
lot worse. Very dangerous to walk on frozen or snow covered
ballast, it's sometimes treacherous. Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Nice video! Well done and instructive. I have heard BNSF folk on the scanner having issues with the same stuff. Point of interest; according to some FRA history, the 26L system was introduced in 1961, so it has been around a while!
Thank you Badland for the nice comment, glad you enjoyed the show. Really appreciate your visiting with us and checking out the
video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Gives an entire new meaning to "skid marks"
I guess you could say that's true drwho. Thank you for stopping
by tonight and taking in the home movie my friend.
what a pain where the sun don't shine. Back in the real days of railroading we had a helper engine with an engineer and fireman on both engines head end and helper. This modern crap is a joke! :( Very cool video showing us life on the RR in modern times.
That's what the amp meter was for.
Thank you Brian, glad you enjoyed. Not too many RR's
have helper districts nowadays. I do know NS Altoona/
Horseshoe Curve still has helpers, not sure if their helper
has only 1 man or also a conductor with it tho? Back in
the 1980's they put in the remote system on our locos
and did away with the second man on the loco here. Was
swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Your Roadmaster calls you for advice, doesn’t he. Folks, I’ve worked for two railroads and never seen a one man crew quite like Dave. The buildings you see him in, and access to Engines, are closely guarded and monitored even when you think no one is watching. I’m new to the channel and his breadth of knowledge and experience is staggering. Kudos Dave, guys like you are hard to find in any business. Gratifying to see you still hammering away. Still, you don’t see retired railroaders entering three legged sack races for a reason. Be careful out there.
Thank you for the very kind comment. Actually I am roadmaster here
along with section foreman, tamper operator, ballast dumper,
track inspector and common gandy, I even clean the toilets sometimes... We only have 2 guys on track maintenance so I kind of do it all. Really appreciate your paying us a visit and checking out the video my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Impressed is insufficient. Start that book, there’s a market. You’ve witnessed a lot of the history of railroading, and there’s still a fascination people have with it.
@@d.l.d.l.8140 👍😊
Fascinating. Its layers of technology spanning probably 60 years that all has to play together.
Thank you 4SL for the nice comment. Really appreciate your stopping by and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Pneumatic Control Switch. I am not an expert but I think it disables dynamics if the switch opens probably a loss of air. I could easily be wrong. Such a neat video of something we won’t see anywhere else. Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Cheers, Rob
You are correct Rob, when PCS opens it disables throttle and dynamic brake functions via the PCS (power control system) .... PCS acronym for more than 1 thing on a loco... :-) power control system is
the electrical part which knocks power to the governor. Thank you
so much for stopping by and taking in the video my friend.
On newer locomotives when the train goes into emergency thus tripping the PCS, dynamics will stay engaged. There was a runaway train on CP Rail’s Kicking Horse Pass in the 90’s I believe where the engineer mistakenly thought the dynamics would stay engaged during an emergency application but he was wrong and that perpetuated the runaway. New units will keep dynamics engaged during PCS. If for some reason you lose air and your last resort is an emergency application, at least you still have dynamics to help slow down if they are already engaged when the emergency application occurs. Also, if the train slack was bunched up and the train was in dynamics while an emergency application occurred, the older system and locomotives would disable dynamics causing a massive slack run out as all the cars went to emergency and the engines left dynamics. That slack run out could definitely be severe enough to cause a train separation or derailment due to intensive buff forces, especially if you were in a curve.
Dave you guys have had so many set backs its not funny,if it was my rail road i would shoot the locos,pull up the track,and sell it all for scrap and go get drunk lol.Sorry you all are having stuff to happen but the determination and the refusal to give up is refreshing you take it in stride and you still always manage a smile,my hats off to you sir and the whole crew,hope it will get better for you guys soon
Thank you Gre C. We do have a lot of issues and I'm all for
selling everything and buying beer with the money... LOL
Always an adventure here, but it does make for some good
videos! Was really nice of you to take the time to visit with us and check out today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
I’ve seen maybe one or two cab view videos of locomotives operating, but I’ve never seen this side of railroadin’. Just popped up in my recommended. Thanks for sharing, it was very interesting!
Your welcome D Kortman, glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate your visiting with us and watching. May you have a wonderful day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 you too!
"We're sorry but your DPU subscription has expired". We have the same PLC and computer problems at the papermill where I work. Great video, liked it much!
It happens poowg, but that's railroading. Your comment gave me
a big smile tonight after a hard days on the RR today. Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
Wow very interesting video Dave. Adventures of the railroad and you never know what to expect day by day. Enjoyed watching and have a wonderful rest of your evening.(Steve)
Thank you very much Steve for taking the time to visit with
us and check out the home movie. Happy rails to you until
we meet again my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Yes indeed Dave. Your very welcome.
Dave never has a dull moment keeping it real, all these mysteries must be documented for the future Benefit of railroading
Always an adventure here for sure Greg! These videos are
my documentation :-). Glad you could stop by and take in
the video my friend.
Appreciate the classroom study. Love it. I'm the biggest railroad enthusiast you could ever meet
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video Wade. If you like RR, then this
is the channel to watch....:-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to write in and to check out the PCS fault video my friend.
@ccrx6700 love trains in the mountains too. Just something about a coal train.. those ditch lights lighting up the wet rails in the rain coming around the bend under load.
@@wade3217 👍😊
As a Retired "Hobo" train hopper (Moniker: Boxcar Johnny) I really enjoy your videos.
Contrl Chief stuff was not on any Locomotives I rode, I quit in 2017 turned 62 got Deep Low Cost riding Amtrak! Yes, I went from F.T.R.A. to Amtrak Preferred Customer.
Thank you very much Boxcar Johnny for the nice comment. Glad you
enjoyed. We really appreciate your taking the time to visit
with us and watch. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
So How did the DPU Uncouple from the Train
Thank you andymano for paying us a visit and checking out the
video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had
fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater.
Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid
down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco.
Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters.
Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they
put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems
with it uncoupling.
@@ccrx6700 I'm just glad that Rear Loco did not lock up and Drag at the train.
also I believe you guys have a Original Loco
On my Trains calendar this Month LOL.
peace Brother, Stay safe.
Andy M
@@apmazurka 👍😊
I just found your channel through your video here. If the rest of your videos are like this it will be more interesting to me than any of the other creators out there. I love watching trains but this was interesting because more in depth of why. And I couldn't just listen to it while doing something else on my computer, I actually watched the whole thing.
Thank you Robert for the nice comment. Glad you had a good
time. Really appreciate your stopping by and taking in the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Your channel has reached 50K. Congrats.
Thank you Dale for the congratulations, if it wasn't for really
great folks like you who take an interest in these videos,
that never would have happened. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Wow, I’ve always been into watching trains as a hobby but now I definitely want to work on them! This is super interesting!! You’ve earned my subscription!
Thank you Sylvia and welcome to our community, we are glad
to have you with us and hope you will continue to enjoy.
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In the movie unstoppable, there is a scene where the pcs opens. It’s just a second or too, easily missed
That movie was a Hollywood production as you know and many
things in it were only depicted as trying to capture interest and
were not the real way it happens on the RR. Still a very
interesting and fun to watch movie. Thank you so much for
taking the time to watch what really happens on a RR my friend.
Fascinating video as always, Dave. I really especially enjoyed the explanation about PCS towards the end of the video. Thank you for sharing!
Your quite welcome Seth. Interesting stuff that most folks don't
know about. It was my pleasure to be able to share this with you.
Glad you could stop by and check things out my friend.
YOUR ONE AWSOME BROTHER MR DAVE...GREAT JOB, KEEP ON KEEPING ON MY BROTHER!!!
Thank you for the very kind words Shayne. That was thoughtful
of you to say that. Appreciate your watching the video my friend.
Good technical stuff on the locomotive systems. Thanks Dave.
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Interesting video Dave. I never seen a remote system in a locomotive before.
Thank you Michael, very glad you enjoyed. Was really nice
of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Do you ever wake up at night realizing you are dreaming of meeting up with a locomotive in your high railer? 😃
Never Jeff. Although when I'm on track am extremely leary
of when we have new operators. Older operators I trust with
my life, newer ones I contact via radio just to see how they
are making out so to remind them I'm on track. You actually
ask a very good question.
Have to tell you a story. One of our newer operators several
years ago was a well liked man by everyone, Gene. he did
all right to begin with, but after several months he got very
forgetful. Would leave the prep plant with the train and not
bother to call track crew. it got scary as you can imagine.
I almost went to the safety committee to report him, but made
sure I was off track when he was running in plenty of time
before I knew he would get train loaded.
Well wasn't too long after that he got sick. Went to the doctor
and found out he had a rare brain disorder that was caused
by eating a lot of deer meat. He loved deer meat. Deer
here had a disease and apparently he ate too much meat
from a diseased deer. He went downhill fast, within a month he passed away. He was a big man and when he died was
almost a vegetable. We all thought he was a big goof up, but little did we know what was going on with an internal brain malfunction. Very sad story.
Sebastian Deyoung strikes again. This was probably his doing 🤣
Great video. You are a very accomplished man to have that job. Kudos to you.
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Man you've got the coolest job in the world
Thank you for the nice comment, I really love this job, lot's
of variety and challenges. Really appreciate your stopping by to visit with us and watch the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 100% my pleasure. God bless :)
@@therocinante3443 👍😊
Excellent video, air systems are an interesting thing trains obviously have more fail safes than semi trucks and don't link another engine but a very similar setup
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Geez Dave, never a dull moment, lol ! But that's railroadin'
You're certainly right about that around this RR Kurt! Was swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Very interesting situation how it disconnected from the rest of the train. Did the coupler on the last coal car break a knuckle or just open up with all the tension?? The coupler on the locomotive (motor) seemed to be fully closed when you shut the airline valves off. Guess the moral of the event is when the PCS triggers, it quickly becomes a PITA problem!!🙃 Just all in a day's work Railroading!!
Thank you Charles for paying us a visit and checking out the
video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had
fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater.
Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid
down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco.
Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters.
Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they
put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems
with it uncoupling.
Well all this is interesting to see Dave seems to be more and more to learn here thanks for sharing
Thank you for the nice comment David and glad you found it
to be of interest. Very much appreciate your checking out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Very informative Dave, your a good teacher. I understood all you had to say. Thanks!!
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Great stuff Dave. Thank you sir .
That sure is railroading.
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Great video Dave, thank you for making and sharing it.🙃
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Thank You again, always interesting, always informative, always laughing at trouble/s, always railroading!
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Very informative, Dave. Thanks for posting
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May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you Dave, may you have smooth running.
Always a new adventure here on the RR! Thank you very much Arkay for taking the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Tecnology, great when it works! And when it doesn't, what's the cost of a helper crew vs lost time?🤔
It certainly is Anthony, most of the time this system works well. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and watch the
video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Great video, as always Dave.
Thank you Aaron, glad you enjoyed. Very much appreciate your
taking the time to visit with us and check out the PCS Fault video my friend.
Sweet! I always wondered how the DPU worked.
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I've always wanted to drive one of those trucks on the tracks!!✌🐢
They are a lot of fun to drive down track Red, don't have to worry
about anyone tail gating you, just worry bout getting hit by
a train.....:-) Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and
check out the PCS Fault video my friend.
Love having the inside scoop!!!
Glad you enjoyed the video Lars, I try to give you what I can in these.
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you have a most blessed day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 Ditto my friend!!!
Love your videos! Keep doing what you're doing.🤙
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Great site ! I work on Santa Fe 2926 restoration in Albuquerque
Thank you very much William for the nice comment, Good
for you on the restoration, wish you the very best of luck in that!
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I like how the cameraman approached the offending engine like “This wye ain’t big enough for the two of us, pal…”
LOL, yep he was blocking my way down track Nick.....:-) Thanks so much for taking the time to visit and check out the PCS video
my friend.
ngl i thought the lead train(s) provided via electronic harness the power.. and the back train only aided with additional required air... not all of them linked.. 2 (3-xx) number.. thats really clever and dangerous.. but theres alot of redundancy.. but as an electrician that schematic was easy to read you did good dave.... learned somthing new today 100% recommend your channel
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This was so interesting thank you for posting all these neat things
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From a Poster I used to have
"To Error is Human!......
To Foul Things up requires a Computer!.......
Murphy was an Optimist!"
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THANK YOU DAVE..VERY COOL
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Interesting video, great work! Thumbs Up
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great train video
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Thank you for sharing my friend
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I know nothing about trains except they choo choo and go chugga chugga, but I also know that a lone locomotive on an active railway is never a good sign. 😂
Yes sir Jeremy, not what you want to see happen. Thanks so much for visiting with us and watching. May you have a most blessed
day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 You as well! Stay safe out there!
@@BuckFudweiser 👍😊
It could be worse. In the 1980s, forty-some cars of a loaded and stopped coal train fell off a siding at Harrold, Texas, on the Ft. Worth & Denver, now part of Burlington. It was about this time of year after a lot of rain. A culvert was blocked, letting water stand next to the siding. Shortly after the train pulled on the siding, enough soil liquefied the cars fell on their side as the rails spread apart, and the car's wheels cut through old ties and then sunk into clay under the roadbed.
They cleaned out the cars and laded the coal on another train. The running gear was torn down and sent to the repair depot. The coal car bodies went on flat cars and back to the repair depot. I stopped and talked to them a time or two. The wheels were all but worn out, while the paint on the cars looked almost new.
Appreciate your sharing that story with us Gordon. Pretty interesting. Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video my friend.
Dave with the best content as always!
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Man, I'm still pissed Santa never brought me that choo-choo train in '84.
I'm emailing the North Pole as we speak DC, that is a total
injustice. Barbie doll I can understand not bringing, but no
excuse for not bringing a train set. Thanks so much for
visiting with us and watching my friend.
@ccrx 6700 That's Railroadin! lol thanks for that. Btw, know why it's not a good idea to threaten a conductor who has a gun? He will choo-choo.
@@dclong- 👍😊
Facinating Dave.
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The engine is controlled by a AMD Geode LX with 25mb of ram (a bit blurry so I could be wrong), don't know if its controlled directly by it or is just used for the remote control system with the engine in front. Mite not be the main computer for it since the AMD Geode LX was released in 2005 and I have no idea of the age of the engine it self or I guess the computer could just of been updated at some point. I just fined it fascinating how big machines are controlled by low power/older computer systems at times compared to what people mite have at home for there computer that are 100s or 1000s of time more powerful then the computer in the engine for example in computational power. But I guess that's just how purpose built system's work. Love the videos and how you explain stuff that happens or has happened.
Wow that kind of tech stuff is way over my head Corrupted Save. Thank you very much for taking the time to visit with us and check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Very interesting video Dave, but you’re not having much luck with the weather!
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today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
It’s so weird hearing a car seatbelt warning while driving on the railroad tracks 😂
I think you may have a failing Triad relay.
I forgot to latch seat belt Super Hiro, warning drives me nuts tho. Was
swell of you to take the time to visit with us and check out the presentation. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
Enjoyed video as always with my Coffee. Thank you sir….
You are very welcome James, glad you enjoyed. A real railroader
puts sure spike or creosote in his morning coffee to flavor it.... :-)
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It still amazes me how a five horsepower generator for a house is louder than two mountain cats screwing but, a 200 ton loco purrs like a cat on a sunlit windowsill.
A lot of things in life amaze me Mr. Von Duke III. Life is
amazing isn't it. Appreciate your visiting with us and watching. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Somewhere, someone left their bluetooth on and is being mysteriously pulled towards this train....dumb joke, i know....but i got nothin better right now till i have my coffe...lol. But this was an awesome video! Subbed!
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@@ccrx6700 Nice, I'm absolutely going to binge watch your videos! I'm a bit of an Amtrak buff myself. I've logged well over 10,000 miles on Amtrak, all over America. Coast to coast, north to south. Ive seen a lot and have a lot of awesome stories of my travels. I also have tons of video and pictures as well. I'm like a little kid when it comes to trains! Anyways, thank you for the good times and I'll definitely be watching all of your videos!
@@knowledgeispowermediaprodu7094 👍😊
Sand was needed. Love it. 2:02
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Interesting video , seeing real work done on railway , I presume that screen we see restarting was for setting up distributed power , great to see how it works (sometimes not work ) . Its actually a PC based system as it looked like a PC booting into Dos (pre windows) do you get many problems with DP on your loco's ? can EMD and GE loco's work together ?. In UK its all jumper cables for working loco's together , we do have pcm systems for remote control using a train power wires with passenger trains . Always like your videos , its great seeing how things are done your side , just retired (ill health ) after nearly 40years with UK,s biggest freight operator , miss the job but not cold wet winter nights trudging miles to a failed loco (never fail next to road access ) but its great feeling when you fix it though
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Good information PCs power cutoff switch
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Cool, informative video!!!
Maybe a few on the workings of a locomotive?
👍👍🚂
Thank you yellowlab, glad you enjoyed this one. I do have a playlist
on my channel home page about locomotives and there are several
videos on that list of different parts of the locomotives we have if
you would like to sometime check them out. Here's the link to it:
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@@ccrx6700 thanks, will do that 👍👍🚂
Wow, I didnt expected to see a AMI bios with a geode system. It's probably an industrial PC/104.
I have not clue about those kind of things Luiz, greater minds than
mine know that kind of stuff! :-) Thank you so much
for choosing to visit with us and check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Imagine what it's going to be like when juggernauts are remote controlled
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That was Interesting, thanks for sharing!
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What was the major motivation behind 1/4 mile welded rail? Combination of rail end damage and lesser effects of extreme temperatures expansion and contraction? I realize there are many fewer plates to inspect and repair, but I was working for the ATSF when ribbon rail was introduced and no one explained exactly exactly the full set of reasons for the expensive changes. We just did it. Also, have concrete ties worked out? They were coming online at the time, and the old timers were not fond of them.
Elimination of joints and smoother ride less wear and tear on
the rolling stock with cwr. Here's a video I made you may enjoy
on why some RR's use concrete and some wood ties
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Thanks for the video. All this video lacks is a "BFH" and a roll of duct tape.
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Thanks for the explanation. Interesting stuff.
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You tell us 'not being an expert' and 'not to know how to'?
But you do know how to read and interpret that diagram, AND explain it so that even a nobody like me understands. 😶
If I were you I'd get myself some additional training. Then you'll be the hotshot troubleshooter everybody hollers for.
Great clip. I subscribed.
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Thanks for this interesting video! The equipment has been around the block, but still pulls its weight. I thought couplers were designed to be failproof sans fracture,the most common one being a broken elbow.
Next, we'll have some descendant of ChatGPT running the show.
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here is getting older and things do wear out and fail. Not to
worry, no chat GPT here in the future! LOL Was really nice
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today's home movie. Happy rails to you until we meet again my friend.
What caused the locomotive to separate from cars? When I worked for the railroad there was nothing electrical to uncouple knuckle. Either had to be done manually outside or a broken knuckle for a separation.
Thank you Speed Bump for paying us a visit and checking out the
video. Coupler on the car had an adapter plate which had
fallen out for whatever reason. Adapter plate fits under the coupler shank. That caused a mis match in the coupler height from car to loco. Car went up to mine fine with no problems, but once it got loaded, then that made the mis match even greater.
Coupler did not come uncoupled, rather coupler on car slid
down enough so that caused the car to uncouple from the loco.
Several low spots in the track surface did not help matters.
Car was pulled from train and fixed that evening. When they
put a new car in place of that one, they had no more problems
with it uncoupling.
@@ccrx6700 All your videos are great and THANK YOU for the very good answer explaining the uncoupling! Stay safe out there!
@@1stbump 👍😊
Operating a train is a whole lot more complicated than it used to be, especially when the computer doesn't want to cooperate!
it certainly is Bob and the new locomotives are far more
technologically advanced that these old ones we have.
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Well look who it is my old freind from The shortline railroad from pennsylvania
Good to see you again GMCGuy. Hope all is well with you.
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Best video of train info
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