Moving and Dumping the Short Train
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- We're going to switch the short train over to the main line then get the
loaded coal cars dumped. Then we will switch that train back over to
the run around track to clear the main.
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Iron Senergy 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 Senergy as it's current owner. Our past owners had every
intention of shutting this mine down, but Iron Senergy took
over and have kept this mine alive.
Please understand: I am NOT in any way an official or unofficial
spokes person for Iron Senergy 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 Senergy,
Iron Cumberland, 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-workers.
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 Senergy or Cumberland Mine
necessarily has or makes.
Again, we are very fortunate to have Iron Senergy as our current
owners. Please, when making a comment be respectful of Iron Senergy,
Cumberland Mine, my fellow coworkers and also any contractors
that may be shown. Thank You, Dave
#shorttrain#dumpingcoalcars#switchtrain
Great thing about your train is no graffiti
Rain, rain. Where I live in East Tennessee our county has lost two major bridges today. Flooding every where. Worse than I have seen in my 71 years. Be safe my friend.
Another great video Dave! Love watching all of the 'mechanical things' that you have... the switches, coal dump doors, unhooking cars, etc. Its fascinating how it all works together to make things happen! 😎 I want to give another shout out to your company for allowing you to film all of this. MANY people are getting to see a side of the coal (and railroad) industry that they never would have had the opportunity to see.
Thank you for this video Dave! Have a nice weekend!
Thank you for sharing Dave! It would be nice to work with such a positive person as you!
When they start making steel to replace that bridge there going to need coal to make coke for steel...
Dave, another cool video of the unloading action. It is really good that your company does help the local community. Sad that coal is declining since all the elites want us in electric vehicles. What will supply the power to charge those electric vehicles? Hopes and dreams? Have a great weekend.
I really wish people would stop putting the blame on diminished coal use on “elites” it has absolutely nothing to do with any of that.
The issue is that it’s cheaper for utilities to use natural gas. THAT is the leading cause of coal decline. The same utilities only used coal because at one time it was cheap and easy to get to. As soon as they found a cheaper way to make the same energy and charge US the same amount so THEY could pocket more, they changed over.
It also doesn’t make any sense to me why coal supporters regularly mock electric vehicles. YOU driving a gas or diesel vehicle directly hurts the coal industry. If you want to support the coal industry, an electric vehicle would do more good to keep those in the mines employed than a bumper sticker or license plate.
It isn’t solar or wind or some hippie that reduced coal use, it’s corporations wanting to make more money by using a cheaper fuel to produce and use. Plain and simple.
Any argument about regulations or whatever else is just an excuse to hide the fact that some rich folks in an office who never had their hands dirty want to get even more money from utility customers.
@@willb.383 So, what you are saying is that the "elites" are the electric companies since "they" could pocket more money by using natural gas. My question still stands, what will supply the extra power to charge the electric vehicles? Several states want to eliminate gas and diesel vehicles in the near future. Since there are not enough electric generating facilities in the US to keep up with current power demand, then I suppose you will want some magical wizard to produce the extra power needed for the electric vehicles. Case in point, Microsoft wants to activate a mothballed Three Mile Island nuclear reactor for their power needs since they really have no other alternative to obtain extra power.
Thank you for this video!
Not just the videography but also the commentary.
I read somewhere that the United States has enough coal at 1990s usage levels to last 200 years. If the usage goes down it would last longer.
Another great video. Thank you, Dave! 3098 always makes me smile. What also makes me smile is hearing about how closely the company works with the local land owners and municipal park and wildlife authorities. Keep those black diamonds moving!
3098 currently has some problems Shane it's got a water leak in the radiator and it needs a new cable put in on one of the dynamic brake resister grids. It hasn't seen a lot of action lately except for yard work until we get those problems fixed. Thank
you so much my friend for watching and may you have a very
good day.
@@ccrx6700 You as well, Dave! Got the local model train show here in Plano, Tx tomorrow! My brother, myself, and at least one fan of the channel will be buying stuff we don't need but have to have and then grabbing lunch. Wish you were down here to walk the convention center with us my friend
@@Trains-With-Shane 😊👍
Hope Hurricane hasn't messed you up
DAVE, THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE GREAT VIDEOS. I AM A TRAIN NUT. I HOPE SOME DAY TO RIDE ONE IN THE CAB. DONT KNOW IF IT IS POSSIBLE BUT I AM HOPING TO !
Great to see some switching and unloading Dave. The sights and sounds of the Cumberland railroad, and as always, watched over by the man with many hats 🙂 Keep them rolling Dave!
Good relationship to "neighbours", summer house people or permanently living people, is always valuable. Once one of them called and told: "There is a lot of trees fallen on Your tracks"..... That was on a Monday and 2 days later we had an ordered train for a private travel. You bet we were thankful, and working...
Old ties are classified as hazardous waste here. I don't know if we are allowed to give any away, but of course, one, or a few, could fall off the train by accident....
What a great thing to have such a good relationship with the community and land owners. Need more companies like yours.
You are absolutely right about that Beverly. And it feels good to
work for a company that cares about the surrounding communities and gives money back to the community. Iron
Senergy has done a remarkable job at doing that, much to
their credit. Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Always a good day when Dave posts. Enjoy your weekend friend!
Really glad to hear you look forward to the posts Walter. Thank you for saying that. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch them and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave be safe in the mindst of the run off from hurricane Helene be safe up there my friend
We got some rain up here Thomas, much needed rain but
no heavy downpours or winds thankfully. Appreciate very
much your concern for us. May you have a very good day my friend.
Boy, those springs were really squashed down as far as they could go....... heavy load. Love your videos, Dave!
It's encouraging to see the movement of coal, Dave. Coal and oil are vital to America's infrastructure. With an appropriate government approach, we can secure increased supplies of both.
Nothing wrong with coal with the proper monitoring and correct burner design AND with electrostatic precipitation it is cleaner than NG.
I just noticed the safety cage mounted on the rear end of unit 22.
Yes that is a fall protection cage for an unguarded ladder Colin.
Don't see many locos out there with them on. It's MSHA required.
Really appreciate your taking the time to watch tonight and may you have a very good day my friend.
We have the cleanest burning coal plants in the world. Support coal. Support Trump.
There is no clean coal, and Trump is toast.
@@kriswright1022 You really should do some research before you have something to say. Maybe you live in China where they burn without care.
Green energy can’t compete with coal!
Hello from San Antonio, TEXAS as always! Thank you for your videos!
DFW here
Your certainly welcome JTG, always a pleasure to have you
take the time to visit with us. May you have a very good day my friend.
@@Bryan-xe6dw Well hello to you too!
The depressed coal industry is only temporary. Just as the oil industry has its ups and downs. We need to generate electricity with a variety of fuel and energy sources. And coal is one that is indispensable. And no, coal fired plants are not polluting the environment. Millions of dollars have been spent on cleaning up the exhaust from coal fired power plants. And carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed by plant life. And the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is regulated by the oceans. These are hard and fast scientific facts.
Ha ha I wish someone had explained that to or UK government
Good as always good job Freddie I mean Dave thanks.👷🇺🇸
Freddie is right here beside me Alan and he liked that! Freddie
helps me every night answer comments and edit videos. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Awesome! 😎👍🏼
Thank you and glad you liked this one Bassotronics. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Always good to see you hard at work. Let's do this.
Always a pleasure to have you stop by NunyABidneZ. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Neat video Dave. It's cool how this process is done. Enjoyed watching and have a wonderful upcoming weekend. Steve
Dave you remember that huge power plant that was featured in your coal mag, Ratcliffe, well it is closing this weekend and was our last coal burning power plant. it will be demolished over a few years and a new kind of thing built that uses green energy, the news did not say what that was, meantime they reckon we have enough wind solar and gas fired for all we need. Huge amount of rain has fallen here the last couple of days and caused a lot of floods, glad you did not get that much and the storm which was on our news 140mph wind in Florida.
I hope to see more coal moving in the future.
You and us both gogetthegoose. We love to see coal moving.
Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Hope your pension will be ok my friend
We are represented by UMWA here and our pension is thru them,
at least for us older guys under the 1974 pension plan Unwired. For the guys not under that the company has a matching up to 2% private 401K plan. I am under both plans. We do not get
a railroad pension here, we are not a railroad, but a coal mine
that has a railroad. Thank you for your concern and for
taking the time to watch the video. May you have a very good
day my friend.
Costello: Well then who's on first?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the fellow's name.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy on first.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The first baseman.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy playing...
Abbott: Who is on first!
Costello: I'm asking you who's on first.
Abbott: That's the man's name.
Costello: That's who's name?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me.
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: That's who?
Abbott: Yes. PAUSE
Costello: Look, you gotta first baseman?
Abbott: Certainly.
Costello: Who's playing first?
Abbott: That's right.
Costello: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
Abbott: Every dollar of it.
Costello: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy that gets...
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: Who gets the money...
Abbott: He does, every dollar of it. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.
Costello: Who's wife?
Abbott: Yes. PAUSE
Abbott: What's wrong with that?
Costello: I wanna know is when you sign up the first baseman, how does he sign his name?
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: How does he sign...
Abbott: That's how he signs it.
Costello: Who?
Abbott: Yes. PAUSE
Costello: All I'm trying to find out is what's the guys name on first base.
Abbott: No. What is on second base.
Costello: I'm not asking you who's on second.
Abbott: Who's on first.
Costello: One base at a time!
Abbott: Well, don't change the players around.
Costello: I'm not changing nobody!
Abbott: Take it easy, buddy.
Costello: I'm only asking you, who's the guy on first base?
Abbott: That's right.
Costello: OK.
Nice one again Dave. Man I could almost smell that wet coal as it got dumped. I grew up in a railway house in Langlaagte. Johannesburg. 16:54 144 Impala Street. 3rd house from main road. We had a coal stove and a coal and wood bunker. One of my chores was to bring coal in for the fire and to keep the coal bunker trimmed. So I would wet the coal down before shoveling and sifting the fines out. Always remember that wet coal smell. You know we lived in that house for about 18 years. Then Dad got promoted to Port Elizabeth in 1966 and I stayed behind living in a railway hostel that was across the road from our house. Strange how things work out. I was an apprentice then hostel had good cheap accommodation and good food although most evenings I went to visit my GF.
Good 🎥 BIG BOY, the land owner thingy is “quid pro quo “which is Latin for something for something and as you say it works pretty well. Take care 😬
Sad to know that you are in a declining industry. Coal has gotten a bad reputation and a bumb rap from the environmentalists.
But hey there is a short line railroad, knowen as the E.L.S. in Northern Wisconsin that could really use you, your track maintenance skills and your tamper. Their rails are in pretty shaky condition.
Nice horn blasters. Hello Dave Robin her 👍🏻 Love the Rain not to much .help the land owners 👍🏻.pat on the back goes a long way 👍🏻gread Not good 👎. Great video Buddy love your job. 👍🏻Robin out . That’s RailRoading 😂😎👍🏻
Great, Dave, you could point the great efforts of everyone involved with the mine. EMDs running is always a good day👷♂️🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲
Great to hear that you have good relations with your lineside neighbours, always a good plan. Loved your “tipping” process over the “unloader” it’s a fantastic thing to see the black diamonds on the move, I love the smell of coal too. The last coal fired power station in the UK has recently closed. A big shame and we will now see our electricity prices rise I am sure. Thanks for another great video Dave
Being a Good Neighbor and Good Stewart of Everyone’s Property!🚂🚂
Awesome video Dave. Watching the coal hoppers get dumped is always a favorite for me.
If my vision wasn't so bad, and with the micro-technology we have today I'd have probably converted my G-Scale Coal Hoppers to an automated set up.
I would have used black, fine aquarium gravel for the coal, but this would be so cool to model on a G-Scale train layout.
BTW: I may have missed it, if you ever did a video of how the coal hoppers are loaded at the actual mine.
So, if you have done this, please forgive me for requesting it, and if you have would you please point me to the video if there is one.
Thanks Dave.
I know a few farmers are complaining about the rain if you can believe it. It's rained for a week straight now and there are a lot of fields need harvesting and it isn't supposed to stop till next Friday. It's kind of mesmerizing watching those cars empty out.
so neat seeing the springs relaxing as the load is dropped. it is key to keep things moving!
are the miners part of an union? just keep things going in the right direction. you have
set contracts for the coal that is a positive thing. my Co. is cutting back, a bunch of people
are being hit. that is what happens when you are not diversified in the market. the tighter
the nitch market , the more you are hit with any down turns. the gov should open more
coal fired plants for electricity! they are equipped with scrubbers and so much pollution
control's nothing like china with no abatement for emissions.
I fully understand the locomotive air and dynamic braking systems, yet im wondering if there's an electric capacitor to handle the increased voltage when the locomotives RPM is increased.
Any insight on raising engine rpm and wheel slipage ? -MB. 09/27/2024....
So fun to have your insight! Appreciate learning more about how all this railroading works behind the scenes! Not to make any of my fellow train nuts jealous....but as I type this, I am in eastern Montana, rolling along on Amtrak's Empire Builder (it was 5 hours late coming into Whitefish, MT, so don't be too jealous. We will be on it for 38+hours, and most likely will miss our connecting train😂 That's railroading!!!😂😂).
Cool vid 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it Tom. We certainly do appreciate your paying us a visit tonight my friend and may you have a very good day.
Coal is a huge natural resource for the U.S. They had at one point in time predicted 500 years worth. If only there was a way to make it cleaner. Worst case it will always be a great backup. As much as many will not like the following the sooner we become the manufacture of clean energy the better in whatever form it takes. It is the future and I would rather our engineers make it happen then others. Just my thoughts on the subject.
Trinity Industries has a tank car manufacturing facility in my home town of Longview, Tx. And I must say I like all your videos and look forward to many more.
Another great video. I never worked with big train box cars as you do, but as I indicated to you before about working in a steam engineering plant with Coal fired Boilers, today's video reminded me of receiving a truck load of coal which would be dumped outside, funeled to a conveyor, carried & dumped to an overhead bunker and drawn off by a huge scale, put into hoppers which sat on top of stokers which fed the Coal into the fire box. Thank you again for the memories of my youth . I amm 76
#3098, 58 years young. Wish I was 58 again and working half as well. 😉 I'm glad to hear that you guys have good relations with your neighbors, especially the ones whose property you have easements across. It pays to be good neighbors.
Nice video Dave and very kind words about the land owners, just back from our own train ride, wife has never been on a train and took her on the Agawa Train Tour in Sault Ste Marie, she had the full experience for 228 miles. Glad you are moving coal and the company allowing you to showcase their workings on the rail. Cheers and take care my friend and have a great weekend.
Dave you`re the happiest team player I know! It`s always fun watching one of your video. Let`s hope 2025 is a better year for all of us!
In the uncoupling sequence, the loco coupler has blue paint. I understood couplers were NOT to be painted. Exception?
Love your videos it’s fascinating just the amount of power and force trains have from steam to diesel and diesel electric love watching them. Great video. Keep it up.
Thanks for the detailed shots of the dump station and unloading operation. I'll be putting that to use when I design and 3d print a small dump for my model railroad.
Did you hear a miner was killed down here in Alabama when a coal ceiling collapsed. He was 54 yrs old. I hope the hurricane does not come your way.
Thanks for day at work. Coal has the power. Does the white chevron arrow on front of the blue engine mean any thing. ???
Dave how do I get some stove coal down here in SC ? My dad is from 545 old National Pike WBV pa
I seen were the locomotives delivered off river barge ? From Pitt or down river and this rail not connected to any mainline ? Just from mine back to the mon river dump in barge on river
Hi Dave & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks & Dave & Friends Randy
closed 2 coal burning electric plants in South East Kansas...
Is there actually a bill mounted on the train or is that just a recording of a bell?
Ought to a second line that way one train can go to the mine and one can come back from the mine at the same time😅
Great Video Yet again Dave, Thanks for sharing.
Loved watching the Truck springs expand.
Thank you and glad you liked this one theandymano. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Love to see the vintage locomotives working , thanks Dave
Was loke I was right there with you, inspecting the cars as they went by.. love the dump the best, that sound is awesome. Great video Dave
Thank you and glad you liked this one Pappy. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
I know Id have me a coal stove if that ran through my back yard. 🏠
Dave we have had a week of rain here in Ohio. Glad to see another great video from you.
keep them trains moving , anything new going on in the shop ? have a great day dave .
we haven't seen rain here in so Cal in awhile ,its always HOT and dry
Do you ever have a derail where you unload?
Great video, love ⌚️ those cars move around.
Awesome video - Keep up the good work Dave…
Huge fan
I'm very pleased to hear you are enjoying the home movies
my friend.
Thanks for the trip Dave.
How do they open and close the dump doors
The hurricane news is offal
Don't you wish your car lasted 58 years, like that locomotive. Whoever thought of that hose connector design was a genius.
I don't know who invented those glad hands Bill, they are the
same as on big trucks only a lot bigger, very handy and works
well. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Cool video Dave👍👍
Dave, I would like to model your coal unloading station so it would be nice if the next time you make a video if you did a walk around on the outside of the building thanks, Bob and North Carolina
Bob, if you would like some pictures, send me an email
and i'll send them to ya. I don't know if I can send a short
video over email or not. My email: peppypetsdaily@yahoo.com
Public relations is always an important factor with any business. My only question is who has to brush the leftover coal down the chute. LoL. Have a great day my friend.
Your certainly right about the Lewis. Leftover coal just stays
there, so no one brushes it down. it's not much left over. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Yes Dave another awesome video thanks almost As good as dumping ballast which is always great to watch
Thank you and glad you liked this one Gary. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Cool.
Any hobos yet lol
Great video, cool watching coal being dumped 😊😊😊😊
Thank you and glad you liked this one Bill. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
If everyone who has a job worked with the same philosophy you have Dave maybe our economy would get better, provided our management took note and promote. Diversity in the workforce.
Thank you for the nice comment J Lane. I just do my job here
whatever that may involve in each day. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Yery nice job
Question do they ever grease the roller bearings. If so how? Some uncoupling lift bars are on top of the knuckle and some underneath is it just the manufacturer? Coal power is a stop gap until someone figures it out. It's not renewable. That's all there is then no more left.
The bearings on the car wheels are sealed and cannot be
greased Russell. All of our uncoupling bars are underneath,
and I've never seen one on top of the coupler, so I don't know
the answer to your question. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
You're a good man Philo beto. LOL may God bless you and your family
Thank you for the kind words Chris. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Nice job taking care of your neighbors and unloading coal.
Thank you for the nice comment Brian. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Hiya Dave. Good to see yA. Stay safely blessed
Howdy Clark and thank you for the well wishes. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for sharing, Dave!
Your certainly welcome Daniel. Thank you for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Always interesting, Dave
Thank you and glad you liked this one Max. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
You’re no right fielder, Dave. You’re the manager of that operation.
Team manager
LOL.... I played 3rd base in legion ball, 2nd and right field in high school, played most all the positions in softball Scott and even
was pony and colt league team manager. Here I just help out doing whatever needs to be done to keep trains moving safely.
Coal mining and railroading is a team sport. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch tonight and may you have a very good day my friend.
Have a great weekend Dave
Thank you Mike, wife has a big party planned and she gave me
a list that's 3 miles long to accomplish..... at least we should
have good weather for it, video will be on my other channel
about it. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch tonight and may you have a very good day my friend.
Have a great weekend Dave.
Thank you for the well wishes Derrick. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
Dave, is that a 2nd airline above the coupler & if so why?
I believe that 2nd air line is for the hopper doors. They need to work independently from the continuous brake.
Yes it is David. That is the line that supplies air to dump the
cars. If we took air off the train brake pipe, then every time
there was a reduction in air pressure to dump the cars, the
brakes on the cars would apply, thus the second line so
that doesn't happen. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a very good day my friend.
Out of curiosity, are you in Alabama?
We are located in SW Pa, about 1 hour straight south of
Pittsburgh Dalton. Our mine is located at Kirby and the harbor
where this video was taken is at Alicia Pa. Thank you my friend
for watching tonight and may you have a very good day.
@@ccrx6700 you as well thank you for answering my question
@@daltonhaddix9839 😊👍
Thanks Dave!
Your certainly welcome 1208 Bug. Really appreciate
your taking the time to watch and may you have a very good
day my friend.
What is the top air line between the cars for?
Our cars are dumped by air majortomtogc. That is what the
second line is for. If we took air off the car's brake pipe, then
every time we dumped the car brakes would come on, thus
the second line to supply air. Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video my friend and may you have a very good day.
@@ccrx6700 Thank you!
@@ccrx6700
Hi Dave 👋,
Keeping the good peace with your neighbors is definitely better than ruffling feathers in the flock.
Was that the boneyard off to the side in the video of the derailed cars?
Don't need to loose any more 😮.
Stay safe and have fun my friend.
Rich.
@@richardbause2453 yep on the cars, waiting go scrap yard
@@majortomtogc 😊👍
if Harris gets elected bye bye coal