Used to do this by hand on the Burlington Northern Tamping crew in the mid 70’s. Always thought we need more specialized shovels that didn’t just slide over the top of the stones. Love your channel.
Not a fun job with picks and shovels for sure Jeremy! Do love the hydraulics. Great to hear you are enjoying he videos and we really appreciate your watching my friend.
Wonderful video and excellent explanation! It's the small things like this that keep the trains on track, yet hardly anyone ever pays attention to. Thank you for your work and more importantly, the wonderful video explanation behind cribbing, something I had never heard before I came across you! Have a blessed day!
@@ccrx6700 Of course we will, 20 to 30 minutes is the sweet spot for me. Your subjects are unique and extended time spent on them allow us to better understand what is obvious to you of course, but not so much to us outside the railroad family. I did some work on the UP once on a special crew hired to correct about a half mile of flipped track. Right over on her side she went and we changed out a lot of ties and did some cribbing with a pick and shovel assigned to each of us daily. Some minor ballast packing underneath too but a regular machine followed us right darn quick to do it up right. Learned how to do those spiking mauls to both sides of the rail - now that was a treat to get that rhythm going in the groove. Amazed that I was pretty good at driving spikes the old fashion way and I did like it somewhat. And soon enough we were decommissioned and the regular union boys cleaned up our mess. Like my father before me, I done some gandy dancing as he always called it.
Man, I can't get enough of your channel! I'm watching someone dig holes and loving it! It's cool to see what makes these big boys run smooth behind the scenes.
Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your videos. I was not aware how much goes on or happens in order to keep a railroad running. Thank you for the videos. keep em coming, Very informative and eduational
Thank you Jon, got a GoPro and just learning how to use it, but it sure is nice to be able to mount it and it really makes a difference with the stabilization rather than me using my phone to video.
Thanks to videos like these i was able to know exactly what the rail crew was doing in Port Colborne, Ontario as i drove by. Thanks for all the great content!!
Your welcome Greg, still learning how use it and what I can do with it, but sure does make a diff with stabilization. Thank you for watching and writing in 😊
I'm addicted to your videos. Because of the addiction I need a 12 step program ... the first step admitting I have a problem. I dont admit to having a problem being addicted your videos. I'm in a circular trap ... I love your videos like candy corn. Keep it up so I can get my fix :) Your explanations of RR work makes the hobby 1000 times more enjoyable. Much appreciated.
Oh dear Bill, I apologize never wanted to cause an addiction problem, maybe gonna have to start a rehab program like AA... LOL Cannot say how much I appreciate your watching these and the really funny comment, that sure made me smile, You made my day
Good work there Dave! Looks like you're getting that GoPro figured out and stitching together the short video clips. 👍 It's a nice view over your shoulder as you continue to git-r-done. Watching this just makes me want to call that stuff "coalcrete". You have yourself a good evening and we'll holler at you down the road.
Thank you my friend, glad you liked it. I'm learning bout how to do all this cam stuff, sure takes a lot of time to edit them, maybe cause I got a dinosaur computer? Someday I'm gonna figure out how to put titles in too, wish me luck!
Yes sir, Good luck with the progression of your video making skills. I've been at this game for 12 yrs now and my vids are still very basic compared to many others. I keep poking along with my very minimal computer skills, but it's still fun for me. And brother, I know what you mean about the time it takes to throw a video together....again goes back to my next to zero computer skills. Happy railroadin' and video makin'! I just got a notification of a NEW vid from a certain ccrx 6700, so I'm off to lay my peepers on that one!
Thanks Rick, curve 25 had some track surface problems and now it's in very good shape and holding track surface really well, we cribbed the entire curve out. Thanks for writing in and watching my friend.
Glad to hear you mention Letsdig18. I've recently discovered him and have been fascinated with his skills. Too bad you can't get a ballast cleaner on that track, you'd have the entire line done in no-time. It would cost a fortune to hire-out a contractor and you wouldn't have any fun. :D EDIT: Almost forgot to thank you for getting a mount for the camera. Makes it much easier for you and all of us. :)
Yep it sure would have made a difference if we could have years ago had a ballast shoulder cleaner, but oh well... got a GoPro and am learning how use it, sure does help with stabilization. Do so much thank you for watching sir 😊
That is a neat little excavator you have there; I could really use something like that for some landscaping projects, though, I might want a slightly wider bucket. You certainly enjoy your work.
Oh yeah having way to much fun at work there buddy, lol thats awesome. Doing a great job there Dave. Very interesting to see how it all works. Thanks for the great videos.
Thank you my friend, appreciate your watching. Next vid is tamper ride on this section of track to see what all we done so far. Apologize for the fun at work, I'll try to be more serious and down cast in the future...LOL
Here in Arkansas we have a Rock Island Railroad abandoned line. A property owner gave us permission to dig the old ballast. It had a lot of coal in it and it packed really well. We used it for mobile home pads and driveways.
Wonder if it was anthracite coal Bryan? Ours is bituminous and very much softer than anthracite. it makes a muddy mess when wet. Anthracite does pack hard and doesn't make a mess when wet. Thanks for writing in and watching the video my friend.
@@bigmackstruckstop9213 see you got a river boat in your avatar. I used to work way back in 1970's on a harbor tugboat, almost got my pilots license was right before i came to the mine. Do you work on the boats?
Slowly a real good adjective to use there Stephen. Hard to get a lot done when they keep wanting to run trains and we have to keep clearing up for it. But we are making progress. Thank you so much for watching my friend
I'd like to come up there sometime in the future and meet you and see the equipment being used,Saturdays are the best travel times for me,so I'll catch ya on the next video.
Ok kool thanks I'll let you know ahead of time,but I got to work a lot of hours this week and weekend were cleaning out a pond job,I'll check and see what week after next looks like, should have extra time especially on Saturdays.
Hey you make that look easy Dave. I'm glad you had good day. That excavator may be a smaller one but it sure could make a mess of the track in the wrong hands. I give the new camera a big thumbs up. Not that the phone didn't work well but we're all spoiled UA-camrs haha, 4k, tripods, camera mounts. You have a great setup now. Take care, keep on railroadin'.
Thanks Jeff, glad you enjoyed. Yep got a GoPro and just learning how to use it. very nice to be able to clamp it and work hands free, plus much better stabilization, it a learning curve for me but a big improvement. You are right, even tho that is a smaller excavator, I got to be really careful when get a lot of cribs opened up I don't pull the track out of alignment, I've done that before! And then I gotta fix it!!! So try real hard not to mess it up...lol
Ballast should be 'clean angular and regular in size' Dig out with Shovel, Replaced with a Ballast Fork. Leaving all Soil and rubbish behind. No more 'Wet Beds' I wouldnt like to lie in a wet bed. But it's an age thing these days. Lol. Your making me late for work. 😂 Big Thumbs up from Wales.
@@ccrx6700 Hi Dave. Mostly by hand on smaller sections then on longer or bigger rehabilitation tasks they used a contractor Plasser and Theurer (not sure if spelt right) and this was a great big machine that removed, cleaned and sieved the ballast and tamped it back again. But i have seen large teams in the earlier years gribbing with large curved gardenlike forks. But then the railways was a mass employer in those days so it was creating jobs.
You are right David, it wont absorb water, but when coal fines get wet they become a consistency like a slimy clay like mud and that helps prevent the water from draining away. It similar to building a pond dam with clay, it prevents the water from escaping in a pond dam. Maybe that explains it better. Thank you for the nice comment and for watching David
Thanks Russell, gonna do some more in future too on actually doing the work, got a new cam and learning now how to use it and how to edit. I'm better at driving spikes than editing videos tho 😄
Thank you my friend, glad you liked today's show. Stay tuned got some pretty good stuff coming up. Had a major derailment couple weeks ago, got like 9 vids of that yet to publish, be out in a week and half or so, they not something too many folks get to see, you will enjoy them. Got a GoPro and just learning how to use it, great to be able to clamp it on something and work hands free, plus stabilization is much better than with the phone. I'm not a pro yet in making vids like you are, but trying to get better, any advice will certainly be appreciated from you
Hi Dave, love watching all the track maintenance videos. Gives a person a new perspective on how much work it takes to keep the track well maintained. The question I have is this something that's never ending and you move from one spot to another? As always, keepem on the rails.
Glad you are enjoying Gary, we love to have you watch them. Yes sir, it's never ending. Do one section then move on to another. But, that's railroading. Really appreciate your tuning in and checking out the video today my friend.
Love it when some one enjoys and knows their job makes the final job better. Why not lostern the crude under the tye's we call them sleepers in the UK and vaccume it out. I was just about to make a comparison with letsdig18 but you just beat me to it. Thanks for the entertaining and info and the video.
Sure would speed up things if we could get one in George, being that we are not connected with any other rail road has been a blessing in some ways and a huge curse in others. If we were connected we could have gotten cleaners and rail grinders in and saved us a ton of maintenance issues over the years, but it is what it is. Being connected would have saved them HUGE dollars in getting all 3 locos in plus the other rolling stock, which all had to be trucked in, and that was major dollars to make that happen
Excellent Ross, really thank you for sending that comment, was kinda worried bout it being so long didn't know how that would go over. Appreciate your watching. Got a GoPro and just learning how use it, but really nice to be able to clamp it on and keep my hands free, plus much better stabilization
Well at least you caught it now Charlie, thanks for watching sir, hope you got your notifications turned on, lot more good vids coming up for you real soon
Finished changing some switch ties today and had to do some cribbing on the turnout. Tamper is down so had to break out the jitterbug to tamp the ties up.
Awesome Michael, I can't crib a turnout with this bucket, it just too long and flat. Jitterbugs good only for young guys with strong backs!!! But jack the track to grade you want and those things do a very good job in keeping track surface to grade. Secret is to angle them in and do all the tie, not just under the rail, but I"m sure you are well aware of that!
Thanks for watching my friend. Question: got a huge white oak here by the house. Last year it had leaves then we got a hard frost, killed all the leaves for the year on it. Now this year all the oaks around it have new leaves,, but this one doesn't have any new leaves. It an immense tree. How long can a tree survive without having leaves? I'm clueless. this tree at base prob 4 foot in diameter. Can a tree still live without leaves? Golly would I hate to see this one die.
@@ccrx6700 you keep the train running and the track looking great, how do you find time to keep your place looking so good and get a nap in on saturday
Gosh. You get to operate a lot of cool equipment. I love running heavy equipment. Maybe I should try to get into the railroad profession. I’m no spring chicken. Mid 30s. I’ve done everything from being a certified welder to running heavy equipment to working in a credit and lending department in the financial field. Do you think Railroads would be interested in hiring someone like me or would they want a younger person to train up?
Nice to hear you enjoyed Daniel. I do get to be involved in a lot of different aspects of this operation here, it's nice, a lot of variety. My dad always said, variety is the spice of life. Appreciate your watching today my friend.
Thanks for letting us watch. That coal-packed ballast looks hard. I wonder if it has any fuel value. Is the crew of each train required to obtain verbal permission by radio from both of the on-site maintenance-of-way persons before entering your work limits? Is it safe to run a train slowly across a short section of track that has been cribbed-out but not yet filled in with new ballast by the regulator, or must it be refilled to provide stability?
Harold, some really excellent questions there sir. I've suggested trying to find some way to reclaim the coal and clean and re use the ballast, but so far no good answers. After a train passes, I give them a "red" track, so they are not allowed to leave a portal until I give them back a "green" track, that way train and maintenance are always safe. I have run trains over skeleton track (no ballast in the cribs), however you have to be careful where you can do this at. Mostly it can happen on tangent or low degree curves like 2 or 3 percent and it's ALWAYS on a slow order of 10 MPH or less. This is an 11 degree curve on a 2.5% grade so ballast will get filled in before a train can pass.
Hello my friend, well, you almost got in front of the camera. At 9:10, 13:36 and 15:08. Maybe you should consider turning the camera towards yourself when you tell everyone to “have a good day “ at the end of your video. Love the videos.
Would a hi-rail vacuum loading truck work in this setup? It maybe easier to direct around and get a more complete cleaning? It may also be able to clean the fines off the ballast (into separate compartments in the truck,) so the ballast could be reused.
Very good question. We tried the vac truck for sucking up mud spots and it took them forever, they had to use an air wand to try and break up the mud, a long slow process that wasn't worth the money spent. However once I get the heavy stuff cribbed out it would be very beneficial if they could follow me and do their thing. But I haven't gotten anyone to listen to that advice yet. Thanks for writing in and watching the video.
Just wondering if you ever tried clearing out under the near rail first to break it loose and then clear under the far rail depositing away from the far rail. As soon as you pull under the middle toward you part may roll out under the near rail so there’s less cleaning due to the center still being compacted. Just curious whether it would work any better for you since your closed time is so limited.
Yes I have Kevin and good thinking on your part sir! And, that's pretty much how you describe is how I've been doing it lately. Helps also in keeping the material from getting in my track, I hate that crunching of the material as it gets caught up in the excavator sprocket. Thanks for writing in and watching today my friend.
It's like taking a teaspoonful and swinging all the way out to dump it - teaspoonful by teaspoonful. Better to have a box sitting between the rails: swing about a foot or so to dump each teaspoon in the box, drag the box along the rails and lift+dump it when full. Maybe even a box on wheels riding on the rails which tilts over to alternate sides to dump. Economy of movements, as in surgery.
Since Dave mentioned him, watching letsdig18 really shows how he emphasizes speed and movement efficiency. I'm always impressed watching how fast Chris operates his excavator and skid steer. He's really moving! I'm not sure if a bin on the tracks would help cribbing or not, as it's another thing to move. Maybe an excavator with a faster swing speed would help?
Very good question Donald. Shoulda explained that in vid, but just didn't think about it. The side I'm working on I'm sloping away from track so water runs off well. Once I'm done with this curve, then I will jump over to other side and grade that so it has a nice slope away from track also
Those off road dump trucks can beat you to death can't they? I seen them running here at the prep plant, seems like a pretty bouncy ride. My son has an excavation company and he has had rollers on jobs, I hate running them, they scare me. He always wanted me to run that vibrator roller way to close to the edge for my comfort
Couple of questions here 1 how long before you have to crib this corner again? 2 ever consider using concrete ties? as they take less ties per mile and would most likely last longer than wood ties
This curve has never had ballast rehabilitation since it was new in 1977. So hopefully we will get another 40 years out of it, by then I'll be 107 so probably won't care by then...lol I cannot tamp concrete ties. Wood are 7 inches thick, concrete 9 inches thick. My old tamper has limit switches which only allow the work heads to drop 2 or so inches below the bottom of a wood tie. To tamp concrete I would have to change the position of 4 limit switches by crawling under the tamper and readjusting all 4 switches, a total pain to do. If I had a Jupiter system on the tamper then I could simply toggle between concrete and ties, but that upgrade costs bout 100 grand, so likely ain't gonna happen soon. So we really have to stick with all wood, gonna make a distant future vid and explain all that in much greater detail cause so many others have asked the same question, there's a lot more involved than this explanation can cover for now.
I love all your videos and it appears that your railroad needs a lot of track maintenance. Why don’t you guys use concrete ties on some sections of your railroad. Wouldn’t they hold up longer then wooden ties? Just wondering, Thanks.
Thank you Anthony, glad you are enjoying and appreciate your nice comment. Yes we do need a lot of good maintenance and for the past several years our old owners were in huge cost cutting mode. Our new owners see how valuable it is to maintain their transportation system and have begun putting a lot of money in our track, which is a very good thing. Here's a web page that talks about concrete and wood ties you may find interesting www.rtands.com/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/new-paradigm-design-concrete-crossties/
Thanks for having the camera attached to the equipment so we can see you work. Do you ever remove the unwanted cribbings or do you just keep pushing it away from the track?
Your welcome Peter, i'm in a learning curve with this new camera. I had suggested getting some kind of sifter bucket to try and reclaim some of the ballast, but no one seems interested, so it just gets shoved off the side
another thought.... a custom bucket. have you thought about a unity bucket? so you have two of them soup spoons together with a tie-space in between so you can do to beds at once?
Say, Dave... speaking of curves, if you had to replace the rails of a particular curve, would the rails come to you pre-curved for whatever radius you needed, or do they come to you straight and track workers force the bend as required? Thanks, and again, great videos!
Excellent question, new rails are all straight, then curved when imstalled with lining bars and muscle work. There is some transit track that is pre curved for very sharp degree curves
@@ccrx6700 Your dad must have known mine. 😉 Mine would say, " here's a book, look it up." But hopefully yours didn't have a sneaky streak and give you the books written in German or Russian. 😊
Do you have access to the cost study done back in the day comparing gondola bottom cars requiring a rotary dumper vs hopper bottom cars? An ongoing benefit of gondola bottom cars is reduction of coal fines plugging up the space between the ties which should reduce the amount of cribbing maintenance over the years and increase the service life of the ties as well as the slightly higher capacity of the gondola bottom cars. Could you do a PowerPoint presentation to show capital costs and predicted maintenance costs for a rail system for both kinds of cars using the original 50 year old figures then update it to show if those mid-70s maintenance predictions are correct?
Yes Curtis that sure would have made a difference over the years, but bottom discharge is what the founding fathers paid for so we stuck with it, most likely was a lot cheaper initially to buy back then and US Steel probably figured they would eventually sell the place so why spend the extra upfront money. Thanks for watching
Would love to have you come out and have at it! LOL We'll have a contest, you with a shovel and me with the excavator. You might beat me for a few ties, but wonder if you or anyone could last all day doing that, I sure do appreciate hydraulics being 67 years old! Can't do that manual work anymore like in the olden days. Thanks for watching David
Dave, what railroad do you work for and where is this line that you are working on? Outside of what city and in what state? Love your videos very informative
Excellent question! Curves begin number at prep plant to harbor, so curve 25 is the 25th curve from the plant EB. A curve is referred to as a right or left hand curve depending on which way you are going into it! So coming from the mine to harbor 25 would be a right hand curve, but coming from the harbor to mine it would be called a left hand curve.
Dave ! I found ya ! For some reason YT stopped recommending you and I had to search for your channel.....couldn't recall the exact name "ccrx 6700"! YEP ! you got the touch on that machine. NICE! What all did I miss in the derailment? I'll hit your "Home Page" to find out. Can you show us how the "JOY" stick works....the track sticks looks easy...but that "JOY" stick looks like you also got some triggers or sumptin?
Darn utube anyway.... gonna email them right away and get things straightened out, we just can't be putting up with this nonsense....LOL Haven't put up any vids yet on derailment, got bout 2 or so more vids to go before that series starts
Nice video. You're having a good day, we can tell. Does it matter from which side you do this? I mean on curves, is there a better side to do it from the high rail like you're doing here? Just a curious question.
Mike thanks and glad you enjoyed and excellent question sir! I usually work from the low side, however on this side cause wanted to get rid of all the excess ballast on high side, plus there a lot of room.on this side to park my.machine away from the track at night. But it really doesnt matter which side work from,final results are same
Yep and the best part is they buy the toys and pay me to play with them....LOL Depends on location whether I can run a train across skeleton track (what it's called with the empty cribs). If it's on a hill or on a sharp degree curve I will not do it. If it's on tangent track with no hills or a lessor degree curve I will, but it will definitely be on a slow order and a No Braking order. Great question you asked Ronald and thanks for stopping by and watching today my friend.
Probably would make a pretty good trenching bucket for sure, never used it for that, but will definitely keep that idea in mind! Thanks for the heads up John
@@ccrx6700 He posted a video of him using it to put in 2 800' trenches for electric and water lines up the side of a hill this past Sunday. Mind you the excavator it is attached to is somewhat larger then your Kubota.
If you had rotary dumper cars, there wouldn't be any problems with coal fines falling on the tracks. But I guess that would be too expensive at this stage?
You are certainly correct, if that had been original design it sure would have saved us countless hours of work and lots money spent on track and car maintenance. These bottom dump hoppers require constant maintenance, almost daily they take a car out to fix doors
Probably, but then we'd have to have a loco with us and a water tank car.... not sure how environmental would like that being there is a small stream nearby. Appreciate your watching Marius
Shockingly at one time redwood was a preferred wood for rail ties due to its water, insect, and fire resistance (more important in the steam era when cinders would cause tie fires). Nowadays ties are mixed hardwood treated with creosote or other preservatives
Robin they do make composite ties however they are very expensivr and require pre drilling for spike or lag holes, RR's dont generally use them for those reasons except for certain specialty applications
Cypress trees made excellent ties. When the FEC abandoned their Homestead branch there were still Cypress tree ties from 1936 in use. That put them at over 50 years old and still holding.
Dave will you let a train run over that part with no rock in between the ties? And if so how many ties 10 ,20, or more. I was watching a stream Locomotive video the other day and the old engineer said to the firemen can you believe they pay us to do this
Not on that section, it a pretty sharp degree curve on a 2.5% grade, on tangent track I have ran over skeleton track for up to 2 rail lengths (40) feet on a slow order. Thank you for watching and your question
Used to do this by hand on the Burlington Northern Tamping crew in the mid 70’s. Always thought we need more specialized shovels that didn’t just slide over the top of the stones. Love your channel.
Not a fun job with picks and shovels for sure Jeremy! Do love
the hydraulics. Great to hear you are enjoying he videos and
we really appreciate your watching my friend.
You’re a very happy worker. You obviously love your job.
Well not always Hugh, you know how it goes when you work for someone else 😉
@@ccrx6700 i sure know some days are full of BS but I love having a job more then I hate the BS lol
@@terrypbug totally agree with you on that sir!
U should never do that creating a mud problem from oz
Wonderful video and excellent explanation! It's the small things like this that keep the trains on track, yet hardly anyone ever pays attention to. Thank you for your work and more importantly, the wonderful video explanation behind cribbing, something I had never heard before I came across you! Have a blessed day!
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed and found it informative. Appreciate your watching sir
Glad that you got the phone mount sorted. We all appreciate the longer video. I just love watching you work.
Well glad to hear that, was really wondering if anyone would actually sit thru an 18 minute vid, appreciate your letting me know that 👍
@@ccrx6700 Of course we will, 20 to 30 minutes is the sweet spot for me. Your subjects are unique and extended time spent on them allow us to better understand what is obvious to you of course, but not so much to us outside the railroad family. I did some work on the UP once on a special crew hired to correct about a half mile of flipped track. Right over on her side she went and we changed out a lot of ties and did some cribbing with a pick and shovel assigned to each of us daily. Some minor ballast packing underneath too but a regular machine followed us right darn quick to do it up right. Learned how to do those spiking mauls to both sides of the rail - now that was a treat to get that rhythm going in the groove. Amazed that I was pretty good at driving spikes the old fashion way and I did like it somewhat. And soon enough we were decommissioned and the regular union boys cleaned up our mess. Like my father before me, I done some gandy dancing as he always called it.
@@leebarnes655 awesome comment Lee, thanks for sharing that interesting story with us, i did enjoy it
Man, I can't get enough of your channel! I'm watching someone dig holes and loving it! It's cool to see what makes these big boys run smooth behind the scenes.
Thank you, really glad you are enjoying the home movies sir!
Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your videos. I was not aware how much goes on or happens in order to keep a railroad running. Thank you for the videos. keep em coming, Very informative and eduational
Your welcome Gene and glad you enjoy the shows my friend.
We appreciate your watching and writing in and for the very
nice comment.
Another entertaining video Dave. I'm very glad to see you mounted your camera rather than running your machine one handed. Good job!
Thank you Jon, got a GoPro and just learning how to use it,
but it sure is nice to be able to mount it and it really makes a
difference with the stabilization rather than me using my phone to
video.
I really enjoyed watching a skilled operator at work. Thanks
Thank you Lewis, I don't know about skilled but I'm getting
better at it...LOL do so much appreciate your watching sir
I’d like to make a .wav file of your loud cackle-laughs. Those are epic. Fun to hear several of your cackles. No one loves their job more than you!
Glad you are enjoying 😊
Not only do you drive like AJ Foyt, you enjoy doing your job right. we need more workers like you. Watch out for the cicadas.
Will do Rupert, they haven't showed up here yet, last time we got
them we had tons of raspberries cause the birds ate the bugs
instead of the berries!
Thanks to videos like these i was able to know exactly what the rail crew was doing in Port Colborne, Ontario as i drove by. Thanks for all the great content!!
You are certainly welcome, I thank you for watching sir! And try to stay warmer ...lol just teasing 😄
Never knew about cribbing until I met you!!
Well Bob I guess I'm still good for something in your life...LOL
Thanks for watching my friend
Thank you for getting the GoPro.... keep up the good work and good videos.
Your welcome Greg, still learning how use it and what I can do with it, but sure does make a diff with stabilization. Thank you for watching and writing in 😊
I'm addicted to your videos. Because of the addiction I need a 12 step program ... the first step admitting I have a problem. I dont admit to having a problem being addicted your videos. I'm in a circular trap ... I love your videos like candy corn. Keep it up so I can get my fix :) Your explanations of RR work makes the hobby 1000 times more enjoyable. Much appreciated.
Oh dear Bill, I apologize never wanted to cause an addiction problem, maybe gonna have to start a rehab program like AA...
LOL Cannot say how much I appreciate your watching these and
the really funny comment, that sure made me smile, You made my
day
You do a fantastic job! Thank you for showing us how much work has to be done to keep the trains running. Stay safe!!!
Thank you Valerie, appreciate your watching and the wonderful
comments you send in
Good work there Dave! Looks like you're getting that GoPro figured out and stitching together the short video clips. 👍 It's a nice view over your shoulder as you continue to git-r-done. Watching this just makes me want to call that stuff "coalcrete". You have yourself a good evening and we'll holler at you down the road.
Thank you my friend, glad you liked it. I'm learning bout how to
do all this cam stuff, sure takes a lot of time to edit them, maybe
cause I got a dinosaur computer? Someday I'm gonna figure out
how to put titles in too, wish me luck!
Yes sir, Good luck with the progression of your video making skills. I've been at this game for 12 yrs now and my vids are still very basic compared to many others. I keep poking along with my very minimal computer skills, but it's still fun for me. And brother, I know what you mean about the time it takes to throw a video together....again goes back to my next to zero computer skills. Happy railroadin' and video makin'! I just got a notification of a NEW vid from a certain ccrx 6700, so I'm off to lay my peepers on that one!
A really good video from a Man who is passionate about his job. Thankyou made my night. Happy Rails to you👍👍👊👊
Wow John, very nice comment, really glad you liked today's home
movie, appreciate so much your watching
Looks like you and your baby doll is doing a great job!
Thanks Rick, curve 25 had some track surface problems and
now it's in very good shape and holding track surface really well,
we cribbed the entire curve out. Thanks for writing in and watching
my friend.
Glad to hear you mention Letsdig18. I've recently discovered him and have been fascinated with his skills.
Too bad you can't get a ballast cleaner on that track, you'd have the entire line done in no-time. It would cost a fortune to hire-out a contractor and you wouldn't have any fun. :D
EDIT: Almost forgot to thank you for getting a mount for the camera. Makes it much easier for you and all of us. :)
Yep it sure would have made a difference if we could have years ago had a ballast shoulder cleaner, but oh well... got a GoPro and am learning how use it, sure does help with stabilization. Do so much thank you for watching sir 😊
Your enthusiasm is contagious! It’s railroadin’ all right! 😷👍🏻🏳️🌈🛤🚂
Well thank you, I do love this job and enjoy what I'm doing and we
really do appreciate your watching the home movie
Oh neat, you put us on for a ride along this time!
Alright hearing hot wheel detector while you do this is pretty cool too with all the radio chatter
I'm learnin how to expand the videos! Hope you enjoyed it Thank you
@@ccrx6700 I did thank you! Looking forward to more!
@@StevenRides and you will get it sir, lots more coming up for ya, thank you
That is a neat little excavator you have there; I could really use something like that for some landscaping projects, though, I might want a slightly wider bucket. You certainly enjoy your work.
It is Steven, we have several buckets for from 12 to 36 inch wide. That kubota been a good machine. Very handy i think you really do need one too 😊
Oh yeah having way to much fun at work there buddy, lol thats awesome. Doing a great job there Dave. Very interesting to see how it all works. Thanks for the great videos.
Thank you my friend, appreciate your watching. Next vid is tamper
ride on this section of track to see what all we done so far. Apologize for the fun at work, I'll try to be more serious and down
cast in the future...LOL
@@ccrx6700 oh yes tamper ridealong will be great,
You have way too much fun ! Enjoy
Thanks for watching Kurt! Appreciate that sir, hope you enjoyed todays show sir 😊
Here in Arkansas we have a Rock Island Railroad abandoned line. A property owner gave us permission to dig the old ballast. It had a lot of coal in it and it packed really well. We used it for mobile home pads and driveways.
Wonder if it was anthracite coal Bryan? Ours is bituminous and very much softer than anthracite. it makes a muddy mess when wet. Anthracite does pack hard and doesn't make a mess when wet. Thanks for writing in and watching the video my friend.
Very good railroading,I'll catch ya on the next one
Thank you David, glad you liked today's home movie 🎥
Your very welcome my friend anytime
@@bigmackstruckstop9213 see you got a river boat in your avatar. I used to work way back in 1970's on a harbor tugboat, almost got my pilots license was right before i came to the mine. Do you work on the boats?
I don’t know what this says about me, but that was mesmerizing.
It says you love railroadin! Awesome to me, really appreciate
your watching Russ
Slowly, but steadily you and your "buddy" are getting the line cleaned up and ballasted with clean material.
Slowly a real good adjective to use there Stephen. Hard to get a
lot done when they keep wanting to run trains and we have to
keep clearing up for it. But we are making progress. Thank you so
much for watching my friend
@@ccrx6700 Always remember: The Tortoise won the race and the Hare lost.
@@stephenroberts4895 👍 gotcha on that Stephen
Very impressive! Takes a lotof skill and a lot of patience. Good job!
Thank you, just a learned skill, practice makes perfect so maybe by tye time i retire i'll become good at it 😊
Great video. I learn so much about the "nuts and bolts" or railroading. Thanks.
Thank you, glad you liked todas home movie 🎥
Awesome video, thanks for taking us along!!!
You are welcome Ron, really glad you enjoyed 😊
Man that is way easier thing digging ties out with a shovel, pick and tongs!
I'd like to come up there sometime in the future and meet you and see the equipment being used,Saturdays are the best travel times for me,so I'll catch ya on the next video.
Awesome David our schedule is friday, sat. And sunday 12 hours each day. Thru week i can work off extra board if i want
Ok kool thanks I'll let you know ahead of time,but I got to work a lot of hours this week and weekend were cleaning out a pond job,I'll check and see what week after next looks like, should have extra time especially on Saturdays.
@@bigmackstruckstop9213 👍
Hey you make that look easy Dave. I'm glad you had good day. That excavator may be a smaller one but it sure could make a mess of the track in the wrong hands. I give the new camera a big thumbs up. Not that the phone didn't work well but we're all spoiled UA-camrs haha, 4k, tripods, camera mounts. You have a great setup now. Take care, keep on railroadin'.
Thanks Jeff, glad you enjoyed. Yep got a GoPro and just
learning how to use it. very nice to be able to clamp it and
work hands free, plus much better stabilization, it a learning
curve for me but a big improvement. You are right, even tho
that is a smaller excavator, I got to be really careful when get
a lot of cribs opened up I don't pull the track out of alignment,
I've done that before! And then I gotta fix it!!! So try real hard
not to mess it up...lol
Ballast should be 'clean angular and regular in size'
Dig out with Shovel, Replaced with a Ballast Fork. Leaving all Soil and rubbish behind.
No more 'Wet Beds' I wouldnt like to lie in a wet bed. But it's an age thing these days. Lol.
Your making me late for work. 😂
Big Thumbs up from Wales.
Another nice one Dave. Thanks.
Your welcome Bill, how did you guys do stuff like this?
@@ccrx6700 Hi Dave. Mostly by hand on smaller sections then on longer or bigger rehabilitation tasks they used a contractor Plasser and Theurer (not sure if spelt right) and this was a great big machine that removed, cleaned and sieved the ballast and tamped it back again. But i have seen large teams in the earlier years gribbing with large curved gardenlike forks. But then the railways was a mass employer in those days so it was creating jobs.
@@billsmith3195 not a good job hand cribbing for us older guys! I love hydraulics. Ive seen utube videos of those giant cleaners, pretty awesome stuff
@@ccrx6700 pretty noisy as well.
@@billsmith3195 i bet they are, would love see one work live, maybe i get lucky some day on that
He sounds more like a kid playing with a tractor in a sandbox than on a real railroad. I'm almost thinking about going into railroading 😂
Yep, just got bigger toys, hope you enjoy your new career 😊
Coal is petrol based so it would not absorb any water is my guess as to why water would stand between the rails..great video Dave
You are right David, it wont absorb water, but when coal fines get
wet they become a consistency like a slimy clay like mud and that helps prevent the water from draining away. It similar to building a pond dam with clay, it prevents the water from escaping in a pond
dam. Maybe that explains it better. Thank you for the nice comment and for watching David
Nice video on cribbing.
Thank you Brian, really glad you liked the show today
Wow that was really great to see just how you do your job
Thanks Russell, gonna do some more in future too on actually doing the work, got a new cam and learning now how to use it and how to edit. I'm better at driving spikes than editing videos tho 😄
Cool video of this process while being done.
Thank you my friend, glad you liked today's show. Stay tuned
got some pretty good stuff coming up. Had a major derailment
couple weeks ago, got like 9 vids of that yet to publish, be out in
a week and half or so, they not something too many folks get to
see, you will enjoy them. Got a GoPro and just learning how to
use it, great to be able to clamp it on something and work hands
free, plus stabilization is much better than with the phone. I'm not a pro yet in making vids like you are, but trying to get better, any advice will certainly be appreciated from you
@@ccrx6700 You are welcome and sorry to hear about the derailment.
Have a good day Dave..
Thank you Wayne and you also my friend.
Hi Dave, love watching all the track maintenance videos. Gives a person a new perspective on how much work it takes to keep the track well maintained. The question I have is this something that's never ending and you move from one spot to another? As always, keepem on the rails.
Glad you are enjoying Gary, we love to have you watch them. Yes
sir, it's never ending. Do one section then move on to another.
But, that's railroading. Really appreciate your tuning in and
checking out the video today my friend.
Thanks so much for your good spirit and knowledge.
Your welcome Dale, glad you found the home movie entertaining,
thanks for watching
Joy to watch as usual
Great video buddy keep them coming.👍
Thank you Scott, good to know you liked the home movie 🎥
That automated voice gets my blood pressure going. It's always something urgent when you hear one of those voices.
Thanks so much for stopping by and watching the show today Andrew.
I love your videos and videos love you love love you and your videos love you love love you and your videos love you love love you 😘
Well, how do you really feel about them...LOL Thank you so
much for the very nice comment, very much appreciated and
glad you enjoy them
Love it when some one enjoys and knows their job makes the final job better.
Why not lostern the crude under the tye's we call them sleepers in the UK and vaccume it out.
I was just about to make a comparison with letsdig18 but you just beat me to it.
Thanks for the entertaining and info and the video.
Thanks for the lesson. This must be your new camera, like it.
Your welcome Barry, yep got a Go Pro, big difference from phone! Appreciate your watching sir 👍
I would imagine that this could be done with a ballast cleaner. But it wouldn’t be as much fun. 😊
Sure would speed up things if we could get one in George, being
that we are not connected with any other rail road has been a blessing in some ways and a huge curse in others. If we were connected we could have gotten cleaners and rail grinders in and
saved us a ton of maintenance issues over the years, but it is what it is. Being connected would have saved them HUGE dollars in
getting all 3 locos in plus the other rolling stock, which all had
to be trucked in, and that was major dollars to make that happen
love that digger! would love a chance to run it for a few hours.
Glad you enjoyed the video, appreciate your watching tonight.
Interesting operation Dave 🚂🚂🚂
Thanks Tom, glad you liked the home movie 🎥
Love it! Been hoping you would make a video about cribbing.
Excellent Ross, really thank you for sending that comment, was
kinda worried bout it being so long didn't know how that would
go over. Appreciate your watching. Got a GoPro and just learning
how use it, but really nice to be able to clamp it on and keep
my hands free, plus much better stabilization
Cribbing ...I like the sound of that lol
Yea it fun to do to. Like to take track that is messed up and make it pretty. Thanks David, appreciate your watching 👍
Thank you for posting
Your welcome William, glad you enjoyed it 🌝
Sorry I missed it last week !!
Well at least you caught it now Charlie, thanks for watching sir,
hope you got your notifications turned on, lot more good vids
coming up for you real soon
Imagine that back in the day, men would have to use pickaxes and shovels to do the work that you do with your machine. Back Breaking Work indeed 💪👷
Gotta love hydraulics! Yep that how they did it, wasn't too many
fat guys like me that worked those gangs....LOL Thanks for watching
@@ccrx6700 you're welcome sir and thanks for vidjaying for us to be able to see the normally unseen 😀
Finished changing some switch ties today and had to do some cribbing on the turnout. Tamper is down so had to break out the jitterbug to tamp the ties up.
Awesome Michael, I can't crib a turnout with this bucket, it
just too long and flat. Jitterbugs good only for young guys with
strong backs!!! But jack the track to grade you want and those
things do a very good job in keeping track surface to grade. Secret
is to angle them in and do all the tie, not just under the rail, but I"m
sure you are well aware of that!
Railroading 😊
Thanks for watching my friend. Question: got a huge white oak here by the house. Last year it had leaves then we got a hard frost,
killed all the leaves for the year on it. Now this year all the oaks around it have new leaves,, but this one doesn't have any new
leaves. It an immense tree. How long can a tree survive without
having leaves? I'm clueless. this tree at base prob 4 foot in
diameter. Can a tree still live without leaves? Golly would I hate
to see this one die.
you make it look easy
Thanks David, guess I done it a time or 2. Appreciate your watching 😊
@@ccrx6700 you keep the train running and the track looking great, how do you find time to keep your place looking so good and get a nap in on saturday
@@davidhuber9418 lol, don't have a clue David, my mom says I been busy since the day I was born 😉
Gosh. You get to operate a lot of cool equipment. I love running heavy equipment. Maybe I should try to get into the railroad profession. I’m no spring chicken. Mid 30s. I’ve done everything from being a certified welder to running heavy equipment to working in a credit and lending department in the financial field. Do you think Railroads would be interested in hiring someone like me or would they want a younger person to train up?
Is it called gravel, or ballast or both , lol. Nice 👍 thanks BigAl thanks California.
Al its called grave at the quarry and ballast when we put it
in the track, go figure that one out. Thanks for watching
Interesting is there anything you can do wow cool job you have
Nice to hear you enjoyed Daniel. I do get to be involved in a lot
of different aspects of this operation here, it's nice, a lot of variety.
My dad always said, variety is the spice of life. Appreciate your
watching today my friend.
Thanks for letting us watch. That coal-packed ballast looks hard. I wonder if it has any fuel value.
Is the crew of each train required to obtain verbal permission by radio from both of the on-site maintenance-of-way persons before entering your work limits?
Is it safe to run a train slowly across a short section of track that has been cribbed-out but not yet filled in with new ballast by the regulator, or must it be refilled to provide stability?
Harold, some really excellent questions there sir. I've suggested
trying to find some way to reclaim the coal and clean and re use the ballast, but so far no good answers.
After a train passes, I give them a "red" track, so they are not
allowed to leave a portal until I give them back a "green" track,
that way train and maintenance are always safe.
I have run trains over skeleton track (no ballast in the cribs), however you have to be careful where you can do this at. Mostly it
can happen on tangent or low degree curves like 2 or 3 percent
and it's ALWAYS on a slow order of 10 MPH or less.
This is an 11 degree curve on a 2.5% grade so ballast will get
filled in before a train can pass.
@@ccrx6700
Thanks for responding.
@@haroldsmith45302 👍
Good vid good quality
Thanks glad you enjoyed 😊
Hello my friend, well, you almost got in front of the camera. At 9:10, 13:36 and 15:08. Maybe you should consider turning the camera towards yourself when you tell everyone to “have a good day “ at the end of your video. Love the videos.
Will give that some consideration Charles. Glad you are liking the home movies sir 🎥
I bet you’re a Fun guy to talk to at a family or friend get together. The number of stories is endless.
Well perhaps, as long as we talkin railroadin!!! LOL Thank you very
much for watching Ken, appreciate that
Hai sir.
I am your friend Thomaskutty from India.. ❤️
Nice to meet you Thomaskutty. So glad to have you
with us on the channel my friend.
Thanks
Your welcome. We do appreciate your writing in and for
watching the home movie my friend.
Would a hi-rail vacuum loading truck work in this setup? It maybe easier to direct around and get a more complete cleaning? It may also be able to clean the fines off the ballast (into separate compartments in the truck,) so the ballast could be reused.
Very good question. We tried the vac truck for sucking up mud spots
and it took them forever, they had to use an air wand to try and
break up the mud, a long slow process that wasn't worth the money spent. However once I get the heavy stuff cribbed out it would be
very beneficial if they could follow me and do their thing. But
I haven't gotten anyone to listen to that advice yet. Thanks for
writing in and watching the video.
My inner 8 year old is very satisfied that this video exists.
Glad you could come out and play in the dirt with us today!
Just wondering if you ever tried clearing out under the near rail first to break it loose and then clear under the far rail depositing away from the far rail. As soon as you pull under the middle toward you part may roll out under the near rail so there’s less cleaning due to the center still being compacted. Just curious whether it would work any better for you since your closed time is so limited.
Yes I have Kevin and good thinking on your part sir! And, that's pretty
much how you describe is how I've been doing it lately. Helps also
in keeping the material from getting in my track, I hate that
crunching of the material as it gets caught up in the excavator sprocket. Thanks for writing in and watching today my friend.
It's like taking a teaspoonful and swinging all the way out to dump it - teaspoonful by teaspoonful. Better to have a box sitting between the rails: swing about a foot or so to dump each teaspoon in the box, drag the box along the rails and lift+dump it when full. Maybe even a box on wheels riding on the rails which tilts over to alternate sides to dump. Economy of movements, as in surgery.
Be glad i'm not using a banana bucket, those hold bout half the amount of material
Since Dave mentioned him, watching letsdig18 really shows how he emphasizes speed and movement efficiency. I'm always impressed watching how fast Chris operates his excavator and skid steer. He's really moving!
I'm not sure if a bin on the tracks would help cribbing or not, as it's another thing to move. Maybe an excavator with a faster swing speed would help?
Most interesting :-)
Thanks Colin, glad you liked it 👍
Does disposing of cribbed stone alongside ROW add to drainage issues...you seem to move drainsge issues from rail center to outside shoulders....
Very good question Donald. Shoulda explained that in vid, but just
didn't think about it. The side I'm working on I'm sloping away from
track so water runs off well. Once I'm done with this curve, then I will jump over to other side and grade that so it has a nice slope
away from track also
You make the job look easy. I’m sure it took years to master.
Thank you David, guess I done it a time or 2 before 😄 appreciate your watching
Your in Curve 25...looking west from the right view...looking left is east...
That is correct sir
Your very welcome
No I don't work towboats I'm a off road dump truck and I operate a CS563 roller, thanks for asking
Those off road dump trucks can beat you to death can't they? I
seen them running here at the prep plant, seems like a pretty
bouncy ride. My son has an excavation company and he has
had rollers on jobs, I hate running them, they scare me. He always wanted me to run that vibrator roller way to close to the edge for my comfort
Yeah I'm kinda used to the bumps on the haul road I love my job and rolling too,I get to watch the trains in this area, I like watching trains in PA.
Couple of questions here
1 how long before you have to crib this corner again?
2 ever consider using concrete ties? as they take less ties per mile and would most likely last longer than wood ties
This curve has never had ballast rehabilitation since it was new
in 1977. So hopefully we will get another 40 years out of it, by then
I'll be 107 so probably won't care by then...lol
I cannot tamp concrete ties. Wood are 7 inches thick, concrete 9 inches thick. My old tamper has limit switches which only allow
the work heads to drop 2 or so inches below the bottom of a wood
tie. To tamp concrete I would have to change the position of 4 limit
switches by crawling under the tamper and readjusting all 4 switches, a total pain to do. If I had a Jupiter system on the tamper
then I could simply toggle between concrete and ties, but that upgrade costs bout 100 grand, so likely ain't gonna happen soon. So we really have to stick with all wood, gonna make a distant
future vid and explain all that in much greater detail cause so many others have asked the same question, there's a lot more involved than this explanation can cover for now.
I love all your videos and it appears that your railroad needs a lot of track maintenance. Why don’t you guys use concrete ties on some sections of your railroad. Wouldn’t they hold up longer then wooden ties? Just wondering, Thanks.
Thank you Anthony, glad you are enjoying and appreciate your
nice comment. Yes we do need a lot of good maintenance and
for the past several years our old owners were in huge cost cutting mode. Our new owners see how valuable it is to maintain their
transportation system and have begun putting a lot of money
in our track, which is a very good thing. Here's a web page that
talks about concrete and wood ties you may find interesting
www.rtands.com/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/new-paradigm-design-concrete-crossties/
Thanks for having the camera attached to the equipment so we can see you work. Do you ever remove the unwanted cribbings or do you just keep pushing it away from the track?
Your welcome Peter, i'm in a learning curve with this new camera. I had suggested getting some kind of sifter bucket to try and reclaim some of the ballast, but no one seems interested, so it just gets shoved off the side
It gets graded in the UK and reused.
another thought.... a custom bucket. have you thought about a unity bucket? so you have two of them soup spoons together with a tie-space in between so you can do to beds at once?
Oh my. that would be a challenge to my skills what little they are
now!! But you're always thinking ahead my friend
@@ccrx6700 Ahh thinking. those pesky headaches with pictures.
@@northstar2007 Don't feel bad bout that, I get that too, lol
@@ccrx6700 Ohhhh I never feel bad. Bad likes being felt and I'm not one to start anything I cant finish
@@northstar2007 i laughed at that one, but on a serious note, you are soooo right that bad likes to be felt.
Say, Dave... speaking of curves, if you had to replace the rails of a particular curve, would the rails come to you pre-curved for whatever radius you needed, or do they come to you straight and track workers force the bend as required? Thanks, and again, great videos!
Excellent question, new rails are all straight, then curved when imstalled with lining bars and muscle work. There is some transit track that is pre curved for very sharp degree curves
@@ccrx6700 Aha! I've wondered about! I accidentally stumbled on the comment question....😊
@@raybin6873 Ray, my dad always said, seek and ye shall find 😉
@@ccrx6700 Your dad must have known mine. 😉 Mine would say, " here's a book, look it up." But hopefully yours didn't have a sneaky streak and give you the books written in German or Russian. 😊
@@gravelydon7072 lol, nope they were written in Swedish 😄
Do you have access to the cost study done back in the day comparing gondola bottom cars requiring a rotary dumper vs hopper bottom cars? An ongoing benefit of gondola bottom cars is reduction of coal fines plugging up the space between the ties which should reduce the amount of cribbing maintenance over the years and increase the service life of the ties as well as the slightly higher capacity of the gondola bottom cars. Could you do a PowerPoint presentation to show capital costs and predicted maintenance costs for a rail system for both kinds of cars using the original 50 year old figures then update it to show if those mid-70s maintenance predictions are correct?
Yes Curtis that sure would have made a difference over the
years, but bottom discharge is what the founding fathers paid for
so we stuck with it, most likely was a lot cheaper initially to
buy back then and US Steel probably figured they would eventually
sell the place so why spend the extra upfront money. Thanks for watching
so fun
Quicker with a shovel !
Would love to have you come out and have at it! LOL We'll have a contest, you with a shovel and me with the excavator. You might
beat me for a few ties, but wonder if you or anyone could last all
day doing that, I sure do appreciate hydraulics being 67 years old!
Can't do that manual work anymore like in the olden days. Thanks
for watching David
Dave, what railroad do you work for and where is this line that you are working on? Outside of what city and in what state? Love your videos very informative
We're on the Cumberland Mine RR located near Kirby, Pa. bout an
hour south of Pittsburgh. Nice to hear you enjoy the videos Edward,
thank you.
So when talking curves, are there left and right curves...Does reference start at MP0...Curve 25 is a righhand as referenced from MP0...???
Excellent question! Curves begin number at prep plant to harbor, so
curve 25 is the 25th curve from the plant EB. A curve is referred to as
a right or left hand curve depending on which way you are going
into it! So coming from the mine to harbor 25 would be a right hand
curve, but coming from the harbor to mine it would be called a left
hand curve.
Dave ! I found ya ! For some reason YT stopped recommending you and I had to search for your channel.....couldn't recall the exact name "ccrx 6700"!
YEP ! you got the touch on that machine. NICE! What all did I miss in the derailment? I'll hit your "Home Page" to find out.
Can you show us how the "JOY" stick works....the track sticks looks easy...but that "JOY" stick looks like you also got some triggers or sumptin?
Darn utube anyway.... gonna email them right away and get things
straightened out, we just can't be putting up with this nonsense....LOL Haven't put up any vids yet on derailment, got bout 2 or so more vids to go before that series starts
Nice video. You're having a good day, we can tell. Does it matter from which side you do this? I mean on curves, is there a better side to do it from the high rail like you're doing here? Just a curious question.
Mike thanks and glad you enjoyed and excellent question sir! I usually work from the low side, however on this side cause wanted to get rid of all the excess ballast on high side, plus there a lot of room.on this side to park my.machine away from the track at night. But it really doesnt matter which side work from,final results are same
Almost like kid playing in sand box. Looks like fun. But hours and hours get old I bet. Can a train cross before you fill in ?
Yep and the best part is they buy the toys and pay me to play
with them....LOL Depends on location whether I can run a train
across skeleton track (what it's called with the empty cribs). If
it's on a hill or on a sharp degree curve I will not do it. If it's
on tangent track with no hills or a lessor degree curve I will, but
it will definitely be on a slow order and a No Braking order. Great question you asked Ronald and thanks for stopping by and
watching today my friend.
My friend has come into my field. Hello Dave long time no hear. Dave look back in history and find the answer to why the outside balaless.
Great to see you Michael, hope you are doing well. Thank you so much
for stopping by and checking out the cribbing ties video my friend.
That bucket looks like Mike Simon's (Dirt Perfect) custom made utility trenching bucket.
Probably would make a pretty good trenching bucket for sure,
never used it for that, but will definitely keep that idea in mind!
Thanks for the heads up John
@@ccrx6700 He posted a video of him using it to put in 2 800' trenches for electric and water lines up the side of a hill this past Sunday. Mind you the excavator it is attached to is somewhat larger then your Kubota.
@@SandBoxJohn thanks will try to look it up
If you had rotary dumper cars, there wouldn't be any problems with coal fines falling on the tracks. But I guess that would be too expensive at this stage?
You are certainly correct, if that had been original design it sure would have saved us countless hours of work and lots money spent on track and car maintenance. These bottom dump hoppers require constant maintenance, almost daily they take a car out to fix doors
Can you not remove the old ballast with high pressure water canon that will both remove the old ballast and clean the coal off?
Probably, but then we'd have to have a loco with us and a
water tank car.... not sure how environmental would like that being
there is a small stream nearby. Appreciate your watching Marius
is there a wood from trees that grow in swamps and water (such as mangroves) that might make water-resistant ties?
Shockingly at one time redwood was a preferred wood for rail ties due to its water, insect, and fire resistance (more important in the steam era when cinders would cause tie fires). Nowadays ties are mixed hardwood treated with creosote or other preservatives
Robin they do make composite ties however they are very expensivr and require pre drilling for spike or lag holes, RR's dont generally use them for those reasons except for certain specialty applications
Cypress trees made excellent ties. When the FEC abandoned their Homestead branch there were still Cypress tree ties from 1936 in use. That put them at over 50 years old and still holding.
Dave will you let a train run over that part with no rock in between the ties? And if so how many ties 10 ,20, or more. I was watching a stream Locomotive video the other day and the old engineer said to the firemen can you believe they pay us to do this
Not on that section, it a pretty sharp degree curve on a 2.5% grade,
on tangent track I have ran over skeleton track for up to 2 rail lengths (40) feet on a slow order. Thank you for watching and
your question
"LetsDig6700!! Less Mud, More Coal!!!"
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I dig this video. very informative! does your mini-ex have highrail capacity?
Ha ha, i dig it too 😄 the machine does not have have hi rail capacity, but it sure would be nice if it did