[3N] If You Like Railroad Dramas, This Is for You! Hull - Comer, GA, 08/20/2016 ©mbmars01
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2016
- Warning! This is a complex story - made by CSX. It plays on the central section of the Abbeville Subdivision. You should really take the time to watch it completely. Otherwise you won't understand the story line. Well, I didn't understand it either and I spent 6 hours live on the line, trying to get a clue. Anyway, you'll see 6 trains: Manifests Q667-19 and Q675-19, autoracks Q210-19 and Q211-18, and coal trains E320-17 and U740-19. [© 2016 MBMARS Productions. Exclusive rights for UA-cam channel "mbmars01" only.]
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I'm a retired 40-year CSX Locomotive Engineer. I was a former Conrail employee, this so-called drama in this video is everyday business on today's CSX. The complete operation is a cluster you know what. We use to have a saying about CSX management "Screw up, move up". It's gotten worse now that lawyers are controlling everything.
It is all perspective. Railfanning with drama provides an interesting view of how the railroad works. Given the parameters, the dispatcher worked it out quite efficiently. Thanks to your coverage, I had a pretty good seat for the event.
I agree and you're very welcome. I can imagine that you had a comfortable seat! I sat in the first line of events, though :)
Things break, priorities change, crews get short on time...just another day on the railroad. Interesting how he moved his traffic around but he got the job done in the end. Liked the commentary, and your choice of shots as well. Very enjoyable! Thanks!
Train drama is like watching oil paint to dry. But I still keep watching it.
Thought my girls public hair had landed next to your name. Ha that's good.
@ua-cam.com/users/roboftherock I agree! Sorry, I still can't reply to your comments. Please post on youtube and not google+ if that's what you typically do.
No, I just tried. It didn't work. The error message is "comment failed to post". I have not received any reasonable answer from youtube why this happens with some users.
Its telling me "comment failed to post" sometimes
mbmars01
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Peter Singh Q
Another really good video! epic problems on that line..enjoyed the whole thing..keep up the great stuff!
Cool, thank you! Keep watching :)
Expertly done MB! You captured the true essence of railroad drama. Moving huge amounts of freight over a single track with all sorts of rules and regs to follow. Yet it gets done and done right!
Thank you! Yes, it was a bit confusing, but finally it always works out - somehow :)
Your videos are top-notch great angles, clean shots, excellent editing, along with pertinent information with scanner audio and on screen graphics. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much. I'm particularly happy if people who are experts in the field like the videos.
@ua-cam.com/users/jobrowne561 Hope you read this. Can't reply to your comment. - Yes, typically it is. Occasionally one or the other train is longer than any siding along the line, but this is potentially troublesome. So, the typical maximum train length is 10,000 ft. The ore train you mentioned has an impressive length. How many engines are needed?
The train was 7353 metres long hauling 682 ore cars 99,734 tonnes of iron ore. They used 8 x AC6000 spaced 2 locos, 168 ore cars, 2 locos, 168 ore cars, 2 locos, 168 ore cars,1 loco, 178 ore cars plus 1 loco at the end. All locos were remotely controlled from the lead engine.
Jo Browne
This is just awesome. I really like short trains most, but this train must just look impressive, in particular, in the wide open space of which Australia has so much! For future communication, please check your channel settings. I could not comment to your original post, error message "comment failed post". I have contacted youtube previously, because I already had another "case". Although other users complain as well, nobody seems to know what the issue is. Maybe a google+ thing? Or privacy settings? Idk.
I have not had this trouble before. It might be a Google problem or once in a while bug.
Jo Browne
I guess, it's a google+ problem.
Sometimes reloading the page will allow posting.
A frustrating day for you turned into one of the more interesting railfan videos I've seen lately thanks to your careful storytelling. A very insightful video for us less than hardcore railfan types!
Thank you very much! I agree, it was somewhat frustrating, but also interesting. I'm glad the video came out well and reflects in its condensed form the action on this special day on this line.
For those of us who have spent many hundreds of hours on this magnificent railway in Train Simulator (one of the early Microsoft Train simulator routes, it's still a pleasure in Train Simulator) and it's various variations, this movie is a real gem. We've all been here many times before !!!! Thanks for a great movie.
Not sure your comment refers to this video (sounds more like Marias Pass?), but if so: I'm happy you like it!
Thanks for the video. I never thought I would see a huge train move forward then have to back into a siding has this happen before. CSX has problems at times. I appreciate your work.
Yeah, it's unusual, but it occasionally happens for different reasons.
I can relate. Sort of. Back in the day, I worked for the defunct SP. Houston was the terminal. I worked the 'local' from Houston to my turn around, Hearne. The timetable scheduled us to leave Inglewood Yard Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5 A.M. More often than not, I was not called out until 5 P.M. and after picking up the engine and caboose at Hardy Street and picking up our train at Inglewood, we might not leave until some five hours later. The Hog Law was sixteen hours then and there were times when we tied up in the side track at Bryan, twenty miles from our destination. That would be late 60's/early 70's.
Thanks for sharing this story. I think, Union Pacific has inherited these issues in Houston and still struggles to get things better scheduled and organized there. Here, the situation has relaxed after CSX implemented all those recent changes. Knuckles don't break anymore as often as they used to and emergencies are rare. Traffic has become more fluent.
Your trains are MASSIVE compared with ours in the UK!
What train do you have in the UK
The signs of trouble have been visible of the many problems at CSX for quite sometime and now it seems thats all about to come to a head,replacements crews or not. Great video my friend,thanks for the share!
Well, there are people who find this way of operating a railroad "normal", which worries me somewhat. My (railfanning) experiences with BNSF and UP are quite different. So, fortunately, there are ways of running a railroad with all its intricate complexities efficiently. We have to wait and see which route CSX is gonna take. Of course, I hope it all works out well at the end... Thanks for watching!
I sit here in at my computer in Milton Keynes in England (between Birmingham and London) watching your videos utterly fascinated. I used to be a driver on the route from Rugby to London on electric units. The largest freights we ever see are our intermodal services which load to about 30 or 40 trucks, usually hauled by either single Class 66 or Class 70. The 66 is our specially built version of your EMD JT42CWR model while the 70 is a GE model PH37ACmi. They really are weedy little things compared to the monster trains you have there ! I only found your channel quite recently and I have to say I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you for all the hard work you put into them.
Thanks very much! I really appreciate your feedback; it helps keeping motivation up and this channel alive :) Also thanks for your little story. In fact, I recently read an article in our Trains magazine about your Class 66s and 70s. Cool engines that have served their customers well!
more entertaining than the fall cbs line up
Good point :)
thats not saying much.
Jay Aeecee it is
I'd watch this over another season of NCIS, for sure.
Am I the only one who misses cabooses??
nope!
azzir325 I miss caboose too
azzir325 ... no. a fred juat isnt the same.
Kailloren 22 years
Nope. I think they should have a National Caboose Day where every train should have to pull a Caboose just to prove they really use to exists.
I am a retired control center operator from a major North American crude oil pipeline, and I got most of this ... enjoyed it a lot. Too bad I didn't see the final outcome!!
I'm sure you understood it right and I'm glad you liked it. Eventually, some trains tied down as crews had lawed out and recrews were not immediately available, but overall normal operations resumed in the hours thereafter.
I really enjoy your work. I love to watch your videos for hours
Many thanks! It's great you like watching them.
I used to do a lot of work for Canadian Pacific Rail. My work had to do with their computers and logistics. Those guys working the tracks really earn their pay. These guys on the ground are the ones keeping railways running from sea to shining sea
did you help implement that new logistics that your new executive officer brought in? i see these cp trains run FMR and theyre sooo overworked. guys like you saved that company. cp crews generally seem happy but boy do they get worked
@@g.k.32
Were noobs from roblox
former gandi dancer...……... you betch'ya
Great shots my friend. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you like it.
I gave up watching the grass grow, to watch this. What a good thing.!!! DA !!!
Well! What can I say. I have been a railway / railroad fan all my life, but I never seen anything as awesome as this. We rarely have or hear of dramas such as this in the U.K. Great video footage though! Thanks for sharing and definitely worth watching. Best wishes. C.Davenport (Aberdeen) N.E. Scotland U.K.
Thank you very much! I'm happy you enjoyed following this little drama that unfolded unexpectedly on that day. Fortunately, it's not always like this, but it was interesting to watch how they tried to disentangle the chaos they had created.
Beautifully done ! What patience and what a camera ! Thanks !
Many thanks! Glad you like it!
I've loved TWAINS since I was a little boy.
That was so good I had to go back and watch it all again.
Great! One understands the complex story much better anyways when watching it again :)
My uncle was a switchman for Southern Pacific Railroad for 40 years. He hated to ride in cabooses. It was a sudden jerk when it got started rolling and a big jerk when it stopped. He used to say if you weren't ready for it, it would knock you off your feet or off your seat. Every coupling takes up slack when the train moves either forward or backwards. 100 rail cars taking up about a 10 inch slack space each equals one hell of a jerk at the back. This slack is necessary for the train to start pulling one car at a time so the first hitch doesn't snap off.
how tomorrow moves... cuz it ain't movin' today...
I have already used a very similar skit in an earlier video lol.
Good one. Love it
Quality in Motion You mean
16 is a very powerful locomotive strong up to power a small city.
4 MILES OF TRAINS, shalring 3 MILES OF TRACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My gosh, what a cluster of trains, trains and more trains!
Yes, it was quite crowded in this area on that day.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like it was a long day. I used to live in Lawrenceville, GA about two miles from where this line passes Briscoe field. Had some great fun chasing trains between Lawrenceville and Winder, and sometimes on to Bogart.
Nice! Chasing trains in that area isn't simple (anymore - maybe it was easier at earlier times). Winder has sometimes very bad traffic and therefore I prefer to stay more on the section eastern of Winder.
Typically a road would parallel a track; when the road gets upgraded, many times part of the road continues to be in use, many times other parts are cut off or dead ended. GA Hwy 17 from Livonia (I-85 exit) to Toccoa no longer closely parallels the track from Toccoa to Elberton but you have four lanes not two.
Good job explaining all that. Brings back some memories during my time on the CSX. We never got such new power, though.
You've got a heckuva telephoto on that zoom. Really compresses the train.
Thanks for posting.
Thank you, I'm glad I didn't mess it up. As an outsider not affiliated with any railroad, I'm not entirely able to judge what is considered a "typical operation" and when it becomes "unusual".
#16 has an AWESOME horn! 😀
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Thumbs up to you. Great video! Thank you. I don't think I could have taken the whole 6 hours myself.
Thank you. I didn't intend to do so either, but then I was curious how they would manage to disentangle this chaos :)
You have some excellent videos. I am subscribed now. You are my new favorite mood videos while I'm in my train room !! Thanks
That's awesome. Thanks for watching!
Watching these giant majestical trains move is curiously therapeutic!......I feel better already! ( I live in the UK where trains are 5 feet long and pass by in 10 seconds)....great vid; thanks.
Lol, 5 feet... that's funny. You're welcome! Keep watching :)
Here in the USA & Canada the train length varying from 6,000 to 16,000 ft depend on the length of the siding.
I love your videos, but I have just a small complaint (or suggestion, if you wish). Your commentary tags don't stay up long enough to read. Great stuff, but it's a pain in the ass to have to pause, go back, find, then freeze and read. How about leaving them up a bit longer to give us older folks a chance, eh?
Thanks,
Rich
Thanks for your suggestion. I know that this video contains a lot of such comments with information which to read is necessary to understand what's going on. The tags are visible for about 6.5 seconds which I always thought is long enough for just one sentence :)
I get so wrapped up watcing the video, I end up missing the tags ,and then have to go back. Great videos though!
delano62 As I said before, I have hardly any other option and strongly suggest to watch the videos on a reasonably sized screen. It's so much better anyway.
The rule for filmografers is they should read it twice then it is long enough.
J goes back 10 secs (arrows don't always work - depends if you've been changing the volume), K top pause and L to go forward 10 secs.
I am a train fan. I grew up beside the local goods yard but this is like watching paint dry.
Only heard bleeps until know. The whistle going on for the whole crossing of a street this close is amazing. Awesome
Lol, thanks!
just saw this - well done summarizing this and editorializing what is occurring to make it entertaining.
Thank you very much!
That dispatcher may just have a future as an air traffic controller! :D
This was awesome fun thanks!
Glad you liked it. Thank you.
Who could do without all that Graffiti? It's a Railroad tradition to have all that art work displayed.......
As a former Norfolk Southern employee this is a everyday thing with the long trains & especially the man getting a drawhead. I’ve re-crewed a train & never turned a wheel because of the shit storm going on. Thanks, great video
Many thanks! I know, it's often a mess, but this day seemed unusually crazy.
When the crew hits 12 hours, all movements stop if on the main. Sadly, have seen it happen too many times on Amtrak. When CSX does track work, almost all of the crews will go dead at some point.
You have good camera techniques and interesting shots.
Thank you :)
mbmars01 have you ever caught a vehicle vs train on video?
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kdkkeld
Awesome video. Its quaint to see wooden sleepers still used in some places... real old fashioned looking.
+FalconXE302 Thank you!
Wooden ties are much cheaper and easier to replace when damaged.
Don't know what it is but there's something about the design of these particular engines I just love. Still blows me away how much they can haul behind them.
I agree. Watching the locomotives and listening to their engines never gets old.
Thanks for the video. It's interesting to see what's going on in other parts of the world.Are trains limited in length due to siding size? The longest ore train I've seen was about 7,000 metres long (Just under 23,000 feet)
Must be pretty flat where that is. If you ran a train that long in Canada, you'd never get it across the road. It would break knuckles everywhere. Too many rolling hills.
#16 with a real bell, awesome!
Thinking they had major track damage, did a temp fix to get trains going, got a backlog of 6 trains, then had to jockey them all past the damage one at a time putting the others on sidings in somewhat complicated dance of sorts, NICE video !
Thanks! I'm happy you enjoyed it! It was a complex problem after all. There was no actual track damage. The major issue was the broken or pulled draw bar of one of the first trains at a location that was not easy to reach. It took a lot of time to get that fixed and the other trains started piling up...
Fine video, and thanks for your patience.
Robert
Thank you very much :)
Thumbs up as always! 🦃 🦃
Nice, thank you! Happy Thanksgiving!
mbmars01,thanks this old man in a wheel chair thanks you.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed watching the video.
Excellent videography. Kinda reminds me of the way Trains Magazine videos told a story. Nice job.
Many, many thanks. I really appreciate this comment, because I also like to read the stories in Trains.
Among other strong points I especially like the sound track! Great horn & bell sounds.
Yeah, I'm happy the sound came out that well.
Really enjoyed this ... just "GREAT" all around ! *right down down too the editing !!
Many thanks. Glad, you enjoyed.
Well, at least at 7:08, the conductor paid attention to the "Stop here on red" sign!
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry! Railfans included! LOL But you saved the for us and that is much appreciated. I always learn something from your videos, you know.
+seiscat1 Thank you. Something is always going wrong. Nice, glad you do!
Really great video!! Lots of trains in this video! And to be honest, 2016 was way better than 2021 because of some nice locomotives that I missed and no longer used.
Thanks! I know, those were the good old days... Who would have thought that things change so quickly in recent years.
With these 9000 foot behemoths, short of two miles, it takes the guy nearly 40 minutes to walk that distance. Adding the caboose back into the mix could be considered as a safety measure.
Geoffrey Lee what for??
generally a crew hauler will drive them along to do an air test and inspection, i used to be one. but if theres no access road then yeah the conductor and brakeman are wallllking
@@g.k.32 in the days of the 3 man crew, whoever took the caboose could wait until the train had pulled past him, slowly, and he would get on the caboose as it rolled out (leaving the yard, a carman usually did the set & release before they started pulling). They trained us on how to do that (getting on, getting off, trailing foot first). I guess they don't allow it anymore. Shortly before my time, they stopped allowing getting on top of cars for any reason, which made signal passing a challenge in some of the switching tracks. Many old bridges over major rivers were single track with no catwalks on the side, so if the train lost it's air and went into emergency, there was no way to get back to the problem to diagnose or fix it.
I understand that a crew, in most road situations, consists of the engineer and the foreman, and they are pushing for "engineer only." Some yard crews are one man with a radio controlled engine, called "RCO" (Routine Collision Occurrence). These days, by what I hear, ... well, I'm glad I got out of it before it all went to pot. A railroad executive should never be allowed to have any say until they have worked the ground for a minimum of 3 years, in my opinion.
@@infoanorexic yeah we have an RCL (remote controlled locomotive) guy in our terminal. basically drives around throwing switches and uses remote controls to move the train.
Looks a normal day on the CSX. The big drama is where is the top for car # 499125, the rolled steel transport car. Seems the CSX is making it's own drama trying to run too many trains on a single track mainline. Thanks for the video.
Yep, I have to agree. It just happens too frequently and there is nothing they do to prevent these emergencies from happening. I wouldn't say it's too many trains, it's more the length (and weight) of some trains that causes trouble. Thank you for watching!
We have the same problem up in Canada on the CN runs from Toronto to Halifax. The trains are running over11,000 feet on single lines through New Brunswick and the longest siding is around 9,900 feet long. CN has a secondary that's used mostly by VIA Rail, the passenger service, that at one point CN wanted to abandon but got the provincial government to hand over $ 125 million to rebuild it. Seems to be the same story all over.
Charles Damery
I'd guess so. I can't imagine that just CSX operates like that. I've seen similar things happening on Norfolk Southern lines as well. They simply have no "emergency plan" that tells them what to do if a train goes into emergency on the main line. This happened near the CSX depot in Athens. Why does it then need 4 hours to repair the drawbar? This is what I don't understand. The crews are mostly left to their own devices and this is inefficient.
Drawbar are a pretty heavy part of the car, so they'd need a crane or front end loader to take the weight and the crews didn't have one and it had to called in from the nearest depot and a car repair crew. It all takes time.
That's right, but it could be organized more efficiently I think. For example, I would have moved the first part of the train into the siding at Fowler and the engines of one of the trains in Hull could have shoved the second half behind the first part. Then the main line would have been free for the traffic again and the repair crews had all the time to do their repair job without pressure.
That fluster cluck is a classic example of the Right Hand not knowing what the Left Hand is doing .
It really ended up being like that.
Very nicely done video. I enjoyed watching it.
Thank you! Very much appreciated.
At last, I can see (@ 5:28), where the loco chime coms from… I thought it was somewhere on the roof
Me too, thanks for showing the location of the bell.
+nanba25 The Bells!!! The Bells!!! Those annoying Bloody Bells now I know how Quasimodo felt at Notre Dame.
I love the train bells my dad has a very nice brass one in his back yard from when he retired from the BN after working for them for 34 yrs.
They are bloody annoying the US is the only place that has them as far as I know. The same goes for that ridiculous Grade crossing warning 2 long, 1 short, one ridiculously long blast even if the train is going at a slow walking pace, once again only in the US is this done. Some countries don't warn at all, here in Australia just one blast is more than enough, sure we have crossing accidents/deaths but so does the US.
Don't like it, I guess you could not watch it maybe.
Great video! You must have been worn completely out after 6 hours of watching all this drama.
+Bear Cat Well, there was only action for a total of about an hour, basically that's what is shown in the video. The remaining time I did work, so the time wasn't wasted.
Blueangles
duh
What a mess. Too many trains for one singled line route. Still nice to see so many trains. Anyways, great job on the video. You just earned a subscriber.
Well, there aren't that many trains (maybe 20 a day) on this line. The problem is the distribution and overly long trains. Thank you!
Great video, thanks, and for using good filming technique.
Thanks, good you like it!
Makes you wonder how anything gets delivered at times.
It doesn't
Another reason many shippers have gone to trucks.
I wonder how heavy is that mutha?
@JAG timely and many times damaged... in 7 years of loading trucks/containers, without a doubt rail is the safer option in regards to product. Trucking companies pay out their nose in freight claims and run real tight margins for the chance to move the bulk of freight. Shout out to all the drivers and dock workers that actually take pride in their jobs and care of their cargo! Mistakes happen.
@JAG definitely safer over all with rail, but you're correct; rail disasters are by-and-large more catastrophic when things do go wrong. Completely agree, rail is incredibly slow and also limited. Most businesses don't own facilities with proper sidings for box cars and such to just pull up and load/offload. That's where trucks come in. Whether you have your goods shipped to a facility via train and they do the loading/offloading which you then have truckers drop off or receive or you go intermodal container and have truckers pick up/drop off at rail yards directly. Trucks are an essential piece of the system whether long haul or last few miles.
Why is this called a "Drama"? Isn't that being over Dramatic?
Now THAT was fun!
Definitely need more like this one, lol.
I'm honestly happier if the operations are smooth and there are no incidents. It has certainly improved recently on this line.
@@mbmars01 fxi
Man, Somebody is not having a good day. And this all started it off going down the road when you spotted Q667-19 then you have to turn around and finish working on a switches on Hull Siding. Then the malfunction gate. I'm not going no further than this. That's crazy. But other than that. No accidents which is a very good after all. Oh by the way, This is the first time I saw a tanker train with 6 wheel axles Carried by Q667-19. That's pretty cool. Keep up the good work.
Good you didn't continue writing down all the issues. Would have become a long list lol. Q667 and Q616 have often these 6-axle tankers in their consists. I kinda like them, too!
I loved the part where the crooked mayor got nailed! But really surprised they got Dirk Benedict to play the engineer for Q675-19. His acting was right on point, especially when challenged by Johnny Depp as the conductor of q210-19! Did they use CG for the fight scene?
They should have used a few more fusees though. . .
Haha, that's an interesting cineaste's review of the technical facts :)
6:36 longest horn blow I’ve ever heard
just a great job with the camera thank you to many trains for one track
Thank you! Nice that you like the video. You're right, it was a bit overcrowded that day.
WOW!
Im a "Fly Guy" by nature, with interest in rail roading on the side, but this was VERY intertaining , and WELL documented! I kept up pretty good, and don't blame you for bugging out, my head was begining to swim at that point also!🤣
Very good video, much enjoyed! Keep it up Bro I'm subbed!👍🏿😊
Cool, great you enjoyed this kinda bizarre episode from the railroad world :) Welcome to this channel!
I'm a 41 year retired CSX engineer. I watch this video, too much realism for me. My ulcers are acting up. I don't know how surivided 41 years.
Well, sometimes things just go terribly wrong. Fortunately, it's not always like this. It actually looks like everything works more efficient on this line nowadays.
@@mbmars01 Sure it does. CSX couldn't switch a carload of feces out between two empties. Worse railroad I've ever seen and I've seen a few.
Why do American train DRIVERS insist on calling themselves engineers, your fucking train drivers FFS.
@@johncodling9805 It's "engineer" because they drive an engine
@@harleck9119 So does every cunt who drives a car you fucking plonker
That was a long train and yes I miss cabooses also.
Man, what long trains. Thanks for the video
You're welcome!
I heard those similar situations happened on the BNSF this past summer. That's why I love listening to chatter on the main lines.
It looks like CSX needs to replace one of the bulbs
I allways wanted to know where that ding sound came from in freigth train thxxxxxx
Lol, that's funny :)
OMG the DRAMA! My heart could hardly handle it.
Lol, be careful :)
Re the comment below from azzir325, yes, I was going to say "what no caboose"? How come?
Very interesting look at the experiences of American railway crews, and the only people I envy, oh to be on one of these fabulous machines! Great programme, thanks for sharing the experience.
Great you enjoyed watching the video!
6:36
That’s one long horn
They have to blow it all the way through the intersection, by him going so slow it was extra long
about like watching grass grow, they need a new dispatcher , its easy to see why BN and UP are the prevailing rr's
got to love the Drama
Excellent recording, you made an interesting video of the situation! You don't mention that they'll be double tracking this area in the future?
Thank you! No, I don't think that's what they're gonna do.
7:35 when your crossing gives up.
I'ts arms got tired waiting too long for the train to show up. lol
I once watch a televised chess match between two chess dudes. It was at a venue with perhaps 2000 people watching. The two chess dudes were on stage and the chess board was on a big screen for the audience to see. One of the chess dude opened by moving rook something to field something other and apparently that was a highly unexpected move, because the entire audience went into a collective gasp - which made me wonder where the heck they found those people in the audience??
I've now watched 46 minutes of train video, figuring the word drama apparently has very different meanings?!?!
you and me both i did not get it and watched it completely i don't know what the drama was probably done for views
@@jays106 It's drama for railfans and people that understand about this subject. To me, watching this video was more or less like watching ants in a backyard...
I live 5 miles from this rail and this show. Wow!
Nice!
At 14:10, the reason for the rush to get a car carrying autorack consist thru is due to 2 things, unloading of the auto's and getting them onboard a RORO ship before the low tide and get it underway on the high sea's. Ships have deadlines also.
I would guess these are Mercedes out of Vance, Al. headed for the Port of Brunswick, GA.
Interesting to see such a low number 16 on that lead engine..
I didn't even think such a thing existed
I have seen CSX 31 lead
A number is a number
Oh the drama! 😆
Great Train Video...Thumbs Up! 👍👍👍
Very cool, thanks!
I worked for Union Pacific on the Desoto/ Chester/PeaRidge Subdivision as a locomotive engineer for 12 years from 1974-1986. I have to say that I had many a days like this were a engine cylinder failure, oil every were on a Ge U30 C . 1 of 4 shot craps and you were going up a 2% grade for 30 miles now with 3 units when you needed 4 for 50 cars of iron ore , 100ton hoppers. Running 2200 amps notch 8 sanders on just waiting for wheel slip and then the traction motors our so hot you can smell the armatures burning . You have to start throttling down have the head brakeman drop off and cut 25 cars to make up the hill. Set them out in a down hill siding 15 miles away set 5 hand brakes on the head end and 5 on the rear end . Run around your half of a train a go back and get the other cut of cars with a caboose and set that out on the main line. Set 5 hand brakes on the head end and 5 on the rear end. Run back into the siding and couple back into the cut of cars have the head brakeman release the 5 hand breaks on the head end and the rear brakeman release the 5 handbrakes on the rear end. After everyone is in the clear put the reverser in reverse and throttle in notch 1 with independent brake on and charge the cut of cars. Then you had to use the pea shooter because at that time we didn’t have dynamite breaking on the older units. Once you got stoped, call the dispatcher get permission to proceed thru the absolute red signal on the main line have the brakeman 104c the interlock switches, then he or she aboard’s the cut of cars reconnecting the train and releasing the 5 hand brakes and the rear brakeman releases the 5 rear hand brakes . Charge the brake pipe use the pea shooter get a minimum reduction and the poor rear end has to deal with the run in and out. I preferred to power brake down the hills with just a minimum reduction and keep the train stretched to provide a comfortable ride for the rear end. It also made my job easy in controlling the speed at 40 mph right there by just throttle up or down especially for the 22 mile 2% down grade with a absolute signal just around a curb. But in 1986 they had a $50,000 buy out and I took it and went to school and became a robotic engineer and controls programmer. So on your newer engines the touch screen that you use for the display and controls would be something that I would design and the PLC on the SD40-2 would be something that I would program, also I would design the electrical schematics and control wiring size and color. Now I didn’t do this on locomotives I’m just using it as a example what a robotic engineer does.
I am now disabled but for those of you that are young don’t think that the Railroad will be a lifelong job. Not to scare you but I been out of the programming business for 8 years. The future is the locomotive will operate by its self and a very low payed employee will sit were you are and just be there for a emergency.
From a remote location a engineer can operate 5 to 10 trains in the future everything you see here will see like the dispatchers control center. I am positive that I could do this. So if I could do this it is or has been already in the works or will be.
The best advice is to live within your means and get a technical degree online to prepare you for that day of reckoning.
When I became a robotic programmer my intentions were to make the job less stressful for the operators. But business took advantage of the automation and instead of having a operators of 25 to 50 people they were replaced by a $50,000.00 GE Fanuc rebuilt robots from the automobile industries. The 50 people were replaced by a control room operator with monitors and cctv. From my home I could remote into the plant and troubleshoot a failure or program a call to a maintenance company and display on a touch screen the SOP on how to remove and replace the part were it was located in the inventory. Now this was 8 years ago and the plant is a dark plant meaning that their is only a security guard on duty and minimum lighting. So when Trump tells you that he is going to bring jobs back he may bring a company back but it will be fully automated.
For the 21to 30 year olds this is going to be a real crisis because there will be very limited employment and unless we develop new jobs that require manual labor your working is in real jeopardy. I am sorry to have to tell you this but your jobs or not safe.
I really enjoyed the power of being a locomotive engineer but I just got burned out with being on call jumping from engineer to fireman and back and forth.
Along with the 12 hog law and 16to 20 hours getting back in to terminal.
I wish all you railroader much success but work all the miles you can. Also the Union has really failed the engineers on my old division were the conductor gets more mileage then engineer. Good luck to you all
Thanks for sharing your experiences! Automation has its pros and cons. I hope the future for the younger generations is not bad. There's always something one can do.
Why isn't the work crew on the ground right at the start of the video on both sides of the track giving the train a visual roll-by? I thought that was a requirement???
It is. I was a Conductor for IC and later CN rrs and we had to do it!! I lost my caboose during m y 38 yrs.
Very good camera work. Is it just me, I fail to find any"drama" here. (Yawn!) It sounded and appeared to be a typical goofy day.
For a railfan it's a drama, because he wants to see trains flying through. For the railroad it's merely another wasted day lol. Just a question of perspective...
@@mbmars01 I was actually waiting for a collision.. I think we have very different meanings for the word 'drama'..
I really enjoyed your work so much, I'm going to subscribe to your mailing list. I love US trains, but its nice to see what goes on, on the other side of the pond! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much! It's great to get such nice feedback :)
One of the wonderful creation by Earthians. I like this.
Lol. That's a funny way of saying it :)