I see them do single tie changes and track changes here on the Argentine district old Santa Fe Fueling Yard tracks. They use lots of little train machines here never seen this one before. Awesome video. I learned something new. Thanks for sharing with us Virtual.
This was FUN to watch! I enjoyed! So that's how they do it! Never even seen anything like it! The video has nice quality! Glad I peeped in since we are on national shelter in place & bored as heck! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for showing this video I was very interested to see the Plasser machines at work as my father and brother both worked 4 Plasser in Vienna Austria and Frankfurt Germany.
There was nothing wrong with the rail, a section of track on M1 was removed and replaced with a section with the correct tie spacing for the precast concrete panels that will be used to make up crosswalk to the new 32' platform Amtrak will use when stopping on M2, the joints were later welded.
I worked as an railroad electrical maintenance technician at Plasser American. That BDS100 is a ballast delivery system. It takes about a month to make one and a million dollars. The one to see is an Undercutter, a DynaCat, and my favorite a Geometry car XYZ. That was really good work, challenging, interesting.
I saw one of their grinder trains out here in Palmdale CA (high desert, north of L.A.) a little over a year ago. Seriously noisy and bright They also had 4 guys with hoses riding along to catch the brush fires from the sparks and occasionally on the old ties that would smolder a bit. Question: Are these cars driven intact to each location of a job or are they partly disassembled to be loaded on faster freight trains, then reassembled closer to the jobsite?
What kind of track defect caused them to cut into a section of ribbon rail? I did this procedure of using pre-spiked rail before at the site of a derailment. We used bolted rail sections now they do thermite welding
Awww magic, man... the sound of workmen ... & machinery. 😊😎 I've been up since 6.00... 11.00 now... fixin geetars & listenin to JCB reversin... Music is toooo distractin
Trains coming through on the other track seemed to be exceeding the recommended 10-15Mph safety warrant used when MOW crews are in place on same / adjacent tracks?
Should have got some boys from GWR to do it. 171 miles changed from board to standard in one weekend, mind you they didn't have to fill in forms in 1892.
Ha the entire system of railway lines in the Southern USA got the GWR beat: every bit of mainline track in the South converted from the myriad of gauges they used to have down there to standard gauge in 38 hours sometime after the Civil War.
The steel rail is electronically scanned for cracks, flaws or defects which can and do cause derailments. You may recall that back in the day the rails were fastened together with bolted joints. The standard length of a rail was 39 feet (1 foot less than the standard 40 foot boxcar). Back then if a defect in the steel was detected typically the section crew would simply unbolt the joints of the suspect rail and replace the entire 39 foot section .. but now with welded rail (which nearly eliminated all those joints) it made it necessary for crews to have to cut the defect out and insert a short piece. On a side note - I must say that for those of us who remember the standard jointed track I miss the clickity clack of the wheels as the train rolled over all those joints. In my mind that's how a train is supposed to sound. I can still hear it in my mind! Haha. ...
Nope, we're nerds. 😀 The woman on the platform most was probably Amy Cox, who runs the Amtrak station with Bob Cox. The rest were waiting for #4, the Southwest Chief.
I guess it's me, but that appears to be a similar idea to road repairs in the US. Just patch work, not replacing worn trackage. Why don't they replace wooden ties with concrete, like in Europe? I imagine that the European system, with total replacement/upgrade in one fell swoop, is cheaper by mile than anything the US is doing. It's not like I'm asking for welded joints, which take more man hours than track laying, by linear distance.
I watch many railway videos regarding lots of different countries and am always appalled at how long the works take and the poor productivity of the labour . And yes I do understand the importance of health and safety .
Why are YOU appalled? Is it your money? If you're aware of the safety aspect, then why are you appalled? I think you're just ignorant and dont really understand what you're watching.
The only thing that entered my mind was the opening scene of the first “Star Wars” movie. The Imperial Star Destroyer passing the camera as it pursued the Rebel ship.
@@TheNemosdaddy Evidently you do not pay taxes. This is a decades old phenomenon of one guy working while another half dozen watch. You must be way too young to comprehend that. BTW, you are welcome to come watch me work. I design and build all kinds of electronic devices for audio, video and remote controls of many different types. It would likely bore you. to tears. But as I make a nice living at it, I am doing just fine.
I pay taxes, been working for the railroad for 20+ years. I just don't find the need to go around criticizing how other people work. They're not just standing around. They all have different jobs. What does paying taxes have to do with BNSF putting in a panel rail? You don't pay their wages, so back off. It's not easy work, and as you stated you sit in a nice air conditioned office I bet. Never needing to take breaks because of 100+ degree heat indexes.
@@TheNemosdaddy You misunderstand me. In no way am I criticing the GUY doing the work. Just amused at the others "supervising. As for my working conditions, yes, sometimes I am in amn air conditined shop. Other times I ham in a sweltering roof top utility chamber working on 480 volt 3 phase feeders at around 2000 amps, othewr times I am in theengine room of a harbor cruise ship Rather hot and noisy. and a couple times I was riding a bridge crane actross a steel machining facility sitting on the traveling cross beam. You see, in my line of work ther is a LOT of variety. If the job requires two of us, then we are BOTH actively working until the job is done. Anyway, it was fun chatting with you. back to work now!
What an expensive and backward way to replace what is, a short peice of track. Over in the uk as bad as it is, would have laid about 1/2 a mile of track in the same time.
I can't reply to conditions in the UK. Here in the US the trains are massive; 1 mile plus is not uncommon. Plus passenger service. This is a main interstate line; Chicago to LA. I would rather have the maint. of way crews take the time to do it right. Not saying you don't in the UK but we may not be comparing like conditions.
In the UK, equipment is no where near as heavy in standard use. 2 light heavyweight US Hospital Cars weigh as much as one of your 4 unit DMU setups. A single loco can weigh that much in the USA.
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I see them do single tie changes and track changes here on the Argentine district old Santa Fe Fueling Yard tracks. They use lots of little train machines here never seen this one before. Awesome video. I learned something new. Thanks for sharing with us Virtual.
This was FUN to watch! I enjoyed! So that's how they do it! Never even seen anything like it! The video has nice quality! Glad I peeped in since we are on national shelter in place & bored as heck! Thanks for sharing!
I have no idea why I’m watching this.
Anyone else sit bye railroads and watch trains 247??
I find everything about the rail industry fascinating and enjoyable to watch.
Thank you for showing this video I was very interested to see the Plasser machines at work as my father and brother both worked 4 Plasser in Vienna Austria and Frankfurt Germany.
There was nothing wrong with the rail, a section of track on M1 was removed and replaced with a section with the correct tie spacing for the precast concrete panels that will be used to make up crosswalk to the new 32' platform Amtrak will use when stopping on M2, the joints were later welded.
I had the pleasure of riding Amtrak from Miami to penn station nyc what a ride
Also note that the ties are longer for those panels.
What a very large cut in time. That's really amazing if you think about! Thanks for catching this for us!!
Fun to watch. bovine's explanation helped me understand why the section was changed. Also more fun to see without the pixelation.
I love how they switch it out and like baaam, a train comes through lol.
The start of this video suddenly became a flashback to Spaceballs.
Nice job getting this on one of the cams! Also, did anyone else notice the rear headlight lowered on 7643 at 5:35
Wisconsin Railfanner also at 19:10 on 7665 it’s like that
They did a very good job on that...Good workers
"AMTRAK gets all the special treatment."-🤔📺🇺🇸🌐🚂🚄🚅🚝..
I've seen the loram machine in the nyc subway system. Usually track work is done on weekends and late nights.
Anyway cool video.
Always fascinating to watch how railroads keep the trains running.
True😊
Amazing Video 🇮🇳
I worked as an railroad electrical maintenance technician at Plasser American.
That BDS100 is a ballast delivery system. It takes about a month to make one and
a million dollars.
The one to see is an Undercutter, a DynaCat, and my favorite a Geometry car XYZ.
That was really good work, challenging, interesting.
I saw one of their grinder trains out here in Palmdale CA (high desert, north of L.A.) a little over a year ago. Seriously noisy and bright They also had 4 guys with hoses riding along to catch the brush fires from the sparks and occasionally on the old ties that would smolder a bit.
Question: Are these cars driven intact to each location of a job or are they partly disassembled to be loaded on faster freight trains, then reassembled closer to the jobsite?
You do very nice work. Consider Some educational descriptive narration, Thank you for your effort.
What kind of track defect caused them to cut into a section of ribbon rail? I did this procedure of using pre-spiked rail before at the site of a derailment. We used bolted rail sections now they do thermite welding
It was not a defect; please see the first comment posted for an explanation.
Full size snap track, Love it!!
Awww magic, man... the sound of workmen ... & machinery. 😊😎
I've been up since 6.00... 11.00 now... fixin geetars & listenin to JCB reversin...
Music is toooo distractin
New from Atlas: track sections for the 1:1 scale hobbyist!
The marketing: "Uniquely real. Uniquely expensive. (MoW crews not included.)"
Perfect for the modeler with a 2,000-mile long layout!
Trains coming through on the other track seemed to be exceeding the recommended 10-15Mph safety warrant used when MOW crews are in place on same / adjacent tracks?
Brain chill video :)
That equipment is amazing.
wow so many different horns on this video love it lol
Should have got some boys from GWR to do it. 171 miles changed from board to standard in one weekend, mind you they didn't have to fill in forms in 1892.
Ha the entire system of railway lines in the Southern USA got the GWR beat: every bit of mainline track in the South converted from the myriad of gauges they used to have down there to standard gauge in 38 hours sometime after the Civil War.
@@davidwhiting1761 maybe, yet look at the man power used.
Show Thermite welding next time. Thx. Great video.
Lawrence Wheeler I think there’s a video of a crew thermite welding at horseshoe curve
@@vsteinbacher ok, thxs. I've seen thermite welding vids., I just wanted to see them do it here.😎😉
Looks jointed
It would be nice to have some narrative along with this type of video.
great video bro
Been watching them build that train platform. Man, it took them a long time to pour the concrete. I wonder how much it cost for this job.
Why would they change a piece of track that small. I don’t know much about railroad track but if anybody could help with this?
The steel rail is electronically scanned for cracks, flaws or defects which can and do cause derailments. You may recall that back in the day the rails were fastened together with bolted joints. The standard length of a rail was 39 feet (1 foot less than the standard 40 foot boxcar). Back then if a defect in the steel was detected typically the section crew would simply unbolt the joints of the suspect rail and replace the entire 39 foot section .. but now with welded rail (which nearly eliminated all those joints) it made it necessary for crews to have to cut the defect out and insert a short piece.
On a side note - I must say that for those of us who remember the standard jointed track I miss the clickity clack of the wheels as the train rolled over all those joints. In my mind that's how a train is supposed to sound. I can still hear it in my mind! Haha.
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Did you know indian railways is make a bridge and pass the train upper within 4 to 5 hrs
No bell on the first train across the track 31:30?
16:50 War Bonnet !😎😎
What was the defect with this track section?
Thanks
9 workers? 26:56, there are 6 of them making sure that pole doesn't fall down. Tough work, must be union.
The final train in the video has to be the most cars I've ever seen in one train. Anyone count how many total?
I think 5 locos and 168 wagons give or take a few
You an almost feel the stress of the 6 workers on the platform are undergoing.
I could go for that kind of stress.
Peter O'Brien terrapuetic
i wanted to see how they welded it back together!
I see bolted joints on the closest ends.
14:40
Dad: Stop playing with your food.
Me: 15:30😂
The lady in the black at 20:40 the foreman?
She and her Husband are the Amtrak Stationmasters/Agents.
Nope, that's Amy Cox, a local running the station with her husband and some helpers.
No one mentions the random Warbonnet?
did anybody count how that last train, that was the 1st train, over the new track was? over 200 cars I'd bet
davep6977 ~167, not including the first and last sets of cars.
Boy the pace was S L O W...If they were replacing all the rail....it'll be done in the 31st century!
BNSF 5491 @ 09:27:24 has lots of fire damage
Seemed to attract some women, guess we're not such nerds after all!
Nope, we're nerds. 😀 The woman on the platform most was probably Amy Cox, who runs the Amtrak station with Bob Cox. The rest were waiting for #4, the Southwest Chief.
Just imagine all this going on on a small scale the next time you model railroaders do maintenance on your track.
I guess it's me, but that appears to be a similar idea to road repairs in the US. Just patch work, not replacing worn trackage. Why don't they replace wooden ties with concrete, like in Europe? I imagine that the European system, with total replacement/upgrade in one fell swoop, is cheaper by mile than anything the US is doing. It's not like I'm asking for welded joints, which take more man hours than track laying, by linear distance.
Yep - it's just you. Since you're an expert at rhetorical questions - why don't you go to work BNSF and fix everything for them?
I watch many railway videos regarding lots of different countries and am always appalled at how long the works take and the poor productivity of the labour . And yes I do understand the importance of health and safety .
Why are YOU appalled? Is it your money? If you're aware of the safety aspect, then why are you appalled? I think you're just ignorant and dont really understand what you're watching.
slamming that pann around
I got no idea why send the tamper unit pass before this track is swapped out, doesn't make sense.
I saw one of these as a kid and didn't know what it was.
Haah, jesus I'm going insane or maybe it's because I'm from europe, at 5:08 I thought he was going to fall of the sation.
Cool...
Where is this? It looks familiar LoL 😂
So is this why the trains have been going slow through here ?
Jon brown A temporary slow order will remain on until a specific amount of tonnage goes over the area... typically 350,000 tons...
The only thing that entered my mind was the opening scene of the first “Star Wars” movie. The Imperial Star Destroyer passing the camera as it pursued the Rebel ship.
LOL!
Or maybe Spaceballs where they exaggerated their length for the same purpose.
Looks like 5491 caught on fire recently.
Where on the video?
@@BarredCoast0 right around the 19:07 mark
@@TylersNeighborhoodGarage Thanks bro! My old eyes couldn't locate it.
I think its a shame that they don't have cabooses anymore!
there was,, it was the 2 engines in the rear lol
Always seen like no other trains came pass there. Only containers Trains runs on that line.
Andrew Crane Amtrak stopped at the end
It would have been funny if they put that train at 16:43 on the wrong track. Talk abut and "OH CHIT !" moment.
Yeah, real funny...
@@TheNemosdaddy I hope you did not think I waa being serious. WOW!
Oh look..it comes with its own jail at the back.
Yes, i noticed that too...it keeps the workers in line🤣🤣
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where is hard hat and steel toe shoes
What’s the Rush when you’re getting Paid 💰 by the hour.
That was so under whelming!
Was it bring your wife to work day or just train groupies lol
"probably a little bit of both."-😆🇺🇸🌐..
38:55 = six guys standing around supervising 1 guy on a skip loader.
Who cares? Is it any of your business? Maybe we should watch you at work. Bet you do the same thing.
@@TheNemosdaddy Evidently you do not pay taxes. This is a decades old phenomenon of one guy working while another half dozen watch. You must be way too young to comprehend that. BTW, you are welcome to come watch me work. I design and build all kinds of electronic devices for audio, video and remote controls of many different types. It would likely bore you. to tears. But as I make a nice living at it, I am doing just fine.
I pay taxes, been working for the railroad for 20+ years. I just don't find the need to go around criticizing how other people work. They're not just standing around. They all have different jobs. What does paying taxes have to do with BNSF putting in a panel rail? You don't pay their wages, so back off. It's not easy work, and as you stated you sit in a nice air conditioned office I bet. Never needing to take breaks because of 100+ degree heat indexes.
@@TheNemosdaddy You misunderstand me. In no way am I criticing the GUY doing the work. Just amused at the others "supervising. As for my working conditions, yes, sometimes I am in amn air conditined shop. Other times I ham in a sweltering roof top utility chamber working on 480 volt 3 phase feeders at around 2000 amps, othewr times I am in theengine room of a harbor cruise ship Rather hot and noisy. and a couple times I was riding a bridge crane actross a steel machining facility sitting on the traveling cross beam. You see, in my line of work ther is a LOT of variety. If the job requires two of us, then we are BOTH actively working until the job is done.
Anyway, it was fun chatting with you. back to work now!
Are you sure this isn't in the 1970s? Look at some of the (male, I think) hair styles.
really slow expensive stuff that doesn't DO much of anything
And the Parking Lot took 2 years.
Hi
What an expensive and backward way to replace what is, a short peice of track. Over in the uk as bad as it is, would have laid about 1/2 a mile of track in the same time.
I can't reply to conditions in the UK. Here in the US the trains are massive; 1 mile plus is not uncommon. Plus passenger service. This is a main interstate line; Chicago to LA. I would rather have the maint. of way crews take the time to do it right. Not saying you don't in the UK but we may not be comparing like conditions.
In the UK, equipment is no where near as heavy in standard use. 2 light heavyweight US Hospital Cars weigh as much as one of your 4 unit DMU setups. A single loco can weigh that much in the USA.
Unfortunately. Thats more chinese junk in most of those containers
No
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Sorry bud this way it may take ages, go to buy some German machines than you can make progress!!!🇳🇱
Boring!