[4K] Maryland Midland UBST Spills Stone! 

The part of the video showing the train leaving the quarry is a good demonstration of Harmonic Rock the often occurs around 15~18mph depending on the length of the car and rails. The cars near the locomotives are stabilized by the strain on the couplers which dampens the rocking of the cars. But as you go back through the train, the strain is less and the rocking is more pronounced. But that last car with no cars behind to help dampen the rocking is left to rock as much as it wants, hence it's wild rocking.

In some countries "lifting a wheels flange above the height of the top of the rail" is part of the definition of a derailment.

Love the way it just cuts across the road at Westminster, MD . A few great shots of progress there. So often you don't get a full shot showing how many wagons are on, but you surely delivered. ( also good that we only get the true loco sound and not any stupid music that wouldn't do it justice anyway.😅👍

Alaska Railroad would never let us fill our cars that full.

The last car doesn't only spill stones, the wheels are lifting-off from the (shitty) track when rocking. A derailment is a matter of time. Apart from this, the cars aren't loaded equally.

Legend has it that last car is still dumping stones to this day.

Awesome job! Thank you for your time and effort chasing the stone train. It’s not often anyone shows a train from start to finish. This has got to be one of the best train uploads on RU-vid!! Thank you!

It was a happy train. I saw it wagging it's tail. Shipper overloads every car to offset transportation costs.

This is the first time I saw any of your videos and I was amazed at the quality of your photography and all the beautiful scenery absolutely some of the best I've seen, just one video, and I have already subscribed. Thank You

Great catch of the Maryland Midland GEEPS working hard pulling that HEFTY consist of Rock Cars! Have to say they're very lucky that last car didn't go over bcuz that could've been a domino effect for other cars! I like how it ran right through the town of Westminister! I'm a BIG FAN of "STREET RUNNING" as well as of the colors of those GEEPS! Thanks again for sharing your videos with us along with your time and effort CP!

Great video!!! Loved it, thanks for sharing

Absolute great work...True rail therapy

best video I've seen in a long time! thank-you

Great to see some Carroll County railroading. Thanks for posting !

Very cool. Thanx for sharing!

Awesome sound and interesting service! Greetings!

2:57 Nobody: The clumsy one after the bar:

Fun video to watch, thanks. Subscribed.

Great footage, really enjoyed watching - I Liked & Subscribed 👍😎

This was really fun to watch a 3x!

The rear axle, last wheel, got some air, about an inch, with those low joints (cross level defects). GOOD TRACK!! Good for 20mph!! LOL That's like knocking the head off a beer before it is taken to the table, but in this case before it rolls across the country.

I am new to the channel. Great stuff!

Good job and good shots

Oh my! That was so exciting.

Nice catch. I sometimes do some work at the Lehigh Cement plant and catch a couple of engines switching cement covered hoppers around down at the bottom of the hill, but this was nice to see some of the spots I drive by, but never get to catch them at. What you saw where the last car launched some stone was the 14 (and later 28) mph harmonic oscillation that sets up with jointed track and the spring rates of the cars. The fact the track was worse than average, and the cars were loaded I'd suspect well above their max fill level which further raises the center of gravity exacerbating the oscillation problem, you almost caught a wreck on film. If they had started their acceleration out of the quarry 2 engine lengths sooner, they'd have likely been on the ground.

Thanks 🙏 for your video

Nice to see a couple of clean de-powered ‘45s. Too aggressive speed leaving the quarry and overloaded cars to boot. Great video!

The orange plague. Love the 45’s though. Classic look. Those close quarters and tight clearances in town just make the place seem inviting to me.

Favorite crossing has to be Westminster, Maryland. What a unique crossing! The White and the brick building seems inches away from the train 🚆. It would be a great layout on a small model railroad layout, IMHO

cool video and scenery ...

thank you for detail video

Spill is at 3:00

I like the red brick building. Ancient architecture is soooo neat.

The entire train was rockin ,talk about being over loaded wow !

Very good video!

Awesome video

OMG Did I see what I think I just saw ! ! ! I dont know if i'm going to be able to sleep at night anymore

Most all of the cars on this train are improperly loaded as not properly spread in the car. Hopefully they where not going to interchange. Quite a few even appear to be overweight. I see these type on the GNRR on a regular basis hauling marble.

I don't think it would have derailed but it sure was rocking.

I was on the wrong side 😣 great editing job! ✔

Nice K3LA horn! Sounds exactly like Winchester Western's 576. I'm surprised that the crossing where the stone spilled didn't have the crossing bells working.

Wow, that was cool!

I never realized how much travel a train car truck suspension actually has. They usually seem very stiff.

Welcome to the 4K gang!👌🏼

Classic example of harmonic rolling.

Rockin' and Rollin' RR style. I like it and hey, spreadin' a little grit on an icy road ain't all bad. Hey, is the rockin' and rollin' due to the road bed or the hopper suspension or both? What say you? It does appear that that last hopper was a bit too overloaded.

In Michael Angelis' voice: "Then there was trouble! The old truck wobbled and stone spilt everywhere!"

Gravel train is rockin’ it to an old track.

Did you notice he wasn't waving as he went by the first time?

You get a little good-bye toot. Nice!

Man, they sure do load those cars.

One of the locomotives looks like a former SP locomotive

The loader operator is at fault for overloading those cars

So dull waiting for a derail ?

Awesome Video 🌱🌱🇮🇳🌱🌱

How did that rock car spilled it’s stone

I am getting sea sick watching this train!

The wheels of the last wagon never left the rails .it would have to tilt a lot farther than that before contact was lost and the rear wagons are loaded with quarry dust not stone

Those cars were getting half an inch of air there at 2:55. Kinda dangerous

if you look closely, the last wheel of the last car, grabs a little air at the joint

That was one of those self-leveling/load limiting cars. They rock back and forth like that to either level the load or to kick off extra weight. They were really popular back in.......NEVER!!!

That train is awfully loud -- I mean, the screeching cars are louder than the diesel locomotive! Was that normal? Did the screeching come from the bearings, or were the flangs constantly hitting the rails? The way I've understood it, the flangs are only supposed to hit the rails at tighter "corners". Also, do trains over there constantly blare the horn? I live some 200 meters from tracks in Finland, and pretty much the only thing I hear is the diesel engine a couple of times per day. A train horn is heard maybe once a month. I think they only use it if there's someone or something on the tracks. Though, to be fair, the trains around here rarely carry stone, so I don't know how they would sound like under a really heavy load like that.

Harmonic Rockin!

I know exactly where that keymar bridge is, I had no idea it was operational.

Damn.. Those things are filled up too high.

Them SD40M-2 were painted in Lyons, Georgia on the Georgia Central.

Why do they blow the horn so many times? Those tracks at the first intersection need repair plus loading the cars so high the center of gravity becomes higher and more likely to derail and cause a turn over. Those hopper cars look like they have never seen any maintenance in 20 years.

Looks like some of the rock could have spilled into the flangeway of the crossing.

What is the location at 7:22 ? That would be a cool scene for a model diorama.

GP38's I have been to the Union Bridge yard

In the Netherlands it is not even allowed to load a wagon so full.

Spilled stone = free ballast

It’s like a whip😂😵

A little over filled in the back half of the car.

Signals at New Windsor must've seen better days.

Nice chase but Genesee & Wyoming gets unfriendly pretty quick if people are filming while standing in the gauge, even if its a yard track.

Nice

The loader operator needs to learn how to balance a load

I'd love to live in some of these places that are on the tracks. They are distributing the coal for Christmas stockings.

Never seen that happen!

Little more sway in them springs

It was just pouring one out for the homies

Are you stalking that last car, sure seems to be.

Very odd! I've never seen an SD40-2 in that configuration. Normally, SD40-2s have large decks at each end. Not so with 3451.

Almost roller her over!

That train was geting its rocks off

Did you get written permission to stand there?

Free Model railroad scenery material!

That is a lot of weight!

These cars look very old and tired; that surprises me as I thought trains were well kept.

this horn looks like mrs, all, brado, vli, vll brazilian railway company

I wonder who loads their stone cars for them? It seems that a few choice words from their boss should get them to load the stone on the cars a little more safely. Oh well, maybe the management at the stone quarry doesn't care.

That’s what’s known as careless overloading. The quarry can be slammed with a massive fine and the railroad can get slapped by a huge fine for not stopping the overload and and potentially causing a derailment due to continuing the trip with a severely overloaded train. In all of my years driving I have never seen a fellow engineer to have zero respect for his/her job.

They need a slow order on that section of track until it can be repaired.

Last car over-filled on the end, person doing the loading not capable of doing their job, or (most likely) doesn't care...

OMG, 😯😲😱😵that engineer needs to slow his ass down jus a bit, with those tracks a bit off level and off set overloaded cars, thats a receipe for disaster, my goodness, that was some scary shitt😱😵!!!! And of all places right at a crossing, that's jus bad, bad, BAD!!!!!!!!! THAT'S WHY YOU DONT STOP RIGHT IN FRONT OF A CROSSING, IVE SEEN TRAINS BOUNCE UP AND DOWN ON THE CROSSNS AS WELL, PRETTY SCARY STUFF I TELL YOU😭😭 THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME, great job.👍

MOW problem at the yard.

Need to reset the ties

Was that my wife driving......damn.....she just said she was going out for groceries.........

How do people sleep at night when them horns blast like that.