A broken gate and "static drop switch move" OMLX 2254 CCR Railroad filming train in rain

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I changed the title because the FRA felt the railroad needed investigated over this video. It is a perfectly legal and acceptable move. Sorry for bringing the heat down on the crew... Fuk the FRA.
On Friday March 23rd 2023 we caught the CCR finishing up for the day. This engine had been sitting on a siding for a long time inactive but something must have happened to the 2604 so we made sure to get right down to Cleveland Monday morning to catch them working. Unfortunately it was pissing rain but we made the best out of it by wrapping the cameras up with plastic and getting muddy! Their work for the day was a run east on the former Erie Lackawanna Randall Secondary. At E 116th St the gate was broke so the conductor had to assist it! At 6:18 they appear to be passing the remnants of a passenger platform. The last run of passenger service was on 14 January 1977. At Bedford Heights they tied down the engine on the main and let the cars roll into the siding to get the locomotive on the west end of the train. They would shove 1 hopper east to Nestle Stouffers but that shot is inaccesable from the ground.
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@TracksideSFL 9 месяцев назад

That was a phenomenally well executed gravity switch move! Amazing footage! Loved the video!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@michaelwalsh9475 9 месяцев назад

Thank you to all our rail workers! You keep the nation moving!!

@kerryrock9248 8 месяцев назад

Nice old GP35. We ran old NS 35s on the Wheeling and Lake Erie. Didn't mind running these long hood foreward since they had centered control panels.

@gp3829 9 месяцев назад

Hi, I enjoyed watching that. Thanks also to you and your kids for braving the rain and filming.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching! We got soaked but it was a good time

@rjb5847 9 месяцев назад

I enjoyed the video. I'm a retired CP Conductor & safety officer. The move you illustrated to re-position the cars onto the other end of the locomotive, is something we used to call a "gravity" or "static" drop on CP. The operation you've shown could make a good modeling project.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you. I’ve seen several railroads do this but this was the most cars I’ve seen done in a cut.

@kerryrock9248 8 месяцев назад

Yep, on Conrail we called it a gravity drop.

@caseyjonessnr1200 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video, nice to see switching taking place in inclement weather conditions. I haven’t seen “Fly” switching in many a year. Thank you. 13:14

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. I don’t prefer to shoot in the rain but when I do I return with some pretty good footage.

@Conrail1731 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. I don't get to see a lot of that kind of switching 👍👍

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! Wish industrial switching was easier to catch.

@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530 9 месяцев назад

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing and best regards

@whiteknightcat 9 месяцев назад

OMLX 2254, an ancient GP35, ex PNR 2254, exx GWR 3042, exxx DRGW 3042, built 12/1964

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Been around a while

@poppopstrains8570 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! Great video!

@erie910 9 месяцев назад

Nice video. I'm an Erie fan and former commuter out east. We did the gravity move on the railroad where I worked in Indiana. Its stlll done today. It's not an FRA regulation violation. A single handbrake will control a short cut of cars.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you. I filmed a similar move on the Wabash Central over in Indiana years ago.

@anverh7488 8 месяцев назад

Amazing thanks ❤

@bobblundell2281 9 месяцев назад

Great job guys, family fun

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! Spring break fun.

@kennethfuller8347 8 месяцев назад

Great video, Scott. I really enjoyed that, and I've been a railfan for many years. Glad to see your kids becoming railfans, too.

@freddypflugbeil6 9 месяцев назад

That was cool thanks for showing it. From New York

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching!

@davidbrown4823 8 месяцев назад

Great video.

@HavelockYard 9 месяцев назад

Awesome work!!!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@IsupportVehicles999 9 месяцев назад

Great work! Keep it up!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, visit again soon!

@FrogandFlangeVideo 9 месяцев назад

Terrific video, Scott. James.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@paulhare662 9 месяцев назад

Enjoyed this, thanks. The grafitti collection was nice, looked like a group worked together on that.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you. They might have. I’ve spotted taggers working in the CCR “yard”. Nobody bats an eye in this neighborhood!

@rickcope3226 9 месяцев назад

Enjoyed watching the video

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@bradleyjanes2949 9 месяцев назад

Nice video. Great content😊

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching!

@StormySkyRailProductions 9 месяцев назад

Very cool video and catch during the inclement weather. Enjoyed watching and have a wonderul rest of your evening.(Steve)

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you. The weather was miserable but I really needed to document this line. Glad this video has been well recurring view wise.

@StormySkyRailProductions 8 месяцев назад

Your welcome and maybe next time the weather can be better.@@ScottTaipaleRail

@leecarlson9713 9 месяцев назад

That must have been quite a decline, for the cars to move that easily! Very interesting to see. Thanks for the video! And in miserable weather, too.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

I’m not sure what type of grade is needed for this type of move. Thanks for watching!

@unpasaro 9 месяцев назад

Excellent !!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@shiftintohigh5564 9 месяцев назад

Nicely done gents.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks

@railfansammy4974 9 месяцев назад

Awesome catching

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@TI4438 9 месяцев назад

Definitely a nice catch.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@DaveKnerler 9 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@Trains4Fun 8 месяцев назад

4:20 Wow. That crossing gate in bad shape got to have extra crew out there just to move out of the way just so the train can get through.

@user-rk1hf4ud6i 8 месяцев назад

I love trains so much I'll be building my second layout in my apartment here soon two. Layouts in one apartment but its just me and my puppy here so its ok

@bonntv 9 месяцев назад

Super Video "EXTRA" !!!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@paulbergen9114 9 месяцев назад

Another poor Eastern line that has fallen upon hard times and it looks like the big customer is a bakery with those North Dakota Mill cars. That old platform along with what appeared to be a shelter is a real throwback. You get extra credits for being out in bad weather but since it's a line that has infrequent service it's good documentation

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! There was so much rail served industry along this line back in the days of the EL. Only one direct customer left with a spur on the main. The rest is rail to truck but I’m not sure who gets the flour.

@paulbergen9114 9 месяцев назад

@@ScottTaipaleRail the way the conductor was moving the brake handle He looked like he was in the original Tugboat Willy cartoon from 1926

@ICrailroadprod.2007 9 месяцев назад

That is an awesome P3 horn!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Good sounding horns are hard to find on trains anymore.

@SteamCrane 9 месяцев назад

In 1961 I rode the NMRA Cleveland National Convention trip on the Erie from below CUT to the B+LE roundhouse in Greenville PA. I believe the engine was a Lima road switcher. It moved right along.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

The NMRA used to have some interesting trips on the rails.

@Nicola636128 9 месяцев назад

Very Interesting!

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@sernajrlouis 9 месяцев назад

Cool video

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@LanternSignals 8 месяцев назад

Gravity drop. Nice catch!

@billbaber6653 9 месяцев назад

Good show

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@mrfingerlakes8735 4 месяца назад

Awesome video

@ikonseesmrno7300 9 месяцев назад

Someone should tell that fella, it's a brake wheel, not a steering wheel. 😁 Great video! I always like a good gravity move.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@p71collector 9 месяцев назад

The North Dakota Mill hopper cars are full of wheat flour, processed a few miles from me at Grand Forks ND. 😀

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Cool, I wonder who the end user is since most goes rail to truck from here.

@JrFlexing909 9 месяцев назад

That is pretty cool but you got to make sure you know what you doing when you railing cars like that. First time I seen that. Great shot of this.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

I’m sure they do this several times a week.

@georgemurphy2579 8 месяцев назад

Not enough is invested in this most important aspect of our infrastructure.

@UsTrainsAndSirens 8 месяцев назад

What crossing was the first one in the beginning?

@OldcampRanch 9 месяцев назад

What’s with all the trash? Interesting video 👍🏻

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

People’s lack of respect for the area they live. Thanks!

@philliplee980 9 месяцев назад

Nice

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks

@philliplee980 9 месяцев назад

@@ScottTaipaleRail your welcome

@2quintly 9 месяцев назад

I wonder what the FRA would say about "this type of railroading".

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Not sure but I’m sure the FRA is well aware.

@tomp8871 9 месяцев назад

You ever do it on the fly? That is scary, level grade, especially if you're manning the switch. ( I would guess still illegal)

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

I guess they get used to it when they do it several times a week.

@NWORails 9 месяцев назад

Once again another enteraining video.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@NWORails 9 месяцев назад

You're very much welcome.

@gerrywilliams124 8 месяцев назад

amazing,,,,,,rusty rails

@ronhill5118 9 месяцев назад

Was this track double track at one time? Looks awfully wide for single track.

@mr.boomer8794 9 месяцев назад

It was the old Erie main into Cleveland

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Yes it was double tracked. The Erie moved a lot of ore out of Cleveland when they had their set of Hullets

@andreasforster7757 9 месяцев назад

💯👍👍👍Andreas 👨‍✈😁

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thanks! 👍

@Thunder_6278 9 месяцев назад

Isn't that a rolling switch move, I believe that is illegal by FRA rules.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

I don’t think so. I’ve seen several railroads do it.

@tincanboat 9 месяцев назад

what kind of track is that 1:25??

@battlesqueak5838 9 месяцев назад

Ur mom

@SD40Fan_Jason 9 месяцев назад

It's a railroad track, I think? What do you mean?

@tincanboat 9 месяцев назад

It looks so different than normal track. it has little rectangular steel chunks and the bottom of the tracks look odd.@@SD40Fan_Jason

@SD40Fan_Jason 9 месяцев назад

@@tincanboat are you referring to the rail joints every 80 ft.? Not all track is CWR

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Yeah sections of rail bolted together with joint bars. The telephoto makes them look very prominent in that scene.

@michaelwalsh9475 9 месяцев назад

Wow! Someone had to physically lower the gates? No power?

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

It had power but the way the gate was bent the motor couldn’t lower it.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist 9 месяцев назад

Signal maintainers We Don't need no stinking signal maintainers 😂😂

@user-sv1me4jg2v 4 месяца назад

Does this railroad still exist

@ScottTaipaleRail 4 месяца назад

Yes

@jessstone7486 9 месяцев назад

That is a horn full of angst. Or perhaps its just me...

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

I’m surprised it sounds so good after sitting unused for a long time.

@cichlidman5598 9 месяцев назад

😲

@suppylarue220 9 месяцев назад

in an earlier time, they would've performed a flying switch.

@rjb5847 9 месяцев назад

You're 100% correct & I've done both, but when grades allow for it, "static drops" as we called them, like the one performed in this video were much safer. Flying or running switches are inherently dangerous. When I was writing rules in CPs head office 20 plus years ago...running switches as we called them, were one of the first things I prohibited. In the old day you referred to, there were more than one member of the crew on the ground. Doing a flying switch with one person is all but impossible.

@railpast 9 месяцев назад

You could have the best. I follow a Short line in my area to Southland and they do a lot of switching to used to do gravity switching like also. Lots of videos ony channel. Sub your channel.

@ScottTaipaleRail 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! Shortlines is where my enjoyment in this hobby lies.

@SD40Fan_Jason 9 месяцев назад

I am not comfortable with the conductor riding the point of the gravity drop. Would have been safer to ride the bottom. Also if the cut had been able to hold air, leave them bottled and bust the air once the cut had reached the point of clearance. But only if they were holding air. Other than that, they executed their job safely and efficiently. Hopefully Sergio doesn't see this video or he'll call them in for a safety meeting anyways.