A Busy Day Switching The Piers With The San Francisco Bay RR 6-16-16 

Thanks! Glad to hear it.

Perhaps because industries tell a story. The real story of products moving America can be seen in action in these settings. I often enjoy visiting industrial parks and seeing all the ones with abandoned spurs and retracing what freight went where.

@@Alwaystrains we are fuking geeks :)

@@daveyboy_ Hey speak for yourself man lol

Nostalgia puts the ZAP on ones head. That tough rustic feel of R/R transport. Hell i love watching intercity swithing...in Getto.

Agreed 100%

Indeed it's a fun operation to go watch. Glad to see that at least one shortline still believes in Alco power.

Me Too 😊😊😊

Indeed the conductor that painted it did a great job! Although I'm sure he'd tell you it's a pain keeping it running. The fact that it doesn't have ditch lights is cool, and legal since they're just a switching railroad.

A big tip of the hat is owed to the group of guys that keep this unit running as efficiently as it does. The unit does have its moments though.

tigersharkot ALCO 539T powered locomotive's can be run with virtually no smoke but it takes control at the throttle not to yard out on it before the engine responded. That engineer is simply letting the engine doing the work that and the fact it is well maintained. There have been several railroads and industrial switching operations Ford being one of the larger ones that take care of the engines and it shows in operation. As you need to advance the throttle you simply do it slowly after you take up the slack, done properly it results in very little black smoke nut still moves the cars around easily.

@@jamesshanks2614 This is exactly why she's not smoking. A good running 539 in the hands of an experienced engineer won't smoke at all.

Indeed it's something a railfan must stop to see when in San Francisco.

Indeed it's sweet. The last bit of the old State Belt still living on, that's real heritage. Thanks for viewing!

Thanks! You're welcome, always glad to share.

Yup. You'd be amazed how much stuff from those days is just lying around out there on the piers. There are some really neat old semis out there too. Thanks for viewing!

Thanks! Very refreshing to hear something that's not a K3 or K5 around here.

Yeah, I can agree with you there. where I am, NW Oregon, the PNWR has almost nothing but K3LA's, only a few stick out.

Thanks Scott! Hard not to love it.

Also, Mr. Engineer really knows how to carry a tune with that horn :P

You'd be amazed how much trackage the belt actually had in SF back in the day. This small yard is only a tiny piece of what they once were.

In the 70s there was a lot of rail traffic look at Illinois Ave in SF

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Because he thinks he's funny.

Because he loves trains as much as we do.

Thanks gabriel!

Glad you liked it!

Yes. It was converted to biodiesel years ago, however they usually run with a mixture of biodiesel and regular diesel. How much diesel is in the mix compared to biodiesel, I have no idea.

They work Monday thru Friday, though the times vary. The time they switch just depends on what they have going on.

What, in the cab? I know the engineer. Really chill guy.

Thanks dude. Gotta hand it to ya, you really know how to carry a tune with the horn.

I don't know about solar cells, but there's entire wind farms located up on Altamont Pass. I'll have to get up there to film something eventually. In all seriousness, the contaminated dirt being moved by this railroad largely comes from construction sites around the Bay Area. The railroad loads it into unit trains to be hauled out to Utah for proper disposal. So all that dirt you're so appalled by isn't created, just taken from somewhere else to build someone's house. As for the "smoking dirty motor," more often than not, the most reliable and rugged workhorses are the ones that get dirty.

Where's aoc and her squad getting this dirty dirt put of green sf

That's their new conductor in training. Those who know him know that he's quite the character. He's just having fun at his job!

He's also making a joke when It means humping cars (bumping into cars and letting them move freely).