One way yes great units but they are camera equipped so you are watched constantly no I like my old days of railroading and my SD40 gp40 C and b 36-7. And 8s. You knew how to use the air and you wasn’t getting watched on your train handling you worked with experience not by a book
I'm planning to become an conductor for cm railways and hopefully a engineer hoping they won't be as hire to fire in 2 years but I'm planning on starting a RU-vid series where I document my experiences and I will be telling my stories and etc
When I was an over-the-road trucker, I used to layover in Rochelle. If you watch closely, you'll see the railroad park pavilion on the right (red, white and blue banners). I walked through that town more than a few times. They no longer blow the horn in town.
I'd definitely like to hang with this Cool Hot Shot for a Real Cab Ride!! Love this stuff! Cool Job, lucky Man!! Love the sound of the train rolling through and the Horn, especially at night as it goes through the crossing near to me in Sparta NJ. The train either goes up, or comes down Sparta mountain and I can always tell if its going up if those engines are roaring loudly!! Thanks for this vid!!
Where was the hot shot. It all looked normal from what I could see. None of the signals were visible so the aspects were not available. They had just called an approach when it stopped the video.
This is the only job I ever wanted to do in life but instead I'm a cook something went terrible wrong in my life well back to my atlas collection and big dreams.
Rochelle, IL at the railroad park. It’s the intersection of the UP and the BNSF. Here’s a link to a webcam that is aimed at the cross. www.rochellerailroadpark.org/webcam
When there is a grade crossing coming up and there is another train like in this case, it’s a warning to drivers who might “jump the gun” when one train clears without noticing another train is about to enter the same crossing. In this video you see that the train being met is just clearing, so if it was maybe 200 feet shorter there would have been a lag and, potentially, an impatient motorist at a crossing without gates might decide to proceed without noticing “our” train is right there.
It is Required by federal regulations. Below quote is from the Federal Railroad Administration website page on train horn rules and quite zones. railroads.dot.gov/highway-rail-crossing-and-trespasser-programs/train-horn-rulequiet-zones/train-horn-rule-and-quiet “Under the Train Horn Rule (49 CFR Part 222), locomotive engineers must begin to sound train horns at least 15 seconds, and no more than 20 seconds, in advance of all public grade crossings. If a train is traveling faster than 60 mph, engineers will not sound the horn until it is within ¼ mile of the crossing, even if the advance warning is less than 15 seconds. There is a "good faith" exception for locations where engineers can’t precisely estimate their arrival at a crossing and begin to sound the horn no more than 25 seconds before arriving at the crossing. Train horns must be sounded in a standardized pattern of 2 long, 1 short and 1 long blasts. The pattern must be repeated or prolonged until the lead locomotive or lead cab car occupies the grade crossing. The rule does not stipulate the durations of long and short blasts. The maximum volume level for the train horn is 110 decibels which is a new requirement. The minimum sound level remains 96 decibels.”
@@lindabingham394 it means it’s the hottest train on the rails. No other train is more important on that stretch of track. Every other train except passenger trains will take siding to let him pass.
It’s referring to the train, not the engineer. It’s an old railroad term for high priority traffic. “Hotter” trains run with a higher horsepower per ton rating and are able to maintain higher speeds, and lower priority trains are moved out of the way for them. Today, “intermodal” trains (carrying truck trailers and containers with perishables and time-sensitive general merchandise) are the hotshots, especially those with domestic UPS, FedEx, Amazon, and JB Hunt traffic. BNSF runs them 70 mph across the desert with 4 or 5 4400 horsepower locomotives up front, and they are the hottest thing on rails out there with all other trains being moved out of the way for them. They are also referred to as Z or Z9 trains, as that is the highest priority designation on the railroad timetable.
@@oooltra and where do those batteries get their charge? Coal power plants. The more drones there are the more coal has to be burned to keep up with all the power consumption. Not to mention when you charge a battery, some of the charge is lost, wasting that amount of energy per charge. mining the material to make batteries puts out harmful emissions.
@@oooltra I see what you are trying to say, but there is no real way to reduce total emissions until we find a realiable and clean energy source. As of now it doesn’t really matter what you use, you are still leaving a carbon footprint
@@45showdown well actually it doesn’t matter if the crossing is occupied or not you still have to blow two longs a short and a long!! I’ve been an engineer for 28 years !!!👍🇺🇸
