On June 29th, we were watching crews shunting railcars at a railyard in Galesburg Illinois. While most of the workmen were backing up their train into their designated tracks, one crew was doing it a little differently.
Back in 2006 we were kicking cars at a chemical plant I worked at. Plant security stopped us and said people at a new apartment complex were complaining about the noise and could we please stop doing what we'd done for years. We said we would and after he left I asked my engineer "Donnie? You okay with making some hard couples?" He was fine with it and we made the same amount of noise. Railroad was there LONG before the new neighbors...lol
And that is how you deal with Kens and Karens. It's like the people who buy houses next to the tracks, highways and airports. That was all there before you moved in so shut the fuck up.
Went to school for MBA. Learned in Business Law the FEEDLOT CASE. Feedlot there first, then came houses. Owners complained. Feedlot had to move. True case. Bet railroad’s lawyers got exemption.
Some people are too sensitive for some of the most petty things. Worked on a hot tar roofing crew and some residents complained of the tar smell in their neighborhoods. Nothing we could do about that. A job is a job. Some folks have way too much time on their hands and moan for some of the dumbest reasons.
Im a big rig driver for a blood processing plant. The smell is disgusting no question. Its been there for decades. Out the back are brine ponds. The brine ponds make sewerage farms smell good. Brine is the by product of blood after its been broken down. Its salt water. Some of it is desalinated and purified and gifted to the local golf course, some of it is collected to turn into industrial salt and the majority of it is discharged to sea after processing. There are no houses in the area because of the smell. On frosty mornings in winter thats when the smell is utterly appalling - which is saying something coming from me. Recently, motorists driving past started complaining to the EPA The first fine was $250,000. So they put a pipeline in to transfer desalinated brine, which is now treated water to the city treatment farm but passing motorists are still reporting us to the EPA. The smell of the drying process to make blood plasma powder is the problem now. Its a multinatational company with very deep pockets so Im not thinking theyll close. They pay all of us nearly double the minimum wage and that has clout in a regional city. Recently local motorists
Living right next to the train yard in Missoula Montana, i can tell you some of the old Engineers can couple a train so gently, like a surgeon. While some of the new guys, well...sounds like elephants mating ! You'd swear they hate. Hates, Denny Wa(r)ington. ☆
I've had 'old heads' couple so hard that cars jump regularly. As one conductor yelled at me back in the 80s when I was learning to run...."come on man, we ain't making watches out here"
Thats what the draft gear is for !! funny its called the "1 Spot" , our shop in Canada was also called that, we had 4 tracks with electric floor jacks, we did all cars with 40 man hours or less.. i am a Carman
@@keithsuggs7935 if you work for the railroad then you should already know they are watching you... with and without youtube... so you can't blame a random youtuber for you not acting accordingly
I worked in the RR industry for 40 years and when you work outside in that environment and your doing what you are trained to do you have nothing or camera/phone to worry about, you are paid to “ take your time to do your job safely “ … good day .
I saw a railfan video on the news explaining a train separation. The Conductor walked in the gage for 5 or 6 of the 8 cars. Management saw it and insisted the Trainmaster find out who the Conductor was and terminate him.
@@jackfrost3254 Not sure what you're seeing that you think is the engineer's arm, but there's no engineer's arm visible in that window at that timestamp.
So the crew was kicking cars, that's normal switching operations, but I can't tell what kind of track they kicked into, was that a spur track, or like a RIP track? I know on the UP we are not supposed kick in to spur tracks. 01:24 Everything's coming up Milhouse .....nice!
Don't know where you are at but down here in Houston we kick into stub tracks all day. We can't kick into industry tracks. Been a conductor on up for 21 years
Seen harder hits in my time out there. The only thing I recognize is the "One Spot", the car repair building with the tracks passing through it. Every thing else I knew and worked is gone. Yard D, Innisville, West hump, Prospect, and damned near every other site, buildings, and track yards, are gone.
The 2 rolling in are probably loads up against empties, makes noise but that was by NO means a hard hook!! I flat switched cars for 20 + years before going on a road job retired in 2016 from the well known CN!
I wonder if they go by a particular calculation or it's just skill for when they know when to release cars in motion from the locomotive so they connect with other cars just right?
@@j.padron8531 So many variables. Track conditions. Tonnage you are kicking. What are you kicking into. WHat are you kicking in to. Generally though a kick is pretty much going to be not much faster than a fast walk.
nice video. No that doesn't look so though. Watch cars going over the hump, on the remaining humpyards , and they have retarders, that's hard hitting. And any softer the car wouldn't go all the way. Thanks !
