Can the TRACK GANG fix the track without DELAYING THE TRAIN? 

Darn machinists... They ruined machining! Lol, I know that feel entirely.

@@Hyce777 "Damn Scots... They ruined Scotland!"

I am also a machinist. The salty old machinists who are unwilling to teach tend to be that way because they don't have very much to teach and they know it... The ones who want to teach are the ones who usually have the most useful stuff to learn.

@@SuperAWaC that's definitely what I've seen as well. I've been learning more machining from one of the volunteers at the museum who used to be a machinist at Lockheed. He's wonderful. Definitely met my share of pains in the butt though... Lol

Hobbyist stuff, like volunteer places generally have a very different feel too. You're not going to volunteer your time if you don't care for what you're doing so usually volunteers are far more welcoming

See, he said don't do anything stupid, "that would require me to use foul language" said nothing about just doing something stupid.

@@kuhljager2429 well... you whould probably have to do something stupid for him to use foul language so it works out either way^^

Glad you got to ride with the guys. :)

Happens 😂

They know all along that it will happen there, that's why they build it there xD

yeah it flubbed a bit. makes you realize how massive these engines are

@@ctje1638 Yeah, and these are the LITTLE ones!

Wasn't too bad heat wise. Radius here I am not sure, I believe it's around 26 degrees. I don't know if we pre bend or not, I'll ask art..

Good luck and Godspeed! Stay safe if you do get the gig.

@@Hyce777 I plan to! I must be the Union Pacific's biggest fan, I grew up watching UP from a very young age, my first ever exposure to a TV show was Shining Time Station with its' iconic intro showing the UP 844. This is a dream job for me and if I do eventually get it I will be sure to do everything I can to stay safe. And of course, with a little railroader's luck I may even wind up making it a career - and of course my ultimate goal if I do get the job is to do well enough to be posted to the UP Heritage Fleet out of Cheyenne. Running UP 844 or hell, 4014 in real life is my idea of a dream come true. (Isn't it every railroading boy's dream though?) But that's a long way off and will take a high level of seniority, so I need to really be on the ball and do my best work. Wish me high greens!

I have done it the old way, sure fun to watch, an absolute nightmare to be the one doing it

@@TheBeeMan1994 It is even more fun when you have no frogs in the right size so you have to bend and forge weld pieces of rail together to make them.

I was riding 491 that go around We had gotten stuck the first loop

@@ghostgames30222 lol

"the joys of learning the throttle"

@@JuneNafziger yep.

It always does, lol..

Now we know :)

Cheers :) we do have several 36" gauges, I think art was shooting for 36.5" which we didn't have.

@@Hyce777 Ooooo got ya. He wanted wider to help with the flanges not scraping as much probably. Yea make sense!

That's a question for art! I am not sure myself. I'll ask.

@@Hyce777 When in doubt, ask the guys with white hair. That's always been my most informative course of action too!

Fish tank. Lol

Pretty much, lol.

@@Hyce777 PBS documentary would be cool! Now, if it were a Discovery/History Channel documentary, there would be unnecessary drama music, out-of-context soundbites from the crew making the defect sound worse than it is, and reference to a completely unrelated wreck/disaster - and maybe MAYBE 10 minutes of footage of the actual repair. lol

I'll ask art tomorrow, but I'll bet it has to do with how sharp our curve is here. Moving the inside to match the outside makes for a sharper curve, and we're already getting close to 30 degrees here.

@@Hyce777 perhaps, the curve we pulled in was too tight for the trailing wheels of 15, I’m sure the crest of the hill was a major part of it too though. Thanks looking forward to what he says

@@adamcordell outside rail was already kinked out; pushing the inside out would've doubled the kink..otherwise normally you're totally right.

@@Hyce777 gotcha, it’s definitely circumstantial, thanks!

from 3 foot (914mm) to meter gauge why not XD

Lol, my original thumbnail had broad gauge in the title. Lol

@@Hyce777 amazing

I don't know - I'll be chatting with Art about that.

I don't honestly know.

It's driven by wheel profile, which is about the same, so it's the same minimum of at gauge, and max at + 1.5".

@@Hyce777 So are you saying if it is 3ft guage (36") then the minimum is 34.5" and the maximum 37.,5"? So there is basically 3" worth of +/- play?

@@wrkey if it's 36", minimum is 36". Maximum is 37.5".

I believe he was knocking the spike plugs further in place, not sure though.

No

​@@Hyce777 it's a good song about UP X4014 AKA Big Boy

Nope, not pee cup worthy. Just a trainee engineer.

Correct.

lol we didn't have any more gauge bars.

not a yard

Nope

no

why would you ever suggest that 😂