Carlin Sprayer. Broken Knuckle. Grain Trains Follows VERY CLOSE Behind 

The Sprayer is amazingly precise.

Wow! That sprayer mechanism is so much fun to look at. Of course, nice engineering.

That's pretty cool the way they spray lighter fluid on that coal before sacking it and selling it as Kingsford Match Light Charcoal........

Who knew watching the same awesome thing over and over again could be so entertaining EVERY time!! Timed to perfection!!!

I have never seen a coal sprayer! So cool! Thanks for sharing!

I observed the shadows of the piping gantry on the most forward point on the train following (locomotive) (12:48). I then noted a landmark on the ground where the most rear point on the train leading ("Dup unit") was on the leading train. Then I ran the clip back until the last car (of the first train) was at the same shadow (12:17). I counted 7 cars (maybe 6 1/2 cars) between the shadow and the landmark. Those cars are 45' long. 45' x 7 cars equals 315 feet. The GCOR requires trains traveling "joint" at restricted speed to be separated by 300 feet. Just about perfect. (Especially since my measuring technique wasn't perfect.)

I have never seen two trains this close to each other

WOW! I have never seen a train so close to another like that!!!!

Astonishing display of engineering and the wealth of the USA.

Very nice! I didn't think they were allowed to get that close.

i'm suprised they alowed two trains so close together!

Late comment, but anyway my 5 cents. The grain train may, or more likely, has been ordered to pass the red signal. Been ordered to pass at slow speed to assist the coal train. To be more precise, assist by creeping up to the rear of the coal train in order to secure that from eventually running backwards in the process of replacing the knuckle.

I was actually expecting the grain train to slam into the rear of that coal drag. I don't see a headlight lit up on the longhood end of that DPU either.

The water switch operator needs a raise

3 TRAINS AT ONCE! AWESOME!

Thanks again for all of your support and help with whatever I'm good

Hehehe, the air compressors on the mid-train unit make it sound like the thing's panting like a happy dog wagging its tail, but eager for the parted air hose to get put back together to resume moving. x3 Neat footage of the bonding sprayers too. Repetitive enjoyment in a good kind of way, that never gets old. x3

At 13:05 - Amazing they can be that close to each other.

Great video

VERY INTERESTING VIDEO

Great camera shot at 2:55.

awesome video friend...like

He can come up behind him like that because of something called "restricted speed". Short explanation is, depending on what signal aspect he was running on and said signal was an absolute signal of an intermediate signal, two trains can occupy the same block. It gets more technical than that but just gets confusing to the lay person.

I have never seen two trains (moving) so close to each other, but on the other hand the second train has "visual" on the train in front of them. Or, maybe they were caught in the tunnel behind the coal train, so they needed to come out for some "fresh" air. In any case a nice video :-) NB: Does anybody know the weight of the coal / car? My guess is 50 - 80 tons, but only judging from the size of the cars... Cheers Adam

Good luck with your video

There is a video on BNSF's RU-vid site that explains how the coal dust spray system works.

Huh I never saw anything like that for coal trains and I live in kentucky one of the biggest coal places in the USA or use to be, I'm not sure anymore lol. Why are the coal cars getting sprayed with water for?

Nice sprayer mechanism. I was just thinking 'that poor water line must be hammering all day long!' then I saw they rotate to the trough instead of cutting pressure between every car.

>> Broken Knuckle

The Carlin sprayer should be called "the hobo repellent "

Good video.

The engineers don't wave from trains anymore, not like they did BACK in 1954

Sir I have a question what is the purpose of spraying the coal? And why don’t the 🚂 locomotives 🚂 get sprayed they can sure use a good washing 😆. I am Cherokee Native American living on the Reservation in Cherokee North Carolina I am happy to have come across your channel. I have seen something new today from your channel Thank You 🙏 Sincerely Running Bear 🐻 PS: Do they do that with all coal trains 🚂 ? Thank You 🙏 again for the great video

they spray with water so the coll will not light up from the heat or for dust?

Norfolk Southern uses sprayers on the Norfolk to Cincinnati line.

@13:05 hes probably like free ride, hook it up boys jimmy's is paying fuel this time :D jokes :P

Broken knuckle means the engineer was a little heavy on the throttle on the middle locomotive on the train it's a robot locomotive you can control the throttle from the lead engine

The crew on the Grain Train is pushing Restricted Speed to the limit here. They are following that Coal Train in front of them way to closely. Their reaction time to stop a heavy train like they have is next to nothing. The sprayer system for dust control is really amazing also.

Sorry if I sound inept but why do they spray the coal down?

For some strange reason, initially the view from the camera made me think it was a model railroad layout. Also, when you see the hands and arms of the people talking, the forced perspective made it seem like a model railroad. Strange.

Great video! It looked like the grain train was gaining on the coal train. Do you know if they made contact? Pretty suspenseful.

Which company manufactured the spraying system. We need it for a client.

Is the water turned on and off automatically, or is there a guy sitting in a box somewhere pressing a button?

Only Awesome

The sprayer is what keep the dust under control

3 TRAINS ALL WITHIN MINUTES APART FROM EACH OTHER??? Insane! Also judging by the Canadian Pacific engines this must be filmed in Canada but where is this place?

At the second coal car, just towards the rear, there seems to be a spark after the coal got wet, did anyone else see it?

This is to prevent dust, yes?

~6:05 until about 6:45, it has 2 air compressors? The quieter one seemed to invoke the most load on the engine though

Is this accessible to the public?

Ontario Hydro had locos, and possibly cars, to ship coal from Alberta to Thunder Bay and ran on CP tracks. CN got that contract, Ontario stopped using coal, CP bought the SD40s.

Carlin Road @ Tappen Notch Hill Road just outside of Notch Hill in British Columbia Canada........(8^) It shows up clear as day on google maps.

i couldnt tell if it was a real train or an Ho scale

I assume that this is sto stop dust, also ver satisfying, didnt know id like wet coal/coke

It looks like the grainer is trying to assist the coal train. I pretty sure the grainer doesn't want to lose any momentum that it has.

wonder how much additional weight of water is added to each car? would build up steadily over a long train, maybe another couple of hundred tons?

How much coal can you get in a car? Twice as much now that we started spraying it down.

13:00 So much for Be able to stop in half the range of vision. I wonder what CP Operating rules say about this situation and what sort of signal/territory they are on.

That is how thing happen, and not always good.

I love this video great action. The sprayers are neat to watch and right on time with the water. I was wondering what happens to the locomotives during the spraying process, do they get a bath as well?

Train got a little heavier!

Are there in the system with restrictive (sometimes also called permissive in some countries) signals also advance warning (yellow) signals? Otheriwse it could get a bit dificult when the end of the train in front of you came to a total standstill lets say 1/3 in the section, stopping distance for the train entering the section at line speed and starting to slow down when the engineer sees the red signal could be short. When he had a yellow warning signal the section before he will already be advancing at reduced speed to that red signal. Like it is in france, the restrictive signal can be passed at danger, but the speed must be reduced to the allowable limit before that section, a yellow signal warns the driver the section before to slow down. (the driver must be able to stop in the distance he can see forward, so in heavy rain or fog he must slow down even more or rules can state that the signal is absolute in such circumferences)

Am I the only one who wants to run under the water sprayer after the train just for the fuck of it lol

This video need a little more narration as to what was going on. The title was accurate in that there was a Carlin Sprayer, some disturbance due to a broken knuckle, and Grain Trains passing by (mostly on different tracks). It is difficult to discern what feats of operations were carried out or what blunders were in the making. A better title would have been "see trains going by."

12:50 I hate getting stuck behind slow traffic that I can't pass

Im guessing the grain train helped push that coal load and then cut off in motion after the coal train gets going. Thats the only reason he'd be that close to him. Otherwise that's pretty unsafe honestly.

The sprayer needs to spray the engines...

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Interesting - does it spray every train that comes by? If the train were to stop, would it just keep spraying water on the coal hopper until it fills with water? :)

It's too bad they dont wash those poor dirty locomotives once in a while. As much as they cost,

Why do they spray the coal

They did not show the knuckle break

How does the sprayer not spray the locomotive?

Is that really a "2nd train"?.....or is it just an intermidiate engine?....

Maybe they should have kept the sprayer on for the DPU as its roof looked filthy 🤢

its only a back engine it is attached to the first part of the train for so many cars and leainths u need extra engines.....the water sprays with censers and timers the train drives one speed and main trains it for the timing

Incredible!

Nice catch.... Where was this filmed at?

cool

whats the spraier mint for/ ?

the censers are on both sides of the tracks just out side the tunnel .......

Never seen the coal sprayer, Why is that done?

Nice capture! Is that sprayer automated at all?

12:43 trains disadvantages solutions = when they go one after the other at, a few meters closer than the subways that go one after another from 3 to 3 minutes. 3:47 Canada ? disadvantages

uh...wow...

Why are these things not everywhere? It would shut a lot of environmentalists up in the Columbia River gorge.

what is the water use for

How come the locos didn't get sprayed?

Got a knuckle with a DPU? LOL

What the hell were they doing?

Hehe, someone's not happy today :) He just broke a coupler

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really that's crazy cn would never do that

How far from salmon arm is this

what were the sprayers for?!

And between 7.0 and 7.5 m/h

maybe a little too close???

Hobo repellant spray

In my Twenty Five years of railroading I have never seen a sprayer here in the USA.. I assume its to keep the coal dust down when reaching speeds over 35 MPH....? There is no reason to break a knuckle here if the train was properly powered... Unless the track is completely level with almost zero grades, you never run a twenty thousand ton coal train with only 3 units... The train is wrongfully powered! It should have 4 to 6 units with the power distributed evenly.. and Two trains can follow that close as long as they are going up grade... The grain train can stop on a dime going up the grade if it had to...

what on earth happened why did that train ride the other trains a$$!!??