I'm forever amazed at what you guys do. THIS IS DANGEROUS!!! Railroad wouldn't run without guys that assessed the danger and then got the job done. I hope you have all your body parts when you retire.
body parts all accounted for... spinal column and vertebrate... Well.... those kinda took a beating over the last 31 years ;) i am no longer able to perform the job so now i am a pencil-pushin'-paper-passin' railway clerk ;) :(
Skill? There's skill to pulling the cut lever lmao! Omg I never thought that as I was switching cars in a railyard by myself with a remote control that there was skill involved. Last I checked, when I was in the seat as an engineer, you put it in notch one and the train moves. Lol just being a smart as here. Yes that was a lovely switch move. Good job and keep up the good work.
Love kicking cars on RCO.. No engineer since I’ve got control remotely while the helper is lining switches. Drag out a cut of thirty or more cars on a long lead and away we go. Run through those switch lists in no time but not too fast because you’re in danger of eliminating your job. People used to work tirelessly for the quit but when management sees your done with two hours left it’s time to eliminate a couple of jobs...!! Go too fast and you’ll be on the bump board with nowhere to go... And this guy has a day job, primo..Low seniority people end up on those night jobs, colder and ya can’t see a thing except by lantern or perimeter lights.
I've seen haz mat cars switched out of tracks to be humped into a track that is all no humps...The crew would kick em into the no hump track and I would just shake my head...lol
I have worked in hump yards. I am currently working in a switch yard where we do 300-600 cars a day in gravity switching. Yes I know that. But I have also seen 10mph hits that have broke cars too! I "love" the double stacking of cars, or shoving a drawbar 10ft into a car with a truck ending up halfway to the other end of the other truck. I have seen a lot in my years on the railroad.
@@melfisher1683 yea and you're paying for that "better pay" with irregular work hours, sleeping in a strange bed every few days, and NEVER having a life
@@Slammediadotca This one is Canadian! :) although you are correct, CN owns a large percentage of most US railroads and CN is mostly owned by non-NorthAmericans :(
Engine is probably far enough away or facing the other direction to make hand signs not worth it. Hand signs are a dying art anyway plus with all the shit they want u to say on the radio anymore, pretty much impossible
@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 Sorry, i had assumed i was using BeltPak (it WAS more than 7 years ago) but after watching it again i see that i indeed was working with a hogger :)
Hell with that. Kick loads. Kick any and everything. We used to "kick" 10 or 20 loads at a time all day. There's a safe way to do that though. Really just pulling the pin on it and they creep in.
@@RailroadScannerMan15 wimp. Nothing against kicking loads or pinning off 20 cars if you do it right. Course on CN now we cant kick more then 5 cars at a time because some dummy ruined it and was launching cars in winter time into shitty brakes right at the clearance point. Experience, forward planning and some common sense goes a long way out here.
@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 I just literally marked up this week on CN. Been training for 6-1/2 months. Very fortunate to have gotten some great training. Where I hired out here, we do nothing but kick usually. I just hate all the stuff you can’t kick and gotta shove, ergh. Yeah, 5 loads the most you can kick. I wished you could send more down the track, otherwise I’d kick a decent cut lol. The more I listen to the guys that’s been out here for eons, they used to do all sorts of stuff you wouldn’t be able to do now here. My experience at CN’s been good.
ask Transport Canada that question, since many years ago they decided It is fully legal... the days of "shove to rest" are loooong gone my pension collecting friend.. ;)
They're not really explosive they're flammable. Figure it out. If you only knew the shit we kicked. Aint much differrnt than making a joint at 4 or 5 mph.
@@scottwilson8819 Well it’s been years since I read the article describing how train air brakes worked. I think it’s similar to commercial truck air brakes?
I'm not 100% how commercial air brakes work. But for those cars to get to the yard over the road it had air throughout the train. But the air was bled off before they humped them (if they have a hump) or after they tied them down in the yard, mechanical bled each car off. So long story short, yes those cars have had the air bled off them somewhere along the process. If they didn't they wouldn't roll freely like that
@@likesanddislikesetc After Viet Nam I went to work for Illinois Central Gulf GM&O in the E. St. Louis Terminal. Right nest door to the Cotton Belt SLSW RR that had the massive explosions. They called it instant urban renewal! I listened to those loaded bombs ping and ting and groan when they arrived in our yards. I was a Bull LOL Special Agent. It was about 9 years after the blasts!
I have since messed up my back and legs and am no longer in transportation they do still kick cars, but no running is allowed, nor can you kick more than 8 loads at once (i think its 8) and you cant get on or off of moving equipment anymore... its a much softer railway on your body than it was on mine.... change came a bit too late for me :)
@@chrisbroesky2932 Meh... retirement is the real goal, and its getting closer all the time!!.. a fabulous Canadian Health service is already scheduling rehabilitating surgery with a forecast of %80-90 recovery, and life eventually will be mobile for me once again.. :) Thanks :)
I dont know what railroad this is, where they are or what they are guided by such as a 6920 form and the FRA, but, assuming all of the cars were the same as the one placard car we saw, 1075 (propane) is completly okay to kick and/or hump on every railroad I know of.
Heh Heh... thats fine! I'd be happy to let the yardmaster assign all the work to you and your crew while we take it easy!! how many drop-switches have you performed in your rail career??.. ever do a whole shift with a remote engine by yourself (one man crew) in less than 3 hours while your mate grabs another spare engine off the shop and does another jobs whole shift of work in the same time??.. we EARNED our right to work slow n easy :) :) Take Care, Stay Safe and dont wreck your body for the railway they wont pay you back for it in loyalty or any other way.. :)
