Hi Dave. I appreciate the humor you share in your videos. Right now considering the flooding and devastation in Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky anything that’s of humor is appropriate. Have a great day my friend
Thank you Johnathan. It is so sad all the current events there. We were just talking about that at supper tonight. We really appreciate all the great support you have given our channel my friend.
The working man in this country never gets enough credit!! You are bringing the railroad worker some much needed attention. After the East Palestine derailment, we can't give MOW workers enough credit!!
It's seen some use Arkay, the swing has a lot of play in the ring gear, that's why I was so slow moving the house around at the switch. Really appreciate your checking out the video tonight and for all the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
Dave thank you and all the other people for all the hard work all of you do to keep the railroad running. Thank you Dave for the hard work you do to bring us these video's. God bless all of you. ❤🇨🇦
Your very welcome Ray. Thank you so much for the great support you have given the channel. Without great folks like you who watch and write in, there wouldn't be much of a channel here. We do appreciate you my friend.
Your welcome PM. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my good friend.
Thanks for taking us to work with you. As a kid I always wanted to operate large machinery when grew up but back then women did not have those jobs. Thanks for letting me ride along.
Your welcome Beverly and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
The operator is a fairly young guy and he does a very nice job. He watches my videos too! So I hope he sees this one. That thing has a lot of play in the swing on it and he handles it very well. Really appreciate all your great comments and support you have given us my friend.
He was very good John. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my friend.
Thank you so much Alan. Pleased to hear you had a good time with us today. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my friend.
Thank you so much Ron. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
Dave, Thank You for sharing the hard work these guys (and you) do, and most important your love for it. I'm not sure how to say this but I envy what you all do. There seems to be no BS, just work hard, work smart, work safe PERIOD.
Your welcome grvolans. Pretty neat I had a friend just last week send me an Amtrak police patch that he had worn on his uniform when he worked with them. Really appreciate your visiting with us and watching the home movie my good man.
Thank you Neal and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
This is a great video. Thanks also for machine tour. But if I see your gravel bed like this it is time that there is a track bed cleaning. this would be good for drainage and at the same time provide more stability in the track. Thank you Dave for always keeping us up to date on the cumberland mine rail. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Really glad you enjoyed Sven. You are so right, that curve really needs some ballast cleaning and the new ties will help for sure. Thanks so much for watching the video tonight my friend.
Good video Dave! As much fun as that looks, I bet a feller would be glad to get off that crane by the end of the day. You probably feel like you're going back and forth for two hours after you stop and count cross ties instead of sheep at night when you try to go to sleep. I'd still like to run that machine!!
Thank you so much Rick. fully understand counting ties at night, i get that when I tamp a lot. During the night I tamp ties. So do appreciate your watching and for all the great comments and wonderful support you have given the channel my friend.
Fascinating work! It occurs to me that during good weather, there is always some maintenance going on. This work looks like it requires one of those shutdown days to work the main line. Very cool :)
Really glad you enjoyed Brian. We can put ties in with a train running, however that really slows the process down since everything must be spiked back in before a train can pass so there just not a lot of time to do much at any one time. Shutdowns are a blessing to MOW. Thanks so much for all your great comments and the excellent support you are giving the channel my friend.
Thank you very much Doc, really glad you enjoyed. That young man does a very good job running a worn out machine. He also watches my videos. Really appreciate your stopping by and taking in the video my good man.
I have a good friend that worked for A.T.S.F. before the merger with B.N. and still worked for B.N.S.F before he retired several years ago. Always talked about running the Jackson Tamper. Always very interesting listening to him. He worked on BNSF Redrock Division in TX,OK and KS. Enjoy your videos.
Awesome Wayne, man would I love to talk with that guy! ATSF guys were really disheartened when that merger occurred and Santa Fe got on the end of BN instead of being up front. it was a lot of changes for everyone, but it proved to be an excellent merger after all they bugs got worked out. BNSF is now one great RR. Really appreciate your sharing that and for taking the time to watch the video today my friend.
Thank you Ralph and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
Welcome Raymond. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my friend.
Thank you Zach. Really appreciate all the nice comments and for all of you excellent support you have given the channel for such a long time now my good friend.
Could not agree with you more on the learning. I'm always learning new things on the RR even after so many years being in it and that's pretty cool. So do thank you for watching the presentation.
Your welcome Rick and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
Thank you Derrick and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
You sound normal to me about the different machines. It was really nice to see you in the reflection LOL. Your videos are always interesting. Thank you for taking time to film, and put this all together.
I sound normal? LOL I'm sure many of the guys here would get a big chuckle out of that! No one that works here is "normal" .... LOL.... I'm just kidding about that.Very much appreciate your visiting with us and watching tonight my dear lady.
Nice to hear you liked the presentation today Robin. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all you excellent support of the channel for a long time now my friend.
Glad you enjoyed Pete. Really appreciate all the great comments you a have sent in and the excellent support you have been giving the channel for a long time now my friend.
Your welcome Tom, really appreciate the very nice comment and for watching. That young man was doing a very good job using a worn out piece of equipment, lot of play in the swing in it.
Awesome Doug, I really hope you enjoy your trip! Email me lot's of pictures! Canadian railroads rock! Always look forward to hearing from you my good friend.
Dave. Another excellent video. Loved you moving the tie crane, it showed us more of the harbor yard, and then the action of them getting the job done. You can tell he's been on the job a while. He definitely knows what he's doing with it. Stay safe out there.
Thank you Pappy. That young guy did a very good job running a machine that is worn out. He watches my videos too! Very nice young man he is and hard working. Really appreciate your tuning in and watching my good friend.
Thank you for another interesting RU-vid video. Machine looks like an oversized prey mantis . Unless it has air con which I very much doubt must be very hot and dusty at the end of each shift in the cab . Always good to watch professionals at work . They make it look so simple - which of course it never is . Looking forward to the next one !
Thank you so much John. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my friend. And yes, it does have AC.
Thank you so much Wilbur. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
Really appreciate your stopping by Donnie and taking in the presentation my good man. Yep for a young man he's doing a darn good job on a machine that has a lot of play in the ring gear and other parts.
Dang it Eddie, I never wanted my life to turn out that way, get paid to play with big boy toys..... LOL Really appreciate your taking the time to write in and for watching the presentation my friend.
I'm jealous Michael! I would love to run a tie crane out there on the gang. So appreciate your visit tonight and all the excellent support you have given the channel my fellow railroader.
Very pleased to hear you enjoyed Dave. Yes sir, creosote is the preservative used for the ties we get. Lot of things look different to me know than they did when I was a kid.... LOL specially my body!!! Double LOL Thanks so much for stopping by and watching tonight my friend.
Thank you Bassotronics and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
They are nice Gary, we got those switch cubes about 2 years ago, outrageously priced tho, but much easier for the train operators to see than the old dull flags we had. They really shine up at night. Thanks so much for all the great comments and support you have given the channel my good friend.
Thank you Gary and very pleased you had a good time with us. We really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJOR relief! One of the reactions at the beginning was along the lines of, "Oh...Don't EVEN tell me he has to listen to that backup alarm the entire time...Oh. NOPE. It stopped. WHEW!!!!!!!!!!" 😂😉😜🤪😇🤓😎🥸🤡🙃 Wired in several backup alarms on vehicles and they sound EXACTLY like that thing...Just as annoying as well! 😅LOL! The only difference was that for mine, as long as the vehicle's transmission was shifted to "reverse", that alarm was connected. Translation: If that person for some reason was in reverse for 7 minutes, it would be 7 minutes of nonstop, "BEEP...BEEP...BEEP...BEEP..." fun! 🤨🙄😏 SPOOKY...LOL!
Your right Eric, I like the bi directional ones that stop shortly after you start moving. The one on my hi rail truck is uni directional and if I'm backing down track for 6 miles have to listen to the thing beep for 6 miles. Really appreciate all the great comments and support you are giving the channel my friend.
Thank you so much Tom. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel for a long time now my friend.
Great video Dave. If you could get those ties over to the UK you would make a fortune, people buy them for their gardens to make steps, raised plant beds etc. You would have to call them "railway sleepers" though otherwise no one would buy them. Finished our dinner, washing up time now!🙂🙃
Thank you Annette. Dinner entertainment again! I can call them sleepers, no problem with that. I will arrange for several thousand to be delivered to your door and you can be my selling agent. Split the profits fifty fifty. Thanks so much for all you great comments and for the support you are giving the channel my friend.
Thank you so much Daniel. Very glad you enjoyed. We really appreciate all the nice comments you have sent in and for all the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
I wish you had that machine that Japan has that pulls the spikes and grabs the ties and slides them out and lifts the track and removes all the ballast and dirt and puts in new ties and new spikes and it takes less than a minute for each tie to be removed and replaced It's a small bulldozer with a special set of claws I'm sure the operators have the skill to do it that quickly but it is perfectly designed to fit in the very tight spaces between the ties I saw videos this morning of a series of islands in the Atlantic Ocean that are part of Denmark I think and they built 80 miles of tunnels underneath mountains and underneath the ocean to connect the different Islands Previously everyone had to use fairies that took hours in rough seas to get from one Island to another and now they can make the same trip in 10 minutes using the tunnel I remember when America was the leader in the world of so many new technologies and we could design and build anything and do it quickly Now it takes decades just to get the planning stage done I remember watching interstate 287 being built from suffern at exit 15 of the New York State Thruway and it took 30 years to build 30 miles of Road Here in the Lehigh Valley they have been trying to expand route 22 from two lanes to three lanes since the mid '70s and they keep allocating money each year but the work never starts and at the end of the year the money has disappeared and the traffic remains gridlocked everyday I don't know how we got to this point
Thanks so much for writing in ocsrc. I agree with you, that our country is falling behind on some technologies including some railroading. We have room for improvement. Really appreciate all your comments and for the excellent support you have been giving the channel for a long time now my friend.
Feel for those guys pickup all the tie plates, that makes a long day. Another video I watched they had an electromagnet on the Tie Crane that picked up all the tie plates. I'd think that would be an easy upgrade to make to save a lot of labour! I suppose the manual way keeps someone employed. Great Video!
Was very nice of you to take the time and visit with us today to watch the presentation Will. That would be a really cool addition, never knew they had a magnet for the crane, they do for grapple trucks also.
Your very welcome, glad you enjoyed. That shipping container does a have an oil tank in it for putting oil in the locomotives, handy to have at the fueling station there. Really appreciate your visiting with us and taking the home movie my friend.
Will have to look through the catalog next time i go out to the model train shop, and maybe order a few MOW machines..........i noticed youve got an owwwwie on a finger, thats what boys do, they get owwies no matter how old we are! At the beginning of the video, what classification are the turnouts?, #4, #6, etc? Yes, that PRR K4 runs very smooth, wish i had enough room for it to go flat out with that passenger consist! Great video, as all of yours are!
It's pretty cool some of the model mow stuff they got, if I had the money I'd get a bunch if for nothing more than to just look at. Yea cut myself fixing my lunch for the day.... Every turnout you saw in that video was a #8 Paul. Really appreciate all your nice comments and the great support you have been giving the channel my friend.
@@ccrx6700 it might be a while before i get out to the hobby shop to get some HO MOW equipment, ive been having issues with a medication that causes a lot of joint pain especially in my hips and knees, makes it painful to stand up and even walk, i am just not ready for that. But, i have all your excellent videos to watch, just in case theres too much damage to all those moving human parts.
@@ccrx6700 ive been on a statin for lowering the "bad" cholesterol, the first cardiologist (feb 2021), put me on 40mg, then abruptly retired and left the practice. After 8 months i was starting to feel like a zombie for no apparent reason, so i stopped taking it. Meanwhile, a new cardiologist took the place of the old one, and over a couple months, i was back to near normal. So, the new cardiologist read my charts, etc, and put me back on the same statin, but at a lower dose (10mg). This was back in april, and over the last few weeks, i have been having joint pain in both my hips and knees that gets to the point where i cant stand up. So, i stopped taking that statin again, but the pain is still there, and it irritates me that i feel more like an old geezer than i want to feel. Ive got so many projects going but cant do them because of the pain that drags me down.
That tie crane is one neat piece of equipment! You got to operate it, too! Do you have to put the ties in, or do they? I was hoping you wouldn't fall walking through there.
Thanks for you concern Trena for my safety, I was hoping too.... :-) They will put the ties in and will be a video of them doing that out in about a month or so. Really appreciate all your nice comments and the excellent support you have given the channel my friend.
Those green ties you saw were probably ties that were not properly seasoned. it takes about 10 or more months, depending on the species to season a tie before they get creosoted. 12 months for oak. When a hardwood is not properly seasoned and creosoted before the right amount of time you will see green on the ties. Now you know! You may also like to find out that when maple is creosoted that has not been seasoned at least 3 months, that tie will rot very quickly, which is not true of the other hardwoods. Most plants will not even try to treat sycamore as it is full of water.
Another interesting machine you got to play with Enjoyed the walk around it. I guess you can haul some trailers if you call them that fitted with brakes as I see connectors on each end of the machine but the one you hauled did not have brakes.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the home movie cedarcam. We really appreciate all the great comments you send our way and the excellent support you have given the channel now for a long time my friend.
Great video. It was very interesting to see the ties removed without disturbing the rest of the track. Will you have to run that geometry equipment to check for alignment?
Great to hear you had a good time watching mustraline. No geo truck, if track surface appears to have some irregularities, I will simply tamp that section. These guys were very good at not disturbing the geometry. Some tie gangs can really do some unkind things to track surface. I had very little touch up to do after these guys. I liked that!
Awesome tie crane video. Never ran one but had to take one up with the rest of the machines to the load cars. I think I told you about that story when I drove it up the ramps on the load car?
Really glad you enjoyed Steve. So do appreciate all the very nice comments and for your excellent support of the channel for a very long time now my good friend.
Hi Dave, boy the interesting railroad maintenance equipment you get to see and or use almost daily? It's almost like you being a kid in candy shop, but on steroids!!!! 😂😂😂😂
They are called hi rail trucks cause they can go from highway to rail. Not sure what all you would like to know, but here's a video I had made of setting a brand new hi rail grapple truck on rail you may like to watch Turbo Tim: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JLmU_lo_bsk.html
Dave.... Your channel is contains a wealth of info on track technology, repairs, and failure modes. It seems that Cumberland RR requires an inordinate amount of maintenace. Granted, all of your trains are heavy, but they are short and slow. And of course you don't have to capital resources such as a Class A railroad has to update and improve the system. Having said all of that, do you think your maintenance, upgrades, improvements, and constant vigilance have reduced maintenance requirements over the years?
We have been cursed from the beginning with so many sharp degree curves and all jointed track, jointed track is a constant maintenance item. Then further cursed with having so many years and years of leaky hopper car doors plugging up the ballast, so yes there is an inordinate amount of maintenance, plus add into that SW Pa. weather, winter is hard on track. As long as we have the same conditions year after year we will continue to have the same maintenance problems. And I could go on for an hour about all the other adversity we deal with . So things will never change as far as maintenance goes.
@@ccrx6700 Understand.... welded rail and concrete ties would be the cat's meow and reduce maintenance, but that is impractical as you have explained, let alone the cost in megabucks. Could you use slightly larger diameter stone for the ballast, that would increase the volume of the interstitial spaces, and accommodate more coal dust, thus extending the interval between cribbing? (There likely is a spec for the ballast, but perhaps you could tweak the as delivered material to the high side of the spec.)
@@physicsphirst191 good thinking but also larger stone size is harder to tamp correctly to get it to pack together right and have best resistance against the ties. Besides that it is really hard to walk on when its on the track shoulder 😊
Hey Massachusetts (where I was born)! Stephen Demboske just posted a rail train on his channel dropping off fresh rail in central Mass, I bet it's part of the project the rest of this crew is on!
Could very well be Joshua. Vermont Railway got a huge grant and the project Frontier is on there is immense. They have 4 grapple trucks and all kinds of equipment up there. Really appreciate your writing in and for watching the video today my friend.
They are a lot of fun to play around on, I like my model train set, it's 1 to 1 scale Joseph.....:-) Thank you for taking the time to write in and to check out the tie crane show my friend.
I hate it when people put rocks on the tracks!!! LOL. I used to work for this guy when I was in my 20s in L.A. and he used to drive trains and whenever the subject came up, man would he get triggered. He would start going on about the size of the rocks people would put on the tracks, shopping carts, bikes, motor blocks, you name it. He would be fuming mad while telling these stories. What made him quit was some kids thought it would be a good idea to lay down in between the tracks while the train went over them. In the middle of the train was hopper cars with low hanging spouts..... So needless to say, the kids didn't make it... I decided then Id never ever get into rail roading... My son wanted to, I told him that story, he decided not to as well.
OMG David how horrible that must have been for that guy to run over those kids. I know it's not his fault and no way he could have ever gotten that train stopped. Most major railroads have paid counseling available these days for engineers who hit people, it's not something a guy just puts out of his mind. Really appreciate your watching and for all the great support you have been giving the channel my friend. PS: I really like watching you make stuff in your shop, you are a skilled craftsman. YTube is having some problems with sending out notifications, so if you post and I'm not there to watch it within a couple days, please get ahold of me here and let me know.
@@ccrx6700 Once my shop is operating, I'll be posting better videos more frequently. I also suspect youtube doesn't like me because I'm not too politically correct. I'm close to being up and running. I'm pouring a concrete slab this weekend for an alcove for my forge and finishing up the press. I'm hoping, I can start making the dies I need by end of the month or early sept. As for randy my old boss, he had issues because of what he experienced and talking about raIl roading was best avoided with him. I left out the graphic description of what the train did to them. He said he was never the same after that. I drove trains in So Cal mostly. I'll be heading out next week to shoot that video for you I promised.
Wow Thank God For Hydraulics......we can just hear Dave....now "you are not lifting ".....WELL GOOD day ,We changed 3 ties today "??..Dave WoW CUMBERLAND MINE is impressive to invest in tools beautiful trackage those remote control switches ....pretty exciting....We had fun Visiting...But don't be so hard on "SUPER DAVE " THAT tie Crane be soon be ,just another member of "Daves Toys"....AS MY boss tells us..."Just do it" It'll get done".....
Hydraulics rule the day for sure Bradford. Best of luck on your tie changing adventure. Hope you have an air or hydraulic spiker, remember to nip those ties up tight. Thanks for watching the show my friend.
Hadn't noticed that Michael, but didn't notice any oil leaks. the mechanics were in here a few days ago and gone over that machine so it must be okay. Very much appreciate all the great support you are giving the channel my friend.
Very glad you enjoyed Larry. There is a spike puller machine that goes ahead of the tie puller. Heres a short video of a puller in action if you would care to watch. I didn't get to video the spike puller they had here this time, the video is an older one from a year or so ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z6zDogmVZys.html
No it hasn't Stephen. When big snows come usually the train has kept running, however if they are not running coal trains, then they send the locomotive back and forth to the mine to keep tracks open. One time they didn't and I had to plow out the tracks with the regulator. Biggest problem with snow is if they aren't running trains, the snow getting into the hopper cars. They learned to leave the doors open if they not running trains so the snow can fall thru. Loading hopper cars with a lot of snow in them really messes things up when dumping and going thru the silo at the harbor.
Thank you very much Bob and Barb. Really glad you enjoyed the home movie. Tie costs obviously vary across the country depending on a number of factors such as availability of suitable wood, transportation costs, labor costs, fuel prices, etc. We get our ties from Applachian timber in Sutton WV, about 2 hours straight south of us. They cost us only $60 per tie, which is very reasonable and they are all grade ties. Grade ties are those made from hardwoods.
You’re not able to reverse the controls?? I worked at the county dump for a while. One worker did John Deere controls the other worker did cat controls. you are always have to make sure all the settings you’re in before you hopped in it and shift change
My excavator yes, not these tie cranes nor the grapple trucks Kody. Really messes a person up when the control pattern is different than what a guy is used to. Thanks so much for taking in the video today my good man.
What is the determining factor(s) for the use of a traditional wooden tie versus a concrete one? I would think concrete ones would have a longer lifespan than wooden ones. Curious about that, thanks!
Lot of discussion about the pros and cons of both types Rob, far too much to get into in a comment reply. If you watch this video, about 1/3 way into it I get into a god discussion why we don't use concrete here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oOug0z34118.html
@@ccrx6700 thanks bud! My partner and I just came clear across the country on the California Zephyr from Oakland, CA to Chicago to the Capital Limited to DC to the Silver Star to Tampa, and I was looking out for rail imperfections and trying my best to remember what you said about them. Also I was explaining the brackets that prevent longitudinal slipping of the rail, I forget what they’re called. So when you speak, we people out in the world are listening 👂
My excavator has that valve Brian, but these MOW machines and the grapple trucks do not for whatever reason I don't know. Thanks so much for visiting with me today and taking in the video my friend.
Thanks for this video, Dave. I was filming the Frankston Doodlebug in Australia today and some of the rail ties were very second hand indeed. My channel is Special Agent Fox Mulder if youve time to chech it out. Your vid showed me how they replace them!!! Thanks again!! 👍
Your very welcome Fox Mulder, so very glad you enjoyed and we do appreciate your visiting with us and watching my friend. Will do on channel check out, just give me some time to get there.
Thanks Dave. 👍 That's railroadin'! Some of the rail ties down here are very old fashioned or second hand indeed! Cheers for your great videos! 🚞🚋🚋🚋🚋🚞🚋🚋
No Jack, sometime in a month or so I will have a video out on the TRIPP machine that pulled and inserted the ties. Thanks so much for stopping by and taking in the video today my good man.
That depends Robert, ties in good ballast with good drainage can last 25 to 30 years. Ties in sharp degree curves last less because of the stress on the rails and thus ties. Ties in mud or very poor ballast will only last about half as long as those in good ballast. Appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend.
Thank you Tom for your work on the RR. We certainly appreciate your taking the time to check out the video. May you have a most blessed day my friend and please be safe out on them rails.
