I live right by the tracks in Mullins. Good to see RJ Coreman get this line back up and running again after Carolina Southern tanked the line years ago. Im on the transfer part of the line where RJC tranfers to the CSX over here in mullins.
Being a Milwaukee employee I have retailed a lot of cars box cars flat cars hopper cars propane & ammonia cats. First don’t put the frog on a track joint bar after placin the frog u must drive a wedge under the ball or the rail ,. Hard wood blocks placed properly make for a safe retail job
Gee, reminds me of the joke, how many pollocks does it take to screw in a light bulb, one guy to hold the lightbulb and four to turn the ladder, eight guys standing around to rerail a train....
@@71468NOVA thanks for the response back friend. I enjoyed that video how they got the train wheels on the tanker car back on the tracks. Thank you!. 👏
So, this is the new way. The old way, we would get wooden 4x4’s, 2x10’s and wedges. After the cars were rerailed, get the bar, open the journal box cover and use the bar to get the plate aligned in the journal box. Get used motor oil and fill the journal box to the proper level. Check and make sure each car is on the center pin properly. After all the cars are pulled away, get the guage rod and check the rail. If only a few spikes were needed, put the plugs in the holes and respike If the tie was in bad shape, call the track gang, they would come out, pull the spikes and with their speed/swing, grab a new tie and shove the old one out, leaving the new tie in its place. Guage rod and respike. Fun work in freezing rain at night!
This will eventually be automated.completely done by either remote controlled or automated. When the Railroad companies have the required computer engineering. You guys will be let go
You have to release the air brakes before pulling over the rerailers, The wheels were sliding which caused them to push the rerailers the first time. A rookie mistake.
im from chadbourn born and raised send more vids please makes me homesick i lived by peacocks crossing til i was 15 then moved to fayetteville great work
Mary's husband sezzz... Hi, I live locally and now I work in Loris. The train to Conway goes right by my work place which is of course a welcome occasional sight. Thanks for making this video. It's good to see something of our local rail. I'm wondering if there is any "meetups" for rail nuts in this area? Thanks
Appreciate your video...Always wondered how they would handle derailments in tunnels and other confined spaces...those devices are called 'straddle-type freight car rerailers' ...
If you look at the springs on the trucks, they are not compressed. That said, the tankers were empty. The re-railers are a heavy duty device and can handle some weight
@@71468NOVA They look loaded to me , just look at springs when it was on the ballast , don't forget they are compressed from top ( just look at the large gap above springs / bogie/truck , only small when empty )
I saw cars re railed when I worked for the B&O in the early 1970's. Most common during periods of wet weather, often occurring on miserable cold and rainy days. A stash of wooden blocks and wedges served as re-railing frogs.
We still did it like that when I was on UK re railing gang 15 years ago we never had or used re-railing frogs , don't know why ? they look great bit of kit
Rule #1 Secure the rerailing frog BEFORE attempting the move. Those "kind of" looked like the Butterfly Frogs we used on the Milwaukee Railroad although for this I would've chosen the Camelbacks..........
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As far as I can tell, they did not do a bearing inspection, but they did take the two tankers to the yard which is about quarter of a mile a way from the scene.
Of the rails can have places where holes are drilled though the sides. The rerail frogs can have holes to line up and place pins through them locking them in to keep them from sliding.
Do you ever watch a video hoping to see one of your former coworkers, just to remember that was 20 years ago? A special shout out to my former coworkers from CALA 01-04: Marty, Robert, Jamie, Ashley, Brent, Lynn, John, Allison, Ricky, and Mrs. Gwen!
@@crazyfarmer2564 I worked for Carolina Southern (CALA). They were the defunct predecessors to RJ Corman Carolina Line (RJCS). I started out on the track crew in 2001. Nearly a year later I was able to transfer to the train crew as a conductor working on the Mullins to Chadbourn branch.
I think that steel device they call a frog leg to put their whipped train wheels back on the track. If I'm correct. Please let me know if I got that comment right thank you.
@@acarknocker As a retired 41 year carknocker, I wouldn’t have even tried to explain that to him! I’m guessing he doesn’t know about turnouts! Ha! Side note: I never liked butterfly rerailers, and very rarely ever saw any on the Nothing Special RR (get it?) I worked for! Their weapon of choice was the Burlington “hook & wedge” type! A good stack of oak blocks works as well as anything, but under a loaded car like these tanks were, they don’t last but one or two moves before turning to kindling!
The wheels are not flat nor are the rail heads. the slight angle of the wheels mating with the angle of the tracks (The track heads slope inwards to each other, the wheels slope outwards.Thus the wheels self center. If one side climbs, the other side tends to pull it back. The flanges really take make little contact and stress except in curves. A flange on the outer side of the rails would cause difficulties with switches and crossovers. There are several articles on RU-vid about the design/relationship of wheels and rails.
I live in nc , and are the tracks supposed to move 6 to 8 inches up and down, and 3 to 4 side to side,are they not checking the tracks,it is their job to maintain them
Weren't they at one time considering relaying Whiteville-Wilmington?? Never happen in this life, (and doesn't make any economical sense) but I'd love seeing Wilmington/Florence/Augusta again......😢
Man they sure know to blow money and time send 5 ppl out on a derailment and watch them stand around and look busy and pretty while two guys are actually do the work man im in the wrong profession.
Yes they do. They have roughly 1/2 half mile to 3/4 of a mile of duel rails set up for storage in Chadbourne at a small yard with some supplies and it looks like they are now doing a locomotive repair
Most of the time the RJ Corman engineers do wave 👋 at me. I have stopped and talked to track crews and they have been very friendly and have answered any questions that I may have. If you check out my video on the train bringing back empty cars from North Conway, you can spot the engineer waving 😁
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RJ Corman just finished replacing miles upon miles of ties and ballast including repairing/replacing many railroad crossings. It seems like they have a program to make the rails safer
Back in February 1923 they had a derailment with five or six cars laying on the side just outside of Loris South Carolina. That was a 24 hour clean up.
Just more attention. If you look up how many derailments happened in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, you'll see that they were happening a lot more back then.
Gotta love union labor. 6 guys standing around doing nothing except watching 2 other guys doing all the work. No wonder the cost of everything is so high.
We would have done with two persons to rerail the load tank car and bring some wood and camel back retailers. Did they do the roller bearing inspection on all wheels? Maybe not. Do not call R. J. Cormen for rerailing.
I was thinking the same thing, but they were at a railroad crossing so they blocked that off with their vehicles at first. there were also crewmembers on the other side of the train setting up the re-railers. I did see a crane truck and a second engine behind the 2 tank cars
Since this isn’t a govt job, I’m guessing that the others are standing by to do their part at the right time. One of the men there was not a railroad employee-no hard hat. I’ve seen retailing before on another small line. I’m wondering if a few bad ties and spread rail caused the derailment, and the other guys will be replacing the bad ties and respiring the rail. This line had not been maintained before RJ Corman acquired it. I had visited the line back then-little sign of maintenance or even of serving any customers. They just were storing lots of freight cars. This was 11-12 years ago.
@@keithranker3908 what I did see was a switch at the derailment. I can’t say if it were the ties or the switch. When the tank cars were retailed and left the crew started to walk the tracks
My personal opinion is get the tractor trailers off the highways. Make the train tracks the truck routes. Get the semi trucks off the highway and they can run where the tracks used to be. A bit slower but much safer. Obviously they can get off the old track line when they got close to their destination. After picking up another load get back on the the line. Empty only on the interstates and state routes. Loaded only on the old track lines aside of the closest exit to get to destination.
