I worked on a railroad 44 years and someone came up with a great idea to rerail cars that saved us a lot of time and work. It was a pair of steel bars tapered from 0 to just about rail height. They were about 2 inches thick. It was fast and easy to place one of those inside the rail sitting on the base and as soon as the wheel got onto it
When i worked for QR. We had a thing to attach to the rails that had a ramp on. For re-railing carriages. Also had a clamp to bring the rails back into the right gauge again.
I liked this. I can remember as a kid in the 70's my POP, got a 44 back on the track near the silo's at THE ROCK. He had a day off but got the Fettlers to put the sleepers under the front and reversed it while the others were waiting for the old yellow crane from Junee. He got out, went home, and poured a beer.
This video was really great Rocketboy1950! It was amazing to witness the recovery process of rerailing the bogies. Two thumbs up, a very rare capture of something you don't see often.
I still love the look of that era of engines stream line sleek powerful they are just easy on the eye in a time when now looks are more important than performance and still these look better than anything out now
It is a low speed freight line which is not maintained or inspected to anything like the standard of a main line. Having said that I agree that the system is a mess.
It is a very heavy metal ramp that fits over a rail and allows a wheel to be dragged up to a point at which it will drop back into position on the track.
Simon, unfortunately the wheels come up on the blocks ( which are not placed long enough ) and drop back on the ground while the rear wheel is coming up. All the blocks were a waste of time therefore. The wheels rerailed when they got to the concrete road crossing. Maybe someone needs a tape measure next time. And yes, I have rerailed cars.
What gradient if any was there and which way was the train running? It seems to me that the rail will always fail on the side that the escapement from gyroscopic nutation sends it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hVKz9G3YXiw.html www.cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/gyroscope_physics.php When a disturbing torque is applied while the body is rotating such that the rotation axis describes a cone, with the vertical through the vertex of the body as axis of the cone, and the motion of the rotating body is perpendicular to the direction of the torque.
I was sitting on a railway wall years ago watching trains pass, We heard the train from a distance and it sounded horribly deafening, as it got nearer we could see smoke towards the back end. The loco and 1st few wagons were ok but then we could see the last 20 odd cars with wheels about 1ft off. The smoke was the wheels chewing the sleepers and crushing ballast while travelling about 25-30 in a cutting on a steep gradient which made a frightening sound.such an awesome sight. cool video though
This is a great video Rocketboy1950! I am a collector of Railway Digest (for those who don't know what it is, it's a railway magazine in Australia) and i see locomotive S303 alot in them. I see that these sleepers are wooden so this must be a grain siding i suppose? It obviously doesn't get much attention, so (it's just a guess) while the train was rolling over this railway the track rolled and spread. So the train derailed.
thanx for your reply I remember years ago they used to have a special peice of equipment that was called a rerailer made of steel I think it was placed in front of the derailed wheels and formed a sort of ramp that the wheels ran onto and onto the line maybe some of the old rail men will remember them but they were standard equipment back then
I remember being in the cab of C501 backing up in the SG road to the turntable at Seymour when the trailing bogie(or truck for any americans) did the same thing, in the dirt big time!!
When a train goes on the ground here in the States, many times they will use a "re-railing frog" which is a steel plate angled back to the rail. It catches the flange and forces it back up onto the track. It serves the same purpose as the wood used in the segment at 2:40.
I worked for the Santa Fe, and Burlington Northern as a freight brakeman/ conductor for 20 years. The device your thinking about is called a frog. Used it quite a few times in cars jumping track in industrial parks, or splitting a switch. Derailments are usually a wheel looses it's press on a axle, wheel bearing goes, axle or wheel breaks, dragging equipment, or engineer going too fast for track condition.
Those are still carried on branchline trains in the USA. A number of years on the Rock Island Railroad the tracks were so bad they even had derailments of standing trains.
We never used screws in Australia. The real issue here was probably rotted sleepers that allowed the spikes to give and spread the rails. It's only a 15km/h freight line with almost no traffic these days. As a result it doesn't get much attention.
We had some tools made for this type of spread rail and it was very simple. A pair of steel slabs cut like a tear drop sort of about 25 5o 35 inches long and about 2 inches thick. use them in place of oak wedges an just place a tiny sliver of wood to keep the wheel from pushing the wedges. Sort of pin them down. The top of them needs to be tall enough for the tallest rails.
l remember seeing this, it was the up end of Totty Yard, took me back years as seeing these old girls back on the rails reminded me of the mid 80's when they were a common sight out there as l had a perfect lookout from the Olex Tower
i know its not a metro line but i generally dont read the herald sun, i normally get the age, but an amazing video interesting to see how they re-railed that rollingstock at the end
When this happens in Britain, the entire system shuts down for hours, sometimes for most of the day.But, when the system shuts down, its usually due to vandalism on signalling equipment.
The Victorian Railways engines all used to carry the frogs but I guess since the break up I guess the different companies decided it was too expensive to carry them of course VR also used have their own breakdown crane trains allways ready in major yards ready to go at any time
Geez ! You'd think they'd have steel rerailing chocks similar to those common de-rails used to prevent cars rolling too near main.. Wood blocks !! My god how silly it looks !!
@DaveWVideo and I'm stuffed if I know why they aren't in use here. The Commonwealth Railways carried them on the locos that ran across the Nullarbor. They were a bloody long way from help out there.
2:14 they’re damaging the track more by driving The train still in the US they would check up the cars right away and put them back on the track not drive on and drag The train like that because all you’re doing is winding up spreading the track and tearing out spikes.
Ya gotta wonder. The old Commonwealth Railways carried one on each locomotive because they ran across such remote country with no help at hand for hundreds of miles.
BTW, in Russian this equipment is called "frogs". A common things on industrial branches. And on narrow gauge railroads they usually kept 1-2 pairs of "frogs" on every locomotive, because there was a probability for a train about 50% to derail, or 50% not to derail, any time passing these some "ill" sites on the track (for example, some site with actual gauge 810 mm on 750 mm line :) ).
Having done this a few times myself, but never alone, I know that rerailing equipment is a dirty, nasty, dangerous job. I just wonder why there was a gap in the wood cribbing and the concrete when the grain cars were being rerailed. And I am assuming that the passenger equipment on the adjacent tracks were operating under a slow order.
You need to look at some more of my videos and those of the two featured sites that I have on the main page. The old locos are on hire and doing lots of main line running..
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. It varies but the advertising generates $300-$900 a month. A nice return for something that I was doing for a hobby anyway.
Looking at several of this type of video. The common factor seems to be the use of spikes instead of screws to hold the rail in place and that they have been knocked back in. Is this the same here. I think the practice was outlawed decades ago in Europe.
@@gijs.22 what snow plow, this is Australia no trains run up the mountains to the snow, because no lines run up to the snow, if you want to go to the snow you need a truck, bus or car
