Refueling A Union Pacific Eastbound Stack Train At Thompsonville Rd Perry Ks 

At a steel mill I use to work at, the fuel truck (similar to that one) called a locomotive to come on the track next to the road. It was on the 3rd track from the road. Our new superintendent heard this and told the truck driver to pull the hose across 2 tracks to fuel the locomotive. The driver tried to explain, that the shoulder was to soft as he would have to park on the shoulder for the hose to reach. He was told, “do as you’re told or go home”! The driver did as he was told, and the right side of the truck sank, almost going over except for the large step on the back of the truck. He was able to fuel that locomotive, but the yardmaster had to call every locomotive in the area, to stop what they were doing, and come to the fuel truck, so the fuel truck could be emptied. I believe it took over 2 hours, for the truck to be emptied and pulled out. This is what happens when management is staffed by who you know, not what you know. The superintendent use to be a scaleman, who would sleep all the time, whose Mom worked in the main office.

Nice little contract that guy has with the RR. Also, the timing of the deceleration was great!

I thought I've seen some big trains before but this is next level. Super cool. I never gave remote refueling a thought before.

Great Video, Interesting to see a refuel in the country, thanks for sharing

thank you for sharing he did not waste time filling and holding the train up any longer than neccessary

I see this all the time at a train station in Oshawa Canada. GO Transit passenger trains are fueled up at the end of line, before leaving on their return trips.

Wow, that was pretty cool! Thats a nice contract for the trucking company. The logo on the truck was epic

My younger brother has a brother-in-law who owns an Oil Company with his Dad here in St. Louis. He has Fueled Amtrak Units in and around (within 35mi.) of STL.

Prolly not too much. My guesstimation is 500gal for each loco. Remember refueling like this costs extra. The DPUs just need enough to make it to the next yard that has servicing. I am up in Gothenburg, NE (also UPRR - 43miles east of Bailey yard at North Platte, NE), so I have no idea where that would be in KS.

That fuel truck is from Capital City Oil in Topeka Kansas

FUN FACT!! THE SD-45 LOCOMOTIVE WITH THE MECHANICAL FUEL INJECTORS WOULD CONSUME 180 GALLONS OF FUEL PER HOUR AT FULL LOAD, THROTTLE NOTCH 8! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍

How cool to have a train meet while refueling! I am not sure why the telephone poles are bothering so many viewers. Life has poles in the way all through it. And lots of people depend on the power from the poles. And as the DPUs went past, we could see the smoke coming from the stack of the second locomotive.

That is a very long train and only three engines. Great video.

Kudos to the Engineer knows when to stop

Pretty cool thanks for sharing this

Great video. You should invest in a tripod for stability. I kept having to adjust my frame to keep a visual on the refueling guy. I often wondered where and how refueling took place, so thanks for the education.

OUTSTANDING! 👍 That was a very long train. You have a new subscriber.

Very cool. I've never seen that before. What a huge train.

Nice recording. It was very interesting to hear the UP EMD SD70ACe-t4 P6AH. I have never heard a 4-cycle engine in an EMD locomotive. Well there was once a UP SD90MAC with the H engine in it on Norfork Southern rails in South Carolina. It sounds like a quieter version of the GE-Wabtec FDL-16. I believe that the engine installed in the SD70ACe-t4 locomotives is sn evolution of that prototype. It would've been great if Progress Rail-EMD had kept trying to perfect the 90MAC H engine by field testing it on several class ones as demonstration models. They wouldn't have been caught by surprise at Tier4.

At 1st glance I thought only one locomotive I thought to myself dang !! but then when you said there was mids. I knew it was a long train

I always thought trains were refueled at yards and depots. Not in the middle of nowhere from a truck. This makes sense though since the vast majority of the Midwest is rural.

Great Video about Refueling. Thanks for filming and sharing. I enjoy listening to you people having your scanners programed into the Rail-Road Frequenies and you get tolisten to some of their conversaions and other rail road operational activities. By the way, one of these days I want to install the Railroad fequencies into my Realistic Tandy Radio Shack PRO-2022 Scanner. Can anybody tell me (or list for me), what Frequencies the Railroads use especially in my area. I've tried to look them up but only get confused. There seems to be a lot of them. Besides the main lines here in my area - there is also the local railroad named the "Eastern Idaho Rail Road" that just serves the local towns and our local industries of the Mini-Cassia area of Cassia and Minidoka counties as well as the Twin Falls county area.

Possible business reasons for refueling in the sticks instead of a yard. Train length - not many yards can hold a 3-1/2 mile long train. The cities may not be happy with long trains, especially if they stop to refuel with the head and tail blocking grade crossings. In the yard, refueling would probably be performed by railroad union employees - out in the country, a contractor provides the labor. The big railroads are all about reducing labor costs. That's why trains only have 2-employee crews now, and the trains they operate are longer and longer. Stop the train in one piece, pay a contractor to fuel up the robot DPU locomotives, bypass the yards and the big cities where possible, thrill the stockholders. The price per gallon of diesel may be more by tankwagon delivery, but the labor is contracted. The train is all together, no switching or decoupling to get the locos to the fueling station.

Very cool Grey beard!!!! thank you!

Great video. Never saw motive power fueled before in the field...vandalized loco a rarity too...😮

That looked like a couple of DPUs to me

Must be empties with a single engine on front and all those cars.

Wow, now I know how trains refuel!

In the good old days they would clean the windscreen while fuelling. You just can't get good service these days.

super great video ❤❤😍😍

The electronic bells are a pain in the a** with the constant ring. The ones that don't do that are ok. Headache central...lol. Robert

My Grandfather used to meet warships in the middle of the Pacific ocean to refuel them. USS Passumpsic AO-107

That is Distributed Power...in mid train.

Nice catch ... UP3077 an EMD SD70ACe-T4

Are the trucks on a locomotive free wheeling, or are they locked if there is no power? I never questioned this before, but what would happen if a DPU ran out of fuel, and quit? Would the train continue to move? I have been a rail fan for 77 years, and about 6 months ago discovered the train videos on RU-vid. I am in hog heaven now. I will be subscribing as soon as I get done typing. 🥰

That was a great catch Grey Beard! I am new at this and have not seen this happening in Florida . . .yet!

Did this for US Refueling outta Pittsburgh PA. Chased a Loram grinder train . Meet alot of great people.

I love the non-stop bell!

Yea, used to see that all the time at the power plant, and NS does it in Danville.

That's really so backwards. I drive trains on transcontinental routes across Australia. We, and one other of the big 3 have a wagon directly behind the locomotives that automatically, keep the fuel up to the locomotives. The In Line Fuel (ILF) wagon is 20m, fitted with two 20' ISO tanks that hold 24m3 of diesel. There is also a pump unit on the ILF wagon that is connected to the loco's with a MR air supply, communication with the loco's from a MU cable, and of course the fuel hose. All the locomotives in the consist have interconnecting fuel hoses between them. When the fuel in the locomotive tanks drops to a predetermined level, a signal via the MU jumper is sent back to the pump unit and it supplies fuel to that locomotive's fuel tank. For a brief period in 2012 when we had to run ore trains to the port of Darwin, as a ECP-WDP train, the remote loco's also had an ILF wagon with them. The ore trains we're running now are still ECP-WDP, however the remote unit is only idling to the mine loading point, so it has sufficient fuel to be used on the return with the loaded train. The lead loco's are of course powering the empty train to the loading point, so they run with an ILF wagon. Whilst the IFL works automatically in primary mode, there is a secondary mode where the system can be manually used, and also a tertiary mode where tank valves ca be opened up and fuel supplied to the locomotives via gravity. With the system working in auto mode, there is no time lost for fuelling.

This Train obviously didn’t come through or out of North Platte, NE.

Truck line I worked for years ago, they had a small terminal just north of Bakersfield, California. On 2-3 occasions a fuel truck would be there fueling the UP locomotive.

Some thieves got in one of the sea cans @ 5:43 door is open.

The fuel truck sounded great, sounds powerful. The pink containers are new to me, I have never seen those before.

I'm surprised they refuel at that location rather than in the yard in N. Topeka.

The wooden poles made a nice frame for counting cars. My count was 186 intermodal cars (did not double check, not guaranteed) each with 4 axles. There were 3 locomotives with 6 axles each. 762 axles for the defect detector. There were 131 intermodals in front of the DPUs, and 55 behind them. Using an estimate of 22 to 25 feet for each intermodal flatbed gives an estimated length of 17k to 19k feet, or 3.2 to 3.5 miles total train length. That's a big one. Can you imagine it negotiating the horseshoe curve? Evidently there have been trains of 5 miles total length in the US - would not be surprised if that was in Kansas or some other flat terrain. On the curves, it would put a lot of wear on the wheels and rails - might need multiple DPUs in at least two places. Can they operate with more than one DPU section (a 3-part train, or more?)

THAT NOT A DPU!!??- Is defined as power units in middle or end of train controlled by engines in front. SO

Great video...this practice is used by other railroads as needed...arrangements could be made where a crew change takes place..just my thoughts...oh and whats up with #tags # graffiti on engines?? This is really crossing the lines...Do NOT Deface Locomotives...period...if you want a paint job call UP and ask to work for them painting engines in there shops...nice $$ good benefits and your work is worth something finally.

3077 UP is a SD70AH-T4 OTHER IS A GE -AC44CWCTE 5834

Good place to build the hyperloop train to go through this area

All the Freight Trains now-a-days are getting to be Absolutley WayToooooooo Long.

Hearing protection needed. For the train?? No. For the truck?? No. For the stinkin' crossing bell!!! How cotton-pickin' long was that sucker??

Curious, funny situation. You can do that in the middle of nowhere. Despite the long stop, not a single car waiting at the blocked level crossing. I suppose the locos have a central reservoir accessible from both sides, don't they? Otherwise, refuelling across the other track from the other side might have been a problem, right?

what you here is the air building they dump to set the brakes

Novel ! This is the first time that I've seen this. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario

Nice heritage units

Awesome man.

Cool video

I dont know if i counted right but was that only 3 locos total pulling that. Now that's horsepower bro....

Curious if vandals ever steal parts / copper off locomotives since they can easily spray paint them that much

I have always wondered how the Engineer manages to make his stop with such precision to line up with the fuel truck. .

How did the engineer know exactly when to stop? How long was this train? Is it against the rules to get up close? Thanks for posting.

People think hybrid cars are something new. Locomotives have been hybrids for well over 300 years (or at least since Hector was a pup).

Those are DPU’s that are being refueled.

Stack Train? I had many relatives and friends call Them PiggyBack Trains. They all worked for Southern Pacific RR.

Wow, a long train .thanks

Am from trinadad so cool never saw such long train

Iam confused counting the wagon. I think more or less 250 wagons. This is my first time to see that long. Anyways 2 trains connected each other.

That was cool my man! Glad I found your channel. I just subscribed.

I hate crossings where the beĺl keeps going.

Surprised they do not have trackside tanks at various refueling intervals.

I'm from AUS. To the best of my knowledge out cross-country intramodals are never this big. Just how long are the BIG containers shown?? Thanks

Man that's a long train is that usual there?

Great video, but that is the DPU’s.

Dang that’s a long train 🚂 😊

First refueling I’ve ever seen. Why would they not top off all locomotives to avoid excess stop/start cycles?

Subbed! cool share.

Seems odd UP has to wet hose refuel remotes so close to K C. Seems like a planning failure somewhere in their process.

Was train stopped on a sideline or was it a mainline track? Thanks for the video.

Couldn't you have walked up to the posts to get your lens past them?

Cool engine awe Horn to...My birthday is next Tuesday February 27. Ill be 35. Wonder what kind of awesome trains you'll have on my birthday. From Newberry SC

It surprised me that with a grade crossing with arms that it was not a paved road.

How is it to live in Topeka these days?

Gotta say loving the telegraph pole there

Good spot to hop on or off the train!

Question guys Which louder the train horn or the ship horn ? Who’ve heard both

Curious why you said they're not DPU'S? Any units middle or end of the train are distributed power.

Why didn’t the refuel in KC or North Platte. Who knows the brilliance of PSR

Why did you have two utility poles in the middle of the shot?

I like that very interesting

Very cool intro!

Yes that is a DPU with remote set up from head end. If that was a bad order or dead good locomotive he wouldn’t be fueling them. Trust me I should know.

Now that’s a train hauling

Man, that was a LONG train! Anyone count the number of axels? Perry is one remote area. I'd hate to run out of gas there! LOL!!!

How do they keep these trains from plowing into one another when stopped? do they have a computer onboard showing where all trains are on the tracks?

Wonder if fuel company will get his money in a timely manner?

Awesome 🇭🇲🙏👍

i did one in baltimore, 2 tanks, 3 K ea. diesel.

Watching from the UK, amazing

Am new to this channel. What kind of fuel and how the hell long is that train??