Please forgive the lack of tripod! In a extremely rare move between CSX, Union Pacific and BNSF, The world's Largest Railcar made a trip to Camp Pendleton via the Sunset Route with a CSX unit leading it all the way to the west coast.
Yeah nice to see a fully functional one with interior intact and still working for designed purpose. Normally you see them welded shut and used as shove platforms.
For any one wondering, "Humping" refers to using a train yard that has a hump to utilize gravity in building out trains. They do this by sending a car down the slope and use switches to get it on the exact track to build out the train. This can cause damage to the cars if they are to heavy and or cant take the force of fast coupling with other cars.
I think they are more worried about this car damaging other cars rather than any car damaging this beast 😆 imagine what it'd take to stop this car with it rolling free down a hill.
Humping is a type of kicking, yes, but not all kicking is humping. Humping can only be done in yards specifically designed for the process, where kicking can be done anywhere.
They put that "NO HUMPING" on the side of the frame of the car to stop rail fans from sexually assaulting the biggest thing on rails. Whoa boy, get down!
Sonny Pruitt Lol! It's no longer a point in the UK because we haven't had a functioning hump yard for fifty years, but certain old freight cars used to be marked "do not hump shunt" to specifically avoid the potential nudge-nudge schoolboy humour.
@@rocksreynolds3642 thats too bad its an effective way to sort freight if you have high volume and its neat to watch the flow as slow as it is going down, we used to have one around here when the old pennsy yard was in full boom and well into conrails era, but its not had retarders on it or most of the tracks for the second bowl for some time, you can still see the hump tower though and the lead is marked as well as the slight slope of the hill, we also used to be someone railroad wise in fort wayne, especially at the turn of the 20th century largest rail car wheel foundry in the world at the southeastern end of the yard and a large shop complex in the pre diesle days when passenger trains were still steam they had all the big experamental steamers that would come though there, the s1 the t1s, the q1,q2s and the s2 all were regular runners of this division as it was the only place straight enough to run the huge engines elsewhere too sharp of turns to run them, also garrett was the central spot of the midwest for repairing locomotives and had the largest shop square footage till mount clare where they built them was expanded, and had the largest roundhouse at 32 bays on the entire b and o till they tore down about half it in 1933, it was also the last place to have a steam locomotive in its roundhouse here before all the t3's were scrapped though they did give us the chance to buy one and display in the city but we could not even afford scrap value for it at the time, and we did care enough to try to make a musiume out of the old roundhouse but the b and o would not let us said would be too much to fix even for 10 stalls so they hired a demo contractor to tear it down and pretty much tore all but the walls down and ended it in january 23 1964 then the huge fire they set with the old roof that they were trying to burn set a power pole on fire and the fire fighters had to be called to put it out. the foundations go down 12 feet on the pits under the locomotive stalls and are still there mostly right behind and underneath the fire and police station and still sticking up a few inches into the grass in some spots where the locomotive shed as you call it in the uk was.
@@rocksreynolds3642 - We still have hump-yards in every town, only now they're called dogging sites. (they're supermarket car-parks after dark) tee-hee-hee!
I was wondering what that gigantic railcar was used for. .besides giving all the rail fans boners..lol. is it some sort of crane?...does it open up...I'm a trucker so I ve seen huge long trailers designed somewhat like that but I dont see them hauling anything. Just a ton of axles..but I ve also seen other special trailers pulling transformers..windmill parts..and they are well over 100 feet long.
I saw this go by my house ( Barstow California)a few days ago, sun was just coming up, couldn’t believe it, wanted to go chase it down to get a better look
Right now it’s sitting right outside of Las Vegas after transporting the San Onofre Nuclear Reactor from Southern California. It is a very impressive piece of equipment.
A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. ... When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds.
@@bellboy4074 What you say is true for some schnabel car configurations, but not for this one. See the figure on this page: sbiii.com/schnpix/kruppg15.jpg
Yes I agree the red and white caboose is sweet. The green one needs a fresh paint job but I noticed that both cabooses have dual a/c units. I bet they feel good in the warm months..I like the spot lights o. The red and white one
Great footage anyways Griffith! Thank you for getting footage of the move. I really wish I was with you but can't always go that very far from LA. -Jon
No, no, it'll still be transported on the streets via truck. They use this meathod if it's going a very long distance due to cost. It probably costs as much, if not more to move it via truck across town/state to the train, as it would to move it cross country on the train. Plus these kinds of truck moves are done overnight because if the size. 97% of people wouldn't even know what happened
It’s for really heavy specialized loads. The car splits in two, and the big red arms pick up the load and suspend it between the front and rear haves. Westinghouse owns this one. It’s used to transport newly completed nuclear reactor vessels. (Possibly Navy ships reactors?)
Nuclear reactor vessels. I'm surprised to see it still on the rails. A video back in 2017 said it was supposed to be retired at the end of it's trip in Utah.
Could Some Please Tell Me What Does This EXTREMELY LARGE Railroad Do Other Than Haul Extremely Heavy Load,...I See Hydraulic Cylinders On It, It's Got Do Something, I Never Seen A Video With A SCHNABEL CAR, In Action Just Rolling Down The Track!
Railroad "HUMP YARDS" are nothing more than a bunch of tracks on a hill so they can let the cars roll down for sorting into different destinations rather than having to move them with a powered unit.
I know it's going to get loaded with a nuclear cask from the decommissioned power station there along the surfline. My question is when is it heading out, and will it go out over Cajon, or the sunset route?
At least routing wise, it should be over Cajon. Reportedly taking the load(or loads) to Utah for recycling. Timing is unknown but might be in very near future as it was recently relocated from long term storage at the Stuart Mesa yard to Control point Songs spur near the plant in San Onofre.
This looks to be a very interesting train car. Why wasn't it showing as it morpes into whatever it was to become when, as it looks to be opened up to use. Why didn't you show it morphing into whatever it is when opened for use? Please be more creative when you show something like this. You could have added a short video after the train run. To show it morphing for work preparation. Thank You for doing this in the future and even adding an additional video of the train car morphing that wasn't included in the original video. Giving your user the option to see it in action. First the Morphing, Then the working if possible in some cases like this mammoth train car. It might have been awesome to see.
