@@midnyte6195 Indeed, yes. I remember when the last two American Civil War soldiers died, when gasoline was 17.9 cents a gallon, and when even small villages had passenger rail service by steam locomotive. (No lie.) I even recall fertilizing my garden with dinosaur poop. (Big lie.)
Great Video!!! I always thought that Behr was serviced by CPKC. I think YJA65 I going to run to Alcivia (formerly Landmark) either today or Friday, because they have loaded cars.
You certainly have the patience to watch this occur. UP has this type of track to deal with in Milwaukee to serve a warehouse and a chemical company. I see Alter got.a 2nd order of new scrap cars and that they got the local hockey team to advertise on them (sic)
All that creaking and groaning sounds like me getting out of bed in the morning! That, and a bag of microwave popcorn cooking off. Mebbe MoW ought to look into a little preventive maintenance? Or is it just cheaper to fix it when it breaks? I'll bet that train crew hates this section of track - you know the bosses will blame them if something hits the rocks. Nice video, interesting RR work. BTW, help us geographic dummies with City and State location, OK? thx.
Looks like the hose needs hoisted up a few inches to keep it from getting beat up. (0:53 - 1:00 approximately). Most of the movement is from weed stalks, but there's one or two times it looks like it hit the tie.
@@spuwho At low speeds, it's about tractive effort and not HP. HP only comes into play at track speeds. At these slow speeds a 1400hp switcher would do just fine if starting TE were close, and on these 4 axle units they generally are. The GP60 can't put its 3800 hp down at speeds below 25ish MPH, transition limits to around 2800 HP (or even lower) to that speed. The GP40-2 similarly will only put out 2300 HP at speeds below around 25mph. This is due to the power of the engine, the 4 axle configuration, and the desire to not encounter wheel slip.
The power is what’s available when the crew goes to work, and why do I know this because I worked for them. When you go on duty, the yardmaster gives you your switch list and the engineer is pointed to the power he’s or her assigned to, Simple as that. And having worked on shit industries track that’s exactly what you do, crawl out of there so you do not get yourself on the ground and screw up the rest of your day.
You can't waste something if its pulling tonnage.. railroading is not some train simulator. we don't get to pick and choose the types of equipment used day to day..
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I know employees have to follow union work rules. But those 2 guys riding the front of the engine aren't any help. Only one got on the ground watching for potential problems. Seems a couple more sets of eyes would be better. But I'm guessing that's not in their job description. 🙄
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq I thought so. I've seen derailments there before they even cross Blackhawk Blvd. I think the CP owns those tracks now. They need to fix that crossing, it's garbage. I work right next to the scrap yard, you wouldn't believe some of the explosions that come out of that place!
Looks as all the cars are loaded so that's revenue. That's why they still serve them. You would have to did thru layers of politics to find out who is responsible for this track's maintenance
Yeah well you could get them to charge down the siding at full noise and save a few hundred dollars in wages...and end up spending thousands on a re-rail job.
@@silicon212 Well then it's a question of --- if the customer does not want to chip in for the track that services THEIR business, then UP can DENY SERVICE.
@@user-mr3ct1dm9p Back in the SP days, I knew many of the guys that would crew the Magma Turn local out of Phoenix to the east. In the early 90s, they would serve customers in a small industrial yard east of Center st at Broadway in Mesa. Much of this track was very old, and in the same condition as what you see here. The conductor of that crew told me that if a car were to go on the ground, the engineer was to run the engine hard and tear out as much of that old track as possible - because this was the only way it would be repaired.
Like that local freight action, even in slow motion.👍 Those 2 guys riding the engine are useless. One guy on the ground watching for potential problems. Seems a couple more sets of eyes watching would be nice. But I guess that's not in their union job description.🙄
I'll agree, Trump's approach to the rail sector was referred to as "a dichotomy" of priorities. The TIGER and FAST programs didn't get consistent funding and, more importantly, clear vision and direction. An article commented about "leveraging" the rails private sector to receive funding... collaboration with the system that regulates you is a (metaphorically) marriage of convenience, and corruption vis. "quid pro quo" is most likely how things are being done (my opinion). A clearer, more defined vision needs to happen, but infrastructure ain't sexy, so it often gets ignored until... "Damn! These tracks is outta gauge, why are they conducting business on unsafe tracks?" 💀☕ @@jasminelindros8923
