Union Pacific Challenger Steam Locomotive's Joe Jordan Tender Jumps The Rails at the Wye! watch as the UPRR Mantis crane lifts the tender, and the trouble with getting the center pin back in while loaded with water
@curtbarile if you notice that was a UP crane the UP logo's on the side of it. so some guys got some overtime out of it. if they would have chained the trucks and used a knuckle sling they wouldnt have had the problem with the center pin. but then company men arent known for doing things the quick way. i have put many cars and engines back on the tracks and only ever had 1 slip off the center pin. i think UP is the only RR that still has their own wreck crews and cranes. most contract it out now
@SkipW That wye used to be the terminus for the old Coalmont branch that went all the way out to Walden CO. The rails, ties, etc. probably had never been replaced since that time.
Oh yeah! During the 150th Anniversary celebration of the Union Pacific Railroad when 844 was trying back up into the California State Railroad Museum for public display but had trouble getting over that slight curved track!
Cause? Wish you had zoomed in and had shown the derailed wheels. Also, close-in on the crane action. We don't need to continue viewing the whole scene. Oh, you zoomed in. Great! Get out of the way, John. Well done! Time compression appreciated. Surprised those two cables could safely lift that load. "Center pin"? Protrudes from the car frame to the truck assembly? How long did they take for the whole process? Thank you for your excellent videos.
We used to have steam crane's years ago on the railroads they were rated for lifting 250 tons. Then the steam crane's were converted to Diesel power. The crane operators hated the Diesel crane's . Then the Railroads started hiring outside crews to clean up train wrecks and all the old crane's were scrapped...
I believe a comment above me said that this wye hasn't been used in a few years. Most mainlines are taken better care of. Oh, & in my opinion it's not racist or offensive if it's the honest to god truth! & a lot of our infrastructure is need of some attention
well firstly, this is the 3985's water tender. The oil used to fire the engine is in another tender ahead of this one. Centipede tenders like this dont like to take curves very much. If you put them on too tight of a curve they can derail very easily. The fact that this is probabally right after they filled the tender to the brim with water could also have contributed to this derailment.
l reckon weve got our fair share of live steam locomotives here in the UK...So can someone tell me why l get so concerned about one that's almost half way around the world and that l'm never going to set eyes on for real? l must be mad! Yet with each run she's done,3985 has imprinted her number just that bit deeper in the history of famous locomotives, and deservedly so.
this kind of crane truck can run also on the rail tracks? when you zoomed in i saw small wheels that look like rail wheel,a couple in the middle and one on the rear of the crane
@truckerjay1 strangely enough, Pan Am Railways, aka Fink's New England Clunker RR, still has a wreck crew, complete with drane, etc. In true Pan Am fashion, they roll on friction bearings and one always overheats when they take it out on the road, lol
@NorfolkAndWestern578 Eh, dunno, aren't locomotives relatively easy to get rerailed? Some dimensional lumber, a couple of rerailing frogs, and then just run them back and forth under their own power until they hop back on the rail...
Maybe it's just me, but that track looks positively decrepit. Check out those ties. Look how they're oriented, & some appear to be rotted or broken. I'm just a layman, but it looks like major maintenance is required to make it safe again. Can't blame 3985 for that. Wouldn't be fair.
Max Nuber actually, this particular railcar is older than the locomotive itself. It was originally built as a tender for Union Pacific 814 in the late 30’s. In the 50’s, the UP experimented with Gas Turbine locomotives, and used the old tenders as fuel cars for the turbines. Once the turbines were retired, these tenders were used in stationary fuel tank service. The UP restored them to be used as water tenders for these locomotives, because UP no longer has water towers out on the system. Hope this helps.
not trying to be racist or offensive but it seems to me that in America they don't take care of your tracks or this one of those lines that gets bypassed by another?
