Great news about possible customer. Totally awesome.

thanks for the Video was getting worried about you from the last couple videos looking forward to Aug.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Tom. Brian

Fascinating video about something I knew nothing about. Thank you!

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wasgetting worried that ETR was not coming back; looking forward to august!

Great video. Some day maybe we can watch as they pick up and load a damaged car onto the hospital car. And see how they secure it. I sure hope Utube will send me your new videos in the order that you filmed them.

Great video. Thanks for putting it together for us. Your sounding a little more upbeat than the last video I watched. Can’t wait to hear the news next month.

We want to see the work on the ETR as opposed to road trip!!!! We love the ETR!!!

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Ninfa, summer break! Like when we were in school!

Thank you for sharing. Very much enjoyed.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, these are fun to see and not super common! Thanks for following! Brian

Crank up that 2021! It ain't been run all season............ Thanks for another great one.

Was glad to hear from you. Stay safe my friend.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated

nice HAZMAT suit , I love those huge transformer cars !

Very nice video looking forward to future plans and possibly business and revenue for ETR. 🙏

Right on Brian progress is a positive thing for the ETR cheers guys

Thanks for this very interesting video on hospital cars, especially all the detail on the fixtures, chains, cribbing, etc. Cheers from Wisconsin!

Sure appreciate the instruction. Hope you had a great summer. Looking forward to your next story in August.

August has sprung when a young man's thoughts turn to ....... railroading.... isn't that how it goes? The (we) non-railroaders on the crew are certainly learning a ton! God Speed ETR!

Nice video explanation to all those who haven't been in the freight business on this. Me, I handled quite a few hospital trains especially at derailment site recoveries. Some like putting the most damaged wrecks on flats were common, but those still able to be towed on their own wheels were handled, being behind the locomotive with extended air hoses linked through the cars to be connected to empty cars trailing to act as the brakes in case of a break-away. All those movements had a top speed of 10 MPH with periodic stops for inspection. Glad you enjoyed time off and had some fun. Will be here in August for the updates.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Geo Thanks for adding from your derailment experience. You are like a guest speaker today. B.

@georgecarter838

Жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Those days were something, I tell ya. The unnerving part was in re-railing derailed cars by pulling them with the locomotive up to the butterfly re-railers and hoping they would find their way onto the rails. Re-railing empties wasn't too bad. The loaded cars...always white-knuckle moments working throttle and independent brake in unison and hoping that loaded car you were pulling didn't wobble and turn over. Man, it's good being retired now... 😄

mom always loved the ups train

Looking forward to, what sounds like, some good news! Take care, Ed

Good to see and hear from you Brian. Praying your time away has been restful and refreshing and that you've received the Providential direction for which I've been asking

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly, I'm moved. Thank you so much. Brian

Best tankcar (inedible beef tallow) load painted black with end of car by Graffiti artist painting end up like a "Thomas" car!

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Yikes! Can you imagine that torn open at a derailment? The mess and stench!

@wilfred8326

Жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 the cars have PGTX reporting marks, I believe Proctor + Gamble to make Soap

In later years, the derailments we had were not very destructive and the cars were put back on the rail and moved after inspecting them. The bad derailments often resulted in the cars being cut up on site. Good day to you and keep in on the rails!

Interesting. I use to work for an outfit that had a transloading facility. It was a five car siding in the middle of the property with a portable converor belt and dump trucks. We could unload 10 hopper cars a day in an 8 hr shift storing and hauling road salt. Now I've worked in intermodal for 9 years now. Trains and trucks. Both are COOL.

Well worth the look Brian. Good for mind, body and soul to take a little time out mate. I will look forward to seeing you back on the rails and I will toast you with my new ETR coffee mug, which arrived safely from the States and performs just like it says on the pack. Cheers

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

CC Thanks for keeping the faith. Brian

I often wondered what ever happend to derailed rail wagons, now thanks to you that is no longer a mystery.

At the model RR group I'm part of we turned an inoperable Thomas The Tank Engine into a specialty load on a depressed center flat car. Both kids and adults like it.

@RailRide

Жыл бұрын

A few years ago, the NJ HiRailers (a large 3-rail O-gauge club) staged an open house where one of the unofficial exhibits was an array of 1970's Lionels acquired from a collection that had been in a Hurricane Sandy-flooded basement. As you can guess, all of these had flood damage from marinating in dirty salt water. I had proposed turning these cars into a hospital train, with the cars that could still roll assembled into a train and slowly trundled around the layout. Fixing these up to make runners of them was indeed possible, as a friend of mine (sadly no longer with us) would buy flood-damaged cars like this at train shows (not hard to find at NYC-area shows after the storm) and refurbish them to operable condition.

Brain; you cover so many amazing areas of railroading. Some thing more than "just running trains". I think it's GREAT! Thanks. It gives me new ideas for model railroading.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it R S! Its such a fascinating industry. B.

Thank you. Just found my next HO scale build. Neat freight car just begging to be modeled.

@Justfor1day

Жыл бұрын

Cant wait to hear the news in august on the ETR...

Another great video, Sir. Got several of these stacks of cribbing in recently with loads that came by rail. Instead of nails, they were put together with tech-grade screws with T-drive heads. I love this because the old nail system was the devil to take apart for any other use. The new way we can break them down with nut drivers and have a lot of different uses for wood and screws.

Great video Really interesting content I learned a lot Thanks

how u doing?,Yeah!superb footage~friend.)

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Doing good, thanks for following!

Great "illustration" on hospital cars.

Thank you fascinating

Great video thanks

Always something interesting to share Brian! Thank You. I look forward to hearing more about the ETR an your MoW equipment work.

I like the name, hospital cars, it gives some hope for the poor car that is being transported that it may be will be fixed up and put back to use! Thank you for bringing us this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated by the people.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Thanks John, I don't know what % are hauled for repair vs. scrapping but Id guess 80% for repair. What do you all think? Brian

@victorv2066

Жыл бұрын

Brian, Much chance of your company doing that type of receiving "Hospital" work for cutting up and disposal from any Class I RR on a regional contract basis. @@eastterminalrailway5975 Good Video by the way! Neat topic.

Many years ago they pulled up a diesel next to the hospital and hooked it up for power.

Seen pictures of a couple of Amtrak engines, not so much chained; but welded (w/many thin metal rods welded to the engine body) to the hospital cars.

Cool video bro. Safe travels

I once saw a damaged locomotive get hauled away on a flat car or hospital cars before i think it was a GP40-2 the SD40-2's weaker brother.

Love these videos.

Good news for me, I am going back to school for Aviation Maintenance Technology. Wish me luck Brian.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Lets talk about that some time! B.

@wilfred8326

Жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 thanks!

Actually a lot of tank cars do tell you what they carry, not all, but there are many that have stenciled on the side the commodity carried. The truck you said that had no wheel chock...it did have one, underneath the other wheel, they chose to only chock one wheel and not both wheel sets.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Good eye, I am ALWAYS fine with fact checking! Thank!

Nice Sunday class session 👍

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

Cribbing is definitely much Easier than Removing the Dump Gates. If a Car is getting destroyed, then it really doesn’t matter what is removed. 👍

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Very true!

I think I have an idea for a career! Providing therapy for depressed flatcars.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

That is an awesome joke, when you told it during training I didn't think I get the class back under control!! B.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure that, after a visit to you, they'd be well cars again.

@MFXdump

Жыл бұрын

@@beeble2003 Good one! Lol!

LOOKING FOREWARD TO YOUR AUGUST NEWS....FANTASTIC....SOUNDS OPTOMISTIC .....TOOT TOOT!!!!

Great video. You covered everything very well. I was excited to hear the updates and am looking forward to the next video. Thanks👍👍👍❤️

I hope when you come back in August you have rounded up some revenue accounts….remember… sales is the engine that drives the business!..good luck and good fortune to you.

Auto-rack cars--the double-deck cars that are covered like the older open cars; the railroad owns the superstructure but the car itself is owned by The Trailer Train Co.(TTX). The Trail Train Co. may have sold the cars that the covering was removed from or formed Redstreak themselves (QUAX). There are at least 2 if not 3 different Trailer Train car marks. Some of the flat cars I have seen have tiedown chains on the cars themselves. I have also noticed that there are admonishments about not welding on the cars but maybe just certain places. Including truck bolsters to sit cars on for hospital transport makes a lot of sense. Covered hoppers with flat discharge gates are used for hauling grain particularly if the loading hatches are long and thin on the top of the car. The covered hopper you don't want to work with if it has been punctured and leaking product is a carbon-black car, that stuff is so fine you are unable to wash it off your skin and probably out of your clothes.

Just North of McKenzie Bridge, OR there was a bridge to a mining claim across the river which was made up by two railroad flat cars.

I can't imagine any of the Car Inspectors I knew during my 50+ year railroad career allowing the 'lightly tied down' covered hopper at the tail end of the video to be allowed to move on their railroad's tracks. A shipper can load a flat car anyway they want, however, the car must pass a Car Inspector's inspection BEFORE it gets Clearance to be moved. Hospital shipments have to be measured and handled through the originating carriers Clearance Bureau to ascertain the specific route the car can be moved over the carriers trackage.

A large percentage of the train cars we see any given day are Empty because the delivery was made and cars Return to Companies, etc. 👍

When you were in Bucyrus,looking at the hospital car,if you would have drove about 5 minutes north,you could have saw the old Toledo and Ohio Central railroad depot. Some of those rails were part of the T&OC from back in the day.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

That is a very nice station!

@M4MED86

Жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 Maybe for a field trip next year....we can visit it. Every year,they open up the depot,so the public can walk around inside to marvel at a bygone era. Inside the depot,they have different pictures and artifacts of the railroad. They call it "Hobo Days". There used to be hobos that would come and tell their personal stories,but, unfortunately, over the years,less and less would appear,but the name stuck. They have different vendors and also another,small,depot that used to serve the T&OC. It sat on the s.w. corner of the Plymouth St crossing.

Brain let's get it done etr style!!!

Waiting for the good news 🙏

wow, i didnt know about any of this

EVERYONE NEEDS TO KEEP AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE MANUAL IN THEIR VEHICLES AND HOMES. LOOK AT THE NUMBER IN THE BOOK AND FOLLOW THE GUIDE

In 2019 Fort Worth had a derailment of tank cars dot 111 and 117 hauling ethanol. Every car that was off the trucks was cut up for scrap. Why don't they repair them especially the new 117 cars? Some had just a few dents.

The trucks are loaded sideways so that they can't roll forward or backward as the train starts or stops. Its the same reason steel coils are loaded with the coil core openings longitudinal to the car (perpendicular to the axles.)

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

Slack action on the train is another big source of back-and-forth movement. Very little to cause a truck to roll off sideways.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Good point guys, much more back and forth motion, more than side to side motion.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

BTW, actually a lot of coil cars do carry the coils with the cores parallel to the axles, but they're sitting on pairs of /\-shaped cradles so there's no way they can move -- they're not even tied down. If you look at Jaw Tooth's recent video "Police Traffic Stop Next To Me While Filming The Brick! Train With DPU Booking! N&W Heritage Loco!" at 12:45, you can see a short train of loaded coil cars with no hoods, carrying coil this way.

I love seeing the intermodel trains there cool looking and here in west virginia I film lots of coal trains and you can see whats in them

Brian… Those axles that are chained down, with the chains over the axles, would be a no no with me. Those chains will gouge those axles and weaken them which would result in an axle failure. They needed to have a shaped hardwood block that would fit between the axle and the chains, or use straps (with ratchet tightened) and wheel chocks instead (scotch the wheel tyres), the straps won’t gouge the axles. I’ve just finished watching ever video from the first to the last (two years worth)in the last two weeks as I’m on holiday… phew! 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚂🚂

FIGHT for YOUR business!!!!! FIGHT for EVERY customer!!!! FIGHT for EVERY load!!!!!

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Thank you John I'm gearing up for the fight, down but not out. B.

Did you ever see a funeral train? We operated them years ago collecting defunct rail cars and equipment bound for sale or scrap.

I would think Summer would be your most productive time. Why not take off in the Winter when you can't get much done anyway?

Indiana Louisville railway puts on a rail car class for our fire departments along their line going over different cars and what not

the gate was probably removed in the derailment or to remove product the receiving R/R send out an inspector before the cars are moved to the main line a lot of times the cars are moved in a Hospital Train that train has speed restrictions & in route Inspections the UP & BNSF both own car like those

Been August for 12 days now...hope there's still 'news' to be told.

Some of these cars look bad enough that they might have to be remanufactured. This is a term for where the steel is removed from the car down to it's original pieces that made up the car, and then it gets remanufactured to modern standards, and sometimes even has parts of it removed and replaced with good steel. Worst case scenario for a car is that they would have to smelt it down and make new steel out of it. Remanufactured cars are cars that didn't need much repairs or replacements for steel and just needs to have it's structure realigned again. it can be difficult to spot a remanufactured car as it is all new steel. They may even use new reporting marks on it, quite likely. Old cars go in, new cars come out, ready for a whole new life on the railroad.

A chlorine car can kill 100,000 people in a matter of minutes I once saw a propane car incinerate a 1/2 mile radius If you hear a train crash, drive away, fast

6:45 "There isn't chain or cable holding it laterally." Is it just because they're in the process of unloading the car?

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

No, I saw nothing to make me think that it was partially unloaded. It looked like it came in that way. Brian

One of my pet peeves w/rail fan videos wis hen the quality is insufficient to read the placards on the hazmat loads. As a chemist, they speak to me. Blessings!

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

You are unique and probably smarter than most of us! LoL!

i would like to try to make some hospital cars for a Lego train

Hello Brian, Been meaning to contact you about the railroad.. Have you discussed your property with an industrial realtor? Should be a member of SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors). They may know of users for your rail services.. There is a demand for that service and not many players in your game. Enjoy your vids. Good luck. W. H. (Real estate guy and part time locomotive engineer)

In a past episode you had a locomotive electrician working volunteer work on your engine, contactor bypass issue. Perhaps he or one of your subscribers could fill in a gap in my education I have a fondness for all things electromechanical and prime interest in diesel electric locomotives. I'd like more information on diesel electric generation and specifically the output voltages and currents and type of electricity more specifically. I believe but I’m not sure that there is different manufacturing with different approaches to driving electric traction motors some with AC others DC, I believe also that freight engines had only one diesel electric generator or perhaps a second one to drive the traction motors. That an engine design for passenger service had a second diesel driven generator to provide three-phase power to the passenger cars for lighting air-conditioning and heating. Specs would be wonderful operating voltage and current, if AC Hz.

Where you guys hiding? Hope everything is alright!

I was wondering how you strapped a person onto the car in the thumbnail... it never dawned on me you meant railroad cars as patients.

Where are you guys???

You have no idea what you're talking about. Your inexperience shows thru to anyone that has worked the rails or as a railcar mechanic. A bunch of second guessing, and non-truths about cribbing cars. We received many cars just like this. Either we lifted and set onto trucks to repair, or pushed them off the flatbed with a dozer to be scrapped. As to your cribbing and cables utilized to retain to the flat bed, all looked well placed. What kind of forces do you expect on the rails? Not like on the road. Slow stops, slow accelerations, and minor lateral forces. Maybe, you shouldn't let your opinions get in the way railroading.

@eastterminalrailway5975

Жыл бұрын

Yes you are correct! And I did think the one car was well secured and the other was less secured.

@petercruikshank2618

Жыл бұрын

One person's experience is another's wisdom. God Speed ETR!

Love your videos Look up ccrx 6700 on utube. Looks they have tons of used ties