In Fullerton CA in the rain I saw a crew lift a whole section of rails and ties out and replace them with new ones. Awesome!

Outstanding Video

Never seen those living quarters on flat cars before.

Just got home from work... LOVE IT!

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

:-)

Saw a lot of different maintenance machines compared to when I worked as a trackman 3 summers for Penn Central on the Buffalo Line '68-'70 from Emporium, Pa northward into N.Y.

I saw a welded rail train a few days ago and it was a suprise to see it

This is just too cool. Thanks for the video!

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mr. Crate.. I'm glad that you enjoyed.

Near my home there is a railroad crossing. And I've found all kinds of stuff people have placed on the tracks including bicycles, bricks, pieces of foam packaging. Whenever I can I try to remove the stuff if it's not too heavy.

Great job on this series of videos!

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks William!

Another A-1 railfan video from the Master......May you and your family have bright 2017

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Same to you my friend.. Happy 2017.. And may it bring an even better Trains21!

You know how heavy these locos really are when the Caterpillar trying to lift it is about to give out due to the weight being exerted on the winches.

Awesome video! I like to see MoW equipment in operation. Almost anything rare on the rails get me excited! Now I have watched all episodes of "How Railroads Work".

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Cool.. I hope that you've enjoyed them.. I've got another video on MOW coming in the months ahead.

You don't have to imagine. Vintage rail way maintenance videos are here on youtube. Back in the 50s this was done by hand. Every plate and bolt was inspected. Every thing was tightened by hand and every foot of rail was in line. Not this wavy crap you see today. Every thing was oiled and cleaned.

Very well done! I thoroughly enjoyed your detailed coverage from start to finish. Just subbed!

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Casey.. I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

Man, you put out some really incredible videos. I really enjoyed watching this. I really liked the research train at 0:45, and all the work trains. I've always been fascinated by rail trains. 90M at 14:58 with that CP unit was neat. It was also great to see some Reading & Northern at 16:08. It was awesome seeing the ballast tamper work, as well as seeing the crew installing new rail at 39:43. You really gotta give those guys credit for what they do. Not only is it physically demanding, it is mentally demanding too. And they need to be out in all sorts of weather...rain, snow, bitter cold, and extreme heat. Being on a track crew definitely is not for everyone. I've always had respect for the MOW crews, but watching this, I now have more.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Scott.. I know what you mean.. I try to spotlight the crews whenever possible and most of the time they're very receptive to me (or at least tolerant!) as was the case in these scenarios.. MOW is a very important (but unfortunately, not often focused on) aspect of railroading.. I'm hoping to get more footage like this from across the country as we progress.

Glad I found your videos, seeing more of what's going on with lines I've seen regularly from the Hwy. is interesting. This MoW video in particular, at one time I was leased to PACER (Pacific Motor Freight) with a flatbed and after moving a fair number of UP maint. loads (rolling stock parts & MoW) had more interest than ever to see what was happening.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Roger.. Glad you enjoyed it.

Absolutely excellent video. Brought out an awful lot of information that the average person isn't privy to.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Norman.. I'd hoped to bring a little knowledge with this video.. I guess I succeeded!

I remember as a little kid seeing from a distance some maintenance machine as in 5:39 that looked like the car on a roller coaster. I never actually got to see one up close. This was on the Milwaukee Road as it went through Mount Carroll, Illinois in the early 1950s.

Отличное видео. Приятно смотреть как работают люди и ремонтная железнодорожная техника. СУПЕР.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Спасибо, мужчина .. Да, это определенно другой точки зрения, чем просто смотреть регулярные поезда все время .. Мне нравится видеть содержание, которое входит в ведение железной дороги функционал .. Спасибо за теплые слова.

@user-im9ch9oq6z

7 жыл бұрын

Всегда рад вашем видео роликам приятно смотреть.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

:-)

I love your music drops but i have never said anything about it - i got to this time around. They on point and you should do them more often on all your videos!!! I know i have already stated you have the best videos and part of the reason is the music/instrumentals you drop along with the knowledge you drop!!! Soul Brother of the Railways!!! I wish they had others who could drop videos of the same quality (or better if you/they could get larger budgets) but they had different personalities because I would love a rock guy - one who may prefer real oldies old and new as some still make oldies in modern times... but anyways you the only brother i know that produces railway videos and so you're the only one that sounds like you got soul to you. And if you aint a brother you do one heck of a job pulling it off. You should drop more tracks (jams if you want to call them) though for real with all types/genres of soul. I have always though hip-hop and railways go good (especially drum heavy) together and this drop made that point evident in my eyes!

After spending time in the summer working on a rail gang, I enjoyed your video and explanation overlays. Track work still comes down to a man, pick-axe and spike mall to keep the big stuff running so to pay the bills. I wish you a wonderful new year and more "HAPPY RAIL FANNING"!!!

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mike.. I'm glad that you enjoyed.. And a Happy New Year and railfanning to you too!

Awesome video. I use to work for a railroad contractor and we used back hoe tractors alot

Great vid, there would be a few safety violations here in Canada on that work gang. but they got the job done, This is the every day stuff that people do to feed their family that needs to be documented.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.. I don't know what the safety rules are but like you said, they got the job done.

Very interesting. Totally enjoyed watching. Excellent video.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Hans.. 2017 should be even better.

An awesome and fascinating look at what goes on behind the scenes with Maintenance of Way. They may not get the love, but without them we sure wouldn't enjoy train watching. I totally enjoyed your video and explanations, which were really well done and worth the time to watch. Awesome video and thank you so much for sharing it and taking the time to put it together for us.

@Trains21

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

excellent video...thank you

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

And thank you.. Glad you enjoyed.

awsome video hope there is more keep it coming

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

There will be many more.. Thanks..

Great Vid alot of familiar track esp the Lackawanna Bridge where the fence now stands. I grew up on those tracks and shot has changed!

@Trains21

6 жыл бұрын

Nice.. I'll bet you have some great memories.

Well done as always my friend. Happy New Year to you.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. Happy 2017 to you as well.

awesome job

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sean.. Happy 2017!

excellent music choice !

That high hood @ 7:49 was glorious.

@Trains21

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was!

Great vid, Thanks,,,,,,,,,,, I build "DERAIL" signs, no kidding I do, Blue Flag, Occupied Camp Car, and more I answered a question below with this, Those are camp cars, about 40 ft long with two beds each end with two bath rooms and mechanical, nice if you have a clean room mate, I didn't see one but most have a kitchen and diner car with them. They have generators, water tender and storage cars with them. They park them on a siding and the crew shows up on a Sunday night and works a bout 4 10's leaving for home Thursday evening, not to bad unless your are working in New Orleans and you live in Ohio. I've been working on the camp cars since 1977, fun.

great video

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Carl.. Glad to see that you're still tuning in!.. Happy 2017

Just after 27:52 what kind of locomotive is the 2nd one?? I've never seen a locomotive of that type?

Love this video great job

@Trains21

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Blaine. One of my oldies!

@bhproductions1061

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cool I got B&P train videos because I live near the line and I go past it almost every day bc I go to college

@Trains21

3 жыл бұрын

@@bhproductions1061 Nice!

Tamper also raises and lowers track according to the grade they want

Wonderful work as usual. I cringe when I hear that someone is glad the "gangs" of guys are gone. It was a difficult and thankless job. Outside constantly, for years at a time. Of course, mechanized efficiencies will be chosen over the guys. Personally, I would rather see money go to working families who contribute and live here, than a larger corporate bottom line. BTW, I know more than a few workers who have rare cancers and don't make retirement, thanks to their time on the railroad "gangs". Not to sound dramatic, but that is the ultimate sacrifice and it has been like that from the beginning, IMHO. Sorry for the seemingly coarse comment, but I believe hard working men built what we have today, although I know it's just one guys opinion among others. Thanks for all the effort you put into these vids. They are very enjoyable to watch.

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Man.. And no apology necessary.. Every opinion is welcome here and I agree with your feelings.. I believe that men built the railroads and today's society.. I know that many of those men (like our veterans) made the ultimate sacrifice.

wow. very cool. awesome video.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Phil.. I always look forward to hearing your thoughts :-)

@philliplee980

7 жыл бұрын

Trains21 your welcome

Very interesting Video indeed!! Learned a lot about MoW from it!

@RiverLineProductions

7 жыл бұрын

Lol It's funny. MoW has a love hate relationship with me. I love seeing the equipment, but there aren't usually trains when it's happening so that annoying.

@RiverLineProductions

7 жыл бұрын

Also one more thing, GREAT catch with the UP and BNSF together! I was lucky enough to catch that Yesterday as UP CSX and a BNSF Bonnet teamed up to pull Q371 through the snow. Btw how was the snow in NE PA over the last couple of days? Up by Selkirk is was like a blizzard you couldn't even film the whole train it was so cold!

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, filming MoW is always a double-edged sword.. You don't get to see many (if any) trains, but you do get to see a lot of cool on-track equipment and machinery.. I get out and record MoW any chance that I can just because it's something different and something many people don't get a chance to see. Good job on the UP-CSX-BNSF/SF, I'll have to check out the video.. As for the weather here it hasn't been too bad.. Temps around 30/32 degrees and some snow, but most of it gone by now..

If you wanna know what no maintenance looks like, watch a show on the PENN CENTRAL.

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Trust me.. I have.. And understand.

Wow what a storm

Nice shot of the old CF double @ 29:10

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.. You don't see many of them around anymore.. I use that a lot as a landmark for shooting.

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!!!!!!!! You should have a TV show. Hey when did NS 34 come through here?

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tyler.. It came through 3 or 4 times in 2015..

is there stillaara scenix rail road in mt dora area

Hi from the UK, Great video Very Informative, Could you tell me @09:39 the train with the Welded rail, Does the Rail BEND when going around Curves? Thanks Stay Safe (covid2020)

@phuturephunk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they do. Extremely high grade steel and it's built to be really tough as well as hard. There's videos out there showing them actually setting them on the ties and the whole section will flop around like a noodle while they're positioning it.

The regulators are also used for snow removal as where Jordan spreaders where used in dressing ballest

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that! Thanks for pointing that out.

This is really a nice video. I have a couple of questions for the experts: - Do the steel mills manufacture the rails in full lenght, say 400 m or are they manufactured in smaller sections, then welded together and finally loaded onto the rail cars? - How are these long rails fixed onto the rail cars? In curves I guess each single rail will move slightly back and forth. Thanks in advance Also, looking forward to watching more of your videos Cheers Adam (from Denmark)

@Trains21

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Adam.. I'm glad you liked the video.. The rails are made in shorter sections then welded together.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

@@Trains21 You mean they don't just make them one long length and put one rail on several cars. Then it's up to the train crew to get them around corners without busting the rail?

What type of locomotive was the maroon Norfolk and Southern.?

@rodneystewart8958

4 жыл бұрын

Track geometry test unit weighs same as engine but unpowered

16:00 - "Hello boss... Do we have insurance for stupidity???" "That derail came out of nowhere."

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Lol!

Down here in Virginia we call the ballest trains Herzog's

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that.. Thanks for sharing.

What were the white things that looked like trailers at 30:42? I had a laugh at the horn at 33:18, "Wamp wamp!" How are curves created on a railroad? Are there specially made curved pieces of rail?

@diverrite

4 жыл бұрын

Those are camp cars, about 40 ft long with two beds each end with two bath rooms and mechanical, nice if you have a clean room mate, I didn't see one but most have a kitchen and diner car with them. They have generators, water tender and storage cars with them. They park them on a siding and the crew shows up on a Sunday night and works a bout 4 10's leaving for home Thursday evening, not to bad unless your are working in New Orleans and you live in Ohio. I've been working on the camp cars since 1977, fun.

what type of engine is the brick?

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

It was rebuilt from an SD35.

Funny sounding horn on the second Rail train

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Haha.. Yeah right!

@chrishinnant3924

5 жыл бұрын

@@Trains21 sounded like a fart💩💩💩

That is cool! BNSF and UP together? Whoah!!! And this ain't the "Joint Line"!! Cool vid though. Just uploaded my first vid, so take a look if you can. Thanks. Cheers, Dan

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

I checked it out, left a comment and subbed while I was there.. Thanks, Dan.

look at that cute little loco at 0:45

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

The Tech Train.. Never thought of it as "cute" but def unusual.

What is a typical penalty for accidentally running over a derail. Would an engineer get fired or suspended or 're-trained'? I imagine cleaning up a wreck of this type is costly so what are typical consequences? Cheers.

@Trains21

7 жыл бұрын

Hello Axel.. Thanks for commenting.. The penalty depends on the railroad.. In this case I don't know what (if anything) negative became of the engineer.

@diverrite

4 жыл бұрын

@@Trains21 I build "DERAIL" signs, no kidding I do, Blue Flag, Occupied Camp Car, and more

A bunch of guys sitting around with nothing else to do is fallacy. They had 8 am to 4 pm jobs repairing cars and putting new wheels and testing air brakes Some were inspectors in train yards as well. If they called the hook then the crew left and we had 17 men on the crew, one being a cook who went to get groceries first. Dont get me wrong, we did use wrecking companies often after they shut down the repair points and did not have crews

Too late now , but I should have gone for rail Maintenance ( Fettling ) , rather than try to be a Station Assistant !

@Trains21

6 жыл бұрын

Hindsight is 20/20 :-\

I almost wish my car could do what that truck was doing at the beginning of this video.

those rails are heavy and theyre worth a lot of money

@Trains21

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed..

I wonder if your car gets hit by a hi-rail truck at a railroad crossing while the truck is on the rails, does it mean you were hit by a train or a truck? Also, how to build an airplane that lands and takes off on railroad tracks so it has train wheels for a landing gear? Those rails the train is carrying must bend with the train when it goes around curves and then straighten out again. That's crazy. But the rails should be fine since on each curve they don't bend anymore than a rail normally should. Anyway, people need to buy up my "Impact" and "Dance of Death" James Grider novels on Amazon so I can afford a used car.

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

That's great!!

@chriswoodruff2293

4 жыл бұрын

As a police officer trained by CSX in traffic vs. rail collision and railroad crossing collisions it would be considered an “OTHER” just as a train would be on the DMV form that we fill out for collisions. In the space beside “OTHER” I would write railroad hi-rail multi-purpose vehicle.

I would think somewhere in that work train there is a hydraulic repair crew.

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, probably.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

At 11:08 that train must be pulling some serious weight to have 4 locomotives !

Y'know... I've always wondered... Why are MOW trains powered by a heavily modified cowl unit? Wouldn't it be a whole lot cheaper just to use a more standard road switcher unit to power the trains instead?

@helpthehurtlondon

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just guessing but perhaps the road switchers don’t have enough power to pull the MoW equipment. I have to assume that stuff weighs a lot

Music…..wth

Love the video but just don't like all the dang music during the whole video rather listen to the machines working than the music

Gandy Dancing.

@Trains21

6 жыл бұрын

And how

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

What were they dancing to? Elvis? The Moody Blues? Ricky Nelson? Did they give the songs an 85, like they used to do on Bandstand because it had a nice beat and was easy to Gandy Dance to? :-)

and some fool wants these trains to run with only one person. silly talk

No closed captions...? bad video

@Trains21

5 жыл бұрын

Nah