Hypnotic Process of Clearing Ballast on 1000 Mile Rail Tracks
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I guess 3 minutes of railroad ballast is enough.
@wallyman292
2 жыл бұрын
I know, right! Here I was hoping for an entire video on just how that monstrous thing worked, and suddenly we're talking ship propellers!
@vp5
2 жыл бұрын
@@wallyman292 yep absolutely absurd and stupid change. Very very annoying indeed
@onradioactivewaves
2 жыл бұрын
Ship propellers are amazing, you have to greasse all the thousands of moving parts in a jet engine.
@wallyman292
2 жыл бұрын
@@onradioactivewaves Does ADD run in your family???
@onradioactivewaves
2 жыл бұрын
@@wallyman292No, but it certainly did in this video.
What do ships and airplanes have to do with train tracks?
@MortonLuvz2drum
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm not the only one thinking this. I guess this was short attention span theatre. I was prepared to hear all about the machine, the process, and get in depth on who designed it, how long it operates, where, when, .... you know. Specific details.
These are the most randomly seques I've ever expected
That RM900 all-in-one machine is amazing.
@TB-xi4mj
2 жыл бұрын
i liked the old rm 800
@snakesonn3590
Жыл бұрын
you're welcome
This is excellent. When I was in the Air Force I was in "Exterior Electric Department". I was a Power Lineman that maintained the base electricity, to include the over head power lines, the substation on base and the airfield power and lighting. Great job, I loved it. Great Video, as always. Thanks
@scottstewart5784
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your service proving electrical service
You guys need to focus on one thing at a time.
In old days ballast also served as septic tanks.
I DID NOT GET HYPNOTIZED.😳
only a little of this video is about rail roads.
Whomever writes the segues, needs a raise.
Amazing contraptions they come up with.
@PGHammer21A
2 жыл бұрын
And small compact military installations - such as Joint Base Andrews - will have several. Despite it being the home of Air Force One, it has several auxilliary areas where aircraft operate around the clock. On the Reserve Component side alone, you have the DC and Maryland Air National Guard, the Maryland State Police, the Coast Guard, the Park Police (United States and Maryland), MedStar Life Flight, etcetera.
So! ... That's what hypnosis is! ... 1000 miles of railroad track went by in a flash!
Thought for sure ufo's would be covered here.
And next how to wash a car.
4:54 Technically there is only one moving part (without counting bearings) with a bunch of auxiliary systems that have moving parts. 😁👍 Much less moving parts than a standard engine.
@surlyogre1476
2 жыл бұрын
By "standard engine" he means _reciprocating piston engine_ .
I always thought that the runways just let the tire skid marks accumulate because every shot I've seen was loaded with them. They must have been new tracks laid down after a recent cleaning.
The fact that you used a clip of an LIRR train at 0:28 is cool. The fact that the station is my home town blows my mind.
@yankees29
2 жыл бұрын
Which one was it? I grew up near the Massapequa Park train station. Lol
@yankees29
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah wow. That’s a smaller station. Is that Suffolk?
@MWChainz
2 жыл бұрын
@@yankees29 Glen Cove in Nassau!
@yankees29
2 жыл бұрын
@@MWChainz oh crap I didn’t even recognize it! Lol
Excellent. Thankyou.
This is a great video. I learned something new.
I love watching these RR machines operate here in KCS country. There's a yard close to me where they store these odd looking things.
But wait there’s more
What do you mean by "relatively new"? These are around for decades now. The first one built in 1948.
@AFAndersen
2 жыл бұрын
"relatively new" since the first railroad maybe? :)
An educational and entertaining video. They misnamed it, though; it gives the implication that the video is only about railway cleaning and maintenance.
Wait a minute! Wasn't I watching a video about train tracks?
Supposed to be train ballast what's with the other stuff?
@20RM02
2 жыл бұрын
Yes
5:47....."potentially life threatening occurrences". Generally referred to as "crashes"
Wow. Your videos are top notch. Really great stuff.
Video was bad ass 🙏🏻👍 thank 🫵🏻💯🙌🏻🙌🏻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻😎❤️😱
Very informative, good topic pick :)
This is amazing goes to show you American inginuty
AMAZING Rail network Technology and you still can't catch a train from Phoenix AZ to Pensacola FL, progressive 🤔
How do you change subjects so fast.
The rail grading/ballast equipment was trick. The company shown using it was Rio Tinto. They are a LARGE mining company, mostly open pit mining
@stephenhunter70
2 жыл бұрын
That open pit, starts off as a mountain in nth west Western Australia
@gregparrott
2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenhunter70 Thanks for the info on location. I saw a video where Rio Tinto also has another, large open pit mine in some remote and extremely mountainous terrain. I don't remember where, but the road just to get the initial material in was treacherous, steep, with lots of sharp turns.
@stephenhunter70
2 жыл бұрын
@@gregparrott Yep that sounds like em, funny thing though some of their minds you'd be hard stretched to call pit mines. There basically taking the top of mountains.
@gregparrott
2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenhunter70 I get your point. So, instead of 'pit' mining, they're 'crest' mining, or just plain terraforming the land.
NOW THATS IS MODERN ENGINEERING also here in 2022
so.. now we’re just jumping from topic to topic?
I've watched 4 or 5 videos about various topics and ALL seem to switch over to ships
Still interesting
The machine for spreading the ballast on the track ,called a ballast regulater the ballast witch has been run by a ballast train down the middle of the track the regulater spreads the ballast across and on both sides of the tr ack And the funnel run cleans the excess from the top of the track ties ,for won't of a better word a rotating broom with Brussels 50mil in diammitaer and grads both sides of the track to profile with out rigger ploughs
I build the trailers with the engine on it at 5:33 crazy seeing one in use. It’s all government property so everything is referred to in a classified manor.
Did the host run out of info on ballasts? A big thumbs down vote!
crazy how the cargo industry can spend so much money on saving 10% more on fuel and not spending money expanding the couple year life span of the ships and the mass amounts of unclean fuel and engine oil that is dumped into the ocean
Well I wanted to see more about the rail maintainer. But I got a conglomeration of other stuff in stead.
i have often impressive loads
Wait ... what ... clearing ballast ?? OK, got it .... but whats up with the jet engine maintenance training video?? Have the Russians taken over?? Im lost . All adrift. Thanks
Ya interesting video but don’t know why you had to compare planes and ships to the tracks 🤔😜😂
Just 1/3 of the video is railroad
I wonder how many pounds of airplane tire rubber they routinely empty out of that bigger cleaner machine.
Fellow viewers.... an old MoP RR Grandy Dancer is writing to let you all know that "hogging out ties", "nipping the rails" as well as "plugging spike holes" will forever be a lost art after these machines reach the U. S of A. (thank goodness!) For those of you who've avoided operating a 'claw bar', a 'spike mall' or a 'track jack', you haven't missed a thing.
@thomasalanjensen9375
2 жыл бұрын
These machines are all over the USA. Bad ties fall right of the rail under them. Then men need to nip up those ties, plug them, and spike them before dumping fresh ballast to replace all the fines they screen out.
When I was a kid, it seemed like RR ballast was iron slag chunks but is modern ballast make from slate or something else?
@kenneth9874
10 ай бұрын
Limestone
0:33 So what is the pokesman doing here?
👍❤️👍
Hey, went from trains to ships & planes. Thought it was about tracks, what gives?
Ummm, modern warships have the same type of jet engines (gas turbines) as aircraft. So not only do they have thousands of parts, they are deep inside the hull, not easily accessible like on an aircraft!
Looks expensive
nuts
Halim Talafuka,Alhamdulillahirobbil Alamiin,Allahumma Amiin.@$.
NOPE. Jet engines have fewer moving parts that most cars. You flucked us again.
Überflüssigster clip bei yt
What the ADHD happened to Ballast work? Next damn thing I know is we are scrubbing ship bottoms
Rails are overrated. It's 2022, I just take my flying car to work........... oh wait 🤔
No mention of vaginal warts?
@joestewart7487
2 жыл бұрын
just talk to your doctor
Stick to the topic. You started with trains; which is the only reason I came here, and switched to ships and airplanes!! Talk about a hare brained video!!
Sort out your English. “Comprises” takes no preposition “of” after it. You should say “comprises thousands of parts”
@Jdalio5
2 жыл бұрын
You're trying to sound smart but you are 1000% iincorrect.
@danstrayer111
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jdalio5 And you need to review percentages.
@TheUprightLuthier-1959
2 жыл бұрын
@@danstrayer111 Some people are language SME's and others are maths.
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@jasonthomas2714
2 жыл бұрын
WTF you chimin BOUT?!?✔️💯
@66tinindian
2 жыл бұрын
I couldn’t have said it better myself. 👍🏼
@jstoli996c4s
2 жыл бұрын
Get lost
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Why no subtitles? You wrote a script... Not adding it to captions is LAZY. Thumbs down!
Stop talking in miles! You are not talking about west Virginia or Alabama... It's an insult to the world and your viewers!