Hypnotic Process of Clearing Ballast on 1000 Mile Rail Tracks

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  • @happycats5195
    @happycats51952 жыл бұрын

    I guess 3 minutes of railroad ballast is enough.

  • @wallyman292

    @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

    @vp5

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wallyman292 yep absolutely absurd and stupid change. Very very annoying indeed

  • @onradioactivewaves

    @onradioactivewaves

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ship propellers are amazing, you have to greasse all the thousands of moving parts in a jet engine.

  • @wallyman292

    @wallyman292

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@onradioactivewaves Does ADD run in your family???

  • @onradioactivewaves

    @onradioactivewaves

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wallyman292No, but it certainly did in this video.

  • @Crazyreseller
    @Crazyreseller2 жыл бұрын

    What do ships and airplanes have to do with train tracks?

  • @MortonLuvz2drum

    @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.

  • @AFAndersen
    @AFAndersen2 жыл бұрын

    These are the most randomly seques I've ever expected

  • @kentd4762
    @kentd47622 жыл бұрын

    That RM900 all-in-one machine is amazing.

  • @TB-xi4mj

    @TB-xi4mj

    2 жыл бұрын

    i liked the old rm 800

  • @snakesonn3590

    @snakesonn3590

    Жыл бұрын

    you're welcome

  • @timmotel5804
    @timmotel58042 жыл бұрын

    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

    @scottstewart5784

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your service proving electrical service

  • @nooneknows6060
    @nooneknows60602 жыл бұрын

    You guys need to focus on one thing at a time.

  • @Jesuscatshockey
    @Jesuscatshockey2 жыл бұрын

    In old days ballast also served as septic tanks.

  • @fishfoolishness4222
    @fishfoolishness42222 жыл бұрын

    I DID NOT GET HYPNOTIZED.😳

  • @w.d.g.
    @w.d.g.2 жыл бұрын

    only a little of this video is about rail roads.

  • @joebusdriver
    @joebusdriver2 жыл бұрын

    Whomever writes the segues, needs a raise.

  • @richsmith7200
    @richsmith72002 жыл бұрын

    Amazing contraptions they come up with.

  • @PGHammer21A

    @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.

  • @mfowelectro
    @mfowelectro2 жыл бұрын

    So! ... That's what hypnosis is! ... 1000 miles of railroad track went by in a flash!

  • @aloesecretinc
    @aloesecretinc2 жыл бұрын

    Thought for sure ufo's would be covered here.

  • @erikk77
    @erikk772 жыл бұрын

    And next how to wash a car.

  • @Chris_In_Texas
    @Chris_In_Texas2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @surlyogre1476

    2 жыл бұрын

    By "standard engine" he means _reciprocating piston engine_ .

  • @Mumblix
    @Mumblix2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MWChainz
    @MWChainz2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @yankees29

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which one was it? I grew up near the Massapequa Park train station. Lol

  • @yankees29

    @yankees29

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah wow. That’s a smaller station. Is that Suffolk?

  • @MWChainz

    @MWChainz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yankees29 Glen Cove in Nassau!

  • @yankees29

    @yankees29

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MWChainz oh crap I didn’t even recognize it! Lol

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland13662 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Thankyou.

  • @fijillian
    @fijillian2 жыл бұрын

    This is a great video. I learned something new.

  • @wesmcgee1648
    @wesmcgee16482 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @michaelnelson7240
    @michaelnelson72402 жыл бұрын

    But wait there’s more

  • @user-sm3xq5ob5d
    @user-sm3xq5ob5d2 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean by "relatively new"? These are around for decades now. The first one built in 1948.

  • @AFAndersen

    @AFAndersen

    2 жыл бұрын

    "relatively new" since the first railroad maybe? :)

  • @BikerDash
    @BikerDash2 жыл бұрын

    An educational and entertaining video. They misnamed it, though; it gives the implication that the video is only about railway cleaning and maintenance.

  • @mike44719
    @mike447192 жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute! Wasn't I watching a video about train tracks?

  • @MadMax-yq9ix
    @MadMax-yq9ix2 жыл бұрын

    Supposed to be train ballast what's with the other stuff?

  • @20RM02

    @20RM02

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @danstrayer111
    @danstrayer1112 жыл бұрын

    5:47....."potentially life threatening occurrences". Generally referred to as "crashes"

  • @smaze1782
    @smaze1782 Жыл бұрын

    Wow. Your videos are top notch. Really great stuff.

  • @tomstanton6952
    @tomstanton6952 Жыл бұрын

    Video was bad ass 🙏🏻👍 thank 🫵🏻💯🙌🏻🙌🏻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻😎❤️😱

  • @bunnyniyori6324
    @bunnyniyori63242 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, good topic pick :)

  • @rickyparrish8310
    @rickyparrish8310 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing goes to show you American inginuty

  • @vicsaul5459
    @vicsaul5459 Жыл бұрын

    AMAZING Rail network Technology and you still can't catch a train from Phoenix AZ to Pensacola FL, progressive 🤔

  • @ecv03
    @ecv03 Жыл бұрын

    How do you change subjects so fast.

  • @gregparrott
    @gregparrott2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @stephenhunter70

    2 жыл бұрын

    That open pit, starts off as a mountain in nth west Western Australia

  • @gregparrott

    @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

    @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

    @gregparrott

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stephenhunter70 I get your point. So, instead of 'pit' mining, they're 'crest' mining, or just plain terraforming the land.

  • @OutdoorFreedomDk
    @OutdoorFreedomDk2 жыл бұрын

    NOW THATS IS MODERN ENGINEERING also here in 2022

  • @cobralyoner
    @cobralyoner2 жыл бұрын

    so.. now we’re just jumping from topic to topic?

  • @johnkennedy3867
    @johnkennedy3867 Жыл бұрын

    I've watched 4 or 5 videos about various topics and ALL seem to switch over to ships

  • @johnphillips8088
    @johnphillips80882 жыл бұрын

    Still interesting

  • @bobbritten5673
    @bobbritten56732 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @zachjacobs9917
    @zachjacobs99172 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @johna.4334
    @johna.43342 жыл бұрын

    Did the host run out of info on ballasts? A big thumbs down vote!

  • @weezyy1945
    @weezyy1945 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @disciplepullover326
    @disciplepullover3262 жыл бұрын

    Well I wanted to see more about the rail maintainer. But I got a conglomeration of other stuff in stead.

  • @EWDAVID94
    @EWDAVID942 жыл бұрын

    i have often impressive loads

  • @dixieboy5689
    @dixieboy56892 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jascollinscork
    @jascollinscork2 жыл бұрын

    Ya interesting video but don’t know why you had to compare planes and ships to the tracks 🤔😜😂

  • @escanora6618
    @escanora66182 жыл бұрын

    Just 1/3 of the video is railroad

  • @davidbwa
    @davidbwa2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many pounds of airplane tire rubber they routinely empty out of that bigger cleaner machine.

  • @ohrazda1956
    @ohrazda19562 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @lidarman2
    @lidarman22 жыл бұрын

    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

    @kenneth9874

    10 ай бұрын

    Limestone

  • @willvanrooy6878
    @willvanrooy687811 ай бұрын

    0:33 So what is the pokesman doing here?

  • @jackwood8307
    @jackwood83072 жыл бұрын

    👍❤️👍

  • @lawrencehawk5179
    @lawrencehawk51792 жыл бұрын

    Hey, went from trains to ships & planes. Thought it was about tracks, what gives?

  • @dundonrl
    @dundonrl2 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @LakhsTsoyknikas
    @LakhsTsoyknikas5 ай бұрын

  • @jjlpinct
    @jjlpinct2 жыл бұрын

    Looks expensive

  • @Boohpoop
    @Boohpoop2 жыл бұрын

    nuts

  • @halimtalafuka9946
    @halimtalafuka99462 жыл бұрын

    Halim Talafuka,Alhamdulillahirobbil Alamiin,Allahumma Amiin.@$.

  • @TheUprightLuthier-1959
    @TheUprightLuthier-19592 жыл бұрын

    NOPE. Jet engines have fewer moving parts that most cars. You flucked us again.

  • @papperlapapp82
    @papperlapapp822 жыл бұрын

    Überflüssigster clip bei yt

  • @MARKE911
    @MARKE9112 жыл бұрын

    What the ADHD happened to Ballast work? Next damn thing I know is we are scrubbing ship bottoms

  • @toupac3195
    @toupac31952 жыл бұрын

    Rails are overrated. It's 2022, I just take my flying car to work........... oh wait 🤔

  • @johnlockesghost5592
    @johnlockesghost55922 жыл бұрын

    No mention of vaginal warts?

  • @joestewart7487

    @joestewart7487

    2 жыл бұрын

    just talk to your doctor

  • @tvm73836
    @tvm7383622 күн бұрын

    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!!

  • @petercrossley1069
    @petercrossley10692 жыл бұрын

    Sort out your English. “Comprises” takes no preposition “of” after it. You should say “comprises thousands of parts”

  • @Jdalio5

    @Jdalio5

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're trying to sound smart but you are 1000% iincorrect.

  • @danstrayer111

    @danstrayer111

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Jdalio5 And you need to review percentages.

  • @TheUprightLuthier-1959

    @TheUprightLuthier-1959

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danstrayer111 Some people are language SME's and others are maths.

  • @adadeb7227
    @adadeb72272 жыл бұрын

    The sloppy brand frustratingly form because hand nally shave but a royal quit. delicious, hungry ethernet

  • @jasonthomas2714

    @jasonthomas2714

    2 жыл бұрын

    WTF you chimin BOUT?!?✔️💯

  • @66tinindian

    @66tinindian

    2 жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t have said it better myself. 👍🏼

  • @jstoli996c4s

    @jstoli996c4s

    2 жыл бұрын

    Get lost

  • @Lawrence-Joseph-Norse
    @Lawrence-Joseph-Norse2 жыл бұрын

    Repent to Jesus Christ! Are you a sinner? Mark 2:17 King James Version 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

  • @mazack00
    @mazack002 жыл бұрын

    Why no subtitles? You wrote a script... Not adding it to captions is LAZY. Thumbs down!

  • @dicdicd1767
    @dicdicd17672 жыл бұрын

    Stop talking in miles! You are not talking about west Virginia or Alabama... It's an insult to the world and your viewers!