"How many 4 wheel axles do you want?" "Yes."

@onionhat9141

4 жыл бұрын

Blue Foxy perhaps

@threehead99

4 жыл бұрын

I would think an axle with an extra 2 wheels would be hell going over a switch or crossing. Edit: autocorrect made "axle" into "a less"

The best music in the world, the sound of an EMD prime mover revving up towards notch 8. This was captured perfectly, the sweet sound of the blowers spooling up and the very dominant but not overdone thumping of the pistons.

@elr2141979

6 жыл бұрын

billyboi57 they're not blowers their turbos but I get your point 😀

@Thedane2023

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - i was wery sure it was an EMD machine, it sounded A LOT like the type 20-645E3 From Scandinavia.

I like how they found a job for the caboose again.

@FastFlyingVirginian

9 жыл бұрын

WhiteCamry There are still some cabeese around in places, they're just harder to find, mainly in places that would have long backup moves like coal-mining country where it wouldn't be safe for a brakeman or conductor to be hanging off a car for the length of the move. I believe that in this case, the caboose would house the Schnabels' support crew as well as anyone assigned as a representative from the manufacturer of whatever load they might be carrying.

@titmouse-distribution

4 жыл бұрын

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Railroading gets more interesting all the time. Especially for me as a model railroader! BACHMANN ATHEARN, WALTHERS etc got it right to a T with all the loads in this video I can definitely run equipment like this on a layout no question about it! This video is a winner! 👍✅🎥⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

See I look at this title and all I can think is “Parker Schnabel?” DAMN YOU GOLD RUSH

@3henry214

4 жыл бұрын

I feel better... that I'm not the only one that had the same thought...

@majorwoody1720

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

This is, without a doubt, something someone never sees everyday. Great video.

Great video and sound also congratulations on catching both of them at once!!

Great video of the schnabel pair!!!! I would love to catch either of them in action especially on the Pittsburg line! Thanks for sharing.

Amazing! I marvel at the knowledge, skill and motivation to make such equipment. I like the colours as well (my Gump statement) thanks for s wonderful video, it will give me many opportunities to learn more about our world!

Wow it's wonderful how a *SINGLE* Norfolk Southern EMD SD40-2 can haul *2* freakin schnabel cars!!

Fantastic bit of rail photography.

@FastFlyingVirginian

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you, I have never saw them empty!

Your description brought me to tears my good sir..

Excellent video - well shot & nicely edited. Thank you for sharing!

@FastFlyingVirginian

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Great video and photography!

Beautiful sound ! And the Schnabels aren't bad either,great catch.

4 locations within about 5 miles of railroad...I'd say you fared extremely well. I didn't realize just how huge those things were until I saw this video, wow. Never saw that many wheels in one frame than I did in the last clip of it going down the slide.

Thank you for an excellent video.

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Filmado y captado como los dioses de los ferrocarriles. Un extraordinario trabajo este video. Felicidades y gracias por tan buen video. Saludos desde Mexico.

I swore that SD40-2 was going to stall out any second! Very good video, as always!

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

Tonnage-wise it wasn't in any danger of stalling, but the move was limited to 15 mph with stops at MO and AR to inspect before descending the grade. The worst problem I think they had was an air hose separation shortly after they departed MO, which was how I had plenty of time to get to the Route 53 bridge.

@jmream2618

7 жыл бұрын

FastFlyingVirginian I would've put a second locomotive on the back for extra insurance

Awesome video. Thanks for posting this. I model N scale, and my only brass piece is a 32 axle Westinghouse Schnable car.

@FastFlyingVirginian

8 жыл бұрын

+pumpkinhead625 Wow...that must have taken a fair amount of craftsmanship to model one in N scale. I assume it came with some kind of simulated load?

@pumpkinhead625

8 жыл бұрын

+FastFlyingVirginian Actually it came assembled and painted with transformer load. I haven't run it yet, but I was considering it.

@dannyjones3840

4 жыл бұрын

Man how do you get all those axles properly on N scale track lol

Great video and work. I for sure would drag my butt of out bed to capture something like that!!!

Beautiful video!

Very cool, although not loaded, their scale still beats anything out there, and that array of axles along the Pittsburgh Line must trick the rails into thinking that PRR Centipedes are once again running the rails! The shot of those things going down "the slide" is priceless.

Excellent footage! Love the horn too!

@FastFlyingVirginian

3 жыл бұрын

That horn was almost as big a catch as the two Schnabels.

4:34 it was a little hard to tell at first but an intermodal train passed behind the Schnabel train! Was a little confusing at first! Excellent camera angle there! :D

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

20T. He snuck up on me real good, but in my defense I was pretty well distracted.

What a catch, nice to see NS 3380 (nee-CR 6446) hard at work with a very heavy load which requires delicate movement and careful running along the ROW.

Great catch! Very nice transit and video! Great camera work! Greetings from Italy. Ciao, Stefano

@FastFlyingVirginian

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Beautiful movie. The 801 is a monster, by what I'm reading. At 18 axles per half, it was primarily designed to carry nuclear reactor containment vessels.

I’m sure the defect detectors sure love counting the axles on this particular train lol

@TheNemosdaddy

4 жыл бұрын

no different than hundreds of axles in any other train

@zachpare206

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine a 2 mile long train of only these cars..... i think that may break the counter lol

40-2. What a great locomotive.

Awesome Video! I saw the red schnabel car, WECX 800, go to Savannah, GA today.

That red schnabbel car reminds me of CTX800 that I encountered one late winter up north of Edmonton. It was transporting a 900 ton manganese pressure vessel to Fort MacMurry Mildred Lake for Syncrude. It would be impossible to move such a load in the summer as the ground would be too soft.

Great train video,i really enjoyed it.

Awesome you probably saw me! I was over near the Station Inn on the Hill filming it!

Love that RS3L horn!

Great catch! Thanks!!!!

@FastFlyingVirginian

Ай бұрын

You're welcome! I'm glad I made this one count, because I will probably never see such a thing again. If I do, I am playing the Powerball the same day because the odds would surely be in my favor. 😁

Amazing kit!

Not much room left, under those bridges... Great video!👍👍

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And the cars were empty here - I can't imagine what the fit would have looked like with a load on them.

I may be an old man, but I sure learned a lot from this recording. Thanks!

Awesome video! I got an HO scale Schnabel car yesterday

@FastFlyingVirginian

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! How big is the HO Schnabel? That's got to be a pain on curves.

@JawTooth

4 жыл бұрын

@@FastFlyingVirginian It is about 27 inches long. The worst part about it is when it goes around a curve it hangs way over and it will hit trains on sidings and I had to move some buildings and scenery back.

Both cars are now sitting in Charleston along with the caboose. They are slated to come through Columbia on the same train. At this time everyone is the area is keeping a very close watch and is ready for them to come this way. We don't think they'll go to VC Summers, but they may.

Both of them were Westinghouse owned Schnables. Basically will be used to haul two components Westinghouse makes. Power Transformers, Nuclear Reactor parts, etc

Supervisor: Today we need to change six axles on this big baby. Me: Sir, what´s the quickest way to get myself fired?

Nice catch old man!

Great catches and sound!!!!

@FastFlyingVirginian

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was great timing that there were so few interferences with the sound; I'm very happy with how it turned out.

Aren't you the lucky one to catch 2 Schnabel cars at once. I like the scenery that was at the locations you did get the videos for. The signal box at one location also a great location.

Amazing video!

Yes I know that feature, here in europe we have the same kind of cars but they are smaller size because we had almost everywhere the catenary!

I love the title of this video! # Meet the Schnabels!

Cool... and a couple 2fers to boot... great video

Very nice catch!

1:15 train voice crack

What an beautiful engine

I don't know which is more impressive , the shear size of those two Schnable cars , or the 16 cylinder ,mechanical symphony of that SD40-2 throttling up.

@FastFlyingVirginian

6 жыл бұрын

Trick question. The answer is neither - it's the echo of that sweet Leslie horn at Carneys Crossing. :)

I've seen them or something similar loaded a couple of times on the tracks next to Terminal Blvd. just outside of Norfolk International Terminals here in Norfolk. I believe the were humungous transformers.

What kind of horn is that at the begining ?

Both of them are still in Charleston Sc. as soon as the blue arrived it was finished and a few modifications done in the port

Awesome! Lots of axles on both halves of the cars, look like they had a total of 36 which makes it 72 wheels per car. Found your video google searching for schnabel cars after seeing an listing on eBay of one of the versions that MTH electric O gauge trains made, their version of that car only had 14 axles.

@jordanalexander615

Жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken the blue one is beefier with a higher load capacity

Positively colossal structures!

Were these things based off the gustav railway cannon's boogies?

Absolutely awesome. We were at cresson and horseshoe curve over the weekend. Where is carneys crossing compared to there?

those Schnabel cars are huge

where was the third scene at?

I wonder did they ever restore cebx 801 since it's wreck I seen videos of it but it's was being moved back to Westinghouse damage hope they fix it if they didn't

interest heavy-duty Genset hauliers, something you don't see every day, the extra steel girders make up the Genset cradles etc! Heavy equipment transport at is best!

The rigging on the flat cars would be for large pipe or tank sections. Really large.

s what camera are you using in this video it's amazing

Really nice !!! Thanks

The video is fantastic, but that description is golden, why don't you become a poet or something, since I didn't know what those cars were, I decided to read the description first, I'm so happy I made that decision, I can't wait to see what you put so beautifully into words

Wow what a catch!

Transformer or other large-item carrying units. The transformers or whatever else needs carrying, is suspended between those 'arms'. There is nothing between those 'arms' right now, they are simply joined together with a joining bar.

Nothing that I know of - these two were actually headed in two different directions. If I recall correctly, they stayed together until at least Roanoke, then one split off to head down to Savannah to pick up a nuclear reactor part, and the other may have gone over to Charleston. I believe the blue car had just been completed a couple of months prior, and this was its maiden voyage.

Damn, they clear the bridges by how much? 5"?

OMG what camera do you use

back I the early '90s I cut up a giant water-tube boiler in the plant that Finkl Steel moved into north of 95th Street in Chicago. All in, it weighed more than 300,000 pounds. You could tell it had been moved into the plant with a Schnabel. It had 2 giant pin-holes through the bottom frame, and 2 more at the top. It was a shame to destroy it. It was there for years and never installed., We sold the 2 steam header drums back to the company that built it, but that was all they were interested in.

@junkdeal

4 жыл бұрын

Actually it was in the early 2000s.

This begs the question, what on earth takes 2 Schnabels to move!

@CadenWood

4 жыл бұрын

Get fucked

@justinamincer8242

4 жыл бұрын

an NS EMD SD40-2

@Ccs4646

4 жыл бұрын

Probably turbines. It has the Westinghouse logo.

@SnowSniper678

3 жыл бұрын

Sd40t-2 would be the great unit for the schnabels

how far will these units trombone??

Vídeo excelente gostei. Abraço. Rio Brazil

What are they exactly? And can I find a video of those colossal cars in action anywhere?

@I3asti1990

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/g653sZWtk7badpc.html

Good video. Some time it would be nice to have a guest speaker tell us all about this special heavy load configuration.

@FastFlyingVirginian

6 жыл бұрын

I tried to get a guest speaker, but Michael Palin, Anthony Bourdain, and Jeremy Clarkson were either unavailable or way too expensive.

Great video, and Nice sound. Just like the old danish MZ locomotives :-)

@FastFlyingVirginian

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The resemblance is no coincidence - the MZ class used the same prime mover, EMD 645-E3.

@railtrolley

4 жыл бұрын

Did you know that 16 MZ's were sold, and went to work in New South Wales, Australia? They were nicknamed "Helgas" for their European origins.

ware this tran filmed at i never seen tran like that

nice sound diesel locomotive and heavy train super video.hi from Slovakia

@FastFlyingVirginian

7 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks for watching!

@peter3636

7 жыл бұрын

FastFlyingVirginian look on my model railway.sorry i speak little english..kolajiskoHo2 is my model train.hi

Thanks! Maybe ill hit there next time im up that way

U sir got a well deserved like !

Where is the meet the team intro

That's a big crane train. Multiple cranes on a train lead by Norfolk Southern SD40-2 #3380. Those are some giant cranes. Wonder where those are going to.

@FastFlyingVirginian

Жыл бұрын

If I recall correctly, one was headed to Savannah, GA and the other to Charleston, SC to pick up different loads. They traveled together like seen here into NC or VA where they split up.

Ya know how train wheels clattering over rail joints or switch points make that clickety-clack sound? Well, by the time this thing got through the switch you would have been driven insane by the noise of EVERY SINGLE WHEEL clattering over the switch.

Creo que van ha Instalar una Grúa para levantar por lo que van ha Trasladar

I like the horn on 3380 and nice catch with the Schnabel cars. Only wishing they were loaded...

One like for the description 👍

Wat it do?

Yes very nice indeed. And forgive me for asking but what is a train like this used for?

@derekwhite9932

4 жыл бұрын

It carries very strange and heavy loads.

@wwbcapitalmanagement574

4 жыл бұрын

It is empty now, but it is used to carry extremely large and heavy electrical power transformers.

It reminds me of the carriage for the Schwerer Gustave

I’ve seen HEPX 200 in person, even videos don’t turkey show how big these suckers are!

What is that there moving and what is it for? Moving a transformer?

@FastFlyingVirginian

5 жыл бұрын

The cars as seen here are empty. They are used for carrying a variety of high, wide, and/or heavy loads. The two halves of each car come apart, and the load is suspended between them. The flat cars are carrying various cradle parts used to hold the bottom of loads.

Dave's a chaser?! Never knew he had it in him ;)

I wonder what the hourly rental is for one of those units.

@jamesbondeson669

4 жыл бұрын

'How high is up?

Thank you. Excellent photography. What are they used for? Thanks.

@FastFlyingVirginian

2 жыл бұрын

Schnabels are used to carry large loads that wouldn't fit on a normal freight car. The two halves of the car are split apart, and the load is carried between them cantilever style. The more wheels a Schnabel has, the better the weight can be spread out. These particular cars also have an operator cab on each half; when the car is loaded the operators can shift the load up and down or side to side to guide it past trackside objects like telephone poles, bridge abutments, etc. There are several good videos here on KZread (none of them my own, unfortunately) that show the cars loaded.