gees dave all i did was fit whitewalls to my chop but i like the belt setup
@rafa_molina11 күн бұрын
Ohhhhh, que gran idea, una terminacion muy limpia
@lintassepurchannel1314 күн бұрын
Excuse me, sir, I want to ask how to work as a train driver at Rio Tinto
@IanR120523 күн бұрын
Man I would kill to have curtains in the windows of the BNSF trains I drive. I end up using binder clips or magnets to hold my safety vest in front of the window. Also is that a microwave on the opposite desk?
@lucastrainverse8618Ай бұрын
Come see lucastrainverse!
@seprishereАй бұрын
This seems a lot more hassle than the ones on the Paris Métro (or even the DLR).
@constancecoralie54642 ай бұрын
Rio Tinto being one of the notorious international companies who hurt and kill people in different countries.
@voltare2amstereo2 ай бұрын
Does the tipper do the entire carriage? Curious how or deals with the breaks/hoses
@tomchekotevski91053 ай бұрын
M8, that was great to see the big old locomotive 🚂.
@lukethornburg43504 ай бұрын
What happens if the locomotive is still attached to the train when the dumper starts pulling the train through?
@PneumaticFrog4 ай бұрын
They first started these around 1994 in rio tinto, hoping to get hired to do this as a job, would love it
@JoelDavies-cl6nr5 ай бұрын
I like the music in the background, clearly the loco driver has a good taste in music.
@railwayofthesouthwest7 ай бұрын
This pisses me off knowing Australians just lost an opportunity in the rail sector to actually become a locomotive driver. Another example of jobs being replaced by computers, gone are the days when these trains were manned. Let's just hope some other companies don't do this with their trains. Secure employment
@jonathanbarker717 ай бұрын
It is coming to Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway and Amtrak of the autonomous self driving Train and there will be no more train crew at all on Union Pacific, BNSF and Amtrak Passenger Train in 2024.
@jonathanbarker717 ай бұрын
Union Pacific, Amtrak, BNSF Railway and CSX, Norfolk Southern is getting self driving autonomous Train in USA
@yaad22267 ай бұрын
SO IF U HAVE TO HAVE TO DO ELNGHTY SETUP HOW IS THAT AUTONOMS JUST THE DRIVING PART IS THERE SHOULD BE FULLY AUTONOMOS
@29brendus8 ай бұрын
Better to employ a few drivers than muck about with all this tomfoolery! The mining companies make enough money! There I said it!
@alwood91488 ай бұрын
gday well i finally get to see it run, such a work of art
@user-ol7ym6uo6x9 ай бұрын
Soon to be in America
@jonathanbarker71Ай бұрын
Union Pacific
@GabrielTobing9 ай бұрын
Ghost trains XD
@bobbyglendinning24069 ай бұрын
Are there bankers staged at any other mine, or do they run only out of Paraburdoo?
@pootispiker28669 ай бұрын
End of the Line good ending
@Dragon-Slay3r10 ай бұрын
Rio chilly tin has fallen from the top to the bottom 😂 macho man 😂
@ntekniklaus371010 ай бұрын
you guys got FM radio for music in your engines? that's awesome, since that's basically disallowed here in the US. there's also some regulation against being a certain distance from track ends on certain companies so it's insane seeing how close you got to it.
@donalfinn420511 ай бұрын
If most of these companies had their way, they would replace us all. All in the name of greed.
@spectrum_SH11 ай бұрын
Does it use camera ,,,, to detect any potential obstacles like a crossing animal/human and slow down or break?
@jackgamer630711 ай бұрын
Does dispatch actually the train remotely, or does it start rolling after a timer ticks down once the autohaul switch has been flicked outside?
@WSTLNZ11 ай бұрын
2:54 I know the reason why the tipper/dumper (roll-over) section DOES NOT DO COMPLETE any 360 degree rollovers for, and that's so the air-hose couplings NEVER need disconnecting - allowing the auto-tip gear to tip the entire train (one car at a time) without human yard crews "uncoupling / recoupling" air-line hose connections every time a car is emptied. By only doing partial roll & roll back "tips" the entire train consist remains the same, whilst the triple heading loco's, that brought the train into the facility, can simply "run around on a loop" (away from the tipper), to be re-attached at the the other end - ready to haul the MT's back to the mine after being auto-unloaded.
@user-tb2jy9lu3d Жыл бұрын
Is the car dumper computer operated or manned? Interesting how it is able to dump without affecting the link on the car and get the car back on track properly.
@WSTLNZ11 ай бұрын
Car is clamped to the tipper track section (when it stops inside the tipper before it rolls) so that the laden/unladen weight on the springs keeps the wheels on the track. The couplers will all have a "roll-over function" that allows them to rotate when the wagon is rolled / emptied, and as the airlines NEVER need to be uncoupled by hand (because they will have enough slack in them to do this roll-over function) they never break-apart - nor need to be recoupled again, by hand. Not knowing specifically about an operator in the tipper control room, I'd assume, as with the automation of the locomotives, the tipper will operate according to limit switches which the cars "trip" when entering, and after being returned to the normal orientation before being unclamped, to be moved out of the tipper hopper unit. Thus - it should all be working just like clockwork, automated completely. If there is a control room operator, they'll only be in there in case a car derails, or if anything else goes wrong, that needs a shutdown to allow workers to correct any fault.
@WSTLNZ11 ай бұрын
Think of this 1600 km line as if it was (as it is) just an end-to-end model railway with everything fully automated. The only human intervention being needed at each terminus to disconnect the loco's from one end, and do a run-around to the other end, to be recoupled (the air-hoses need to be recoupled by hand) Then the auto dispatch control system, sends the train/s the other way and it all repeats (just the same as a fully automated model railway would work). Oh sure, somewhere (or maybe in many places) humans will be present, just to do the human needed functions (such as disconnecting couplers & reconnecting air-hoses), whilst being able to physically see anything that isn't ordinary - which would require a system shut-down to rectify.
@scottaye9999 Жыл бұрын
sensible music choice, wish there could be more detail about the couplers and the high pressure air line
@cleenlivin Жыл бұрын
Very cool and interesting stuff. The part that outlines the evolution from the locomotive going from engineer to fill driverless was really interesting.
@Dragon-Slay3r10 ай бұрын
Right slip was intended as I wanted to highlight this Lyndon slip 😂
@christopherrobinson3290 Жыл бұрын
Not quite sure who you are yet, but i’m Chris, from North Carolina i love trains, - and would love to someday get back (thats right i said “back”, because i actually visited Darwin while still in the Navy years ago) to Australia. This looks like quite the adventure thanks for sharing i just subbed
@kwv4865 Жыл бұрын
Very windy at around 4 minutes so couldn't hear you
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
That's why I wrote what I said in the description.
@jasonga Жыл бұрын
There must be something influencing it when it slows to load??
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
Yes, the same thing as at all other times - the program that runs it.
@El_Transportacoches_33 Жыл бұрын
Wait, what? Rio Tinto? In Spain, in the past, a quarry with a narrow gauge railway there was that his name was also Rio Tinto... But with all words together. That railway is in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia. In the present, this railway now is a touristic railway.
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
You're not the first Spaniard to remark on that. Rio Tinto is an English company that's first operation was in Spain so they named it after the Red River, or so I'm told.
@smashlee6181 Жыл бұрын
why do you have to take the corpses off the tracks?
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
Because they can part the air hoses between the cars as a train passes over them and they bloat due to the gas produced by the rotting flesh which makes them physically bigger, meaning even more chance of parting the hoses. One of my last jobs just before I retired was to pilot a train reversing down to the bottom of the hill because it ran over a large cow just before the top of the hill and at that point, the train was going so slowly that the cow passing under the fuel tank stopped the train and it couldn't get started. As the train reversed down the hill with me driving beside the rear wagon in a car, another crew was removing the cow so that when the train came up the hill for the second time it could proceed through as normal. The other crew took a video of the train trying to start in the forward direction with the cow underneath it. I've seen it but I don't have a copy of it. I came along just as they were doing that and because I was heading to where the train had come from, the decision was made to let it run backwards to the bottom of the hill, around 15 kms.
@smashlee6181 Жыл бұрын
@@davidrayner9832 wow okay, thanks for the insight.
@Rajkumaryadav-ir3vb Жыл бұрын
Autonomous plane.
@Highland_Moo Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting these. I live in the Scottish highlands….you know the Highlander movie…..well, I’m from the place where the castle, (Eilean Donan), is. It’s very different here in climate and environment, we get so much rain. I can’t get over how gorgeous the colour of the rocks/earth is there….so red! Where I live the ground is always damp but it’s green and the heather is very purple at certain times of the year. I love seeing the loco clips - I’m 45 and grew up loving the old Class 37 diesel locos that we don’t have anymore and it’s nice seeing different locos….not very ladylike in my interests but hey, who cares!
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words lassie. I've been all over the highlands and have been to Dornie Castle. That part of the world is utterly beautiful. As for the iron ore industry, it came about because cattle farmer Lang Hancock was out checking on his heards from a light plane one day and remarked to his partner that the ground below was ridiculously red. Also an ameteur prospector, he made a note of where it was and went out therre in his Land Rover to dig some up. The rest is history.
@Callmemamacallmebaba Жыл бұрын
Give me one 😂
@qornopiratu Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for making this video! Its a very interesting perspective into the operations of these trains. Too bad the concepts developed here arent applicable to other railways, as most will have to make sure not to cause human damage. What I wonder is how the train knows what actions to do when? Is the route programmed in advance and it knows to eg. accelerate at hills, brake when coming down or does it do something"smart"?
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
A combination of the track profile, its location on said track, the speed it's travelling at, etc. That's it in a nutshell and a more detailed explanation is well above my pay grade.
@nasinopuzzolente5396Ай бұрын
When all railways are automated and unmanned I believe your job will also be replaced by an AI. What for many is fantastic and futuristic leaves many people without work
@ph11p3540 Жыл бұрын
Sadly the camera man never understood the concept of covering their microphone with a fuzzy wind protection covering called a dead cat.
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
I undstand that concept very well, I just didn't have one with me on the day. At least I took the trouble to write what I said in the descrpiption. I wonder if you're smart enough to read it. Probably not.
@GreatYTShark Жыл бұрын
Sadly Phillip never understood the concept of thinking before commenting. Also showing appreciation for David taking time out of his day to show us something we wouldn’t get to see otherwise. Driverless trains should be the least of peoples concerns when we have a generation that constantly criticises and nitpicks when they don’t have a clue what they are talking about! Can’t believe you didn’t have a windscreen, a tripod, studio lighting and a director at work?! Pull your head in Phillip!
@corredorexportacao5177 Жыл бұрын
post more videos of the rio tinto railroad
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
I'm retired so no can do.
@lemonpepperdry5818 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting.
@Shitphototaker69 Жыл бұрын
I wouldve thought it'd be more efficient to have a system like they do on coal systems with wagons dumping from underneath in a massive balloon loop
@davidrayner9832 Жыл бұрын
To keep the train moving would be far quicker, easier on the drawgear, and not require a car postioner but iron ore is so much heavier than coal that it takes less than half of it to make the 120 tons the wagons can carry so they are only half the length of a coal wagon whick leaves no room between the bogies for doors. Not only that, but when it's wet it clumps like cement. If you took a typical coal wagon and filled it with iron ore, it'd break in half.
@WSTLNZ11 ай бұрын
Coal dumping rotators which have a balloon tipper that allows "individual coal trucks" to be fully rotated over, without returning back the OTHER way - to where they were before they were tipped, operate with individual coal "trucks" that don't have continuous (full train) air brake lines. Hence why a coal dump car can be rolled completely over to dump each "truck", or bottom emptied. Coal which inherently is often just loaded as lumps of coal, mean the coal is easily dumped by "dropping", but also means that unloading these trucks (wagons/cars) can take longer to unload, as they are also much longer than Australia's extremely short truck IRON ORE trains. That's how most original coalmine TRUCKS were unloaded after being brought to the surface by long winch cables (where air-brake systems were not used). Coal trains (which run for several miles before being emptied away from the mine) that use "rollover" balloon cages to empty the wagons, have all airlines disconnected and the air-reservoirs bled to allow the trucks to free-roll at the unloading facility (are uncoupled by hand prior to doing any unloading) and are then dumped and then all are reconnected (again by hand) before the locomotives can rebuild the lost air-line pressures, to have operational train brakes again (a lot of wasted time) Coal trains that use conventional below car unloading doors (to unload the cars) are not rolled over in balloon rotators - and can thus all remain coupled with connected air-hoses. They still have their brakes bled off, to allow the rake to be free-rolled through the unloading facility. Rio Tinto uses a system that wastes far less time - by keeping all air-line hoses (on the rake of wagons/cars) connected and only partially rolling the trucks over using special rotating buffer couplers - to unload the "Iron Ore", such that the airlines can be kept pressured by an "end-attached" compressor car during the entire unloading sequence. By wasting less time at the unloading facility, they can keep all those automated trains running to a tighter "time" scheduled timetable.
@trainandtruckmodeler786 Жыл бұрын
That's nice, that's all Australia and USA needs....less jobs and kill your own economy....what good is Rio Tinto if no works to buy the products....
@Hazza4257 Жыл бұрын
yes just like when they replaced bank tellers with ATMs... end of the world
@raymondleggs5508 Жыл бұрын
Sad looking locomotive
@srenpetersen8209 Жыл бұрын
I can imagine what a monday morning could throw in my face there...
@rodsmith3911 Жыл бұрын
Looks like a giant version of the iron ore tipper system we had in the UK in the 1960s. We only had 16 ton open wagons but the idea was the same..
@icdgyixifyinstereo Жыл бұрын
There are two Garratts in Delhi Railway Museum. Built at Gorton works in Manchester. If you ever get to Delhi, it is worth a visit.
@andrewganley9016 Жыл бұрын
Hell fire back in the day designed and made in Manchester Greta Thunberg would go ballistic!
@chriscringle7740 Жыл бұрын
Did they have coal feeders for moving coal from back of the bunker
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gees dave all i did was fit whitewalls to my chop but i like the belt setup
Ohhhhh, que gran idea, una terminacion muy limpia
Excuse me, sir, I want to ask how to work as a train driver at Rio Tinto
Man I would kill to have curtains in the windows of the BNSF trains I drive. I end up using binder clips or magnets to hold my safety vest in front of the window. Also is that a microwave on the opposite desk?
Come see lucastrainverse!
This seems a lot more hassle than the ones on the Paris Métro (or even the DLR).
Rio Tinto being one of the notorious international companies who hurt and kill people in different countries.
Does the tipper do the entire carriage? Curious how or deals with the breaks/hoses
M8, that was great to see the big old locomotive 🚂.
What happens if the locomotive is still attached to the train when the dumper starts pulling the train through?
They first started these around 1994 in rio tinto, hoping to get hired to do this as a job, would love it
I like the music in the background, clearly the loco driver has a good taste in music.
This pisses me off knowing Australians just lost an opportunity in the rail sector to actually become a locomotive driver. Another example of jobs being replaced by computers, gone are the days when these trains were manned. Let's just hope some other companies don't do this with their trains. Secure employment
It is coming to Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway and Amtrak of the autonomous self driving Train and there will be no more train crew at all on Union Pacific, BNSF and Amtrak Passenger Train in 2024.
Union Pacific, Amtrak, BNSF Railway and CSX, Norfolk Southern is getting self driving autonomous Train in USA
SO IF U HAVE TO HAVE TO DO ELNGHTY SETUP HOW IS THAT AUTONOMS JUST THE DRIVING PART IS THERE SHOULD BE FULLY AUTONOMOS
Better to employ a few drivers than muck about with all this tomfoolery! The mining companies make enough money! There I said it!
gday well i finally get to see it run, such a work of art
Soon to be in America
Union Pacific
Ghost trains XD
Are there bankers staged at any other mine, or do they run only out of Paraburdoo?
End of the Line good ending
Rio chilly tin has fallen from the top to the bottom 😂 macho man 😂
you guys got FM radio for music in your engines? that's awesome, since that's basically disallowed here in the US. there's also some regulation against being a certain distance from track ends on certain companies so it's insane seeing how close you got to it.
If most of these companies had their way, they would replace us all. All in the name of greed.
Does it use camera ,,,, to detect any potential obstacles like a crossing animal/human and slow down or break?
Does dispatch actually the train remotely, or does it start rolling after a timer ticks down once the autohaul switch has been flicked outside?
2:54 I know the reason why the tipper/dumper (roll-over) section DOES NOT DO COMPLETE any 360 degree rollovers for, and that's so the air-hose couplings NEVER need disconnecting - allowing the auto-tip gear to tip the entire train (one car at a time) without human yard crews "uncoupling / recoupling" air-line hose connections every time a car is emptied. By only doing partial roll & roll back "tips" the entire train consist remains the same, whilst the triple heading loco's, that brought the train into the facility, can simply "run around on a loop" (away from the tipper), to be re-attached at the the other end - ready to haul the MT's back to the mine after being auto-unloaded.
Is the car dumper computer operated or manned? Interesting how it is able to dump without affecting the link on the car and get the car back on track properly.
Car is clamped to the tipper track section (when it stops inside the tipper before it rolls) so that the laden/unladen weight on the springs keeps the wheels on the track. The couplers will all have a "roll-over function" that allows them to rotate when the wagon is rolled / emptied, and as the airlines NEVER need to be uncoupled by hand (because they will have enough slack in them to do this roll-over function) they never break-apart - nor need to be recoupled again, by hand. Not knowing specifically about an operator in the tipper control room, I'd assume, as with the automation of the locomotives, the tipper will operate according to limit switches which the cars "trip" when entering, and after being returned to the normal orientation before being unclamped, to be moved out of the tipper hopper unit. Thus - it should all be working just like clockwork, automated completely. If there is a control room operator, they'll only be in there in case a car derails, or if anything else goes wrong, that needs a shutdown to allow workers to correct any fault.
Think of this 1600 km line as if it was (as it is) just an end-to-end model railway with everything fully automated. The only human intervention being needed at each terminus to disconnect the loco's from one end, and do a run-around to the other end, to be recoupled (the air-hoses need to be recoupled by hand) Then the auto dispatch control system, sends the train/s the other way and it all repeats (just the same as a fully automated model railway would work). Oh sure, somewhere (or maybe in many places) humans will be present, just to do the human needed functions (such as disconnecting couplers & reconnecting air-hoses), whilst being able to physically see anything that isn't ordinary - which would require a system shut-down to rectify.
sensible music choice, wish there could be more detail about the couplers and the high pressure air line
Very cool and interesting stuff. The part that outlines the evolution from the locomotive going from engineer to fill driverless was really interesting.
Right slip was intended as I wanted to highlight this Lyndon slip 😂
Not quite sure who you are yet, but i’m Chris, from North Carolina i love trains, - and would love to someday get back (thats right i said “back”, because i actually visited Darwin while still in the Navy years ago) to Australia. This looks like quite the adventure thanks for sharing i just subbed
Very windy at around 4 minutes so couldn't hear you
That's why I wrote what I said in the description.
There must be something influencing it when it slows to load??
Yes, the same thing as at all other times - the program that runs it.
Wait, what? Rio Tinto? In Spain, in the past, a quarry with a narrow gauge railway there was that his name was also Rio Tinto... But with all words together. That railway is in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia. In the present, this railway now is a touristic railway.
You're not the first Spaniard to remark on that. Rio Tinto is an English company that's first operation was in Spain so they named it after the Red River, or so I'm told.
why do you have to take the corpses off the tracks?
Because they can part the air hoses between the cars as a train passes over them and they bloat due to the gas produced by the rotting flesh which makes them physically bigger, meaning even more chance of parting the hoses. One of my last jobs just before I retired was to pilot a train reversing down to the bottom of the hill because it ran over a large cow just before the top of the hill and at that point, the train was going so slowly that the cow passing under the fuel tank stopped the train and it couldn't get started. As the train reversed down the hill with me driving beside the rear wagon in a car, another crew was removing the cow so that when the train came up the hill for the second time it could proceed through as normal. The other crew took a video of the train trying to start in the forward direction with the cow underneath it. I've seen it but I don't have a copy of it. I came along just as they were doing that and because I was heading to where the train had come from, the decision was made to let it run backwards to the bottom of the hill, around 15 kms.
@@davidrayner9832 wow okay, thanks for the insight.
Autonomous plane.
Thank you so much for posting these. I live in the Scottish highlands….you know the Highlander movie…..well, I’m from the place where the castle, (Eilean Donan), is. It’s very different here in climate and environment, we get so much rain. I can’t get over how gorgeous the colour of the rocks/earth is there….so red! Where I live the ground is always damp but it’s green and the heather is very purple at certain times of the year. I love seeing the loco clips - I’m 45 and grew up loving the old Class 37 diesel locos that we don’t have anymore and it’s nice seeing different locos….not very ladylike in my interests but hey, who cares!
Thank you for the kind words lassie. I've been all over the highlands and have been to Dornie Castle. That part of the world is utterly beautiful. As for the iron ore industry, it came about because cattle farmer Lang Hancock was out checking on his heards from a light plane one day and remarked to his partner that the ground below was ridiculously red. Also an ameteur prospector, he made a note of where it was and went out therre in his Land Rover to dig some up. The rest is history.
Give me one 😂
Thanks a lot for making this video! Its a very interesting perspective into the operations of these trains. Too bad the concepts developed here arent applicable to other railways, as most will have to make sure not to cause human damage. What I wonder is how the train knows what actions to do when? Is the route programmed in advance and it knows to eg. accelerate at hills, brake when coming down or does it do something"smart"?
A combination of the track profile, its location on said track, the speed it's travelling at, etc. That's it in a nutshell and a more detailed explanation is well above my pay grade.
When all railways are automated and unmanned I believe your job will also be replaced by an AI. What for many is fantastic and futuristic leaves many people without work
Sadly the camera man never understood the concept of covering their microphone with a fuzzy wind protection covering called a dead cat.
I undstand that concept very well, I just didn't have one with me on the day. At least I took the trouble to write what I said in the descrpiption. I wonder if you're smart enough to read it. Probably not.
Sadly Phillip never understood the concept of thinking before commenting. Also showing appreciation for David taking time out of his day to show us something we wouldn’t get to see otherwise. Driverless trains should be the least of peoples concerns when we have a generation that constantly criticises and nitpicks when they don’t have a clue what they are talking about! Can’t believe you didn’t have a windscreen, a tripod, studio lighting and a director at work?! Pull your head in Phillip!
post more videos of the rio tinto railroad
I'm retired so no can do.
Very interesting.
I wouldve thought it'd be more efficient to have a system like they do on coal systems with wagons dumping from underneath in a massive balloon loop
To keep the train moving would be far quicker, easier on the drawgear, and not require a car postioner but iron ore is so much heavier than coal that it takes less than half of it to make the 120 tons the wagons can carry so they are only half the length of a coal wagon whick leaves no room between the bogies for doors. Not only that, but when it's wet it clumps like cement. If you took a typical coal wagon and filled it with iron ore, it'd break in half.
Coal dumping rotators which have a balloon tipper that allows "individual coal trucks" to be fully rotated over, without returning back the OTHER way - to where they were before they were tipped, operate with individual coal "trucks" that don't have continuous (full train) air brake lines. Hence why a coal dump car can be rolled completely over to dump each "truck", or bottom emptied. Coal which inherently is often just loaded as lumps of coal, mean the coal is easily dumped by "dropping", but also means that unloading these trucks (wagons/cars) can take longer to unload, as they are also much longer than Australia's extremely short truck IRON ORE trains. That's how most original coalmine TRUCKS were unloaded after being brought to the surface by long winch cables (where air-brake systems were not used). Coal trains (which run for several miles before being emptied away from the mine) that use "rollover" balloon cages to empty the wagons, have all airlines disconnected and the air-reservoirs bled to allow the trucks to free-roll at the unloading facility (are uncoupled by hand prior to doing any unloading) and are then dumped and then all are reconnected (again by hand) before the locomotives can rebuild the lost air-line pressures, to have operational train brakes again (a lot of wasted time) Coal trains that use conventional below car unloading doors (to unload the cars) are not rolled over in balloon rotators - and can thus all remain coupled with connected air-hoses. They still have their brakes bled off, to allow the rake to be free-rolled through the unloading facility. Rio Tinto uses a system that wastes far less time - by keeping all air-line hoses (on the rake of wagons/cars) connected and only partially rolling the trucks over using special rotating buffer couplers - to unload the "Iron Ore", such that the airlines can be kept pressured by an "end-attached" compressor car during the entire unloading sequence. By wasting less time at the unloading facility, they can keep all those automated trains running to a tighter "time" scheduled timetable.
That's nice, that's all Australia and USA needs....less jobs and kill your own economy....what good is Rio Tinto if no works to buy the products....
yes just like when they replaced bank tellers with ATMs... end of the world
Sad looking locomotive
I can imagine what a monday morning could throw in my face there...
Looks like a giant version of the iron ore tipper system we had in the UK in the 1960s. We only had 16 ton open wagons but the idea was the same..
There are two Garratts in Delhi Railway Museum. Built at Gorton works in Manchester. If you ever get to Delhi, it is worth a visit.
Hell fire back in the day designed and made in Manchester Greta Thunberg would go ballistic!
Did they have coal feeders for moving coal from back of the bunker
Yes.