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I'm literally here for the pieces
Don’t forget the yellow snow plow experiment for road crossing safety
Hey not from the area of pa do you know where the Lehigh meets the reading line supposedly the reading sees around 65 trains a day
Didn’t think Allentown wasn’t railfan friendly well may be better off sticking to the New Jersey part of the Lehigh valley line then
I believe traction motors have a pinion gear.. So I suppose it IS just 'a matter of a pinion' !! All seriousness aside, I only like 'point to point' modelRRing (like the real one)..so this would be a great track plan, scenery, and Ops for such, if I had my own place right now...Dang !
Do CN employees NOT wear reflective vests? @13:58
Back in the day, no railroads used reflective vest
Train locomotives are confusing.
they were used after couplings did break !
The longest a car has been spotted there for loading, as far as I know, has been 8 weeks before being released for interchange. There's also been times where Corestates tried to load so much material into the car that they had to ram the cardboard with the forklift to get the plug door to latch closed. Good times haha
When the Chinese stop paying anything for recyclable plastics it sits until the price goes back up or the owner is forced to landfill it.
Subscribed! You did a great job on describing DPU's! Learned a lot.
DPUs reduce couple and draw bar stress. DPUs are in wide use so the hookup and test costs are minimal compared to the benefits. As technology increases so will the the use by RRs increase.
So does CSX on the Keystone Subdivision at Sand Patch grade for Helper
But why am I seeing DPU on CSX River subdivision just doesn't fun
I like Normal Lash ups in the front
The video of the MRL train west of Mullan Pass is 2.2 percent going west.... The manned helpers control the throttle... brakes are controlled by the head end. There is another section of manned helpers is used from Livingston to Bozeman ... same type of operation.
Ok, I found this on the map. Corestates Processing and Recycling. The reviews from the truckers are really awful. The scrap plastic dealers buy from here. They list the product as " clean plastic " But the truckers all say it is " garbage refuse plastic " not clean, smells really bad. They must have a customer who is buying via rail box car. Looks like they load 1 car at a time. I don't know how the company works. Some of the plastic is in the large brown standard recycling size containers. But they have a lot of plastic from all different sources Maybe they get paid to take the plastic? Maybe the box car is delivering, not taking plastic away ? This is a " Green Energy " company The reviews say that the staff is nice but it is slow to get loaded or unloaded At least they are trying to do some good and save a few jobs Not sure what they pay It is rare to see a company paying a decent wage I imagine they are no different But, I would rather work where I am not on a quota for 10 dollars than a place where you have to meet insane quotas for 10 dollars
The different types of plastic has to be sorted. And the different colors. So you have a lot of bundles of different types and different colors of each type Clear plastic soda bottles are the easiest to recycle. This place looks like they are handling the thicker plastics Do you know the name of the company ?
This is where all the recycling bins are going The plastic is being sold to someone. The cost of recycling had been more than making new plastic until a few years ago. With the increase in the price of oil, recycling plastic became profitable again. But you have to find a buyer. Usually they send this over to China. China buys a lot of scrap metal and plastic.
Great video!
sounds right too me ,butt then I'm a trucker like you, great video
excvelllence video again sir
3:02 4:59 5:57 I've never seen such ghetto rolling stock as those gondolas with hand-painted road numbers.
Muy buen video Excelente estimado amigo Like 👍🏻 un saludo 👋🏻 😊
Howdy AC!!
Hey Tony, I swear I just thinking about you. Went to check out your Rumble page. Will be emailing you over the weekend. Take care!
@@Trains21 I've been around! Ran out of ideas for Rumble. Goin back to railfanning. Look forward to hearing from you!!
Enjoyed the video, nice footage and operations of distributed power!🛤🚂
2007 i was working with UP in FT worth TX and i asked them why every train has a dpu, he said it gives them 8% better fuel economy, control from both ends of the train and less train separations due to draw bar forces on a grades. think of it as a big radio controlled car. down side is in hills with lots of curves you can lose radio signal
Hey man... Cp rail is the pioneer of DPU opps. And started it and ran continously on coal trains in the 70s. They started this with rebuilt B units to house the radio equipment. The CP roster of sd40-2s was #ed for slave and masters in the 58xx and up .. there is a lot more info on this. Plz update the video.
If I remember correct, SOUTHERN was also very early to do/,try stuff like this in the late 60's/ early 70's, especially on the line over Saluda Mtn.
@@martindoyle831 no… Southern Railroad did it from the 60’s . They had radio controlled equipment in converted boxcars
out west those are probably the wire connected DPU's instead of the wireless jobs AC!! if you want some info on CSX you might want to get a hold of DJ over on DJ's trains channels he's an engineer for the cheapskate express as the track gang around here refers to CSX!!
nope... radio controlled
It doesn’t take very long to set up a DP 15 min
I am not that far from binghamton.
I probably wouldn’t have said how to setup a DPU. Railfans or the general public doesn’t need to know this information. That’s just my opinion.
Railroaders need to stop acting like working in the industry is like a security clearance at the Pentagon.
why do you think some punk might try a rip a pull?
So happy to see you videos 😊😮
I reme.ber these locos.
Come on now, the main advantage of DPUs is that they allow more efficient performance while getting rid of a train crew to man them. Helper sets do everything DPUs can do, but of course they require a crew to man them
Way to call it how it is automation to put a guy out of a job
MU’s however only require one crew for multiple units also. Helper units require a crew because they do not stay with train, they are temporary and let off a after a short push to get the train over the section where more power is temporarily needed. Then they move on to the next train that needs help on that section. Witch means that they are capable of independent operation.
DPU took away a really nice helper job at my yard
A 1to1 Scale DCC system 😊
Why was there a commuter car (MARC) on the freight at 19:47?
It was being delivered from its manufacturer to the transit agency that owns it
a dead haul delivery!!it's tad too big for Fedex!!!
@@keithmoore5306 Ya think??? or to fit in the plane!!
@@pbear6251 depends on the plane!
@@keithmoore5306 It's cheaper to put it on the back end of a freight seeing as how most Airports don't have rail access!!🤣🤣
I am pretty sure that there has to be a human in the main locomotive and a human in the DPU to coordinate and press buttons on the DPU system and the lead locomotive
Nope
@@7171-Ws6 someone has to be in each locomotive and set the levers for the manual brakes and the throttle and turn on the breakers and switches. Once it is in DPU mode they can disconnect from the main locomotive or add the DPUs to the Main locomotive, but someone has to go in and turn each locomotive on and flip the breakers and insert the throttle and move the levers. As long as it is left running then it can be remotely controlled but once you turn it off or one of those levers is manually moved , it has to be manually moved again to the DPU state It would be great if you could remotely turn on the breakers and start it up and move a locomotive without anyone being in it. You wouldn't need yard crews to put trains together. Just someone remotely watching a video feed.
@@ocsrc wrong...
yes; someone has to go to the DPU engine and set it up for DPU mode, and then they go to the lead and set it up for lead. Typically yard hostlers (who move engines around in the yard) set this up
I guess I am not the only one who calls it the " Spitter Valve "
I've always known it as a spitter valve since 1986
These incredible long trains cause excess wear on the tracks, especially on curves
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I posted a rather critical comment on one of your other videos earlier, but I like this one much better.
I found this very disappointing. Four-and-a-half minutes of generic and rather directionless (ChatGPT-written?) talk mostly about economics, accompanied by what seemed to be mostly rather old footage of grain trains -- Class 1s don't often run unit grain trains of Canadian cylindrical hoppers or ribbed hoppers, these days. And then, suddenly, you're doing a completely subjective top-five list of something that has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic you told me I was watching. So I quit watching at that point.
Lot's of good HU motors,like seeing those old CPL signals!🛤🚂
I love these rebuilds so much. Thanks for the video.
Yes,food grade stuff change a lots Last 40 years here western canada cp and cn change lots the way move food grade.lethbridge alberta is one them cp rail spend lots money upgrade due food supply and export and work south borders with class 1 lines.winnipeg,manitoba is same.the war now in ukraine change a lots due demand food grade.thanks video again 😊
Yea you talk about my favorite railroad and I the one I grew up with
I love this video colorful Hopper cars thx AC
Thank you for keeping us informed. Excellent video AC.
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