I absolutely love watching "Maintenance of Way" operations ! Everyone has their job and it has to be done, JUST SO; for the safety of all trains that use the track ! I applaud all the workers and the camera-person and editor that made this video possible !!!
It would have been helpful if someone from the Industry was Narrating and explaining the process as the work on the Track was taking place. Enjoyable and informative video to watch.
Very well documented but lack of explanations for each of the task performed.............A narrator would help to complement this Super Engineering show piece.......
I would love to play a railway track building simulator that incorporates all the machines seen in the video. Some would find laying down track piece by piece and tightening every bolt a bit tedious but I'm the type who enjoys stuff like that.
I'm amazed at how the railroad's can seem to put down tracks thru hills, valleys, mountains, deserts, over rivers and whatever else seems to get in the way.
True, but, remember that when the transcontinental Railroad was built, the crews That laid the track over the Sierras had to do all the tunneling and excavation by Hand. So it took longer to Put in the tracks, vs the other part which was done On flat land
worked at ConRail in NJ summer 76. It was awesome. Replaced those ties manually with crow bars, hammers, sweat, blood and me crying on the side. I liked the spike hammer, fun slamming tall spikes and walking the rails. Got to ride the train for free and meet young females coming down to the jersey shore to party. Was a great summer. wish I stayed with ConRail. Great to see all these machines to the hard work precision. You can see why they call it "ribbon rail" as it jiggles like a worm!!!
As mentioned below this would be much more interesting video if there was a good Narrator explaining each step in rail laying and repair. Can one imagine how hard the work was laying rail tracks in the 1860s across America and doing it mostly by heavy labor.
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At 7:20 you have a little rail riding excavator with a magnetized head picking up the steel tie plates, fumbling with them and setting them back down. I guess in a more convenient spot. Really..... A person walking along could have done it faster and better. I think sometimes we take mechanization a little to far.
Enjoyed every second of this MOST EXCELLENT professional video. Kudos to the Engineers that designed these wonderful machines along with the skillful operators. My beloved late Father worked 38 years on a bridge gang and carpenter for Southern Pacific. R.I.P, wonderful Dad.
MY Grandfather was a Laborer and retired from The Illinois Central Railway (I C) What you see here, men did this back breaking work. FYI, Illinois Central, change name to Illinois Central Gulf, then to Amtrak. Peace and Blessing for the people who retired and still work for the Railroad, a hazardous and dangerous job. I'm very proud of my Grandfather. RIP!
There was nothing easy about railroad work back in the day. The guys like your grandfather doing this kind of work were either "section hands" or they were on the "steel gang". Your grandfather had to be one tough man. I saw countless guys go to work on those old crews and quit the first day cause it was too hard, dirty and dangerous. They don't make men like your grandpa anymore. He would be proud of you too. ;)
Very interesting. Would like to see brief captions of what each machine does, how and why. Also why workers do part of a job by hand and use tools finish it. (IE: the splice bar bolts)
I still can't get over how...noodly..rail track is while it's being handled. I mean I always knew it was both tough, hard and strong, but it's still a trip to see it all flopping around as it's being set.
In the last days of the Rock Island RR, I worked on tie gang #3. We went to Warren, Arkansas and waited for our equipment to show up. Rock Island put us to work with the section gang. One old white man was the boss and the crew was black. On rainy days the men drank beer and whiskey and played poker. The black guys let the old white man win a few bucks and they made a full days pay,"good pay". We went out in a large van and we all sat in the back, pulling a trailer with cross ties and short pieces of rail. when we did find a broken rail or tie that needed replacing, it was a wonderful thing to see. This was not "ribbon rail"but short rails with angle plates to hold them together. To cut the rail the men would mark the rail on both sides with a cold chisel on a long handle, pull all the rail spikes from the part to be cut, put a jack under the part to be removed, then hit with a sledgehammer. The rail broke straighter than you would think. To drill the holes for the angle plate, they used a hand driven drill the hooked over the rail. Two handled, it drilled right through. When the crew put spikes in the ties, two men set the spikes and the men with spike mauls drove them down with two blows. They rolled the large hammers off their shoulders and never missed. We had spike drivers on the tie gang but watching how it was done in days gone past was a wonderful thing to see.
Love it!! You... all of y'all that did that back breaking work should be proud. You should write that stuff down. As a railfan, I love hearing about it 🌞
Think of the equipment manufacturers that build this stuff then have to sell it at a profit to stay in business. Then there's the skilled operators needed to run it. Don't forget those engineers that design the stuff.
And don't forget the overlooked mechanics that have to repair and maintain these machines! Without them, the skilled operators are out of work and the trains don't move!
While this seems like a lot of equipment and manpower, I could only imagine the amount of manpower when these tracks were originally laid. Great work by the RR guy's, and good video. John
My grandfather we called him daddy work for Santa Fe Railroad Southern California from 1939 to 1967 he saw all of the early 20th century steam technology all the way through first gen diesel technology and then the transfer over in 1952 to 100% diesel rail transportation and shipping He died in 1997 and he didn't live long enough to actually see videos of all of the modern transportation and Freight Line Construction Technologies that were introduced mainly in the last 20 + years
Yes some clever pieces of kit out there now. But dont forget, all this used to be done with man power. Shovel or a Kango hammer, much more personal than a Tamper. Lol
"Modern" or not, railfan or not, watching that equipment in person is cool. (Hearing protection is recommended tho) And look at the big picture. Where would we be, and what wouldn't we have, without the railroad.... 🌞
CSX... gotta love the faded colors on the tie gang machines... along with the fact that every other tie is being replaced... I guess from not being serviced at all for the past 50 years. At least NS can afford to repaint their track machines so they are mostly brand new and don't break down every five minutes. There is a NS video on YT that shows and explains every piece of machinery and its function in detail.
Where is this happening? Which company makes such machines for rail track laying? I am amazed at the design engineering manufacturing of these machines. I hues it is used in USA, Europe and Japan.
That's magic ,scientific yet real scientific magic , but one of the things duzzled me(which is many) how steel rail bends like a jello in machine's arms , I never expected it to be so flexible .
An interesting selection of videos, but I had no idea what was being done. If no commentary, then at least add some text. You obviously put in quite some work to video and then compile this and it was wasted alas.
Very nice video, good closeups etc. As most commenters explained, there cold have been sutitles, example “tamper” . The video also goes back and forth between American and European railways.
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Nice balasunderstop baitermasjine I works before on Plaza rail Soud Africa that takes me back on track to do it again Thanks to sow me this video God bless you
maokun this, while it is impressive, in part because most of us have never been quite so close to the process,but i'd suspect its dated (behind the times ). China has laid many, many miles of high speed line and i'd love to see their process. You are right though, it is an eye opener. Let me apologize in advance if i got your message wrong my chinese is very shaky, in the way of excuse I think your using traditional.
Onboard custom tools inbuilt into the railway repair coach is quick for use. Mostly taking to a repair shop is difficult. These days the modern trends of railways where the coach is used as a bulldozer and truck and repair floor and tools factory etc is easy. Secondly repairs can be performed anywhere and during rain hazard.
Wow! What meticulous, serious, time-intensive work this is. What a shame, only to have Godzilla and King Ghidorah rip the whole thing apart in 2 seconds.
They are removing the old wooden railroad ties with new concrete ties and tracks , different machines are doing different task such removing spikes, collecting the shoes, and tracks etc. Now you know
THOUGH TRACK LAYING BY MACHINES WAS FAST WHILE CONSTRUCTING KONKAN RAILWAY WE USED THE MANUAL LABOUR JUST TO GIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY TO DESERVING LABOUR AND REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT. EVEN WITH MANUAL LAYING ALSO WE COULD ACHIEVE 99 % PERFECTION IN THE TRACK PARAMETERS.
These are just random clips one after another. They don't follow a sequence or form any sort of connected whole. It's just techo wallpaper. What a pity.
On behalf of the poster, I offer an apology for trying to show you more than one thing at a time, but if you ever learn to read, go back and look at the title. The word "compilation" is clearly mentioned. Here, this might help: www.dictionary.com/browse/compilation?s=t
What I do find remarkable is that how flexible these tracks are.
It can be very dangerous to those of us working around it as well.... has a true mind of its own!
They're like jelly!
And everything else looks like a piece of cake ;)
I thought the same thing never knew they were that flexible
There's a lot of technology in rails these days, they have complex layers of hard and soft.
I absolutely love watching "Maintenance of Way" operations ! Everyone has their job and it has to be done, JUST SO; for the safety of all trains that use the track ! I applaud all the workers and the camera-person and editor that made this video possible !!!
It would have been helpful if someone from the Industry was Narrating and explaining the process as the work on the Track was taking place. Enjoyable and informative video to watch.
pretty self explanatory
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thank to all train workers are doing great jobs to take cares of the train tracks...
be safety tracks
Very well documented but lack of explanations for each of the task performed.............A narrator would help to complement this Super Engineering show piece.......
True. NO music though!
Incredible to see how technology has revolutionized railway construction! These machines make the whole process look so efficient
I would love to play a railway track building simulator that incorporates all the machines seen in the video. Some would find laying down track piece by piece and tightening every bolt a bit tedious but I'm the type who enjoys stuff like that.
I'm amazed at how the railroad's can seem to put down tracks thru hills, valleys, mountains, deserts, over rivers and whatever else seems to get in the way.
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One word: MEN
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True, but, remember that when the transcontinental
Railroad was built, the crews
That laid the track over the
Sierras had to do all the tunneling and excavation by
Hand. So it took longer to
Put in the tracks, vs the other part which was done
On flat land
These people work hard so that we always have a safe & sound journey.
Thank you all😌
Welcome bro
Superb Video
I'm from Vietnam, nice to meet all of you guys working on Railway.
Man, this is serious business. Can you imagine what work would be like if we didn't have machines? I wouldn't want to go there.
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worked at ConRail in NJ summer 76. It was awesome. Replaced those ties manually with crow bars, hammers, sweat, blood and me crying on the side. I liked the spike hammer, fun slamming tall spikes and walking the rails. Got to ride the train for free and meet young females coming down to the jersey shore to party. Was a great summer. wish I stayed with ConRail.
Great to see all these machines to the hard work precision. You can see why they call it "ribbon rail" as it jiggles like a worm!!!
As mentioned below this would be much more interesting video if there was a good Narrator explaining each step in rail laying and repair. Can one imagine how hard the work was laying rail tracks in the 1860s across America and doing it mostly by heavy labor.
My thoughts exactly. Back
Then it was all done by hand
& Pick & shovel, sledge. And
What's really amazing is they
Were laying over a mile a day
It was done by slaves and extremely low paid Chinese workers
Amazing 2. mins on a drill. So modern
👍👍👍 super.
I really enjoyed the clips. Fascinating and impressive even without commentary. Thanks for sharing.
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Interesting,but would be GREAT if there was some detailed explanation.
At 7:20 you have a little rail riding excavator with a magnetized head picking up the steel tie plates, fumbling with them and setting them back down. I guess in a more convenient spot. Really..... A person walking along could have done it faster and better. I think sometimes we take mechanization a little to far.
Enjoyed every second of this MOST EXCELLENT professional video. Kudos to the Engineers that designed these wonderful machines along with the skillful operators. My beloved late Father worked 38 years on a bridge gang and carpenter for Southern Pacific. R.I.P, wonderful Dad.
MY Grandfather was a Laborer and retired from The Illinois Central Railway (I C) What you see here, men did this back breaking work. FYI, Illinois Central, change name to Illinois Central Gulf, then to Amtrak. Peace and Blessing for the people who retired and still work for the Railroad, a hazardous and dangerous job. I'm very proud of my Grandfather. RIP!
Dennis Fisher Imagine doing all this by hands poor workers .
There was nothing easy about railroad work back in the day. The guys like your grandfather doing this kind of work were either "section hands" or they were on the "steel gang". Your grandfather had to be one tough man. I saw countless guys go to work on those old crews and quit the first day cause it was too hard, dirty and dangerous. They don't make men like your grandpa anymore. He would be proud of you too. ;)
These railroad guys sure have some REALLY NEAT toys.
Very interesting. Would like to see brief captions of what each machine does, how and why. Also why workers do part of a job by hand and use tools finish it. (IE: the splice bar bolts)
Wow the tracks wobble around like rubber. It's like rubberized steel.
I still can't get over how...noodly..rail track is while it's being handled. I mean I always knew it was both tough, hard and strong, but it's still a trip to see it all flopping around as it's being set.
Like a wet noodle!! Lol
Real flexible stuff
In the last days of the Rock Island RR, I worked on tie gang #3. We went to Warren, Arkansas and waited for our equipment to show up. Rock Island put us to work with the section gang. One old white man was the boss and the crew was black. On rainy days the men drank beer and whiskey and played poker. The black guys let the old white man win a few bucks and they made a full days pay,"good pay". We went out in a large van and we all sat in the back, pulling a trailer with cross ties and short pieces of rail. when we did find a broken rail or tie that needed replacing, it was a wonderful thing to see. This was not "ribbon rail"but short rails with angle plates to hold them together. To cut the rail the men would mark the rail on both sides with a cold chisel on a long handle, pull all the rail spikes from the part to be cut, put a jack under the part to be removed, then hit with a sledgehammer. The rail broke straighter than you would think. To drill the holes for the angle plate, they used a hand driven drill the hooked over the rail. Two handled, it drilled right through. When the crew put spikes in the ties, two men set the spikes and the men with spike mauls drove them down with two blows. They rolled the large hammers off their shoulders and never missed. We had spike drivers on the tie gang but watching how it was done in days gone past was a wonderful thing to see.
Love it!! You... all of y'all that did that back breaking work should be proud. You should write that stuff down. As a railfan, I love hearing about it 🌞
I am amazed how flexible the rails are, yet can take the weight of the locomotives.
Needs to tell the viewer what's going on in each step, and why.
Yes, could be so much more informative, nothing fancy, just simple voice over
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Yes, I stopped after a couple of minutes. No good without explanation.
Whatcha wanna know?
@@kaseyaldrich4746 what's the thing that pokes in the gravel on either side of the ties?
I could sit and watch this all day
Lithuania ? Yes very good the sceneries - the same I filmed in my homeland.
Would have been interesting if an explanation had been included.
yup!!
Shit whatcha wanna know
Can you imagine any of this being possible without hydraulics?
Wow very Informative Video
The undercutter is my favorite.
Very Good ideal railway construction 👍
Think of the equipment manufacturers that build this stuff then have to sell it at a profit to stay in business. Then there's the skilled operators needed to run it. Don't forget those engineers that design the stuff.
i thought the engineers pilot the things!
And don't forget the overlooked mechanics that have to repair and maintain these machines!
Without them, the skilled operators are out of work and the trains don't move!
India needs such machines for fast track projects of railways infrastructure constructions to complete in time.
We already have
While this seems like a lot of equipment and manpower, I could only imagine the amount of manpower when these tracks were originally laid. Great work by the RR guy's, and good video. John
I think the same thing when I see MOW and track replacement equipment.
Abu dhabi Italy worker good job.
Its great they are using concrete planks for the track rather than oak
I've been worken on the railroad all the live long.......
Good video clips but, lack of continuity and explanations is disappointing.
nice machines
My grandfather we called him daddy work for Santa Fe Railroad Southern California from 1939 to 1967 he saw all of the early 20th century steam technology all the way through first gen diesel technology and then the transfer over in 1952 to 100% diesel rail transportation and shipping
He died in 1997 and he didn't live long enough to actually see videos of all of the modern transportation and Freight Line Construction Technologies that were introduced mainly in the last 20 + years
my gran daddy too, paymaster on the north east FL railway
Bom dia família
bom dia :wave:
A wonder, the video, the workers and the machines!
Yes some clever pieces of kit out there now. But dont forget, all this used to be done with man power.
Shovel or a Kango hammer, much more personal than a Tamper. Lol
strangely satisfying.
"Modern" or not, railfan or not, watching that equipment in person is cool. (Hearing protection is recommended tho) And look at the big picture. Where would we be, and what wouldn't we have, without the railroad.... 🌞
CSX... gotta love the faded colors on the tie gang machines... along with the fact that every other tie is being replaced... I guess from not being serviced at all for the past 50 years. At least NS can afford to repaint their track machines so they are mostly brand new and don't break down every five minutes. There is a NS video on YT that shows and explains every piece of machinery and its function in detail.
Great rail therapy...I like IT!!!!
Awesome amazing
Where is this happening? Which company makes such machines for rail track laying? I am amazed at the design engineering manufacturing of these machines. I hues it is used in USA, Europe and Japan.
WOW, IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU TOLD US WHAT THE MACHINE IS DOING SO I CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND !
1960's single bank tampers and ballast cleaners for a 1960's railway. Sums up CSX to the T
Can you elaborate more please?
That's magic ,scientific yet real scientific magic , but one of the things duzzled me(which is many) how steel rail bends like a jello in machine's arms , I never expected it to be so flexible .
Really great, technology to repair rail. All the sophisticated equipment Greeting from Indonesia. I'm newcomer.
An interesting selection of videos, but I had no idea what was being done. If no commentary, then at least add some text. You obviously put in quite some work to video and then compile this and it was wasted alas.
Awesome...
Very nice video, good closeups etc. As most commenters explained, there cold have been sutitles, example “tamper” . The video also goes back and forth between American and European railways.
Exactly- track laying, tamping, regulating ballast, and much more. There is a lot of uncredited variety in the video.
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Don't add music to things that don't need music. Let us hear the machinery.
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Bullet Train or Maglev or Shinkansen should expand Network to 35000 Km by 2035...❣❣❣
Lubię takie programy dokumentalne o.k.
Its like watching an engineering ballet, especially, when u see them all lined up, each doing a different job...
Ear protection is a good idea while watching em in person, but you're right. It really is. Ya gotta be a railfan to appreciate it 👍🌞
@@kellyjoiner4418 wwwwwwe
Never seen any of these.....machine wise. Only the ready power diggers and dozers and tamper
I have no idea what these machines are doing. Some explanation would be nice.
Gut less labour less contractor less cost quick work
Parabéns belo trabalho.
Nice balasunderstop baitermasjine I works before on Plaza rail Soud Africa that takes me back on track to do it again
Thanks to sow me this video
God bless you
Amazin mashine, evry railway company nid something like that. 🏗👍👌
why is the third rail so flexible? is it not made of metal?
외국 각국의 철로 RAIL 이음 용접등
선진화 여러 기술을 한국도 잘 도입
하여 잘 활용 하고 있습니다 !
THANK YOU
What exactly does the 1st machine (the fire) in the video do ? Is it retempering the steel or something ?
Can’t believe my eyes!
Aku suka❤❤❤❤❤
看到美國一流大公司工程作業 真是大開眼界 效率好幼保護人員!
maokun this, while it is impressive, in part because most of us have never been quite so close to the process,but i'd suspect its dated (behind the times ). China has laid many, many miles of high speed line and i'd love to see their process. You are right though, it is an eye opener. Let me apologize in advance if i got your message wrong my chinese is very shaky, in the way of excuse I think your using traditional.
To był mój zawód!
Część sprzętu jaki tutaj jest prezentowany, widzę po raz pierwszy w życiu.
Technika kolejowa idzie jednak szybko do przodu.
Would be nice for a few captions on what was happening 😊
Did you know that a good 20 volt cordless saws all will cut a rail in half in under 3 minutes with WD-40
I wonder, what works more man or machine ?
Competition is to be seen to be enjoyed.
Very nice and enthusiastic
Saw bolts being installed backwards... then dawned on me the video was mirrored.
Why do they mirror the video, see that a lot elsewhere
super video..............
Onboard custom tools inbuilt into the railway repair coach is quick for use. Mostly taking to a repair shop is difficult. These days the modern trends of railways where the coach is used as a bulldozer and truck and repair floor and tools factory etc is easy. Secondly repairs can be performed anywhere and during rain hazard.
Remote location complete assembly and repairs and construction and parts manufacturing and construction.
Wow! What meticulous, serious, time-intensive work this is.
What a shame, only to have Godzilla and King Ghidorah rip the whole thing apart in 2 seconds.
Nice video.
Radha Radha 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️
Thanks for not adding an ear shattering hard Fock soundtrack
There is nothing like a train.
Itu sebabnya upah buruh diluar cukup tinggi Krn ga perlu ratusan tenaga berkat adanya technologi modern
Kita sebagai warga dng pengetauhan terbatas perlu kiranya untukbelajar lebijh banyak tentang tehnologibmasa sakarang.
They are removing the old wooden railroad ties with new concrete ties and tracks , different machines are doing different task such removing spikes, collecting the shoes, and tracks etc. Now you know
I didn't see them doing any such thing. It appeared that the work on the wooden sleepers was simply selective replacement of the badly damaged ones.
Oh, Sweden. I know that since I saw my old house/street in the video :)
This is standart in Europa to built tracks fully automatically!
THOUGH TRACK LAYING BY MACHINES WAS FAST WHILE CONSTRUCTING KONKAN RAILWAY WE USED THE MANUAL LABOUR JUST TO GIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY TO DESERVING LABOUR AND REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT.
EVEN WITH MANUAL LAYING ALSO WE COULD ACHIEVE 99 % PERFECTION IN THE TRACK PARAMETERS.
I am very surprise that those rails looks so rubbery.
Jelly rails! Yum!!!!
Super video
These are just random clips one after another. They don't follow a sequence or form any sort of connected whole. It's just techo wallpaper. What a pity.
Nor are they working on just one set of tracks. There are at least three different sets of ties - almost certainly at multiple sites.
On behalf of the poster, I offer an apology for trying to show you more than one thing at a time, but if you ever learn to read, go back and look at the title. The word "compilation" is clearly mentioned. Here, this might help: www.dictionary.com/browse/compilation?s=t
@@buggsy5 -multiple continents
@@roderickwhitehead Did I write something that implied otherwise? It certainly was not my intent.
@@buggsy5 - No, I was just expanding on you mentioning multiple sites.
An explanation of wtf is being done would have been great. I watched 3 minutes, had no idea what was happening, and moved on to another vid.
Same for me. Mindless compilation for what purpose?
Me too. Needs some explanations.
it’s just rail wank fodder !
Ha! Just what I was going to write. I stopped it at 3:06. I should have checked the comments before wasting 3 minutes of my life.
Use some common sense, and you'll figure it out...