It was brutally hot up here near DC...just absolutely brutal. The DC Metro had to impose speed restrictions on its outdoor rails which were hitting 134 degrees!! Thanks for braving the heat to catch these trains. Stay hydrated, stay cool.
Excellent video, especially the kinked track. Having 30+ years of mainline service at the throttle, I have encountered only 4 sun kinks. Luckily, all were on low speed tracks. Amazingly, my train passed over each one without incident. There was no way to stop as each one was located in a blind curve!
The PTS90C is a dynamic track stabilizer. It vibrates the entire track structure to get everything to be solid (stable) It is not a tamper that lines the track and squeezes the ballast under the ties. This will help to settle all of the ballast and fill in the gaps left by the tamper.
I remember in the 2000s just after they finished building the Mechanicville yard I was out filming in the morning and it wasn't even that hot, but the main lines kinked up really bad. I was shocked how fast it happened
Hi Kyle , lot of equipment there. It’s amazing what heat can do to steel. That looks like 2 snakes L O L . One medium and one large train . Thanks Kyle . 😎😎 👍
I don't understand how they expect this to NOT happen without expansion/ contraction joints . As a kid in the Sixties I could hear the jointed rail move when the Hot summer Sun hit the Rails.
Believe it or not, ribbon rail has a lot more flexibility to it than you might think. They're practically 58,000 lb quarter-mile long noodles. Situations like these are a point of cascading failures in the structure. They're not normal! If it was a normal feature of ribbon rail, the main line to the right which sees a lot more traffic than the siding would look way worse and more predominant. Typically these happen when there's a fracture in the rail and the heat builds up stress until the fracture releases the tension, causing the rail to "POP" and disfigure the track as you see it here. Sometimes, it happens all at once, and other times it will grow over the course of a couple hours. I've seen it happen suddenly. And what's worse is it decided not to maintain gauge. The rail on the right suddenly became the rail on the left and the track rolled over like a roller coaster track. Fortunate for me, I was only doing 10 mph up a hill towards it so I got stopped pretty quick and reported it. Ironically that track was jointed 110-lb rail! Jointed rail is a lot harder, more rigid and unforgiving than the ribbon rails. In locations where this sort of behavior in the rail is expected, they install relief points. You will typically find them adjacent to grade crossing diamonds, or bridges. The equipment looks very similar to a frog of a switch, where two rails connect at a sharp angle. And if there is any pressure, the relief comes from the outside rail sliding outward while the inside rail maintains gauge.
I was on an excursion train in the 1990’s that went over some kinks due to extreme heat. It was very bumpy but we did not derail. Train was stopped for about 25 minutes then we crept forward. It was kind of scary because it really felt like we would hit the ground as a passenger. It was upper 90’s Fahrenheit on that day from Hagerstown, MD to Cumberland and back behind F7A’s.
Hi Kyle. Thanks for another great video. Seeing all the mow equipment was pretty neat. CSX you'd expect will have the passing siding back in action pretty quickly with all mow crews in the area.
Being the commander on a train, standing on the platform of the last car, running into, as we say "sun curve", was a shaking experience. 25 mph was the speed and all wheels stayed on the track. The trouble was far less brutal then the one in Your video.
That machine your not sure of you call a tamper is actually a track dynamic stabilizer.. It is used after the the track is surfaced and filled in with ballast. It acts as a simulation to rail traffic to settle the track into the rail bed so it gets locked into the ballast to prevent track buckling... It's use or non use determines at what speed the track will be returned to once out of face surfacing is performed..
Thanks for explaining the various MOW equipment. I'm trying to model a 1960s mechanized track gang, and I'm finding information very scarce, online, and published. Those rubber bits on the ballast regulator: I used to find them along the tracks and had no idea what they were. Since they are broken off from a large rotating brush, I call them bristles. Originally, they were made from used air brake hoses, but now they are usually purpose-built solid rubber. The dust cloud they raise when operating makes it pretty much unnecessary to tell people to stand well clear.
The track gang has to patrol the track every day to ensure that sun kinks and pull aparts are fixed. We patrolled the track for 40 miles every day, and the rickety track we had always had broken rails, kinks or pull aparts.
As long as the track stays in gauge, heat kinks are not very dangerous. I am retired from a class 1 railroad out west and these were quite common during extreme heat. Maximum authorized speed is reduced during extreme conditions whether it be sub zero temps (pull apart) for an extended period of time or heat (heat kinks in welded rail). Speed was restricted at 5 MPH over kinks. Compressing the video image with a zoom lens makes these kinks appear far worse than what they really are.
Up this way we call that "kinky rail."😎🚂🚃🚃🚃✝ I conducted a MOW crane for three years. We worked with capital track during this type of project. There was an electro magnet on the end of the boom for us to pick up the scrap plates, anchors, and spikes. We towed an empty gondola and deposited this material in it for scrapping of for sorting. Mostly the tie plates were sorted, the rest sold for scrap.
It's a track stabilizer. It follows a tamper to get all the ballast settled into the gaps left by a tamper which only compacts under the ties/sleepers.
You can not have miles and miles of solid welded rail like they have steel expands when hot it is physics of steel they need jointed rail sections every so many miles
Heat, in the winter time when they have a “ pull apart “ they pour kerosene on the rail on both sides and they lite it off and the rail expands and goes back together and then they bolt it back together…..40 years retired in the industry …
The RR company I work for we do not call them heat kinks..
They are called Thermal Induced Compressive Stress..
TICS
OK, thank you, I am always learning.
What railroad do you work for lmao
@rydereaston6464
A major passenger and that's all I will say or need to say.
That kinked rail is crazy! Thanks for sharing! Looks like a mini work yard there. Very cool! Great video as always!
We called them sun kinks.
It was brutally hot up here near DC...just absolutely brutal. The DC Metro had to impose speed restrictions on its outdoor rails which were hitting 134 degrees!! Thanks for braving the heat to catch these trains. Stay hydrated, stay cool.
Gosh that is hot!
Wow, 'at humidity can make us fall out.
Thank You for showing us those rail kinks/buckling due to excessive heat. Awesome Visual!!!🔥🔥🔥👍🙏
Happy I could share it
Nice footage of the rails warped,CSX and MOW equipment!🛤🚂
Thank you buddy
That was quite the horn show from M652 !!! Very Nice!
They can sure put on a show!
By 06:21 the green machine is a trackstableliser. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Thank you for that information! Thank you for watching Sven!
Excellent video, especially the kinked track. Having 30+ years of mainline service at the throttle, I have encountered only 4 sun kinks.
Luckily, all were on low speed tracks. Amazingly, my train passed over each one without incident. There was no way to stop as each one was located in a blind curve!
11:08 GREAT DUDE !
Thanks buddy!
Kinky stuff LOL. Some really sophisticated yellow maintenance R.R. equipment there!!
A long string of money!
Great catch, thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for posting. We don’t get any rail activity here in Concord NH area.
The PTS90C is a dynamic track stabilizer. It vibrates the entire track structure to get everything to be solid (stable) It is not a tamper that lines the track and squeezes the ballast under the ties. This will help to settle all of the ballast and fill in the gaps left by the tamper.
Thank you so much for that information.
I remember in the 2000s just after they finished building the Mechanicville yard I was out filming in the morning and it wasn't even that hot, but the main lines kinked up really bad. I was shocked how fast it happened
Hi Kyle , lot of equipment there. It’s amazing what heat can do to steel. That looks like 2 snakes L O L . One medium and one large train . Thanks Kyle . 😎😎 👍
I don't understand how they expect this to NOT happen without expansion/ contraction joints . As a kid in the Sixties I could hear the jointed rail move when the Hot summer Sun hit the Rails.
Did it make a kinda "ping" noise?
Believe it or not, ribbon rail has a lot more flexibility to it than you might think. They're practically 58,000 lb quarter-mile long noodles. Situations like these are a point of cascading failures in the structure. They're not normal! If it was a normal feature of ribbon rail, the main line to the right which sees a lot more traffic than the siding would look way worse and more predominant. Typically these happen when there's a fracture in the rail and the heat builds up stress until the fracture releases the tension, causing the rail to "POP" and disfigure the track as you see it here. Sometimes, it happens all at once, and other times it will grow over the course of a couple hours. I've seen it happen suddenly. And what's worse is it decided not to maintain gauge. The rail on the right suddenly became the rail on the left and the track rolled over like a roller coaster track. Fortunate for me, I was only doing 10 mph up a hill towards it so I got stopped pretty quick and reported it. Ironically that track was jointed 110-lb rail! Jointed rail is a lot harder, more rigid and unforgiving than the ribbon rails.
In locations where this sort of behavior in the rail is expected, they install relief points. You will typically find them adjacent to grade crossing diamonds, or bridges. The equipment looks very similar to a frog of a switch, where two rails connect at a sharp angle. And if there is any pressure, the relief comes from the outside rail sliding outward while the inside rail maintains gauge.
I was on an excursion train in the 1990’s that went over some kinks due to extreme heat. It was very bumpy but we did not derail. Train was stopped for about 25 minutes then we crept forward. It was kind of scary because it really felt like we would hit the ground as a passenger. It was upper 90’s Fahrenheit on that day from Hagerstown, MD to Cumberland and back behind F7A’s.
What an experience!
Hi Kyle. Thanks for another great video. Seeing all the mow equipment was pretty neat. CSX you'd expect will have the passing siding back in action pretty quickly with all mow crews in the area.
Being the commander on a train, standing on the platform of the last car, running into, as we say "sun curve", was a shaking experience. 25 mph was the speed and all wheels stayed on the track. The trouble was far less brutal then the one in Your video.
I bet it really was a shock to ride over a section like that!
@@hnf1930 Yes it was. The driver took the train back very slowly, and refused driving the next trip.
That was pretty interesting to see those heat kinked rails. They're currently replacing a lot of ties on the mainline here as well. Great video buddy!
We have another couple weeks here
We got same problems due heat in western canada.the worst is very cold weathers.thanks video 😮
That machine your not sure of you call a tamper is actually a track dynamic stabilizer..
It is used after the the track is surfaced and filled in with ballast.
It acts as a simulation to rail traffic to settle the track into the rail bed so it gets locked into the ballast to prevent track buckling...
It's use or non use determines at what speed the track will be returned to once out of face surfacing is performed..
Thank you for that information
Thanks for bringing the kinked track to us. Keep up the good work
I thought it would be of interest.
Great footage! That right there is an example of what intense heat does to metal
Thank you for watching James
11:05 man that crew was amazing awesome video buddy!
Yes, great guys!
Wow that was a lot of kinked rail there! And lots of rail equipment. Cool video 👍❤️
That is the first time I have seen the kinked rail
Thanks for explaining the various MOW equipment. I'm trying to model a 1960s mechanized track gang, and I'm finding information very scarce, online, and published. Those rubber bits on the ballast regulator: I used to find them along the tracks and had no idea what they were. Since they are broken off from a large rotating brush, I call them bristles. Originally, they were made from used air brake hoses, but now they are usually purpose-built solid rubber. The dust cloud they raise when operating makes it pretty much unnecessary to tell people to stand well clear.
I can imagine the dust it would make. Would love to see your finished project!
The track gang has to patrol the track every day to ensure that sun kinks and pull aparts are fixed. We patrolled the track for 40 miles every day, and the rickety track we had always had broken rails, kinks or pull aparts.
I hear them getting track time to check.
As long as the track stays in gauge, heat kinks are not very dangerous. I am retired from a class 1 railroad out west and these were quite common during extreme heat. Maximum authorized speed is reduced during extreme conditions whether it be sub zero temps (pull apart) for an extended period of time or heat (heat kinks in welded rail). Speed was restricted at 5 MPH over kinks. Compressing the video image with a zoom lens makes these kinks appear far worse than what they really are.
Thank you Ernest. I guess the axles do some of the fixing and they pass
Those kinks, were from heat, but they were so bad because we had put ties in, and the tempers fixed it the next day.
Wow, I’ve never seen what extreme heat can do to RR tracks. Pretty sweeeet horn salute too. Stay safe.
Thank you for watching Nancy
@@hnf1930 your welcome Kyle!
Hi Kyle & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Kyle & Friends Randy
Thank you for being my buddy Randy
Music to accompany this video, try The Kinks - Apeman.
LOL, now that is funny!!!
Nice video. Never seen a kink like that. I imaged those things were normal for hotter area like the southwest but not here. How’d they fix it?
Hot day. Cool video.
Thank you Eric
Very Nice Video!!!
Thank you friend
Ur welcome buddy
Up this way we call that "kinky rail."😎🚂🚃🚃🚃✝ I conducted a MOW crane for three years. We worked with capital track during this type of project. There was an electro magnet on the end of the boom for us to pick up the scrap plates, anchors, and spikes. We towed an empty gondola and deposited this material in it for scrapping of for sorting. Mostly the tie plates were sorted, the rest sold for scrap.
Thank you, always look forward to your informed comments
7:20 Vines climbing up the mast and wires!
Kudzu is crazy here!
No wonder all my trains have speed restrictions in the summer
This has been some record heat here
@@hnf1930 did you see 653 last night?
The vehicle is called a tamper here in Ireland, I work for the railway, but not the perway department.
It's a track stabilizer. It follows a tamper to get all the ballast settled into the gaps left by a tamper which only compacts under the ties/sleepers.
Thank you for that information, and thank you for watching Robbie
Wow that train is really crawling along. What's the temperature today? Will you be doing a video of the repair when it happens?
99 in the sun, I will film the repair for you
👍
Thank you for checking in Brook
You can not have miles and miles of solid welded rail like they have steel expands when hot it is physics of steel they need jointed rail sections every so many miles
That makes sense
Very well edited video, I enjoyed it. Your right it's been a hot summer here on the East coast of Florida as well. 🚂🚃🚃🏝
Today had zero breeze....crazy
Is it just the heat or track manufacturing quality ? Is that ribbon rail or ?
Heat, in the winter time when they have a “ pull apart “ they pour kerosene on the rail on both sides and they lite it off and the rail expands and goes back together and then they bolt it back together…..40 years retired in the industry …
Ribbon rail, just the heat alone
O h boy.
That heat is crazy!
Those aren’t heat kinks,those are S curves lol
LOL, the crew on 92 said it was some of the worst they had seen in 20 years!
Struggling to hear you intro loud but uour voice not. Train horn really loud. Nice catches though. 😊
Thank you Carol, I will make adjustments
What is with the CRAP MUSIC
If this dosen't prove global warming was correct, then IDK what will!
It sure is hot James