It is so refreshing to hear someone state that they are blessed to have their job. While many times mine gets overwhelming, I am also blessed to be able to support the family in something I enjoy. Have a great thanksgiving my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment and good for you Tom! Makes going to work a lot easier that way.Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Karl and I did an excavating job on Sunday Clark, and didn't get done, more to do this week. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for your kind concern Alan, yes sir will do. Tamping again my myself today, I have to be careful. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Yellow Lab. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Teddy. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you Bill and we wish the same for you. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Dave, Thank you for recording your vital work on the railroad during these wet and foggy conditions. That must of been the best $20 bucks you've spent on eBay...
Thank you for the nice comment Steve. I actually bought 2 gauges but yes it was a good investment. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Pappy. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Yes it is pretty cool when your riding the rails and don't have to worry about running off the road or hitting another car on the way to work Patrick. Really appreciate your checking out the RR week in review tonight my friend.
Oh I do need sanders at times KB, need them on my big hi rail truck even worse. That truck sucks at traveling on wet or snowy rails. Thank you for the nice comment. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the very nice comment Mojo. I've had some problems with my phone and YT not allowing it to make comments on videos and it loses chat if I'm on a live stream. Watched your plumbing video, it won't let me comment..... sigh But hope your not nervous anymore, man that thing had some pressure when you opened up the pet cock! Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
That was awesome Mr. Dave, Hope you have a greet week, stay warm, and stay dry. Snow, heavy snow is heading your way this week. Also Mr. Dave have a wonderful Family Thanksgiving, my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Rev. Harry. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed fstjack. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Gary. May you also have a great holiday and Freddy will be napping. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
I like to see your snowy weather. It reminds me of my childhood in Wisconsin. It was in the mid 70s here last week. That's cooler than I would like, though. 😊
My buddy Steve from StormySky Rail Productions lives in Wisc Rodney. It's a lot of snow and very cold up there, he used to work for CP. Here in the same day we can have the AC on and then at night a fire in the fireplace going. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings i really enjoyed it. I especially like the tamping in the snow. We are on the Gulf of Mexico so we don't get snow My kids have never seen it personally, just in pictures. My neighbor is in his 80s and has only seen it twice.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Beverly. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you Steven and glad you enjoyed. Corrie and her mom will be making Thanksgiving dinner and they wanted me to invite you over, we'll talk railroading and eat all the turkey! I hope to have another video out either Wednesday or Thursday so until then, happy rails my friend. Will be a real good one coming out Monday on CCRX, be sure you watch it, something most folks don't even know exist on a freight car.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Clarence. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
You’re lookin good Dave . AH Haaa flying that train in IFR weather hope you’re instrument rated. That weather did go from sun to fog then then snow. I too like snow or ice then I can figure skate of course the liquid from ocean no problem Surfin surfin. Stay well Dave Best Kristy
Hope your foot is well enough now to get that skate on Kristy. Weather in SW Pa. during the day can have the AC on and then at night a fire in the fireplace at times. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thankyou Dave for sharing all the wonderful parts of your day work at home ans at work always cheerful always great to catchup here in the 🇬🇧 trowbridge
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Robbie. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Freddy likes trains Paul, he watches train videos with me all the time and usually reads all these comments and helps me edit videos, of course then he wants brushed and given treats.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings i posted a video earlier of my cat traipsing through the trains, without knocking them 42 inches to the floor. Then he parks his furry hind end, and pretends he is "CATZILLA"!
@@paulsmith5398 at least your kitty DID NOT knock your trains off. 42 inches to the floor, I had a ceiling G-Scale layout, that was 6'6" above the floor(78-inches) and I had 2 cats at the time, they both loved to sleep up on the elevated tracks and on the truss bridge tracks. One day I forgot to put my trains away in the covered sidings when we left the house, just shut down the train on the curved section between the kitchen and living room that led into the truss bridge. Well, my cat knocked off the locomotive, tender and the first 3 of the 7 freight cars, caboose at the end of the train. That was a very expensive lesson that day, the steam loco, tender(expensive $300+ sound system), and those 3 freight cars were literally obliterated beyond repair. Yes, I was ready to kill me a cat, that lesson cost me over $1,850.00 and since the train company went out of business that I purchased from, couldn't even buy a replacement Steam Loco/Tender or the 3 freight cars I lost. No, I didn't kill any cats, but I sure yelled at Simba a lot over that. But it was my own stupidity of thinking the train would be okay leaving it where it was, as I'd only be gone for less than 15 minutes. Of course I NEVER made that mistake again. Even if I was just going outside for a few minutes, I made sure the train was put away in the covered sidings and doors closed down so the cats couldn't access the trains while we're away.
Loved the foggy morning view from inside the SD38-2. I've videoed a few foggy morning trains coming out of a thick fog bank. Nothing eerier than hearing the horn, seeing the headlamp glaring against the fog and the ditch lights flashing coming at you out of the fog. Eerie and very cool at the same time. Especially when you can't even see the locomotive body. Btw: saw that dip a mile away in the track before you even highlighted it. That dip was quite obvious.😮
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Mr. Bones Way back they long wall mined under my track. When that dropped many places on my track feel 2 to 3 feet believe it or not and I got them all fixed back up, this was a baby dip. What is really cool is a steam loco in the fog, can't see it but here that whistle blow. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Hi Dave, for a workshop you've got a pretty nice workplace, snow or shine. If you enjoy your job, it's half done. The other half is getting paid😊👍 Conscientiousnes, that describes you to a "T" Dave. Your company I'm sure, appreciate that quality in you 👌🛠🚂🚆 Great stuff as always on both channels Appreciated and you all take care, Thanks Mark UK
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Mark. There are some in the company, specially the higher ups who do appreciate me, there are some who don't, but that's railroading. it doesn't matter what any of them think what matters is how I feel about myself at the end of the day. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Steve. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Perfect timing Dave, your video dropped right on lunchtime! I can perfectly understand while you love your job. Must be a great deal of satisfaction in solving problems and keep that track neat. Oh, and while you're tamping in the snow, I have the aircon on as it's 97 degrees! Keep safe and keep them rolling 🙂
I tried to do that just for you Richard. Railroading to eat by.... :-) 97!!! oh dear I'd much rather have snow and cold. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Your callout of the road at the start of the video made me dive into Google Maps to get my bearings. I'm in SoCal as an IL/MO transplant and after looking at the aerial view from the river terminus back west to the mine, all I can say is: that's a nice line in a pretty part of the US. I can truly understand why you love your job. I have family in IL still doing coal stuff. Sometimes they start in IL and end up in KY...
Thank you for the nice comment AVI TAR. Your right this is a nice part of the country and I do love my job here. Get paid to play with trains.... :-) Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day.
Good to know You're up on horse again, rerailed as said in another comment. Being worn down during the last work as bus driver and the schedule that turned the hours like a cement mixer I love the title Retired.
Turned hours like a cement mixer... LOL never heard that one before Stefan. I love going to work, it's that 8 hour wait until I can go home that is the hard part.... LOL Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you and may you also have a great holiday 1208 Bug. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Shane. I need get Corrie a loco ride sometime. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Hi Dave wow that was crazy the shifting of the track. you did a great job to get it leveled out and making it smoother. hope you are able to get it all the bad areas better so that the trains run with out any issues. “ when you do what you love, you will not work a day in your life!” love your positive energy and your zest for life!
I've had a problem with that curve for many years now Barry, a never ending thing tamping that place. With that culvert pipe collapsing it will only continue to get worse. They don't want to do anything about the pipe. So one day when it finally lets go the train will be over the hill, oh well, more videos.... sigh Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Ahhhh!, tamping in snow! A little more than a week ago, i went to a local train fair..........and guess what somebody had for sale, and i immediately thought of you❗The bonafide Lionel tamper, in working condition! If it had been HO scale, i would have bought it.
Dang Paul why didn't you buy it and then I'd have bought it off you. Keep that in mine for the future! I don't care about the scale, my old Lionel set is O scale anyway. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies Scott. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoy the home movies Jonathan. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the videos and may you have a very good day.
Dave... All of your videos (on both channels) are very informative, and i might add relaxing and almost soothing ! The forward view from the locomotive in the fog is a perfect example. It almost seemed like the engineer reduced the speed just a bit in the fog ! Something most of us would never see ! Happy Thanksgiving Dave to you and your family !
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies Emil. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Lawrie. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Wow, I didn't realize the snow went that fat south last week. We had 2 grade crossings we had to finish up late on Friday near Janesville, WI in the cold. At least the snow didn't stick. Take care, keep warm, and have a good Thanksgiving.
We didn't get much and it didn't stick Chris, we have nothing like you guys get in Wisc. My buddy from Stormy Sky Rail Productions lives up there, he used to work with CP. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
That's great to hear Thomas, always a thrill to see a foreign loco come by. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Now thats way cool! A wheel flange gauge! Very similar to the one i use for HO scale! You would be surprised at how many low quality wheels, flanges, etc, ive found over the years, and replaced them with better quality assemblies. Makes a huge difference how the trains run, even in HO scale!
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Gary. No more rides on Class 1 railroads, things ain't like they used to be. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Bruce. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
SW Pa Lewis, during the day we can have the AC on and then at night a fire in the fireplace, it does happen. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed James. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Interesting suff today Dave. I bet that horn was loud it sure sounded it on my speakers. Surprised you are the only one with a wheel gauge, that wheel must of done some miles to wear that much. I would rather have the heat on than sit in boiling hot weather when you can't stay cool and snow looks lovely to me. Have a Good Day
Our track with all the joints and high degree curves is hard on wheels Cedarcam as you can imagine, hard on everything. I'm with you on the heat on and the AC in the tamper sucks. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Happy Thanksgiving Dave 😊 !!! Those Turkey joints are much tastier with the gravy than those Railroad Joints of steel 😮😂 Enjoy the holiday! Oh, BTW, I need the address for the shop to send those Cat Eyes 👀 too you. Take care and have fun 👍. Richard Bause
Thank you Richard and hope you have a great holiday also. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Believe it or not I once worked for an outfit that created a 1 foot dip in a class 1 double track mainline. We were boring a 60" tunnel under the rr about 30' down and of course hit a soft spot directly under the roadbed. All hell broke loose over that "episode".
Oh dear, too bad they didn't have me there, I could have tamped that track back up in no time and save you guys from a lot of grief MTH. When they long wall mined under our track there were many places the track dropped 2 to 3 feet and I fixed them all up. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
You bet we will Gidget Mrs. Dave is a very good cook and Corrie will be helping out. Thank you and hope you do also. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
I'm a Native born Floridian, and I HATE THE HEAT! Always too hot here, I love it when we finally get into the 62°F-65°F range. That's the PERFECT Weather for me in Florida!😊
Maybe someday it will remain a constant 50 to 60 degrees Robert after the big asteroid hits the earth..... :-) Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
*_If you watch at _**_12:27_**_ bigfoot walks behind the tamper. Yeah I hate humidity and thankfully it's pretty dry here. I can run swamp coolers which is my favorite kind of AC._* 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
We need to get Big Foot hired on here so he can do some track work David. Had another hopper car dump it's load on my track last night.... sigh Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Yes it has Barney and thanks for asking, doing much much better and Corrie has been working the crap out of me now. I told her Rome wasn't built in a day, and she said, that's because she wasn't there to supervise building it.... :-) Thank you so much for watching tonight's RR week in review my friend.
He saw 2 really nice ones in Illinois, but could not get a decent shot at them and he hates to just wound a deer, would rather let it go and wait for a good shot Mack. Snow again Friday but it didn't last, ground is still warm but it did mess with our excavating job we had planned, so Karl and I did it today, I'm a tired puppy tonight. Plus with my foot better, Corrie has been working the devil out of me. I told her Rome wasn't built in a day. She said, that's because she wasn't there to supervise..... LOL Thanks so much my friend for watching tonight's show.
Has the company ever considered investing in a wheel true machine? I know they're expensive but can be real time savers when you can retrue your own wheelsets instead of having to change them out and then truck them somewhere to do the work. You ever use Damian Hanz for that sort of work? They're only about 60 miles away in McKeesport.
I put up a video on CCRX about truing a loco wheel several years ago Clark. The guy was subbed out to Hanz. Hanz used to do all the maintenance on our locos but hasn't for the past two years. We are not a car shop, we have coal mine mechanics who work on the cars but we will never get a truing machine and we don't rebuild any of our truck sets. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Nice job. How much did you have to pick up your line rail? I never knew the bigger machines were prone to wheel slip. I've seen older Electromatic Jr.'s slip, but not production machines. Your videos are excellent references, by the way.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed John. Tamper no wheel slip on dry rails just wet ones. I picked that dip up about 4 inches. No big deal. When they long wall mined under my track in 2013 there were many places the track feel 2 to 3 feet and I fixed all of them up back then. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
A good surfacing crew is worth their weight in gold. A quick pass with a tamper, a broom/regulator will make a good looking railroad. Were you able to do 4" in two passes, or one? Professional curiosity.
Great question William. the 38 is 2,000 HP and is naturally aspirated with a blower. The 40 is 3,000 HP and is turbo charged. Both models have basically the same dimensions and weight. The 38 has a 16 cylinder 654E engine in it and the 40 has a 645E3 16 cylinder. Thanks so much my friend for riding along with us today.
I'm sorry William I have no adequate answer. But do know this, wheels last a lot longer on all welded rail as opposed to jointed rack like we have and also last longer on low degree curves instead of a lot of high degree curves like we have. One big wear on wheels is wheel slip which happens when starting out heavy trains and on snowy and sometimes wet rails. A light drizzle is more prone to cause wheel slip than a heavy hard rain does, so there are a lot of factors to come into play on how long a wheel lasts, but yes they are very hard steel. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
LOL, I liked that Ed. Someday I will get where you're at too. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
A lot of deer Charles, some years more than others. Never a bear but I have seen 3 bears crossing the tracks in all my years working on the track. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Around 70 in one state of repair or another plus the 2 that are currently laying on their sides after a derailment CNW. We keep 38 cars on our main train most of the time, 22 on the short train. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Long time ago they kept track of car maintenance here, but haven't for the past 12 or so years so I don't have a clue about how to answer you question John. You would think they would be more interested in keeping records of car repair work, sigh.... Really appreciate your checking out the video.
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It is so refreshing to hear someone state that they are blessed to have their job. While many times mine gets overwhelming, I am also blessed to be able to support the family in something I enjoy. Have a great thanksgiving my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment and good for you Tom! Makes going to work a lot easier that way.Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Happy Sunday Dave
Great to see ya.
Stay safely blessed
Karl and I did an excavating job on Sunday Clark, and didn't get
done, more to do this week. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Stay warm, & safe in your Doing 's.👷🇺🇸 Thanks.
Thank you for your kind concern Alan, yes sir will do. Tamping again my myself today, I have to be careful. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Nice Video Dave!!
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Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Yellow Lab. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
📽️Interesting as always big boy.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Teddy. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING Dave!
Thank you Bill and we wish the same for you. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Dave, Thank you for recording your vital work on the railroad during these wet and foggy conditions. That must of been the best $20 bucks you've spent on eBay...
Thank you for the nice comment Steve. I actually bought 2 gauges but yes it was a good investment. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Fantastic ride along Dave. Fine job Tamping as well. Looked really good even with out a regulator.. you could do it blind folded i bet
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Pappy. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
That fog is cool!😊
Yes it is pretty cool when your riding the rails and don't have
to worry about running off the road or hitting another car on
the way to work Patrick. Really appreciate your checking out the RR week in review tonight my friend.
OKS Dave ,,, Get some sanders on that Tamper !! HAHA Thanks again for the video & have a good ""Turkey Day"" !! 👍👍👍👍👍
Oh I do need sanders at times KB, need them on my big hi rail truck even worse. That truck sucks at traveling on wet or snowy rails. Thank you for the nice comment. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thanks Dave! That was a really awesome ride through the fog!
Thank you for the very nice comment Mojo. I've had some problems with my phone and YT not allowing it to make comments on videos and it loses chat if I'm on a live stream. Watched your plumbing video, it won't let me comment..... sigh
But hope your not nervous anymore, man that thing had some pressure when you opened up the pet cock! Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
That was awesome Mr. Dave, Hope you have a greet week, stay warm, and stay dry. Snow, heavy snow is heading your way this week. Also Mr. Dave have a wonderful Family Thanksgiving, my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Rev. Harry. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thanks Dave for all the good info on the locomotive and everything else. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your clan.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed fstjack. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Great video! I wish you and your family, including Freddy of course, a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Gary.
May you also have a great holiday and Freddy will be napping. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
I like to see your snowy weather. It reminds me of my childhood in Wisconsin. It was in the mid 70s here last week. That's cooler than I would like, though. 😊
My buddy Steve from StormySky Rail Productions lives in Wisc
Rodney. It's a lot of snow and very cold up there, he used to work
for CP. Here in the same day we can have the AC on and then
at night a fire in the fireplace going. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings i really enjoyed it. I especially like the tamping in the snow. We are on the Gulf of Mexico so we don't get snow
My kids have never seen it personally, just in pictures. My neighbor is in his 80s and has only seen it twice.
@rodneydavis324 😊👍
Loved the video as you traveled through the fog. Beautiful
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Beverly. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
an interesting ride in the fog. Yes, it is truly a blessing to enjoy the job you have, and we are blessed by you!
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Great video Dave I’m still waiting in Se Pa for my 1st snow of the season have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving if we don’t see you before then
Thank you Steven and glad you enjoyed. Corrie and her mom
will be making Thanksgiving dinner and they wanted me to
invite you over, we'll talk railroading and eat all the turkey!
I hope to have another video out either Wednesday or Thursday
so until then, happy rails my friend. Will be a real good one
coming out Monday on CCRX, be sure you watch it, something
most folks don't even know exist on a freight car.
Not bad weather going for a ride. Thumbs up 👍
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Clarence. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
You’re lookin good Dave . AH Haaa flying that train in IFR weather hope you’re instrument rated.
That weather did go from sun to fog then then snow. I too like snow or ice then I can figure skate of course the liquid from ocean no problem Surfin surfin.
Stay well Dave
Best
Kristy
Hope your foot is well enough now to get that skate on Kristy.
Weather in SW Pa. during the day can have the AC on and then at night a fire in the fireplace at times. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thankyou Dave for sharing all the wonderful parts of your day work at home ans at work always cheerful always great to catchup here in the 🇬🇧 trowbridge
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Robbie. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Now.......about Freddy the cat..........you do know that if his nose starts flashing, he has been around way too many trains 😸😸❗
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Freddy likes trains Paul, he watches train videos with me all
the time and usually reads all these comments and helps me
edit videos, of course then he wants brushed and given treats.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings brushed & given treats.......same at my house!
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings i posted a video earlier of my cat traipsing through the trains, without knocking them 42 inches to the floor. Then he parks his furry hind end, and pretends he is "CATZILLA"!
@@paulsmith5398 at least your kitty DID NOT knock your trains off. 42 inches to the floor, I had a ceiling G-Scale layout, that was 6'6" above the floor(78-inches) and I had 2 cats at the time, they both loved to sleep up on the elevated tracks and on the truss bridge tracks.
One day I forgot to put my trains away in the covered sidings when we left the house, just shut down the train on the curved section between the kitchen and living room that led into the truss bridge. Well, my cat knocked off the locomotive, tender and the first 3 of the 7 freight cars, caboose at the end of the train. That was a very expensive lesson that day, the steam loco, tender(expensive $300+ sound system), and those 3 freight cars were literally obliterated beyond repair.
Yes, I was ready to kill me a cat, that lesson cost me over $1,850.00 and since the train company went out of business that I purchased from, couldn't even buy a replacement Steam Loco/Tender or the 3 freight cars I lost. No, I didn't kill any cats, but I sure yelled at Simba a lot over that. But it was my own stupidity of thinking the train would be okay leaving it where it was, as I'd only be gone for less than 15 minutes.
Of course I NEVER made that mistake again. Even if I was just going outside for a few minutes, I made sure the train was put away in the covered sidings and doors closed down so the cats couldn't access the trains while we're away.
Lovely bit of surveying with the MK1 eyeball Dave. Permanent Way work at its best
Thank you for the nice comment Ian. Really appreciate your taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day.
Loved the foggy morning view from inside the SD38-2. I've videoed a few foggy morning trains coming out of a thick fog bank. Nothing eerier than hearing the horn, seeing the headlamp glaring against the fog and the ditch lights flashing coming at you out of the fog. Eerie and very cool at the same time. Especially when you can't even see the locomotive body.
Btw: saw that dip a mile away in the track before you even highlighted it. That dip was quite obvious.😮
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Mr. Bones
Way back they long wall mined under my track. When that dropped many places on my track feel 2 to 3 feet believe it or not and I got them all fixed back up, this was a baby dip. What is really cool is a steam loco in the fog, can't see it but here that whistle blow. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Hi Dave, for a workshop you've got a pretty nice workplace, snow or shine. If you enjoy your job, it's half done. The other half is getting paid😊👍
Conscientiousnes, that describes you to a "T" Dave. Your company I'm sure, appreciate that quality in you 👌🛠🚂🚆
Great stuff as always on both channels
Appreciated and you all take care,
Thanks Mark UK
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Mark.
There are some in the company, specially the higher ups who do appreciate me, there are some who don't, but that's railroading.
it doesn't matter what any of them think what matters is how
I feel about myself at the end of the day. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Another awesome video Dave. Enjoyed watching once again and have a great rest of your day. Steve
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Steve. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings you're very welcome and thank you also Dave.
Perfect timing Dave, your video dropped right on lunchtime! I can perfectly understand while you love your job. Must be a great deal of satisfaction in solving problems and keep that track neat. Oh, and while you're tamping in the snow, I have the aircon on as it's 97 degrees! Keep safe and keep them rolling 🙂
I tried to do that just for you Richard. Railroading to eat by.... :-)
97!!! oh dear I'd much rather have snow and cold. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Your callout of the road at the start of the video made me dive into Google Maps to get my bearings. I'm in SoCal as an IL/MO transplant and after looking at the aerial view from the river terminus back west to the mine, all I can say is: that's a nice line in a pretty part of the US. I can truly understand why you love your job. I have family in IL still doing coal stuff. Sometimes they start in IL and end up in KY...
Thank you for the nice comment AVI TAR. Your right this is a nice part of the country and I do love my job here. Get paid to play with
trains.... :-) Really appreciate your taking the time to check out
the video and may you have a very good day.
Good to know You're up on horse again, rerailed as said in another comment.
Being worn down during the last work as bus driver and the schedule that turned the hours like a cement mixer I love the title Retired.
Turned hours like a cement mixer... LOL never heard that one before Stefan. I love going to work, it's that 8 hour wait until I
can go home that is the hard part.... LOL Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Dave!
Thank you and may you also have a great holiday 1208 Bug.
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Hope you have a great Thanksgiving, Dave! Thanks for taking us for a ride on number 1 as well as showing us that wheel profile gauge.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Shane. I need get Corrie a loco ride sometime. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Hi Dave wow that was crazy the shifting of the track. you did a great job to get it leveled out and making it smoother.
hope you are able to get it all the bad areas better so that the trains run with out any issues. “ when you do what you
love, you will not work a day in your life!” love your positive energy and your zest for life!
I've had a problem with that curve for many years now Barry,
a never ending thing tamping that place. With that culvert
pipe collapsing it will only continue to get worse. They don't want
to do anything about the pipe. So one day when it finally lets
go the train will be over the hill, oh well, more videos.... sigh
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Ahhhh!, tamping in snow! A little more than a week ago, i went to a local train fair..........and guess what somebody had for sale, and i immediately thought of you❗The bonafide Lionel tamper, in working condition! If it had been HO scale, i would have bought it.
Dang Paul why didn't you buy it and then I'd have bought it off you.
Keep that in mine for the future! I don't care about the scale, my old Lionel set is O scale anyway. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings most Lionel products are "O" scale as it is, if i find another one, i will most definitely get it for you.
Really like your videos
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies Scott. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Dave I just started watching this channel over the last month and it's been great. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving sir.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoy the home movies Jonathan. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the videos and may you have a very good day.
Dave...
All of your videos (on both channels) are very informative, and i might add relaxing and almost soothing ! The forward view from the locomotive in the fog is a perfect example. It almost seemed like the engineer reduced the speed just a bit in the fog ! Something most of us would never see ! Happy Thanksgiving Dave to you and your family !
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies Emil. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Another fantastic vid Dave that’s a lot of wear on that wheel love what you do and my best regards to you and your family.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed Lawrie. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Wow, I didn't realize the snow went that fat south last week. We had 2 grade crossings we had to finish up late on Friday near Janesville, WI in the cold. At least the snow didn't stick. Take care, keep warm, and have a good Thanksgiving.
We didn't get much and it didn't stick Chris, we have nothing like
you guys get in Wisc. My buddy from Stormy Sky Rail Productions lives up there, he used to work with CP. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Dave I'm right there with you, I seen my first NS on the main line here in Neosho mo. It was a very pleasant surprise
That's great to hear Thomas, always a thrill to see a foreign loco
come by. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Happy Thanksgiving Dave! Hope that you and the family have some good family time!
Thank you and the same to you Mike. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Now thats way cool! A wheel flange gauge! Very similar to the one i use for HO scale! You would be surprised at how many low quality wheels, flanges, etc, ive found over the years, and replaced them with better quality assemblies. Makes a huge difference how the trains run, even in HO scale!
Wow how cool a wheel gauge for HO never knew they existed Paul, thanks so much for sharing that.
@ThatsDavesOtherDoings i am pretty sure theyre made by Kadee, but i could be wrong.
Dave thanks for the ride along and a great day for it Conrail used to give rides to anywhere and csx in the beginning great video thanks
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Gary. No more rides on Class 1 railroads, things ain't like they used to be. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Dave not only to fix this stuff, but a slow moving train on a single track, just rocking back and forth in the fog. Thank you.
Thank you for the nice comment and your welcome Bruce. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Cool video, thanks brother
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you liked it Bill, We really appreciate your checking out the video.
Happy Thanksgiving Dave
Thank you and hope you have a great holiday also Missydog, We really appreciate your checking out
the video.
so Dave, what is this snow that you talk about? That was quite a dip in the rail. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
SW Pa Lewis, during the day we can have the AC on and then at night a fire in the fireplace, it does happen. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Thank you for the ride along Dave, I hope you’re wearing ear protection out there.
Your certainly welcome Mark and glad you could take the time
to ride with us. We really appreciate your taking the time to watch the video my friend.
Nice video enjoyed
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed James. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
@@ThatsDavesOtherDoings You are welcome Dave
@jamesburnside3023 😊👍
Interesting suff today Dave. I bet that horn was loud it sure sounded it on my speakers. Surprised you are the only one with a wheel gauge, that wheel must of done some miles to wear that much. I would rather have the heat on than sit in boiling hot weather when you can't stay cool and snow looks lovely to me. Have a Good Day
Our track with all the joints and high degree curves is hard on wheels Cedarcam as you can imagine, hard on everything.
I'm with you on the heat on and the AC in the tamper sucks.
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Happy Thanksgiving Dave 😊 !!!
Those Turkey joints are much tastier with the gravy than those Railroad Joints of steel 😮😂
Enjoy the holiday!
Oh, BTW, I need the address for the shop to send those Cat Eyes 👀 too you.
Take care and have fun 👍.
Richard Bause
Thank you Richard and hope you have a great holiday also. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Oh almost forgot, Wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family! pet Freddy for me! sneak
him some turkey too! take care!
Freddy refuses to eat table food Barry, but will give him some
extra treats and hope you have a great holiday also my friend.
Believe it or not I once worked for an outfit that created a 1 foot dip in a class 1 double track mainline. We were boring a 60" tunnel under the rr about 30' down and of course hit a soft spot directly under the roadbed. All hell broke loose over that "episode".
Oh dear, too bad they didn't have me there, I could have tamped
that track back up in no time and save you guys from a lot
of grief MTH. When they long wall mined under our track there were many places the track dropped 2 to 3 feet and I fixed them all up. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
happy thanksgiving i know yall going be eating good
You bet we will Gidget Mrs. Dave is a very good cook and Corrie
will be helping out. Thank you and hope you do also. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
I can't stand being cold. Love the warm weather (but not to hot like 90ish degrees).
I'm a Native born Floridian, and I HATE THE HEAT! Always too hot here, I love it when we finally get into the 62°F-65°F range. That's the PERFECT Weather for me in Florida!😊
Maybe someday it will remain a constant 50 to 60 degrees Robert after the big asteroid hits the earth..... :-) Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
*_If you watch at _**_12:27_**_ bigfoot walks behind the tamper. Yeah I hate humidity and thankfully it's pretty dry here. I can run swamp coolers which is my favorite kind of AC._* 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
We need to get Big Foot hired on here so he can do some track
work David. Had another hopper car dump it's load on my track
last night.... sigh Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Looks like the foot has been rerailed.
Yes it has Barney and thanks for asking, doing much much
better and Corrie has been working the crap out of me
now. I told her Rome wasn't built in a day, and she said, that's
because she wasn't there to supervise building it.... :-) Thank
you so much for watching tonight's RR week in review my friend.
First snow, so your son can track that big 8-point buck, did he bag any thing in Illinois?
He saw 2 really nice ones in Illinois, but could not get a decent
shot at them and he hates to just wound a deer, would rather
let it go and wait for a good shot Mack. Snow again Friday but
it didn't last, ground is still warm but it did mess with our
excavating job we had planned, so Karl and I did it today, I'm
a tired puppy tonight. Plus with my foot better, Corrie has
been working the devil out of me. I told her Rome wasn't
built in a day. She said, that's because she wasn't there
to supervise..... LOL Thanks so much my friend for watching
tonight's show.
Has the company ever considered investing in a wheel true machine? I know they're expensive but can be real time savers when you can retrue your own wheelsets instead of having to change them out and then truck them somewhere to do the work. You ever use Damian Hanz for that sort of work? They're only about 60 miles away in McKeesport.
I put up a video on CCRX about truing a loco wheel several years
ago Clark. The guy was subbed out to Hanz. Hanz used to do
all the maintenance on our locos but hasn't for the past two years.
We are not a car shop, we have coal mine mechanics who work
on the cars but we will never get a truing machine and we don't rebuild any of our truck sets. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
Nice job. How much did you have to pick up your line rail?
I never knew the bigger machines were prone to wheel slip. I've seen older Electromatic Jr.'s slip, but not production machines.
Your videos are excellent references, by the way.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you enjoyed John.
Tamper no wheel slip on dry rails just wet ones. I picked that dip up about 4 inches. No big deal. When they long wall mined under my track in 2013 there were many places the track feel 2 to 3 feet and I fixed all of them up back then. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
A good surfacing crew is worth their weight in gold. A quick pass with a tamper, a broom/regulator will make a good looking railroad.
Were you able to do 4" in two passes, or one? Professional curiosity.
Great job Dave! What’s the difference between the Sd38 and SD 40. They look identical. Happy Thanksgiving my friend..
Great question William. the 38 is 2,000 HP and is naturally aspirated with a blower. The 40 is 3,000 HP and is turbo
charged. Both models have basically the same dimensions
and weight. The 38 has a 16 cylinder 654E engine in it and the 40 has a 645E3 16 cylinder. Thanks so much my friend for riding
along with us today.
How long do the wheels usually last on a train Dave? I would imagine they are extremely heavy.
I'm sorry William I have no adequate answer. But do know this,
wheels last a lot longer on all welded rail as opposed to jointed rack like we have and also last longer on low degree curves
instead of a lot of high degree curves like we have. One big
wear on wheels is wheel slip which happens when starting
out heavy trains and on snowy and sometimes wet rails. A light drizzle is more prone to cause wheel slip than a heavy hard
rain does, so there are a lot of factors to come into play on
how long a wheel lasts, but yes they are very hard steel.
Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
I dont like going outside if the temperature is below my age. I've been retired for a few years now.
LOL, I liked that Ed. Someday I will get where you're at too.
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Dave, have any trains ever hit any deer or bear on the trackage?
A lot of deer Charles, some years more than others. Never a bear
but I have seen 3 bears crossing the tracks in all my years
working on the track. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the RR week in review video and may you have a very good day.
How many rail cars does the mine have
Around 70 in one state of repair or another plus the 2 that are
currently laying on their sides after a derailment CNW. We keep 38 cars on our main train most of the time, 22 on the short train.
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Your bad-order wheel-set…..can you estimate how many years it too to get to that level of wear?
Long time ago they kept track of car maintenance here, but haven't for the past 12 or so years so I don't have a clue about
how to answer you question John. You would think they would
be more interested in keeping records of car repair work, sigh....
Really appreciate your checking out the video.