"BIG SANDY", TX TRACK CHANGE! An amazing overnight job! November 14, 2020
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- To all that donated in the chat at Big Sandy November 14, 2020, so that the work crew could enjoy a Pizza break, we thank you very much! To all the construction workers, it was our pleasure to watch so many skilled workers replace the tracks and diamond so quickly and professionally! Thanks to everyone and please stay safe.
Hats off to these highly skilled workers. They do this in all weather to keep our goods moving. Thank you!
So much of railroading is invisible or overlooked. Very nice that VRF could capture the earnest work of many specialists on a complex project, who were up against a deadline. Am sure the pizza made them all feel appreciated. Bravo VRF!
It is truly amazing that theespeople get major jobs done
These guys ROCK at what they do!! Keepn them rolln! True craftsman... Pizza thing was cool! 👍
Great job VRF and all the guys on site. Even though I do this for a living, it is neat to see how other railroads do the same jobs! Painting the insulated fishplates / joint bars, is a great idea , and would help a lot when we are trying to fix track faults at night!!
Thanks for the show.
Cheers , Gregg.
Having alot of people in the right place getting it done Skill is paramount
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High speed frame rate articulated arms look like 50s SciFi movie monsters tearing up Lionel train track segments..:-)
Great coordination, attention to detail, no sacrifice on safety. These guys have some serious worklights!
Great video as well. Thanks.
Id like to see the switch made in the factory! 😊
Id imagine when you get that presice of working together each operator has their own machine; every machine has its own hydraulic responce radios earbuds and walaaa!
Very well edited video! Thank you!
A perfect edited video. good
not just good, but GREAT!!!!
Enjoyed watching most of it live and really enjoyed this short version of the Track change. Great Job to all the workers. They started out with a Nice warm afternoon/evening to then have to deal with a Very windy cold front early in the morning hours. It got really cold that night. Thank you VRF for this video. ❤️❤️❤️
And safety first.
great job everyone.
I really admire the skill of those crane operators.
it is like building a miniature railroad
The. "blue Angels of Excevators" !!!
The coordination and supervison involved in the entire job... Absolutely incredible. Wow 🔐🔐🔐❤️❤️❤️❤️
love the dance of the digger plum fairies
Virtually the same activity just took place at the CP / CN diamonds in Duplainville, WI just a couple days ago. Interesting and highly coordinated. Good job!
13:14 that’s so wholesome awe
Awesome that yuh got them pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great job , dream team.
Awesome
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Fascinating!!!
I wonder what the higher ups at UP thought of the pizza delivery 🤔
Like Snap Track only much harder! :)
совсем как на руси, пятеро работает, 45 делает вид что работают, ещё 45 вообще пассивно стоят и просто смотрят)))
excavator operators are excellent
RIP old SP tracks
only wish the track tamper/ ballast packer worked that fast when i m on duty
Well I wish I was there to big sandy Texas but I haven’t been there yet
28:35 After that one guy on the right uses the seven foot long "nail puller", estimate the weight of the sledge the guy on the left uses. That's no "Five pound hammer". That's one BFH!
Work rules... Three+ guys set up a track saw. Then a fourth comes in to cut the track.
*Now I know the pizza made these guys happy, but did they know that railfans purchased it for them?* I don't think I saw anyone wave to the camera. (apologies if they did and I missed it) In my mind, I can hear the foreman and other bosses claiming credit for getting the pizza _"now you guys are hard workers, Union Pacific and us reward hard work, so ummm, we got you some pizza!_
How many years will they get out of the new diamond?
Anyone in Big Sandy who lives in one of those houses, how'd you sleep?
Machines are quieter than trains.
At 1:30 or freeze at 10:44 (and at 26:26 the ballast regulator just went over one set) what are the "extra" frog/checkrail assemblies for? I saw that they (four of them) were placed approximately 10-15 foot from the diamond. Derails? Please let me know. John, BC Canada
For expansion and contraction of the rails. It happens here rather than in the diamonds themselves.
@@kenroberts4767 Thank you very much!
How did they transport the diamonds there, in one piece?
And what happens to all the old rail and diamonds once removed; is it recycled or what?
Isn't it odd that track changes that we see on VRF are always in front of the cameras?
Where do they make all the pre-made track panels?
Approximately where the panels were picked up on the side during the weeks before the swap-out.
There are companies across the country that make track panels. UP and the other class 1s may well make them in-house too.
Turnouts and crossings are made by the railroads, most have multiple sites where they make them. Some track panels will be assembled on site though. I can’t say for sure exactly what facility made this crossing. However if you’re wondering what they look like the UP has a facility in Laramie Wyoming, NS has a facility in Atlanta and BNSF has a facility in Topeka. I’m sure there is more.. I just don’t know exact locations for all of them.
That tamping attachment for the excavator looks really awkward...and SLOW. Overall though, the project looks like it went pretty well.
Slightly misleading caption. The track did not change - it was replaced. There is a difference.
How in gods name does anyone live in that house across the street. Trains blowing horns at all times of the day and night.......must be a deaf person living there!
You eventually get used to it and tune it out. I grew up (from age 1 to about 19) 3 blocks from NS' Juniata Locomotive Shops and then spent about the next 8 years 3 blocks from the class yards north of the shops. They had a steam whistle on the power plant that blew about 8 times a day between about 7am and 6pm (I want to say 7am, 7:30am, 11:30am, noon, 12:30, 3:00pm, 3:30pm and 6pm) that could be heard a couple miles away. Between that, and the noise of the trains in the yards adjacent to and north of the shops, when I first moved away around age 28 or so, it took me quite a while to get used to the LACK of all the noise coming from the tracks. Especially made it hard to sleep in relative quiet.
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Where are the boys watching this?
they need to put up a sign called line closed
What is the purpose of the track work at 1:30 mark
9:28 There are a total of four track-panels with the odd arrangement. 16:38 Just above the water bottle you can see the start of one area. My first thought was a derail to protect the crossing, but they would be way too close to do any good. Thinking about signaling, I believe it has to do with electrically insulating the crossing from the eight rails leading into it. Hopefully, a signal maintainer will see this and comment.
@@rearspeaker6364 Thank you! I've never seen/heard of a CWR expansion joint. Makes total sense now. Could be an interesting modeling project.
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Next video I'd like to see a lot of pollution from those diesels but not from the Steam trains please
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what a haphazard way to move rails have they not seen a thing called a crane.