Union Railroad: MP15s between Pittsburgh's Steel Mills!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- On July 24th, 2023, I chased a Union Railroad coke train between the Edgar Thomson Steel Works and Clairton Coke Works outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The power for the train was a sweet four pack of MP15s, and they sounded excellent handling the long train. Clairton Coke Works is the largest coke manufacturer in the nation, and I flew my drone around the facility before catching the Union MP15s pulling in to load!
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Ladies and gentlemen let's give it to Sam for other kick Ass Video in the Chicago Area great steady hand bro 👍
This is PA, not chicago.
Awesome video!
The book "Pennsy in the Steel City" has quite a few photos of ET works, Port Perry, and Turtle Creek. Also has a map. Photos have quite informative caption.
Outstanding work Sam! Always loved watching the Union Railroad in action. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! They’re one of my favorite railroads!
Fascinating.
I've always loved the sweeping massive steel trestles the Union Railroad ride between the Alleghenies.
Me too. A very picturesque, yet gritty railroad!
Amazing footage. Great to see the mills! 😀👍
Thanks!
Hell yeah, Another awesome video…
Thank you!
Great footage, Sam. Very interesting to see how small that train looks against those works. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Thanks!
Every time I see this area I think... Real life train layout.
Tracks going everywhere! You wouldn’t be wrong in saying that!
Nice video!
Thanks!
Your welcome @@SamLovesTrains!
Cool video but the water in the creek at the beginning of video looked kinda scary. What's up with that water? Yikes!
My God those for switcher units are pulling all that that is the most I've ever seen switcher engines pull in my entire life of railroading WOW 😯 some of those are only rated for 1000 horsepower to 1,500 horsepower depending on what model it is and what year it was made so just let's say for example one of them is 1500 horsepower and the other three or 1000 horsepower that's only 4500 horsepower pulling the whole load that's equivalent to 1 Dash 8 Dash 9 locomotive there must have been at least 70 cars on that train
The Union has been running their trains since the early 70's with 2 to 5 unit sets of MP15DC's. They tried different locomotives from time to time. But haven't found a replacement for the tried and true MP15DC'S.
@@DoriClement-fe6tj thanks for the input my dear I never knew that women like railroading it's definitely a rarity that's for sure my mother hated that me and my dad went out training she always said oh you going out to see your choo choos for some reason she always found it to be some kids thing but we always have to explain to her it's a hobby. She finally started to realize it GP40s would pull this with ease I would say that you would need 2 or 3 GP40s to pull this load at least. SD40-2 you would need just the same 2 or 3 at the minimum and I believe that these cool cars were d but they were heading to the place to get them filled up so I'm guessing that they pull the same load to when the coal cars are full. That is a lot of weight I wonder what the model number is on those units 🤔 going to have to do some research especially on the pulling power of these in particular road switchers. I always loved switcher engines they can pull a lot of freight with little horsepower. I believe these models have anywhere between 1,000 and 1500 horsepower possibly 1800 at maximum. So it's somewhere between there 1,000 - 1800 horsepower somewhere between there I'm going to look this up after I send this message to you and I'm going to find out the exact horsepower on these units is it just seems so unlikely that these units can pull all that freight like I saw the length of this train and I almost 💩 myself for switcher engines pulling all that freight that's very impressive for those units.
@@DoriClement-fe6tj I was right 1500 horsepower so with the 4 units that's 6,000 horsepower so that's equivalent to 3 GP 38 s pulling this load and I could see three Jeeps pulling that load yeah they might struggle a little bit but they could do but these switcher and just man must be really struggling with a load like that
You should see and hear five of them on a ore train out of North Bessemer Yard.
You don’t really notice the grades in this video, being from above but the grade from Clairton to the coal valley bridge is almost 2%. Watching and hearing 4-5 MP15s taking a loaded train north is incredible. Screaming in notch 8 and on their knees pulling their guts out. From the coal valley bridge to Dravosburg is about 1 1/2% and then about 1% to Bull Run.
Worked at both ET and Clairton in the early 80s. Super video and great shots. Nice work
@SamLovesTrains how are you getting audio? Is your drone audio equipped?
@@jsax4heart I record audio from the ground and then dub it onto the drone footage.
Wow, Spaghetti of tracks lol, I would get lost with those tracks going everywhere! What are those red cars at 10:12 ? Anyway another great vid Sam!
Thanks. Those are old electric switchers that came from a coal mine and are used for loading the coke cars. They’re super cool. Built over 100 years ago.
At 10:13 what IS that little red guy? Is that a shop critter? A very weird transfer caboose?
An intra-plant switcher. Quite common for mills and other large facilities that do a lot of switching to have their own switchers. If line haul railroad did the switching, facility would have to pay big fees to the line haul railroad.
Id like to see closer video. To far up in the air. Need a microscope.
Great video!! ive been past all the mills hundreds of times but had no idea how trains got around to them,,,very interesting!! now You can do one on goin to irvin works !!!
Thanks! Maybe next time I’m back in town I’ll catch a train at Irvin Works.
Outstanding presentation as always. Phenomenal drone videography opposite one of my favorite hangouts when I lived in Pittsburgh. Knew the day would come when you would cove the Port Perry USS MonValley Complex
Great video of a CSX empty coke train heading to the Clairton Works. The real show is when they leave Clairton with a loaded train. There is a good grade leaving the Coke Works. You can really hear those naturally aspirated two cycled V12's work.
Thanks! I would’ve loved to stick around for their departure, but wasn’t sure how long they’d take to load the train.
That depends. If they have loads already to go at Clairton they will return with the loads. Sometimes they will run lite back to yard or shop. I also have seen them park the power at the plant after bringing empties in. So..... it's a gamble.
subscibed. This really is two thumbs up for your super video. This area is seldom covered on youtube other than by distrains, who also makes great drone videos. Your film makes me want to start a new layout with steelmaking and Union railroad. So inspiring ! Thanks !
Thank you! I’ve seen some of DJ’s drone videos and they inspired me to make some of my own! Glad you enjoyed.
As someone who has been here many times, this is the best coverage that I have ever seen! 2:15 like a model railroad gone crazy!
Thanks. That means a lot!
Didn't know there were still mills in Pittsburgh. Thanks.
Still a lot of steel making done in Pittsburgh! Thanks for watching!
There is 1 mill left in braddock, pa. About 10 miles east of pittsburgh.