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Thank you for the notice and kind words Doc Holliday. I keep a log book of every curve we have when it was tamped, what was done when tamping and any major repairs or work done to the curves. Also keep a maintenance log book for my tamper itself. Really appreciate your dropping by and checking out the show. May you have a very good day my friend.
I got track charts of several railroads that show all the work done and the dates done. Some notes even tell where the ballast came from. It's good to know when trying to recreate a scene based on a date.
I know alot of guys that refuse to film their work for fear of being criticized. The fact that you're so proud to do it, and there's just no end to the knowledge you have is absolutely amazing. Even when you have the guys helping you out, you just have all kinds of praise for their work also. This is why this is one of my all time favorite channels. Plus it helps that I'm a huge train buff anyhow, I'm probably one of the 10 guys in my town that loves to get railroaded 😁
Thank you for the nice comment and very kind words This Ole Sign Guy. Glad you are enjoying the channel. We will try not to "railroad" you, but will bring the railroad to you! :-) Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Water is the enemy. I remember a Conrail executive telling me the three most important factors for the right of way are drainage, drainage, and drainage. Thank you Dave!
You are so right in that Ted. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem, but I'm sure there is water down there someplace giving us fits. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Been a rail fan all my 74yrs. I've observed that water, proper drainage is key to integrity if the rail bed. There's a crossing near me that for yrs has a water,drainage problem. They keep repairing and re stoning it. Drainage is key!
Thank you for the nice comment Poowg. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
This brought back a memory from my early years, when I was in engineering for a natural gas corporation - supply division. We had a section of a high pressure transmission line down in your area that we couldn't keep stable. It would shift which would put extreme pressure on some pipe sections and stretch it other places. They finally ended up driving piles into the ground about 40' and built a 'retaining wall' for the lack of a better term. It worked - the area was stable the remaining eight years I worked for them. The cause was logged as "aqua stimulated substrata geological realignment" - the ground shifted way down below grade because of the underground water flow. When Mother Nature wants to play games, it can be a real challenge. Hope you got 'er stabilized. "The best of mankind will be challenged the most"
That's exactly what we have Trainman2K. An aqua stimulated substrata geological realignment....:-) We have used retaining walls in the past with good success on other sections using old rail and old bridge timbers. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Your certainly welcome Donniee, you are right, keeping good records sure is a big help at times. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Bassotronics. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
We arrived at work one morning and dealt with something similar. Initially we packed ballast under the rail concerned, but every time a train went over, it would dip again. It was decided to put a temporary speed restriction on the section and have someone sit in a vehicle and monitor it. Turned out the cause was some recent work nearby had altered a water course and had been undermining the embankment.
I think you are right Rat The Lookout, there is a water problem here like you had. It's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Drainage to stop land slip is what you need here . There is water below ground flowing from up hill to the creek as its meant too. Your railroad line sits above it . Dang! Monitor, Repair and Profit. Keep up the great work D.
Thank you Philip. You are right we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Hello, My grandfather was a fettler on the east coast line Australia.I loved him showing us his work. I really enjoy what you do and how you do it. Keep it up! God bless you sir From Goondiwindi, Queensland ,Australia.
Awesome Brad, that is a term I never heard before, fettler, looked it up. Thanks for the nice comment and for taking the time to watch. May you have a very good day my friend.
Ahhhh love getting to see all the hard work always! Always super informative….thanks Dave!! Absolutely love learning more and more about the intricacies of what makes a railroad run… you’re the man!! Take care!!!
Thank you for the nice comment Al. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Train Chasers at Work. I'm just doing my job tho. Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you Raymond and you are so right in that, specially our track with all the joints and curves we got, plus the weather conditions. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thanks once more, Dave. I love your videos. You do far better than a pretty good job keeping those tracks in shape. A cracking great job is more like it.
Thank you for the nice comment Eric. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
No I have not Mat, I'll have to search for it. I saw a pic of an earthquake took both sides of the track away in Alaska, that was wild. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Brian. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Dave, if you want to see rainfall, you should move to South Florida. In one summer rainstorm I saw 2 inches of rain fall in 15 minutes. And that was recorded on an official National Weather Service Gage. Currently where I live we are somewhere around 120-130% of our normal rainfall to date at over 24.5". With more to fall tonight. We are now in the mow the yard twice a week season.
I think I'll stay in SW Pa Don. It is rare we get than much rain so quick. Our average annual rain fall here is 46 inches. We do have to mow grass twice a week for a couple of weeks in the spring, but often in the summer it's twice a month. Thank you for watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Your engineer is going to have fun with the soil slip. That grade is going to keep sliding, hopefully slowly enough that you can keep up adding ballast on top. But a track in constant flux is not exactly ideal for a railroad, ha!
You are right 2xKTfc, we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Appreciate the very nice comment theandymano, glad you are enjoying the home movies. Thanks so much my friend for watching and may you have a very good day.
Boy that looked like a big dip in the he track. Thank God for the engineers that pay attention to track conditions and you and your tamper. Have a great week my friend.
You are right Lewis, we are happy to have a tamper here instead of me having to hand jack and hand tamp track! Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Heya Dave Great video I really appreciate your content and look forward to seeing new content from ya Stay safe and hydrated. This heat is getting to everyone I think
Thank you for the nice comment Clark. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. That high heat has left us thankfully, was 80 here today. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
@ccrx6700 I hope they can too. I've seen where heat can make tracks buckle under certain conditions, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know exact causes. My friend had it happen a couple times when he was an engineer. Fortunately, no derailment, but it's scary when it happens
You are right duotronic we have an unstable condition under the track. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
You would almost think there is an underground spring or something causing the sinking. Lucky that you all work together to notice things like that so that you can avoid a disaster. Excellent record keeping on your part!
Thank you Dave, I've got records for every curve I have back thru 18 years ago. You are right we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Who do you call for a dip in the track. Dave after hours. Your record keeping is top notch. The creek from when you first showed it and then after the rain you as incredible how it has risen. You keep the rails safe Dave. Nice job.
Thank you for the nice comment Beverly.. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
We rarely get that much rain that quick, but it happened, now it's as dray as can be this week Robert. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment C Nosprandt. Just another day on the railroad.... :-) Always a new adventure. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
You are right about that Jon, that's why I started doing that record keeping years ago. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Jerry. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Excellent job with the records. I'm not surprised that this curve close to the creek is problematic because of the adjacent steep slope. I applaud the company's vigilance to be aware. A clean-up on that slope would be huge.
Thank you for the nice comment Cecil. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Nice work Dave. They always keep you on your toes! Thank goodness for those machines as I'm guessing a problem like that would have been no easy fix in the old days. Keep those trains rolling 👍
In the old days Richard I would jack the track up by hand using a cross level measuring gauge and then tamp the ballast in with bars or if we were lucky enough, air powered jitterbugs. This 6700 tamper sure makes things much, much easier. Gotta keep those trains running safely you are right. Thanks so much my friend for watching and may you have a very good day.
This is what needs to happen everwhere. Unfortunately the bean counters are in charge and safety is too much of a cost....until it isnt. I dont compromise and my bosses hate dealing with it. On a side note, i sure could use 3 or 4 loads of that gravel on my driveway..😊
Good for you on not compromising Stevey. I don't like bean counters either sitting behind a computer not having a clue what's going on out in the real world. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Anthony. You are right, good records sure do make a difference. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Excellent track keeping records there. Such things help greatly with increasing track safety as you said, and both the company's area and yours are covered. Hope the flooded area drains soon! Flooding would not be helping things, that's for sure. Stay safe and well. Thanks for the work you do, for bringing us along and teaching us more about track safety!
Thank you for the nice comment Trena. You are right, good record keeping helps out a lot. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Boy, that sure was a lot of water flowing through there right at the end. Good job on the part of everyone involved with getting that little situation taken care of quickly. We all hope it holds steady for a good long time. Oh, by the way... that was a nice steady shot of the tines working doing their magic! I presuume a magnetically mounted GoPro used for that. 🤠👍
You are right Scotty, GoPro on magnet mount. This is a problem area and will continue to be. It's in the hands of mine engineering department now, see what they can figure out. Appreciate your checking out the video my friend.
Never a dull moment on the railroad. There must be soft fill in that hillside. Nice job fixing it Dave! I used to keep records on every piece of my equipment at work. I doubt the person that took my place is keeping up with that though.☹
Thank you Wilbur. Good for you, so many guys now never keep records. But you know it pays off in dividends in the end when you do keep records. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Daniel. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Add some cribbing on the side of curve 39-A using some old sleepers and old rail pounded down into the curvature in order help hold the ballast in place. You might also need to install a drain pie under the roadbed in order to carry the water away better from the opposite side. You could have a natural spring coming off the mountain/hill on the high side that is slowly undermining the roadbed. And even if you already have 1 drainpipe, consider using a "W" formation of 3 pipes that all lead to the lowest point on the opposite side of the roadbed. Thus even if 1 gets clogged, you would still have 2 more remaining in operation.
We have built retaining walls like you mention in the past in several places Eric using old rail and old bridge timbers and they have worked out very well for us in holding slips. You are right we also need drainage here. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Your right about that Alan! Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Very interesting video Dave! The company should be extremely grateful for the detailed track maintenance records you keep. Shows the efforts you've gone to, to keep the rails straight and true. Keep up the great work my friend! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃💯👍🇺🇸
Appreciate the nice comment Jim, but I'm just doing my job here, whether anyone appreciates it or not, although I'm the train operators best friend here.... LOL Glad you enjoyed the show and thanks so much for watching my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment 1208n Bug. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Nice quick reaction from the whole team Dave, the creek is sure running high and ground can only soak up so much. Hopefully no more drops and monitoring is all you can do. Cheers and take care
Thank you for the nice comment Pete. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Great video Dave and as always you are very informative on what’s going on with the railroad. They are very blessed to have you as an employee. Stay safe and have a blessed day Dave. Happy Rails
Thank you for the kind words Donnie, just doing my job here and am lucky I can still do it. Really appreciate your stopping by and checking out tonight's episode. May you have a very good day my friend.
Well I don’t know about that falling out thing big boy, that’s what we call passing out down SOUTH. Anyway, busy is as busy do. When it comes to railroading you be the 👷♂️⚒️😬
Well this section of track passed out then Teddy....:-) Thank you for the kind words and we really appreciate your watching. May you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you Mojo. We got water problems here that can't get away from under the track. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it since they won't listen to me about how to fix it. So I just keep on tamping the darn thing up. :-) Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
You are right Dave, I've often wondered if there was a spring under there or perhaps an artesian well. It's in the hands of mine engineering department now, see what they can come up with. Really appreciate your sharing your thoughts and for watching. May you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Scott. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
You are right David, I think there's water under the track from perhaps a spring. It's in the hands of mine engineering department now, see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Your welcome Fred. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
That side even looks unstable how that track stays there is a miracle only a dam good tamper driver can sort it out Dave you’re the man .excellent vid thanks .
Thank you for the nice comment Lawrie. Just got to keep tamping it back up when it falls, oh well, that's railroading. Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
It certainly is John, I wouldn't want to climb it. Need a billy goat, he would love that hill..... :-) Thanks so much for watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
You are right about that Robin. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department now to see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you Steve. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Good thing I knew he was there and he knew I was there! That's the worse feeling in the world to be on track and see lights coming at you. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies James. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch them and may you have a very good day my friend.
Appreciate the nice comment Edward and glad you are enjoying the home movies. Thank you very much for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Wondering Lens. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Oh for sure you are right on that Ian. I got a lot of them, mostly because of mud, but no mud at all in this place. We got problems somewhere down under the track, hopefully mine engineering department can get it figured out. Thanks so much for stopping by and may you have a very good day my friend.
Good catch by the engineer looks like a wash but I knew they had the right man for the job Dave ground locating radar to find ungrounded utilities great job great video thanks Dave
Thank you for the nice comment Gary. Just doing my job here, all in a days work.... :-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
That was one heck of a dip.. but super Dave was on it.. crazy how far you guys moved the track up the slip.. can't believe how much rain you git in that short amount of time. Good stuff Dave
That rain was a rarity for sure here Pappy. Super Dave, did they hire someone new here? :-) Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Great to hear you are enjoying the home movies Roger. We do appreciate your subbing and hope you will continue to have a good time with us. We welcome you to our community here my new friend.
Hi Dave, really respect , you and your service, with the railroad! My father, liked trains! I miss my dad, he passed away, last july! Were you friends, with , Hobo shoestring? Im sure you get, that question, alot! Sad, what happened, to him!
Thank you for the nice comment Christopher. I'm sorry to hear about your dad, mine passed 8 years ago and I know how you feel. I knew who Mr. Shoestring but that is about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment James. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Your very welcome Noah. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Dave, Looks like Mother Nature is not cooperating with track safety. Regular track inspections and documentation is a must. Good thing your company makes safety a top priority...
Thank you for the nice comment Steve. You are right, glad they care about our safety. Makes a world of difference. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thanks Dave! Just Mother Nature at work, you can't beat her, only fight to a draw most times. Hills don't wanna be hills. Looking at the previous roadbed and your log notations, it seems to move erratically, fits & starts, so rest easy cause you know next week, month or 2 years, it'll be at it again. Also, if those previous drains were working at all, there might still be a little washout/gully/ravine down the slope to help find them, though it'll be tough with summer's weeds.
Your welcome Al and you are right, it will be at it again. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thanks for another great, informative vid, Dave. Thanks for taking us along on your job, and sharing what you do, for an obviously great company. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep tuning in.
Thank you for the nice comment Kenneth, glad you enjoyed this one. Your putting pressure on me now, if I don't keep up the good work then your not going to watch anymore, so now I have to perform.... :-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch my friend.
it is so crazy how things shift and settle based upon the hydraulic water saturation! in the area. just like an earthquake effect, solid looking land can shift like quick sand! great job getting it fixed to resume train traffic running moving the coal to the barge's and keep the money coming in to keep it all rolling and running smooth!
You are so right in that Barry. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Spring was so wet you couldn't stand it then now it hasn't rained for several months here Dave. .Thanks so much for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave the slope is too steep the train going across that area is giggling the slope of the ballast . You have a ballast landslide. You need an engineered retaining wall after careful slope soil sampling with drills. Then a deep piling retaining wall with shoring between the piles. You could have water softening the undersoil.
Where I am from this is called a landslide., no matter the reason, or the speed of slippage. Big job, but better than chasing it away from the river down below, or disaster.
Dave, Wayne put my initial thoughts into a concise technical response! Is the integrity of the entire hillside a concern? You mentioned a 3” rain event, this is very concerning. Wayne, the question is how deep the the weakened soil? I understand they can do some amazing things with screw piles these days. Speaking of which, my department is spoiled with our compressor stations, That station is in a swamp! ….I have heard of some compressor packages being supported on screw piles versus the massive foundation blocks we have on our sights. This station near Dave’s tracks may be one of those cases! Dave thanks again and Wayne for the insight!
You are right Wayne, we've built retaining walls in the past in some places out of old rail and old bridge timbers and they have worked very well at holding the slopes. I think we got water problems too. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment David. We are very fortunate this company allows me to make these videos. We all benefit. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Your welcome Daniel. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment John, glad you enjoyed. We are very fortunate this company allows me to make these videos. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
A derailment at that location could have been a disaster. Can you imagine a "coal spill" in that creek? ... I can hear the "EPA" all the way over here on Guam. Your company is fortunate to have you in charge of "TRACK"‼
Thank you for the nice comment Captain Tom, a coal spill in that creek would be awful, you are right. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Your right about that JZ. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Paul. Drinking lots of fluids and eating juicy fruits to stay hydrated. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Wow - that was a big drop, good quick repair. Looking at the slope from the cab of the tamper, pretty clear to see that the hill is sliding down towards the river. I think you will be needing some pretty major civil engineering works in the near future to stabilise that bank.
You are right Glenn we have some problems here. It's in the hands of the mine engineering department, see what they can come up with. Since we have our own engineering department they won't bring in an outside engineer. So I'll keep on tamping this up every time it drops again. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment David. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Keep up good work. Thanks for what your company n crew are doing. Help keep country going. Be safe on the rail line. Back where track keeps giving out. Looks like gonna have to chk the pipes. Looking at grade of hill it's moving see way trees are moving . Might have to die down n shore up that hill with some big rock at bottom fill up to top tamp it down solid
Thank you for the nice comment Murray. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you Mark and yes the tamper lifts the track up, then shoves ballast under the ties. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment Michael, glad you enjoyed. We are very fortunate this company allows me to make these videos. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave... just had an idea... very liquid concrete slurry.. pour it in batches to allow it to soak into the Ballast on the downhill side of the sleepers so it does not run off the end of the ballast into the creek.. as soon as it drops into the ballast.. pour another layer... hopefully you will solidify the ballast deep and turn it into a solid mass.. you may have to do hopefully 4 or 5 batches. with the last one not quite as fluid... because its a concrete slurry with very fine sand it will not be as strong as full cement.. you may want to put up 2 sheets of plywood next to your ballast pile.. one horizontal and one vertical.. duplicate the slope angle with some ballast.. it will take less than 2 yards of ballast.. pour slurry from the top.. let it cure a few days.. flip it over with your front loader to see how it glued it all together. you might do several pours along the 8 foot length of plywood with various amounts of water added to the mix.. to see if you can find out which pours thru the ballast and gets deep.. alternative.. do like you showed and move the track farther away from the edge... does anybody rent a High rail low boy trailer so you could get a drilling rig to allow you to bore holes for Soldier beam or just drop in rebar tubes and fill with concrete.. so you have a deep foundation.. the MTA in los angeles had to do that on soft spots along san fernando road in burbank ca and also for the Alemeda Corridor south of Anaheim street in Long beach.. i think Malcom drilling was involved.. www.malcolmdrilling.com/locations/#modalMidAtlantic. chances that the sliding slope will fail and take out most of your rolling stock is HUGE.. your company may want to invest in a cheap depressed center flat car. to load cement mixers or drill rigs on. to get them to the corner. or as a work platform for bag mixers and water drums..
Thank you for sharing that very detailed comment Wayne. There are RR's out there that have had very good success with what you are saying using a grout that is injected down into the ballast. Actually I suggested them many years ago to get a RR engineer in here and explore that option. They had a company at the time who was doing similar grout work under ground holding up the roof of the mine. That contractor was the one who told me about a RR they did somewhere in New England, I forget which RR, it's been too long ago. At the time I also suggested them core drilling right in the center of the track to find out how deep the water problem is, that idea was shot down by our mine engineering department.... sigh. I was told back then to keep on tamping, adding ballast is cheaper than fixing the problem..... sigh Of course back then we didn't have any money after our last company filed bankruptcy. So now it's back in the hands of the engineering department, they are monitoring the situation. At least now we have a company that is willing to spend money on track safety so that is very good. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Oh dear, I didn't think their migrating season was here yet Jim..... :-) We in deep doo doo now.... Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Glad to have you with us Bob and welcome. Appreciate the nice comment and for taking the time to visit with us. May you have a very good day my new friend from Florida.
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I gotta say your smile and laugh are infectious. The joy you take in the simple things is lovely to see.
The fact that you kept records of your service is beyond commendable. I wish more people would do this, no matter what the job. Much respect to you.
Thank you for the notice and kind words Doc Holliday. I keep a log book of every curve we have when it was tamped, what was done
when tamping and any major repairs or work done to the curves.
Also keep a maintenance log book for my tamper itself. Really
appreciate your dropping by and checking out the show. May you
have a very good day my friend.
I got track charts of several railroads that show all the work done and the dates done. Some notes even tell where the ballast came from. It's good to know when trying to recreate a scene based on a date.
I know alot of guys that refuse to film their work for fear of being criticized. The fact that you're so proud to do it, and there's just no end to the knowledge you have is absolutely amazing. Even when you have the guys helping you out, you just have all kinds of praise for their work also. This is why this is one of my all time favorite channels. Plus it helps that I'm a huge train buff anyhow, I'm probably one of the 10 guys in my town that loves to get railroaded 😁
Thank you for the nice comment and very kind words This Ole Sign Guy. Glad you are enjoying the channel. We will try not to
"railroad" you, but will bring the railroad to you! :-) Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Water is the enemy. I remember a Conrail executive telling me the three most important factors for the right of way are drainage, drainage, and drainage. Thank you Dave!
That is a universal mantra in every language known to railroaders.
Stanley Crane.
You are so right in that Ted. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem, but I'm sure there is water down there someplace
giving us fits. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Been a rail fan all my 74yrs. I've observed that water, proper drainage is key to integrity if the rail bed. There's a crossing near me that for yrs has a water,drainage problem. They keep repairing and re stoning it. Drainage is key!
Good catch by the engineer, probably avoided a big mess. Thanks for taking us along for another day on the railroad!
Thank you for the nice comment Poowg. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Found your channel a week ago. I love it. You are like the Mister Rogers of railroading
This brought back a memory from my early years, when I was in engineering for a natural gas corporation - supply division.
We had a section of a high pressure transmission line down in your area that we couldn't keep stable.
It would shift which would put extreme pressure on some pipe sections and stretch it other places.
They finally ended up driving piles into the ground about 40' and built a 'retaining wall' for the lack of a better term.
It worked - the area was stable the remaining eight years I worked for them.
The cause was logged as "aqua stimulated substrata geological realignment" - the ground shifted way down below grade because of the underground water flow.
When Mother Nature wants to play games, it can be a real challenge.
Hope you got 'er stabilized.
"The best of mankind will be challenged the most"
That's exactly what we have Trainman2K. An aqua stimulated substrata geological realignment....:-) We have used retaining walls
in the past with good success on other sections using old rail and
old bridge timbers. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thanks for taking us along again Dave. Those record books are priceless.
Your certainly welcome Donniee, you are right, keeping good records
sure is a big help at times. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Job well done! Always good to be ahead of the curve on things. ;)
Thank you for the nice comment Bassotronics. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
We arrived at work one morning and dealt with something similar.
Initially we packed ballast under the rail concerned, but every time a train went over, it would dip again.
It was decided to put a temporary speed restriction on the section and have someone sit in a vehicle and monitor it. Turned out the cause was some recent work nearby had altered a water course and had been undermining the embankment.
I think you are right Rat The Lookout, there is a water problem here like you had. It's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Drainage to stop land slip is what you need here . There is water below ground flowing from up hill to the creek as its meant too. Your railroad line sits above it . Dang! Monitor, Repair and Profit. Keep up the great work D.
Thank you Philip. You are right we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure
out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Hello,
My grandfather was a fettler on the east coast line Australia.I loved him showing us his work.
I really enjoy what you do and how you do it.
Keep it up!
God bless you sir
From Goondiwindi, Queensland ,Australia.
Awesome Brad, that is a term I never heard before, fettler, looked it up.
Thanks for the nice comment and for taking the time to watch. May
you have a very good day my friend.
Ahhhh love getting to see all the hard work always! Always super informative….thanks Dave!! Absolutely love learning more and more about the intricacies of what makes a railroad run… you’re the man!! Take care!!!
Thank you for the nice comment Al. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Dave: Knowledge and humility! Good man, right there.
Thank you for the kind words gogetthegoose. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
I know you can fix it. Happy rails Dave. No body does it better! 😃👍❤️🚂💨💨💨💨💨🚙
Thank you for the nice comment Train Chasers at Work. I'm just
doing my job tho. Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Another great job Dave! Railroads sure take a lot of maintenance!
Thank you Raymond and you are so right in that, specially our track with all the joints and curves we got, plus the weather conditions. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thanks once more, Dave. I love your videos. You do far better than a pretty good job keeping those tracks in shape. A cracking great job is more like it.
Thank you for the nice comment Eric. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
You ever see that video I think it's up in Canada where the whole track washed out? Good work dave!
No I have not Mat, I'll have to search for it. I saw a pic of an earthquake
took both sides of the track away in Alaska, that was wild. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
That was a good size dip! Great catch and repair before something major happen!
Thank you for the nice comment Brian. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Dave, if you want to see rainfall, you should move to South Florida. In one summer rainstorm I saw 2 inches of rain fall in 15 minutes. And that was recorded on an official National Weather Service Gage. Currently where I live we are somewhere around 120-130% of our normal rainfall to date at over 24.5". With more to fall tonight. We are now in the mow the yard twice a week season.
I think I'll stay in SW Pa Don. It is rare we get than much rain
so quick. Our average annual rain fall here is 46 inches. We do
have to mow grass twice a week for a couple of weeks in
the spring, but often in the summer it's twice a month. Thank you for watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
😮thanks Dave 😊
No problem Santafefrank, my pleasure. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Your engineer is going to have fun with the soil slip. That grade is going to keep sliding, hopefully slowly enough that you can keep up adding ballast on top. But a track in constant flux is not exactly ideal for a railroad, ha!
You are right 2xKTfc, we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure
out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave you Really show us the great life of Railroading from a perspective Nobody else can do = Thank You and Stay safe!
Appreciate the very nice comment theandymano, glad you are
enjoying the home movies. Thanks so much my friend for watching and may you have a very good day.
Boy that looked like a big dip in the he track. Thank God for the engineers that pay attention to track conditions and you and your tamper. Have a great week my friend.
You are right Lewis, we are happy to have a tamper here instead
of me having to hand jack and hand tamp track! Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Heya Dave
Great video
I really appreciate your content and look forward to seeing new content from ya
Stay safe and hydrated. This heat is getting to everyone I think
Thank you for the nice comment Clark. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. That high heat has left us thankfully, was 80 here
today. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
@ccrx6700
I hope they can too.
I've seen where heat can make tracks buckle under certain conditions, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know exact causes. My friend had it happen a couple times when he was an engineer. Fortunately, no derailment, but it's scary when it happens
@clarklindquist8137 yes it is, someday i will do a video on a heat buckle for ya 😊👍
Something is moving under the track. Trimble has GPS stations to monitor ground movement for potential land slides.
You are right duotronic we have an unstable condition under the
track. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure
out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave I am wearing my reflective vest and hard hat and gloves during your video tonight
Awesome Mike! Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
You would almost think there is an underground spring or something causing the sinking. Lucky that you all work together to notice things like that so that you can avoid a disaster. Excellent record keeping on your part!
Thank you Dave, I've got records for every curve I have back thru
18 years ago. You are right we have a water drainage problem here. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure
out what to do about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Who do you call for a dip in the track. Dave after hours. Your record keeping is top notch. The creek from when you first showed it and then after the rain you as incredible how it has risen. You keep the rails safe Dave. Nice job.
Thank you for the nice comment Beverly.. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Your crick looks a lot like "Mud Lake" back home in Michigan. 3 inches of rain overnight will do that.
We rarely get that much rain that quick, but it happened, now it's as
dray as can be this week Robert. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Nice work! Hopefully you can go home and kick back now!
Thank you for the nice comment C Nosprandt. Just another day
on the railroad.... :-) Always a new adventure. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Hi Dave & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Dave & Friends Randy
Thank you Randy. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
That was cool. Great job.
Thank you for the nice comment RFM. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
That log of work done and when is a great way to cover your back when things go south....
You are right about that Jon, that's why I started doing that record
keeping years ago. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Another good one. Thank you.
Thank you for the nice comment Jerry. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 I'm sure the Engineers with your working knowledge can figure it out. Thanks for the videos and keep em coming.
@@Jerry_SWMO 👍😊
Excellent job with the records. I'm not surprised that this curve close to the creek is problematic because of the adjacent steep slope. I applaud the company's vigilance to be aware. A clean-up on that slope would be huge.
Thank you for the nice comment Cecil. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Job well done!
Thank you for the nice comment Derrick. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Nice work Dave. They always keep you on your toes! Thank goodness for those machines as I'm guessing a problem like that would have been no easy fix in the old days. Keep those trains rolling 👍
In the old days Richard I would jack the track up by hand using a cross level measuring gauge and then tamp the ballast in with bars or if we
were lucky enough, air powered jitterbugs. This 6700 tamper sure
makes things much, much easier. Gotta keep those trains running
safely you are right. Thanks so much my friend for watching and
may you have a very good day.
This is what needs to happen everwhere. Unfortunately the bean counters are in charge and safety is too much of a cost....until it isnt. I dont compromise and my bosses hate dealing with it. On a side note, i sure could use 3 or 4 loads of that gravel on my driveway..😊
Good for you on not compromising Stevey. I don't like bean counters
either sitting behind a computer not having a clue what's going on
out in the real world. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
A never ending battle. It's always good to keep records on maintenance. Have a Great Day Dave.
Thank you for the nice comment Anthony. You are right, good records sure do make a difference. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Excellent track keeping records there. Such things help greatly with increasing track safety as you said, and both the company's area and yours are covered. Hope the flooded area drains soon! Flooding would not be helping things, that's for sure. Stay safe and well. Thanks for the work you do, for bringing us along and teaching us more about track safety!
Thank you for the nice comment Trena. You are right, good record keeping helps out a lot. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Boy, that sure was a lot of water flowing through there right at the end. Good job on the part of everyone involved with getting that little situation taken care of quickly. We all hope it holds steady for a good long time. Oh, by the way... that was a nice steady shot of the tines working doing their magic! I presuume a magnetically mounted GoPro used for that. 🤠👍
You are right Scotty, GoPro on magnet mount. This is a problem area
and will continue to be. It's in the hands of mine engineering department now, see what they can figure out. Appreciate your
checking out the video my friend.
Never a dull moment on the railroad. There must be soft fill in that hillside. Nice job fixing it Dave! I used to keep records on every piece of my equipment at work. I doubt the person that took my place is keeping up with that though.☹
Thank you Wilbur. Good for you, so many guys now never keep records. But you know it pays off in dividends in the end when you
do keep records. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Very interesting stuff enjoy your videos nice job
Thank you for the nice comment Daniel. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Add some cribbing on the side of curve 39-A using some old sleepers and old rail pounded down into the curvature in order help hold the ballast in place. You might also need to install a drain pie under the roadbed in order to carry the water away better from the opposite side. You could have a natural spring coming off the mountain/hill on the high side that is slowly undermining the roadbed. And even if you already have 1 drainpipe, consider using a "W" formation of 3 pipes that all lead to the lowest point on the opposite side of the roadbed. Thus even if 1 gets clogged, you would still have 2 more remaining in operation.
We have built retaining walls like you mention in the past in several
places Eric using old rail and old bridge timbers and they have worked
out very well for us in holding slips. You are right we also need drainage here. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Has you say my friend, Thats Rail Road in! Thanks
Your right about that Alan! Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Very interesting video Dave! The company should be extremely grateful for the detailed track maintenance records you keep. Shows the efforts you've gone to, to keep the rails straight and true.
Keep up the great work my friend!
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Appreciate the nice comment Jim, but I'm just doing my job here,
whether anyone appreciates it or not, although I'm the train
operators best friend here.... LOL Glad you enjoyed the show and
thanks so much for watching my friend.
Very good Dave!
Thank you for the nice comment 1208n Bug. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Nice quick reaction from the whole team Dave, the creek is sure running high and ground can only soak up so much. Hopefully no more drops and monitoring is all you can do. Cheers and take care
Thank you for the nice comment Pete. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Very interesting report, thanks. I appreciate you and all the folks with skills to keep our country's railroads running and safe.
Thank you for the nice comment I B. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Great video Dave and as always you are very informative on what’s going on with the railroad. They are very blessed to have you as an employee. Stay safe and have a blessed day Dave.
Happy Rails
Thank you for the kind words Donnie, just doing my job here and am
lucky I can still do it. Really appreciate your stopping by and checking
out tonight's episode. May you have a very good day my friend.
Well I don’t know about that falling out thing big boy, that’s what we call passing out down SOUTH. Anyway, busy is as busy do. When it comes to railroading you be the 👷♂️⚒️😬
Well this section of track passed out then Teddy....:-) Thank you for the kind words and we really appreciate your watching. May you have a very good day my friend.
Great job Dave, that was a pretty big dip! Luckily you caught it before anything bad happened! 😊
Thank you Mojo. We got water problems here that can't get away from under the track. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what to do about it since they won't listen to me
about how to fix it. So I just keep on tamping the darn thing up. :-) Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Yes...the hill is moving...and yes water is involved....there may be an active spring below the surface.....
You are right Dave, I've often wondered if there was a spring under
there or perhaps an artesian well. It's in the hands of mine engineering
department now, see what they can come up with. Really appreciate
your sharing your thoughts and for watching. May you have a very
good day my friend.
Great job Dave ! That could have been a real mess .
Thank you for the nice comment Scott. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
That's a pretty good dip what caused that ... Thanks for sharing Dave
You are right David, I think there's water under the track from perhaps a spring. It's in the hands of mine engineering department now, see
what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
As always Dave. Thanks!! Hope the fix holds. Take care my friend.
Your welcome Fred. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thank you again Dave.
Your always welcome Bill. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch the video my friend and may you have a very good day.
That side even looks unstable how that track stays there is a miracle only a dam good tamper driver can sort it out Dave you’re the man .excellent vid thanks .
Thank you for the nice comment Lawrie. Just got to keep tamping it back up when it falls, oh well, that's railroading. Really appreciate
your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
That bank looks very steep😮
It certainly is John, I wouldn't want to climb it. Need a billy goat,
he would love that hill..... :-) Thanks so much for watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Wow Dave underground sink hole not good . Hopefully the problem is fixed 👍🏻😎That’s RailRoading 😂
You are right about that Robin. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department now to see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Looks good after completion. Great video once again Dave and have a wonderful upcoming week. Steve
Thank you Steve. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 you're welcome and hopefully that will happen soon.
Those lights at 5:40 freaked me out for a sec...Look out!, train comin in hot!! 😂
Good thing I knew he was there and he knew I was there! That's the
worse feeling in the world to be on track and see lights coming at
you. Thank you for taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Love your channel! I watch it every night, keep up the awesome work! Blessings to you and your family😊
Thank you for the nice comment and glad you are enjoying the home movies James. Really appreciate your taking the time to watch them and may you have a very good day my friend.
Great job Dave. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the nice comment Richard. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave
I really enjoy all your episodes and knowledge you share. Thanks for all you do for the community.
Appreciate the nice comment Edward and glad you are enjoying the home movies. Thank you very much for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Another fine day on the railroad. A job well done. Good video as always. Have a good day
Thank you for the nice comment Wondering Lens. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Soft spots are a nuisance Dave, thanks for another great video
Oh for sure you are right on that Ian. I got a lot of them, mostly because of mud, but no mud at all in this place. We got problems
somewhere down under the track, hopefully mine engineering
department can get it figured out. Thanks so much for stopping by and may you have a very good day my friend.
Good catch by the engineer looks like a wash but I knew they had the right man for the job Dave ground locating radar to find ungrounded utilities great job great video thanks Dave
Thank you for the nice comment Gary. Just doing my job here, all in a days work.... :-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Good thing they have a good troubleshooter like you!!!
Thank you for the nice comment. Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day.
That was one heck of a dip.. but super Dave was on it.. crazy how far you guys moved the track up the slip.. can't believe how much rain you git in that short amount of time. Good stuff Dave
That rain was a rarity for sure here Pappy. Super Dave, did they hire
someone new here? :-) Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
@@ccrx6700 🤣🤣 gonna have to get you a shirt with an S on it.. 🤣🤣
FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC video my good and dear friend, it really is fantastic 🤩🤩🤩🤩. Like 👍!!!!!!
Thank you for the very nice comment and for checking out the video Leito. May you have a very good day and hope you are doing well my friend.
Okay, I’ve watched and liked about 10 of your videos. Subscribed. You win. 😂👍👍
Great to hear you are enjoying the home movies Roger. We do appreciate your subbing and hope you will continue to have a good
time with us. We welcome you to our community here my new friend.
Thanks for bringing us along Dave
No problem Tom, my pleasure to bring the railroad to you.... :-) Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Hi Dave, really respect , you and your service, with the railroad! My father, liked trains! I miss my dad, he passed away, last july! Were you friends, with , Hobo shoestring? Im sure you get, that question, alot! Sad, what happened, to him!
Very sad ending for Hobo Shoestring . Life can at times be very unfair and makes no sense . I am also sorry for your loss .
Thank you for the nice comment Christopher. I'm sorry to hear
about your dad, mine passed 8 years ago and I know how you
feel. I knew who Mr. Shoestring but that is about it. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Awesome video have a great week
Thank you for the nice comment James. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
The woods of New England hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for another excellent show.
Your very welcome Noah. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Dave, Looks like Mother Nature is not cooperating with track safety. Regular track inspections and documentation is a must. Good thing your company makes safety a top priority...
Thank you for the nice comment Steve. You are right, glad they
care about our safety. Makes a world of difference. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thanks Dave! Just Mother Nature at work, you can't beat her, only fight to a draw most times. Hills don't wanna be hills. Looking at the previous roadbed and your log notations, it seems to move erratically, fits & starts, so rest easy cause you know next week, month or 2 years, it'll be at it again. Also, if those previous drains were working at all, there might still be a little washout/gully/ravine down the slope to help find them, though it'll be tough with summer's weeds.
Your welcome Al and you are right, it will be at it again. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Thanks for another great, informative vid, Dave. Thanks for taking us along on your job, and sharing what you do, for an obviously great company. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep tuning in.
Thank you for the nice comment Kenneth, glad you enjoyed this one. Your putting pressure on me now, if I don't keep up the good work then your not going to watch anymore, so now I have to perform.... :-) Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch my friend.
it is so crazy how things shift and settle based upon the hydraulic water saturation! in the area.
just like an earthquake effect, solid looking land can shift like quick sand! great job getting
it fixed to resume train traffic running moving the coal to the barge's and keep the money
coming in to keep it all rolling and running smooth!
You are so right in that Barry. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Wow, good luck with that area Dave, lots of flooding! Crazy rain this year here too!
Spring was so wet you couldn't stand it then now it hasn't rained
for several months here Dave. .Thanks so much for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
I wish I can work with you man. I love the work you do. Respect 🫡 for you boss. 🙌🏻🙏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Appreciate the nice comment Bebe. Thanks so much for taking the time to check out the video and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave the slope is too steep the train going across that area is giggling the slope of the ballast . You have a ballast landslide. You need an engineered retaining wall after careful slope soil sampling with drills. Then a deep piling retaining wall with shoring between the piles.
You could have water softening the undersoil.
Exactly what I am thinking.
Where I am from this is called a landslide., no matter the reason, or the speed of slippage. Big job, but better than chasing it away from the river down below, or disaster.
Dave, Wayne put my initial thoughts into a concise technical response! Is the integrity of the entire hillside a concern? You mentioned a 3” rain event, this is very concerning.
Wayne, the question is how deep the the weakened soil? I understand they can do some amazing things with screw piles these days.
Speaking of which, my department is spoiled with our compressor stations, That station is in a swamp! ….I have heard of some compressor packages being supported on screw piles versus the massive foundation blocks we have on our sights. This station near Dave’s tracks may be one of those cases! Dave thanks again and Wayne for the insight!
You are right Wayne, we've built retaining walls in the past in some
places out of old rail and old bridge timbers and they have worked
very well at holding the slopes. I think we got water problems too.
Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Great work, Dave
Thank you for the nice comment David. We are very fortunate
this company allows me to make these videos. We all benefit. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Thank you for sharing!
Your welcome Daniel. Definitely there is a problem somewhere down there, it's in the hands of the mine engineering department see what they can come up with. We really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Fascinating!
Thank you for the nice comment John, glad you enjoyed. We are very fortunate this company allows me to make these videos. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
A derailment at that location could have been a disaster. Can you imagine a "coal spill" in that creek? ... I can hear the "EPA" all the way over here on Guam. Your company is fortunate to have you in charge of "TRACK"‼
Thank you for the nice comment Captain Tom, a coal spill in that
creek would be awful, you are right. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can
correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Sounds like the hill side is still sliding off.
Civil Engineers call it "Heel/Toe" slippage.
Your right about that JZ. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Great video Mr dave keep up the good work hope holding up ok in this heatwave 😊
Thank you for the nice comment Paul. Drinking lots of fluids and eating juicy fruits to stay hydrated. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Wow - that was a big drop, good quick repair. Looking at the slope from the cab of the tamper, pretty clear to see that the hill is sliding down towards the river. I think you will be needing some pretty major civil engineering works in the near future to stabilise that bank.
You are right Glenn we have some problems here. It's in the hands of
the mine engineering department, see what they can come up with.
Since we have our own engineering department they won't bring in
an outside engineer. So I'll keep on tamping this up every time it drops again. Thank you for visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Wow love watching the video , keep up the good work stay safe
Thank you for the nice comment David. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Keep up good work. Thanks for what your company n crew are doing. Help keep country going. Be safe on the rail line.
Back where track keeps giving out. Looks like gonna have to chk the pipes. Looking at grade of hill it's moving see way trees are moving . Might have to die down n shore up that hill with some big rock at bottom fill up to top tamp it down solid
Thank you for the nice comment Murray. Hopefully the mine engineering department can figure out what is causing this and then we can correct the problem. Appreciate very much your taking the
time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
Excellent presentation. Thank you. Does the tamper pull the track back up so that rock gets under the low spot?
Thank you Mark and yes the tamper lifts the track up, then shoves
ballast under the ties. Really appreciate your watching and may you have a very good day my friend.
Keep up the good work Dave from hog wallow Kentucky
Thank you for the nice comment Michael, glad you enjoyed. We are very fortunate this company allows me to make these videos. Really appreciate your taking the time to visit with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Dave... just had an idea... very liquid concrete slurry.. pour it in batches to allow it to soak into the Ballast on the downhill side of the sleepers so it does not run off the end of the ballast into the creek.. as soon as it drops into the ballast.. pour another layer... hopefully you will solidify the ballast deep and turn it into a solid mass.. you may have to do hopefully 4 or 5 batches. with the last one not quite as fluid... because its a concrete slurry with very fine sand it will not be as strong as full cement..
you may want to put up 2 sheets of plywood next to your ballast pile.. one horizontal and one vertical.. duplicate the slope angle with some ballast.. it will take less than 2 yards of ballast.. pour slurry from the top.. let it cure a few days.. flip it over with your front loader to see how it glued it all together. you might do several pours along the 8 foot length of plywood with various amounts of water added to the mix.. to see if you can find out which pours thru the ballast and gets deep..
alternative.. do like you showed and move the track farther away from the edge... does anybody rent a High rail low boy trailer so you could get a drilling rig to allow you to bore holes for Soldier beam or just drop in rebar tubes and fill with concrete.. so you have a deep foundation.. the MTA in los angeles had to do that on soft spots along san fernando road in burbank ca and also for the Alemeda Corridor south of Anaheim street in Long beach.. i think Malcom drilling was involved.. www.malcolmdrilling.com/locations/#modalMidAtlantic. chances that the sliding slope will fail and take out most of your rolling stock is HUGE..
your company may want to invest in a cheap depressed center flat car. to load cement mixers or drill rigs on. to get them to the corner. or as a work platform for bag mixers and water drums..
Thank you for sharing that very detailed comment Wayne. There are
RR's out there that have had very good success with what you are
saying using a grout that is injected down into the ballast. Actually
I suggested them many years ago to get a RR engineer in here and
explore that option. They had a company at the time who was doing
similar grout work under ground holding up the roof of the mine. That
contractor was the one who told me about a RR they did somewhere in
New England, I forget which RR, it's been too long ago.
At the time I also suggested them core drilling right in the center of the
track to find out how deep the water problem is, that idea was shot
down by our mine engineering department.... sigh. I was told back then to keep on tamping, adding ballast is cheaper than fixing the problem..... sigh Of course back then we didn't have any money
after our last company filed bankruptcy. So now it's back
in the hands of the engineering department, they are monitoring the
situation. At least now we have a company that is willing to spend money on track safety so that is very good. Appreciate very much your taking the time to watch and may you have a really good day my friend.
It's a Florida sinkhole! They're migrating north.
Oh dear, I didn't think their migrating season was here yet Jim..... :-)
We in deep doo doo now.... Really appreciate your visiting with us and may you have a very good day my friend.
Awsome job my friend I Just find you’re channel keep going , greetings from Florida 💪🏻💪🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Glad to have you with us Bob and welcome. Appreciate the nice comment and for taking the time to visit with us. May you have a very
good day my new friend from Florida.
Another dilemma for Sir Toppemhat. Thanks Dave.
Don't worry William, he will get to the bottom of this.... :-)
Thanks so much for watching and may you have a very good day my friend.