Huge Tank Train With New Rebuilt DPU, DPU Chase, Molten Metal Railroad Cars, Russell Kentucky CSX RR
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Long tank car train with DPU shoving on the rear. Molten metal railroad cars and flange greasers. Ancient Chesapeake And Ohio Railway signal still in use. This train stuff is in Russell, Kentucky. The huge tank car train has a spotless newly painted and rebuilt Distributed Power Unit shoving on the rear. I chased the DPU and filmed it pushing the train again at AK Steel in Russell, Kentucky. That's where the molten metal cars are sitting and where the old C&O signal is still in use. AK Steal shut this plant down and its going to be torn down. Also check out the old train station in Russell, the yard tower, the caboose and the blue water. There is all kinds of cool train stuff here and today the railroad is owned by CSX. Norfolk Southern is on the other side of the Ohio River. Hobo Shoestring and I were here in Russell a few months ago. What do you think about the rebuilt DPU on the rear of the tank car train? Leave a comment below. This video was filmed October 6, 2021. Please thumbs up and watch another JawTooth video to help my channel. The views and the ads help keep me on the road.
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In the early 60's growing up in Hamilton, Ohio I once made a nighttime ride with my Dad to the Armco coke ovens and blast furnaces along Augsburger Road. Dad wanted to photograph the glowing fall of hot coke being dumped from the ovens which was a spectacular sight at night. While Dad set up his camera and tripod we were treated to the passing of those "torpedo" cars full of molten iron from the blast furnaces. The train carried the molten iron up along the Great Miami to nearby Middletown and Armco Steel's rolling mills. I still remember feeling the heat radiating from those cars that would tilt to dump the molten iron! Thanks Jawtooth for a trip down memory lane!
Blue Water. The old country rock group POCO has a song named Blue Water. Great video Jawtooth.
When I worked at U S STEEL we called the pollack cars torpedo cars. I powered some up on night shift when they had a bad pour of iron. We dumped them in no3 slag pit. I was running a GE 44 ton center cab switcher. What's on top is part of the lining so the molten iron will not melt through the steel torpedo. When these dump it's very hot even in the winter. Can't get within 100 feet if it splashes the molten iron will burn through almost anything. Spectular explosions in the winter when the molten iron covers ice. It vaporizes the ice into steam and explodes. I have 3 of these cars on my model railroad and a treadwell cinder dump car that transported molten slag. Another cool video 👍!
Yeah water and molten metal is a really bad combo
What US Steel Plant? After Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown, I work at Johnstown Corp, which was the former Johnstown Plant of US Steel. It was a foundry with rolling mill rolls being about 90% of our business. Both are gone now. I retired from a plant that made wind turbine blades. It's gone too.
@@kevinshiley9061 I use to haul steel wire out of Johnstown back to Newtown OH. for Senco fasteners. It was a nice 2 day run.
@@jerrykinnin7941 the wire plant is still in business, no longer Bethlehem Steel because they went belly up. That would be a nice route though!
@@kevinshiley9061 wasn't bad. I was a float driver for CPC they handle private fleet trucks. Was a great gig till the Tusnami in Japan. My top 3 clients were japanese. Laid off. Now I'm home every night running intermodal out of the 3 railhead in Cincinnati. It's fun.
See this is why I back my truck up and have a camping chair in the bed. Perfect for trainspotting locations like this.
It is great seeing how well Norfie is doing - again TY4 providing her a good home.
It's great seeing how kitty and your sweet doggie get along. Thanks for caring about an unfortunate stray kitty. Please get Norfie some nutritious catfood...bologna and other prepared meats contain harmful chemicals...she needs an approved cat food that provides complete nutrition.
Your never disappointed, thanks JT....you made my day |
And u chased that Brand new DPU to boot.......What a great day it is for sure!
I enjoy the train videos of Jawtooth best. Thanks for many hours of relaxing videos.
I had one of those C&O signal towers across from where I grew up. It was on that same mainline in your video, where it crosses through Charleston, WV. Those signals all were replaced with the new type. Good memories playing on the tracks picking blackberries right off the bushes along the tracks. Kids today can't even imagine how we were adventurous and free. Great black cat 🐈 action at the end.
MRS Railroad in Brazil is painting their rebuilds yellow instead of blue. It's a nice look and makes it easy to pick out the rebuilds. It also instills national pride as Brazilians know the work was local. That is something we have had stolen from us in North America.
Love the DPU. Factory fresh. Or fresh from the paint shop. Nice! Never saw a cat eat bologna before. Chessie wants some! If you get another pet, be it a cat or dog, may I suggest the name “Nessie” for NS.
That CSX tank car train did a slow move through Russell, Kentucky. You showed us the molten steel cars from the now closed steel plant. You asked us to comment if we have ever seen this type of car in action. Thomas M. Leahy mentioned the molten steel train that travels between the Acelor Mittal steel plant in Riverdale, Illinois to another steel plant owned by Acelor Mittal in either East Chicago, Indiana or the Burns Harbor, Indiana area. As far as I know Norfolk Southern still runs this train as needed between the two Acelor Mittal steel plants. It has been a couple of years since I have seen this train so there is a possibility that the train may have been discontinued. There are also videos of molten steel cars in use at steel plants in Northwest Indiana. These in-plant trains are powered by remote controlled switch engines. Thank you for documenting the tank car train, the area around the Russell, Kentucky depot, the old Chesepeake & Ohio signals, and the abandoned molten steel cars.
Jaw Tooth, TANKS for the video of the tanker cars (Lots of Denature Alcohol) . That was as long as that early morning, Virginia, street runner. Saw those Molten metal cars in action on the south side of Chicago back in the day or should I say night. They were pulling them across the road. Did not think much about it back then, but it was a bright glow and every so often, it would spew out, what I would call LAVA burst. I believe there was folks walking with them taking care of any fire stuff (Rolling slowly).
Excellent video Jaw Tooth. I really enjoyed watching the slow tanker train and the beautiful CSX 7238 DPU. Looking forward to your next video as always....
Thank you very much!
Another great video JT, thanks. Norfie will grow up to be a real handsome cat.
Chris 🏴
Cool C&O caboose on that siding !!!!😀😀😀🚂🚂🚂🚂🍺🍺🍺🍺
Awesome video...Watching the tanks roll by is like meditation👍👍🐕🦺🐈😎 love the animals!
Great report!! Thank you very much Mr. Jaw Tooth!! 😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
1st train, an ethanol train with a brand new unit at the rear. Nice, never been on one of those. That tower bldg is probably not used anymore but looks good.
Yes, those are bottle cars. I've seen trains of 2 cars from Indiana steel mills being brought to a roll steel plant in Riverdale Illinois, near the east end of the B&OCT yard at night, spooky glow coming out the top of the cars.
Those new units have AC power instead of what used to be used, DC power. The 3 shiney squares up top behind the cab are probably for the dynamic braking bjsystem. The traction motors switch from using power to drive the train to producing power, which heat (what used to be cal rods, now probuses up huge amountsably a new and better version, with probably a new name) units behind those grates, which also have fans to cool them off. This production of heat uses huge amounts of power, which produces a huge amount of drag @ the traction motors, which are used for braking which is variable by use of the throttle handle. I'd like to ride on one of those new units, the old ones were pretty smooth riders. There weren't many old style signals left in the Chicago area after all the modernizations in the 1990s-2000s. There used to be quite a few weird signals still used in the 70s, early 80s, but they were disappearing after that. I think the most complex signal system I had seen were on the CNRR, with over 30 different types of variations around plants that cross foreign lines.
Jaw Tooth, thank you for your interesting videos which include trackside gems like flange greasers, retired equipment, cabooses, bldgs, old signals,etc. What was that huge bridge in the background? It sounds like the area is a mecca of rail activity.
First, they are not brand new units. They are ex CSX AC4400CW ex #200 series rebuilt units with new cabs, fully overhauled and refurbished engine, radiators are improved, instead of GTO thyristor inverters new IGBT ones , ballasted to 432000lbs. Yes, those are 3 vents behind the cab for dynamic brakes. Inside the cab you have throttle notch 1-8 + additional one dynamic brakes 1-8. Engine in question was built in 1997. Never been DC traction. That's the case with NS rebuilt units AC44C6M ex Dash-9s #4000 series. 🙋💛💙⚡💪
I’ve seen bottle cars in an old movie about the steel mills in Pittsburgh. I’ll try to find it. Norfie remembers being hungry, that’s for sure. 😸
beautiful Locomotive CSX 7238 ... and your adorable pets
Woo Hoo D P U!
Don't you drink the water that's blue!
I'm sure he's lovin' this up in Dunkirk, NY.
Are used to work around those bottle cars on Zug Island part of US steel just outside of Detroit. Was always interesting when the engineer was not careful when they were filled for pig iron. They would stop quickly and the iron come spurting out like a volcano.
That was definitely a HUGE tank train! That DPU looked like one of those new CM44AC's. Nice catch as always JT and of course any train will do!
It was a GE CM44AC.
I have to say it's 96 tank cars and such a trains have up to 108 tankers and +2 buffer cars and no DPU. I've seen 98+2, 100+2 and 108+2 as most usual. 🙋💛💙⚡
That DPU is like a new pair of shoes that you don’t want to get dirty
Thumbs up, JT for the blue fountain and for catching the tanker train coming down the weed track. I was wishing you would do the before and after track shine. That would have been cool!!
Man, the fuel tank on that DPU is so shiny it's like a mirror.
Nothing like a shinny engine. What a beauty.
Nice little mini park celebrating the railroad.
Safe travels and take care.
Thanks 👍
With over 48 years of railroading, I believe those are the first molten steel cars I have seen or even heard of. And I live in the shadows of a recently closed steel mill. When I read your title I wondered what a, “Molten Steel Car,” would look like.
We had, “Molten Sulphur Cars,” but they looked like regular tank cars. My understanding was that they were loaded with molten sulphur that would harden while in transit. To unload it at the destination it was reheated to the molten state.
These molten steel cars look like they may be kept in the molten state during transit. I wonder how far they could be moved? Great catch JT. I believe just spotting those cars was worth the trip. I’m going to do some research on them.
Wow one long train I always notice they usually put a random freight car between the deisel and tank cars cool Thank You!!!
A train that long will shine the heck out of those rails.
Any train will do your AMAZING jawtooth keep up the amazing job sir hope you have an awesome day
Thank you very much!
@@JawTooth your welcome
Very good video. Nice horn salute. Beautiful CSX loco and tribute to WWT.
Great video
I can remember those old blue Chesapeake and Ohio
Caboose's
From my younger days
Those old hot metal cars were used to transport molten iron from the blast furnaces to the open hearth furnaces. After the open hearth furnaces were charged with scrap, the molten iron was added and the melting and refining/alloying process would begin. I work in Bethlehem Steel, in the open hearth, in the 70s. It was hard, extremely hot work, but at the same time very interesting. We called those cars subs. They rotate to pour the iron in to a ladle.
More power to you I couldn’t do it especially in the summer !
How did they prevent the molten metal from cooling off and building up in the cars? How long would it remain liquid in those transport cars?
When I was stationed in Indiana, they used to transport molten sulfur by truck. One truck collided with a car, dumping its load. The car never stood a chance.
@@robertheinkel6225 the car are isolated and lined with fire brick. The iron was cast into the sub at 2000 give or take, so it stayed molten for hours.
@@robertheinkel6225 they've been hauling molten aluminum from plant to plant in a truck thru Owensboro KY. All my life. It goes to Alcoa in Yankeetown IN.
I lived in Bethlehem, PA for a few years when I was a kid. My Dad would take me to watch them dump slag from the steel Mills. It looked like lava flowing down the hill! Lots of fun to see.
Cool. Lots of new tank cars that haven’t been tagged with spray paint.
Yet.
True that!
Thank god that’s disgusting !
Ernest Passaro
Indeed. Always thought that graffiti was nothing more than visual vomit.
@@johngullo9420 I agree totally
I agree too. It makes things so shabby to have have graffiti tags all over them. The only work I like by such "artists" is when they do proper, beautifully colored murals they get paid to do, otherwise their work is visual pollution.
That CSX tank car train was one hell of a long train.
Thanks for the tour and the info. Great video JT👌👌
Am I the only one that finds it satisfying when I train goes over old tracks like that?
Wow that DPU looks brand sparkly new. Like it was on it’s first run. Nice video of the Hot Metal Cars. And looks like you are taking great care of Norfie. So nice of you.
Thanks Tooth; another enjoyable video. And the black cat is growing fast
Don't get down that way often, but we went over that bridge in the background on the way to our son's wedding in SC two years ago. Small world 😁
Awesome! I went over that bridge with Shoestring a few months ago
Another enjoyable video. Norfie is cute. Thanks
Man that DPU looked sharp, has to be brand new.
Those molten cars are neat, I have seen a few in use but only right here on You Tube.
Great video as always.... "But wait there's more" YAY !! 👍 👍
I've seen bottle cars before at the mills in Cleveland, OH. If you go to the Five Guys at Steelyard Commons at the right time, you can sit facing out across the parking lot and the main/yard tracks and see rail action at the mill. I've seen them moving bottle cars in the middle of winter, you can tell they're hot!
If we were able to get him in the mill, I can show him a whole lot of rail action down there.
@@smokeinapeterbilt Yeah, and even if you don't catch anything sitting there there's some older preserved mill cars at that part of Steelyard, close to the roundabout/freeway exit
@@kenshin891 Right
I used to haul steel out of there when it was l.t.v. long time ago.where are the old rail cars at .near the walmart and home depot down there?
That s Jennings road I think
That ethanol (DOT Placard 1987) tanker train was awesome, specially with that beautiful DPU. Always find molten metal cars fascinating.
Cool dwarf signal there. I'm a big signal fan. G Bodies, Vaders, searchlights, CPLs. Anything. Great video Brian m
If I counted right, 95 tank cars and 2 boxcar buffers! Cool DPU!!
They're actually airslide covered hoppers -- you can see the discharge gates on the undersides.
Love that new DPU , great video as always !!!
One of the bottle cars is labelled "Amanda Furnace". That was part of the Armco steel mill in Ashland, KY. The furnace was taken out of operation in late 2015 and the whole plant closed in 2019.
I used to go by the steel plant if it’s the one that sits off of I-64 back when I was driving for freight line. I knew back then that plant shut down but restarted later. Hate to hear it’s closed down again. More jobs probably gone to China 🇨🇳. I think that was a electric furnace (s) that I read in paper at that time I ran over there. Used to see the gondola cars loaded with scrap waiting to get into plant sitting on spur line servicing plant. Damn shame it’s gone.
Head up to Excello Ohio... Between Trenton and Middletown. A lot of switching of molten metal trains that cross Oxford State road.
Jaw tooth and that's cool train video ❤ 😊
DPU’s👍, like the details, solar pwr greasers & the old C&O signals, keep the vids comin son!!😁👋🛤🚂
I go through Russell KY on the Cardinal but never knew they had a turntable etc. But we always go through in the dark. Good stuff
I drove by the turntable but I didn't film it
@@JawTooth Beautiful bridge there in the background we could not quite see, very interesting episode, thanks!
Nice DPU indeed! I like the caboose too 😊 I have seen those molten metal cars in PA before. Very cool!
Nice looking ethanol.train going by those 1950s modern yard buildings. Sadly in my pre travel days C&O had those EMD bed switchers sets plus the SD18 with Alco trucks. IHB had a hot metal run every 8.hours on the South side of Chicago. Really great to watch in rain .or snow! Sadly we are down to one signal in Milwaukee like the one you showed
Excellent video!! Looking nice huge tanker train!
Neat train and neat that you were close to the stateline!!!
thanks for the amazing video,greetings to the familie en Shoestring. greetz:Peer.
My favorite car is a caboose last car love the train horn all good here dup wild world of trains
Great video Jawtooth! Cool seeing the flange greasers! I just noticed the cool shot of that old signal with the modern bridge in the background! Thanks for sharing!
Wow what a great find. Your video is great as always. Keep them coming son. ❤️
More to come!
@@JawTooth looking forward to seeing them!!!
You are a blessing to us!
The hot metal cars are called subs or laydols. There for hauling hot molten metal iron from a blast furnace to a basic oxygen furnace in making steel production.
Stay safe out there.
Love the variety of videos, from Iowa to Kentucky to Ohio, you never know what’s coming in the next video! keep up the good work!
I can see old signal yet exist . Thank you .
A molten steel truck. I had never heard of one. that was really interesting. Kitten are fussy little things 😂
Thanks for watching!
Those molten metal cars may be cool now, but when they were in use they were HOT!
Hey Jawtooth -- Love your train videos. I am not sure if you have ever seen a track crew at work, but those guys are pretty amazing. I live right near the tracks for Buckingham Branch Railroad (a short line whose tracks are used every day by CSX). They were replacing the wooden ties UNDERNEATH the tracks today. The equipment and team work was pretty interesting to see.
They pretty much knock them out from one side to the other and they have a device that forces the new tie into place. Not sure how they "spike" them down, but it must be one hell of an effort to do several miles of track! It is obvious that no trains can come through while they are doing that. You would have loved to have made a video of those guys!
7238 looks brand new Jawtooth -not a rebuild -no old dents showing-just painted over ?? That was a good catch -some tanker train too !! The old furnace cats are another good catch -plenty of details to see . Another Jawtooth classic video !
Regards
According to CSX power roster, it's a rebuild.
@@davidbarnett9312 thanks for the info -first guess was new !
Vary nice catch, keep up the great videos. 😀😀😀
Cool train video.
Thank you very much!
Cool kitty. I've got a couple 9 week old ones hanging around my house that I feed one looks just like your bologna eater. Lol 😂
That was a very nice DPU. I believe I heard my name too..
The DPU makes sense with more than a hundred tank cars!
Made by WB Pollock in Youngstown, OH. When I worked on the Erie Lackawann / Conrail, they us to run 6-8 hot metal runs from Republic Steel - Center Street to Warren, OH, Hubbard, OH and Sharpsville, PA. 95% of hot metal trains ran to Republic Steel - Warren, OH. They were referred to as either Bottle cars or Torpedo cars, depended on the crew.
Wow is right! Beautiful 😍
Very cool. Lots of those tank cars looked new. The sd70ace if that's what it was looked new. I like those locos
. They're really nice and I like that CSX logo. Funny I said to myself I wish.he would go over to the station house. Guess you read my mind. Lots of good stuff.
Thx4 panning so we can read the haz placards - lots of ethanol! Blessings.
Hate to have been at a crossing waiting for this train. It seemed like it would never end. LOL (ended at 8:00 minutes, wow!)
Wow JT, you sure caused a stir with that one!! It was a great video on its own, but reading the responses and memories is equally interesting. Thanks for sharing. 😀😀😀😀😀
I LOVE TRAINS, AND I AM ALSO A CAT LOVER................AND I DO LOVE THAT BLACK CAT NORFIE.........HE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL............YOUR VIDS ARE REALLY GOOD BUT DON'T LEAVE OUT THE UPDATES ON NORFIE AND HIS 3 FRIENDS.............
Thank you ….great stuff….nothing like American diesels and their freight…
That’s seriously cool, there son!
Awesome tanker live action!
Almost taste the paint on that DPU!!
Excellent 😊
Thanks 😊
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That was a lot of liquid corn. Going to keep someone warn on chilly nights. 😋
Cool, clear, blue water
Ive also seen those exact cars in use and the AK train carrying the liquid metal when I would go through AK.
At 11:20, Now that is how to start a train from a stop!!! If the DPU had been an occupied caboose, the conductor and / or the rear brakeman would have to be watching the ground to know they started moving.
Really great video. Lots of interesting things.
Thanks Jt great trains again. Chris from England
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow that's awesome Jaw Tooth watching now and enjoying your video too sweet 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🚂🚂😄👌❤️ awesome
Thank you 🤗
We rode C&O in '63 from Detroit to Cincinnati (Then L&N from Cinci to Corbin, KY)
A clean CSX locomotive!
That is a nice rebuilt loco. I wish they could keep all the locomotives shinny like that.
Nice close up of the first train
Great video. Sure lots of train traffic around there. Love Chessie & Norfie. I remember seeing a video some time back of a train that shuttled the hot metal cars between buildings, which I guess were the foundry and the mill. It was on RUclips but can't remember whose it was. Sorry.
Cool, thanks! Years ago I got to see that in person at a couple of places. I saw it at Middletown Ohio with loads of melted steel and in south eastern Ohio at a closed mill
Great video Jawtooth loved the live action trains and the dpu that dpu was newly rebuilt looks like it got a paint job
'Bottle Cars' are still in daily use at the Cleveland Cliffs (Acelor Mittal ) Steel plant in Cleveland Ohio. Loaded on the East side of the river then moved to the West side to various operations. Best place to watch would be on Independence Rd. on the East side. Block house for the Power Units is just before the river crossing. Maintenance Shop is just pass the river crossing.
That was a beautiful locomotive