HOW RAILROADS WORK Ep. 1: Freight Yards
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Railroad freight yards are places to make up and break up trains and can be a beehive of activity. Norfolk Southern's Taylor Yard serves itself and 3 other railroads:
Luzerne & Susquehanna
Delaware Lackawanna
Reading & Northern
It's also the intermodal hub for Northeast Pa. and many parts of upstate and central NY.... It's also our starting point in our journey to understanding exactly how railroads work....
TRAINS SHOWN IN THIS VIDEO:
1. NS K81/K82
2. NS 11Z
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Thought I'd stop by for a revisit. Back in the day, I hired on with the SP. After two weeks of OJT, another newbie and I were assigned as part of a road crew to work in Englewood Yard in Houston for three months. Some kind of deal had been worked out by SP and the union that required the road crew off the Houston & Texas Central [SP]. That was an experience. We, the newbies, worked with an old head engineer and conductor. Our job was to walk the 'completed' track and couple cars and then pull them out and spot them elsewhere. After completing said task one night, I gave the engineer the sign with my lantern, climbed the ladder and sat on the edge of a gondola with one leg on the ladder and the other inside with no support. Stupid I know. Now the tracks were supposed to be collared for our safety, yet another car rolls in while we are pulling out and slams into the gondola. That's when my back issues began, but we won't go into that.
The switches in the yard had to have been installed in the 19th century because it took a PHD in switches to make sure you had them aligned correctly.
The funniest event I witnessed, if you want to call it funny, was an autopak car, which in those days was wide open, come off the hump and slam into a line of cars. New Pontiac Firebirds went everywhere. I'm sure all responsible got fired, or at least I would think so.
I'm speechless.
Funny you mention you need a PHD to throw switches. I wonder if the "switch" practices from the SP transferred to the UP during the merger. Iv'e put hard to throw switch issues several times into the safety hotline and one month later still the same switches did not get oiled. Often when i bring trains to foreign RR yards i joke with the crews there and say, "Your switches throw so easily, were going to steal your switches and put them in our rail yard".
BossSpringsteen69 .
David Barnett ....thanks for the stories.....very interesting
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The founding fathers set forth in writing the concept of "private property," and indeed made it sacred, and an important part of our Constitution. It forbade the government from entering or seizing a man's property without due process. But the individual was constrained by his or her own conscience, It worked back then because they were better people than those of this generation. When you enter "private property" with the intent to damage, destroy, or desecrate, you are breaking the Law, yes...but the long-term effects are very destructive to this nation.
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Great video.
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would give a thumbs down.
Not just to this but lots of other videos.
If it's not to your liking, simply stop watching it.
Amen to that, brother.. That's EXACTLY how I feel.. And thank you for the kind words. :-)
I can think of people giving thumbs down to some political or music videos when they don't like the videos fro some reason.
Very interesting and informative! And I would like to hear about the locomotive fire on train 37T!
Where was the part explaining (part of) how railroads work? This was interesting, but it seemed like more of a railfan-oriented random collection of activity than an explanation of railroads or how yards fit in.
That track crew was frightening. No lookout, no PPE, shorts, no shirts, no hard hats. Accident waiting to happen. They were definitely not NS people.
Don't let OSHA see that.
They were probably taught to be totally aware of there surroundings just like in the old days. Also might have had the line switched to direct any traffic away from the working area. Old school thinking ahead. Nice lowboy.
Nice but it would've been 1000 times better if it were narrated.
Does not explain a thing about how railroads work.
If you watch the whole video series, you can piece together how freight can travel anywhere. From huge freight yards, to little sidings.
Sorry. I stayed for 18 minutes, but this video is really shy on information about how a yard, this yard in particular, is operated. Where is the information about the day crew taking over the engine set and doing a safety walk around. What is the logic involved in deciding which cars are put on which track? Why would a crew cut off the first three cars of the string of cars on their train to set them over, and then recouple to then, presumably, set the remaining cars on another track. I had high hopes for this video, but am leaving feeling very let down by a lack of useful content.
Agreed
Wow a video of with nothing to do with how a rail yard works 🤡
I am mildly impressed that the graffiti artists don't paint over any of the freight car lettering (tonnage, etc)
They do, just not all of the time.
Most graff writers tend to go around the numbers just as a courtesy to the workers so they can still read them and also so they’re stuff won’t get buffed
They probably can reach so high
I'm having difficulty associating the defacing of private property with artistry.
@@scottsmith7051 you’re really telling me you don’t see beautiful colors and words often with cool designs and characters and styles as artistic? That’s sad man, you gotta look at it with more of an open mind!
That yard is in desperate need of some track maintenance... Looks like they're riding a sine wave
Well, hopefully someone comes up with a better video. All I got out of this video was actually witnessing a shift change with the crew. Wow wait let me say wow again the rest of this was real fanning. Any cars that were hooked up dropped off with a conductor involved was already done, didn’t see any of that come on man
A lot of video with very little information. Pretty pictures of trains but little useful information about how rail yards work.
I can see why others called this boring.
agreed, difficult to understand what the title suggest
So how do railroads work?
Looks like a quality work crew.
Like where do you keep the rest rooms at?
You should talk im spending half the video reading and not watching whats going on and your not even explaining things just showing
This is amazing footage but WHY is there no voice over????
I love the images and the trains but it needs someone to explain....!!!
Exactly. This is a perfect of a example of a video that should have voiceovers instead of titles. Since my eyes don’t work together (double vision), it’s very difficult for me to read. Also, every time I read something, I don’t see what you’re showing me in the video. Makes me wonder if I should start doing voiceovers in my own videos.
Interesting but tired of speed reading. Why not voice overs?
As a kid, I recall the yard in my hometown of Hearne, Texas. The SP lines came through Hearne from East St. Louis. Trains would either take the line to San Antonio and on out west to LA, or they could continue south towards Houston on the old Houston and Texas Central, for which I was assigned as a brakeman back in the day. The yard had 12 tracks, a car shed for repairs, a working turntable, an icing rack for reefer trains, a switch engine, which we called the Dinkie, as well as yardmen who bled off the air for trains to be switched, as well as oiling 'boxes'. The Mop crossed the interlock system on the north edge of town. They did some switching, mostly cotton gin mills, or position cars for unloading at this very large covered shed. About five miles west of Hearne was Valley Junction, where east/west MoP trains could either continue or wye north/south. The MoP did their switching at Valley Junction. At the interlock with the MoP was the depot, where the Sunbeam, complete with yellow steam engine, would stop to take on and drop off passengers. The MoP Eagle would cross the interlock and stop at their depot about a half mile from said interlock. From steam engines of the SP with those round tenders, or MoP steam engines with that flat tender, to F units and on to the Alco's and early GP's, I guess I was very fortunate to have grown up in a railroad town. Today, it's all owned by the UP and the Hearne yard is deader than a doornail. No switching is done at Valley Junction, either.
Timeless.
David Barnett, hello from Navasota, TX. Did you see or hear about the derailment in Hearne back in February? It happened on the curve going from the north/south UP to the east/west line. While the yard may not see much switching any more (and your account of the past glory was great), there is still a lot of traffic moving through the old Hearne yard.
Steve from Texas - No, I did not hear about it. I live in the Temple - Killeen - Ft. Hood area now. I occasionally visit Hearne and I've noticed the switching aspect is almost non-existent, and that there are perhaps one or two trains in the old yard. I was over in Franklin, Texas the 6th of May this year, and I did notice the traffic heading east on the former Missouri Pacific line.
Navasota brings back a few memories in my day as a brakeman. One of our south bound SP rock trains had 'misjudged' and hit a Santa Fe eastbound to Houston going through the interlock system in Navasota at the old depot. I worked the special work train after that accident. Then there was the time one of our engines would not start. I had gone back to the second engine in the lashup and tried getting it to start, but to no avail, so the engineer says hey, sit down, blow the whistle, and keep your eyes open and let me go back and try to start said engine. Needless to say I was blowing the hell out of the whistle and hoping no one tried to beat the train to the crossings while we were passing through Navasota on our way to Bryan-College Station and Hearne.
David Barnett z
At least there is a Dairy Queen. Dang it gets hot in Hearne.
Great job this video is done very well!
Thanks, Jason.. I'm glad you liked it
I see the track maintainers are violating OSHA R&R performing their jobs as far as not having hard hats or reflective vests. One of them not wearing a shirt, If was the Supervisor, they be looking new jobs. A Dangerous place like the Rail industry require strictly BTB when doing any type of work near or on railroad equipment.
That's interesting.. I didn't consider that.. I hope I didn't get them in trouble by filming them.
I wouldn't worry about it . After all, how many of us at our jobs follow OSHA R&Rs to the Tee. Besides it was nearly two years ago. And I assume they might have dodged the bullet, because the railroads only care about having safe rails to move freight through..
That yard needs all the help it can get considering the status of the tracks.
No safety glasses either.
Shirtless and shorts. I can’t believe they got away with that unless they work for RBM.
Story of the 8367 loco on fire... since I happened to find it pretty far down:
"Anyhoots, the #8367 was the leader of 3 units on Train 37T out of Allentown on Thursday.... Don't ask me how or why but the train left Allentown with 1 unit (no fuel), another unit (no water) and the leader.... Coming through Taylor the crew reported 13 miles an hour and told dispatch that they weren't going to make the grade to Clark's Summit.... They were told to do the best they could (dumb).
The train stalled (any surprise?) and the crew said over the radio, "And I think we're on fire, too!" That was the big joke for all of us listening!... So, the power of 11Z had to cut from their train at Dalton, go down and drag 37T up the hill, new power and crew had to be sent from Binghamton to retrieve the dead units and the train. The original crew outlawed and In the end you had a train with 3 dead units sitting on the hill.
A lot of us think that someone should've been fired at Allentown as that's a major yard on NS."
Sad, isn't it.. Thanks for reposting!!
Working on a river to 43 years although I like the video I think you should have shown a map first you had a lot of time wasted on the film showing trains moving you could have cut cut it shorter you didn't explain anything except for the writing at the top being ax Railroad Man I enjoyed it but to be honest it was a little boring you could have talked over the film to explain some stuff such as one of the crew members getting off with a big bar in his hand I never carried a big bar exactly what was that for every railroad is a little different I worked on the Chicago Northwestern which was taken over by Union Pacific it seemed to me too that everybody worked very slowly I don't remember being that slow in our yards we had a certain amount of cars that we had to switch out and then we went home sometimes you can work 8 hours sometimes you work 4 hours so we worked a little bit faster as I said before every railroad is different I worked in the Proviso yards if I showed my tracks I would have shown a big map so people would understand when you just show trains moving you don't know why they're moving to one place to another of course this is only my opinion
To be sincere, not to be bad I didn't really get what I watched. Maybe next time you show us how it's even connected with each other, how the staff Leave office, communicate with each other etc. Thanks.
Walkie talkies…my dad worked on the railroad and i always would see the guys carrying walkie talkies…😁 one question kinda answered!
I married a retired engineer and really didn't understand how much work was involved until seeing this. He began sending me videos of trains and I enjoyed them so much told him more...almost 8 yrs married and didn't realize all of this, now off to part two. TY so much for this, really am enjoying it!
graffiti on trains is depressing. so is bad track.
And when I get stuck waiting at a crossing in my car , watching the moving art on a long train helps the time pass more easily.
@@howiedewin3688 I kinda thought that too. Some of those graffiti "artists" were quite talented with what they could put on freight cars.
I hate graffiti on anything. Part of the reason I modeled 1950's railroad is so there would be no graffiti on my cars.
Thanks for posting this informative and well-crafted video. Double thanks for omitting the seemingly obligatory railroad bluegrass music. The natural sound commands our attention.
You didn't explain why they stopped , other than crew change. Why three man crew? How or who divided original consist up? Can the yard track hold whole length of train? Good footage, but titled totally wrong!!!!
The rails in this yard are in horrible shape.
The yard is being re-surfaced as I type this.
wow those rails are beat to shit
This video taught me LITERALLY NOTHING ABOUT HOW RAIL YARDS WORK.
Nothing????
@@Trains21 Maybe Zack invented rail years and know all about them! sarc
Not what I thought it would be. Not really explain how trains are put together. Could be a lot better. Thanks.
worked for Southern Railway and then NS Railway for over 25 years as a switch man/foreman in a freight classifying yard that operated 24/7 365 days a year. When I started we wore tennis shoes and shorts in the summer, made all switching moves with hand signals or flashlight signals, no radios, no safety gear. we would climb trees and power poles to relay signals around curves or over hills. We ran on the tops of cars (cars that were moving and sitting still) and jumped from one car to another to get better signaling positions. It was common for both switch men and the foreman to be on top of rail cars spread out over a 1/4 mile or more relaying signals. Switching on the hump end of the yard was fast and furious with 5 or 6 cars rolling into tracks at one time. One man kicked the cars up the lead while the foreman kept the switches lined and the third man kept the cars from rolling out of the tracks. On the hump job there was 2 speeds wide open or stopped. It was a dangerous job and we classified a lot of cars in a shift. 12 hr shifts were common and 7 day work weeks were normal. I remember once working 54 straight 12 hr days. I made a lot of money but was exhausted, totally exhausted. Then the railroads got safety conscious and we had to stop doing some of the wild crazy things we were doing. With all the rule changes and supervised enforcement and the new safety rules daily switching slowed to a crawl and became tedious and boring. The railroad went through a lot of changes in my career and for grizzled, tough, hard headed old switch men change came hard. The job lost most of it's fun and excitement and because I felt "too old change" I said "screw this" and just resigned.
Thanks Roy I like that story. Can you tell me are they mainly dash 9s and what gauge track in the USA does it vary like Australia
Roy I'm like you man. I.was a paramedic in Australia 38 years. Initially the job was great had so much fun then it all changed the fun police came in and screwed up everything. In the end I couldn't stand all the crap and the young ones dobbing everyone in so like you I resigned . Live on great memories now
@@patkelly6349 track gauge in the US is 4 ft 8.5 inches and it does not vary on major railroads. locomotive types are numerous and vary from railroad to railroad. you can find info on the internet using a search for types of diesel locomotives used in the US
Thank you roy
Watching it doesn't explain it!
Great video thanks for sharing lot of different stuff going on got to stay alert dangerous jobs
Every time I drove over the ACCA Yard here in Richmond, VA I'm always looking and wondering how it all goes down, that and the seaports. Looking at a Satellite image of the Port of Norfolk, VA, just wow at the scope of things. So I'm checking out all your videos, very informative.
Thanks Brian.. I'm glad that you enjoy them.. They'll be even more informative in the days to come.
I see the spraypaint industry is still doing well............
Actually those guys don’t pay for paint.
You now understand why the companies are aiming for point to point trainloads and avoiding such yards. It looks very poorly maintained.
I’m a Yardmaster for Union Pacific. Why am I watching this?
so you can nit pick and troll the inaccuracies of the video...
I'm a computer scientist. Not sure why, but I find this oddly attractive
Didn't explain anything about how a train yard works, just showed a lot of very slow moving trains..........
They can't move very fast on that crummy track.
Not much of a plot.
Those dudes at 8:01 are commiting so many railway violations - no high-vis shirts, no safety glasses, hard-hats, and wearing shorts.... WTF!
Your guess is as good as mine..
It all depends on how strict the boss is on that crew.
Who cares, shut up
Track gang doesnt use PPE? OSHA would have a field day
Prbobably
what is PPE
@@yardlimit8695 Personnel Protection Equipment.
It amazes me how those trains stay on those crapy tracks.
Hey Trains21, give me your top 5 largest railyards in the United States and Canada combined. Thinking Bailey, Argentine, Roseville, and Queensgate. Not sure of the fifth.
Bnsf
Awesome job buddy
Thanks 👍
Those cars without graffiti must be all of 1/2 hour old.
Just confirms spray cans are still for sale in the ghetto...
@@ohgary Or they can sneak out to the outskirts of town and get them there. I was at a local Walmart buying a can of paint. I'm 73 years old and the cashier still carded me. What's up with that?
I could be wrong, but it looks to me that most of the tracks need to be replaced, given the swaying of the locos and the dips in the steel rails.
Maybe, but they are yard tracks, not mainline tracks.
I would say that the yard tracks here are in far worse condition than a major freight yard. Very uneven.
Maybe.. It depends on the yard that you're companring it too.. Whether true or not, you must consider that these were "Canadian Pacific" tracks up until just over a year ago and CP was not interested in maintenance which is one reason (only one) that NS bought the line..
In the defense of NS.. They've made (and continue to make) grand improvements to this and the A&S Freight Line between Binghamton and Schenectady, NY.
Those rails loo like they belong to a 3rd world country
They belong to a 3rd world railroad.
TELL US THE FIRE STORY!
I picked the wrong career!
What I noticed about trains in US is that they just love to hoot all the time. Yea I know this is for safety, but still really bothersome, especially if you live close to the tracks.
Did you notice the tracks when you moved there, or were you the first?
I really enjoyed watching some train switching, I used to work for BNSF inTulsa OK as yard foreman and hostler and road brakeman now and then
Cool.. I'm glad you liked it.
The track gangs can wear shorts and no shirts...LOL
Not really. OSHA would shut that job down real quick.
Only three minutes in and I am bored already.
I’m watching this in my bunk on the southbound #11 Amtrak. My sleeper car is first car behind the set of P42s in the lead. Can’t tell if horn blowing is this locomotive or the ones in this video. I’m feeling the rail as well.
20:13 I couldn't entirely understand the person on the radio but his reaction was awesome.
Awesome 359 Pete at 17:10
8:15 young man does not know how to dig a hole until the old hand teaches him.
That's right!
Just like cashiers in stores when the power goes out. The young cashiers don't often know how to make change or manually ring up a sale until some old-timers come and take over.
@@glennso47 Sad but true.
Good job I'm proud to have work for the R.R. 42yr and 19day !!!!!!!!
I'm proud to have you watching our videos.. A railroad man of your caliber.. Congratulations on a long and proud career in railroading!
Just found you. What a pleasant discovery. My one granddad worked on the Southern Pacific and other granddad worked on the Pennsylvania RR. Trains are in my blood. Nothing in the world like the sound of the whistle in the night. So glad I can hear them still. Thank you for all these great videos.
Informative yet DREADFULLY slow paced .. coma-inducing
Freight yard movements typically are.
Same can be said re working the 'local'. Tedious, tiring, setting in sidings awaiting through freights, leaving the home terminal often 12 hours behind schedule, working at night with only lanterns and NO communications like today, getting caught by the 'hog' law in those days and tying up in a siding waiting for a through freight going your way to pick up the local and take it to the turn-around or terminal, etc., but someone had to do it. lol
I would like the hear the story
The crew being aware of a camera all made sure their egress was according to OSHA and railroad safety.
I remember when I used to have more time to railfan..me and some other ole school guys shot mostly the power on the point..but I couldn't figure out what some of the younger guys were doing..Now I know..they were waiting for rolling stock with their tags on them..
Nice clip. Theirs quiet a bit of rockn action at 11:00, and at 25:00 that go to hell Ford wouldn't start hu?? So they called a wrecker. Nice catch 👍 thanks for sharing this👍👍
What road name does RBMN denote? .. good videos. Obviously I'm a railfan.
RBMN - Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad
8 minutes, NO IDLING VEHICLES OVER 5 TONS , heavy ass locomotive idling! !!😄😄😄😄😄
Nice video, loved it.
Thanks BN
I didn't realize how rough yard tracks could be. Looks like a rollercoaster.
Thats the difference between the old fishplate and bolt and fully welded rail - You dont get that bumpiness because the welded rail doesn't come lose - what surprises me is why it isn't all welded rail - You can see the mainline is why not the yard
I'm amazed at how wavy and worn some of the tracks look. And the sound of metal scraping against metal...!
not used to seeing mixed intermodal/manifest. UP used to run straight TOFC, or double stack. Would cut/spot at ea. intermodal ramp.
Interesting.. UP runs mixed IM/Manifest trains in Washington State.. I've seen it on others videos.
+Trains21 when I ran Railshuttle in the 90's here in SLC,UT, in was all TOFC or Doublestack, no mixed. So yes, interesting.Didn't think UP went CSX on us!Lol
Mixed freights have a purpose, as do unit trains. Depends on what's going where and with what kind of priority.
This looks like a backwater yard, so I doubt they see much unit-train doublestack zipping through here... especially with all that ripply jointed rail! The speed limit on the main track is probably 35 mph through there.
How do the various railcars companies keep track of their rolling stock? They all seem scattered to hell and back......
It's all done with computers
AEI tags and readers.
I'd like to see the railroads hook up high voltage electricity to trains in such a way, that they could electrocute all the graffiti artists and their spray cans. I don't know why the railroads put up with them. Every car on the road. Spray paint is expensive, too
It's an underground art form.
We visited my GFs daughter who lived in Coconut Grove Florida (south of Miami) and she insisted we visit this place in Little Cuba where they had all this fabulous art work. We got there and I told her it was nothing new. We in the Midwest see this same crap on every boxcar that goes through our part of the country. #vandalism
True, but it gives them some character at least. Not that I vandalize, myself, but not much effort goes into making nice logos and advertisements on boxcars like there once was.
I could watch this all day
Thanks Loudmouth.
Love 🚂 videos I watch them all the time since I've been little love watching 🚂 now 43 still love watching 🚂 and the videos 💯💯👊👊
NS back in the day you crapped in a bucket .
this aint nothing like Bailey yards, pretty slow going
True.. But that's yard switching.. All moves are done at a restricted speed.
I see the RBMN will offer a Steam excursion train from Reading PA to Jim Thorp PA
how the hell do you know all this? cool vid.
Lots or reading and snooping around!! Thanks, Man!!
some narration explaining what we are looking at would be a big help.
Didn't have the ability at the time.
yes, let's hear the fire story
haha look at that!! that track gang looks like someone they hired off the street! lol better call the FRA haha jk
At 1:41 why did the engineer turn off the lights?. Was it just a good gesture, because he seen you filming and didn't want to glare your film, or is there another reason?.
He's a friend of mine and does that as a good gesture.
@@Trains21
That's awesome, cool guy.
Excellent photography, and excellent narrative captions. A primer introduction to the operations in a yard. Thank you!
Thank you Ruben.. Glad you liked.
That rail gang crew looks like they just came in from town 🤣
More like the beach.
A lot of work. Back and forth. Am I seeing less S D 40-2's? Are they getting rid of them?
I just thought they were such a good alll around, engine.
Why do they carry the white poles?
What I don't understand is how a 2 mile long train is put together in yard that isn't 2 miles long in the first place to allow the train to 'stretch out' for it's whole length once all of the cars are collected. I was expecting that the yard tracks would be in several big circles contained in the yard but if stretched out would be 2 miles long. I know that the city wouldn't allow a train to stretch for up to 2 miles blocking several intersections for hours as it is put together. So it must be done somehow in this short yard. But how?
They break it up as it comes in the yard.
Have you ever been stopped at a rail road crossing and the train stopped for a while? This might mean a train is half way in a train yard.
I thought this was a video on how freight yards work. What a joke
Just another form of clickbaiting .. Oh, well, I'll skip part two now...More info down at the MRR club, anyway..
My kind of fun watching this vid. Thanks for posting and the description.
25:05 Ayers driver attempts to realign the track lol ? I've pulled plenty of motor vehicles off NS tracks, and I wouldnt dare do that in a light duty wrecker lol.
Me neither!
well - narration instead of in-image comments would had made this a great video
as I write this, I've watched only half of the video and already I wish it were longer. BTW, i'd like to hear the story of the loco catching fire
Thanks man.. Take a look at some of the earlier comments, I've told it several times!
It is currently 2 am and this is just interesting to me
Ikr?
My Q is the controls of more than 1 engine? Only the lead engine is maned yes ?
Some narration would be nice for educational purposes.
A very good video, l love trains!! and by all means, please share the story of the train that caught on fire... any pictures of It ?? also, when multiple engines are used... why is it that they are not all facing the same way ??? sometimes 2 are one way and 1 is another or vice versa ?? and are "Freight Train" engines different from "Passenger" Train engines in any ways ?? Keep up the good videos !!! Love em!! Cheers,Art
Thanks.. Check the comments.. I've told the story several times to people in the comments.
Freight engines are all horsepower and only provide brake control to the freight cars, which is why there are cables on the locomotives, passenger engines generally have less horsepower due to them having a HEP generator, which means their cables provide both braking and power to the passenger cars, however, before HEP technology diesels used steam generators, the only difference is horsepower and an extra generator on passenger engines
I would just like to follow up with the question; why are not the engines all facing the same direction, does it matter, is one or some running in reverse. It's amazing how they stay at the same exact speed. Thanks for the vid.
johnjp a part of that is because it's easier just to make sure you have at least one facing forward. It would be more or less a waste of time to get all the locomotives facing the same direction when it isn't needed.
I will have to say i am shocked that a railroad company especially of this size allow the construction crew to go shirtless.I would think sleeved T Shirts,long pants and steel toe would be a minimum.Then i don't know what the tool is that was hammering in the spike or whatever they were doing but,not to have some kind of eye protection on while that thing is in operation is crazy.I guarantee they did not have hearing protection around that thing.Does NS need a safety guy lol
It looks like they went into town and grabbed a few random guys at the bar and told them to work.
They weren't working on NS track.. That was the shortline RBMN's track that they were working on.. Don't know what they were doing though.
Regardless of who they work for, why aren't they wearing proper PPE?
Contrary to belief but steel toe boots on the railroad are like tits on a boar, everything is so heavy if it land on your foot it crush it with or without steel toe boots. One thing NS gets right by not requiring steel toe
I noticed that, too. It's not just a railroad requirement but OSHA, union and FRA requirements.
Steel toes might not be required for train crews, but I'll bet track workers need 'em, plus eye, head, hand protection and shirts against sunburn and random chips chemicals, etc. from their work.
That trainmaster must've seen it.
They didn't work for NS, that's for sure. NS is known for firing people at the drop of a (hard) hat.