Working on the Chicago Northwestern Railroad which was taken over by the Union Pacific it was always a thrill to go into the repair of shop and watch him work on engines and see them picking engines up of course that was in Proviso when I was on the road we used to have to pick up our engines at the repair shop need have it all ready for us we get on check everything over and take off and we hook onto our train and go to Clinton Iowa 43 years then I went on passenger spent my last 20 years on passenger

I want that setup.

...so...

Dunno how they're able to place them so accurately on the rails when lowering.

Bob the crane guy be like, I got your crane right here!

I'm a civil engineer (now retired) who has designed & managed multiple shops & yards projects for a commuter rail agency in Northeast USA. We have both diesels/coaches & EMU's (Electric Multiple Units) which run on both overhead catenary & 3rd rail. It's interesting to me that UP has maintenance positions that rely solely on the bridge crane to move whole loco's in & out of the position. I suppose it's for efficiency - the entire perimeter of the "spot" can house maintenance activities, rather than having an exit track. Also, no need for the building to have many large train doors & the large amount of space outside for track geometry (curves & switches). We would never consider doing something like that. All our maintenance spots are accessible with tracks running through the buildings (very rarely do we even have a "dead end" shop, most are run through). We have lifting jacks & rods in the floors to lift the car bodies off the trucks to access the traction motors & trucks themselves, then turntables to wheel them out. We also have an upper deck level for rooftop equipment (HVAC units, catenary pantographs). For the diesels, we have a 3-axle drop table to remove the trucks/motors, in lieu of the jacks/rods. We do have overhead cranes, in fact rated strong enough to lift a whole unit (diesel / coach / EMU, depending on location), but it's never done in actual operations, it's only for an "emergency". Management wanted that, but the actual shop guys say they'd never trust any rigging plan they could come up with. The newer generations of rolling stock are all "component" in nature, ie, you roll out the trucks / motors & roll in a replacement, same w/rooftop units, send the vehicle on it's way after an hour or so in the shop. Vehicles do not sit in a shop for any length of time, unless for body damage from an accident. Of course, our operations are not at the scale of UP's. We have 500 EMU's, ~100 coaches, a few dozen diesels, actual numbers of diesels / coaches vary as they are in a "pool" with neighboring operators (our line is nearly unique in the world in having both overhead catenary & 3rd rail on the same line, requiring vehicles that use both).

J'ai passé 20 ans au Canadien National au titre de Machiniste à cet époque . Hé oui j'ai eu la chance de me promener avec une locomotive à 40' dans les airs !!!

He came in for a oil change... you know, every 5000 miles

Skilled gantry operator!

Crane operator - Plz dont fall! Plz dont fall! Plz dont fall! Plz dont fall!

So did all 6 axles hit the spot the first time?

Nice video.. Can I use this video in my train compilation video credit to you in video will be given

Cool video thank you

I need one of these in my bus garage.

I gotta say, these videos are fascinating. As the rob schneider movie deuce bigalo background actor would say “THATS A HUGE BITCH” lol

How do the beams attach to the bolsters? Erie uses giant nylon straps.

Locomotive Hopscotch

Been there done that hundreds of times but it was here in Denver ( Union Pacific/ Southern Pacific/ Rio Grande/ General Electric/ EMD Power by the Mile )

That’s so crazy! Awesome video!

That's amazing! I mean those SD70's are like 400,000 pounds, that's NOT a small amount of weight!

Pure power

I always wondered how train engines had sex.

Hmmm...now considering an update to my layout...

Red stripe SD70M

Holy flying locomotives Batman!!!!!

Davidson yard

Surprised there's no loud school type bells ringing with all that weight lifting off the floor... *Q: How did they lower the wheels down into the track without somebody guiding them in???*

DAMN!!!

Wow now that's an scary sight! Hope that shop building is awfully strong........lol

The alert siren in the background reminds me of the alarm in the beginning of A new hope On leia's Corvette

absolutely NO room for error

If I could live my life over, what a cool place to work at

One of the coolest videos I’ve seen in a while. Thanks for sharing

the guy riding in the loco got a raise

Are you guys hiring?

Boy I've lifted my HO scale locomotives by hand before they only weigh about a pound and1/2 even dropped one 1 time lucky for me it was on the soft carpet no damage. I would hate to drop this real full size one anything in the way will be flat as a pancake..😳😲😲🙄🤔

This is what you get when you ask for a raise on the Railroad

Now that’s a crane!!

Una pregunta: Que significado y cuando tocan los trenes la campana que suenan las máquinas del tren.

That's a lift locomotive union Pacific American train

Red zone.......

Oh no my model train derailed

It is like it is being picked up like a toy!

Those locomotives are so heavy in tons

WOW !!!

I hate this video

The 8 who dislike this video are (A HOLES) just fyi

I thought the trucks come off when the get picked up

Personally I wish it was a ge and that it would fall to the floor and have to be scrapped.

Darn if that crane was a bit stronger it could pick up my ex motherinlaw