🚂 Emergency Railway Track Repair ⛏️

This is a film showing an emergency track repair to restore Canadian National Railway's mainline service following a collision of two freight trains.
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[@vatodad]

Your videos are simply wonderful! Rather than simply put out raw footage you take the time to provide excellent commentary and even delightful music. You shorten the video down to where it is truly interesting. Great job!

[@tletter]

+Rick Flores Glad you like them!

[@johndoran3274]

The thumbnail says it all, one man swinging a hammer and eleven white hats standing around watching him work.

[@rockymountainjazzfan1822]

In my railroad work, they were called tie plates, not fishplates. Also, that short piece of rail installed would be just temporary on a mainline track. The machine working the ballast is commonly called a "ballast regulator."

[@stevenhart1709]

They're "joint bars" not tie plates.

[@lajeff718]

We definitely call them joint bars.

[@nuggert]

We don’t call them fish plates we call them joint bars.

[@michaeldougfir9807]

It looks excellent to me!

[@RetroJack]

Those title/endcards are hilarious! 🤣

[@Barbell_Bolter]

Them installing that short piece was definitely caused by someone screwing up measurements lol. A piece of rail like that may only be used VERY temporarily. and at extremely low speeds. Can point out quite a couple of railroad rule violations pretty darn easily. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do to get dem trains moving!

[@tletter]

+badcompany35 Bear in mind that this was an emergency repair, and the short sections of tracks were quickly replaced by much long sections of continuous-welded rail (CWR).

[@Barbell_Bolter]

@@tletter You’re partially right, For the most part the track going in appears to be permanent. They’re not going to be tearing those panels out. That’d be a massive waste of money. They will be turning that track into CWR. The way you can tell is if you look closely most of the joint bars have 4 holes drilled and are bolted 2 on each side. This indicates that welders will be coming through to permanently join the rail together.

[@ElliottAmelkin]

That was beautiful, thanks for this video

[@Bearbum]

Interesting to see equipment used now compared to when I worked on maintenance of way gangs for CNR in the summers from high school through university years in ‘78 to ‘85. Much of it is the same - some of which is different. What hasn’t changed is how hard the work is … great memories of those years . Surprised to learn it’s done by private companies… what is this bonus thing I heard? Could have used that back in the day . Thanks for posting

[@tletter]

+greg fosty Glad that you enjoyed the trip in the Wayback Machine 😉

[@nahuelgomez9787]

The most beautyfull work in the world, love this!

[@tletter]

+Nahuel Gomez Good to hear - thanks for commenting. A more complete look at this repair is available at kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWS5iXaOm7-drtk

[@cohall46]

Very interesting track repair. This track connection was different from the thermo welding method that I have seen before. Thanks for sharing.

[@tletter]

+Chuck Hall Bear in mind that the short sections of tracks being joined together were shortly replaced by much long sections of continuous-welded rail (CWR). Hence, the short section were joined using traditional fishplates.

[@cohall46]

@@tletter Thanks for the update.

[@Afc1987]

Concrete rail sleepers are better in the UK we use Concrete sleepers lasts longer than wood sleepers

[@uthman23]

timbers last a good while still

[@redkawa636]

Thanks for the interesting video! let's spend a minute to thank whoever thought it was a good idea to put a guy with a sprinkler next to the guy with the angle grinder...I love when such details are taken into consideration:-)

[@Reebus_]

at least there wasn't a guy with a bucket "catching the sparks" ;)

[@tletter]

+redkawa636 The track repair personnel were very professional and experienced, and had learned many hard lessons.

[@Akwo_war_ihi]

Wtf lol this isn’t arts and crafts

[@JustMyOpinion-]

Intresting! old ways of doing things if I say so myself, instead of tie plates we now use baseplates with ferrals, and a bolt you can torque with the impact wrench way easier to maintain that way, especially when renewing pieces of track! I would still come across spikes only to remove them! I remember once it took us all night to remove just spikes because they get stuck over time and don't budge using the slewing bar. thanks for the upload! I don't work on track anymore! but was an experience I'll never forget!

[@tletter]

+Just My Opinion. You had interesting experiences. Bear in mind that this was just an emergency repair, and the short sections of tracks were quickly replaced by much long sections of continuous-welded rail (CWR).

[@donberry6079]

Good work, men.

[@danielmota1095]

I worked for Amtrak at Chicago's Union Station It was not fun, but you have to make a living one way or another.

[@randyforgey8818]

I'm sorry but that plug rail doesn't get it. If you had welded one end, maybe.

[@kevinhoward9593]

i think its funny everything is being fast forwarded lol.

[@brocko9386]

Spreader ditcher machine … it’s called a regulator

[@pabloalvarez7155]

Nice 3ft plug 😅

[@nuggert]

I laughed. Anything goes at a derailment!

[@gbb1419]

lol

[@pabloalvarez7155]

Tjat excavator was mighty close look like ot eas fouling the track 😅

[@JackIsNotInTheBox]

Damn, that's a nice osng

[@JackIsNotInTheBox]

I was wondering why that singer sounded familiar. It's Owl City!

[@iainhughes6637]

Why on earth instal a short rail when all you have to do is cut back the rail on the other side match up the joints and pull the whole section back!

[@richardriggs2958]

Back in the day we would have cut off the turnout stock rail.Put the panelized 39 ft. Flush Instead of placing a small piece of rail at a critical spot like a turnout.

[@tletter]

+Richard Riggs However, as this was just an emergency repair, and the short sections of tracks were quickly replaced by much longer sections of continuous-welded rail (CWR).

[@elonmusk-yk1kj]

It's Like modle train track

[@tletter]

+elon musk Hi Elon, how is SpaceX?

[@GustavG10]

Fish plates in the UK

[@wunderkind-7724]

Your nomenclature is out of date. This is a digital recording, it is not on film.

[@tletter]

@wunderkind-7724 Definition of a film: "A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement." It is irrelevant to this definition whether the sequence of images is captured by either a classic film cine camera 🎥 or a more modern digital cine camera.

[@wunderkind-7724]

@@tletter We disagree

[@phoenicianlocal2363]

Anybody know how to get into that line of work?

[@uthman23]

where you from?

[@Mjg503]

Why didn't they just cut the rail so the new rail section would butt right up?

[@tletter]

+Matthew Gehrke The rails were butted together and secured using fishplates. However, as this was just an emergency repair, and the short sections of tracks were quickly replaced by much longer sections of continuous-welded rail (CWR).

[@stephen1498]

Yeehaw

[@bajus111]

ice age

[@debabratasarkar4159]

I think our Indian railways are way more developed than this!!

[@tletter]

@debabratasarkar4159 Running on almost 180,000 route miles, the North American freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world.

[@wacabdelilah4986]

hi I live in marrocco I am looking for a job welder mig mag thanks

[@Андрей-ы8и5й]

whether the earth will mix with rubble over time due to the fact that there is no separating layer?

[@jackx4311]

Trains a mile long, loaded to God knows how many thousand tons, and your rely on *SPIKES* to hold the rails in place - just like they did 150 years ago? Jeez - have you got electric lights, yet?

[@tletter]

+Jack X North America's rail network is more than twice the size of the European rail system, with over 255,000 miles (410,000 kilometers) of track compared to Europe's mere 94,000 miles (151,000 kilometers). So perhaps, the NA rail companies have knowledge and experience to decide how to maintain their track despite what you think.

[@daveTR657]

@@tletteroutdated system of fixing rail to sleeper, whether you have more mileage of railway track or not.

[@KJCLIPS1324]

A spike what? A spike mole? The did he say?