Pretty busy yard. A container terminal and an oil/gas refinery? So the mainline trains stop there and the yard engines take away or add train cars from the yard to them and they continue their trip?
@shio_vanilla2 жыл бұрын
This station has a container yard, oil stores and a Chemical Terminal. Since the Takasaki Line is electrified, electric locomotives and electric trains run. The container yard is not electrified. So freight trains change locomotives and enter non-electrified routes.
@shio_vanilla2 жыл бұрын
It's a different line, but we can see a train that separates the container freight car at the station on the way. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2HEpIuBrNOebtk ↑ Fuji station. Besides, the freight car is not separated at Yokohama-Hazawa station. Workers use a forklift to remove the container from the freight car. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX-4ioqmpql_h6s If you have time, check out this video as well.
I observed a number of railway personnel riding on a footplate outside the locomotive from place to place. It would be a lot safer to walk along the tracks between the points involved. E.g. at 2:40 a worker is seen before mounting the locomotive and going somewhere. At approx. 6:00 same locomotive comes back with same worker (having changed ends) outside the loco. He could have waited on the platform, observing the activities he would be involved in from the safety of the station platform, then enter the work area via the gate prominent in the foreground. There are also similar instances of that method of working in the freight area .
@shio_vanilla2 жыл бұрын
Railroad personnel use transceiver and flags to guide locomotives. This railroad personnel will instruct the locomotive driver where to stop. It's a tough job with many dangers.
@roboftherock2 жыл бұрын
@@shio_vanilla Thanks for the reply with explanation. It still looks precarious though.