TOUGHEST GRADES ON THE B&O: Sand Patch and Cranberry

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@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

This is from our full length DVD "Mountain Grades of the B&O" available at www.cspmovies.com

@tedfisher19 13 күн бұрын

Outstanding video! Thank you for posting it. Your map graphics are a great help in understanding the various scenes. Very well done.

@SteadyGhetner Ай бұрын

Thanks for posting this! I live in the area and like to ride motorcycles, many times stopping in Newburg, Rowlesburg, Tunnelton or Terra Alta just to see if I can catch a NS train going either way. Once in a while it works. Much of the small yard in Rowlesburg has had many of the tracks removed but the single track trestle over the Cheat River is still in use. There is a tunnel in Tunnelton, though one has to trespass on RR right-of-way to see it. Terra Alta is Greek for "higher ground". Thanks again!

@kelvintorrence5994 Ай бұрын

Those people had some real skills to pay the bills back then great video

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

Agreed, real men running real railroads. Safety to a back seat to moving trains for sure!

@garyburke7346 Ай бұрын

Great video, I enjoyed it very much, thanks. I remember the old days of dropping the pusher power that way.

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

Wow, garyburke you were a skilled railroader to pull that off at speed. Pretty cool stuff!

@garyburke7346 Ай бұрын

@charlessmileyvideos Yeah, it was cool. It was fun to do those jobs back in that time period. Real railroading days.

@thetoycannon9813 Ай бұрын

Absolutly love you refer to them as Pushers. A true railroader

@tonydobbs2349 Ай бұрын

What video is this

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

@@tonydobbs2349 This is from our full length DVD "Mountain Grades of the B&O" available at www.cspmovies.com

@joshjones3408 Ай бұрын

Now that Iv seen them again I remember seeing the chessie an the blue b&o units when I younger

@dannyhonn973 Ай бұрын

Yellow, blue and vermilion..one of the best paint schemes.

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

Agreed, really refreshing to see and a sharp scheme for sure!

@TigerDominic-uh1dv Ай бұрын

Great Video ❤ Watching 😊

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

Cool, thank you TigerDominic for supporting our channel!

@andywomack3414 Ай бұрын

I was working for the B&O at the time the blue, yellow lettering with Capital dome logo was being used. By the time I left many locos had been painted with the C&O yellow "kitty cat" logo but many Capital dome logos remained but were being replaced. The C&O management did not want to associate the operation with the US Government. That attitude lead to Reaganomics and the corporate destruction of the past.

@AmishEcstasy Ай бұрын

I often think how skilled those engineers were in the steam era when they were descending those steep grades without dynamic breaking

@kelvintorrence5994 Ай бұрын

They did it slow and ran up hill fast as possible

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

It was a real test of nerves and skill! Running trains in this Mountain Territory something could go wrong for sure!

@OliverT-qt1gn Ай бұрын

Brakemen would go along the train and 'set up' 'retainers', the percentage set up depending on the grade and train size. Retainers keep the car's brakes on when the car's air tank is 'recharged' (re-pressurized) from the train line. Without retainers, the car's brakes would fully release when the air tank was re-pressurized...not a good idea heading downhill with a tonnage train...!

@whereisthedollar Ай бұрын

Interesting how in them days the crew were outside the cabs doing things on the engines. Now, I understand the cab doors don't open on class 1 RR's when in operation.

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

I think you are right about that, also you can't jump off and on any moving engines anymore when changing crews or switching! They got you pretty trapped in the cab these days for sure. No more dead head crews traveling in the 2nd or 3rd unit either!

@jeffreymcfadden9403 Ай бұрын

WM SD35s were assigned to M&K as helpers not long before CSX. They didn't last long after CSX.

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont Ай бұрын

SD50s first showed up in three-unit sets in the spring of 1984. They were C&O units that went straight from EMD to the West End. I remember one of them had some sort of odometer device on a journal cap and it read less than 5,000 miles in early May 1984. Those 1983 scenes of the helper cut-off and Terra Alta are absolutely priceless!

@jeffreymcfadden9403 Ай бұрын

@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont 3 of us were at MK in 1990, saw the SD50s everywhere.

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 Those SD-50's had some special modifications for running coal trains. DRGW had the same kind I believe. Positive Traction Control, electrical upgrades and better Dynamic braking

@charlessmileyvideos Ай бұрын

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 They look sharp in the Chessie Paint! Must have been a grand sight to see in person!

@TK-ec5bv Ай бұрын

It wasn't just the WM SD35s that were assigned to M&K as helpers. B&O, C&O, and WM SD35s were assigned there and were also used on the Cowen Subdivision. There was an article in the B&O Historical Society "Sentinel" about 30 years ago that discussed this.