Awesome! I love seeing switching moves and old industrial spurs in use
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it! Love your videos by the way, Keep up the good work!
@JawTooth7 ай бұрын
@@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq thanks I like your videos also
@garybarnett72847 ай бұрын
Me too! I've always like switching. I've never been a main line man. Happy Railroading!
@stevenpitts66657 ай бұрын
Loving the creaking and groaning of the wheels on the rails, just like me first thing in the morning.
@midnyte61957 ай бұрын
You two are old 😁
@TerryPeterson-e2u7 ай бұрын
Great catch !!! The curve they'll be getting into to go back to main is even better 🙄 !!!
@backalleyrailroading28357 ай бұрын
Love seeing the local work taking place... Union Pacific 1025 is just like our local engines in Chandler AZ. Subbed for future content !!
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@TrueDeadMallLegend7 ай бұрын
Great Video!!! I always thought that Behr was serviced by CPKC. I think YJA65 I going to run to Alcivia (formerly Landmark) either today or Friday, because they have loaded cars.
@trainman2k7 ай бұрын
Looks like the hose needs hoisted up a few inches to keep it from getting beat up. (0:53 - 1:00 approximately). Most of the movement is from weed stalks, but there's one or two times it looks like it hit the tie.
@t.s.railfanning7 ай бұрын
Great video. That is some rough trackage. Not as bad as the nd&w was but close
@thomream18887 ай бұрын
All that creaking and groaning sounds like me getting out of bed in the morning! That, and a bag of microwave popcorn cooking off. Mebbe MoW ought to look into a little preventive maintenance? Or is it just cheaper to fix it when it breaks? I'll bet that train crew hates this section of track - you know the bosses will blame them if something hits the rocks. Nice video, interesting RR work. BTW, help us geographic dummies with City and State location, OK? thx.
@chitown387 ай бұрын
wow that train sounds exactly like my knees when i walk up stairs😛
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Lol
@rxrcond4life7 ай бұрын
The 1025 did a couplr 90-day cycles on the LOS48 out of Chino, CA to CofI and return when I was Conductor.
@jeffmachul95627 ай бұрын
Why not just fix. The cost of picking it or replacing
@WMAC_Master7 ай бұрын
surprised UP has fixed em up yet - over here they have been "upgrading" and replacing crossing pads like crazy
@johnhauser45897 ай бұрын
Speed means nothing. I personally derailed a light engine while going about 3mph. The rail just tipped over.
@leskeegan90337 ай бұрын
It's possible that the industry being served own the tracks and not UP
@silicon2127 ай бұрын
That's likely to be the case.
@rickgreen97437 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing.
@RobertDetert7 ай бұрын
They need to fix those tracks.. could have gotten the service done in way less time then.
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
yes
@TigerDominic-uh1dv7 ай бұрын
Great Just Creaping Along 😊
@chrispasini58706 ай бұрын
I think I saw 1025 in Pomona CA few times sometimes with a Ex SP ounce a Old Cotton Belt
@stevensproull93887 ай бұрын
Speed Limit: 30 ballast stones per hour...
@tracaointegrada52457 ай бұрын
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@FireLarry7 ай бұрын
Nice job👍
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@paulbergen91147 ай бұрын
You certainly have the patience to watch this occur. UP has this type of track to deal with in Milwaukee to serve a warehouse and a chemical company. I see Alter got.a 2nd order of new scrap cars and that they got the local hockey team to advertise on them (sic)
@jimupp22357 ай бұрын
Is that south Beloit?
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Yes
@jimupp22357 ай бұрын
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq I thought so. I've seen derailments there before they even cross Blackhawk Blvd. I think the CP owns those tracks now. They need to fix that crossing, it's garbage. I work right next to the scrap yard, you wouldn't believe some of the explosions that come out of that place!
@johnniebellamy59127 ай бұрын
Need To Call The MOW Gang
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
get that track fixed
@johnniebellamy59127 ай бұрын
@@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq So Who Is Responsible For The Maintenance Is It Union Pacific Or The Customer?
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
@@johnniebellamy5912I Believe Union Pacific is responsible for maintaining that section of track.
@Talldarkhandsom7 ай бұрын
@@johnniebellamy5912 Customer
@chrispasini58706 ай бұрын
Saw 1080 in Pomona CA other day
@rxrcond4life7 ай бұрын
Still has SP whistle...
@curlyfries50957 ай бұрын
Bad track or not, they go on the ground the crew will be blamed. It’s the UP way.
@vettebecker17 ай бұрын
Shocker how big business works 👌👈
@johnwinter82737 ай бұрын
I know employees have to follow union work rules. But those 2 guys riding the front of the engine aren't any help. Only one got on the ground watching for potential problems. Seems a couple more sets of eyes would be better. But I'm guessing that's not in their job description. 🙄
@Talldarkhandsom7 ай бұрын
@@johnwinter8273 I guess we could get a third guy to straddle the front coupler
@fhowland7 ай бұрын
Those tracks don't look too bad at all...then again I grew up watching Guilford derail every other week.
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Thats Crazy!
@jeffmachul95627 ай бұрын
Time is money
@robrees83827 ай бұрын
Just waiting for a derailment or a whole rail turning sideways by all the moans and groans going on.
@LongHung-l9f7 ай бұрын
Thanh you very much,i love trainz locomosie
@armandoperez79677 ай бұрын
It’s horrible to see the 3,800 HP of the GP60 wasted on this assignment!
@spuwho7 ай бұрын
Do you think a 1400hp switcher is going to be able to pull a set of full hoppers with scrap iron?
@silicon2127 ай бұрын
@@spuwho At low speeds, it's about tractive effort and not HP. HP only comes into play at track speeds. At these slow speeds a 1400hp switcher would do just fine if starting TE were close, and on these 4 axle units they generally are. The GP60 can't put its 3800 hp down at speeds below 25ish MPH, transition limits to around 2800 HP (or even lower) to that speed. The GP40-2 similarly will only put out 2300 HP at speeds below around 25mph. This is due to the power of the engine, the 4 axle configuration, and the desire to not encounter wheel slip.
@lazman1117 ай бұрын
The power is what’s available when the crew goes to work, and why do I know this because I worked for them. When you go on duty, the yardmaster gives you your switch list and the engineer is pointed to the power he’s or her assigned to, Simple as that. And having worked on shit industries track that’s exactly what you do, crawl out of there so you do not get yourself on the ground and screw up the rest of your day.
@rxrcond4life7 ай бұрын
Track rmployee at the crossing. Think they are "walking" over a broken rail. That track isn't that bad compared to others I've been over...
@Talldarkhandsom7 ай бұрын
You can't waste something if its pulling tonnage.. railroading is not some train simulator. we don't get to pick and choose the types of equipment used day to day..
@davidbrown48237 ай бұрын
Unbelievable.
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Yeah
@Talldarkhandsom7 ай бұрын
Talk to the owners
@nightrider67696 ай бұрын
Why was the train at risk for derailing I mean if the ties and the tracks that bad it's time to replace it.
@paulcarlson51847 ай бұрын
I'm curious why they put a 6-axle on this🤔 I would think a pair of 4-axle switchers would have been less stressful..
@mikerubynfs7 ай бұрын
1025 is a GP60, four axle.
@Isiahs_TrainsАй бұрын
It's a 4 axle locomotive😂
@TBlackMktg7 ай бұрын
Looks as all the cars are loaded so that's revenue. That's why they still serve them. You would have to did thru layers of politics to find out who is responsible for this track's maintenance
@Jennifer-K5LA6 ай бұрын
That's bad track?.....you should see some of the stuff they creep over around here 😮
Please fix the track, don't need another derailment
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
I think there working on it, or I hope so because they don't really have a choose.
@carlfalt1747 ай бұрын
The crew is clearly getting paid by the hour
@Kiwigeo83397 ай бұрын
Yeah well you could get them to charge down the siding at full noise and save a few hundred dollars in wages...and end up spending thousands on a re-rail job.
@philbob997 ай бұрын
Gauge.
@Joe-d7m6k7 ай бұрын
All the money that UP makes, and they cant even fix THEIR OWN track????? GEEEZ!!!!
@albertcyphers15327 ай бұрын
I believe the customer is supposed to have a responsibility for some or all of the upkeep of their siding
@silicon2127 ай бұрын
It's probable that this trackage belongs to Behr Iron and not UP.
@Joe-d7m6k7 ай бұрын
@@silicon212 Well then it's a question of --- if the customer does not want to chip in for the track that services THEIR business, then UP can DENY SERVICE.
@silicon2127 ай бұрын
@@Joe-d7m6k Also true.
@silicon2127 ай бұрын
@@Joe-d7m6k Back in the SP days, I knew many of the guys that would crew the Magma Turn local out of Phoenix to the east. In the early 90s, they would serve customers in a small industrial yard east of Center st at Broadway in Mesa. Much of this track was very old, and in the same condition as what you see here. The conductor of that crew told me that if a car were to go on the ground, the engineer was to run the engine hard and tear out as much of that old track as possible - because this was the only way it would be repaired.
@chrispasini58706 ай бұрын
That's slower than the Chino CA local line
@railsofcentraljersey7 ай бұрын
Shawn B
@thuggoe7 ай бұрын
why they need 2 people
@joecameron35127 ай бұрын
For everyone saying how bad the track is ive seen way worse this isn't all that bad for 5mph
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
except for the fact that it's out of gauge
@johnwinter82737 ай бұрын
Like that local freight action, even in slow motion.👍 Those 2 guys riding the engine are useless. One guy on the ground watching for potential problems. Seems a couple more sets of eyes watching would be nice. But I guess that's not in their union job description.🙄
@beerancher32257 ай бұрын
If the track is so bad , why are they running on it ?
@MidWestRailFan-1z2eq7 ай бұрын
Because Thay have to retrieve the loads, so the company doesn't get overloaded.
@tinindian95437 ай бұрын
BUTTJEG AND JOES BUILD BACK BETTER FILM !
@jasminelindros89237 ай бұрын
And Republicans proposed EXACTLY how much money to fix this kind of problem? Was their proposal a number greater than ZERO?
@tomz1daful7 ай бұрын
I'll agree, Trump's approach to the rail sector was referred to as "a dichotomy" of priorities. The TIGER and FAST programs didn't get consistent funding and, more importantly, clear vision and direction. An article commented about "leveraging" the rails private sector to receive funding... collaboration with the system that regulates you is a (metaphorically) marriage of convenience, and corruption vis. "quid pro quo" is most likely how things are being done (my opinion). A clearer, more defined vision needs to happen, but infrastructure ain't sexy, so it often gets ignored until... "Damn! These tracks is outta gauge, why are they conducting business on unsafe tracks?" 💀☕ @@jasminelindros8923
@bellboy40747 ай бұрын
Railroads are private property and are maintained however the owner wants to maintain them.