How BNSF Delivers: Switching Steel Customer in Fort Worth!
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2019
- A BNSF local serves an old, gritty spur in an industrial section north of Fort Worth, delivering rolls of steel to a customer on brand new rail cars. If you're like me, then railfanning locals in new territory can be exciting-especially when the operation is unique. I searched everywhere online and couldn't find any other shots on this spur: the Willbanks Industrial Lead, which is an operational anomaly. Hopefully the diagrams in this video do a good job explaining why, and don't forget to look out for that weird signal near the end of the video! You also can't beat the sound of two EMD GP locomotives rumbling between some old metal buildings...
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I work as a machinist for BNSF in Ft. Worth and have worked on both those motors.
I'm one of a dying breed at any railroad, a Boilermaker at TSMT in Topeka, Ks for Bnsf. As far as I'm concerned it's the best job, at the best place, with the TOP SAFETY MINDED SKILLED EMPLOYEES at the #1 railroad in America. We overhaul our fleet, repair wreck damage to rebuilding locomotives from the rails to the stack if needed. I do BM inbound inspections on our EMD intermediate locomotives. These two units might surprise most by the build dates, it's a testament to the work we do at Topeka that's second to none. Let's start with the 3185 its original build date was 4/1981. Here's why I say our work doesn't take a backseat to anyone, the 2614 it's original build date was August of 1965, it's hard to believe but it's all documented. Saying I'm proud of where I work is a understatement.
I'll say it again , best rail fan channel on youtube. The combination of great filming and extra information , brilliant . Cheers !
Thanks, that means a lot!
Try distant signal he very good .central you are to
Really old Santa Fe and one strange crossing! You’re full of surprises! Keep it up man!
Thank you!
Man, those are brand new coil cars! The weight on those wagons comes through really good in the audio. It SOUNDS as heavy as it actually is.
I’m just thrilled to see a customer using rail. Where I live I see a lot of trains running through but there are very few industries that have rail service anymore. Great video and I also love the information you provide too.
love the old blue and yellow Santa Fe units, nice snag! Great video!
That's the same ex Santa Fe now BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD GP40 unit that was pulling the Amtrak at one point when Amtrak was struggling. I remember this unit back in 1998 & 2001, 2004 when I used to live right across from the locomotive bypass.
Central Penn Rail Productions , great video!!! the attention to detail is most valuable to railfans like myself who model these operations i appreciate how your video includes the map of the subject great work and thank you for sharing you have earned a new subscriber.
Great video. So hard to find industrial switching anywhere!!
Thank you
It was cool to see new FreightCar America designs. They're a great company, making most of their cars from aluminum alloy. It's lighter and stronger than steel and doesn't rust.
They were once Johnstown America. They took over a couple of abandoned US Steel and Bethlehem car plants and offices in Johnstown, Pa. It started to revitalize the town, but then, the city government got greedy, as governments do, and started to raise taxes, fees, requirements and restrictions on them.
After a year or so of that, they took their manufacturing plants elsewhere, to Virginia, Nebraska and Alabama. Their HQ remained in Johnstown for a while, but that's gone to Chicago. There's still a lone administrative building in nearby Geistown.
Johnstown is back to shrinking away to nothing. I'm sure the politicians gave themselves a raise or two since then.
thank you for posting!
Very nice descriptions and sketches during this video. Great 👍 job. Thanks!
wow...very fresh great Train video! Great Work! I like it! Kind regards
Excellent capture of a day railway work!!! Great job Sr!!!
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Nice work! Always good to see some SF units out switching! One of the benefits of modelling the BNSF , you can still have BN green and Santa Fe power ! Well done !
Cheers Gregg :-)
All your videos are good. Lots of interesting locations and information that give me ideas for switching layouts.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and find it helpful!
Couldn't imagine how BNSF delivers! Now I know how they do packaging! :D
Fantastic video love those Unit's!!!!
Great video and the side information is appreciated. Those coil cars are very different compared to what I see up here in SE PA. I'll be sure to check out your local stuff.
Hello from Lebanon. Wow, you’re really far away from your normal locations along the old Reading Company mainline. It must be vacation time. I thought you might be interested in an interesting train I saw early last week while sitting at the 8th Ave crossing on the east end of Lebanon. I often sit there to watch what NS has to offer while I eat my lunch.
Along came a perfectly normal looking westbound HS manifest freight pulled by 3 usual ugly black units. The fairly long train passed in front of me slowly. Then came the surprise when 3 NS DPU units came chugging along near the end of the train. I don’t see that many DPU units on NS trains in my area all that often. But 3 of them suddenly appearing came as a very pleasant surprise.
Thanks for your always fine videography. Enjoy your trip to the Southwest. Great work!!! CAS
Hi Charles, good to hear from you again. Was that on Saturday? I might have seen the same train, I counted 187 cars. 3 up front, 3 in the middle, sure are running some big trains now. And thanks for watching!
Central Penn Rail Productions Hi Again from Cornwall. Yes it probably was Saturday, now that you mention it. I was just floored to see 3 DPU units on that train. I’m a watcher, no much of a photographer, so I hope you had a camera turned on. As soon as I saw that consist I thought immediately of you!! Many thanks for responding. I really hoped you knew about that train. Enjoy the rest of your vacation.
FYI. I’m now off on my European trip for about 3 weeks of trains and of course my first love: streetcars. I’m in den Haag today to start my trip. Will also do trams, as they call them over here, in Antwerp, Rotterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Milan, Florence, and that crazy one rail mutant traction vehicle in Venice. Also lots of fun passenger trains in between, including a sleeper from Vienna to Milan. I come back 11/5. Also some non-train time in Italy where I’ll meet up with my wife to keep my marriage together. Should be a real Hoot!!
Have a great fall season. Keep shooting. You just do a wonderful job. Many, many thanks. CAS
Nice catch!
this is my favorite Santafe Locomotive 0:43 Very interesting video thanks for sharing.
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GP50 I posted the original build dates of these two in my post above.
Super gorgeous 😍🥰
Nice Catch
Awesome Video!!!
Awesome!
nice video bro
Cool
This was super informative and entertaining. I miss the War Bonnet paint on road units but I love the yard colors that have been put on rebuilt BNSF units. I'm always happy to see old Santa Fe heralds, but I prefer the repainted scheme over the Yellow Bonnet. What should we call it H3? Thanks for posting!
I believe the scheme on 2614 is considered H3. And thank you for watching and commenting! I appreciate it.
Awesome as usual. I’m curious as to if any knows/ has guess on how the cars got flipped around? On delivery, the gondola was by the locomotive, but it was at the end of the train on the return.
Good question and observation. There is no wye or passing siding on the property according to google satellite, but only the covered car and the gondola flipped-the gray cars have the same number sequence going in and out, so my guess is they use a track mobile to shove cars into their building and when they made the cut they shove the gray cars in the followed by the other two. Thanks for watching!
That makes sense, shove them all in the building, then pull them out the coil cars as a group, then the covered and gondola one by one
Cool 😎
Interesting, the gon was on the other end when the steel cars were dropped off before. Wonder how it got switched to the other end.
Anybody know if the first three coil cars are available in HO ? If so, who manufacturers them ? Excellent high quality video ! Full of interesting railroading. The added information is most welcomed.
1:87/ HO Scale Steel Mill Modeling, i am a fan of modelling steel products and related rail equipment as well to answer your question i don't think so about those rolled steel cars , maybe Scaletrains will probably lead the pack in producing a model in HO or perhaps Atlas who continue to put out coil cars on a consistent basis hope this helps
@@timothybogans3905 Hopefully,some HO manufacturer will take on this coil car in the future. Thanks for the opinion.
@@ModelingSteelinHO You're welcome take care
When are you doing your Norfolk Southern Harrisburg line videos again?
Thumbs Up Liked for you my Friend.
Those new coil cars look so odd!
in the end of the video what type this phantom railroad signal is and why there is no tracks near it and why it's abandoned?
Heh, brand new coil cars on one end of the train; a Norfolk and Western gondola on the other.
Gotta love Texan railroads I live there just not in Ft worth, but I’ve been there to the stockyards, anyway great vid. :D
Hey, thanks for watching and commenting!
No problem!
This is proof the economy is on the move. New rail cars delivering steel made here to a manufacturer based here. You can tell how old the building is. Smaller manufacturers haven't had these kind of customized services like this in a long time. And an almost new engine in front.
Dude, it means nothing. It's a handful of cars delivering some steel coils. New cars mean nothing. Old cars get scrapped, new cars get built. I can tell you theres a huge recession coming, probably worse than in '08/'09. We've been seeing signs of it. Fall peak season is very weak this year.
Whoa, there. In the 1st part of the video, we see the two locomotives shoving the train of coil steel cars (and one gondola) into the (apparently) stub-end siding, with the gondola car sticking out. But in the second part of the video, we see the engines pull the empties back to the yard, but now the gondola is last?!? WTF! Either there’s a passing siding, or the industry spur was not a stub-end siding after all, or the industry has a Hi-rail truck (or a small switcher) and they rearranged the rail cars during the time in between the 1st and 2nd parts of the video. Hmmm... 🤔
I was wondering the same thing
I was wondering that too. The train as a whole has not been turned. When it's being pushed, the gondola is next to the locomotive, then the covered coil car, then uncovered coil car TW 805857. When the train is being pulled out, TW 805587 is next to the locomotive -- if the train had somehow been turned, that car would have been the last uncovered coil car, still next to the covered one. So, there must have been some switching that moved the gondola and the covered coil car to the back of the train.
What is the red container car for? I'm always seeing them and I can never figure out their purpose
It's the same kind of car, it just has a cover over it to protect the load from the weather.
Hooded coil gondola. They have insulated hoods to protect certain types of coil steel from the elements.
Is this a joint line? Interesting how a BNSF train gets to run down the UP to serve a customer off the UP mainline?
I might redo this video at some point since I made this before I had a mic so I tried to explain with text and diagrams though I know it's hard to follow. It's not a joint line, they just have an isolated piece of property that they must get to via what is present day UP.
How did they manage in the metal company to change the order of the cars, although there are no turnouts?
simple, it's done just like the shell game.
Why does BNSF put the small cylinder that connects the numberboards and nose? I never understood it.
I've always wondered the same thing myself! I assume it's collision reinforcement, but I'll let someone who works on locomotives who knows what they're talking about determine that.
May be a toilet vent tube up through the roof
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Why is the metal exposed to the elements on those new coil cars?
Probably COR-TEN steel which needs no protection.
@@eltoro6688 so those new coil cars are limited to certain materials of the non readily oxidizing type? They are special rolling stock for only certain metals?
@@michaelmccarthy4615 , More than Likely.
I'm a bit confused. When they dropped at the customer, the string of cars was reversed. How did that happen?
I'll guess the customer moves the cars inside their plant. The gon pro bably had scrap, which would go into a furnace to be melted. The coils would go elsewhere to be heated, rolled to spec thickness and punched, cut or otherwise formed.
Coils are not reheated. The gondola was probably also a coil car. A lot have coil racks installed in them. This is probably a pickling and shearing company that makes final product for a stamping plant. Steel mills used to do that work, but most outsource it now.
I can see why you think the PTC is ugly since the AC units force them to the side, if the AC was builtin the PTC would be a large sheet of sorts and would look sightly better for aesthetics. Also the welding job is terrible.
bnsf :)
BlueBonnet? Looks Yellow
This is the way all steel should be delivered, not by semi truck
it would be better if you did a voice over other than place text on the screen.
I hear ya, but do you want to really hear my voice? Are you volunteering? ;-)
4:35 look at those nasty welds. Yuck
Maxim . Well, its not Navy grade weld anyway.
That is some nasty welding on the tubing for the PTC mount. Stevie Wonder could probably do a better job.
boring ... i am a truck driver that load probably was on a truck at one time
@PS 400 all depends on the weight of the coils under 25,000 lbs a truck can carry 3 coils that size about 25,000 can only carry 2unless specially permitted to carry more some trucks can carry 4 of those coils at once
nice vid... and it looks like BNSF is about as bad as CP Rail when it comes to NOT repainting old merger locos... on the CP there are STILL old Milwaukee units that have yet to be repainted... still cool to see the old fallen flag units still in their old schemes though
Nice catch!