How Do Solid Steel Train Wheels Get Repaired? | Arctic Ice Railroad

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  • čas pƙidĂĄn 5. 05. 2021
  • Solid steel train wheels and tracks need to be constantly repaired, especially in the harsh arctic environment and this is how it gets done.
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  • @paulh7589
    @paulh7589 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    I learned something new here. I've never heard of a grinding train. I always figured they had to replace the track when it got bad. That was neat.

  • @BlindguyTV
    @BlindguyTV Pƙed 3 lety +36

    I like especially how the grinder was working with snow on the ground, and that freight that was “closing” in was working in nice warm weather :/

    • @earlwright9715
      @earlwright9715 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      Exactly, there was no "freight train closing in", they assume we are all 4th graders

    • @WayneTesta4444
      @WayneTesta4444 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      They always have to add such drama

    • @MonkeyGus
      @MonkeyGus Pƙed 3 lety

      @@WayneTesta4444 Because Murica!

    • @Gizmo42Rodeo
      @Gizmo42Rodeo Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Exactly why I completly stopped watching tv about 3 years ago. Every show turned into this overly dramatic garbage. Much better watching actual people doing the actual work on youtube. Which is what I was hoping this was when I clicked on it.

    • @snowowl4019
      @snowowl4019 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@MonkeyGus Yeah, "Murica". Even though it's a Canadian railroad and a British show network lol

  • @waynec369
    @waynec369 Pƙed 3 lety +41

    Just can't tell a story anymore without throwing some drama in...

  • @thepragmatic6383
    @thepragmatic6383 Pƙed rokem +2

    At the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s, I worked at Canadian Steel Wheel (CSW) in Montreal.
    This factory made forged train wheels from scrap steel.
    Two electric arc furnaces, each with a capacity of 90 tons, melted and cast steel into ingots over 15 feet long by 20 inches in diameter.
    These ingots were then cut into cylindrical blocks of varying lengths depending on the diameter of the wheels to be produced.
    Once red-hot, these blocks passed through the 7 hydraulic presses of the forge, to give them the shape of a train wheel.
    Then remained the stage of final machining, before shipping to customers.

  • @dubsydubs5234
    @dubsydubs5234 Pƙed 3 lety +26

    Interesting so after 8 minutes you didn't show any wheels getting repaired, just a second or two of a lathe. So anyone wanting to know how train wheels are repaired don't bother watching this.

    • @ashevilletrainman6989
      @ashevilletrainman6989 Pƙed 2 lety

      Because there is no way to safely repair train wheels . Gotta be completely melted down .

  • @NorthernRailsTrainsInTheNorth

    Nice to see the local rails featured on TV 👍

  • @stephenjoyce5822
    @stephenjoyce5822 Pƙed 3 lety +10

    Reminds me of gra sanandreas train using the cinematic camera angle

  • @curtisbarkes6271
    @curtisbarkes6271 Pƙed 3 lety +24

    This five minute long, TERRIBLY EDITED FROM A FULL SHOW is maddening.

    • @FlushtheSystem
      @FlushtheSystem Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Exactly what I was thinking. 10 ads jeez. Thanks ScrewTube.

  • @radarmike6713
    @radarmike6713 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    This is my home town. I live here and drive past/over the ONR yard sometime over a dozen times a day. They've been around a long time. But not as busy as they were when I was a kid and they had passenger services.
    Several years ago they had a derailment about 5 miles from that rail crossing the grinder went through. The derailment went right into one of 5 homes back yards I that area.

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n Pƙed 3 lety +4

    The Wheel-O-Matic.
    Classic

    • @verybigowl
      @verybigowl Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Looks like a lathe to me lol

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 Pƙed 3 lety +17

    I don’t think the narrator could sound more patronising if he tried.

  • @mrwest5552
    @mrwest5552 Pƙed 3 lety

    Great Stuff

  • @grumpyg9350
    @grumpyg9350 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Fun to watchđŸ‘đŸ»đŸ‘đŸ»đŸ‘đŸ»đŸ‘đŸ»

  • @sighpocket5
    @sighpocket5 Pƙed 3 lety

    Nice!!!!

  • @SaiaArt
    @SaiaArt Pƙed 3 lety

    There is a new machine that does the same job without having to remove the axle from the cars/locomotive. It hoists the entire unit up. My brother designed part of it and installs them. Brightline & BNSF both have them, among other rail companies.

  • @davidlongtin4985
    @davidlongtin4985 Pƙed 3 lety

    My grandfather did this job for Great Northern Railway in St. Paul Minnesota

  • @totorocatbus
    @totorocatbus Pƙed 3 lety +4

    The narrator sounds the same as the one on Guy Martin Proper, hell they might actually be the same person

    • @Davo1969
      @Davo1969 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      It’s the same guy, Shaun Dooley

    • @totorocatbus
      @totorocatbus Pƙed 3 lety

      @@Davo1969 I figured, that's cool and his voice is so iconic

  • @Tom_Emody
    @Tom_Emody Pƙed rokem

    I think, how do they get broken is a good question. Solid steel. Whew.

    • @25mfd
      @25mfd Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

      a LOT of stress... immense stress

  • @vis8027
    @vis8027 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Just here to wish yall aunt a goodday.

  • @jde1780
    @jde1780 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    It's the end of the world without drama! Saved again by Docu-Drama Hyperbole!

  • @thomastrainsmore2010
    @thomastrainsmore2010 Pƙed rokem +1

    Wow

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the video, but why the horrible intrusive music??? Best of luck!

  • @StevenRides
    @StevenRides Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Ohey it's the same narrator as Guy Martin

  • @sypher4912
    @sypher4912 Pƙed 3 lety

    I can't find any information about this show, like anywhere. It has no IMDB, no Wiki page, nothing on DMAX's site, and I can't even find torrents that might have credits I can watch. Who has information about this show???

  • @Infrared73
    @Infrared73 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    I would assume wheel maintenance is just a standard activity. The narration is so dramatic but it's over the top. If they talked about this in the context of the tires on a car, it could blow out while travelling down the freeway and people could starve because fast food takeout didn't get home.

  • @gregoryhamblett9071
    @gregoryhamblett9071 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    I wonder what the average length of rail/gadge life expectancie is?

    • @TheNemosdaddy
      @TheNemosdaddy Pƙed 3 lety +1

      2-50 years. Depending on it's use, tonnage on it, and amount of curve in it, etc.

    • @gregoryhamblett9071
      @gregoryhamblett9071 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@TheNemosdaddy thanks for the info..thought there would be a big difference..

  • @mechanicman8687
    @mechanicman8687 Pƙed 3 lety

    I’ve lived by Tehachapi loop for 57 years


  • @ducky1496
    @ducky1496 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Nice job with the FAKE tension!!!! Hahahahah hahahahah!!!!

  • @loboheeler
    @loboheeler Pƙed 3 lety

    This is only addressing worn trailer wheels here. Wonder if Diesel locomotive driving wheels are different? Steam locomotives had replicable drive wheel shoes.

    • @dryroasted5599
      @dryroasted5599 Pƙed 3 lety

      The wheel sets with the large gears inboard were drive axles.

  • @mikeznel6048
    @mikeznel6048 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Yeah, add welding sounds to the grinding... Cause thats how it works...

  • @FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial

    I'm surprised Ontario Northland is in this Documentary.

  • @sidewinder666666
    @sidewinder666666 Pƙed 3 lety

    I didn't know Liam Neesen did voiceovers for obscure TV shows.

  • @mikecimerian6913
    @mikecimerian6913 Pƙed 3 lety +6

    The narrator needs some mints.

    • @dryroasted5599
      @dryroasted5599 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Sounds like a pack-a-day cigarette smoker.

  • @BitterTruth123
    @BitterTruth123 Pƙed 3 lety

    Why is Paul Jr. building Bogies?

  • @getredytagetredy
    @getredytagetredy Pƙed 3 lety

    Kinda like a Plec machine on a guitar necks frets...

  • @TheNemosdaddy
    @TheNemosdaddy Pƙed 3 lety +10

    lmfao, so much fake drama. It's so over exaggerated. I'm a 22 year veteran of the mechanical dept. I like how they make out that 400 wheel sets in a year is a lot or something. lmfao. Some places in the US do 400 in a 24 hr day!

  • @andreweppink4498
    @andreweppink4498 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    That "explanation" of wheel "differential" speed around curves is nuts. Man, l see it all the time. If the curve superelevation is correct and the train speed is also correct thru a curve the train will settle pretty close to the centerline of the track due to the combined addiction of the centrifugal force vector pulling the train outboard and the weight vector pulling it down. There will thus be NO appreciable Δ in wheel diameters contacting the railhead and thus no differentiation. It'll squeal like crazy thru the curve.

    • @idadho
      @idadho Pƙed 3 lety +2

      The flanges do a lot of the squealing. I'd rather hear squealing that the narrators horrible voice.

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    @nopelindoputraperkasa5869 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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  • @dankuettel5063
    @dankuettel5063 Pƙed 3 lety

    Disasterrrrrrrrr could happen at any mommmment..

  • @jstoli996c4s
    @jstoli996c4s Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Manufactured drama is the WORST

  • @Dazzed-kj5kf
    @Dazzed-kj5kf Pƙed 3 lety

    I wish we had that machine back in the day, We had to drop the traction Motor, hook up a generator, Secure a rig to the track, it was a shit show

  • @mpaulk2023
    @mpaulk2023 Pƙed rokem

    Why do so many of these videos have to be so dramatized?
    How about just walking us how a truck/rail becomes defective, what it takes to be repaired/replaced, and what happens t the old, defective item INSTEAD of showing us an overdramatized animation of a rail breaking or wheel set derailing?

  • @CarterWHern
    @CarterWHern Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Should use Reardon Steel.

    • @Mesdriver
      @Mesdriver Pƙed 3 lety +1

      What is that "reardon steel"?

    • @CarterWHern
      @CarterWHern Pƙed 3 lety

      @@Mesdriver Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. One of the characters makes a new kind of train rail. Hence Reardon Steel.

    • @chuckfischer7202
      @chuckfischer7202 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@CarterWHern Hank wasn't it, Hank Reardon? Called it Reardon Metal rather than steel. Been fifty years since reading that book.

  • @SpeedyK2003
    @SpeedyK2003 Pƙed 3 lety

    Luckily this was filmed on a world where everything is completely blue

    • @Joseph-ki6wj
      @Joseph-ki6wj Pƙed 2 lety

      whatt so you telling me your world is different. have colors and some shit ive been stuck in blue world where everything is dramatic

  • @gragor11
    @gragor11 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Just another topic ruined by the fake docudrama styling from know nothings down at the head office.

  • @forrestlibby9456
    @forrestlibby9456 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Talk about over acting on the narrators part.

  • @TheFluffyWendigo
    @TheFluffyWendigo Pƙed 3 lety

    wheel o matic...bruh its a big ass lathe its nothing special

  • @theoldbigmoose
    @theoldbigmoose Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Would have been good without all the false crisis BS by the narrator.

  • @geonerd
    @geonerd Pƙed 2 lety +1

    WAAAAY too dramatic! Give the hype a rest, please.

  • @highlandervalasik9274
    @highlandervalasik9274 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    wheels don't develope flat spots hogheads put them on the wheels

  • @PatGarvey
    @PatGarvey Pƙed 3 lety

    Guy should atop taking, “How to Talk Like a Dick” lessons and teach them instead.

  • @greghelms4458
    @greghelms4458 Pƙed 3 lety

    This IS NOT a wheel repair video.

  • @paullee5573
    @paullee5573 Pƙed 3 lety

    Actually, the wheels themselves cannot be repaired. Journal bearings can be replaced, as can tyres. But thaey are not , frome a purist point of view, parts of the wheel. They are component parts of the wheel assembly.
    If you are going to pretend to be an expert, at least get thr basic facts correct.

  • @philmissy1
    @philmissy1 Pƙed 3 lety

    mother of all freight trains? bullshit.

  • @bartdaw6681
    @bartdaw6681 Pƙed 3 lety

    I don’t know why the narrator can’t talk normally.

  • @deuteronimus750
    @deuteronimus750 Pƙed 3 lety

    WTF is wrong with the narrator?

  • @ebkhuner
    @ebkhuner Pƙed 3 lety

    Not a good video. Gives as little information as possible. It seems that producer has no idea what is going on, so they just string together random clips then add narration so an eight year old thinks there is actual content. What we call "Virtually content-free video." A ten-year-old could do better research.

  • @kenc3288
    @kenc3288 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Manufactured drama, terrible script and narrator. Thumbs down.

  • @DonLuc23
    @DonLuc23 Pƙed 2 lety

    Whats with the stupid music?