This has to be the most amazingly CLEAN industrial railroad (& narrow gauge, to boot!) I've ever seen in my life! The locomotives look immaculate & very modern. (What manufacturer built them?). Even the gondoal cars are clean! Iron ically, the ONLY piecr of equipment that showed ANY signs of weathering was the water car! 😄 I'm guessing the fact that this is a desert environment in additon to rxcellent maintenace; and the fact that appatently in a very sparsely populated are means graffitti is non-existent! 🙂 Where in the southwest is this operation located? Very interesting video! 😉
I do have to ask though - how did your truck hold up in the sand? I rented a jeep wrangler specifically for this railroad and it did well for me. I initially had a small truck before upgrading to the wrangler thinking a truck wouldn’t get it done. The jeep did well for the most part - but it did get pretty bad for a quarter mile stretch or so about half a mile past the superstition trestle heading towards the quarry.
Doug Koontz It’s an alarm bell electrically linked to the crossing lights. Whenever the gate across the tracks is in the open position, the alarm bell is on to warn personnel of the impending railroad equipment movements around the crossing. Since this is considered an FRA insular railroad operation, they do not have to conform to the common crossing bell/gate setup you see on mainline railroad operations.
Great video documenting the operations. What a fun railroad to photograph.
Thank you so much for this! I've always been very interested in this operation and there are very few images or videos of it.
This has to be the most amazingly CLEAN industrial railroad (& narrow gauge, to boot!) I've ever seen in my life! The locomotives look immaculate & very modern. (What manufacturer built them?). Even the gondoal cars are clean! Iron ically, the ONLY piecr of equipment that showed ANY signs of weathering was the water car! 😄 I'm guessing the fact that this is a desert environment in additon to rxcellent maintenace; and the fact that appatently in a very sparsely populated are means graffitti is non-existent! 🙂 Where in the southwest is this operation located?
Very interesting video! 😉
Interesting operation, thanks for uploading.
Hi from NZ,
Anthony
Love the new color scheme!
I do have to ask though - how did your truck hold up in the sand? I rented a jeep wrangler specifically for this railroad and it did well for me. I initially had a small truck before upgrading to the wrangler thinking a truck wouldn’t get it done. The jeep did well for the most part - but it did get pretty bad for a quarter mile stretch or so about half a mile past the superstition trestle heading towards the quarry.
That horn sounds like a southern railway engine
Really enjoyed this.
Nothing like a horn happy engineer
Beautiful RS3L
It’s a Nathan p5
@@heribertoperez40 Rly?
@@LastExile1989 how cant you even tell? a RS3L is deeper sounded than a P5
I never really liked the sound of P5s they always sounded out of tune. Which is why this caught me off guard. This one actually sounds good.
Very nice catch
Wie ein alter Trecker.
Nicht zu vergleichen mit dem TB 11 von MTU. 😩
Why does every train have a tank car at the back?
There’s no source of drinking water at the mine. It has to be brought in by rail.
@@SouthernPacific8984 Cool, I learned something. Thanks!
What locomotive is this? I want to learn something new.
landis terrell Bombardier DL535E
@@SouthernPacific8984 thank you!
How do they transport the finished product from Plaster City? Is there any rail line out that still functions?
Yes, Union Pacific operates the former SD&AE trackage between El Centro and Plaster City.
That is a big a$$ locomotive for a narrow gauge operation :-). I wonder by the way why he keeps honking, the thing makes a lot of noice itself....
When you are at the crossing what does the bell indicate?
Doug Koontz It’s an alarm bell electrically linked to the crossing lights. Whenever the gate across the tracks is in the open position, the alarm bell is on to warn personnel of the impending railroad equipment movements around the crossing. Since this is considered an FRA insular railroad operation, they do not have to conform to the common crossing bell/gate setup you see on mainline railroad operations.
Roolish2 good tonish
What gauge is this?
3’ gauge
Width of the gauge?
36"
@@SouthernPacific8984 👍🏾🙂
Someday they with fix that road
Like that bell lol
someone please show me a map
You can Google Map it - Plaster City