Cumberland Mine Railroad
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Ride along on the railroad from the Alicia facility on the Monongahela River, to the Cumberland Mine where the coal is loaded on the train, then back to Alicia to dump the coal so it can be loaded onto barges.
Ccrx 6700 has a ton of awesome movies about the Cumberland mone railroad. I think he is a track maintenance guy there. Real work videos too, not clickbait nonsense. I would highly recommend checking him out. He does what he loves and I think he likes sharing it too so the videos are all too notch. Just him working and showing and explaining different things about railroading.
I just found his channel last month. I would totally agree with you, his videos are awesome. He sure knows his railroad. Quite a guy for sure.
Absolutely love watching Dave's videos.
I watch his all the time. Right now they are cleaning up a derailment that happened on their line.
Sure seems like Dave is a good guy!
Yeah only he himself is very hard to watch. love his videos , cannot stand him. he talks to much.
Thank you for sharing this video, I've never seen the newer bottom dumping coal cars, I do remember the older ones 49-50 vintage with bottom dumps that needled to be tripped open with a hammer.
Those aren’t new. My favorite is the Chinese coal trains with rotating coupler and they flip the whole thing to get all the coal out, seemed a lot more efficient at clearing cars than those vibratey motor clamps.
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Excellent video! Coal and railroads are what it's all about.
That was pretty cool. Cab ride views as well as loading coal. I've always known how hoppers were loaded, but never saw it done before. Great video!
Me and my dad were there a long time ago. We didn't get to go on a ride but we got in Engine #1. Very nice guys who let us stay as long as we wanted. Cool expierience!
Thanks for showing us how real railroading is done. Compliments the videos on the MOW.
Pretty cool !!! Great video
good work folks!
Awesome!! Thanks for posting!!
I love the graphical 10 mph sign as you enter the yard.
And _that_ is what gets burned, so the uppity Tesla and Prius owners can recharge their battery operated feel good cars.
This mine is more coking coal. So it may get used in steel production. I would work well in my wood stove!
@@annyer262 So is it the Chinese coal industry that powers EV batteries?
@@ajloricco693 what do you mean? Electricity from a chinese coal powered plant to make chinese batteries.. It used to be Australian coal. Now probably crappy high sulphur coal from Mongolia!
Coking coal can be burnt but is primarily used for steel production.
When I used to maintain and calibrate the instruments in the prep plant and dryer it was U.S. Steel's Kirby plant and Cumberland Mine. That was in 1984. I was told that they had an exclusive contract to supply coal to an Ontario power plant. U.S. Steel's Maple Creek mine in New Eagle provided coal to the company's Clairton Coke Works.
Years passed...in 2008 I started working at Elrama Power Station, which bought coal from Cumberland, then it closed in 2012 and I went to Cheswick Power Station, scheduled to close in September. We bought coal from Cumberland and Ohio Ridge.
@@annyer262 , my father said to NEVER use coal in a wood stove! Coal burns at a much higher temperature than wood and contains sulphur, which turns into sulfuric acid and eats the stove and flue pipes.
nice job
really cool this fully operational short lines exists still
Loading these carriages so cleanly with coal is a matter of pure finesse
A very good feature article about this railroad in the January 2021 issue of Trains Magazine.
Thanks! I was told about it and I ordered a copy. Very nice!
@@petezapadka excelente! I think I saw this railroad back in the late 70's. I was living in Pittsburgh and had a friend who lived near Jollytown in Greene County. I remember seeing coal trains.
moonspots01 Hi Hope you are doing OK. I found this railroad a couple of weeks ago on ccrx 6700 channel and it looks great. I saw about the mag yesterday but it seems they are all out of stock now, I may find a copy one day though. Dave's videos are really good he sure knows his stuff and tells about things in an interesting way.
Such a cool operation. Great video!
An excellent video. 💙 T.E.N.
So cool......COAL forever !!!
Good video. Thanks for posting!
Cool video footage.
Nice video footage from a rarely seen operation. How many waivers did you have to sign to be able to ride on the train lol?
All of them, and a few more I suspect....
i learned to swim at in the river at the Alicia tipple!
I wonder who is doing the inspections on the train and river since I left
It a wonderful Job...
I wouldn't think it's efficient to empty one hopper at a time. A lot of stop/go for the locomotive....
So satisfying watching coal load....🙂
Running long hood forward; are there at grade crossing that endanger crew members or that’s just how they roll? Nice diesels. Those coal loaders are called “flood loaders” and that back flap is why the loaded cars have that flat top on the coal load.
Not any grade crossings except for the one on private coal company property near the river. One locomotive leads the train to the mine; the other takes the lead going back.
Lmao nice strategy. Running reverse so you throw the engine through whoever runs the crossing instead of the cab,
I live close by. I can't believe they announced closing the mine last week. 700 hundred jobs will be lost.
Maybe a cab ride if I make it back that way in this lifetime
If I’m correct, I believe this Railroad is isolated?
Correct!
I didn't get a good look at the RCL control box are you using Control Chief or Beltpak? What is the speed controller you use for the loading ops? I installed and maintained Beltpak and CC for a shortline RR and I really enjoyed the work, gee thanks for the nostalgic look back and me missing a hard job all of a sudden :) thanks for the video!!! And the ride along!
They use Control Chief.
:33 What's that big pipe on the right coming out of the ground under the overpass ?
That might be a gas main or water pipe?
Cool! Are they still running the same pair of SD38's they used to?
Are they only moving the coal a short distance?
As I recall, it was about 22 miles from the mine to the river.
Where does the coal go after the dump ?
Into barges on the nearby Monongahela River then transported to various locations.
this would be great to ride if possible
Hi great video - really want to try and film this how did you do it? Thanks
Grateful Dead wrote a song about, the Cumberland mine, on the album, Working Man's Dead. - check it out on CZcams.👍😃👍
Is that near where the muskingham mine was where big Muskie worked at?
This is near Waynesburg, Pa.
Big Muskie worked near Cumberland, OH
I'm not an American and I realised that American trains haul huge amounts of coal. So what do they use that much coal for?
The coal is burned to create steam, in coal fired power plants that generate electricity.
How many cars on the train?
Hi Joe! The day I rode, the engineer told me "38 cars with better than 100 tons in each car."
Can people get rides on the train
No. It’s a working rail line that hauls coal.
I will never understand why it was a good idea to unload a coal car by rotating the entire car. Even if the cars were ganged 3 or 4 at a time, it never made any sense to me. I understand the cars structure was simplified & less costly, but to hold up an entire train for the additional time necessary made no economic sense. From the unloading videos I've seen using the rotation practice, they can in this video probably unload 6-8 cars in the same amount of time, maybe more. Great video.
My guess would be that rotary cars are structurally closed on the bottom and therefore are not plagued by coal fines leaking out of cracks onto the tracks. And, a car cannot accidentally dump an entire load onto the tracks when the hopper doors accidentally open. See the channel of ccrx6700 for videos on this.
It comes down to cost. The rotating cars are much cheaper to build and maintain in the long run.
Finely made video, mon ami !
More importantly, do you have a romantic relationship with Amy Johns ?
Are all of these guys in the unemployment line now?
Coal keep the world moving.
No we are all still working 6 days a week
No
@@raydiamond3667 , the only names I recall are John Eckert and Randy Brown. Randy was a prep plant electrician and John was the plant manager.
@@s0nnyburnett coal is actually a dirty fossil fuel , everyone is trying to get away from using it because it creates a lot pollution and it's expensive too there's really no use for it other than for power plants that use coal to make electricity.
Give the green freaks time and this will be gone. Good paying jobs will be history.
they'll still need electricity to power their "green" electric cars
Don't forget having electricity without even thinking about it will be gone, too.