And here I thought it was going to be about TBMs or box jacking!
That was a public (dis)service. You got his “views” way up and now he’ll post more of them.
I second that.
And that was a short train. Only took 3:08 minutes to clear. Just think if it were one of today’s 200 car trains. Last night, I was watching a CIncinnati Railroad Club zoom presentation of some silent films (1950’s) from your (Balt) old stomping ground (Stores) and Riverside showing some B&O and NYC steam trains, both freight & passenger; then some early diesel trains running along River Road in Cincinnati to North Bend, Valley, etc. Freight trains were short, 20 - 40 cars. One coal train might have had 50 cars pulled by two RS-1s.
A short train would be Q353, which is two engines running light through Deshler on a daily basis…
I’ve mentioned 13,000 foot trains traversing the transfers at Deshler at 10 MPH.
As of the time I retired the ‘normal’ big coal train into Baltimore was 130 cars, the standard ‘small’ coal train was 90 cars.
What surprised me was 4 units on the head end - normal power for coal trains (before I retired) was 2 AC’s. Of course, as far as I know Cumberland Locomotive Shop is still working and that is where a lot of locomotives are repaired.
I would have thought the same thing, but I have no idea what TBMs are, nor box jacking. I only watched it (at 2x speed) because I wondered what drilling holes had to do with trains.
Yeah, ya seen one coal train ya seen 'em all. Might as well turn off the camera after the power’s passed.
Now, if they put advertising on the sides of those hoppers it’d be a LOT more interesting.
Sure isn’t one of young Mr. Harrison’s videos, that’s for sure!
Now you are denigrating the artistic efforts of all the taggers that used the cars as the canvas of their artistry - they are ‘advertising’ on most all the cars that pass. One artist even put their art on the bottom sheets of one of the coal gons.
A question for our optics gurus. The video shows the crossing signals mostly yellow but once in a while the same lamp shows red especially the ones near the rear view mirror. What is the cause ?
Color balance of the video recording equipment.
I was going to suggest incandescent lamps and faded lenses, but then I noticed another phenomenon - the lights appear to quit flashing periodically.
This would likely be due to the lamps being LED. LED’s don’t come on steady, as would an incandescent lamp. They are pulsed, and the flicker rate of the LED’s isn’t in synch with the sample rate of digital cameras.
If you watch the lamps closely, you’ll see them appear red just before they seem to stop flashing briefly, and as they again become visible. Your eye/brain compensates for the flicker.
The info on the YT feed from Deshler includes a caution that for the above reason the crossing lights might appear to be malfunctioning. They are working fine, so don’t call CSX to report said issue.
Given that LEDs are “doped” to a specific color, I would opine that there’s something going on between the LEDs and the camera that makes them appear yellow.
I’m open to other suggestions.
Likely not a white-balance issue. Observe the periodicity. The ‘yellow’ is the crossing light being "overexposed’ by the CCD. As it gets out of phase we see red because only part of the light is emitted during the time the elements are reading; then they go out of phase entirely and the light appears to vanish entirely (even though we know it is still “visibly” on to human perception).
I agree 100%.
Many years ago, I had a regular gig shooting basketball games for a nearby college. The lights in the gym pulsated. If I shot a burst with my motor drive (about 5 frames per second), the exposure difference from one frame to the adjacent one could be pretty extreme. The guy charges in. He goes up for the hoop. He dunks it. That sequence might be: 1st frame too dark, 2nd frame okay, 3rd frame too dark. The pulses and the motor drive were out of phase with each other.
Mark I eyeballs vizualized them as RED.
As info, the recording instrument is a Garmin VIRB Elite action camara, that is afixed to a device between the headrests on my Triumph TR-7 convertible. It is recording at 780P and 30 frames per second. White Balance is automatic.
In reviewing the video - the flashers go from ‘yellowish’ to RED and back periodically. I find it amazing the ways in which video camera shutters distort some actions. The color shift in this video. Propeller planes with tips of the prop ‘bending’ back over the engine. There is one video floating around the web of a helicopter taking off where the rotor blades seem stationary.
Oh good Lord, I would never want to do that! [;)]
Boring - in line and welding
Too bad Miningman’s banned, I’m sure he’d have some boring videos to share!
456 Axles! (in Europe we count axles, not cars: there are a number of four wheel cars among the newer eight wheel cars in freight trains). What is the weight of one of these cars? Are they loaden? Then what was the total weight of the train?
These twelve wheel diesels have a tractive effort that almost makes me shiver! And they are four! About 3000 horse power motors (?) makes 12000 horse power. Surprising to me: they never sound at the limit of their power, rather so-so, like it’s nothing too hard. What tractive effort will they reach combined? I believe it is steel bursting anyhow!
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