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3:10 It sounds more like a GEVO coming then a GP7 Lol 😂😂

I like this video

Not sure how I missed this video 'til now Dakota, but great job. You put a lot of miles in that night! Guess it's due to Ian, but it doesn't look like this train-boat package is available, even in December of '24. Bummer.

Oh hey, i just was at the florida Rail Museum with my friend Adam last week It was really great meeting all of ya'll down there

Great video i bet that CSX engineer was angry.

Maybe split type lock washers work; but NordLock washers would be better.

I hired on when YN2 was the norm. Then YN3, to me perfect C & O. YN3 looked like the Employee responsible couldn't think, so he let is five year old write it up, it sucked and Corporate bought it. Now back to my C & O again praise GOD! And correct the Heritage unit debacle, split image, come on! CSX has blown away the competition on # of H. units and isn't done yet.

UPDATE: CEFX 1048 has been sold to Norfolk Southern.

Thanks

Just subscribed because of the great videography and narration, keep up the great work! This channel definitely deserves more subscribers

0:56 RIP Mark Manley.

Love the Rathole!!!!!

Great job on the video

The car nearly struck the train. The driver of the car was in the wrong. Not the train.

Awesome!

I have done that in the past when I worked for soo line RR

I lived at the brick yard and could see the crossing you were standing at from my living room. There were a ton of my things vibrating around on my shelves when the trains went through. The tow trains went by constantly.

So these springs are still manufactured? How old was the broken one?

Very early Cleburne F7 chop job.

Get yourself some hearing protection…trust me. ETA: glad to see later on you’re wearing ear protection! 👍🏻

Great video! Thanks!

Nice video! 1974-2010 locomotive employee…. CNW/UPRR…changed countless leaf springs. Nice trip down “memory lane” thanks for posting 👍😎

Besides leaf springs, do they have shock absorbers like a car or truck? If not, what keeps it from "bouncing"?

The dirt packed in the cross member there was probably authentic Cleburne crud when they refabricated the engine body from a covered wagon to its narrow hood that it wears today. While they rebuilt the prime mover and fabricated new hoods, they didn't do anything to the wheels or undercarriage. except maybe replace a whole wheel assembly with known good assemblies. It's nice to see a CF-7 still out there chugging and tugging. It's got the round roof and extra window so that means it was one of the first batch to come out of the shops at Cleburne. All the ones I ever handled had the squared off cabs and no extra window. Also I get a tear in my eye seeing 8330 back there. Hopefully some day she'll get back to her former glory! She used to be such a good engine.

If you need help compressing those I'll just send you my mother-in-law. She'll compress those just by putting laying her massive flabby arm on top.

Hello! Just new (22 Dec '23) to Venice from Taxifornia! Most excellent video and explanations! So much better than other sites that just smooth over the details. I grew up about 200 yards from the Sacramento Northern in Lafayette, CA. My grandfathers were a pattern maker and roundhouse super, respectively, for the SP in the 1890's and early 1900s at Tulare and Port Costa, CA. Great to be here!🚂

Good way to lose a hand or an arm if those jacks fail.

i always wondered what i was looking at pertaining to those leaf springs.......never knew what they were

Where do you buy leaf springs? USA or Foreign made?

Your script describing the work was excellent. You make a good technical narrator.

Interesting video, i certainly learned the components of a locomotive suspension with leaf springs and service process 👍

I’ve handled tractor trailer leaf springs that are not too different than one of those leaf springs. They too are very heavy.

Never heard the name blonberg. We mistly had these trucks on older locomotives. Newwer ones had flexicoil trucks. These springs are what you call fully eliptical. We call those swing hanger trucks. I never had to change those springs. Never saw a bad set.

Big diesel locomotive got Carolina Squat hahaha

I have done this job on my own in Satanta Kansas and The Cimarron Valley Railroad. Some on GP30 locomotives and repeatedly on GP26 locomotives with ALCO trucks. The GP Blomburg trucks with outside swing hangers are significantly easier than the AAR ALCO inside swing hangers. The ALCO truck must be removed from the locomotive and the bolster plank retainer plates removed before removing the bolster plank to get to these springs. The AAR truck has three pairs per side rather than four. Although it can be done by one man, I don’t recommend it at all. Good job guys.

Now i have the confidence to do this at home thanks!

Funny enough, we are about to do the same thing to one of our interurban cars at our museum.

0:31 I’ve changed several suspensions on vehicles if my own. Both leaf and coil springs. I’ve also have to replace suspensions on big trucks, too. Even if it’s big, it’s a simple, straightforward process. Simple, but definitely not easy. I really cannot imagine that it would be any harder to change springs on a locomotive. If you have the equipment, that is. I’ll be looking to see if there is any difference in the replacement process.

I can say, this locomotive to me is a bit of an ugly duckling, still a great video nonetheless.

One set of springs would make 4 semi tractor trailers the stiffest ride on the road. 🤣

Excessive speed involved.

What an outstanding and informative video! You really had an opportunity to learn so much participating in their repair!

Fn dumbasses all the crew can do is keep rolling dumb asses

Very excellent video! I thought I knew a fair amount about these trucks, today it was well-explained to me about how much I didn't know!

guess you guys dont like gloves

my Great Uncle Chas. A. Spencer, was the one who thought up the cf7 concept for Santa Flush RR back in the day, at the Cleburne TX shops.