I haven’t seen one of those gooseneck swivel valves in 40 years! I used a nozzle like that working in a pulp mill where we washed half cooked pulp out of giant cooking vessels after a batch was cooked for a number of hours. The cooking vessels were called blow pits and were high temperature, ceramic lined boxes of about 50x50x50 feet in size. Anyway, fascinating video! Thanks for sharing!

37 years in the Canadian Fire Services and I've never seen anything like that, that is very cool and so practical. I would say to the Province of British Columbia and Canadian National Railway, next door to us with 300+ forest fires burning, HERE IS "PART" OF YOUR ANSWER PM. HORGAN!..watch it...learn from it...do it....

Interesting video. I never knew trains like this existed.

Is that a Union Pacific tattoo on that guy’s arm? That’s a hardcore UP employee!

I remember a guy in Portola telling us about these firefighting trains. Cool to see footage of them. Thanks for the upload

Gotta love the sound of that old severe duty Wisconsin motor chugging away reliably on the fire pump! That’ll last longer than the prime mover in the locomotive!

Retired firefighter here + I like Choo Choo's = Perfect retirement job!....

As an ex Volunteer Firefighter, we had training from various companies, on, or about, how to fight fires, around their property, buildings, and equipment. L.I.R.R., Long Island Lighting Co., and MacArthur Airport, Grumman, and Republic Aviation, and the L.I. Ferry Services, all coordinated training with us, to keep us "Smarter than the Average Bear", as YOGI BEAR used to say! The L.l.R.R. was ALL wooden ties, or sleepers, as other countries call them, SO, the technique was to wet them, and everything else within 25, to 50 feet from the tracks. Anything else outside that was for Regular Fire Trucks, Helicopters, or 'Fire Bombers' to fight. Even AMTRAK, had its own "Fire Train" equipment for Their "Northeast Corridor" tracks, and trains.

My Dad was a Diesel Electric Driver in Australia. One day he was tasked to run a loco that had been sitting idling for a couple of days. After a good hot run he looked back and holy crap there was plenty of grass on fire behind him. Dry hot weather.

Nice old tank cars, still riveted together

Amazing footage of this train

A couple of these spots look like they were where the tunnel/battle scenes from "von Ryan's Express" were filmed.

I was happy seeing this video pop up thanks to Google's benevolently spooky algorithm, because I saw this train working as I was driving through on i5! Much safer watching it this way lol

Dedicated fire fighting train is next step. Great for remote areas. Engines can be anything available, so many ideas... 1. Passenger cars full of firefighters. 2. 20+ water cars 3. Boxcars for gear 4. Auto-sprinkler system for spraying trackside AND to cover train in emergency 5. Fire fighting cars dedicated to pumping and spraying Train can be stopped in the middle of nowhere next to a river/lake and become a pumping/relief/staging/supply/mobile command station.

We've got one of these parked in the siding in Valentine TX. Never seen it used or even moved.

Now THIS is the job I want. Best of both worlds.

Wow that’s awesome! Union Pacific to the rescue!

This looks like a really fun job.

That was the nastiest summer going from Ca. to Oregon. Developed a lung problem doing that. It was unhealthy from Redding to Grants Pass. Never seen anything like that ever. Hope this year's not that bad again.

There are three of these fire cars and water cars on the Valley Subdivision (Roseville to Dunsmuir) and Black Butte Sub (Dunsmuir to Klamath Falls). One each at Redding, Dunsmuir and Klamath Falls. The equipment is subject to vandalism and theft, so they don't put much money into them. They are also full of water year round and an additive would be hard on those ancient tanks. Their main purpose is for tunnel and bridge fires, and 2018 was the first time I had seen them used since at least 1990.

Fire Train, That's a Good Idea, Well Done.

velmi krasne videjko ,nie z pohladu poziaru ,ale ako chranite to co ostava ,no keby som bola obcanom vasej krasnej krajiny narodnych parkou ,tak bi som sla pomahat hasit ,hoci nie som poziiarnik,ale zaucila bi som sa hned,lebo pre mna kazdy strom ,krovina ci porast ,ci steblo travy je premna zivot , vyznam ,kde mate klud,oazy ticha sumu historickych starych stromou ,sum lesa ,obdivujem tak narocnu pracu ktoru vykonavate ,kde niektory z vas polozia vlastny zivot ,ja svoj les stale zalievam ,hoci voda je vzacnost v dnesnej dobe ,ale zase peniaze niesu vsetko ,zivot je vsetko.drzim palce pri tak narocnej praci ,velmi sa mi paci ako davate nadej aj tomu co ostava.drzim palce pri tak narocnej praci,milujem vasu zem pre tie krasne narodne parky ,pre turistiku a klud v lesoch.vdaka

Real heros there trying to save what they can and prevent. Nice job UP. Great video.

I couldn't figure out why they needed 2 locomotives for such a short train, but I guess considering what they are doing you need a backup just in case they need to get the hell out of Dodge

Very cool, never heard of this type of train or activity before thank you

They're doing what the can, which *may help* keep a fire flank from their ROW. However, a good wind change would send flames easily across their ROW, especially with tall trees near the tracks. A lot of that moisture will evaporate fairly quick, especially from the finer fuels. The flames within their reach were in patchy fuels, so the threat wasn't too bad. They could really use a good deck gun that would flow some serious GPMs and give them hella reach, but they'd be refilling quite a bit. But as I said earlier, they're doing decent work to maybe help save their stuff.

Thanks! Wasn’t aware of one but glad that there is one if needed!

Those are ancient tank cars!! Love it!!

Hot-riveted tank. That's old school. This is a pretty smart idea - the right of way is a pre-made fire break, and frequently along bodies of water, making it better.

Fighting the drought, watering the trees and bushes.

Now that's a fire engine.

The REAL heros dont wear capes .. they wear fire suits.

Now this is railroading. I want to be that guy with the UP tattoo on his wrist. I wish I could be that proud of my job, defending my career from natures fiery advance with a bigass tank of water and a firehose.

Check out the old riveted dome tops! Those have to be at least 50 years old.

Good for you all at UP. Keep up the good work stay safe and go home to your families. God bless.

I’m thinking they need some much stronger pumps considering they have thousands of gallons of water at their disposal

Good work Dan !

That wisconsin V 4 needs a new muffler !!! sadly you cannot buy those engines any more the EPA made rules for stationary engines of that size and they found it too expensive to make them compliant so they just quit building them .

I thought the railroads did away with firemen and just ran with conductors and engineers now. Glad to see they're back.

very old tankers didnt think there were any around any more

How cool a job that would be.

They wanted to protect their 'Pole Line' from the fire.

No SCBA or any PPe. Just guys out there grinding!

Those guy’s upper bodies muscles got to be hurting by the end of the day man handling those hoses.

HEY UNION PACIFIC, I HOPE YOU READ THIS. Your setup is a good idea. But, you need to add a fire retardant like Phoscheck ( the pink stuff), or Thermo-Gel. Add a proportioning system to the water supply, BINGO, you can pretreat the brush and timber with a thermal barrier. Ask the USFS how this works. They’ve done all the studies.

I think the railroad would be more effective if they use what they do usually, hauling heavy weight. They can carry massive amounts of water that can be transferred to trucks and helicopters.

Terrific video!

Kolejowa Straż Pożarna!!!!! FULL RESPECT GOOD JOB

wow, is that the best they could muster up ? a couple of riveted, hundred year old tank cars and a 4 cylinder Wisconsin powered pump - i dont think the railroad was even trying -

What a cool job!

Great work

This is awesome!

Why the fuel powered pumps?? That Loco is putting out enough electricity to power 2 homes...electric pumps would be less costly and quieter. Plus it could save space for more water tanks. Just my .02 cents

Is that an electric fence (or power line)?!😳😂 Love those fold up chairs on the roof though👍.

I cannot imagine that being effective in any way. Lol

Not alot of folks realize in california they in some areas have only railways to reach hard to reach areas so some trains do act as fire trucks much like the big 747's and the now retired hawaiian mars. Yeah its cool to see one at work

Well this looks like endless Summer fun 😎😎😎👍

Was a 30 year firefighter, Retired, They hiring? Never knew about this. Very interesting!!!

Interesting video I wonder why the train company ever built a wider trailer to but on a pumper truck and a snorkel truck this one mounted to the train with that and still useable tanker they could be filed from a lake. To fill and with valves to send the water down

polish the inside of the monitor nozzle.. so its as sooth as glass.. take some 2 inch sections of thin brass tubing and solder them together into an insert that fits in the wide opening of the monitor tapered nozzle. that will take monitor stream much farther..

That's bad ass my friend

Really amazing...

They will need a hell of a lot more trips than that to make a difference to stop a forest fire from crossing their track.

Would it not be better to use a mixture of water and fire retardant? Saves water and better protects from possible future flare up.

Man they should plant crops besides the track and the train could ride by everyday and water them

nobody: Kids into firetrucks or Trains: AHHHHHHH!

Very cool! Who knew??!!

Excellent for drought conditions. How else will those forested areas get water?

My dream job right here!!!

Here the rail has a fire car as the last car on a train sent out to sharpen the rails. It doesn’t always work and they start wildland fires behind them

Saw the BNSF fire train at Wishram yard.

What the fuck, I am a firefighter and I love trains, how did I not know this existed.

Great idea..... But the water will vaporise long before the fire gets to it.Only good on the spot fires. Better to add some form of retardant, now that would go a long way!

Now that's the way to tackle forest fires from the Railroad tracks ....if Railroads go through the forest

Before everyone thinks this is for fighting FOREST FIRES = HOLD ON.... This is for stopping the fires that other trains cause when there moving freight I. Dry conditions.... ITS a. After effect and fire extinguisher for fires by the trackside... Older design engines leave lots of sparks coming out exhaust on the top of the DIESEL ENGINES... THEY CAUSE GRASS AND BRUSH FIRES NEAR THE TRACKS

Do they drop off water to help refill the truck tanks too? Just one of the tankers I think would refill lots of fire trucks.

So this morning I just watched this video and I liked it. I never knew this type of train existed. But I am wondering , why are the guys just spraying water on green stuff. I never saw a lot of fire. Please explain this to a retired structural firefighter.

We are the Union Pacific Railroad people We can handle it.

Can they/do they get off the train if the water jet doesn't reach the fire ??

I would love that job.

They could have used this in Australia.

Que bueno k hay estos trenes de la UNION Pacific

Boy now there are some old tanks. Riveted! Are these fires set by the engines? That used to be a problem years ago in the plains of Illinois where I live. But does not hardly happen any more. My guess was the newer design of the engines now days. As back when I'm talking about is not the days of steam but the first two to three decades of beginning diesel that was causing these fires. You would see the fire trucks out a couple three times a month putting them out.

Excelente labor

Very nice catch .

Very interesting. I was glad to see a train full of water hosing down utility poles and rocks and trees, then just drive right past a fire.

Have they ever hooked up and supplied fire engines.

What if they had to bail out because of the fire going fast? Wouldn't it take awhile?

Dream job

Seems like snorkels mounted in several places would be more effective

hey union pacific, im not the smartest guy that ever lived, but if you need help figuring out a more effective configuration let me know - unbelievable

Need stronger pumps but nice work for what they got

Anyone else notice the four cylinder wisconsin engine powering the water pump?

That would be fun

I guess they probably don’t use wooden bridges out there?

Is that plain water or have they added a fire retardant?

What happen to the SP&S train?

Need to get a excavator with a brush cutter, put it on a flat car and use it to cut a fire line then use the water to wet down the area where the brush was cut, seems like that would make more sense than just spraying down the whole forest and mountain side or just keep the ROWs clean by spraying the area with weed killer

Alright, so the first fire that was shown in the video, they put water on it but continued past. Any reason for that? Too far off the right of way? Not the biggest threat at the present time? Didnt seem like a big fire and the monitor stream was reaching it. The next fire shown opposite a fence they did stop and fight. Just curious why pass some up and why fight others?

I’d kill to be on this crew