Fascinating!! The is the first video I've ever seen showing the entire loading process. Thank you for this great content!!

Love the videos of train cars loading /unloading their various cargos.

I work at the Honda Auto Assembly Plant in Lincoln, Alabama. Each car leaving the plant has an individual card that is scanned in to the plants inventory computer. The car is tracked by vehicle identification number, and the ultimate destination. Cars are loaded into auto racks by "corridors ", All cars departing the plant are sent to a rail yard in Talladega, Alabama, and have been sold. 17 trucks carry 9 cars each on 2 shifts, 6 days a week with a minimum of three truck loads per shift. 30:45

The quality of that video is remarkable. Great views and calming to watch. No annoying music, thank you!

Awesome! Really gives perspective into this process...thanks for the upload!🚂😎👍

your channel is the best trainset I've ever played with

Your videos are the best. Keep them coming. Request for a container yard - arrival and splitting, unload, reload, combining and departure - would be fascinating.

Wow! Phenomenal! Those machines are feats of engineering excellence!

Great video. I love seeing how everything works.

Howdy! This is so cool! They put something similar on a CSX line just outside Fostoria, Ohio. It is a mixing/loading yard, though I don't know the specifics of the operation. So I guess the skinniest people load the vehicles onto the cars? Doesn't look like a whole lotta room for the drivers to get in and out in there lol! Another great video. Well done and thanks for sharing 🤠

Phenomenal! Those machines are feats of engineering excellence.

Really cool. I have wanted to see this for a long time.

I worked at an unloading facility in Walkertown NC for a brief period and the same way they are loaded is exactly how they are unloaded. It's some backbreaking work removing the wheel chocks that prevent the vehicles from moving during transport however once that is done it's smooth sailing. My favorite part was closing the doors and unlocking the brakes of the auto racks for the night crew to reassemble the cars for transport to be reloaded. I hopped into a mustang to drive off unfortunately it was missed during removal of the chocks and it damaged the power steering assembly i was able to drive it off and park it in another location. Someone had to answer for that mishap and that same day someone scratched a dually during offloading as well. Those older auto racks are tight as hell not a job for someone tall and big body you will have a hard time doing this type of work needless to say they have a high turnover rate of workers. The work is constant seven days a week, the hours are unpredictable especially when you have to for the train or wait for the railroad to get a crew there to spot the cars. If you're not an outside person then this work is NOT for you especially when it rains those steel floors are slippery hell the entire car is made of steel so any accident can be serious or deadly. Safety is a must and repeated daily, the job can be fun I enjoyed driving the new cars and that new car smell is what I loved the most 😊

I remember when the GM Moraine Bus and Truck plant was operational in Dayton and they had all those autoracks at the yard there. Plus all the Conrail trains coming from Buckeye Yard with the big box cars of auto parts. There were several spurs throughout the city shipping/receiving parts and materials to the other GM plants in the city.

Very cool cool 😎 system.Interesting to watch.Like rail yards fascinating to watch both thanks for filming 🎥

Great perspective and another entertaining and educational video Christian. Great drone work and editing as always. You can see the other end of this process on a much smaller scale at the receiving yard north of Cincinnati in the Tri-County area on Crescentville

I’ve used the Amtrak auto train that runs daily between Lorton VA and Sanford FL a few times. Taking an SUV and a sports car. As they load, they get in and out of the vehicles from the left hand window which is kept down and all the people loading are either thin and short and trim - no heavy dudes or gals. 😊. 17 hours later, you’ll have your car offloaded in either city. Fun trip. Not cheap but well worth it if you don’t want to drive 95 from the northeast to FLA.

This is impressive!!! I've been doing this for 3 years for South Carolina Ports Authority, I load and unload BMW'S.. You really have to be on your game with dually trucks. Wow 👌🏾

This is so cool to see, thanks for sharing!

Videos like this are important as they show that loading car carriers is not black magic and the continued 2 station only Auto train can be expanded with relative ease if Amtrak ever had the will to do so.

You're the first! You get the award! Thank you!

Good ol' L409, I used to work it. It is a good job as long as the ramp is ready to pull when we get on duty.

I don't know about today but back when I was working in automotive, UPS Logistics managed the shipments of vehicles produced at Kentucky Truck and Louisville Assembly. The assembly line was grouped by color and final dealer destination.

Did this type of work In 1977 for fords import facilities in Tampa Florida. The courier pickup trucks were shipped from Japan as just a cab and chassis. Any options such as radio, AC, tires or wheel upgrades, the pickup box, step bumper, etc were installed in Tampa. Trucks were shipped by rail and by truck.Finished units were placed in a yard based closely on their shipping position, but seldom in exact loading order. The railroad would place the racks in the yard. We would then have to get the railcar reporting marks and arrange the loading based on a print out of which trucks go on each car. We worked in the days of open racks before the modern enclosed ones shown. The loading ramp was similar to what’s shown, but what is not seen is the flip down bridge ramps between the rail cars.We would go to the storage yard and get the trucks based on VIN numbers on a larger windshield sticker. Since the vehicles were seldom in exact order some jockey work needed to be done to line up before driving to the racks. Since the racks were loaded in sets of 5 as you show we would have to split the line up for each rack to load all the tops and the all the bottom’s being carefull to split the line up correctly because each car had a different destination and had to have all the correct VIN arrangements on board. If a vehicle did not run we still had to load it. For this we had an 4WD f 250 outfited to use as a tow or push truck to make sure it got in board in its proper position. What is also not shown is having to chain them all down using a chain and ratchet assembly built into the railcar deck.

Hello I work for the same company at another facility. Each vin is assigned a barcode and number and the system keeps track of where they end up. Just takes a bit of man hours to get them all scanned to know where they end up and their position on the autorack. Lots of nuances to it, but it all gets picked up in a year. Your connections between cars are known as bridge plates.

Thanks for the overview. That facility is amazing. It’s like a mile long on the interstate side.

ive been here and pasted it numotus times, the flat cars haul truck frames and the others like you said haul the trucks good video,I used to haul auto and truck parts for dana

Awesome video. I love your videos. So insightful and well produced. Great job!

Each parking spot is numbered. The paperwork in the truck tells you exactly what spot to park in. Usually for a certain region or even a country the truck is going to be shipped. It’s already known before it comes off the assembly line. I worked doing the same thing at a Toyota plant.

Thats intresting. Thx for sharing

Thank you I watch these trains pass by my location in NY and had no idea how it was done thank you for taking the time and sharing! 👍👍

I use to be a worker at a port and we would put the plastic coverings on vehicles, we shipped a lot to Australia and uk

Very Interesting! Thank You!

Another outstanding video!

Awsome video! I was in the car business for ten years with Saturn and was always curiouis as to how this was auto rack distribution was done on a huge scale. Thank you for the detailed description.

Think i saw my 2023 F250 Oxford White with STX package (LOL), Sticker said it was shipped via rail from Kentucky, that is quite a process... Appreciate the video!

Brutal, Thanks, nice video

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That was a great video.

Thank you! This is part of the area I’m modeling. I got to see some things I cannot see on google satellite images like the fence gates in front of the autorack yard. Any footage of the other businesses served by this small yard would be very helpful. Thanks again.

I live on a CP main line in the Chicagoland area near WIS and see Autoracks every day. Thanks for the explanation

In the early 1980s, I was doing computer work at Oldsmobile in Lansing Michigan. Part of what we were doing was exactly this type of loading. It's important to remember that each car might be going to a different city, so it's essential that every vehicle is located in the string in the exact correct sequence. At oldsmobile, there was a barcode on the windshield of every car, and a barcode reader at the point where the vehicle entered the string of cars. Is the vehicle did not match the correct sequence, a horn would go off and then someone would sort out the mistake.

Great video! Answered a lot of questions but I’d like to know how they keep track, too. 👍

I want that job loading onto the auto racks!

There's another part not shown - how the cars get to the autorack yard from the manufacturer and off loaded. And this entire operation is repeated in reverse at the final destination at some far off city.

Great vid!!!!! 👍👍

Awesome

From factory: can be loaded on to road vehicle carrier or drive to train,ship or dealership by road. All vehicles are despatched by barcode destinations according order of specs.most pilot vehicles is fitted with the latest gadgets to instruct them where a certain vehicle is parked for collection to collect for delivery by any means of transport as mentioned above. Just a short explanation

hello NKY Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks NKY Railfan & Friends Randy

Very cool indeed. There are Not many videos like this. There's some but only 1 minute long. There are tons of video of loading and unloading coal trains and ships and barges but very few Tankers and Coil cars. FYI the drivers of the vehicles Must Be Skinny guys because they Cannot open the doors but must exit FROM THE WINDOWS!

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Anyone who lives in this area is fully aware of how annoying it is to have one of these trains back into the yard 3-4 morning. Great video though

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I wonder how the cars arrive at their destination w/o spray paint overspray all over them as it seems that auto racks are a preferred canvas among graffiti criminals.

The roughest trip your vehicle will ever take is getting to the dealership. A guy I know works in a bodyshop at a CN rail site where they repair any and all damage to these vehicles from shipping. Your brand new vehicle can have $20,000 in bodywork done on it before you pick it up and they will never tell you.

Wonder if spray paint gets on the trucks from idiots painting the auto racks.

Thanks for sharing. Loading cars & trucks looks pretty complicated. I don’t know how they keep track of everything.

I want to know how the heck they did this before computers! Thanks for this very interesting video man

I always wondered if there was any difference between how the Auto Train and freight companies do it.

Impressive, would love to see how the close the doors on cars in between.

Very nice drone work especially with a lot of power lines all over the place and trees. Which drone set up are you using?

How do they get to that parking lot from the factory? I didn’t see a road connecting them.

I can remember when the autos did not need any protection from vandalism

Can someone explain what "Yard Air" is and how it operates?

Years ago cars and trucks on auto transport were tied down with chains Now days the autos are not tied but the wheels are chocked because frames will not take the stressed

Having experince at the final yard. Never saw the crew use any handbrakes or release any handbrakes. Never saw anyone chaining down the trucks? When unloading they start from the top deck but do not know why. Interesting to know how many trucks the parking lot holds

That's wild. Do they load in the snow?

I wonder how they get in and out of the cars because does it not look like there’s much room to open the doors

another super informative video at first I didn’t like the way the video was. speed up it after watching a little of the real time footage without your narration I understand why you do it that way and it’s more interesting with your narration! thanks

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When I worked at gm in van nuys yrs ago they would do 50 MP thru the train car's so they could load faster...it was a trip man....lol

Thank you very much for the Ukrainian subtitles and interesting content

Ever done anything on Skillman yard?

What happens to all of the containers that have been on the ship for a couple of months.

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How do the drivers get out? That looks awfully narrow.

what were all the Orange vehicles in the side lot? A fleet sale?

yellow marking are called the foul point

Are the drives who bring the trucks into the railcars on the payroll for the railroad or for Ford?

Fantastic video! I've been wanting to see this procedure for quite awhile..thank you! New sub BTW! 🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃💯👍🇺🇸

My job for 18 years in vaughn Ontario Canada. Any questions just ask me.

I supposed any vehicle damage is dealt with by the plant or a contractor near to the plant.

man, why don't the crews have a drone? or the yardmaster?? soon.........

I wonder how much those Ford's have rusted already!!

So,it’s kind of like an airport, for cars?? Theoretically ?

wonder if they leave the keys in vehicles?

why they bother putting end doors on these cars???

This gives me anxiety. It reminds me of army videos where they unload tanks and various equipment. They will drive the tank off the trailer and halfway on to the ramp ... And just stop... For 18 minutes or something. Or they will be moving the equipment, driving it down the road and just... Stop and sit there for 22 more minutes. It seems like this process needs much more refining because it looks like these guys have a brain reset every time they park a vehicle. Jump in the van and ask, "Oh what are we doing today guys?". Oh porting cars? Wus dat mean? I don't think Ive seen one single task happen from start to finish without an undetermined delay. Like, why are you driving past the ramp when you (should) know thats your train? Why is the crew van going right when its destinarion is left? Why does the vehicle stop on the ramp and just sit there? Some of this shit just makes no sense.

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LOTS of Scrap Metal in that Yard , and ALL Junk , coming from a Chevy Man.............He He He !

I work for an auto auction. Each vehicle has a GPS tracker. Most likely that’s what they use here.

The railroad crews are very. ,very underatted,you have to space each car to a very certain footage not very easy when some darw bars not make it easy ,i personnaly never liked spotting autos one of the worst r.r. jobs. e

Just think, the first person that drives your $90K truck doesn't wash their hands after using the bathroom.

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This yard will most definitely fail and AAR audit

This loading is primitive. Have you not seen how cars are loaded at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg?

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Do they get strapped down?