I like especially how the grinder was working with snow on the ground, and that freight that was “closing” in was working in nice warm weather :/

I learned something new here. I've never heard of a grinding train. I always figured they had to replace the track when it got bad. That was neat.

At the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s, I worked at Canadian Steel Wheel (CSW) in Montreal. This factory made forged train wheels from scrap steel. Two electric arc furnaces, each with a capacity of 90 tons, melted and cast steel into ingots over 15 feet long by 20 inches in diameter. These ingots were then cut into cylindrical blocks of varying lengths depending on the diameter of the wheels to be produced. Once red-hot, these blocks passed through the 7 hydraulic presses of the forge, to give them the shape of a train wheel. Then remained the stage of final machining, before shipping to customers.

Just can't tell a story anymore without throwing some drama in...

Interesting so after 8 minutes you didn't show any wheels getting repaired, just a second or two of a lathe. So anyone wanting to know how train wheels are repaired don't bother watching this.

Nice to see the local rails featured on TV 👍

Reminds me of gra sanandreas train using the cinematic camera angle

The Wheel-O-Matic. Classic

This five minute long, TERRIBLY EDITED FROM A FULL SHOW is maddening.

This is my home town. I live here and drive past/over the ONR yard sometime over a dozen times a day. They've been around a long time. But not as busy as they were when I was a kid and they had passenger services. Several years ago they had a derailment about 5 miles from that rail crossing the grinder went through. The derailment went right into one of 5 homes back yards I that area.

I don’t think the narrator could sound more patronising if he tried.

Great Stuff

Fun to watch👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My grandfather did this job for Great Northern Railway in St. Paul Minnesota

The narrator sounds the same as the one on Guy Martin Proper, hell they might actually be the same person

There is a new machine that does the same job without having to remove the axle from the cars/locomotive. It hoists the entire unit up. My brother designed part of it and installs them. Brightline & BNSF both have them, among other rail companies.

Nice!!!!

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It's the end of the world without drama! Saved again by Docu-Drama Hyperbole!

Wow

I think, how do they get broken is a good question. Solid steel. Whew.

I would assume wheel maintenance is just a standard activity. The narration is so dramatic but it's over the top. If they talked about this in the context of the tires on a car, it could blow out while travelling down the freeway and people could starve because fast food takeout didn't get home.

Ohey it's the same narrator as Guy Martin

I’ve lived by Tehachapi loop for 57 years…

I wonder what the average length of rail/gadge life expectancie is?

Thanks for the video, but why the horrible intrusive music??? Best of luck!

Yeah, add welding sounds to the grinding... Cause thats how it works...

I'm surprised Ontario Northland is in this Documentary.

This is only addressing worn trailer wheels here. Wonder if Diesel locomotive driving wheels are different? Steam locomotives had replicable drive wheel shoes.

The narrator needs some mints.

Why is Paul Jr. building Bogies?

I didn't know Liam Neesen did voiceovers for obscure TV shows.

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Kinda like a Plec machine on a guitar necks frets...

Nice job with the FAKE tension!!!! Hahahahah hahahahah!!!!

I can't find any information about this show, like anywhere. It has no IMDB, no Wiki page, nothing on DMAX's site, and I can't even find torrents that might have credits I can watch. Who has information about this show???

That "explanation" of wheel "differential" speed around curves is nuts. Man, l see it all the time. If the curve superelevation is correct and the train speed is also correct thru a curve the train will settle pretty close to the centerline of the track due to the combined addiction of the centrifugal force vector pulling the train outboard and the weight vector pulling it down. There will thus be NO appreciable Δ in wheel diameters contacting the railhead and thus no differentiation. It'll squeal like crazy thru the curve.

lmfao, so much fake drama. It's so over exaggerated. I'm a 22 year veteran of the mechanical dept. I like how they make out that 400 wheel sets in a year is a lot or something. lmfao. Some places in the US do 400 in a 24 hr day!

Disasterrrrrrrrr could happen at any mommmment..

Manufactured drama is the WORST

I wish we had that machine back in the day, We had to drop the traction Motor, hook up a generator, Secure a rig to the track, it was a shit show

Luckily this was filmed on a world where everything is completely blue

Why do so many of these videos have to be so dramatized? How about just walking us how a truck/rail becomes defective, what it takes to be repaired/replaced, and what happens t the old, defective item INSTEAD of showing us an overdramatized animation of a rail breaking or wheel set derailing?

Should use Reardon Steel.

Just another topic ruined by the fake docudrama styling from know nothings down at the head office.

Talk about over acting on the narrators part.

This IS NOT a wheel repair video.

wheel o matic...bruh its a big ass lathe its nothing special

I don’t know why the narrator can’t talk normally.

WAAAAY too dramatic! Give the hype a rest, please.

Would have been good without all the false crisis BS by the narrator.

Guy should atop taking, “How to Talk Like a Dick” lessons and teach them instead.

wheels don't develope flat spots hogheads put them on the wheels

Actually, the wheels themselves cannot be repaired. Journal bearings can be replaced, as can tyres. But thaey are not , frome a purist point of view, parts of the wheel. They are component parts of the wheel assembly. If you are going to pretend to be an expert, at least get thr basic facts correct.

mother of all freight trains? bullshit.

WTF is wrong with the narrator?

Manufactured drama, terrible script and narrator. Thumbs down.

Not a good video. Gives as little information as possible. It seems that producer has no idea what is going on, so they just string together random clips then add narration so an eight year old thinks there is actual content. What we call "Virtually content-free video." A ten-year-old could do better research.

Whats with the stupid music?