KICK!!

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Willie Mcphee

10 жыл бұрын

somebody kickin' a train car, making a coupling

Пікірлер: 102

@TCBubba 3 жыл бұрын

I'm forever amazed at what you guys do. THIS IS DANGEROUS!!! Railroad wouldn't run without guys that assessed the danger and then got the job done. I hope you have all your body parts when you retire.

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

body parts all accounted for... spinal column and vertebrate... Well.... those kinda took a beating over the last 31 years ;) i am no longer able to perform the job so now i am a pencil-pushin'-paper-passin' railway clerk ;) :(

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

@@cloudsama7888 The flat brimmed hat is the modern day dunce cap

@RailroadScannerMan15 2 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee Did you guys take photos for the zebra demonstrations on how to ride tank cars? Lol. I’m in conductor class and this is awesome.

@WillieMcphee 2 жыл бұрын

@@RailroadScannerMan15 naw i took this on my own.. i did my conductor training in 1989 :) LOL enjoy the new job and stay alive!

@StevenRides 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty damn cool, never seen it done like that before. Serious skill

@tylerdzierzek8580 2 жыл бұрын

Skill? There's skill to pulling the cut lever lmao! Omg I never thought that as I was switching cars in a railyard by myself with a remote control that there was skill involved. Last I checked, when I was in the seat as an engineer, you put it in notch one and the train moves. Lol just being a smart as here. Yes that was a lovely switch move. Good job and keep up the good work.

@minnesotarailfan11 4 ай бұрын

@@tylerdzierzek8580idk if I was the one who had the responsibility of that stuff I’d want to to do it right😂

@rushmore120 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen haz mat cars switched out of tracks to be humped into a track that is all no humps...The crew would kick em into the no hump track and I would just shake my head...lol

@johncoombs9718 2 жыл бұрын

Ur allowed to kick cars… I’m not sure the rules in the states but in Canada ur allowed to kick me asking as it’s under a 0.4% grade

@dennisb-trains23 2 жыл бұрын

OSHA approved I'm sure 🤣

@mtdewkid369 10 жыл бұрын

kicking hazmat. thats always good haha

@patf03 6 жыл бұрын

turd sanwich hell yeah it's a good idea ..maybe a big quit

@jacobw446 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that. As long as it makes a safe hook at less than 4mph... My biggest issue is his RUNNING which is far more dangerous!

@patf03 6 жыл бұрын

Jacob w have u ever seen those cars go in a hump yard ..many hit well over 10 and are still good 2 go lol

@jacobw446 6 жыл бұрын

I have worked in hump yards. I am currently working in a switch yard where we do 300-600 cars a day in gravity switching. Yes I know that. But I have also seen 10mph hits that have broke cars too! I "love" the double stacking of cars, or shoving a drawbar 10ft into a car with a truck ending up halfway to the other end of the other truck. I have seen a lot in my years on the railroad.

@jeffreyknoop5363 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha goin for the quit

@nightrider6769 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video. Would have liked to see more.

@WillieMcphee 10 жыл бұрын

Old school huh? No more sho e to rest these days my man.. share holders want productivity. Bombs away bro'

@patf03 6 жыл бұрын

Willie Mcphee I'm guessing u run the box also since u have an rco vest on?

@daveyboy_ 6 жыл бұрын

Willie Mcphee lol Where was this vid takin place ?

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck that shove to rest stuff. Kicking is extremely efficient if you're any good at it and if the yard is a bowl or slightly downhill.

@doug7232 3 жыл бұрын

@@cloudsama7888 round like a pizza

@DirtyLilHobo 3 жыл бұрын

Love kicking cars on RCO.. No engineer since I’ve got control remotely while the helper is lining switches. Drag out a cut of thirty or more cars on a long lead and away we go. Run through those switch lists in no time but not too fast because you’re in danger of eliminating your job. People used to work tirelessly for the quit but when management sees your done with two hours left it’s time to eliminate a couple of jobs...!! Go too fast and you’ll be on the bump board with nowhere to go... And this guy has a day job, primo..Low seniority people end up on those night jobs, colder and ya can’t see a thing except by lantern or perimeter lights.

@jessejames9443 2 жыл бұрын

We don’t go over 4mph anymore since them eliminating our utility jobs

@Slammediadotca 3 жыл бұрын

Most fun part of the job when I was a conductor :)

@imatree1540 2 жыл бұрын

I’m training to be a conductor and I’m hella excited this shits a dream come true

@timeforbeans 3 жыл бұрын

"Kick-EM"

@susanjaeger5645 2 жыл бұрын

That was kinda cool.

@a.r.gentum6517 2 жыл бұрын

Hey kid; you didn't saw the switch. Thanks KZfaq for "making" me watch this video. You made a nice joint courtesy of a skilled engineer.

@dennisb-trains23 2 жыл бұрын

He said, "joint"

@WillieMcphee 2 жыл бұрын

Naw, we didnt do that "talking to and waving at the switch" stuff when i recorded this.. this "kid" hired on in 1989 :)

@a.r.gentum6517 2 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee What does "sawing" a switch mean to you?

@ferroviario.poliglota 3 жыл бұрын

Best job in the world I really love to switch Cheers

@melfisher1683 3 жыл бұрын

The road pays better.

@25mfd 3 жыл бұрын

@@melfisher1683 yea and you're paying for that "better pay" with irregular work hours, sleeping in a strange bed every few days, and NEVER having a life

@tracksideguy1228 3 жыл бұрын

Wish we could do this at my work when switching cars

@johncoombs9718 Жыл бұрын

You can't kick ?

@tracksideguy1228 Жыл бұрын

Nope , not allowed where im at.

@johncoombs9718 Жыл бұрын

@@tracksideguy1228 company rules ?

@tracksideguy1228 Жыл бұрын

@@johncoombs9718 yep

@Weeklydoseofrailways 2 жыл бұрын

Woah...nice video Can I use this video in my train compilation video credit to you in video will be given

@WillieMcphee 2 жыл бұрын

no problem feast away 😁

@Weeklydoseofrailways 2 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee Thank you!! Can you plz provide some information about this video

@catastropheintended88 3 жыл бұрын

Wait was that the caboose

@alcopower5710 3 жыл бұрын

Old school

@IACUnited13 3 жыл бұрын

Empty cars (residue), cut of 5. Risk is minimum.

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 3 жыл бұрын

Hell with that. Kick loads. Kick any and everything. We used to "kick" 10 or 20 loads at a time all day. There's a safe way to do that though. Really just pulling the pin on it and they creep in.

@RailroadScannerMan15 Жыл бұрын

@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 that’s all fun and games until the TM see’s you.

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 Жыл бұрын

@@RailroadScannerMan15 wimp. Nothing against kicking loads or pinning off 20 cars if you do it right. Course on CN now we cant kick more then 5 cars at a time because some dummy ruined it and was launching cars in winter time into shitty brakes right at the clearance point. Experience, forward planning and some common sense goes a long way out here.

@RailroadScannerMan15 Жыл бұрын

@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 I just literally marked up this week on CN. Been training for 6-1/2 months. Very fortunate to have gotten some great training. Where I hired out here, we do nothing but kick usually. I just hate all the stuff you can’t kick and gotta shove, ergh. Yeah, 5 loads the most you can kick. I wished you could send more down the track, otherwise I’d kick a decent cut lol. The more I listen to the guys that’s been out here for eons, they used to do all sorts of stuff you wouldn’t be able to do now here. My experience at CN’s been good.

@santeebandit3246 3 жыл бұрын

No hand signals. Only radio.

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 3 жыл бұрын

Engine is probably far enough away or facing the other direction to make hand signs not worth it. Hand signs are a dying art anyway plus with all the shit they want u to say on the radio anymore, pretty much impossible

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 BeltPak.. no had-job required till i get home :)

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

aw sorry, it was so long ago i forgot... yup ya got me radio to hog :) LOL

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 3 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee .....what?

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

@@stuff_n_thanngs7552 Sorry, i had assumed i was using BeltPak (it WAS more than 7 years ago) but after watching it again i see that i indeed was working with a hogger :)

@Maine_Railfan 6 жыл бұрын

Why not kick some highly explosive tank cars...

@WillieMcphee 6 жыл бұрын

ask Transport Canada that question, since many years ago they decided It is fully legal... the days of "shove to rest" are loooong gone my pension collecting friend.. ;)

@stuff_n_thanngs7552 3 жыл бұрын

They're not really explosive they're flammable. Figure it out. If you only knew the shit we kicked. Aint much differrnt than making a joint at 4 or 5 mph.

@southwestxnorthwest 3 жыл бұрын

They could have anything from petroleum to beer in them; they dont always contain explosive contents

@goober239 3 жыл бұрын

You would not like seeing a sodium hydroxide car get kicked into a nitric acid car lol

@napoleondynamite7518 3 жыл бұрын

Hazmat placard 1075 is propane

@sclm046 3 жыл бұрын

Flat switching.

@daveyboy_ 6 жыл бұрын

Brakemen .what an awesome job u have. U should go into work everyday with gratitude

@WillieMcphee 6 жыл бұрын

Daveyboy _ Meh... work is fine, politics and sleep hours suck.. 28 years in now so i might as well se it through ;)

@us_air_force4739 3 жыл бұрын

Oh its actually conductor cuz he is in America

@MyBiggerProblems 3 жыл бұрын

@@us_air_force4739 He works for the Canadian National railroad. I’d assume he’s in Canada unless there’s something I don’t know.

@Slammediadotca 3 жыл бұрын

@@MyBiggerProblems Actually could be either, CN goes into the states as well.

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

@@Slammediadotca This one is Canadian! :) although you are correct, CN owns a large percentage of most US railroads and CN is mostly owned by non-NorthAmericans :(

@stansienicki392 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like Sarnia

@daneldridge 3 жыл бұрын

Kick em all

@Suncast45 3 жыл бұрын

I saw that KAboom in East St. Louis many years ago. Was not a pretty sight! LPG was like fury unleashed!

@likesanddislikesetc 2 жыл бұрын

Stuff nightmares are made of

@Suncast45 2 жыл бұрын

@@likesanddislikesetc After Viet Nam I went to work for Illinois Central Gulf GM&O in the E. St. Louis Terminal. Right nest door to the Cotton Belt SLSW RR that had the massive explosions. They called it instant urban renewal! I listened to those loaded bombs ping and ting and groan when they arrived in our yards. I was a Bull LOL Special Agent. It was about 9 years after the blasts!

@claytontodds744 4 жыл бұрын

If you have to watch the car you didnt kick it hard enough . Or what the old heads told me

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

when your stretching out time so you dont get another list laid on you ya watch them clear in the tracks like that one rules says :) LOL

@rearspeaker6364 3 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee in the land of PSR you have to follow the rules to the letter no matter how long it takes...

@viewfromthehillswift6979 2 жыл бұрын

Takes me back to my time as a switchman on the NP in the Missoula yards.

@MustangsTrainsMowers 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t you have to bleed empty the air tanks in the cars to do that?

@scottwilson8819 2 жыл бұрын

If it was coming off an over the road train with air on it. They are just flat switching in a yard, no air to the cars

@boydwalker161 2 жыл бұрын

@@scottwilson8819 Well it’s been years since I read the article describing how train air brakes worked. I think it’s similar to commercial truck air brakes?

@scottwilson8819 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not 100% how commercial air brakes work. But for those cars to get to the yard over the road it had air throughout the train. But the air was bled off before they humped them (if they have a hump) or after they tied them down in the yard, mechanical bled each car off. So long story short, yes those cars have had the air bled off them somewhere along the process. If they didn't they wouldn't roll freely like that

@barfly946 3 жыл бұрын

Face blurred, why ?

@ncraven1906 3 жыл бұрын

Because if the railroad catches the person who made this video, they're probably fired.

@chrisbroesky2932 3 жыл бұрын

I thought they quit car kicking. They still do this?

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

I have since messed up my back and legs and am no longer in transportation they do still kick cars, but no running is allowed, nor can you kick more than 8 loads at once (i think its 8) and you cant get on or off of moving equipment anymore... its a much softer railway on your body than it was on mine.... change came a bit too late for me :)

@chrisbroesky2932 3 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee Sorry to hear.

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisbroesky2932 Meh... retirement is the real goal, and its getting closer all the time!!.. a fabulous Canadian Health service is already scheduling rehabilitating surgery with a forecast of %80-90 recovery, and life eventually will be mobile for me once again.. :) Thanks :)

@chrisbroesky2932 3 жыл бұрын

@@WillieMcphee Nice! Well I hope it all goes well👍

@USA_djhiggi77 3 жыл бұрын

I dont know what railroad this is, where they are or what they are guided by such as a 6920 form and the FRA, but, assuming all of the cars were the same as the one placard car we saw, 1075 (propane) is completly okay to kick and/or hump on every railroad I know of.

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

I wish i had the same recording technology (portability) when we used to do drop-kicks routinely :) :)

@hw6420 2 жыл бұрын

It’s CN…you can see it on the back of his vest…so somewhere in Canada or maybe northern US even

@WillieMcphee 2 жыл бұрын

@@hw6420 yes, Southern Ontario, Canada :)

@matthewwolff3729 2 жыл бұрын

That was a pin not a kick!

@OskViltry 2 жыл бұрын

That’s how you kick cars

@oddjobz9858 3 жыл бұрын

Guys are too slow for me

@WillieMcphee 3 жыл бұрын

Heh Heh... thats fine! I'd be happy to let the yardmaster assign all the work to you and your crew while we take it easy!! how many drop-switches have you performed in your rail career??.. ever do a whole shift with a remote engine by yourself (one man crew) in less than 3 hours while your mate grabs another spare engine off the shop and does another jobs whole shift of work in the same time??.. we EARNED our right to work slow n easy :) :) Take Care, Stay Safe and dont wreck your body for the railway they wont pay you back for it in loyalty or any other way.. :)