The Herzog trains ive run dump closer to 30mph. Much quicker than the old manual dumps I used to work 15 years ago.

Great video Douglas! In all my years on the railroad I’ve never seen these Herzog trains dumping. Very educational!

I have known about Herzog, but never knew how the ballast trains work. It is amazing how it works. Great video.

Absolutely incredible how many tons of rock that train has on!

😂😂, Oh geez, That is something else❗ 😮😮 I never even imagine that trains dumped gravel on the rail tracks. That is totally informative and news to me. Thank you for sharing cool friend.❤

Great overhead shots showing this train at work. Thx.

Great documentation footage of the ballast dumping. This has come a long way since I started for the CP almost 30 years ago. I used to walk miles dumping ballast and getting very dusty. Have a great rest of your Tuesday.(Steve)

I can almost smell the rock and dust. Great camera work.

What a neat sight! That lashup is just incredible

An interesting thing to catch would be how the hoppers individually pause dumping over grade crossings and switches then resume immediately afterwards. I did spot one instance of a car resuming after a crossing, but it would have been neat to catch both the stop and resume functions.

Yes, it runs faster and the train is emptied quicker, not tying up the track time. But, at faster speeds the ballast falls further away from track where it is needed. From a surfacing gang view, we spent more time bringing the ballast back up before surfacing and again after surfacing. Sometimes new ballast was out of our reach wasting the dump.

I would hate to be a bystander by that train, all that dust would NOT mix well with a person. Great video!

Cool to see in action! And also nice to see one of the former BNSF engines, I forget they got those

Great footage! Thanks for sharing this. Never even knew this was a thing.

Nice chase! Can’t always get that many runbys between Plymouth and Loretto unless the train goes that speed

Wow! I must say that is some of the best locomotive action shots ever. Great video!

Incredible, thank you for posting that

the BNSF double line right by my house in St Paul just got concrete ties installed yesterday. I've never seen them in the US!

Thanks for producing this video. Looks like a smooth operation.

Interesting action and mostly, amazing views like I've never seen before. Thank you.

Thus was absolutely thrilling to watch. Great video...

An excellent video another time! ;) Great job Douglas!

Beautiful video

Amazing to watch -- great footage -- high-tech MOW.

First time I got to see this in operation. Just a fantastic job showing and explaining. Thank you.

Very cool video. Thanks for posting.

Cool video man, got to see this live once on the FEC and it is very cool to witness in person!

They need a water car placed somewhere in the mix to knock down the dust

Cool video. I could smell and taste the dust as the cars were dumping. LOL!

Now that was interesting to watch.

Nice Video

Outstanding Video!

That was great, never seen that before.

0:39 A KCS locomotive painted in BNSF scheme. Probably it was BNSF’s at some point.

very cool! thnx for sharing.

Excellent video!

Am shocked that the CP put more than 2 engines on that train. Must have been a new hire at the power desk up in Canada.

This was a good video! Well done too....not a lot of talking and got right to the action.

Nice flying.

Would love to see them drop loads to cover the track with ballast

Very very interesting and your video is much appreciated.

Great video & commentary and the overhead shots were particularly effective!

slick.. never gave it any thought 👍

Great job catching this in action!

Very interesting video and very informative. Incredible what can be achieved with this type of technology. Greetings from Chile.

Good video. Looks like a tie gang will be going by there soon that will be a get video, when I started in the trade I worked in a tie gang as a labor. Now I’m a signal maintainer

Nice Video. I find it interesting that the train empties from front to back. I would expect the rear loaded cars would be stressing the front car with the rear weight.

Where and when each hopper starts and stops its discharged is controlled by GPS. The receivers can be seen on the top of the ends of the car. They are at an angle. This is what I've been told and have seen in a YT video of how ballasting has changed.

So many questions; are the deficient locations uploaded into the gps ahead of time? How does the engineer account for the length and speed to get the right amount of ballast? How do the hoppers know when to open & close at crossings and switches, etc?

Very good video, like🤩😍🤩!

Very cool! I've seen these trains literally hundreds of times over the last number of years, but because I live in Waterloo, WI literally 2 track miles west of the Michels Materials Pit these are loaded at, I've never seen one dump! Thanks for filming and sharing! In fact, there's supposed to be an M/T Herzog train from the Cities at the pit for loading later this morning, 6/4. Wonder if it's this one?

Amazing video very interesting certainly wouldn't do anything like this here in the UK 😃

As the train rolls through one of the most unknown awesome locations in the country. That area going towards lake Minnetonka is a Fortune 500 spot.

Surprised it doesn't start from the rear and unload forward although i guess train handling doesn't matter much rolling along at 15 mph.

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Good flick nice job !

I bet 911 always gets some calls 🚒 whenever that's in action

I would like to see how a ribbon rail train is worked unloading rail segments , and views of the railcars and apparatus used to transport the cargo to the work site . Thank you .

Awesome video! Thank you

so the first part was between zachary and larch lanes of this old SOO Line, now CP rail and then you pick up again at the old farm crossing just past hennipen county 116 and Mn hwy 55 over by mealmans farm (the orange fenced off yard) and the old apple orchard across the hwy in june... i didn't really get to see this train as i was doing some work by the hamel lumber yard but i heard it running behind the fence at the cascades development between the wayzata high school and the lumberyard just before it crosses over 55 at the rail bridge. i used to watch this as a kid where polaris corporate HQ is now up on the hill across from midland nursery when they had LORAMs manufacturing shop test out their track maintenance machines as seen at 4:00...there is and old SOO locomotive still in livery paint on LORAMS parallel line access just to the left there at apache trail. 4:23... your not in loretto as that's townline road and lake sarah hieghts drive in Independence. the only crossing in loretto is hennipen county 19. your actually on the road that goes to my grandparents house on lake sarah and my uncles house is at the other crossing on the other side of the lake over into the greenfield section on lake sarah heights drive which my mom named that cul de sac we had built and then was stolen by the lake residents to rename this road your on. all summer i would see them doing maintenance into buffalo up to the siding just up to the dague ave wright county rd 14 delano crossing along hwy 55 and thats as far west/north as i had got to see. just found your channel, haven't seen if you've got anything on the TC&W in shakopee on MN Hwy13&101 split at what i called the Valley Fair yard as a kid.

I learned something today. Thanks!

Very informative and fun to watch! Thank you for sharing! Subbed!

The to men in the truck all so sweep of paved road crossing

That's because the track gang can replace the ties

well thanks, i never knew!

cool vid... but sheesh ONE MORE example of machines/technology replacing humans

Wonder if the conductor can feel the train getting lighter as they go!

Really great video. thanks!

It would be even better if there were another set of parallel rail for an expansion of rail service.

Exciting career

Ooh. That's do many jobs gone. Wow. Let's say railroad car repairman kids /diesel mechanic, electronics, IT, etc etc

It's interesting that they empty front to back here. You would think it'd be helpful to have the lighter cars at the back instead of the front.

If Norfolk Southern maintained their tracks like this we wouldn’t have accidents

Observation: Impressive but . . . That crushed stone is just for trimm/ fill in/ looks. The real base is under the timbers. Laid on day one. There is nothing structural seen in this video. Remember

Ive got s broken UV filter due to being a but too close at a private crossing. Bounced and hit my lens dead on.

Great Video! Is it Herzog's own system or do they use Miner's?

Wow those look like wood ties they stop using wood years ago where I live it's all concrete And Man the train vibrates the house is like you wouldn't believe

What a consist! This planned to or has it come up the Elbow Lake sub?

Ballast trains used to be a fun job for the train crews. Not so much for the MOW guys.

Very nice. Until someone loads the wrong rock. Then comes the trackhoe for 2 weeks cleaning out cars .

I guess the taggers do a gentlemen's agreement and don't paint over the DOT markings on the rail cars. Thanks, taggers.

Never seen one dump that fast before. Definitely faster than 10-15mph. And from the looks of it, a bit too fast to properly dump the right amount at. Spread too thin.

What is the origin of calling it ballast? Ballast refers to weight added to something in any other applications I can think of.

I wonder if those Herzog cars were loaded at the quarry in Waite Park MN?

Nice video! Where does the ballast regulator come in?

Very interesting but does anyone know where and how these trains are refilled. Is it somewhat similar to the filling of coal cars? Also many many years ago we used to see something on parts of the old Illinois Central’s Freeport Subdivision tracks that resembled a possible type of cinder product perhaps left from steel or coke mills used as a ballast or it was some type of rock that maybe resembled something from a coral reef as there were holes all over in it making me think it was a type of cinder. Has anyone else seen anything like this in their past and does anyone know if this is still used anywhere anymore? ???

Where do they pick up all this tonnage of ballast? Rock quarries?

In the old days you used to have to put a tie in front of the hopper door to spread the ballast at walking speed and if you wanted to see a bunch of angry track workers just stop before the hopper was empty and they had to shovel the rest of the ballast from under the train. BOY did they get pissed. That's where I learned all the bad Spanish words.

How many emergency calls did they get when running alongside the highway?

The rr must use mountains of rock.

Talk about dusty trails...

this would get a massive air dust pollution fine in Arizona in the v millions of $

Does lime have silica in it? Long-term exposure by inhalation may cause permanent damage. This product contains crystalline silica, which has been classified by IARC as (Group I) carcinogenic to humans when inhaled. Where there is blame, there is a claim!

If there is so much dust, why do they not wash the gravel?

How else can we take away more jobs from the railroad?

Will the rail also be leveled again after the ballast has been added?

Are those solar panels on the cars?

How they control that?

А бетонные шпалы не судьба устанавливать?

How many de railments happen when they do this?