I saw a vehicle like this with the geometry car, but I don't know what it is. I know it's not "the" geometry car. I never saw one riding along by itself like this...... Can anyone help with it's proper name / function? Thanks !
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@BaltimoreAndOhioRR20 күн бұрын
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@Gunsmith6710 жыл бұрын
G-Gauge M-Measurement S-System. one of 2 such vehicles on CSX. It puts artificial stress in different directions on the rail to simulate a passing train and measures the amount of deflection caused by said stress to determine if tie, spikes and anchor systems are functioning as needed.
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR10 жыл бұрын
Gunsmith67 Thx, great explanation!
@TheTrainChasingPoet19999 жыл бұрын
thanks, i didn't know that either, but don't you think a GMS is one of the cutest pieces of equipment out there?
@trainzguy24727 жыл бұрын
Gunsmith67 that's cool
@greenlawnfarm58277 жыл бұрын
Some of you people are so gulibal and must live in the country and never seen a trolley before. They are usually in the city but this one is out in the woods for some reson. If you dont know what a trolley is then you are dumb.
@eoinpkav1527 жыл бұрын
haywood jeblome its not a trolley it couldn't possibly be. CSXT is a freight railroad and doesn't have trolleys. Most trolleys run on narrow gauge track. And if it was a trolleys it would have stopped at the station.
@HowardKelsey689 жыл бұрын
Its actually the CSX snack loco out on its daily refreshment run to all the big, hard-working locomotives.
@diygarygaming8 жыл бұрын
It's the icecream train!
@andrewstrains57177 жыл бұрын
Tortoise010 lol
@hakeemsd70m7 жыл бұрын
Tortoise010, We all scream for ice cream! 😄🍦
@columbusrailfanner21793 жыл бұрын
ICE CREAM GET YOUR FREE ICE CREAM good one
@fileinterrupted17872 жыл бұрын
bruh its a csx ice cream train
@fileinterrupted17872 жыл бұрын
yeah funny then i thought 🤣 n bye have fun guys
@mackrand669 жыл бұрын
In Japan on their Shinkansen systems the equivilent is called "The Yellow Doctor". It also is a self-contained track inspection system.
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR9 жыл бұрын
mackrand66 neat! that is an incredible rail system!
@sharonproctor97689 жыл бұрын
BaltimoreAndOhioRR it could be a railway inspectiong unit
@scarletgrayfire9 жыл бұрын
Sharon Proctor that is possible But it could be a crew car that carries some people that are supposed to inspect the tracks from 1 place to another.
@scarletgrayfire9 жыл бұрын
Wait i said the exact same thing as u
@TransportFan3789 жыл бұрын
mackrand66 It's Doctor Yellow.
@railfanner37643 жыл бұрын
I was not expecting that beautiful horn on that Lil thing CSX taco truck
@aloneinhardeeville4 жыл бұрын
Creepy ice cream music * throws ice cream out the window. *
@matthewjennings28539 жыл бұрын
Self contained geometry car.
@floridacowboy24797 жыл бұрын
Its Clear as day thats the Trx Mangement System . The CEO of CSX rides that to work and home.. He sits with Jack and coke filled to a line on a glass and if any spills track crew is put on notice to make repairs..
@DumbCarGuy8 жыл бұрын
Come on people, clearly its a taco truck for rail workers. They're everywhere now.
@josephnadler55217 жыл бұрын
Jeff Fleischman lol
@trainguy10174 жыл бұрын
RRRC! Railroad Roach Coach!
@twotoes5335 жыл бұрын
I worked on one when I was employed by WW Williams as a generator tech. It has a bunch of measurement and detection gear on it to detect faults in rails. One operator has one sweet job. That thing is like a motor home inside. Very cool.
@tomp8871 Жыл бұрын
You probably get that job through nepotism lol!
@expoers9 жыл бұрын
inspection car
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
you are right this is a csx track inspection car
@cumminspower55318 жыл бұрын
It's a high tech geometry car. You should see it at night when all the lasers are on measuring track. It measures everything. Rail height, rail gauge, webbing, rail contour, etc. Ten years ago the geometry trains were several test cars lashed up together. Now a single unit does it all. The interior of that car is plush too.
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR8 жыл бұрын
+Cummins Power yep, that's the 'geometry train' i remember! i had never seen this lone car before!
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
i have it was pretty cool to see it at night the one i saw was operated by canadien Pacific rail and was at parham ontario an hour north of kingston ontario on highway 38
@qatommy10 жыл бұрын
If you can see, albeit very quickly, it does say on the side of the leading end GMS-2. CSX have two track geometry cars GMS-1 and GMS-2. The main difference being the position of the doors. 1 has doors at the cab ends and 2 has a door in the middle..
@Ferrocarril_Chicago10 жыл бұрын
That's a pretty unique piece of equipment, but it's still really cool. I love the K5LA on it. Is it compatable with CSX's locomotives at all?
@hakeemsd70m7 жыл бұрын
Metra MP36 407 yes it is a pretty neat car. I love that k5la as well, sounds like one of the later models of the horn
@trainzguy24726 жыл бұрын
I don't know, it looks like it uses a different kind of coupler.
@matthewscott59778 жыл бұрын
It is a self propelled geometry car. I see them every year along with the remanufactured pull behind geometry cars. Hell, I have even piloted one in the BV here in Florida
@thomascdurham91308 жыл бұрын
Yes, it a "track geometry car"! Just google what's in the quotation mark and pics of this very vehichle, several other types and all of their functions will be listed,
@JawTooth10 жыл бұрын
You have some very interesting videos.
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comments!
@MrDogtrainer12310 жыл бұрын
its a track evaluation car
@JawTooth10 жыл бұрын
I was looking thru old picx of mine and I found some that I took of this type vehicle in Columbus Ohio in March, 23, 2013
@bluebellybrown23619 жыл бұрын
I think its a recording car which has on board computers to Annalise track faults and from this view the track has a lot of dips on it.
@jeremybrinkman280310 жыл бұрын
it is a track inspection car used to scan the rail by a computer in the cab and that data is sent to csx for review
@hakeemsd70m7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Smith, Nigga this is KZfaq, not English class...smh
@stickmen71176 жыл бұрын
It is used to transport crew members, or employees. Hints the name "CSX Transportation" on the back
@fatheroffab9 жыл бұрын
I saw one in Denver a few years back after they got finished laying new track along the southwest portion of the metro area. I think they can measure the levelness of the track and its right-of-way bed.
@billnamink75468 жыл бұрын
In this video it is running light, a geometry unit magnafluxes the rails an checks for hidden cracks in the rails, records the location so maintenance of way employees can check later.
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
this is a csx track inspection car it is used for finding damaged sections of track and it will relay its readouts to the csx headquaters in new york city it can also be attachéd to a csx engine and be pushed along by the engine when part of a track inspection train but they can move under their own power as well when working with the MOW crews
@googoo-gjoob3 жыл бұрын
more wrong than right
@TedNewkirk8 жыл бұрын
Call me crazy, but it looks like some kind of armored car. Could be a quick and cloaked way to move heavy currency such as gold and silver -- and I mean lots of it -- without it getting primed for being stuck in traffic and such.
@southerntrains65309 жыл бұрын
It is a Inspection i have one of these at my yard down here they use it to make sure all crossings malfunciton and there is no bumps down the Mainline and sidings etc.
@LIRRM17 жыл бұрын
In our system we call it TGC(Track Geometry Car)
@TonyM.85423 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you caught it before the horn got replaced lol. Awesome catch!!
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@CrazyBear6510 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time the railroad meant something. Men had jobs. My Grandma's brother was killed on the horseshoe curve, her husband was killed on the Union Railroad in Monessen, PA. The B&O ran right past my aunt's house, and I remember the EMD F7s and how the ground shook when the trains went by. I remember the Freedom Train in '76, pulled by Reading 2101, I saw her proud and mighty when she came thru Pittsburgh. My Grandma lived on her railroad pension until she died in '95 at the age of 99. Nothing is the same anymore. All the railroads have gone to hell. The mills are dead. Detroit is following suit. Everything is gone to shit. Nobody seems to care.
@djskum10 жыл бұрын
I agree, my grand father on my moms side of the family worked for UP. He raced cars before and quit racing to work for the rail road. Had neighbors who's dad worked for SP in Phoenix AZ. We used to go to the mesa yard to watch the trains. Used to play on the tracks and started hopping when I was young back in the 70's. Never once got hurt, but now you look at a train going by twice you can get a ticket or even get arrested.
@railsaviationvideography7776 жыл бұрын
I think that's an inspection car. I did also hear the symbol. W002 - 27
@samuelt20726 жыл бұрын
It's going rather fast, but it's similar to the old Sperry rail inspection car. Basically, it's for determining rail quality, gauging, etc.
@Orangeblossomtrains7 жыл бұрын
Those of us in Florida call it the CSX TACO BUS
@cycloneboss52339 жыл бұрын
Ultrasonic Rail Inspection car, Most likely provided by SRS Sperry Rail Service,Danbury Ct. They are currently working on inspection speeds of 70 m.p.h.
@Mike-uw4wn8 жыл бұрын
I saw one of those before! My old school is right next to the mainline, but it came along with a cleaning train behind
@jasondick33088 жыл бұрын
I think it is like a taxi cab on the rails which is used for CSX workers.
@bobhostetler95104 жыл бұрын
Looks like a track inspection vehicle?
@riddlerkb7 жыл бұрын
This is a basic track inspection car. It's purpose is to check the condition of the track. Most of them that I've seen go a lot slower than this.
@jeremybrinkman853810 жыл бұрын
It is a geometry car it uses computers on board to measure track gaps curbs and bends in the track to make sure the rails are safe.
@RailsoftheNortheast9 жыл бұрын
I don't know what it is,but I think it's for railway inspection
@nowake11 жыл бұрын
This is a self-propelled geometry car, GMS-2. (Geomerty Measurement System, Car #2) You can hear the operator call the unit number @ 0:39. CSX runs 2 or 3 of these continuously over the system, on top of the TGC cars which are towed and take better measurements at higher speeds. These cars try to run each section of mainline once a quarter, not just after work is done. Aboard is usually the inspector for that section of track the roadmaster (or assistant) and maybe the division engineer.
@train59745 жыл бұрын
They can detect shelling. That's when the rails rot on the inside. Not visible from outside.
@terryyouth8 жыл бұрын
lets say he is square!
@EarthGirlTerra8 жыл бұрын
They're 2 they're 4 they're 6 they're 8
@KC9UDX7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Smith Let's Pretz!
@mramtrak72924 жыл бұрын
@@EarthGirlTerra shunting trucks and hauling freight
@tracylarson19359 жыл бұрын
Track Inspection Vehicle, UP has them, they call their EC-4's & EC-5's. CSX GMS-1 plasser track inspection car. They are self-propelled
@Nbuilder114 жыл бұрын
This is a track service vehicle. It checks the track for consistency and vibration.
@brendaalexander92778 жыл бұрын
It rides along the rails scanning the banking and the tilt of the tracks looking for damage
@AzureWind918 жыл бұрын
Ah... Years ago when I lived in Virginia our house was fairly close to a double track line and we'd see trains go by all the time. But one day I remember seeing just a single engine go by light of a model I'd never seen before. This is pretty similar to what I saw. It must have been doing the same thing this one is.
@Ryzen_56X8 жыл бұрын
Maintenance and rail inspection purposes.
@pintodaminano53108 жыл бұрын
+Stingercam21 thanks for the info :) i can understand that the answer is to difficult for a republican like OHJUSTFORKU :)
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR8 жыл бұрын
+Louis Dekker At least Republicans know the proper use of the words, "to", "too", and "two".
@pintodaminano53108 жыл бұрын
Lol is english the only language of you
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR8 жыл бұрын
Louis Dekker lol English is the language of this conversation.
@lexturner23658 жыл бұрын
It damn well sure isn't your language.
@atsf378011 жыл бұрын
I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure C stands for Chessie, S stands for Seaboard, and X stands for the multiple other companies incorporated in the CSX system. Loved the video by the way interesting piece of equipment!
@googoo-gjoob Жыл бұрын
they never let that cat out of the bag. employees see it as Chessie/Seaboard/Merger
@npadul3013 жыл бұрын
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR It is used to check the welds on the track and it also checks the gantry and any overhead power source for a good power flow.
@1980DEVILSREJECTS8 жыл бұрын
geometry train checks gauge
@paddy661119 жыл бұрын
its a track inspection vechicle it checks for defaults on the line we have some here on irish rail
@ACLTony12 жыл бұрын
Looks like we won't see Sperry cars as often anymore with these units in service now. Cool thing is that the box cab body style slightly resembles that of Australian box cab diesel locomotives.
@jamesindelicato888810 жыл бұрын
This is a car/ locomotive that checks the geometry of the Rail. . It is much more effective and efficient than a track inspector.
@khadijagwen6 жыл бұрын
I saw one sitting on a siding in Huntington, Oregon and thought it was a new European standard Loco.
@michealbeaudry86777 жыл бұрын
isn't this like the Sperry cars? i saw a rail grinding train last year BOY! what a sight to see
@bringbackthethreewheeler79729 жыл бұрын
I think it sees how much the tracks have moved and tells people what they need the do to the tracks
@twotoes5335 жыл бұрын
it is a rail detector. It inspects rail conditions
@googoo-gjoob3 жыл бұрын
nope
@shapdude7812 жыл бұрын
That is a GRMS car (Gage Restraint Measurement System). It travels down the track applying force on the rails to simulate the weight of a locomotive. By measuring track under load it can detect any geometrical deviation (gage, cross level, warp, alignment, and profile) from what the FRA has mandated for a particular class of track. It does not check the rail itself for cracks or internal flaws; that is done by the Sperry car. It also does not check rail wear in curves; that is done by a vehi
@googoo-gjoob Жыл бұрын
ever since the GRMS derailed in Virginia by catching hold of a jointbar, the removed the 'R'. it no longer applies that restraint. if i recall, at least 1 crew member broke a leg in that dment.
@kyleb066 жыл бұрын
I saw the same railcar a month ago, I think its some kind of OCS? I'm not sure
@Aaron2007077 жыл бұрын
That almost looks like a CSX Trolley with no windows.
@yugo639 жыл бұрын
Ballistic Missile Mobile Launch Platform. Chinese and Russia have them too.
@cliffhawker9 жыл бұрын
yugo63 As far as the goofball comments, yours is best. That's funny.
@yugo639 жыл бұрын
Cliff Hawker Thank You ;-)
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
those are three times bigger then thus us i have seen a few in museums
@whorayful8 жыл бұрын
Hope it logged that dip in the outer rail mid curve, cant looks wrong as well.
@j8u28 жыл бұрын
Looks like a track geometry car.
@AtlanticCoastRailfanner7 жыл бұрын
Looks like a Track Inspector to me :
@jacobbroehl78610 жыл бұрын
I have seen a thing like this in Baltimore Maryland over the summer I think it is cool and weird.
@expoers10 жыл бұрын
Hello, as far as I know it is a Test Truck Equipment,.... or Inspection Car,... Thanks for posting. EDD
@TNS175 жыл бұрын
Loram rail grinder? But a csx?
@rosarioamaya84235 жыл бұрын
El Ferrobús Del CSX. Excelente Video.
@billy0071918 жыл бұрын
what ever it is it looks cool! I wonder if there is a Ho model of it?
@BaltimoreAndOhioRR8 жыл бұрын
+billy007191 good question!
@PaulaDeeDillon7 жыл бұрын
you didn't show the cars undercarriage when it was close. It could be a rail detector car, a car that checks for broken or dangerous rail defects.
@Trackside123414 жыл бұрын
Its symbol is GRMS2 and its an advanced type geometry car. After it inspects a subdivision expect many slow orders.
@brettclark45089 жыл бұрын
It's probably inspecting the rails.
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
Brett Clark moast likley i see these alot at the brockville ontario cn yard and the cp rail yard at smiths falls ontario and at Toronto as cn has one or two on the lines there 24 7 to make sure those lines are defect free
@tomp8871 Жыл бұрын
That's used for coffee runs ☕
@labdur201011 жыл бұрын
looks like a stabilizer to me once stone is dumped and regulated it comes through and vibrates and simulates a train going through
@user-fv9dt9by1p8 жыл бұрын
track inspection car????
@MassDOT11364 жыл бұрын
It certainly is cute!
@trainzaholic11 жыл бұрын
Now THAT thing looks HILARIOUS!
@larsproductions42229 жыл бұрын
Its a Geometry car used to calculate if the pressure put on the track is safe.
@EMDSD14R12 жыл бұрын
i looked uo the # its a track geometry car..CN has one also but its slightly different..they use it for plowing yard in the winter also..awesome video!!
@gibb199113 жыл бұрын
Track Geometry Car. These cars can continuously check the tracks at speeds of 70 mph. If the car finds a defect, it instantly sprays paint on the location of the problem.
@DNDBOT5 жыл бұрын
Csx does light rail maintenance.
@helenodetroyo70352 жыл бұрын
is a top secret train.🤔
@mrtrainstudios3 жыл бұрын
If csx was British
@thesnapcircuitschannel34344 жыл бұрын
It looks like a geometry car that looks like a ice cream truck. Watch the trains honk horns without bells and it honks a tiny bit.
@johngrimm5889 жыл бұрын
some kind of track inspection thing!
@Maine_Railfan9 жыл бұрын
track inspection
@Carter_H6 жыл бұрын
track inspection car i saw a UP one in Las Vegas NV
@kandylandl90218 жыл бұрын
It a geometry car. Instead of a train like setup this a self-propeled verison.
@waffle94167 жыл бұрын
It's a train , What where you expecting something complacated!
@Soolinegp3811 жыл бұрын
CSX stands for "Chessie Seaboard Multiplied" The X is the multiplied. If they left it as CSX instead of CSXT the X would make it a leasing company such as HLCX, so they put in the T for transportation
@DaveC9F2 жыл бұрын
Same as SPERRY SURVEY CAR?
@MrSteeleye9 жыл бұрын
For the use of CSX Royalty to inspect the track and tour?
@iemv89003 жыл бұрын
Wonder what the cab looks like
@googoo-gjoob3 жыл бұрын
very stiff cushions
@SenorSpode10 жыл бұрын
*Q.* WHAT IS THIS USED FOR ??? *A.* A good laugh?
@atsf378011 жыл бұрын
You sound like the kind of train enthusiast that somehow manages to confuse a Baldwin diesel for an EMD.
@Engine20111 жыл бұрын
There it is, the Geometry car!!
@Engine20111 жыл бұрын
The only geometry train I have seen besides this one is the 2 car train pulled by a Geep!
@CSXer14 жыл бұрын
Yep. Geometry/track checking car. I've got pics of one these(maybe the same) cars sitting in the Nashville CSX yard. It collects data about the tracks so they know what needs fixing.
@MuddyBob6508 жыл бұрын
I think they just drive around and test the rails
@jerryjdawgsworldarnold9 жыл бұрын
trank inspection...I believe it's sound or eddy current...looking for cracks I believe
@jerryjdawgsworldarnold7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Smith yeah...thx
@jakeeves21496 жыл бұрын
jerry arnold yes this is what thus machine dose is uses ultrasonic sounwaves and lasers to find cracks in the tracks and in the case of this csx inspection car it will rely its transmissions back to the csx headquarters in new york city