I wanna be a Train Engineer

baseball because I love pitching I just know I want to be rich I'm heaven, it's the cars when they get caught Hi, I'm Stevie Poole. You know model

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when you grow up you have come to the right place because we have a lot of kids here who are interested in the same thing, say hello kids , okay, let's start now if you want to learn how to be a real train

engineer

. The first thing you have to do is look at this for almost 200 years the trains have been in operation they are everywhere in every state and in every country in the world without them our lives would be very different the trains transport 40% of everything we need To build things or buy things or even travel from one place to another Many people want to be engineers or trained drivers It's easy to understand why trains are big and fast and look like a lot of fun, but can anyone do it?

If possible. of people who work on trains became interested when they were children. I used to play with American Flyer model trains. That was when I was a little kid when I went to our school that I used to go to. We drove by Roundhouse every day and I always wanted, when I was a kid, to go to Roundhouse, I never did and I kind of forgot about it as I got older and then when I left school my friends worked on the railway and I started picking on them and finally they hired me to work here hi, I really enjoyed the scenery the freedom every trip is different no matter what train you are on there is always something to be different you will see something different or the train will handle different loads different different entities travel cool trips I have been lost some birthdays, but God make it up to him when he gets back to town so he can do what Floyd and Neal - it takes a lot of training and desire, oh, I think you'd almost have to enjoy, enjoy the guy. of dollars which is what you need you need to have some school to become an engineer to become an engineer and conductor now they send you back to school in the east and it's a pretty intense course three sheets four weeks and when you get out, you got it , they have an idea of ​​how it works here, then the rest they learn from the seat of your pants, the engineer drives the train while the conductor has other duties, the conductor is similar to the captain, except you are in charge. of the train when it leaves takes care of the passengers the madman tells the driver directly when the train closes how fast it can go if there is any speed with the sessions on the track they are on a normal railway he is mad with the insurgents When they start sending cars , it was a freight train and of course you also have to do conversions from the schedule, what time you're supposed to arrive, when you're supposed to arrive, to exciting from another train or anything you can see where it is.

The train goes how fast Now we know a little about trains, let's see what else we can find out. Does anyone have any questions, yes, change, is there? Well, it's certainly a good question. Here is the answer. The first trains ran on steam. That was in the past. Steam trains of the 19th century helped build America by providing a link between the East Coast and the West Coast, that way people and freight could move much faster than on covered rail cars. Today there are not many steam engines left. The ones that are used exist because people want to preserve what it was like in the early days of the railroad, you have to see one of these in the museum, you know, you look at it, oh, it's nice, it looks nice, but when you see one working, it's completely different. it comes out and the whistle sounds you have the jug coming out of the pile it's not like that, it's a completely different story you can't understand it just by looking at it still in a museum it doesn't explain everything after the steam engines, the diesel electric trains took over that It was in the 1930s, a diesel electric train was faster, more reliable and could carry even larger loads.

Many people think that it is the diesel engine that actually turns the wheels, but diesel engines simply spin a generator and then the generator produces electricity for the wheels and that is where they get their traction from and they are actually called diesel engines. traction, so the big diesel engine turns a generator and that generator sends electricity to the traction motors and then that is what turns the wheels and powers the Train. Modern trains still run on diesel electric power, just The engines are even bigger and stronger and carry a lot of fuel, let's see. I think it will carry 2,000 gallons in these typical units, some of the newer ones, from the '60s and '70s, three and four thousand in tanks.

I have heard that larger units have taken eight gallons per minute to idle, only to idle, only to complain. When you see a train from a distance, you don't really think they are that big, but once you see it. If you're up close you can see how far you have to climb just to get to the cabin and not only are the locomotives big, so are the cars. Today's trains pull an incredible variety of cars of all shapes, sizes and colors, you name it, there is probably a railway car that will transport you how to transfer steam the machines work in some ways like a large kettle they heat the water there are a big fire here and this is all this black thing that looks like it's boiling silly water and the steam is all In the boiler, the fire is down at the bottom and it curls up and this thing looks solid but it's full of little round tubes called tube o tube, the fire actually starts there, it goes all the way through these tubes and the smoke comes out. stops and that fire heats the water, which begins to line the tank back there, you put it in the water dome when you boil the water and that creates the resulting steam from the locomotive, the second dome that is called the steam dome, which It is where they collect steam to run.

The locomotive starts at the top of the boiler, so it appears as dry as possible. Higher means you see that its head is hot and its stroke picks it up from the throttle and goes down here and this is the piston valve that here controls where the vapor comes out. is in place and this is the piston itself, then it takes the steam from there to the fish, which is what makes the wheels turn of course, then when it's done it goes out through the chimney, once the steam train It's on, it looks and sounds like nothing.

Plus, that's why many people love them even though they are getting older. This is what the inside of a diesel electric train engine looks like, as Neil told us. They are different. They have large motors that power an electrical generator which in turn. supplies power for electric motors in the wheels floyd Johnson showed me his diesel electric train this is the cow picker anything is there very close to the rail before it gets caught under the locomotive and the train will push it aside it's about four inches of the rail so you can tell anything it's a big net that will push it to the side this is the cutoff lever you can disconnect the train locomotive from the drain exactly what a person did can do yes oh yes you get up Get up, get up and pull it towards you, which I'll throw up this lock block and we'll open the knuckles, we'll separate, this is where the brakeman used to ride years ago, they would stop here and well, this right here is actually the speedometer, it's a boundary wire this is what they call the bearing journals that allow the wheel to spin freely there is a lot of grease there there is a brake piston when it sticks out that means the brakes are applied which means they are against the wheel if you were to release this, the brake shoes They would come loose from the wheel.

They're leaf springs that help support the way the locomotive is from the '70s at each end, it sort of disperses the weight, the heaviest part of the look and one of these. traction motors that are in the wheel large generators that generate the energy to move the train it is really quite difficult this is our way to the cabin locomotive these steps here make sure you go up exactly yes there is no speedometer this is the arena to buy I'll tell you I explained before, although the food is placed in small increments directly from the wheel so that it does not slip when you are up, you need sand like a wet rail or traveling uphill, fuel tanks, if I hear this very big monster here, there is an indicator and You can measure how much feeling you have left if you run out, it's a big deal to get a truck.

You always want to check that each strip is the filling nozzle. You remove this and I tell you to fill the fuel tank. oh, there are airlines that run between each locomotive and separate air that actually lines the main tank. This is the actual brake pipe, the big one here, big holes in this case, the two brake pipe hoses are too short, so they put in an extra one they call it. a dwarf between the two of them, what is it like to drive a train? If you become a train engineer on a platform like this, you'll now be in command of seventeen hundred and fifty horsepower to keep everything under control.

You really have to know what you're doing, so we'll get in the cab and show you what. What a train driver really does. The first thing we had to do was go back on the train to get on. the right path to move forward again Floyd, the engineer, worked the controls while Neil, the driver, did the other jobs Neela, why am I on a different track? The driver will send me in one direction so basically he directs what I drive so if we go to change direction you change the direction and then I take it from there this is the ultimate locomotive brake setup if this will stop the train this it will stop the locomotive or you can use them both together to stop well this is the accelerator The Raza motor to accelerate delivers more amps to the traction motors, it does not jump or reverse, it will control its speed to a certain extent, this is reverse, forward or reverse, like a car would, this is the transition lever they no longer use.

You start one and it will lock up, it won't make the train work. This is a little ditch light that when you blow the whistle it will swing just to get the attention of the driver or pedestrians that a train is coming in case I didn't hear the whistle, this of course is the old reliable radio , that's why I communicate with the driver or the train that people love on the train. The trains are constantly being disassembled and reassembled so they can go to a new location. In a switching yard there can be hundreds of cars and it takes a computer and a lot of teamwork to keep track of things.

The driver and our brakeman will tell me: "Okay, you can push the train up now if I don't hear from you within the deadline." Half that distance I stopped today, you can't just keep shopping because he told me to cut to here, something could have happened to him when he fell, he broke the radio, there are a lot of these things that could happen when the train moved. I have to blow the whistle. the dry ones, go ahead, it was fun, but then things get busy and you really have to pay attention, there is always something that the kids along the track like to cross, the animals, that doesn't work well, you just have You have to be focused, it can't be how fast the train goes depends on what it was designed for, but everyone can really get out if necessary.

Well, you are ready to play with the steam locomotive. There is no maximum speed. As much steam as you can supply it, it will keep going. Faster and faster, but what will happen is the rods here are okay, everything is not perfectly balanced so once you go over a certain speed it starts to vibrate and eventually the parts will start flying off and they will beat each other to death , as if it were a car engine. if you go over a certain rpm it will start to fall apart. There is a handy rule of thumb for measuring wheel diameter and inches and that gives you the maximum speed on the locomotive.

This one here is about 44 inches, so 44 miles per hour is the Top speed probably 35 would be a good reasonable speed that can run all day in good conditions. This locomotive here this thing was built in 1953. I think it could probably go 80 or 80 miles an hour pretty fast, but the track we're traveling on no longer exists. Over 10 miles and sometimes 25 miles now, but they can go 90 miles per hour even faster than that. In Europe they have trains that travel at a couple hundred miles per hour. The usual speed of trains depends on track conditions, weather and regulations.

You see, safety is the number one concern for railroaders, there is always danger or anything moving at that kind of speed and therefore heavy equipment failures, that always scares us a lot. breaking a wheel or attracting broken children playing on the tracks, cars, automobiles, all those These types of things come into our daily life when we travel on the rails at any time, if something goes wrong, we could have problems regardless speed, you still have to stop in the old days, the brakeman had to keep going. above thecars to stop them was a dangerous job and a lot of people were hurt today the trains have air brakes and they want to stop the pain he will apply air and everything runs on air so we have air brakes on the train if we want to slow down he will add a too little air into the system and it will push on the brake pistons and slow the train.

You should also study all the information about the other activities that may be scheduled for the tracks that day we receive a series of orders every morning that track orders and orders to tell us that we are the only train here only if there is an instance, this gives us our authority, we could work within the boundaries of the west yard, Woodinville Station Science on the main line. follow up this is today's date that is the station where we receive our orders that is our WC RC 100 engine there are the dispatches Okay, and this includes the initials before we leave, we have to have one of these, yes, but mainly work on A train is fascinating, it is always challenging and fun, it is great fun for almost all of us who are here during the steam train operation, some of us are paid crew. but we are all here because we love steam trains and we love the railroad.

I think the friendship with the people I work with here and we have to become good friends is because we spend hours and hours together, it's not unusual to spend 12 hours a day. on a locomotive, so you have to like it, you have to like the people you're with and the job you're doing, so it's a good job, it's a really good job, you do a lot of things, you see a lot of people traveling on every trip. It's different, it's not like going to the same office every day, it's a good variety, I like the variety, it's great, well I think we've seen that being a trained engineer can be fun and challenging, wouldn't you agree Well, listen to each other?

Remember to never approach a train without your parents or a trusted adult, safety comes first. Thank you all for joining us, see you next time and remember that you can be whatever you want.