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The rail wagon you were trying to pull had cold bearings. This makes a huge difference. A cold train has a 'dead’ feel to it whilst, an hours running later, the same train will feel much more ‘lively’.
Not as pronounced on an all roller bearing train but on old white metal bearings, can add an extra notch or two to maintain speed.
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Tyre pressure really makes a big difference to the rolling resistance of my car. I can tell almost instantly if a tyre is a bit low, by pushing it on my driveway.
By the way, at 5:00, Grady forgot to mention that on electrified lines, most of the downhill force can be recovered by regenerative braking and fed back into the grid.
And Grady pulling a wagon by hand brings to mind No 1111, 'Four Aces', a 4-8-4 steam loco built by Alco in 1930 for the Timken Roller Bearing Co to demonstrate the lower friction of roller bearings. At some stops, for publicity purposes, three men could pull this 300-ton locomotive.
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I'm a train driver from Europe, and I found this super interesting and informative! When we occasionally had to move cars manually we used long steel bar chisels (not sure what its name is in English. Basically a 5 foot crowbar) as a lever under the wheels to get it rolling.
Thanks for the video! Will definitely check out more of these!
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I had a teacher, back when I was in 5th grade, who tried to move a rail car with a tractor. The tractor's tires just spun in place. He was stymied and thought it impossible. Another man handed him a steel bar, with an angled foot on one end, and said to use that. My teacher looked at the man and thought he was nuts. He stuck that foot in between the wheel and rail and put a bit of pressure on it and the rail car began rolling. It was the prime example of a lever for teaching our class.
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I’ve been an inland merchant mariner for almost 20 years, an engineer for my company for almost a decade now. I love your presentation on this. I would love to see you do one on our industry that works somewhat behind the curtain, but in plain view. One thing i have learned is it it more cost effective per unit to move something in larger quantity. As a rule of thumb our boats burn one gallon of diesel per horsepower used per 24 hours run time. It is hard to think of something that burns 12,000 gallons of diesel per day as economical, but when you figure in the amount of work done for that fuel it absolutely makes sense. Id love to see you break it down. I do believe that our inland waterways provide the lowest resistance to moving large quantities of stuff in this country.
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Working in a stockroom/yard and the difference in rolling resistance between smooth, hard concrete and soft, grippy asphalt often makes the difference between being able to move a heavy pallet by hand with a pallet jack, or needing to get the forklift.
And with a pallet jack, keeping the floor clean is all too important; a small stone, nail, or sliver of wood from the pallet itself can make a easy load impossible to move.
The flip side is this; a smooth, hard and clean surface makes things much easier to move but much harder to stop. Without rolling resistance to slow things down, you have to deal with all of the inertia yourself.
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15:20 a roller bearing car can be relatively easily moved manually, but plain bearings take quite a lot of force to get started. The railroad I volunteer at hosted a strongman competition with a boxcar pulling competition as one event. Our crew moved the car around with a locomotive just before each attempt to get a layer of grease in the bearings, otherwise even the strongest competitor couldn't have budged the car.
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I love this series. These concepts makes sense intuitively, but the numbers are amazing! I hope you keep this going for a really long time. There’s so much I’d like to know about how railroads work and how they operate. Please include ones on the various propulsion systems in use in different types of trains these days. It must have been the biggest day in your son’s life helping Dad pull a car! Cheers!
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If you were wondering, the amount of rolling resistance from a cars tires is extremely dependent on tire pressure, tire type, and surface type.
When i had my 3500lb jeep on stiff load range e tires with 80psi on a smooth shop floor, it literally took one finger to push.
Now try pushing the same jeep but on more flexible four ply tires, underinflated at say 15psi, on a gravel road. Itll probably take two people.
Pushing cars with flat tires is very very difficult.
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