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  • 'Lifting off the bearing box', funny they tried lifting it back up..that's gotta be 450-500 pounds... I worked at a machine and Welding shop here in Sacramento, Calif, we had a wheel press for the passenger/cargo axles, and used a lot of the Timken cartridges for wheel and shaft work in rock crushers..I got a real good feel for estimating weights from stuff like the railroad has, but they pretty much doid all their own machine/welding. We did do a lot of hyd cylinder repair forthem though.

  • Thanks for commenting, it is a pretty heavy lift

  • i like your videos they are very good

  • Thanks, Im glad you like them :-)

  • thanks for the video this series is very interesting. I do not live in the US but I have always been interested in the trains so seeing this stuff is very helpful and makes me wish I could see this myself

  • The reason I created this video was so every who wanted could see it. Thanks for watching and commenting, its appreciated

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  • @ackmino

    They should last more than that. The average service life of a locomotive is around 3.5-4 million miles.

  • @iRECKONER shops that service loco rewheels usually have a drop pit. A section of rail drops down like an elevator and the new motors are lifted up to the unit on that section of rail - one at a time. Its actually very simple, traction motors basically float and are not held in by much.

  • @okiebill1948 GE claims their new AC traction motors will last one million miles.

  • No problem. Thanks for watching

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