International Railroad Discussion > Sprinkling the ore (Brazil)

Hi, here it is another video of action on Vale narrow gauge.  Here we see a train being wet by the sprinkle system in Resplendor, MG. I edited the video to fit TO size standards. The entire video can have more than seven minutes and can be watched in my channel in YouTube. Use this link if you want to watch the full train. 

youtu.be/7IuSsrRzKdE

1 - 3) The sprinkle facility

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,




Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/20 18:05 by pedrop.

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4 - 5) The sprinkle

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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6) The video.  

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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Very interesting operation Pedro.Thanks for posting . 
Regards,DK

Thanks for sharing. I'd like to use two of your images as a "guessing game" for my students. They will have seen signal bridges, high-wide load detectors, and catenary bridges. But I forgot about spraying loads, here in North America usually coal.
Glen
San Luis Obispo, California

Hi, feel free to use the images you want. It is a pleasure to contribute to your students.

Pedro

mile250 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing. I'd like to use two of your
> images as a "guessing game" for my students. They
> will have seen signal bridges, high-wide load
> detectors, and catenary bridges. But I forgot
> about spraying loads, here in North America
> usually coal.
> Glen
> San Luis Obispo, California

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Thanks for a very intersting series!

Larry

mile250 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing. I'd like to use two of your
> images as a "guessing game" for my students. They
> will have seen signal bridges, high-wide load
> detectors, and catenary bridges. But I forgot
> about spraying loads, here in North America
> usually coal.
> Glen
> San Luis Obispo, California
 
".....Blue Coal" is the term for a once-popular and trademarked brand of anthracite, mined by the Glen Alden Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and sprayed with a blue dye at the mine before shipping to its northeastern U.S. markets to distinguish it from its competitors....."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite

Lurch_in_ABQ Wrote:
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> mile250 Wrote:
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> > Thanks for sharing. I'd like to use two of your
> > images as a "guessing game" for my students.
> They
> > will have seen signal bridges, high-wide load
> > detectors, and catenary bridges. But I forgot
> > about spraying loads, here in North America
> > usually coal.
> > Glen
> > San Luis Obispo, California
>  
> ".....Blue Coal" is the term for a once-popular
> and trademarked brand of anthracite, mined by the
> Glen Alden Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and
> sprayed with a blue dye at the mine before
> shipping to its northeastern U.S. markets to
> distinguish it from its competitors....."
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite

Blue Coal reminds me of when I was a child and we'd sprinkle fireplace crystals in the fire and we'd then get blue and other color flames.   Wonder if they still make such stuff,  although probably not that many fireplaces these days.   Especially in SoCal.

That is a great video of an interesting way to reduce coal dust I assume.

Thanks for sharing. I noticed the water stopped when the DPU diesel passed under but the started up again with the rest of the train. How was that accomplished?

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

Very interesting,more like a flood than sprinkle.
Uncle Joe

There is an operation room in the sprinkle facility from where an operator controls the operations by video cameras.

7) The operation room

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing. I noticed the water stopped
> when the DPU diesel passed under but the started
> up again with the rest of the train. How was that
> accomplished?
>
> Victor A. Baird
> http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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MRS uses another type of sprinkle.  See it in this link
youtu.be/D1IhHSX2Ges

retcsxcfm Wrote:
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> Very interesting,more like a flood than sprinkle.
> Uncle Joe

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Thanks for the info Pedro. That operator must be pretty quick to turn it off and on that quick.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com