Train Derailments & Accidents SPECIAL REPORT
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2021
- It's a difficult topic to discuss, but trains run through our cities, towns and neighborhoods.
Accidents and derailments don't happen often, but we should all be alert and safe around railroad tracks.
Hopefully, you'll learn something from this special that you can pass on to your friends and family.
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As a retired locomotive engineer, I saw unbelievable chances being taken by trucks and cars. 5 months before I retired, I was involved in crossing collision and no one was injured 🙏. As it has been said....see tracks...think train ! Great video...thanks for posting it 😀
Trucks only get paid when the wheels turn.. Make for tired operators, and mistakes. 🤭
#SafetyThird I did it for twenty years
When I applied for NS, I was told I would kill somebody during my career. That was an abstract concept for the 23 year old me. Now, 20 years later and two fewer tresspassers on this Earth, it isn't abstract anymore.
Dec.19th 1998...MP 30...Track 1....MAS 70 mph....Train 809 NB....Engine # 207....6 car consist....8:19 am....A southbound Amtrak informed me that a trespasser was walking on my track...10 seconds later the trespasser was dead....Powerless to do anything about it....
I like the saying "Expect a train at any time; on any track; from any direction."
I have family that drive trucks. You catch a truck doing that call their safety department and they will get fired.
When I started driving trucks 34 years ago, we used an atlas since there was no GPS or Google maps, and signs were absolutely to be respected. The importance of respecting roadway signs, and placing navigation systems as a backup is something that driving schools have fell short on in this era.
Be careful, trucking is one of the most dangerous professions.
@@ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211 trucking sucks
The schools job is to get a driver a cdl, the training is all on the first job or 2 a driver gets with his/her CDL.
As a us trucker I stay away from railroad crossings as much as possible and always stop just in case
Always look when crossing railroad tracks the signals and lights DO MALFUNCTION! Trains don’t stop on a dime! My husband works on these beautiful machines, his company in Illinois rebuilds and makes them good as new. Thank You to ALL the essential workers out there, we appreciate all you do. Thanks for the great video, of what people don’t see.
As a retired train driver from Australia I found this video very informative about the American railways. Thank You
Wow what rail raod
As someone who's unloaded those giant shipping containers I find the power of the collision incredible, a road collision might dent one of those containers, but to rip it to pieces is an intimidating message.
I'm a UK railway worker, have been for 50 years. I really enjoyed this BS-free report, and learned a lot, thank you!
That's cool
Hi gentlemen....what type of locomotive have u been operated before ?
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I'm a locomotive engineer. These crossing accidents are the biggest nightmare for us. In 19 years, I've only hit a Kia Sorrento that had nobody in it, but I've also hit two tresspassers. They fared worse than the Kia.
I can relate. I've had 2 suicides by train this year...have never hit a vehicle on the alignment yet. What people don't realize is that once you have the train in emergency, you are just along for the ride until it comes to a stop. You grow a thick skin being an engineer, and people who are not in the railroad industry just don't understand what it is we go through.
the big problem is EVERYONE IS IN A BIG DAM HURRY and then this happens.
What does it take to become an engineer? Is it true that you have to put in your time working on the rails with the crew?
@@c216mohl OUCH. I am so sorry. Why some depressed person would involve anyone else in their plan to commit suicide is just unfathomable. Take care, thanks for your comment.
What in Gods name... are you serious? And here I thought railroads were uneventfully boring to operate, figured the drivers were sleeping up there in that cab or something. lol
Wow that cop that came to train In water. His voice and calling then brother had to be sooooo reassuring what a relief he must have been to the crew who were probably in sort of shock of the whole ordeal without any bearings on what’s happening. Good job officer have my total respect.
This is really well done. It's great to find a report such as this which is informative and far more comprehensive than the ones that just show the accidents. They're sensationalist, but don't really add value. This is very well written and reported. I just subscribed and will look for more of your reports. Thank you for all the research, knowledge, and care you put into this report!
Thank you for watching! I appreciate the kind words.
@@v12productions agreed your videos are awesome!! I love them.
@@v12productions you got another big accident to cover now. The one in Ohio!!
Good Reports
Even though the truck driver was approaching the railroad crossing, if he saw the crossing gates lower, I think he needed to reduce the speed of the truck to a full stop. It is better that he would lose a few minutes, than to lose the truck, let alone his job. This documentary is terrific. V12, you did a great job.
DAMN RIGHT CAPTAIN KEYBOARD 👏
I worked with Holden Contracting here in Alabama getting their Cranes ready for the high rail several years back..
As a welder I thoroughly enjoyed my job working with them..
Then I was invited to a derailment off a railroad bridge with everything in the water..
These guys completely amazed me with their ability to retrieve everything..
Completely professional !!
Massey Welding And Services enjoyed working with you guys !
Watching that steam loco get re-railed was so cool. Great attitude by the spectators, too.
To be honest, I rarely watch USA documentaries because of the sensationalistic voices. You are a breath of fresh air, so, thank you! Cheers from Tasmania. I subscribed as soon as I heard your voice :)
I really appreciate that, thank you!
I am particularly excited about the superb actions of the police officer in Georgia. I find that most police officers excel in their performance. Even though he was off-duty, he went above and beyond to ensure that the train operators were safe and that the 1st responders and the public were safe as well. I sincerely hope that he received excellent praise for his actions!!! WELL DONE!
Right on!
I agree the media likes to proclaim that there all racist or some other BS and that's not the case really in the real world as we well know one bad apple out of 100k I not a problem lol. I was a firefighter for 15 years and we had a few that though they ruled us but most of time we all worked together and made it happen
What amazes me is how fast they can get the equipment to the derailment site and get the line open as fast as they do considering the thousands of miles of track . That's a lot of specialized equipment. Sometimes, derailments happen in such remote locations like the swamps along the gulf coast and remote mountainous sites.
This video was incredibly well put together. Great script, great narration, and lots of quality footage. Thank you!
I am a railroad employee I am glad you have posted this video to teach people what to do in this situation take it from someone who has experience all these situations from james Milligan.
I used to live along the Illinois Central Gulf line in Monee Illinois. The line is below grade because of the hill the town is on and the old steamers had trouble to climb it so the Cut was dug. It was fun to stand on a bridge when the train went by underneath. Very thrilling.
I miss living there.
Great video. My grandpa was a conductor with Union Pacific. Needless to say I'm a railfan and a model railroader.
I'm also a railfan
Very good video and well produced. The train ALWAYS WINS! I wish more people would realize that.
Train vs Car/Truck: Train *always* wins
Train vs Train: Results vary
Train vs Mother Nature: Mother Nature wins this time
Train vs car but car has a star from mariokart
One day in Duluth I was fueling up my dump truck near that crossing and a very loud thunderous crash happened. You knew it was a train wreck. A tractor trailer got hung with a load of large paper rolls at the same crossing back in 1980's. There was no derailing. The SE Railway Museum was a good customer of mine. TD Duluth Georgia, Georgia
Here in the UK the orange Level Crossing lights flash before the red & white stop barriers go down, therefore drivers get the chance to get through the crossing before the barriers come down & block the vehicle on the track ... we don't have many open Level Crossing here, it's usually in very rural areas, but because of the multi-layer warnings & highly noticeable signage leading up to the crossing incidents are rare here.
Thank you for educating us.
I was an engineer for UP in Iowa for some 12 years mostly the east/west corridor. Much of that has a track speed of 70mph, and when a vehicle gets hit at that speed, bad things happen. The last one had body parts splattered all over the front of the cab. The crossing had gates, lights and bells, and I was whistling according to GCOR and FRA guidelines. It was smaller intermodal train, about 8k feet in length with four burners on line, and running 70 mph. Flat, level and a straight section of rail. Never should have happened - but the car's driver went around the gates. Train speeds as perceived from the ground can be very deceptive! NEVER assume that it can be outrun.
I ran engines for 36 years for a railroad in the USA. Ran over all kinds of stuff in my time as an engineer, the usual stuff cars, trucks and some pedestrian suicides. We had a supervisor that said if you are following the rules and doing your job right, it will keep the ghost off of the bedpost. I guess it depends on the person, but I lost very little sleep over any of it.
@@old56timer Play stupid games--------Win stupid prizes!!!
That officer was a legend, risking his life in a situation where he was near, blind, alone, and knowingly putting himself near an active bomb, hats off to that man, bravo!
in the uk all rail crossings are completely closed in so there's no way you can cross when train is coming .. except in some rural areas ..great info video
Thats been talked about here but then a car would get stuck inside the crossing creating a problem it was made to solve.
well it doesn't happen here very often , people stop when they see the lights flashing and the gates go down
Good piece of advice that the train is much wider than the tracks, There is always someone in La Grange, KY that doesn't realize this.
The government here in Melbourne, Australia (that has a large above ground commuter rail network) has been steadily removing all level rail crossings throughout the metropolitan area, building rail bridges over main roads to both improve traffic conditions and to prevent accidents like the first video.
I reckon that removal (we've been doing the same in Sydney as you guys in Melbourne) is the only way to make road vs rail crossings safe. Pretty expensive, but then can you bring back a relative? colleague? friend?
@@imacgra1 Also our rail network gets busier and more road traffic, congestion around level crossing means that productivity goes down as commerce and freight gets delayed. May everyone make it home safe after their shift/journey.
All transports are very Vital and important to our everyday life. Thank you all for service to our nation !
I work at Formosa Plastics in South Texas, we top load rail cars and prep rail cars to offload in to 18 wheelers everyday. We have a few derailments every month. They have a crew always on standby to put a car back in place. With the exception of a multiple car derailment or a major accident I have seen them get a bulk car back on the tracks in under 40 minutes.
I am great full for our first responders. Thank you all for being heros
I kept seeing this as a suggested video to watch. I appreciate all the people who run these trains to supply us our goods, so I decided to watch it. I was not intending to watch the whole video; however the gentleman who is in this video did a fine job explaining all the details that I wound up watching the whole video. Very Very Very Well DONE! Thank you! Love, Shed BLOOD of Jesus Christ!
Those blue signs do work. I live on the CSX A line and have called numerous times....mostly gate malfunctions.....but they always answer and respond quickly.
Nearby to me, the Tehachapi loop has derailments all the time. I got to climb on one once! (It was there for months, they just moved it to the side and took some of the pieces off.)
Them darn trains are soo sneaky! People can't see them coming!! I've seen plenty of videos of trains hitting tractor/trailers. Do the conductors have somewhere to duck when realizing they're about to plow into a truck??
Your video presentation skills are perfect! The videography is excellent and entertaining!!
Thanks, I really appreciate that.
I am so glad I found this channel. Wonderfully interesting and informative, with an articulate narrator that knows what he's talking about. THANK YOU!
Thanks for watching!
what gets me is how many of these incidents are occur when vehicles enter the crossing when the lights and bell are already active. when I started driving my Nan told me, "better late in this life than early in the next"... perhaps that should be posted at crossings!
As a long time Rail Fan, Great Vid, thank you all for the education.
Where I live all those spilled tools would have been stolen in seconds
Saves on cleanup costs, I guess.
Sure I guess
Woah LeoKimVideo in the comments of a railroad video???
@@Nareimooncatt it all gets destroyed anyway
Lemme guess. LA? Some urban city in America?
I grew up in a railroad town; Mojave, California where Southern Pacific has a small switching yard. And, Santa Fe has a right of way track passing through. Before the overpass was constructed in the 1990s, the little community of 3,000 accepted the fact that waiting on a train was part of life when driving from one side of town to the other.
One thing I never understood was why anyone would drive around an active crossing gate. Besides the fact it is deadly, a traffic citation for doing so was several hundred dollars. Not to mention, most auto insurance companies would drop someone immediately for a crossing gate violation.
I can only remember one derailment in my lifetime while living there that involved a handful of cars. One car was hauling lumber, another was hauling oranges. The railroad allowed the community to haul away the goods; the lumber was gone in the blink of an eye. And for the next couple of weeks it seemed everyone in town had crates of oranges. It got to the point you couldn't give oranges away. Nobody wanted them because they had several crates of their own to manage.
What was that, Oak Creek Rd that they finally built the overpass for and over the tracks about 1994 or so..? I too remember the crossing arms spent most of their service life in the down position with bells clanging and red lights flashing. It was rare to not see the arms down and another train crossing. Especially when you were in a hurry. Imagine what it was like getting stuck at the crossing on the 14 fwy/Sierra Hwy before the overpassed the freeway portion over the SP/ATSF tracks on the south end? Before my time but I hear it was quite the traffic blocker back in the day.
@@finaldraft151 You are correct that Oak Creek road was bypassed with an overpass. Quite often, traffic was held up there while trains switched cars, or the Trona railway creeped through town. Sierra highway still gets stopped twice a day as the Trona railway creeps slowly through the north end of town.
The overpass at the south end of Mojave opened in 1972 over the railroad. It was widened in the 1980s to four lanes.
There is another rail road crossing at the north end of town at Arroyo street that separates the east side of town from the west. Traffic is seldom held up there by a train since it isn’t affected by trains switching cars, and it is north of the Trona railway alignment. In fact, by the time a train reaches the Arroyo street crossing, it is picking up speed as it heads for the Tehachapi loop
"Most of us won't see" I grew up in a house next to a very shortline lumber train, just past an unprotected, non-gated crossing.
I saw three accidents in a 7 year period (service ended after mill fire) and only two were alcohol related.
There were always injuries but no one died.
Awesome video, Charlie. Luckily no fatalities in all of these accidents. Scary of you even see these incidents. Like you said, the truck incidents happen way to often. This has to be prevented some how.
Thanks for this special. - Carter
Thanks dude!
Very well done .
I always loved steam locomotives.
They're like beast on the rails.
And when they blow a long whistle oh how that mad me feel good.
In my almost 21 years of life, I bore witness to a train v. Ped, and two derailments. I've seen 3 derailments, including one in South Dakota. I like trains and all, but derailments, fatalities, collisions, and rivet counters are the only things I do not like seeing, or hearing about.
Does "rivet counters" refer to rail enthusiasts? Lots of folks like trains, and while there are occasionally extremists among them, I've found rail fans to be exceptionally good folks overall. We owe it to ourselves and everyone else to remain courteous.
@@markkinsler4333 No, it refers to snobbish, realism focused and often superiority complex wielding model railroaders. Maybe less than 1% of the hobby, but they are incredibly outspoken and annoying.
@@rayhankazianga6817 Ah, yes. It's somewhat puzzling how competition-crazed contestants--in everything from Little League baseball to bicycle racing--can screw up things for everyone.
The Signs at these Railroad Crossings have an 800 Number. Unfortunately the Menus you have to go through using this # is Ridiculous.
No doubt
This was a very well put together documentary. I was born in the UK where trains are used pretty regularly to get from point A to B. Commuters freight trains and high speed trains are used on a daily basis. My Father was a train spotter and we lived near a busy but not crazy busy railway line all my life. My dad taught us rail safety from an early age. there thing with trains in the UK are diesel electric commuter trains, which means they rely on a third rail. the commuter train have points underneath the train that ride on the third rail, If you step on or fall on this third rail it is a painful death follows. I have seen tracker trailers cars buses and even motor cyclist running the gates and lights on so many occasions. Trains here in Canada are mainly used for freight with passenger trains traveling across this large country so they are not like in the USA in this respect. that being said there is a commuter train that has been used here in Ottawa central area soon too open a new part in the near future called the CRT train. His type of train can run forwards and backward without using a different rail to turn around. Most trains can do this. I used to go out trainspotting with my Father when i was much younger and i even took my 3 year old with me. we told him how he has to be careful not to be too close to the edge of the plat form as high speed trains rush past the station at high speed. He was well behaved and even got to sit in on of the cabs. while it waited for the green light to go. Its was a fun day out and the excitement is contagious. Engineers of trains are the best people out there. We also went to see a newly refurbished engine that my son sat on the front bumpers of i was right there with him when my Father took the photo. My son had the time of his life. Rail safety is paramount. You can stop fairly quickly a train can take miles to fully stop. being killed by a train you don't go home in one body bag and it is a gruesome scene for the recovery process. When running trough a train crossing you are not only risking your life but the passengers, the engineers and staff also, on the train. Even if you are on a time line it is not worth risking so many line just to be on time it rarely ends well. Be Safe out there, please don't risk your life and many others, its not worth it
They need those signs that show the trailer hitting the track anywhere there is a hill going over the track. The outline of the sign should have fluorescent trim so it can easily be seen in the rain at night. And have another at least 200 feet before the railroad crossing. AND DON’T HAVE THE SIGN BLOCKED BY TREE BRANCHES OR BUSHES! Pennsylvania does this a lot!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I'm somewhat of a rail fan and the info shared was highly educational.
One of the reasons why I keep rewatching this special.
Cool vid, I seen the engine build platform for one of these at a GE plant. The block is huge! There is a cool crash up here, I think it is Tornado verses train. Something like that. You can see the raw weight of the train with that derailment as the one car hit the back of the engine.
Thank you for sharing this well done, fascinating video.👌
Thanks for watching!
Thank you first responders for your continued support.
happy new year to you and wendy plus the dogs. i have run my trains all day and had great fun. all the best from the sandygate model railway.
I learned from this excellent video that responders are trained hands on. They are very good at what they do! Now if we could train drivers not to do stupid things! I will see trains differently now.
My grandfather told me if you want to live a long life don’t mess with trains/18 wheelers snakes and lightning!!
I live in the "Town of Seven Railroads" Palmer, MA Most of the railroads are still running.
I grew up next door in Monson, MA
I really appreciate this video. You taught me so much. I am so impressed with the speed to which they recover a line. Thank you so much. Much respect from BC Canada
A fantastic video, thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks 😊
Dang. If I were on a train crew and we had to roll through Georgia I’d file for emergency vacation!
I have double freight tracks behind my house. Neighbor says a derailment years ago had a car just miss the house. Love trains but hope I never have to get that close to one.
Great video. Thanks.
I saw a re railment in rice Minnesota in 2019 it cost me about 2 hours on my electronic logs because I'm a truck driver but it was the coolest thing I've seen in person and a long time
I live right by lilburn Park where the train derailed. Crazy for something to happen like that so close to me
Very well put together. Thank you!
I must compliment the production quality, and with this room setup you look like a news anchor - very nice.
A long time ago, I was about 10 years old. I was riding the bus and we came up to a crossing. Traffic backed the crossing up so our bus stopped on the tracks for some reason, but then an I&O railroad gp38-2 was about 20 feet away. moving about 15 mph. I remember the gates and lights acivating. I could here the sheer panic in everybody. luckily traffic moved and the bus escaped the crossing. But the driver got fired.
Good he was reckless, glad
No one was injured or killed
This is amazing !!!! I never knew anything about trains I’m going to be watching a lot of this content
Very informative, thanks for posting. I particularly enjoyed the segment about automated fault detection.
Thanks for watching!
# 1 cause -of ALL of these so-called crossing accidents.
Every one was completely preventable.
How ?
Well it so happens that away back in 1971, I was "tasked" with doing a "level-crossing" survey, to determine exactly what gradients (if any) presented themselves to long wheel-based road vehicles - in the Otago & Southland regions of New Zealand, as part of my job as a draughtsman/surveyor with the NZR's Dunedin D E O (District Engineers Office).
Why?
Because too many semi's and long farm trailers were being hit / destroyed when they "bottomed-out" on both public & private road/rail crossings.
The problem I found was that many - if not all - private farm/farm crossings, as well as too many public road/rail crossings had NOT been lifted on either side approaches, whenever the railway itself had been "lifted/tamped" to correct problems with the track foundation or sleepers / new rails etc.
That always resulted in the road approaches being left TOO LOW, creating serious clearance issues with longer vehicles, becoming "bellied" (gut-stuck), on the raised track
The answer - not always an easy fix, but easy enough.
Raise all road approaches either side of these crossings, for as far back as ":double" the legal length, of any semi trailer (ensuring non-legal farm trailers couldn't ever become gut-stuck either).
In New Zealand, there are (now) only a very few, infrequently used (private farm crossings, that haven't been raised.
ALL public road crossings and MOST farm (private) crossings, are raised on both sides, to avoid any "gut-stuck" problems, thereby removing any chance of idiotic drivers, stranding themselves on a railway crossing.
ALSO, here, we MOVED streets away from the crossings that had to be on the same level, to ensure that long vehicles didn't "stand" over the tracks, when at traffic lights.
OR - we placed the traffic lights IN FRONT OF (not after) the railway lines themselves, to ensure that no one needed to "stop" on the tracks.
If the USA road maintenance people (roads boards) made sure that ALL road/railway (level) crossings - were actively LEVEL - none of these "Oh shit I'm stuck in the middle" preventable accidents, would ever occur again.
Having such a MOUNTAIN at each road/rail crossing (seen via a cross-section-view) - is asking for all long vehicles to be GUT_STUCK, sooner rather than later.
Sadly - removing the clearance issues by ensuring LEVEL road/rail crossings were actually LEVEL, or moving major traffic light works, away from the crossings - and other equally obvious remedial work to "keep" most drivers safe.
We haven't yet found a way to fix STUPID
There will always be - STUPID (people) drivers out there, doing utterly STUPID things, such as those with their daily work/city vehicles (aka: short wheelbase cars) who during holiday times, leave their brains at work too, to head off into the great wide open outdoors, towing HOLIDAY fun-things (such as their impossibly long trailers and oversized watercraft - on home made low slung trailers etc)..
Who simply forget they have ANYTHING behind them, and "park their arse" on an active crossing - or - who don't remember to turn wide, and "jaw" themselves around roadside poles etc., at level crossings etc., meaning STUPID IS as STUPID does, and many still die, before they came to realize - aw crap - shouldn't have done that..!!!
You can't fix stupid.
I want to see more specials like this one.
I had no idea about the blue signs. Thank you!
Thank you for this wonderful video,looking forward to more of these
We just had another 40+ cars derail in Missouri the other day... It's happening more frequently...
Watching this great video, it seems that there are a lot of railroad mishaps in Georgia. Gives me the impression that Georgia has crappy train rail inspections and maintenance issues.
With regards to villa Rica. That particular area has 2 roads that parallel the tracks. One on each side. These close conjuctures create a pinch at the crossing that an unsuspecting or newer truck driver has to figure out as the driver is in real time. Many times the conditions further limit the drivers line of site. A huge upgrade would be to red light the parallel traffic with no turn on red indicators as a train enters its block before the gates are activated
Very interesting video. I always wondered in the cases where cars and trucks don’t obey the signals and cause an accident who pays for the train damage and cleanup?
As much as I have these accidents happen, it still amazing that with the signs, placards, truck driver training these things still happen. One thing not mentioned was folks turning sharp turns to put them shelvs into the road road bed trapped between the rails. Like the folks at Ashland Virginia. We even had this on CN in Warrensburg, Illinois last week. This is a single track crossing, but still had an auto driving 50 or so yards down the road bed. This could be another storyline for this "Training" video. Just a thought. In this case, city and CN Railroad took action and no train versus car took place.
I see a train or tracks and yield all right of way. Trains are bigger, heavier and more dangerous than me. Excellent video!
Always wondered what equipment is used to get locomotives back on the track.
Very informative, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
5:55 - I live in Gwinnett County, only about twenty miles from the site of this accident.
NS has said that they are determined to restore 8099. If it is totaled, they will replace it.
Great video! As aNE Georgia guy I look forward to your next one!
It's very rare you'll find open crossings like these in the uk, I've seen them in the countryside with small stations but generally speaking a lot of our rail is fenced & normally bridged if it passes through a town or city
I could be wrong but I would think that's because England's cities have been around longer than the railway, whereas US cities were growing large enough for railroads right when railroads were becoming popular.
You also have to remember your whole country is like the size of Michigan.
@@jonathanpalmer228 It's not always the size 😏
@@89schofe yeah it is, you are talking about trillions of dollars to do what your whole country did for billions
@@jonathanpalmer228 lmfao 🤣
I seen way too many people try to beat a train. My husband refuses to cross the tracks without looking both ways. Also when the lights come on he slows down to stop pissing off others behind him. He doesn't care if he pissed others off because he won't hurry up. He saved many lives by stopping at the tracks. I love watching trains ( but at a safe distance of course) . I live only a few blocks from the tracks.
The dream I had as I commented was so amazing! I see a picture of an engine with same colour and same position. I believe I have an ability to see the future of situations. I will start commenting on sites in my thoughts. It may actually be helpful due to my predictions! Not just trains but anything!!
I can't believe that there are people that want to brave and just go across them with trains coming. In my opinion, I would much rather wait as intended so I'm safe to cross them plus as an extra bonus, I just love watching train as they pass by me.
Key...if the lights are flashing and the arms across the tracks are down...dont go over the tracks. Even if one train is stopped...there could be another train coming on the opposite side. Please...be careful. Worked for NS for over 5 years. Husband still there now over 30 years...we have seen our share of these types of incidents.
i've only seen cabooses still used to provide safe passage over a bridge, or trestle. but they still are used on the NS RR. jmho
last time I saw this though, might have been in '10 when I was maintaining up in Danville VA. i guess i should say - its for the conductor when riding the last car back & forth. they need a caboose when traversing bridges, or so i've heard. we have enough to worry about within our own class, so don't quote me on that, lol
How cool these guy and girls, keep us safe
We had an overnight derailment in our town, about a half mile from our building. I can hear the prime movers five miles away. That nigh we heard nothing, but in the morning there were loaded coal cars all over the place. most dumped on their sides in a typical rail-accordion. It was cold and icy out here, there was no grade crossing in the area. Presumption is a broken rail due to the cold, but with all of the broken rails under the train, who was to know.
Great video!! High-quality production and really informative.
Thanks!
38:00 Hopefully those Milwaukee battery tools not ending on circulation depot, cause I purchased when they on sale. They are my collection tool boxes for my trades.
One of the most informative videos I've ever seen. Thank you.
Please remember...most of these accidents can be prevented. People don't understand it takes a train, especially fully loaded...it can take miles for a fully loaded train to stop.
Even just a glancing blow vs a train will total a car. People don't understand that trains are easily moving 50-60mph in most areas, they only look slow because our smooth brains can't comprehend what a few thousand tons at 60mph looks like.
Retired freight Conductor. Railroads have come along way to keep people safe at crossings. Problem is people are in a hurry or simply careless or both. Conductor is usually the first one to arrive on the carnage. Then we get to carry the images for the rest of our lives.
My Father-in-Law retired from Norfolk-Southern. I still have his Southern Railway red jacket, t0 this day. He passed away in 2000.
You should really look into past crashes in Louisiana! Years ago in Metairie Louisiana at Airline Hwy and Clearview parkway there used to be railroad tracks! The reason why they aren't there now is because of the wrecks between trains and 18 wheelers and even some cars! You had Amtrak wrecks along with Kansas City Southern train wrecks! Plus the tracks back then were not in the best of shape! We had derailments every now and then! Just a option if you decide to make another video! I was surprised that you didn't talk about any of those wrecks!
Those are great ideas. I'd like to eventually expand a little to other states.
NS Southern heritage unit 8099 has recently been returned to service.
Thanks for your information never knew about robotic defect detector. Amazing!
Thanks for watching!
The bathrooms on these engines are at the front. What happens with these in these crashes? Seems they should be located somewhere else.
Its a well designed compartment with a air operated toilet and a sealed door enclosed in a reinforced structure designed for impact, its just fine the way they are, GE got it right…..
@@mshum538 Ah, well, thats good. I keep having visions of the crew getting that all themselves. Its one part the videos never spotlight. LOL.
It is likely, in that event, that you would have a shjtty day!
Grey water tanks with inertia switches.
if that happens the crew shouls take a shit somewhere else
It's different here in Germany . In general, the rail crossing should be fully secured (all red lights active, all barriers closed) 30 seconds before the train arrives. The security process begins 90 seconds before the train arrives. Steady yellow, 10 seconds later red, 10 seconds then the barriers, also about 10 seconds. The technology then needs the next 30 seconds to check itself and release the train. The distance from the rail crossing at which the trigger contacts are installed always depends on the maximum speed permitted on the railway line. Slower trains occupy the rail crossing a little longer.
Train Accidents are very rare here in the UK but in the last few weeks we had two trains derail in a short tunnel in the town i live in, one derailed as it passed the other and took it off the track as well, one ended up on its side but nobody was badly hurt amazingly.