NS 15R Rips End Of Hopper Car Off And Goes Into Emergency Leaving Chester SC
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- As I was filming NS Train 15R departing Chester SC on the NS R Line heard the train go into emergency and got the footage as the train came off the track.
One of those old rusty hoppers must have disintegrated under the pulling stress it was under...that was an interesting catch for railfanning.
Engineer was pretty heavy into dynamic brake in video. Not pulling...
Hoppers get corrosion problems, especially from stuff like fertilizers.
@MilwaukeeF40C J could expect that from all the years of usage they would get
It was definitely pulling with the sound of those GEs chugging like that.
I've heard an EMD start whining just like that as well on and off while going up a grade. Why it does it intermittently? I'm not sure (maybe it's the cooling system), but it was definitely going uphill since I was at an area where the 7,000ft train's front and back end were about 300ft from each other after it rounded a horseshoe curve on the mountain grade it was climbing.
What is interesting to me, is it broke with only three engines pulling it with no changes in slack action. Usually knuckles start breaking with four engines without any slack action happening. That hopper must have been really rusted out.
Ive seen hoppers still painted "Milwaukee Road" at crossings. There are hoppers out there older than dirt.
Chris, did you put a penny on the track, . . . again? 🙂
he put 50 of them, 3inches apart.......................
😂😂😂😎👍
Not something you see every day, nice job on this!
I chased this exact train out of Rock Hill but ended up not getting ahead of it. Too late to get it into Chester. Neat catch though
You didn't get any additional footage of the carnage? A closer shot of the hopper?
Barely even got a shot of the hopper. Failureeeeeeee
Excellent video really enjoyed it keep up the great work thanks again and have a wonderful safe day
Yeah, that'll buff itself out.....
Everything does
Just like CP 7011 was buffed rigth out
He 'lunged' it. Just pulled the end of the car right out. I'm surprised that the truck went with it. Wasn't slack action, he was pulling at the time. Probably an unnoticed defect of some sort.
Possibly the car was already damaged (cracked weld/plates) and just failed.
Years back there was an incident where a tank car split in half due to a bad weld. Dumped acid everywhere. Pretty crazy.
Lots of these defects are often found when a train is “ made up “ and the car inspectors walk the track coupling the hoses and inspecting each car, car inspectors know what to look for and PSR has to go…..
He didn't lunge nothing and he wasn't pulling . he was running dynamic brake . bad order car center pin failure .
@@mshum538 Yeah… and the train master tells them to send it anyways. Happens every day. Especially NS… but not exclusive.
@@mshum538What car inspectors, at NS????????
Dammit Bobby 😂😮
Great Catch but would have loved to have seen the damage 2 the hopper car you cut the video way to short
The carriers task us with long, ugly trains but are in our business if there are problems.
I heard the leading locomotives go into notch 8, which could mean that they pulled too hard, causing the train to slack and shove the lead truck of the hopper out.
Those are computerized units. You can go from stop to run 8 and the computer only allows a certain amount of load. More likely stretched the train in undulating territory. Poor train handling...
I don't know what you think you heard but he didn't go from dynamic to a number 8 power position I can hear as well . I don't know the terrain but he was leaning hard on the dynamic when he crossed the crossing and continued to do so till it come into . bad train handling that's possible but I highly doubt it. My guess is bad maintenance and the hopper was pushed off the center pin .
Comment of 8th notch made no sense as they were in dynamic at the time. Could have been stated better.
First off those GE's are MU'ed so if the lead (master) goes run 8 so do the slave units, Next those locomotives are MCU controlled or computer controlled and monitored, this means they have coded parameters that set load limits based on different conditions, You can go in to run 8 but the computer may not allow the engine to increase RPM or allow the generated power to be delivered to the traction motors, this is all efficiency, safety and failsafe systems.
The likely cause is neglected car inspection and maintenance, and the cars age sand condition does not do any favors. I would have to say that the care was just worn out, old and tired so it gave up
They were definitely pulling and reached for notch 8 as the SD70ACC cleared the crossing. Maybe some are thinking dynamic braking because the EMD's radiator fan sounds just like an EMD dynamic brake grid fan. Keep in mind they were traveling close to 9 mph which is the speed which the manufacturer reports the locomotive's maximum continuous tractive effort. Not saying that's why the car failed but it does correlate timing of the failure. I suppose more obvious proof is the large gap immediately created after the failure. Anyways, lucky catch!
Wow, what a catch!
When was this recorded?
Imagine explaining that to the dispatcher
Honestly looks like the car ripped apart.
Cool catch!
Hope the wreckage is out of the way now. Praise to God it is
that was an easy 3hr cleanup job. it took more time recrew the train.....
@@rearspeaker6364 Oh Thank God
Did this use to be a double tracked crossing?
What a catch the chances
lucky the train was going slow imagine that at 50 mph.
Sometimes center pins get old and weak and reach a point where they just shear off. That may be the case here.
I bet a carman is shaking about losing his job, especially if that car just came from a rip track
What carman... PSR got rid of all of the carman!
When you dont have “ carman” I guess you have “ corman”…👍~~~
That car didn't come from a rip track that's the problem. Lack of inspection and maintenance.
NS has all but shut down mechanical operations in their quest to mimic Hunter Harrison. They’re begging the 100’s of Carmen they unceremoniously dumped in 2020 to come back to work, but the response is almost universally “NO!”. The railroads of this country dug theirselves into 😂a massive hole that they can’t crawl out of when they jumped headfirst into PSR! I spent 41 years as a CARMAN for Southern/NS, and left in mid 2020 after seeing the scorched earth program NS was putting in place! Just sickening
8-D@@mshum538
someone will blame the EMD locomotive at the front for doing this...............
Could have been a spike in the mu plug. The control center at GE can check the feedback from the transponder coordinates between the units and figure what happened.
Looks like a car was pulled apart
AEX112220 came apart. Looks like a 40+ year old PS4750
No, wait.......isnt it a dime theyre supposed to stop on?
Not so much that it derailed, just the slack action ripped the old covered hopper apart.
He was pulling at the time, so I doubt that it was slack action. Sometimes a wheel slip can cause a knuckle or drawbar at slower speeds. Didn't really hear that, though.
You did hear that third trailing locomotive go into Notch 8, Right? That probably means it slacked too hard and pulled it apart.
You heard dynamic not power .
There are way too many old cars out there. Rusty outside might mean everything under is corroded/rusted too. Half these LO cars look like they belong in Russia.
Wow!
WAS IT AN ACF CENTER FLOW CAR??
THE WERE BAD ABOUT BREAKING LIKE THAT!
No. It was AEX112220, an old Pullman Standard car, the one with the blue graffiti that starts to pass the screen at 2:10. Note how the contents (sand?) are pouring out its front end at the very end of the video as the end slope sheet continued on with the car ahead of it.
And why are you yelling with all capital letters?
@@haroldreardon1407 WHAAAAAT?
Start watching at 2:20.
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Nilce video
If you would. have been looking down track, you would of had a decent video.
OMG 😱
Oooooops!
Dang😂
Aren't you glad that didn't happen at the crossing, while you were standing there filming!
Every Morning I get up and stretch I know just how that train car feels at my age
Great catch... No follow up with closer views! Glad it wasn't "running" at speed when this happened. Could have made a bigger mess.
Cool catch Just subscribed too
Cool catch!!!!!
Where’s the rest of the footage?
Could not get to it without trespassing and cops and railroad officials were quick to show up
@@chrisrambodiskjockey Gotcha bud, thanks~~~
@@chrisrambodiskjockeylet me guess train knuckle broke. They had to replace it. Couple those hopper cars and then they rolled away.