Norfolk Southern train derails Heflin Alabama before CEO testifies on Ohio Disaster Happening NOW!!!
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From my seat in the balcony, this just took a giant step past coincidental.
Why is this one railroad company falling victim to all of these catastrophes?
Domestic terrorism
Ns deserves to keep derailing
Clinton's
To make a judgment whether or not this is a greater than normal frequency of derailments, we would need the history of Norfolk Southern derailments for the last few years, and that would need to be correlated with the track conditions and maintenance schedule/quality in the areas where the derailments occurred. It would also be useful to have the same information for other railroads operating in the same areas.
Because Warren Buffet sold it and bought a different one.
Average train 10 years ago was 63 cars today 131 cars. Some trains are close to 200 cars now. It's all about making more $$$$$.
That is what it should be about. It is a for profit industry. Same with truckers and steamship operators.
Yes I, agree with that. Its same here in UK more load more money not thinking of the people that drive them or trucks
10 years ago there were significantly more derailments while carrying fewer ton-miles of freight.
@@CSXRobert There was more right-of-way back then and today’s pile-ups are bigger because of the heavier trains and the use of mid train unmanned locomotives…..
A few years ago I saw a post on twitter showing how you can 3D print a train de-railer and install it by hand, now all of these trains are suddenly derailing out of nowhere. but then you look into the statistics of how many derailments happen yearly and its over 1,000. Maybe it is sabotage, maybe we are just paying attention now that the Ohio situation happened. Our infrastructure could use a massive overhaul regardless.
Easier to just grab one off the sidings the rr people don't check anyway
Very true it’s a combination of both. Failing infrastructure and now all the media attention from east Palestine
AS long as GREED for the love of money THE GOVERNMENT CAN IMPROVEMENT OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND PASS LAW'S THAT WILL FINISH OFF THE GREED CORPORATION THAT PUTS MONEY BEFORE SAFETY.START FINING THEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR NEGLECT AND PRISON TIME FOR CEO AND OWNER.
Heflin, Alabama was once a speed trap before I20 was finished. The police would give out speeding tickets for 1 mile per hour over the limit.
Yes they sure would
This one hits WAY too close to home for me, especially seeing trains with well over 100 chemical cars coming through there daily. Thank God this wasn’t one of them.
Btw, all the cars didn’t look empty to me, as was reported by the “trusted” Norfolk southern…
@@rocco3560 CSX had one just the other day
Norfolk Southern reported all the hazmat cars were empty. Not all the cars. Learn to read and listen
@@cdavid8139
Not when it first happened, they said “all cars were empty”.
That was what was printed FIRST, before any video was published.
I have a few other things to say, but I won’t in order to keep it civil for the channel’s sake…
@@choccolocco Generally I believe little that the press prints. If it was a direct and accurate quote, then it was stupid. But I personally never heard the railroad say that all the cars were empty.
U near there too
This company can't seem to keep their trains on the track. Wow, praying for the people .
Eh. It's just more visible. The US has about 1,000 derailments a year, on average. .. about 3/day.
Not just them. Pete Buttigeig was supposed to fix these problems two years ago. Where is he? Where's the money?
@@TheMrMused not worth shrugging off
@@KB-ke3fi Ask Marco Rubio. He's the one leading the charge to relax railway track maintenance regulations.
Typical. The right is barking up the wrong tree, being led by their lie-spewing leaders.
@@jordanhill3748
Who's shrugging anything off? I'm just providing numbers and why these "appear" to be happening more frequently. It's the GOP relaxing regulations on the railroads that leads to this stuff. But hey, corporate profits above all else, right?
Seriously, how did this train derail this time?
Wow a lot of weight and force from those derailments. I noticed many wheels completely separated. I wonder how old you're average box car is. 1980s? Thanks for your reporting sir
most rail cars date only back to 1990s if not younger
I needed to add the Reply, yes 90s, not 80s, the train cars from 80s and prior, were all used to create New Rail cars, as we had no more trade relations with China for ORE, that is why Vehicles made after the 90s, are absolute garbage
The wheel's are not connected to the rail cars in anyway they just sit on top of them and depend on the weight to hold them together that's why you always see the wheels scattered every which way..
@@Grunt-pr7od very true... but SOME truck assemblies have steel rods in place to keep the wheels from coming off... emphasis on SOME
@@25mfd Its called a “pin” back when I worked my 40 years on the RR….
It's not just happening to NS.
2/3 NS
2/10 UP
2/13 UP
2/13 CSX
2/14 SP
2/16 NP
2/20 UP
2/27 ??Flatbed truck on tracks
2/28 SCR
3/4 NS
3/7 NS
3/7 BNSF
3/8 ?? Rockslide, bolder on tracks
3/9 NS
3/8 was csx. wasnt even the rail companies fault just mother nature taking a toll.
If you consider creating a cable TV channel called train derailments 24 x 7?
Wao... seems like its all planned
@@buddhaboy6017 Wao... it's like this every year.
Goodness, is this NS' 6th accident in just over a month?! How many more is NS gonna get into?! NS needs to stop getting into a lot of accidents.
Omg 6? Really? If only you knew that all class 1 railroads have 2-6 derailments per day. Thats up to 50 derailments per day in north America, not including class 2 and 3 railroads numbers.
This is my hometown and has a huge amount of train traffic. Saw a line of propane cars in town the other day. Glad it wasn't those that derailed. Wore out equipment and greed are the underlying issues here.
Daughters family in Athens!
I live in Ohio, Something fishy going on with all these train derailments!!!!!
That big boulder 🪨 just jumped out of the mountain yesterday 🤣
Land grab?
No there isn't
Yes there is indeed
@@trainmaster0217 🤣
RJ Corman, Hulcher, Cranepro all having a good month thanks to NS.
Surprised they let you get that far in there to film
I have to get close to figure out what happened...hint hint
Looks every bit as bad as the wreck we had here in Ohio. Not having all the tanker cars in this train was the blessing. They'll be cleaning up after our wreck for years it appears. Glad to see you fared better. Noone needs that type of mess.
What do you guys figure is going on? I'm in Germany, and there was a guy on the news wondering if this is crustal displacement. He is currently studying the rift in Africa, but I just caught the tail end of it. Or is it somehow intentional? Failing infrastructure?
we;ll never know. Where in Germany are you?
Most of us believe this is NOT AN ACCIDENT !!!
It has to be something along the lines of what you said i was thanking the same i live in Alabama in the U.S.!!
Nothing intentional.
Failing infrastructure, older equipment, newer, less experienced employees.
Awesome video Jeff, what a freakin mess hope no one was injured and hope no hazardous chemicals were aboard this is getting to be too common makes one wonder take care enjoy your videos 👍
So many wrecks in one month somebody knows what 😳 is going on.
@@gailshaw5192 Yes i am sure someone knows Gail but they not gonna tell us
almost starting to think this is sabotage..
I believe it is !
Great footage. All these recent incidents are deliberate and by design.
Yes, caused by years of underfunding leading to failing infrastructure in a society that values profit before anything else
@@jacquesbowman1959 It much more insidious even than that ..
@@beentheredoneization Just curious , why do you think that? and what do you think the cause is?
@@rbfishcs123it’s just a wild ass guess
I think you're right. We have been let down for too long
Scrap train cars price is going to be low. Too much abundance.
We live at one of their depots. They cant hook up cars right either. Couplers break all the time from excessive ramming.
So , when is someone going to figure out that these are not accidents? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
CMEX rail cars = Clinton's connection to Haitian stolen money and other human rights abuses. Pat attention people, there is a reason they don't want people out there. The Local PD, and other First Responders may not know the history, and if they do I don't know what to say but we are going to find out.
Today we all are
actually, they are accidents... the FRA says that about 1000 derailments happen every year... the problem is that the NATIONAL MEDIA ONLY focuses on amtrak/commuter derailments and freight train derailments that have haz mats involved AND that cause MAJOR damage... now the LOCAL MEDIA will pick up on a low level derailment that didn't have hazmats, a few boxcars and a flatcar jumped the rails no big deal... but the natioanl media ain't workin with that... not enough "UMMPH" in that story... there is definite truth to the old media line of... "if it bleeds it leads"
That's why the train traffic in temple Georgia has been so quite
That delayed maintenance is hitting hard. Maybe we start sending in the truck cops, it's only a 4 hour class.
railroads spent billions in maintenance last year.
At 2:15 in this video, was that not the same type of car (steel coil carrier) that caused the derailment in Springfield, Ohio last Saturday and a nationwide prohibition on its use issued simultaneously to this crash yesterday. It is claimed that the wheels do not hold steady to the gauge of the track.
You're literally just lying. That is a bold face lie. There has been nothing issued about railcars in that capacity. You people need mental help
Just plain lack of maintaining their stuff, my God if you can find a spot to see the ties sponge and rails squirm even with empties at low speeds you know this is going to happen.
It seems odd this is now happening just after obidumb settled the rail strike, everything this old asshole touches or gets near turns to shit ,hard to believe
The ties are worn out. They weren't made for flanges pushing against the sides of the rails with loads many times those when the rails were laid a hundred years ago and more, so the chairs tear out and everything goes sideways. We started replacing ours in the UK in the 1960s, using precast reinforced cement, and it's worked.
Those tracks were nowhere near 100 years old. Don't have particulars on this specific stretch of track but most wooden mainline ties changed out 10-15 years max (depending on traffic density, climate, etc) and rail on heavily trafficked lines usually at least every 20. Many US mains have been converted to concrete ties, etc and I would wager there are British lines that still have wood ties.
@@kennethhanks6712 Just unused sidings.
Actually in the US, Canada and Mexico they are replacing concrete precast reinforced cement ties with wood. Understand that in North America the type of trains we run here are far different than the tiny freight operations in the UK. What works well in one nation with one type of railroading may not work well elsewhere. And seriously, while this original route is in excess of 100 years old the actual track has been replaced many times.
@@cdavid8139 We're a country mile ahead of you in passenger operations, though. Right now, every passenger thinking to be environmentally-aware and travel by train is shaking their head, seeing the body-count if one of those trains was a passenger one. My pa was in charge of the Railway Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers when this was sorted out, and the move towards high speed traffic was a spin-off from the need to go to larger tank cars. That led to changes in bogie design, to keep cars upright when derailed, and to track and trackbed, to stop this pile-up. It does still happen when there's an obstacle straight ahead, nothing to be done about that, but we now get derailments without significant damage at far higher speeds, as a result.
I note you don't cite the reasons for a preference for wooden sleepers. It wouldn't be cost-savings, would it? If so, you've succumbed to the eternal two-out-of-three, you have to choose which of speed, beauty and cost you're willing to dump. You're committed to fast delivery, and you want low cost, so it's not going to be pretty, ie piles of wrecked cars, environmental damage, and blighted communities are your norm. And that is exactly why Ms Brockevitch is on your case, because you're making money at the expense of everyone else.
@@JelMain You are so far ahead of the US, Canada and Mexico in passenger operations it is ridiculous. I travel the UK a lot and I love the rail operations. Absolutely fantastic. I won't get into the preference for wooden sleeps as it is very complicated and to be honest not universally agreed upon here. And of course cost savings is a factor....as it should be. Railroads here are also not generally committed to fast delivery. Intermodal is an exception but in general we move slower, heavier tonnage trains in the US, Mexico and Canada. Ms. Brockevitch is a publicity hound now. That is why she is on this case. If she were really concerned she would be out investigating the North American trucking system which is far far more dangerous than rail in these three nations.
The Fed's had better get busy finding out who's sabotaging these trains.
It's the feds that are causing all of this...wake up
So sad,,prayers nobody gets hurt
That’s incredible. Wow.😳
On March 5 another N&S train derailed near Springfield Ohio. 28 cars left the track. Terrorism domestic or other.
God forbid we ever actually need to move defense material down through any of these lines.
Military equipment is moved regularly on all the major railroads.
@@JeffRyman69 very true
Happens every single day. It is a lot safer than over the highways where the accident rate is much higher
All the wheels are coming off of these trains, and their tracks are falling apart, except for West Virginia it’s awfully strange that such a huge boulder would break loose from all the other boulders up there, and that’s the only one that fell.
The wheel sets on most rail cars are not attached to what is on top of them. Gravity holds them in place. Ring attached is only true on toy trains.
I am from that part of WV and that does happen. That is why roads have deep ditches at the bases if the mountainsides, to catch falling rock. That derailment is the only one currently that looks legitimate to me.
Well, if the wheel bearings are bad, then the wheels can’t possibly stay on the tracks, can they?
@@heavenswarriors3244 no they cannot stay on the tracks if the wheel bearings are bad... the wheel/axle gets HOT, then fails
In my opinion, there is either someone sabotaging cars at random or a line of faulty wheel axles that made their way on too many cars. I agree: this is too coincidental to have this many derailments so recently for Norfolk Southern alone.
Use to live right near there prayers with everyone involved
please be safe! I hope there are no toxic chemicals around
How is the maintenance of tracks and cars within that company? Something they think is not needed? Comes for free?
Most of the railcars you see here are not owned by that company.
@@cdavid8139 Okey. In the US the train company owns the tracks, the lines, but moves more or less any cars?
@@Stefan_Boerjesson Let's talk North America and not just the US here. The three nations have a common system so my answer is for the US, Canada and Mexico. In North AMerica the railroads are usually privately owned. They are required to move anyone's cars. Not just their own. So on Norfolk Southern you may see cars from multiple other railroads or from other nations. About 50% (or more) of the North American railcar fleet is owned by private companies. In particular cars that are designated to carry a specific product will be owned by the customer. Almost all chemical cars, for example, are owned by the customer and not the railroad.
@@cdavid8139 Thanks for explaining! My writing "the US" was ment to be North America.
In Sweden the state owns almost all of the tracks. Privat companies use the tracks after having received their time slots handled by the state authority. The cars are owned by the operators running the trains or private companies. Lots of rules demanding regular inspections. Derailments are really rare but do happen of course.
@@Stefan_Boerjesson Yeah. I've railroaded a bit in EUrope on the IT side. Very different. Not better. Not worse. Different. THe railroads service nations and lands that are greatly different. Makes it interesting. I do admit I love riding trains in Europe. Great dependable service. But then in the US/CA/MX when you are moving 15000 tons of product across land larger than Europe as a whole it is interesting!
Peace Stefan!
😱 Not another one! Take care EA.
This is deliberate! They lay steel cable wire across trax!
There is no way a company this big has this many fails by accident…
Is this another bearing failure? Might have to look at suppliers.
Starting to look like sabotage that's way too many train accidents and such a short time
Have you noticed this all started happening about the same time they began to weld the rails together with thermite instead of bolting them with the plates...
Not sure what timelines you are referencing but welded rails have been increasingly used for at least 20-30 years and all evidence has proven welded rail far more effective and safe in all respects than standard stick jointed rail.
Bolts and nuts are prone to mechanical and structural failure, welded is just structural failure.
Don't be stupid. Most of Europe uses CWR with some passenger trains running at 200mph or freight at 100mph. They mostly stay on the rails here. Probably more to do with terrible wagon maintenance, if it's just the one company.
Thermite you said, wow this means that they are trying to make a false flag to stir up a war.
Most railways around the world are Continuously Welded Rail and its actually reduced derailments since its adoption.
If I worked at that company I'd be taking my leave right about now
Why? If you work for them you are well paid and overall it is much much much safer than driving a truck
There is hundreds of derailments a year people nothing new just the lack of maintenance most of the time .
Excellent coverage.
I watched a program on tv from over there in America and the conditions off your bridges and god makes me wonder how on earth they are allowed to be used. Here in the uk they be replaced way before they get to that condition. The other thing is I bet you must be running out of trains if there’s that amount of crashes all time 😂👍🏻🇬🇧
In the UK you don't have Republicans undoing safety regulations and allowing corporations to do whatever they want, and voting down infrastruction bills.
No very true . Don’t understand why you put up with it . Shameless people are everywhere
I have delivered loads to the Southern Wire company just north of town off US-78 been there many times it has been few months since I was last there
Oh my goodness!! What a mess!!!
First of all, I hope everyone is ok that were operating that train.
Cargo Trains do not derail this often. There are some people doing something to the tracks or to the trains. I hope y'all realize there's a coordinated effort to cripple the Supply Chain, whether it be from the Government, Domestic Terrorists, or a combination of the two. It was Cargo Ships, Factories, Diesel prices(Trucking), and Cargo Trains(not Passenger Trains).
"Don't blame Me, I voted for Trump"
Just Sayin!
Actually, they do derail this often, over 1,000 times a year.
This comes down to people being distracted more than ever. and being less educated as well. People don't have pride in their work like they did 20 years ago.
this is getting to be nuts
Can you imagine what the earth felt like when this happened! Red Bay here!
I am wondering if they asked if they could go in and destroy the woods from the owner to make room for the derailed cars? Or just ask forgiveness after the fact.😮
Usually the owner or owners are paid for the damage . I use to work for Santa Fe railroad as signalman . We replaced all of the fence at one site that we worked at the our cost as well as paid for other damages .
They ask permission and make restitution if there is damage. Generally a very minor cost.
Collecting on their insurance claims?? What are their Insurance rates now w/all of their derailments?
Didn't a train just derail in Iron City AL or is this the same one?
this is it
@@ExploringAlabama ok thanks I saw another vid and the title said Iron city AL.
People need to start protesting these trains.
I have to cross N&S tracks to get to my house everyday. They are constantly monitoring and repairing them. This is domestic terrorism.
Our local train in wa. Just killed a whole herd of Elk !! Like 24 of them by hitting them all at once..Washougal
Someone is Pissed at NS and Getting Even.
Thanks for posting
Why is there been so many train derailments in the last 2 months are these sleeper cells or this volcanic tectonic activity what is going on
Multiple train derailment. Multiple electric sub station attacks. Hmmmmmm, is it just me, or is there some sort of pattern developing?
Multiple food plants burning down...
Hopefully the conductors are OK.
Any clue what company is avoiding safety concerns doesn't care who doesn't check the tracks track should be checked once a week if not at least once a month
Dang! I thought this was a different railroad company than whose trains derailed in Ohio!!! 😟
They are off the rails, brother, off the rails. Thanks for the "On the scene" coverage! 👍👍👍
1:56, is that tank car carrying the materials to make PVC?
East Palestine Ohio, Oklahoman, now Alabama.
All just a coincidence.
Move along, move along folks, nothing to see here.
I think people are fucking with with the tracks and I can't seem to stop thinking it could be sabotage
WHY IS NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD STILL IN BUSINESS? They can not seem to keep trains on the track.WHY?
THEY ARE LOSING THEIR **TRAIN OF THOUGHT!!**
isnt this the same railroad that also had the big disaster in East Palestine,Ohio and another one in Ohio is it the Norfolk/Southern
Oh Lord, now they're coming for Alabama!
Ohio and now Alabama? What the fuck is going on with Norfolk Southern? At least it wasn’t toxic chemicals this time.
Aloooha, Norfolk is hiring! Immediate opportunities as a train derailment cleanup laborer no experience required
My question is what is Union Pacific doing different? Why Norfolk southern? It’s either admin,maint, safety. Or its inside sabotage
"What is Union Pacific doing different?" - Nothing, just do a quick search and see how many they've had recently.
Looks like they just added to the scrap metal they were hauling!
NS sure is having there problems with derailments. Sure has out CSX to shame on derailments.
Good footage
6 in two weeks, last year almost 2 thousand.... and no one said a word.
Someone is attacking Norfolk southern for a reason.find why. Problem than solved.
Something's gotta be done about this. We have higher standards for aircraft to meet flight certification, the same needs to be applied to rail, it's unacceptable.
I have been commenting on many platforms .. why the word Saratoga has not been mentioned this just seems to many for just one company ..
This is why we need to invest more in our railroad system
At least this administration actually made an Infrastructure plan! Wondering why they did NOT reinstate the 'brake' laws. What is this particular companies track record (no pun intended)? 6 derailment since Oct 22???
With very few exceptions, the railroads in the United States are owned by private companies not the government
Dang, sure hate that. Just to many derailments for the kinda money those companies make for hauling freight. It keeps making prices going up, in the end we pay for all the overburden and incurred cost for this kinda stuff....#FreightTaxation....
Man we lost some of my favorite graffiti carts.. I saw that!
WOW what a mess
im curious who owns the train cars who owns the tracks who owns rights to move them across the usa does it work like the airlines separate company's move about and pay fees for use on other tracks? who maintains a train car thats owned by another company in another state
Railroads used to own rollingstock, now there's leasing companies like TTX or RailBox that lease them out. I'm sure they own some of their own stock tho, not a 100% sure. And the class A1 railroads own most of the track and they mostly stay on their own rails with the exception of amtrak, so the A1 railroads have to inspect they're own tracks regularly. There are junctions where they kinda overlap tho. I don't think amtrak owns that much track, and Metra may own some but very little in the grand scheme of things. As for maintenance, I think it would land on the company who's leasing them out, but the thing is that it's up to the train crews to inspect their train. And whats going on in railroading is they're running longer trains with less man power. These guys are overworked and being ran into the dirt, and it's all of them. All the major railways in America are doing this. They want 1 man per train.
I still want to know how the railroads can have derailments costing millions of dollars in track repair, car replacement, hazardous chemical cleanup, lost service on the route involved, and restoration of the area of the derailment, and still turn billions of dollars in profit. My guess is taxpayers are paying for a lot of their unsafe operation. It needs to be looked into!
Very bad guess.
@@cdavid8139 Prove that they are not laying some of their expenses off on the taxpayers. At the least, they are claiming the derailment costs as a loss on their taxes. The less they pay, the more I pay!
@@supercuda1950 I get your point there. They are not directly taking taxpayer money, but they will take expenses as a writeoff the same as every business in North America. I'm not sure the less they pay the more Rupert pays is necessarily the point. Your tax rate is your tax rate. but.....your point is taken
Lack of track maintenance
Hope all this costs them BILLIONS
Damn cars must be on skies.
Just be careful EA I wouldn't want you to get hurt or into trouble !
Maybe the engineer decided the speed limit was for everyone else? Just like the poster who drove straight through the STOP sign!
They use Train optimizer and Ptc, overspeed accidents are a thing of the past
What a mess!!
You know what was really bad? There were two crewmen in all the trains, and neither one made a single bit of difference. Here we go for one man crews!
They never should've done away with cabooses.
A freight train going 15 mph does not pile up like that!
Question, y r they not stopping all the trains from them to be inspected, they ground entire air line fleets due to accidents, y not them.
The largest leasing pool of railroad cars (TTX) is ~170,000 cars. What would you like them to inspect that they are not already inspecting, and how long do you think that would take to complete?
Was that today??? What the heck is going on???????????
yes this morning
@@ExploringAlabama I live in Alabama. I haven’t heard about it yet. Thanks for sharing
Something aint right with the railroad derailments that are happening,weather its upkeep of infrastructure,quality of the material or human error,it will only be a matter of time before there is a huge incident with detramental effects across the country.Lets hope not.
I’m surprised they let you get that close