I drove under this overpass that afternoon (my daughter had a summer job nearby), and we had wondered as to the extent of the derailment. Excellent drone footage, and a really neat bird’s-eye (or in this case, drone’s-eye!) view!
This is an all-too-common event anymore. Do railroaders not learn from past mistakes, or is history doomed to repeat time after time after time? That said, sometimes you can take a brain-dead approach to building trains. Just slap them together, any old order you wish. But sometimes, geography and track geometry come in to play. Does anyone give a flippin' thought to where a train will be going, what sort of curves it's going to have to negotiate? I mean, CSX sent this train over its own road. Might be different if CSX built the train and had to hand it off to another RR, but even then, would it hurt for someone to review the makeup, and say - Hey, a lot of empties together in the middle of the train, we gotta take this around a hairpin. Gee, maybe some distributed power to cut down on the pull from the front, or we should break this train up and either insert DP, or remove or re-position the empties. I hope that heads roll for crap like this. And I don't mean the operating crew, I mean the morons up above who should be responsible for ensuring that this kind of crap doesn't happen.
This was more than likely a transfer move and not necessarily a train that came a long distance over the road. That track that the train is on goes towards the Norfolk Southern Vardo yard so these cars were either coming from that yard or going from the CSX over to NS. The two yards are only about a half mile apart.
Lucky that those covered hoppers didn't fall on to the roadway below. Those two empty center beam cars are probably the ones that caused the derailment. Not good placement for them.
Great footage. Not familiar with this area. Is the open area to the left at the beginning what's left of an industrial area of some kind. I see areas of concrete. Just curious.
The Class I Railroads are Consistent when it comes to Not using their Brains 🧠 when Building a Train. Even a Kindergartner knows Better and Remembers it. 🤪👎
That’s another great quality precision railroad with all the light cars in the middle of the train one day they’ll figure it out
Isn’t it? So NS offered to trade cars when they had 40 and csx said no, 70 no, 120 oh yeah we will finally come down… faired well huh…
I talked to a CSX employee on the 30th. That leg of the wye is an 18° curve, "it's too sharp," he said.
CenterBeam does it again !
I said that to a CSX employee and he laughed
I drove under this overpass that afternoon (my daughter had a summer job nearby), and we had wondered as to the extent of the derailment. Excellent drone footage, and a really neat bird’s-eye (or in this case, drone’s-eye!) view!
Awesome drone video, this is the first time I've been able to see railcars roll over and leave the trucks on the track
Used to do that with my Lionel trains all the time.
This is an all-too-common event anymore. Do railroaders not learn from past mistakes, or is history doomed to repeat time after time after time?
That said, sometimes you can take a brain-dead approach to building trains. Just slap them together, any old order you wish. But sometimes, geography and track geometry come in to play. Does anyone give a flippin' thought to where a train will be going, what sort of curves it's going to have to negotiate? I mean, CSX sent this train over its own road. Might be different if CSX built the train and had to hand it off to another RR, but even then, would it hurt for someone to review the makeup, and say - Hey, a lot of empties together in the middle of the train, we gotta take this around a hairpin. Gee, maybe some distributed power to cut down on the pull from the front, or we should break this train up and either insert DP, or remove or re-position the empties.
I hope that heads roll for crap like this. And I don't mean the operating crew, I mean the morons up above who should be responsible for ensuring that this kind of crap doesn't happen.
This was more than likely a transfer move and not necessarily a train that came a long distance over the road. That track that the train is on goes towards the Norfolk Southern Vardo yard so these cars were either coming from that yard or going from the CSX over to NS. The two yards are only about a half mile apart.
Interesting how many of these stringlines they are having now.
Lucky that those covered hoppers didn't fall on to the roadway below. Those two empty center beam cars are probably the ones that caused the derailment. Not good placement for them.
I’ve inadvertently modeled this scene in N scale several times over the years…
CSX is a stupidly run Railroad. Ever since they lied about saving WM Hagerstown’s roundhouse!!!
I am not sure, but that looks like a Baldwin VO-1000 next to the covered hopper.
Well done coverage.
Great footage.
Not familiar with this area.
Is the open area to the left at the beginning what's left of an industrial area of some kind. I see areas of concrete. Just curious.
Thanks! Yes, sort of. It is the remains of where the railroad had its roundhouses and shops!
From the layout of the yard this looks like the worst place to derail a train, blocks everything till cleared.
Not saying the two are related, but is that a tight radius on the curve?
I didn’t realize I was off the rails 😂
Very nice drone job, wondering the makeup of the train, long with DPU ?
the train was tired, let then nap a while.
The Class I Railroads are Consistent when it comes to Not using their Brains 🧠 when Building a Train. Even a Kindergartner knows Better and Remembers it. 🤪👎
Shit Happens, Long as Everyone's OK.
What drone do you use
DJI Mini 2
I was there when it happened
Can't beat Physics!!
The Bohring does it again
Nice!!