5 ALCO Diesels Hit Their Train.... HARD!
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5 ALCO Diesels Hit Their Train.... HARD!:
Boom!... Go the freight cars as this Delaware Lackawanna train slams into the freight cars with such force that the locomotives can be seen bobbing like dolphins.... The dispatcher in Tower 60 said over the radio that she could feel the force in there! 
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My dad was an old time railroad man in the late 40s early 50s. He said riding in the caboose could be a rough ride with some hotrod engineer's
I asked him what the fireman's job was after they went to diesel and he said to "run the train while the engineer slept".
That's funny.. And in some cases, I think true.
"Dewey, where did you have that throttle?"
"Notch 8, Connie."
That's funny
"Connie, the throttle was in notch 8 full power, okay? It was 39 cars!"
Even though we all know the movie was based on the Crazy Eights Incident, which had 47 cars, traveled at nowhere near the same speed, and displayed a slightly lower level of ineptitude...
Hey is that sentence was from Unstoppable movie?I like that movie.
@@aqil_yt4288 Awesome movie. Even though the Hollywood'ed up the story a little for effect, Tony Scott hardly used any CGI or visual effects at all. Most everything they did were real, practical effects.
@Michael yeah, it was a awesome movie.
Hit so hard water came out the radiator…. That’s now you break a crank.
Not a good crew at all apparently this crew does not care about the equipment or about the customer's cargo they need to take some pride in their work
Talk to psr ( precision railroading)
The crew size reduction, accelerate training (less than three months) , no time off, and no update contact
The customer's cargo is grain. As long as you don't hit the train so hard that it spills on the ground, the cargo doesn't care. The equipment is the problem, here.
Still, a good way to bust a knuckle.
@@Navgearhead you will NEVER bust a knuckle making a coupling 🤣
Or perhaps, the conductor was lacking communication. Engineer can’t see shit
My grandad worked at Montreal Locomotive Works. Gotta love those Alcos........especially the Centuries.
Holy Smoke..!! that'd be the Railway version of a 'Swift' truck driver hooking up his semi trailer...
That's a new outlook on this video that I haven't heard yet!!
Swift. LOL
"Um yeah... That'll do. Go ahead and stretch 'em."
Holy heck! I have never see locos jump like that. That is straight up insane!
I know, right!... You should've been there to feel the shockwaves!
That’s what Alcos do
Andy Robertson lol got a link?
Andy Robertson sounds like that would have been fun to see. Thanks
They're made to do that
Russia loved the ALCO RSD-1 so much they based pretty much every diesel locomotive, they ever built after it, Cowl Bodied or nor, even the newest diesels have a bit of ALCO in them!
God bless the Alco!!!! Makes you appreciate a quality built piece of machinery.
Who wants to tell him
I grew up next to the ALCo facility in Schenectady, NY. I love ALCo's :) Thank you for bringing back some childhood memories!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I absolutely love Alcos!
smash memories too, yeah NY has a lot of wrecks
Oh, how I miss those ALCO's. How much I miss going home from work smelling of diesel fuel and ALCO grease! Lol
Environmentalists: NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST USE U BOATS TO MOVE TRAINS, ALL THE EMISSIONS THEY PRODUCE ARE BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Railfan: Haha U boat go BRRRRRRRRRRR
But...
These are ALCO's.
U-boats were GE's
I wonder why these railcars, and locomotives have been experiencing all of a sudden separating, broken knuckles,/ couplers ect.😵
That recoil was painful to watch… There is no reason to be treating those Alcos like that.
Tier 4 compliant locos right there
Yes, *double extra soot,* please.
Oh no doubt it’s tier 4 compliant 🗿
"The Diesels grumbled as they banged into their long heavy freight train"
OptimusPrime2471 the train didn’t seem very long. Only something like 6 cars
I can’t wait to actually start working for the rails
That was a good coupling. Anyone that says that's rough, has never been on a train crew.I have done, seen, and felt a lot harder. The rule was 4 mph to cars and 3 mph to another locomotive.
Interesting
Jarrod w... these dudes never been in a train yard... this was to make sure the lock block falls and bottom lifter is in place... buckle the air and do a airtest and hiball
Thank you Jarrod.
Agreed, plus 4mph is pretty stiff to begin with. And this dude looks like he's got all 5 online. At least 4 when he makes the joint. Lol
We had to change the radiator fan, gearbox, and eddy current drive in a C-420 on the A&M due to an engineer making a hook like this. If I remember correctly, they fired him.
Wow, that's an interesting story.. Thanks for sharing.
As well they should have.
75Bird455 I repair railcars and I always wonder how they get so much damage to the bell mouth and coupling assembly and now I see why
Was it a mistake? Or was that just "The way he'd always done it"?
well you sure as hell don't get a promotion for doing that much damage.
Please tell me im not the only one who notices the steam locomotive in the bottom right corner right?
Probably not.
It looks like this is at or near Steamtown in Scranton.
That's some pretty old stock. I see a rusted Pullman too.
That building appears to be the steamtown mall, and the bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the railyard to Steamtown National Historic Site. So yes, you aren't imagining that steam locomotive among the rolling stock. Its one of several they have on display.
The real question now is what railroad did it belong to cause to me it looks like something the NYC would have owned.
Easy there, don't bend my ALCos' backs!! Wow, what a video. Love the sounds after the couple!
SpeakerPolice Silly! You can't do that to an Alco, only to a Gevo you can!
its more llike, hhehe, you wanna fart in the engine cab hehe, ok "giver some speed Billy we got aa ways to go and ill ride on the point.
You can hear the independents be applied after he comes off throttle. Im guessing the air didn't set as quickly as he thought it would..
look close and you can see some water and steam shoot out of the radiator on the coupling unit
Yeah, I saw that!
Ya saw it
I was about to say that, looks like it damaged it?
No, you are not!
That's a water tank, for excess water I believe. Probably came out a cap on the top
That is a no smoking area sir! 😱😱
That's how knuckles get broken.
They needed more motive power for that long consist.
At least he did not have broke those precious alco's or he would have been in big trouble
As a former Scrantonian (now in AZ), It’s definitely Steamtown, located behind the (now mostly closed) Steamtown Mall.
Superb shots ! 👍🏻
Thanks Ireland
@@Trains21 You're welcome ! :)
Welcome to Scranton folks, It just keeps getting better
Tell me about it!
burdizdawurd1516 LOL
xD
lmao
0:33 look at 3643's radiator, is that water or coolant jump out when it hit the car?
That’s what not giving a shit looks like people…
Yup. Not giving a single shit is an actual thing. Even for pilots flying a loaded passenger plane.
That loco hitting the cars completely flexed upon impact!
Yessir, it did.
Alco diesels sound kind of cool
Love that sneaky steamer, thinks he's so cool just chilling there.
That's right lol
if you go to Asheville a neighborhood sits on a hill above the yard which wraps about 180 degrees around said hill. When they couple to a big train and you are on the hill you can hear the couplings bang all the way around. Its a very cool effect and surprises people sometimes.
I grew up on the other side of the mountain from the Norris yard in Irondale, AL. I would say five miles up and over the mountain in an urban area with plenty of traffic including an interstate. We could hear those cars banging all the time. I don't recall even hearing the train horns, but the sound of those cars being hit would carry pretty far.
Sounds like not only they have synchronized control act, but also crankshaft position!
Stupid crew bumping those superb locomotives they should take good care of the old girls and show respect
5 belching diesel, exhaust engines. I like it.
Me too!.. Glad you like.
MĶ
Diesel, powerful ALCO locomotives, a steamer in the foreground at the right, internal combustion, steam, brute strength, and the waking up of hobos by ramming their train, what more can anybody want!? All that is needed are monster trucks between the tracks racing with enormous engines, a gun and knife shop at the edge of the tracks, fit women in bikinis riding ATVs, and a barbecue grill serving meat, lots and lots of meat! At night, lots of fireworks!
I like how both of the Erie Lackawanna style locos are on the train.
Then they complain when a coupler breaks.
Uh-huh.
And when they are fired.
You have to wake up the rail hobos. You have to hit the train hard. If one of the hobos fall out, oh well.
@@indridcold8433 They do it for fun I think, and also because they don't care if it breaks because it doesn't come out of their paycheck. Most if not all railroad companies have a bunch of them set aside in their garages just in case this happens so it's no big deal.
That's at steamtown , Scranton PA....where the office was fictionally filmed.
Yeah I noticed that! I was on that bridge when a steam loco went under, that was a foul smell, I could only imagine the diesel smell coming from them alcos
great video bro
Thanks Man
Cool! I didn't know there were Alcos still in revenue service!
Absolutely.
+Trains21 What railroads do they operate on?
Delaware Lackawanna
Falls Road RR
Western New York & Pennsylvania
Livonia Avon & Lakeville
Bath & Hammondsport
Mohawk Adirondack & Northern
Minnesota Commercial
Cayuga Scenic in Ohio
West Chester in SE Pa.
and maybe a one or two more
+Trains21 That's a lot of railroads!
Thanks
Locomotives leave and pull a few cars with them.
Thank you very much for this incredible video! This is how RUclips is fun...
...When the customer inspects the cargo that was shipped and asks "What did you guys do to it?"
They just say "We rammed five ALCOs at the train at about 10 MPH."
There you go!... Funny!
Thanks!
No prob.
Not only would customers complain what happened to the cargo as they inspect the rail car itself noting damages when they ask what happened to the car when the railway says they coasted at least five ALCO locomotives at the train at least 5 MPH when those had noted at the point of impact the coupling unit had jumped when there was reports some fluid leaking from the radiator area of the coupling unit.
Before they check the cargo, they have to clean the squashed hobo off the boxes.
0:32 "Oh! Oh! Oh!" screamed the freight cars!
This is one of THE MOST epic catches of 2016!
What railroad are these ALCOs owned by and what railroad museum were they near? (I say that because I see old rolling stock and a steam loco!)
The Alcos are owned by the Delaware Lackawanna and the yard is Steamtown in Scranton, Pa..
Trains21 Actually technically Genesse Valley Transportation. They're just serving on the Delaware Lackawanna that day.
It doesn't matter if they have a schedule to keep, others can take care of them so whY can't they? Take pride in your work, geesh
How many joints have you made? And I'm not talking the skunky kind..
No horn, no broken knuckles? This is what we do when we think no one is watching. . . .
:-)
By the sounds of those engines, maintenance seems to not be a prority for them. they probably have 50% of the brakes in working order, if that, and it seems they really don't care.
@@electric7487 Thats normal for those to spit out smoke like that. The 251 series or the 251CV12s that are put in there are notorius for that. Same with the sound.
That’s just how an Alco sounds! GVT takes great pride in their Alco roster and ensure they are all in good, working order.
Thanks to screw link couplers and double buffers, if that happened in the UK they wouldn't be allowed to dispatch it as it would be classified as a slow speed collision.
In the USA, thanks to knuckle couplers it's out of the yard moments later.
That's funny.. And an interesting comparison!!
Yeah I would not allow that in my rail yard either
I like how the conductor jumped off, he probably said fuck this. I don't blame him. Guy needed to slow down a little.
Lol :-)
Operators-"Your good your good your good keep going your good"
Crewman outside "stop the damn train cj."
he didn't jump any faster than he would have normally done....
I used to work for the University of Scranton in a building at Monroe Ave and Ridge Row, right along those tracks. I was walking back to the office from lunch one day, sometime between 2000 and 2006-ish, when they hit hard and one car tore open, spilling plastic pellets (used by a manufacturer in the area.)
Wow.. I wish I could've seen that.
Yep! They went CARBANGO! As we used to say at the ALLENTOWN HUMP Yard!
Carbango.. I'll have to remember that one!
Trains21
Yep! At the one time railfan bench in ALLENTOWN Bethlehem HUMP yards.The bench started to rot away.And then CONRAIL prohibited railfan from watching FREIGHT CAR'S Carbanging into one another.Because it was starting to fall apart.
And it was also a great panoramas view there especially when a westbound or eastbound FRIEGHT would end or begin it's run from there.Though most trains would originate in the west end of the yards.As they do today under NORFOLK SOUTHERN.
Ours is Whammo.
Wonder who had the biggest "oh shit!" moment. The crewman on the steps that hopped off or the engineer that realized WAY too late that he was coming in a bit too hot. Cool video.
I've done that a few times.
That's gonna leave a mark.
I grew up with that sound in west Vancouver B.C
Love watching it in High Definition! Can't wait for you to move up to 4K!
Me too.. We're working on 4K and a drone.
I have read a few places that the definition of a good prime mover is a prime mover that can take the abuse of railway use...
How about the mounting studs?
Is this the railroad version of bumper cars ?!?
Every now and again the L&N Train than ran behind my childhood home would, what we kids called, get stuck. Many times the engine would depart leaving the cars & the Caboose behind. Later that engine, or another, would arrive and I can still hear that Ka-Chang Boom, Boom sound when the engine hooked back up. Then I would hear the air hissing from car to car and brakes releasing. Then the Ka-Bang, Ka-Bang, Ka-Bang sound as all the cars, one by one, took up the slack at their knuckles and started following their engine again.
This only happened late at night and usually when it was snowing but a few times I can remember (mid-1960s to mid-1970s) being awakened, in my childhood home, late at night to the sound of a Locomotive roaring loudly over and over again but seemingly not going anywhere. Being just a little kid I assumed the train was stuck due to the snow and was probably right considering all the sand I'd find along the rails the next day. But those trains would roar and roar, go down the tracks a bit only to come back in reverse a few minutes later. Sometimes a train would be back behind the house nearly all night. I would lie awake late at night hearing that particular very faint, tingk, tingk-tingk, tingk, tingk of tiny ice pellets and snow striking the turned off window-air conditioner metal cover and I'd wish that I could be part of the adventure the RailRoad Engineer was having getting his train rolling again.
I was lucky enough that I can still remember seeing, from my parent's back-yard, just a handful of the old coal-burning Steam Locomotives as the last ones were getting distributed across the country to be displayed in city parks, museums, or to the scrap-yards to be cut up for scrap. There was a curve in the tracks so we kids in the neighborhood could always hear the trains before we saw them. That wasn't exactly true when it came to the coal-burning steam engines. Our first tip-off was the sound. L&N's big new Locomotives made a sound that was much different from the old steam engines. So the instant we heard one coming down the tracks that didn't sound right we knew it was probably a steam Locomotive. We'd jump on our bicycles and race to the best spot to watch the trains. If it was a Steam Locomotive we'd know it before it came into view. Around the bend, we could see the low hanging branches being blown every which way and the thick green leaves being blown up and away from the limbs by the steam and smoke coming out of the Locomotive's Stack. They were always a deep-flat coal-black color and monsters in size. My biggest regret was never getting any pictures but what 6 to 8 year old carries a camera?
I'm speechless.. And I know what you mean.. I have many undocumented memories myself.. Thanks for yours.
Great catch and video.
Hard joint. Conductor could've done that because the engineer pissed him off. One never knows......!
I know, right!
I've been on both ends of that. From this guys a dick! To that prick made me spill my coffee!
Trains21 plus 5 motors, the independent is slow to react
That's interesting.. There's always a story behind it.
Yeah, there's a number of things that could've caused this outcome.
I like seeing the shockwave move through the engines
You should have felt it.
BIg like from Romania...Great rail therapy
Been to Steamtown several times was always a bonus seeing working ALCO/MLW units nice catch.
Thanks RJ.. Yeah, the Alcos are always a nice treat.
I worked in a train yard 20 yrs... this wasn't bad .... SERIOUSLY... you would hear this 20 times a day.. you know the lock blocks fell 30 cars BACK... NO WALKIN BACK TO MAKE A JOINT... MAKE YOUR AIR AND GO
Tracy M, aka Horrible Railroading!
Understood
Reasonable point
Sadly, I've seen the results on a piece of equipment that took such an impact. The load move 16 inches and the coupler, which was a radial coupler, split. You have to walk the train when you have that kind of impact.
zgww 2182 it ain't horrible railroading. Shit was designed for this. Go do it for a day.
Ouch, that had to hurt. Hope the engineer had a neck brace on.
You and me both :-)
Wow when I was a conductor I would be screaming your coming in too hot and trying to ride that out would hurt lol
If he didn't then, he does now.
He probably just has a thick neck.
they only complain when hard joints spill their coffee.
Reminds me of an Alco RS-11 the LIRR kept on a side line at the Ne Highway RR crossing in Farmingdale, N.Y. They used it for shunting. The engine had a bearing knock in it.
Gotta love that knocking sound.. Sounds like a time bomb.
Great stuff! Plenty of "clag" (smoke) as we say over here across the pond!
Thanks man.
I can just see the Environmentalists CRINGING at the sight of these emissions.
☁☁☁☁☁ 😨 👈😄
He doesn't own it and doesn't care obviously, or about his fellow workers, glad he bailed out before the hookup ,
the conductor was smart jumping off, and i thought locos could not fly.
must be a new guy running it.
Maybe
Maybe a girl trying to.
I'll be stopping by steamtown on Monday. I'm hoping to be able to catch some good action in the yard. Been there a few times before on weekends and I've never seen them hit this hard.
Maybe you'll get to see the PO-74 Turn leave the city.
Peace fellow Iowan. You did a great job. My opinion.
2 of them look like Erie Lackawannas
That's cause I think they are Ex EL locomotives
D*mn ! What was that engineer thinking? There was a terrific amount of momentum there from those 5 engines. There could have been damage to that coupling. I could not see if the engineer was getting signals to tell him how close he was.
"We ain't making watches out here". Quote from a trainmaster in regards to the way I ran yard engines. His other quote was "I wanna see engine smoke"
Really, the conductor is the one in charge of the train. The engineer can't see jack if he's on the hind end of the move, and if the conductor says 2 cars back when they're half a car away, what happened in this video is exactly what's going to happen.
You might be in charge of the train but engineers are not all the same. Some are hot and you find out a little late. Some are slower.
someone is inexperienced
Good god I felt that from here
LOL
I KNOW, and I’m in England!
Haha :-)
Very awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing, Bob...
Thanks, Bob.. Glad that you enjoyed...
Thanks again, Bob...
The real treat here is the prime movers of each locomotive throttling up.
Indeed.
I've never worked on a railroad but even *I* know that was a unnecessarily hard couple.
Yep
Engineer feeling a bit testy?
Wow chugging like Indian alcos ❤
Alco locomotives living up to the honorary steam locomotive name much like the PA's in the 50s.
Awesome catch! When I was in Casper, Wyoming, I got to see some BNSF switching at it's best! Lots of bangs! The locomotive actually BOUNCED.
in your video the engine did.
Yup, bobbin' like dolphins!
Yeah, I like to watch cars being switched.... It's about as old fashioned as it gets!... Thanks for the compliment.
No problem! Yeah, it sure is!! :)
As a employee on the UP, I've seen couplings exactly or harder than this. We've had to replace a windshield by some idiots hitting their train hard!
Yep! I've been a employee on the UP, I see some hard couples!
Wait, a hard hit can break a windshield? O_O
I've never hit hard enough to need a windshield replaced thankfully.
Bro where I live three engines can pull longer trains than that and have no struggle whatsoever
yeah...i've definatly done that on train simulator...it makes me wonder if some on put a "couple speed 15+" sign on the car
:-)
Gotta love smokey Alcos!!!
Beautiful!
That's right.
That's one way to turn that fine Canadian grain into flour.
That's funny!
LOL
When it hits look near the exhaust of the last loco. Oil? Spilling out
It’s water from the radiators. I may be wrong, but I believe the water fill point is up there on Alcos.
nice video
Thanks, much..
i worked outbound yard as car inspector.i have seen harder hits,though very rare.engineers dont want to break knuckle on freight car,nor injury the crew. i worked rice yard which is one of the largest hump yards in the country at the time.at times a rolling car would hit another car and jump track
Thanks Ray.. Yeah, there's certainly harder knocks but that one was pretty good.
That's what happens when you forget to WD-40 the couplers
LOL
Bad car signs. It wasn't that hard of a joint. When I was a trainee, the old heads always said "hit em kid, they ain't made outta glass !"
Yes, very true.. But sometimes the cargo in the containers is.
And to me, hit it again
you hit em hard like that to knock the pins down.
Good point. Railroads have paid out millions for damaged cargo thanks to the old heads.
That was a cut of covered hoppers--not very likely to be hauling anything fragile. FWIW...
Trying to wake up Stobe The Hobo on one of them cadillac sleeper cars. hahaha
Diesels : 5 of us can pull the freight
Challenger : hold my beer
Funny
Actually only need 3 to out pull the challenger. Big steam was impressive for its time but can’t come close to modern diesels.
Just remember that, when you hear stories of a Challenger pulling a hundred cars, that's 100 40-foot box cars, not 100 modern 50/60-foot hi-cubes. Trains were considerably lighter in those days. Also, remember that the Challenger required roughly half a day's maintenance for every day it worked.
Awesome catch. I am more of a EMD fan, still those good old chugging Alco''s turn me on.
I'm the same way.
Sheesh! Good thing the conductor jumped off or he'd be laying in the ground. Surprised they didn't break the coupler(s). Lots of power for a short train.
All 5 online lol
Laying _"in"_ the ground?
Yes-laying IN the ground-had he not vacated his spot on that engine when he did, that too-fast moving train would have clobbered his butt and someone from the company would be talking to his widow.
1:43 That is A LOT of smoke! Nice!