Derailment and Cleanup of 238 at Reedy River in Greenville, SC
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2020
- NS 238 derailed some empty well cars between the Reedy River bridge and the yard in Greenville, SC. Some info about how railroad work crews operate:
People always comment that is seems like there are a lot of people standing around doing nothing. That this is somehow inefficient. A job like this requires many people with many skills. You COULD hire a handful of people who can do MANY skills, but then you have to pay them a LOT more money for having so many skills, and you constantly have to swap them out for each task. Instead they hire out many men with a variety of skills. There are men who operate backhoes and cranes, men who are experts and cutting, drilling and welding rail, and men who hammer spikes and do manual labor. The man who operates the backhoe doesn't hammer spikes, and the man who cuts rail doesn't operate the backhoe. Totally different skill sets. And there are managers who coordinate all of the operations. If you watch this video you will see men waiting on the street to pull away the cars while the men on the tracks work to separate the cars. They are coordinated. Think of it like a giant assembly line. There are many tasks that have to be performed in a specific order. Each man is one step on that assembly line. When a task is ready to be performed the man who performs that task is there and ready to perform it. Then he goes back to waiting for the next task. One man doesn't run up and down the assembly like doing every task. That would be inefficient. It's not about saving money, it's about getting the job done as fast as possible. The salaries of the workers is negligible compared to the cost of track being out of service.
And as for the number of accidents lately? There is no increase in accidents, just more people out with cameras. 
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Well isn't that something, a train derailment in Greenville. Never thought I'd see that. And I know exactly where this is too. Great footage by the way! Thanks for sharing!
Where is this? I am unable to recognize where in Greenville it is.
@@Melly519999 If you go on West Washington Street until where it crosses the tracks, the road where the car is blocking is on the left and is named Willard Street I think
great coverage , Thank you !
Nice shot!Good angle😁👍
I wasn't aware of this
Excellent footage!! I know 238 does interchange at the Inland Port in Greer. But wouldn't it be wiser to have he loads at the headend?!
I always thought it strange that the empty well cars were on the headend.
Well damn son you got coverage of this one also? Your a beast lol
Looks like the car picked the points. I never thought about dealing with wells that were connected with drawbars. Just another thing to deal with for the wreck crews.
Nice footage
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Odd that I never heard anything about this, even with the Amtrak station just a few hundred feet away.
Oh wow!!!
Interesting as I did not even hear this on the news...
I hope no one got hurt.
I was at the yard down there a few weeks ago I believe
I'm just wondering what caused this. It could've ended very ugly.
When did this happen?
Nice footage. What astounds me is that there were 3 operators running equipment and around 22 people standing around on the ground, about three of which were working at any one time. Note the six standing in or near the road watching.
Is it me or are we seeing a ton of derailments in the Southeast this year?
What you have to understand about track work crews is that when there is work to do dozens of men with different specialties are called out. There are men who operate backhoes, men who are experts at cutting and welding rail, men who hammer spikes, etc. At any given moment most of them are waiting on a task for them to do. The guy who operates the backhoe doesn’t hammer spikes and the guy who cuts rail doesn’t operate a backhoe. So most of the time it looks like men are standing around doing nothing. In reality they are very coordinated. They are ready and waiting for their specific task to do. And there are many managers who coordinate all of the tasks. If you watch the video there is work going on at the tracks and down on the street. Men are waiting on the street to drag the cars away as soon as the men on the track get the cars separated. They are coordinated. The key is not to reduce cost by only hiring men who can do many tasks and constantly swapping them out but having many men ready to do each task the moment it is required so the entire job can be done as quickly as possible so the railroad can get back in operation. The salaries of the men is negligible compared to the loss of revenue while the track is out of service. And no the number of wrecks is no higher or lower than usual. Just more people out with cameras to record it.
That looks more like 237 if the engines are heading south....that x-over you can only pull a certain amount of amps.....my guess
The engines were pulling the rear of the train away from the accident scene. The head end of the power is either in the yard or has continued on north. The train was heading north when it derailed the empty well cars. Most likely being empty with loaded cards on the rear they picked the turnout and came off the tracks in the curve.
This gotta be the Norfolk Southern, or the CSX Line?
It's Norfolk southern
What caused the derailment?
No idea. There is a switch there. But if I speculate there will be dozens of people arguing that I’m wrong. The internet is full of railroad “experts”.
@@HotspotsSoutheast Lots of "experts" on everything on the internet.
Whenever there is a train accident, or someone’s favorite train is annulled, or people get laid off someone will always blame it on PSR. As if train wrecks never happened before PSR and people never got laid off or train schedules changed before PSR. BULLSHIT. Railroads aren’t in business to entertain railfans. They’re in business to earn a profit. To pay their employees and the people who own the business, the stockholders. You know. Those greedy selfish people who invest their life’s savings in stocks so they can one day retire or send their kids to college. You know. Those greedy people like your parents and grandparents. Those greedy people who are only trying to earn a few dollars a month on their investments so they can pay their medical bills, pay for their food and shelter, when they are finally ready to retire. Those greedy people. So when I hear people blaming management or evil selfish stockholders or PSR for accidents and such I immediately remove those comments. I can’t help it if you are too dumb to understand basic economics but I won’t tolerate it here. If you think you can run a railroad better then go do it. Show them just how smart you are. The railroad would be bankrupt in a year.
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When PSR was implemented, the heads of the railroads at the time said it was only possible to maintain the extremely high demands of scheduling in that manner with a high degree of constant track maintenance and maintaining all rolling stock at peak functionality to prevent system failures. We are now seeing the results of the stress of PSR on our railroads nationwide, it is impossible to maintain tge demands on the infrastructure at a cost effective level for the railroads to meet the demands of the stockholders.