Rail Car on Fire! - BNSF Local Train in Vancouver, WA
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2018
- (10/14/18) Was out and abound in Vancouver this past Sunday, had a blast time railfanning with great amount of action. I wasn't expecting to witness something that I've never seen before, a train fire. One of the locals with 2 cars loaded full of metal scrap happen to catch fire while in the yard. From what I heard, they were planning to evacuate the area, but thankfully that didn't happen, instead decided moved the train into more open area where the firefighters could easily put it out. Not sure how it all started, but it was quite the experience to see first hand. Thanks for watching!
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If 2020 was a railcar, it would most certainly be this one... Excellent video!
I couldn't agree more. Thank you!
You stole my comment, bruh.
I was going to say, hey look, they're delivering 2020!
OMG it's virtual railfan!
The car behind the fire was an Oscar Mayer car. They were on their way to the ballpark.
also unusual for a fire to be BROUGHT to the firemen, not the other way 'round........
Hydrant was right there by the crossing for the FD so they wouldn’t have to deal with water supply issues. The locomotive was remote controlled so the risk was minimal.
Not at all. During my 33 years as a firefighter, responded to several fires in boxcars, bales of cotton meant for the textile mills in the city. Railroad would call 911 advising them that they had a boxcar on fire, what was in it, and when they would be pulling into the station. River was next to the train station so water was not a problem . Unloading the bales of cotton and breaking them apart to hose them down was the backbreaker.
*in Marvin The Martian voice*
"Where's the 'kaboom'??? There was supposed to be a train-shattering 'KABOOM!!!' "
Thanks for that it made my day keep up the good work
Train: Could I make a report that I am on fire?
Fire Dept: Sure, come on down and we'll take a look.
Lol
more appropos for 2020: total rolling dumpster fire
I came for the comments and I’m not disappointed!
Train Fire: When flaming garbage just doesn't get the point across.
@@robby062 nope, not at all!
2021 is so far as bad.
Bnsf now delivers fire. They are really stepping up their service!
FNBS... (RIP Stobe)
@@CrazyBear65
Strobe hated FNBS because of how slow they were, an in this case the fire department was in no hurry to put out the fire
If FNBS is Never in a Hurry, then why should the FD ? 🤪👍
Ima go buy some at Walmart!
ㅅㅅ
Would have been one BIG suprise if that had been magnesium scrap burning!
Thanks for the upload. I have never seen a fire delivered to the firemen before. I hope the engineer and conductor got a nice tip!
I was the engineer on a coal train once, and a the coal in a car in the middle of the train caught fire. We had to stop at a crossing for the FD to extinguish it.
Shame you couldn't have it on video, would have looked good on here.
It was long before cell phone cameras.
they evan stopped the fire trucks just pull forward then engine held the barriers
ok well use our sooper duper long range hose down a bit missed try again yeea got it.
What grade of coal? Different grades of coal have different affinities for air, some grades a pile can smoulder til only ash remains while others cool off and go out if it doesn't have at least a stove's draft going on.
After it was put out was the offending car set aside for inspection, or delivered through to the customer even though part of the cargo was burnt up?
Those doggone Dominion Voting machines just won’t stay out of the news!
My first priority would be to separate the engine from the fiery car first.
good idea but without air breaks, wouldnt the cars roll and evenually become 2 runway cars?
@@piercer4455 No, break shoes on the rails prevent from that. And to the fighters: less is more. Use a water fog!
@@piercer4455 at 2. with no air on the system the breakes are not locked at rail cars
The fire is mild enough that it was no big deal to move it out in the open so it wouldn't spread and would be easy to deal with.
Once it was positioned suitably, then dump the offending car and move the locomotive off so it doesn't get scorched or soaked.
Uncoupling would dump the air, locking the brakes and anchoring the burning car in place for quite a while. Eventually though the air would bleed off, leading to a possible coaster. That's probably why they left it coupled, letting the buffer car deal with the exposure just so that the locomotive brakes would make it hold still no matter what.
Train Operator: Don’t cross the Track!!!
Firefighters: Your Train is burning...!
T.O. : Stand back and stand by, I’ll bring it to you...
Choose BNSF. We even deliver fire! No extra cost!
Interesting video Andrey, great coverage of what was going on. Nice work!
What a lucky break catching that action. Thanks for posting it. I think we will need some paint and a big hammer to fix it. What a year 2020 has been, everything that could go wrong almost has. Goodbye 2020 and I hope we never have another year like it, though 2021 is shaping up to be just as bad! However, stay safe and enjoy watching the trains and hopefully getting some more action.
Would this be a literal *hot mess*? HA! I kill me!!... Thank you, I'll see myself out...
It's a dumpster fire of a train wreck?
8:25 nice catch of water spray *over* (instead into) the fire.
Now they know what firefighter is always peeing on the seat & floor.
i also noticed that overshoot at 8:25. after thinking about it i think they were trying to cool down the sides of the wagon to prevent further damage. aiming the hose is probably harder than us non-participating observers think.
Dude that's insane! Awesome catch!
It usually a locomotive that goes on fire, but this is the first railcar I seen on FIRE!
Me too
it's more common than you think
@@jamesm6638 Definitely agree.
Now I know what railroad people mean when they talk about a hot box! Any railroaders reading this, I thought hot boxes were a thing of the past! 😂😂😂
This does give new meaning to hot box. A hot box happens when the grease fittings and bearings catch fire. They are in the middle of the wheel as you look at it. It is rare now because of better stuff.
Wow! This is something I don’t see everyday! I subscribed! Have a nice day!
Nice shot of that smoke! Cool catch!
Great video. You did a fantastic job of capturing the action . Smooth panning work on your part. Thanks for sharing this video.
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Nice bro, not an everyday occurrence for sure! Cool!
Very cool! Awesome catch!
At least she’s all fired up for the day 😉
Love the rainbow at the end!
Would have liked to hear the radio transmissions
Yo I was there, I was on the platform watching this all go down
Cool catch, never know what you will see railfanning.
14:35 RAINBOW FROM FIRE TRUCK WATER
I have so many questions... all related to the fire response and truck placement... wow.
Wagon piped the fire correct response for a fire like that
BNSF : Now trying to put even barbecues on the rails. Bring your hamburgers rail spotters! Our conductor will put them on at one crossing and will give them back to you cooked at the next.
Nice video, Andrey! When are you gonna post more?
Just well done to both the fire department and the loco driver and staff
It was the rainbow 🌈 for me. Awesome video
Not burning garbage, guys. That's a metal fire. Magnesium or aluminum.... you've basically got thermite doing it's thing.
If it was the water would have made it explode..KKK K OR PURPLE K for a magiusm fire.
Wow, neat find!
ICG RR MS 2 came rolling down Bellville Hill, Illinois into E. St Louis Yards late one night with a boxcar full of Broyhill furniture fresh out of N. Carolina. By the time it arrived at Centerville, it was a raging inferno. No hydrants near by so the FD just sprayed the adjoining cars till they ran out of water. Nothing left but ashes! Cause was undetermined! I was a green Special Agent at the time.
damn prius batteries!!
@Colorado Strong i'll correct that, thanks.
@Colorado Strong don't think those cars are holding much water either.
Fortunate in some respects. No rescue was needed. There were no nearby exposures to protect. The FD was able to set up and attack on the upwind side. Good job, VFD.
At first glance you would think it's a typical GE unit
No GE on this one. EMD, very obvious.
How does scrap metal catch on fire?
Oils, grease, tiny bits of rubber, foam, and plastic. There's lots of stuff to burn.
Amazing video
Pretty violent!! I seen scrap cars in a steel mill on fire, but this is wild.
Interesting draining holes. I wonder how many of those were intentional, given their rather asymmetric placement.
From my observation above a couple of times, they appear to be pretty well sealed cars and by the time i came on the railroad scene 99% of the ones i saw were no longer used for coal service. My guess is the drain holes were added after they got repurposed after life on the coal trains.
When they get it to the scrap yard they probably don't have to worry about bringing that gondola back. Or can it still be moved within regulations?
Unbelievable!! Great 👍 Video!!
A nice rainbow in the end of video...
in the south volunteer fireman would have come out of every direction for something like that
They Would Have Been Taking Curves On Two Wheels To Get To It Before The Other Guys Did! 😁😁😁😂😂😂😂
Nice video!
How come they didnt disconnect the power, to protect it from damage?
It's a trash/scrap fire ... and those high-sided gondolas are trash/scrap too, LOL.
years ago there was a massive scrap metal fire here after someone forgot to check an old car body for a battery that still had some charge in it. I wonder if this is what happened here?
They won't collect your old car for scrap here if the battery is not sitting disconnected on the passengers seat.
Wheels on fire, rolling down the rails ...
Sweetie Darling..🍸🥃🍷🍹🍾
What do you think these firefighters are doing? I think they are performing the single ladder fill the rail cars with water and drown every bit of the fire down below. Water overcomes fire every time well sort of there are occasions where the last thing you want to do is put water on the fire. It is always at a chemical fire that this occurs.
Not every time! Reactive metals, water can make the fire worse.
And in this case it was probably oil, plastic, and paint that was burning. If it wasn't relatively contained by the railcar, adding water could have made it spatter and spread everywhere.
Someone had Propane or worse bottles in there and the scrap broke a nozzle and created that fire. Might have ignited some Al scrap with light metal that burns. I melted some one day and it was White hot, melted Stainless 1/8" thick and poured nice out the bottom.
@Martin Eastburn
hello
how are you doing
wow quite spectacular
Does Clifford Baylor still work for BNSF railway as an engineer?
strangely satisfying.
Can you imagine that guy's aim in a urinal
Maybe it's me, but does that car look like it's riding a little lower after they poured all that water into it?
Water is heavy. 1 gallon weighs 8 pounds.
Just what was in those cars that caught fire?
Wow that is unusual. Scrap metal with aluminum and zinc plus plastic contamination I quess. It was burning pretty good.
It looks like shredded automotive scrap, so there could be a good bit of magnesium in there too, making it difficult to put out.
Probably a combination of oil, paint, and plastic burning. Although there would be some reactive metals in the load, they usually make a telltale spark cloud and smoke plume that I don't see in this footage. Just the thick fog and black smoke of oil and plastic.
Obviously, not only scrap metal was in the car. FD not too good at aiming the water stream.
In defense of the FD, they were shooting into smoke which hid the top of the car. from ground view. The squirt's nozzle was controled from a lower level where they could not see they were JUST overshooting. A officer would have been beneficial to cross the tracks to check accuracy.
this is amazing..
How much water was used on that fire
I think she got a little heated up on her work load.
Probably was a good idea to pull it up away from the tank cars!
Yes, who knows what is in that car that could explode.
Vancouver BC?
I see now its Vancouver Washington
This whole train is an entire dumpster fire
like this year!!!
Well, that train car is going to be in one of the next loads of scrap that crew pick up. You can see how the heat of the fire has buckled the sides of the car and that's going to have taken a lot of the strength out of the steel. That one's over and done, stick a fork in it...
I thought hot metal cars were round with lots of axels.
I'm just curious why wasn't the rest of the train disconnected from the car that was on fire? I would have done that before the fire catches the other 2 cars on fire
How did catch fire
That's a hot load
One man's pleasure is another man's pain.......had to be done....but if reches the mill in this state and is then accidently charged into furnace directly without drying then.....boom goes the roof.....
Wow, now that's a hot load!!
You Bastard! LOL
That’s what she said!
*" YOU ARE FIRED!!! "*
My question is why didn't they uncuple the other box car and the Locomotive from the burning car .
Hi, great catch, BUT, I'M an AVGEEK first and foremost, just getting into railroad vids, all though I love all forms of transportation.
My question;
When video starts, crew member chill8ng on front of engine, like nothings going on; engine is running, fire burning, then they casually move it to area for F.D. to reach ,(?)
I'm so confused.
Why didn't they uncouple engine after that, just in case fire spread from next car to engine???
Are engines expendable in situation like this?
Please, someone out there help me understand.
Thanks.
Can't believe how long it took the firefighters to start dowsing the flames.
There is no life at risk, and minimal property. Take time, set up, protect the fire crews, and put it out. Not everything requires running around in a hurry
Do you think disconnecting it and isolating it from the other flammable cars might have been a good idea???
No. There is no way anybody would try to put a handbrake on that car. An uncontrolled movement is more dangerous than the fire Keep it coupled and controlled.
Those Tesla Batteries!!!!
For got the hand brake, something to remember trainmen!
@James D Mehl
hello
how are you doing
Now there is something you don't see everyday
How did this happen?
Amazing video. Location Vancouver, Wa
Some years back there was a box car of Cotton bales that were on fire as the train came into the North Little Rock , Arkansas Yard lead . The main fire department was about two blocks from where they stopped the train infront of our overhaul shop. They had to completely unload the bales of cotton and fought the fire all night and finally got it out after about 18 hours . The cotton bales had to be totally torn apart to finally get to the heart of the fire . One hell of a mess .
Hope they asked what kind of metal b4 shooting water at it...some explode when on fire n water is applied, if I'm not mistaken.
Why would they used an open top train car to transport metal that would have a combustible reaction to water?
Yep if it happens we can get a special foam it put it out
Magnesium
Well, we know it wasn't *magnesium* or guy shooting video would not be here or in the hospital... LOL
That's why the tower
Hello Justwatchingtrains:
Good video (with the sound off)!
There's a lot of non metal material in shred. Think about how much combustible material is in the average automobile.
And various chemicals too. When certain chemicals mix, as they easily can do in shredded metal, you get an exothermic reaction that creates plenty enough heat to set fire to the paint on the shred, especially in the confined space of a rail car...
@@gosportjamie You'd think it would have happened in the Shred?
@@JungleYT When the metal is being shredded it is more open to the air, which means the air can dissipate the heat. When it gets compacted into the rail cars or the big skips to be removed by truck there is less access to the air to dissipate the heat, meaning the heat can build up to the point where spontaneous combustion occurs. A friend of mine runs the big skip loader trucks and he's had it happen to a load of shred from a recycling yard. The fire service told him to dump the skip on the road and get the truck clear before the fire had a chance to get hold of the truck and make things worse. Once everything was out, they told him to wait a couple of hours for the water to drain out of the skip before reloading it to prevent a risk of being overweight. It happens a lot. It used to be that scrap vehicles would be set on fire before being processed, obviously that's not entirely environmentally friendly, but this sort of thing almost never happened...
@@gosportjamie Got it - Thanks!
@@JungleYT No problems...
Almost seven and a half minutes record a start putting water on it and then they overshoot.
Yeah, those scrap metal cars ... always catching on fire! Someone should do something about that.
That rail at looks like it’s about ready to turn into scrap as well
That's what I call a hot box
between bnsf and his insurance company warren buffett probably made 2 million on thgis fire somehow????
Whats that? It seems that everybody has time - muuuuuch time...
Why didn't they separate the engine immediately?
That’s my question also and why not the other car behind it.
Washington or Canada?
When a dumpster fire just isn't enough.