That's insane! When I was a kid in rural Canada, a friend and I were walking down the tracks to an old wooden trestle bridge over a river that we used to hangout on and we noticed the tracks were buckled just before the bridge. We RAN all the way back to town, which was probably a 45 minute walk away. We went to the Royal Legion and luckily the Royal Ladies Auxiliary was in attendance and they managed to contact Canadian National Rail (CN). My friend and I were awarded with a ceremony at the Royal Legion and even the Provincial inspector for CN came to thank us! The wooden trestle bridge is a National Heritage site and was built in the mid 1800's and is the longest interrupted stretch of wooden trestle bridges in the world! (I believe. That's what we were always told anyway ha ha ha.) The next scheduled train was only about an hour away from when it was reported and it was hauling crude oil and natural gas.

@joezen1693

2 жыл бұрын

You may have easily saved many people, homes, environment, cargo, jobs and did a hell of a job. Great story..

@jonathanm9436

2 жыл бұрын

Cool story.

@emncaity

2 жыл бұрын

That's kind of a hero thing.

@emncaity

2 жыл бұрын

@Buttfucker3000 aptly named poster here

@joeschmo6882

2 жыл бұрын

What's even crazier than that, I did the exact same thing as a child. Saved everyone in towns lives!

"no sound by request of owner"

@ajo3085

3 жыл бұрын

Fucking oath mate.

@kushpaladin

3 жыл бұрын

Australian isn't a language....?

@timdowney6721

3 жыл бұрын

ًOh, yes it is.😄😄

@rhysun

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't Strine mostly swearing anyway?

@stevemurrell6167

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah!

The train was luckily going very slowly, so it stayed on the railroad. In Italy we use to paint the tracks white in summer, to prevent the dilatation due to the heat. I apologize for my shaky English

@lc.....64

2 жыл бұрын

Your English is just Fine!

@damiensadventure

2 жыл бұрын

Thermal expansion I'd imagine.

@stephenabswisdom1187

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent English. Bravo

@UltimateSeduction

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you worry about your English, you're doing just fine 👍🏻

@samuelanketell8190

2 жыл бұрын

I often wondered why the rails were painted white in Italy. Does it prevent heat buckling all together or just reduce the likelihood of it occurring?

My Granddad had a great story about when he was a rookie fireman on a Virginian Railway MOW work train one hot summer day in 1924, which was one of the hottest summers on record. The train encountered a place in the track where the rails had buckled outward, causing the train to crunch down on the ties and spread the rails ahead of it. The engineer panicked, and jumped off, leaving Granddad alone in the cab of the steam locomotive. He knew enough to get the train stopped, and as he climbed down, the conductor, who stepped off the caboose, encountered the engineer who had just climbed back up the embankment to the track. He told me that the conductor grabbed the engineer by the lapels, shook him and yelled "You worthless SOB!!! No wonder the damned Germans were so hard to whip; they must have had cowards like you fightin' 'em!!"

@tarnocdoino3857

2 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather lived Grew up in the coal mines of centra PA. He told me of how his uncle was killed when a braking system failed and he was burried by coal in that era. Other family members and coworkers were trying to dig to get him out. I guess he was using a hand break on the rear of the car. Crazy times back then.

@JustinCrediblename

2 жыл бұрын

the germans actually had a pretty unifying culture with a passion for getting out from under the fiat banksters that persecuted them. They obviously failed, though.

@DavidSmith-ss1cg

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinCrediblename - Yeah, you're right. The fat bankers gave money to the church guys, who arranged for the government guys(who they also gave money to) to keep them in power. Except that the government guys and the banker guys - who ran the whole world - let a war get started that had the whole world fighting amongst themselves - and this changed everything; except for the way the world is run. It's still run the same way, which is why bad, weird stuff still happens all the time.

@disgusted4708

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinCrediblename yeah they was fighting capitalism and communism at the same time. I mourn the 65m who died in the Holodomor prior to the 85m who died in WW2

@goyslop4289

2 жыл бұрын

No way my grandpa was the train, he shat super hard when the tracks spread and used it like a reverse thruster, some got on the engineer and your grandpap tho.

Yeah mate, we were slightly worried about track speed, so we introduced a chicane at that point in the tracks.

@madjoemak

5 жыл бұрын

KryzMasta like a speed bump

@CivilEngineerWroxton

5 жыл бұрын

I'd be more worried about train speed. The track was moving VERY slowly. : P

@thhseeking

5 жыл бұрын

Worked at the bottom of Conrod... :P

@Azivegu

5 жыл бұрын

Works for F1, so why not? XD

@marshalrando6767

5 жыл бұрын

Thats absolutely funny lmaoo

I knew exactly what was going to happen the second time i watched

@JT_8283

4 жыл бұрын

Wow are you psychic

@xMRPx

3 жыл бұрын

@Steve Blayney Me too! I guess it's true, brilliant minds do think alike! ;)

@sgtwawe8180

3 жыл бұрын

Same😂

@shaiksajid8675

3 жыл бұрын

you r geniuos

@mentalunicorn9567

3 жыл бұрын

Well then had to rewind but dam how does that even happen

Most steels have a coefficient of about 0.000011 per degree Celsius. In metric terms, that means that an unrestrained steel bar, one meter long, will increase in length 11 millionths of a meter, or 11 thousandths of a millimeter, for each 1 degree C rise in temperature. When you consider the hundreds feet of rail with nowhere to go when heated by the sun something has to give. Ever since railroads decided to butt weld the rails together (because people complained about the wheels clacking) the rails buckling has become an all too often occurrence. The gap between the rails served a purpose much like expansion joints on a bridge.

@Tropicanax7x

2 жыл бұрын

At least people are happy the clacking is gone

@Kraken9911

2 жыл бұрын

People actually complain about the clack? That's the most satisfying part of trains. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

@Zyphera

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the clacking sound as a kid. It help me fall asleep on night trains.

@Treblaine

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tropicanax7x I think there's an equal amount of claking overall just it's all concentrated in a single derailment.

@Boomchacle

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why they didn’t just cut them at an angle so the wheels had a smooth transition or something like that

I remember a massive derailment as a child caused by buckled track in suburban St. Louis. They had just converted to continuous track, and someone screwed up. No derailment had ever occurred with the old stick tracks. There was a benefit in having an expansion seam at both ends of each stick of track. I miss the clickety clack. They had another derailment two years later in the same curve due to excessive speed.

@just-a-fella3212

2 жыл бұрын

True, I think the old clickity clack tracks with the expansion-contraction joins were safer than tensioned continuous tracks. Continuous tracks work fine after laying while the rail is still under stretched tension and therefore won't expand lengthwise in the heat, but it needs to be regularly re-stretched or after a hot period the track relaxes (loses stretch-tension) and will then expand lengthwise and buckle in the next hot day. Tensioned tracks are a bit of a con in places where hot weather occurs. Now we are inconvenienced by slower rail speed limits on continuous tracks during hot weather because rail authorities _know full well_ the continuous rails have lost tension and will lengthen in heat. The old segmented tracks with expansion gaps at their joints did not pose this problem. We should either bring back clickity clack rail so that our trains do not have to go slow speed on hot days. Or regularly re-stretch and re-tension continuous rails as they require.

@PurpleMintSam

2 жыл бұрын

Where in STL/when did that happen?

@ivermec-tin666

2 жыл бұрын

@@PurpleMintSam Webster Groves in the mid 1970's on the long curved grade that parallels Glen Road, a bit past the old stone commuter station.

@sandraelsmaterialoblivion7201

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivermec-tin666 I was living across the river then, remember that happening when you mentioned it.

@ramalingam7252

Жыл бұрын

In India 2022, we still use that clickety clack... In summer temperature reach to 48 to 50°c in india

I've honestly expected the bridge to collapse...

@nihilistcentraluk442

5 жыл бұрын

Or a large number of kangaroos to start running down the track

@zanderman004

5 жыл бұрын

..or a gaggle of geese with huge swinging bollocks swoop in and they just start tea bagin' everyone..

@afh7689

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing

@giorgoszamanis6654

5 жыл бұрын

Wishful thinking

@Laffy1345

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I don't trust bridges in my car.

Aww, bugger, no audio. I wanted to hear "f*** me dead" cursing in an Australian accent.

@MrAnubhabd

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@carealoo744

4 жыл бұрын

Lol! Normally I wouldn't like a comment like that, but I have to admit That was funny! :)

@adrianr9307

4 жыл бұрын

Being an Aussie myself I bet the C word was mentioned alot.

@MohdShahid-wz5ot

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

@carealoo744

4 жыл бұрын

@@MohdShahid-wz5ot Yo. :)

I was a railroad engineer years ago, I even laid the track for my Lionel train and only derailed a few times due to excessive speed, but everyone survived.

@paulorchard7960

2 жыл бұрын

Gomez Adams?😂

Train driver: Ah, what a beautiful and peaceful day on the rails The buckled rail: *And I took that personally* If this was a Wild West movie or show, this would definitely be something the cowboy would do to stop the train. Or robbers to steal everything.

Conductor had to stop the train afterwards to change his pants.

@djt6012

4 жыл бұрын

No engineer here. Driver in Aus

@kenhurley4441

4 жыл бұрын

Depends?,,,,, maybe.

@scrambledmandible

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig F. Thompson Engineer in the US, though at this point driver would likely be more appropriate iirc because in steam era the driver would also be responsible for on-the-move upkeep minus fueling (that's the job of the fireman)

@scrambledmandible

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig F. Thompson 🤷‍♂️ Tomato tomahto, it's all the same thing

@thomashills2470

4 жыл бұрын

Driver

Some kangaroo in the distance rubbing his hands together laughing maniacally.

@suvendusekhar5446

3 жыл бұрын

True 😆✅✅👏

@TheNamesArif

3 жыл бұрын

It's like that meme guy rubbing his hand behind a tree.

@milchi5122

3 жыл бұрын

le happy kangaroo

@johnw2026

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆

@bleentrean5849

3 жыл бұрын

I've just come from the video were they got their revenge. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/la6kz6Ooo8-edbA.html

When I worked for DuPont they used to design the above ground straight line piping runs with loops in them to account for pipe expansion. The loops looked like the Omega symbol.

@deusexaethera

2 жыл бұрын

The water and sewer pipes in Reykjavik are built the same way for the same reason. They're also aboveground, because permafrost.

@basvs9618

24 күн бұрын

In Eastern Europe you also see pipes with bends (for expansion) a lot.

The tracks buckle from excessive heat in Australia. When it reached 40 + degrees in Melbourne a few years ago the trains were being cancelled because it was too dangerous.

I expected a big ass snake to be on the rails and eats the whole train

@calmblueocean7243

5 жыл бұрын

"Hey yeah, it"d be like that Samuel L Jackson movie." "What, 'Snakes on a Plane '? "No - 'Long Kiss Goodnight'. "

@S-CB-SL-Animations

4 жыл бұрын

@@calmblueocean7243 🤣🤣🤣

@lyrimetacurl0

3 жыл бұрын

Alaskan Bull Worm?

@CuoreSportivo

3 жыл бұрын

that would be real australian

@ericstyles3724

3 жыл бұрын

If you left Adelaide doing 5 hits of acid.. perhaps.

I have watched this 4 times and they still haven't fixed the track!!!!!

@yassinghareeb5761

3 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@hotdrumchick

3 жыл бұрын

Haaah!!

@primerim2799

3 жыл бұрын

@@hotdrumchick 100 points for you...

@brodster7042

3 жыл бұрын

Just pause it bro, then the train won’t derailed

@John2E0GTU

3 жыл бұрын

@@brodster7042 brilliant idea! Thanks.

Here in Idaho, I have many buddies who were or are locomotive engineers, they are all characters, with some great storied to tell about when things go wrong. It's a high paying job but not easy at all, much respect.

@Gail1Marie

5 ай бұрын

A friend's husband was a railroad engineer. He said it wasn't a matter of IF you'd hit a vehicle at a crossing, it was a matter of WHEN. They all dreaded it, and hoped it wouldn't be fatal for the vehicle passengers, because the train will always win that encounter.

The animation of this Isle of Sodor is incredible and so realistic. I hope Sir Topham Hatt realizes the mistake on the tracks so it can be fixed. Sodor is lucky to have such amazing rail infrastructure

@PoeLemic

11 ай бұрын

Kim ... You need learn to treat America better. We don't want to have to go to nuclear war with you. We just want to be friends with North Korea. Please, listen. People can die.

Speed bump for trains.

@billnye69s64

7 жыл бұрын

and cars

@anthonyagnelneri4076

6 жыл бұрын

Dam that track was wavy!! I WONDER how that HAPPENED??

@sodomojo33

6 жыл бұрын

Damn train gophers!

@my_panda_army

5 жыл бұрын

extreme heat condition make metal to expand. if there is no gap between long section of rails the result is like this.

@MrMonkeykiller1996

5 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyagnelneri4076 it happens from heat. When it gets hot out the steel tracks expand, same thing happens but in reverse when it get cold they shrink

There's no sound, but I can fill it in for you. From 0 to 48 seconds, "clickety clack, clickety clack." At 50 seconds, "HOLY #*^%#&*((($@!" At 60 seconds, "whew!"

@killer1479

7 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@killer1479

7 жыл бұрын

that has killed me, i found it fuckin hilarious, lol

@spoony8232

7 жыл бұрын

You forgot "mate" at the end of "HOLY #^%#&((($@!"

@thecheeta

7 жыл бұрын

More like "FOOOKIN' 'ELL, MATE!"

@pqhkr2002

7 жыл бұрын

at 50, may be it can also be “WHAT THE F**K“ :D

Our 16 gauge zoo train had problems last summer when the heat went over 90 degrees, with several derailments. After a lot of maintenance, including many deteriorated ties, we've had no problem even with the temperature reaching 104F.

as a Kid, Playing on the Tracks was just the Best!

No sound by request of the owner...... I guess we would've learned that Australians speak a unique form of English......

@theravedaddy

5 жыл бұрын

I think "OH SHIT!" Is know across the world...

@raam726

5 жыл бұрын

He said "holy guacamole, mayte! I knoy this doesn't happen often! Kangaroos! Summer christmas!"

@johnnycop77

5 жыл бұрын

Nope all F bombs C bombs. That would be about it. Then down the road to pub to get rid of the shakes.

@badgeroo1232

5 жыл бұрын

And what shitty country might you all be from?

@zorbaroonie6967

5 жыл бұрын

If your goals weren't to be a youtuber (lol) you may have read a book or 2 in school and you wouldn't have to ask what shitty country this is in, Go back to the mindless gaming that you do.

“Hey, did those guys finish track maintenance?” “Yeah.” “How long did it take?” “5 minutes.”

@benconway9010

3 жыл бұрын

That's good enough for me

@ericstyles3724

3 жыл бұрын

The japanese bullet train has a full time team on the tracks every evening & night constantly maintaining track, & an envyable on-time & safety record.

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

"Well, its in the 'As-Built' drawings, so its certainly part of the design"

@blue7081

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericstyles3724 But what the japanese don't have is a railway system that goes through thousands of km's of empty desert, and no 50 degrees weather that causes lines to bend

@hotmojoe2483

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the track is there, and it’s still one continuous piece of track, what maintenance is there to do?

Geeze lol That's a certifiable "brown trousers" moment right there.

We get a wide range of temps down here, from -5C (23F) in winter, to 45C (113F) in summer. So whenever it gets to 35C (95F), they slow the trains for this very reason.

if that was a bullet train....

@benwetzel8449

7 жыл бұрын

akupehsluarketatAR it would become paper clips.

@maddogmcrae

7 жыл бұрын

akupehsluarketatAR It would have ended up in someone's backyard.

@stlmaro88

7 жыл бұрын

maddogmcrae naw just woulda burst into flames cartoon style

@iatsd

7 жыл бұрын

It would have been running on elevated tracks that were continuously welded, on a floating bed, and can't deform like that?

@mateuszurbaniak9720

7 жыл бұрын

akupehsluarketatAR It would have straighten the rails xD

There is audio but only Australians can hear it.

@N330AA

3 жыл бұрын

Only Dingos

@brianb8060

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWensdd-ppOrYqw.html

@stevenvanhulle7242

3 жыл бұрын

The audio is only there when nobody is listening.

@retro_boy_advance

3 жыл бұрын

Haha don’t be silly. Anyone can hear the audio. You just have to be upside down

@UncleEarl97

3 жыл бұрын

Engineer was a Mime.

That was amazing he made it through that without coming off the track

@deusexaethera

2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to convey to the average person how ludicrously overbuilt railroad cars are. Durability is the first and only concern. I'm not surprised the train survived this; I'd expect the wheels to jump the rails before anything actually broke.

When I was a kid, Mad Magazine had mini-cartoons along the borders of the pages. One was of a set of perfectly straight railroad tracks being built by a crew. Then there was a little building with the sign “Bar”. After that the whole track looked like that one little piece.

@kyarumomochi5146

2 жыл бұрын

Thats clever

@Gail1Marie

5 ай бұрын

The road outside my house was built in segments. When you view it from the hillside, it does look as if drunks laid it out--or someone couldn't agree on which direction "north" was.

@darylcheshire1618

2 ай бұрын

The cartoonist Al Jaffee died last year at 102, he might have been the last of the Usual Gang of Idiots.

See you guys when this video gets recommended again in 5 years

@ziiofswe

3 жыл бұрын

I must've been here before, since it was already liked... but I don't remember when.

@tylerbonser7686

3 жыл бұрын

You do know that just because a video was recommended you don't have to watch it right?

@ziiofswe

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylerbonser7686 What??? Unpossyble.

@tylerbonser7686

3 жыл бұрын

@@ziiofswe I know it sounds crazy, it's actually just a theory right now.

@ziiofswe

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylerbonser7686 I wonder who'll be the first to dare trying.....

I suspect the engineer needed a new pair of underwear.

@ph11p3540

8 жыл бұрын

***** ..........ok.......do you call them kabitzers in Australia?

@ph11p3540

8 жыл бұрын

Rubberkuppalkippers?

@MFXdump

8 жыл бұрын

+Phillip Mulligan "Please don't squeeze the Sharman!" Lol!

@ACLTony

8 жыл бұрын

+joe sharman Joe, then why didn't you just answer the question? Is the proper term "Driver"? From my understanding, that is what most locomotive operators are referred to as in a number of European countries that have some cultural/ancestral ties with Australia.

@ACLTony

8 жыл бұрын

+joe sharman OK, so "Driver" is the correct name of the position.

Years ago going from Detroit to Chicago you could walk to the front and see out where the train was going. I couldn't believe how many cars tried to beat the train at crossings. The engineer would just blast his horn. One pickup truck ended up with the crossing arm laying across the top of his hood as the train came up on him. After that I went back to my seat in the rear and said a few prayers.

@James_Knott

6 ай бұрын

There was one time when the school bus I was on stopped on the tracks and then the gate came down on the bus. School buses are *NOT* supposed to stop on tracks, ever!!!

Just ahead was a stretch where the hot sun had bent the rails on the tracks. “Careful, Thomas!” called his driver, but it was too late. “Well that’s done it. We shan’t go any further today.”

@bearsfan537

2 жыл бұрын

Funny 👍🏻

@CertifiedDoc

4 ай бұрын

I can hear Ringo narrating this.

Notice there is no trees -that's to prevent a drop bear attack.

@regretfulman4784

4 жыл бұрын

Koalas*

@pokinsmot

4 жыл бұрын

@@regretfulman4784 he said what he said

@-oiiio-3993

4 жыл бұрын

Any full grown jackalope could better a drop bear.

@johnmerton3630

4 жыл бұрын

@@-oiiio-3993 Had to look up what jackalope was.

@-oiiio-3993

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmerton3630 Fair enough - I looked up 'drop bear'!

0:49 rails kinked. Had to go back and see after first watch.

@webmanson

7 жыл бұрын

Twozup Thanks, i watched it several times and could not figure it out. Now, i cant miss it.

@k98pro

7 жыл бұрын

Twozup yeah I didn't even see that the first time through. Definitely something wrong with the guys whose supposed to be checking the rails for stuff like that

@hans2406

7 жыл бұрын

k98pro This can happen at any time anywhere, and without any indication that it is going to happen. So no blame for track maintenance

@eatonjask

7 жыл бұрын

It's a sun kink - the CWR was laid when the temperature was colder, and not enough play was left in the expansion joints. Warmer temps, and hot sunshine, the metal rails expand, and hit their limits - then expand a little further, pushing the spikes/track connectors aside, and bending the rails, making a sun kink. They usually happen in seconds, when the force of expansion suddenly overcomes the friction of the rail fittings. www.progressiverailroading.com/people/audiovideo/Sun-Kinks-and-Track-Buckling--32617

@hans2406

7 жыл бұрын

James Eaton Not entirely true with certain, or long welded rail. Then it often is faulty drainage of the rail bed in combination with differences between night- and day temperatures. Or any other reason imaginable related to track, sleepers, used stones.

Back when I laid track, we never had this problem. The key is to use shorter sections, with minimal consecutive straights. Oh, and be sure to make it big enough to go around the presents too. That was always important.

@RetroArcadeGuy

2 жыл бұрын

It's a welded track. So whoever came up with that idea is a butthole. I'm 100% they tested longer sticks to prevent hammering and they were met with this in the 1800s, so they went for shorter sticks.

@deusexaethera

2 жыл бұрын

It took me a few seconds to see what you did there.

My elementary school was about a mile from our neighborhood and we walked along the tracks to school. Got real comfortable with trains. They don't often scare me. They are awesome!

@James_Knott

6 ай бұрын

I've always loved trains and grew up not far from the tracks. I'd often go walk along them. Later on, I started working for Canadian National. I was a technician with CN Telecommunications. For a couple of years, I worked in Northern Ontario and frequently rode freights to get to my work locations, so I would have the same sort of view as in this video. Now, nearly half a century later, I still like them and enjoy the time when I have to wait at a crossing for a train to go by.

Imagine if that had been on the bridge. Heart in mouth time.

@Rocketboy1950

10 жыл бұрын

I think on the bridge would be a change of underwear.

@friedchicken1

7 жыл бұрын

lol this comment section gets better and better with each comment

@Astrophysix1

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@Carl15O3

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Turner heart in mouth? More like shit in pants

@knrdvmmlbkkn

6 жыл бұрын

"heart in mouth? More like shit in pants" Or both, for good measure.

"Is there a chance the track could bend" "Too bloody right my strayan friend"

@TransportBaz

3 жыл бұрын

I swear it's Melbourne's only choice, throw 'round your train and mute your voice! Aussierail! Aussieraaaail, AUSSIERAAAAAAAAIIIIILLLLLL! AUSSIERAIL "Aussie-D'oh!"

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

3 жыл бұрын

@@TransportBaz hahahahah! And instead of Leonard Nimoy stepping in to help....no wait, he didn't do anything!? Wait, was that even the same episode??

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

3 жыл бұрын

I've sold AussieRails to Melbourne, Sidney, and West HavenBrook and by golly I sure put them on the map!

@TransportBaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 It was! The cosmic ballet goes on!!!

@BennyMcGhee

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. These days a person would be rounded up by the filthy, racist, left-wing nutjobs who voted for Joe Biden and thrown into one of Kamala Harris’ notorious “Kamala Camps” for even mentioning the word “hindu” or acknowledging that “Apu” was a character on the Simpsons. Phil Hartman, God rest his soul, would have been executed for uttering the line “Not on your life, my hindu friend!” What a sad world we live in. All I can say is f the left. F the futhamuckin left.

Once the railroad got help from the people in their summer house near the line. They called and told half the forrest had fallen down on the tracks. The early call gave us the chance to clear the tracks in time for special guests hiring a private train. Nice help. Normally the line is inspected some ours before drivning but this time it took a lot more time to clear the tracks.

IN BE MY VIEW I am glad the train survived that scary moment. I am also glad you showed us a front seat engineer view of a train running on the tracks. Very cool.

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

Engineer view? This is a driver cab view.

“Here ya go mate, how about a nice cup of hot coffeeeeeeee....aaaaaaaaaaah...bloody hell!”

@darrylowens59

3 жыл бұрын

As an ex railway engineer that is one hell of a visual in my head

@FeedScrn

3 жыл бұрын

Things on the rails go so smooth, Until they don't.

@AaronDanieltenni

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@sourav7162

3 жыл бұрын

More like fucking aaaaaaaahhh..... bloody fucking rail

@ErikPAPATIE

3 жыл бұрын

And coffee everywere inside lol

I had to rewatch the video to realise that the rail had scoliosis

@deepapatel5059

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@kishascape

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky it stayed on the track and upright. That could’ve caused a massive derail at that speed.

@billyboblillybob344

2 жыл бұрын

Scoliosis is a human condition. For tracks it is known as railiosis...

@VivekGupta-ft9el

2 жыл бұрын

@@billyboblillybob344 Ha ha ha ha ha....

@williamoleschoolarendt7016

2 жыл бұрын

Down here in Louisiana the rail tracks are pretty bad as well! I've watched trains switching going slow and still having derailments! There's a video on You tube called Central Avenue derailment and I saw that one happen! I'm guessing that because most of Louisiana is swamp land the rails are constantly moving and getting screwed up! Just like the roads and highways!

Your video can still makes people on earth smile n have new knowledge Mr. Rod

@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479

Жыл бұрын

RIP rod

I worked on a railway as a student. We were repairing a track, old people said if you jack up the rail in hot weather you may not be able to put it back in place

I was expecting a school bus on the tracks or something similar and the warped rail really took me by surprise. I always wondered how continuous welded rail dealt with extreme temp changes -- now I know ... they don't!

@AlphaCentauri24

2 жыл бұрын

There are gaps lefts in successive rail tracks to allow for thermal expansion.

@channelhismojo

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlphaCentauri24 until those gaps get closed because it's 45 degrees.

@vikkimcdonough6153

2 жыл бұрын

CWR *can* deal with big temperature changes, but it has to be anchored and restrained really well so that the thermal expansion manifests as longitudinal compressive stress rather than causing the rail to buckle sideways.

@robertwilloughby8050

2 жыл бұрын

@@vikkimcdonough6153 Correct, in fact, very correct. CWR is prestressed to overcome the worst of the heat, but changes in ballast and track fastenings can throw the prestressing all out of whack. In 1969, there were a rash of derailments in the UK due to incomplete or disturbed prestressing, and British Rail had to lay down the law on how CWR was installed.

@AzzKicker-bz1cb

2 жыл бұрын

@@channelhismojo Cold shrinks steel, heat expands it!! At 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the gaps would be larger!!! At 45 degrees Celcius(113 degrees Fahrenheit) the gaps would be much closer, very little gap if any!!!

"There is no sound by request of the owner." god knows what he said at that moment😂

@thomasmleahy6218

3 жыл бұрын

And he ain't talkin' !

@EarlJohn61

2 жыл бұрын

I, being a typical Aussie, can manage a probably fairly accurate guess... At the very least some words beginning with "sh", "f" & "b..h.." possibly all in the same sentence & breath, repeated as needed!

@michaelking3327

2 жыл бұрын

"there is no sound by request of the owner" because the owner did not give permission for rod to upload this video. the sound was removed to make it harder for youtube to strike it for copyright infringement.

@alexanderv7702

2 жыл бұрын

He said: "That's another fine mess you got me into, Ollie!"

@davidcroft9320

2 жыл бұрын

@@EarlJohn61 Bloody Oath, Mate.

It's amazing the train stayed upside down so long in the first place

The stories I could tell you about every inch of this section of track. One of my old playgrounds.

There is no sound by request of the owner. I bet the language in the cab was rather "blue" for a moment or two after that little heart tester.

@CuthbertNibbles

7 жыл бұрын

Yo listen up, here's a story. About an engineer that talked in a blue word. And all day, and all night, And everything he said, Is just blue-like him-inside, and outside. Blue his mouth with a blue middle finger in a blue gesture And everything was muted for him, and his-self, and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody, to listen to. *Chorus* I'm _through_ Fuck this guy, He was high, Built a rail, on the fly. Now my train can't get by. Must've said, watch him fly! Yeah for real, made me cry. So funny? Not for me, Time indeed, to reti-re!

@vegemite7706

6 жыл бұрын

Cuthbert Nibbles what is that?

@AJZulu

5 жыл бұрын

Nibbles...that was gold

@polyrhythmia

3 жыл бұрын

@@vegemite7706 Da-ba-dee, da-ba-die...

SOMETHING like that would make me de-rail my train of thought

@rollingstopp

7 жыл бұрын

THEN you should keep your eye trained

@ryancourt8065

7 жыл бұрын

i wonder if they had a loco-motive?

@rollingstopp

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Court i read ya

@rollingstopp

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Court I read ya like if your coming down on a Rail

@UkuleleOmega

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe the audio is muted because they were listening to train and we're embarrassed.

Interesting video. Thank you for uploading and sharing!! 😊🚅

_Wonderful and informative video._

That really is an "Oh crap" moment. Don't Australian trains normally run on the left track?

@Rocketboy1950

8 жыл бұрын

+tryithere when this was shot those were two different gauge bidirectional tracks

@tryithere

8 жыл бұрын

Rod Williams Ahhh, thanks.

@nigelscott1271

7 жыл бұрын

At different times; different terrain; differently governed States; different requirements; different available amounts of capital. It happens the world over. Just think about it and all will be revealed. It's all in the right history books.

@justinbannah999

7 жыл бұрын

+R Hamlet Australia has three mainline gauges - there's also 1067mm (3' 6") as well. Look it up.

@AlanS709

7 жыл бұрын

Because of the stupid system of eight state-territory governments who employed different 'experts' from overseas when railways were being built. SA, Vic and NSW had all agreed on 5'3'' then NSW employed an Irishman who decided they'd go to standard gauge - too late for SA and Vic who'd gone along the broad gauge track and for around 100 years it was a mess.

‘Hello ladies and gentlemen’. Engineer Matthews here. ...Better take those seats and put them drinks down, ‘cause around this corner we always hit some pretty bad trackulance.’

@primecreator

5 жыл бұрын

Followed by the drivers flatulence.

@iceboxcv

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting a Far Side reference, but it's still one of the best comments I've seen today

@marfalight

5 жыл бұрын

yep, I hit a sun kink, 50 mph, 7000 feet stack, 3 sd70m's lead, around the curve and there it was, plugged the train immediately with the toggle switch rear eot, plus from the front 26 brake lever in cab, hit the kink at 25 mph, high noon, 87 degree day, wobbled through the kink, stopped in 3/4 mile, nothing on the ground.rear of train in a swag with us up coming out of it, rear squatted down, kept train stretched,

@mrMankx

4 жыл бұрын

best ever

@joemc111

4 жыл бұрын

marfalight my father in law always talked about sun kinks.

Great description. Also glad that everyone is okay, God Bless.

I love how it doesnt even derail

I can imagine what a frightening moment that had to be for the locomotive crew. Seeing that buckle up ahead, knowing you're going to hit it within seconds while moving at about 81KPH, is a heart thumper. Thankfully the train didn't derail and the crew was OK.

@troll2637

Жыл бұрын

@See, the thing is lol. Freedom units. 😂

Moment I saw that buckled track. "Shit, this won't end well."

@dianaofburlington5172

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing!

@kishascape

2 жыл бұрын

But then it stayed on the track thankfully. Came real close to jumping off and probably would’ve tipped on its side with that terrain.

@peanutarbuckle7397

2 жыл бұрын

You fellas are sharp

As a kid , my mates & I used to play on that trestle bridge. Many years ago, but great memories.

@Detrabot

Ай бұрын

Is that the maribyrnong river bridge in Keilor?

Sun kick! Peace and love. Dan from Nebraska.

My underwear would have been a total loss :-/

@Nash1a

7 жыл бұрын

From the land down under, where? Toss 'em in the out back.

@killer1479

7 жыл бұрын

im sure the out back would toss em back!

@badlandskid

7 жыл бұрын

Carl Crowson certainly no one would have wanted to go waltzing Matilda with thee.

@benwetzel8449

7 жыл бұрын

badlandskid make sure it didn't fall in the billabong, the jumbuck has to drink.

@badlandskid

7 жыл бұрын

Ben Wetzel don't put them in the jolly tucker bag together.

"So who is laying the last set of lines up there by the tower?" "Uhhh...Dyslexic Darren and Googly Eyed Gregory, sir." "..........right on."

@Kinsanth_

3 жыл бұрын

Is that a reference from spaceballs? XD

@CrowT

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kinsanth_ I don't think it is🤔. Is it? I honestly just made it up trying to be smart assed...

@Kinsanth_

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrowT it has similarities with the scene "i am surrounded by idiots" xD

@goodgame3374

2 жыл бұрын

It'd be heat that buckled the track after it was laid

I watched this like several years ago but i still remembered what was going to happen

The view out the window looks like a game but as soon as I seen the rails I said oh man they better hang on.

Surprised it stayed on. I clenched up just watching it on video when I saw the buckled rail.

@sunshine_water5139

7 жыл бұрын

scdevon me2 lol

@figodwnnieto2581

7 жыл бұрын

scdevon same

@shs646

7 жыл бұрын

scdevon the units stayed on but the cars prolly didn't

@thomasmckendry8566

7 жыл бұрын

Subaru Sti you would be suprised actually

@darenkehler2765

5 жыл бұрын

scdevon me too when I saw it I was like wait NO

As a retired train driver of 37 years I know the feeling.

@WCephei77HD

2 жыл бұрын

how does that happen, please explain?

@brucechilcot7133

2 жыл бұрын

@@WCephei77HD excessive heat causes the rail to expand and sometimes it has nowhere to expand to except length so it literally kicks itself out of alignment and can be very dangerous.

@WCephei77HD

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucechilcot7133 oh crap! I'm an LE trainee, I know about heat speed restrictions but I didn't know this is how tracks can get to! Many thanks for your help, appreciated!

@garydergut4741

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but we were called engineers you don't drive trains.

@garydergut4741

2 жыл бұрын

@@WCephei77HD they are called sun kinks . They get so hot that the rail will kink out.

I didn't even notice the rail being bent, I was focused on the things hanging down and thought the train was gonna hit those

Hi Rod have been enjoying this great video from you. Giving it a big like. Haven't seen anything from you for so long?????

(track-layers): *_ACHOOO!!!_* *_"...nice Ron!"_* *_"I sneezed! Oh I'm not allowed to sneeze?_*

@Gregorio416

4 жыл бұрын

Carol Ziegler ...are you replying to a deleted comment?

@sauravallen

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@scottskinner577

4 жыл бұрын

Like that cat that jumped in the pool lol

@GOAT_GOATERSON

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gregorio416 was asking myself the same question

@RubberSideDown2

3 жыл бұрын

Covid lol

No sound at the driver's request - did he say things like 'bother' and 'od drat' and 'gosh'...! :)

@SueciaeRexKnugen

8 жыл бұрын

+ChuffChuffWoo I must say I laughed!

@sythlorde

8 жыл бұрын

+ChuffChuffWoo lmao im guessing yes

@graemesewell1475

8 жыл бұрын

+ChuffChuffWoo I think it may have been more explicit. But don't blame him.

@bleceo

7 жыл бұрын

oh darn

@inspiringengineer

7 жыл бұрын

Oh dam, there is a huge kink in the track - fiddle!

yup, my stomach tightened the instant that bend came round the corner, subconsciously bracing myself. It's like that horrible moment a car overtakes on a blind corner or when your going down a big hill and your brakes don't work all of a sudden......How am I still alive :) it happens too often

Oh my, that track! My eyes were scanning everything else but the track.

Train: *exists* Curves: Allow us to introduce ourselves

@MFnDahk

3 жыл бұрын

By putting curves IN our curves..

@samuelinfante369

3 жыл бұрын

@@MFnDahk Yes

I cannot imagine how helpless an engineer must feel when they see the rails so jacked and to know that they can do nothing to prevent whatever is going to happen! I don't think they cover any solution to this in Railroading 101. The poor guy will probably rewind and replay this clip the best of his life!

I was waiting to see a 6mt croc on the track sunning itself.

Wow wow wow!!!... and it and stayed on the track! An Incredible recovery! Incredible! I imagine that section of the track was fixed soon after?

0:49-0:54 “Just ahead was a stretch where the hot sun had bent the rails on the track. ‘Careful Thomas!’ called his driver, but it was too late.” *Crash!*

@jamesharrison6201

2 жыл бұрын

So Thomas, today you weren't a very useful engine. : Sir Toppem Hat

0:48 "hmmmm whats that?" (takes a moment to process the problem ahead) "oh crap"

It looks nice there. I like pictures that are not all doctored up. I'm sure later in the day the sky is nice and blue. I love pine trees. They are tough as nails, but branches break easily with an icy rain. Snap!

Hey stranger.... We'll probably never meet but : Take a deep breathe and let your anxiety dissolve, clean your mind. You deserve happiness. May you and your family spend a great time in this life.

Did anyone play it back as soon the oh crap moment happened?

@greggyd321

5 жыл бұрын

Yep

@hillbillytrump6817

5 жыл бұрын

No

@josephmcadams1612

5 жыл бұрын

No, seen the messed up track coming.

@pipesmoker4238

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeh

@youtubecensorseverythingIsay

5 жыл бұрын

Why?

Theres a scar in the ballast that goes across both sets of tracks and a white colored substance just after the bend ended may indicate some wielding occurred. Replacing a few feet of damaged rail by fusing it to both rails would account for the problem especially if it had been done a night as the rails were shorter due to cooling.

@ZeldaTheSwordsman

Жыл бұрын

This should be pinned

I hit one of those kinks in the rail and it scared the crap out of me. It was the second time I’ve seen a train lean so much and it still scared me.

I watched this again and just noticed that the parallel track is broad and standard dual gauge, rare mileage in the Melbourne area. Those gauges are usually on separate tracks because the gauge difference is relatively small and there are hardware limitations.

Wow, that was a heck of a kink in the rails! Thankfully no one hurt, although certainly thrown around a bit!

I kept looking for an animal to spring up, a set of switch points to be out of line or a unmarked, parked rail car. They came around the curve to the buckled track and I emitted an audible, "Oh crap!"

@BenjaminEsposti

8 жыл бұрын

So ... you crapped your pants? Wow XD

@ByrdMann2010

8 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's not what I said. Reading ... becoming a lost art.

I would imagine they completely bypassed strewth and went straight to crikey. Then calmed down enough for a far out over a cold one

@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn

5 ай бұрын

I think he probably went straight for "Fuck me dead!"

I am so pleased it did not result in a derailing hey and that no one was hurt!!

I wonder why the owner requested no audio. Probably because its fill of what is now in the conductors underwear.

@cheesebusiness

5 жыл бұрын

There was a music on the background so the audio was copyrighted out

@AZCaveMan480

5 жыл бұрын

@@cheesebusiness it says in the description "no audio at the owners request" so no, it wasn't copyrighted you dumb piece of shit

@Mriya6

5 жыл бұрын

Because most certainly the guy yelled something along the line's of FUCK ME, HOLY SHIT, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, and he's either a prude who doesn't want others to hear him swear, or he doesn't want Vline/Metro identifying him and punishing him for giving customers the idea that heaven forbid their drivers might swear.

Near bridges and curves were popular places for heat kinks. We would cut them out in the summer and weld them back in in the winter.

It's like a speedbump on the road.

That's not an "Oh, crap" moment. It's a "I just crapped myself" moment 😮

I wonder what that looked like from the outside... Geez....

@friedchicken1

5 жыл бұрын

glitchy?

Surprised that it did not derail.

@paxrail

8 жыл бұрын

+Khadijah Brown Any faster and it would have.

@eye_man

5 жыл бұрын

Khadijah Brown it did

@S3l3ct1ve

4 жыл бұрын

it probably did...

I have ran trains before and have gone over these. These are sun kinks. Sometimes it gets so hot that the rail will kink out.

One rail fell in love with the other for a moment, the later resisted! It was hard love between the rails!