There's one thing you guys NEVER need to do and that's go to the gym!! What hard work -- and thanks for the video to those of us who have always wondered how the clean up gets done!

Hope that your ankle is better by now. This video is an excellent one for showing to railroad maintenance guys and railroad management as it illustrates precisely why it doesn't pay trying to save costs by cutting the maintenance budget! It probably cost more than a whole years budget just to get the line cleared and back into traffic, and I notice that one grain car was still left on site on its roof at the side of the embankment. I assume that it might be recovered later or cut up where it sits. The repair gang certainly got on with the job. The breakdown gangs really earn their wages as its dangerous and dirty work even in good weather. No fun at all when it's cold, wet and dark, which it usually is on an emergency call out. Good work by you and your wife in getting a film of the recovery work in progress.

@TheNemosdaddy

Жыл бұрын

You understand that is a myth, right? Class 1 railroads spend 1 to 4 billion dollars each just in annual maintenance, not including extra projects. Also if you think one derailment is the cost of a years maintenance, you're really out of touch.

Lucky that this train was moving slowly. All the cars would have been off the tracks! No saving those cars. Not a lot of room to move in the ROW. Hope you feel better soon. Thank to your wife to continue the video work. 👏👏👏Too bad that it rained & not get to see the car clean up! Nice work on your and retail crew's part 👍👍👍

Kudos to your wife! 👍👍👍 I hope your ankle heals swiftly!

@therailroadtiespiker

4 ай бұрын

Yes it has healed but now when it’s cold and damp man it let’s me know I have pins in it. Lol

Cool video. That track looked terrible. What a mess that was.I know from working in a rail mill that rail is not cheap. I think if i am right one 84 Ft. 136 - 10 Re was around 800.00 a rail. That was 10 years ago. So most of the new good rail goes to busy main lines first. 141 section rail is more expensive yet. And head harden rail is more expensive.

Yea, I broke a leg years ago. Never had a cast.. had a rod thru the marrow to stabilize it, but still couldn't put any weight on it. I could predict bad weather. I guess I was feeling the changes in barometric pressure, it would make my leg ache something fierce!

A fantastic video presentation. Superb job and an atta boy to your wife for completing the process by pinch hitting for you. You both did a splendid job. Thank you.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dennis take some time and check out my videos from logansport she does the second camera on a few of them going over the bridge

Awesome video of the whole process of getting the tracks back in service.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Celio

That looks like pretty light rail, with not particularly great maintenance standards. Harmonic rocking.

One of the last things the operating crew wants to do is to call dispatch to report that the train is on the grounds. That means the start of an involuntary, unpaid vacation even though they had nothing to do with the derailment.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@TheNemosdaddy

Жыл бұрын

Again, not true. You're not just pulled out of service because you had a derailment. That's not at all how it works. The stuff foamers come up with us ridiculous.

I was involved in a grade crossing accident afew years ago- truck& trailer vs our train. Truck was demolished, train( most of it) & loco off the track. I saw what the forces can do to the rail but oh my! the track/rail in the derailment aftermath depicted....wow!!

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yep there was a derailment last month in Massillon Ohio a train vs a truck and trailer and they had something like 20 cars on the ground.

Every shot of the track before the train got to it, shows the ties are rotten! Madness taking something that heavy over it. Glad nobody was injured.

@therailroadtiespiker

Ай бұрын

They have redone this line some and is a little better but still is scary watching trains on it.

The first clip of the derailment I’m like 😐 doesn’t look that bad. Then you moved and showed down the track and I’m like 😳 brooo that’s crazy

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

And they were doing less than 10mph. I was told from a railroad worker that the track had been rippling and when it it got to The trestle is when the derailment happened.

@TrainsForever

Жыл бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker that’s strange 🤔

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

@@TrainsForeverthe train was shoving the track forward from the weight of it.

@TrainsForever

Жыл бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker ahh. Got ya

Excellent video.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Cody

Great video. It shows all of the hard work that is involved in getting the iron monsters back on track. It also shows how everything is planned and carefully done. Good luck with the ankle.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Earl check out my other videos that show them replacing ties just down from the train derailed.

That was some heavy NS engines on that light pound rail!!!!

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yes I've seen them pull four locomotives in a row over those tracks.

@vettebecker1

Жыл бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker That’s scary, considering the pound of the rail and conditions of the roadbed

Still amazes me how small a kingpin is

Good video, what a mess , sorry about ur ankle

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and yes it was a mess.

@danbedford5419

Жыл бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker ur w

Great video. Shows how tedious cleanup is. Love that engine!

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good video! With all that grain on the ground, they should have a good crop of wheat this years. The mow gangs are without doubt, miracle workers. My hat is off to them!

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you switchmasher

Good video, thanks for the update. Trust the ankle is better by now. A shame that it takes a mess like that to fix the roadbed. Cost twice as much when it's done after the problem happens.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yes they have been working on putting new ties and renewing the roadbed for the past two months. The crew they have can has been trying to play catch up from when the other railroad had the tracks.

@ArnoldStafford

4 ай бұрын

I o

Another fine video.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you North Florida rails

The real ones are not so easily put back on the track like HO miniature trains...

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yessss so true. Lol

Not surprising. What is surprising is that it doesn’t happen more often. So much of the trackage is in terrible shape , worn rail and rotten ties. Some roads don’t care at all. 10:09

I just got to 34:00. Sorry about your ankle. You have a wonderful wife. Get better fast.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and yes she's the best wife a man could have. She's done the second camera on a lot of My videos.

I didnt think NS ran on crappy track like this

Great video.👏🏻👏🏻👍👍 too bad we don’t have crews like this working on our national highways. Things just might get done a little faster.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Lol you're right they had the track opened in about four days

@tomcander3669

Жыл бұрын

You're ignorant

Watch RRF video of a few content creators and noticed they're showing a lot more track defects, more than usual seems like. Seen track wear, cracks, wear angling inward, break-offs on the surface rails with some as long as 3 feet, and I'm hoping the content creators are reporting the damages they record. You would think railroad maintenance chiefs would be surfing RRF's contents to be on top of some of these defects.

@therailroadtiespiker

9 ай бұрын

You would think... I've seen some bad track

No worries! It’ll buff out.

Hind sight is also good in the stock market

Didn't see any branding on the digger like Cormans, if they were rented that would be expensive. That vegetation has been allowed too close to the railroad corridor. Curious the track broke like it sheared, and the adjoining field had recently been plowed. I wondered about those logs whether they played any part in the sorry affair. Thanks for the video 📹 😮

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what company this was could they have used a crew from Genesee & Wyoming ?

@vernonmatthews181

Жыл бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker thanks for the update.🤔🍻

@rockymountainjazzfan1822

3 ай бұрын

It's Hulcher equipment and crew. Their trademark is a white oval with red lettering, visible on one of the dozers at 25:53. Their trucks can be white or red. Interesting note--the side-boom dozers (called pipelayers in the oil industry) are likely older than some of the crews operating them, dating from the 1960's-1980's. Amazing what an experienced crew with a couple of side-boom Cats and an excavator can do!

Sortof jumped from the start of moving bits of the wreck away to having the new track in place and the crew pouring new ballast. Missed a couple of steps, like most of the work.

Been there more then once

That’s third world country bad! Wow. The tracks I mean. I knew a guy who fixed derailments and it’s tougher than bull riding! They often have to cut a road through the forest to GET there! They have bunker trailers with showers and beds, a chow trailer. It’s crazy hard work, sometimes a temporary rail is laid out to route trains around the wreck!

So, the reason the wheels aren't attached to the trucks and the trucks aren't attached to the cars is for the purpose of making rerailing easier? You just build up the car from the rails? Fascinating.

Just wondering, why are train I D # all ways four digits? Thanks from St. Paul Minnesota.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

CSX has two and Three digits on there GE locomotives not sure if there's anymore like that.

Do they tamp & regulate these track re-builds before passing a train over them, or does that come later!??!

@therailroadtiespiker

4 ай бұрын

That’s a great question David I know they had trains running on that line within several days of the derailment.

All that steel twisted up like it’s tin foil. Is it really cheaper to fix that as opposed to replacing tracks where needed?

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yes because they just use old track they tore up somewhere else to replace the tracks that were damaged

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im still confused on how they lifted the overturned cars like what did they do with it

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

They cut these up with a torch after they emptied them out.

Well you forgot a critical part! The surf gang!

I missed the part where the cars were removed.

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

They cut them up on site one of my videos show them in a pile by the road I didn't get them cutting them up. It was raining the day they did.

Hope you ankle is healing

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

It's been almost a year but still gives me trouble when the weather gets cold.

@ohgary

10 ай бұрын

@@therailroadtiespikercome on down to Houston. No sign of cold weather down here!😊

@therailroadtiespiker

10 ай бұрын

@@ohgary and Texas has the most train traffic in the country.

Guessing the rail failed which caused derailment

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yes and a little too much for the light rails.

if modern USA stop using wooden ties, and modernize the railroad, this would be a rare sight.....

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Yes it's that they have neglected the tracks for so long it'll take forever for them to catch up.

@meanwolverine4573

Жыл бұрын

Rosebud coal mine in Armstrong County PA re-laid on a rail trail with steel ties and new rails milled in 2010. Mine shut down, county bought the line to revert back to trail. Contact said county for barely used rail n ties. Tourist train is located in Schenley PA, near Leechburg. There sits an Alco switcher, 1 box, 1 P&LE bay window, the open air flat, 2 more cabooses, (straight sides, no cupola).

@quintinivey9359

Жыл бұрын

Profits vs common sense.

@quintinivey9359

Жыл бұрын

@The Railroad Tie Spiker, they scrapped the cars? Repaired the bridge and laid jointed rail to get the line operational?

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

@@quintinivey9359 the 3 cars that were on their side were scraped and they did lay jointed rail back down.

Can somebody explain to me, poor European guy, the reasons of the lack of tracks maintenance in North America ?

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism. All I need to say

They could get the cars that can not be put back on rails faster with a good pilot and Chinook helicopter.

Looks like a spur line

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

It's not real busy but it goes off the main line in Marion and picks up the main line in logansport about 40 miles and has six or seven customers.

Do they throw the broken cars on a flatcar and throw all the wheel sets on a gondola ??

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

No they cut the cars up and took them away in dump truck

@ohgary

10 ай бұрын

I worked for a rail car company in the 1980s. We repaired a lot of wrecks which arrived in our yard “loaded” on flat cars. We did lots of covered hoppers and coal gondolas. The tank cars were sent to a plant in Texas, if I remember correctly.

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Hey joe did that with all the billions going overseas just think that money could fix rail ways and roads

@paultiller6766

2 ай бұрын

That was supposed to be included in one of the bills that he had passed, infrastructure something.

Guess I missed most of it.

@therailroadtiespiker

7 ай бұрын

What did you miss?

@johndemeen5575

7 ай бұрын

@@therailroadtiespiker lifting up rail cars, laying new track, maybe I fell asleep. No offense intended.

0:14 earape

Is there a reason for this derailment? The actual rail is everywhere!

@therailroadtiespiker

Жыл бұрын

Rails and the bedding. Pour maintenance.

@vickie7490

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

ChainsawN&W1218, really enjoyed seeing the cleanup and the derailment, I've filmed 2 one years ago both NS the big one,1st one was in Wytheville VA on the Bristol line aka Crescent Corridor, got there in enough time to film alot the axles and auto rack cars had derailed loaded with vehicles, and got see them using a railroad spike driver macine,machine, filmed the first train coming through 🛤.