Really cool how the dozers and train and everyone coordinated this recovery of the loaded coal car. Thanks.

we have walked back a derailed locomotive that was approx 40 yards from track using nothing but rail jacks and ties and re railed it. thanks too the old guys who are disappearing quickly for all the tricks

Great video,very interesting. I once watched a real life team lift and move a de-railed coal car using air bags. They emptied the wagon with what looked like a mobile auger. Once empty it was lifted and moved using great big air bags. It took maybe four hours to do it but a fairly small team did it with no obvious problems. Wish I had filmed it!

@fxsrider

4 жыл бұрын

Same way we get the nose of a 747 out of a ditch.

What a dangerous job! Thanks for posting.

RJ, as you can see if you read my description it says “sideboom” and I made a typo in the film as many spectators call them “sidewinder “ including people there and I stayed with it as they are seen as the same to many. Now, you should research yourself as “dossier” has no place in your comment and maybe you need to see it’s definition 🤓. Those dozers are medium size and certainly not “big ass” as you state seeing the ones I work on are much larger (D-8,D-9, D-10 and TD-25’s). Thanks for viewing.

@Maine_Railfan

5 жыл бұрын

These two are D-8G's if I recall.

@mattalbrecht7471

3 жыл бұрын

Gee. Awful critical. Do you find fault with the way he cuts his meat too? Just asking...for a friend.

Fascinating stuff even to a non-rail buff like myself. Thanks for the post!

@robertfeener1298

2 жыл бұрын

Real nice to see they were able to do thay.

What a great video. Love the performance by the men and machines to re-rail that car. What a performance, and that SD40, oh my, what a beautiful sound.

@handsthatcreate

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and glad you enjoyed the video...!

that was something to watch. I watched a video where they put a car back on the tracks in the UK that was something to watch too. thank

UNBELIEVABLE!!! My son and I were looking at train videos and this was the third one we clicked on to watch. The description (One way to re-rail a 100 ton loaded coal car from derailment 40' from tracks!) looked interesting and the length perfect for what we wanted to see, a massive re-railment from a de-railment. Imagine our shock when we saw it said Nashua. I didn't think it could be NH. Of the thousands of train videos online, the third one we click on is from our (New) hometown! This happened less than three months before we moved here. Thank you for this video not only for that, but it is definitely one of the best derailment ones I have ever seen! Now, we have to find out where it is from where we are. Just amazing! Thank you!!!

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

Tanya, thanks for the nice reply and I always a amazed by the "small world syndrome" and in this case. If the link works here is the site of the derailment if you follow the RR tracks and just below the Nashua River above Bridge St. www.google.com/maps/place/Nashua,+NH/@42.7646205,-71.452307,17.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3b0e42dfabf85:0xb6660811428bea55!8m2!3d42.7653662!4d-71.467566 Hope this helps, Rich

@tanyasmith831

5 жыл бұрын

@@handsthatcreate Yep, found it! It is two miles from here. I've bought furniture from the store just south of the site. Love that small world thing too. I've noticed a few of your videos are local. Do you live near here as well?

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

Just north of you, Bedford.

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tanya, I’ve been meaning to ask if you and your son actually go out and watch trains trackside much? If so and you want to railfan sometime I don’t go out much but when I head out to western Massachusetts or even New York for the day you’re welcome to come if it fits your schedule. Let me know, thanks.

Awesome video, man they got their work cut out for them, would have loved to have watched the entire clean up process, very interesting to see how this stuff is done. Thanks for sharing !.

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks and your welcome. Glad so many are enjoying the video as I would've liked to stay for when they got the ones off the trestle but I wanted to go catch some other trains also that day with a tight schedule.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

Just a great job, recording for posterity the how it's done. Thanks for posting.

@augustuslanden5456

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be offtopic but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly lost the password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me!

@yaelronald2280

2 жыл бұрын

@Augustus Landen Instablaster =)

Thanks for your patience in obtaining this most interesting video!

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

R Clark Thanks Steve, I wish I got more of when they retrieved the ones from the trestle but was there for almost a half of day and didn't have planned even that much time, lol. I tell myself it could've been nothing if they wanted to boot me out at first. Just imagine yourself tucked into a line of shrubs and thicket with a camera and camcorder on a tripod trying to get good views and not be a nuisance as that was me, lol. Glad you enjoyed.

I always wondered how they did that. Wow...thanx!

"Okay, guys. You four get on one side and the rest of you get on the other side. On my count, everyone lift 'er up and get 'er back on the rails."

Great vedio and great work to the crew working

Nice clear steady video.

Cool to watch! Those sidewinder bulldozers can really lift! Ive seen them lift locomotives.

Best Rerailing Video I've Seen . . Excellent Work Recording That !

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul, appreciate the comments!

@HolidayDecorator

6 жыл бұрын

You haven't seen anything until you've see them rerail a train that derailed in an area where the tracks are so close between buildings you can scarcely turn around. It was barely wide enough for the train to get through and you couldn't use any equipment like that to rerail the derailed cars and/or loco in such an area. Talk about a rerailer nightmare. I saw one like that a long while back, didn't have a camera to film it, but it was really interesting the way they had to move and get those derailed cars out of there and replace the broken tracks and ties {sleepers} in such a cramped, tight space.

Amazing what can be done with the sidebooms. Got to see it first hand on the B&LE. Penn Erection was the contractor, I do believe.

Great camera work Rich, thanks for the video.

@handsthatcreate

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks and glad you enjoyed.

@lawrencecarr4973

4 жыл бұрын

@@handsthatcreate this was so cool I subscribed

Really appreciate your great work. I'm a Nevada ol boy, like the heat and crave the sun. I could never have even considered going out in the weather the video started with, no matter how mild you northerners you may consider it. I tried to record twice over four hours, but my camera shut down, too hot, 105 degrees by 10 am,, May 27th, so maybe it takes all types. Anyway, thanks for recording this operation.

I agree that these Cat side winder dozers are terrific pieces of recovery equipment when used in the right situation for the right job, i have 2 cat dozers i use for heavy recovery work with massive hyster winches & large ground anchors for winching of realy heavy sunken & bogged machinery.

@b43xoit

6 жыл бұрын

Is there a counterweight on the opposite side from the business side?

@jimball3990

6 жыл бұрын

Hi, Brian. We'd be glad to have you over in our FB group, Freight Train Derailments.

@Z4Zander

6 жыл бұрын

B.Xoit.Yes there is a counterweight on a short boom on the other side.Plus the winch.The boom can swing down and away increasing the effect.Google Cat pipelayer specs for pictures.

Had class 66 (JT42CWR ) on ground with no track under it , we did it with MFD jacks and packing .Also layed some track on side on what was left of sleepers and very slowly drove loco on to good track with steel plates and wood packing .Took about 10 hours though They did great job here though and fairy quick did not like the chain they hauled wagon with would been well clear of that could kill if it had broken

Great job.Boy those Cat side booms are powerful.

great video...great camera work!

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, much appreciated!

Dang !! What a flipping Mess !! Those 'side-winders' ? are Awesome !!! :) Had my nose to the screen...lol

Nice filming! That would make great training video for new railway associates.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Wow.... Those sidewinder boomside liftermover dozers are cool. Damn those Hobos, for putting pennys' on the tracks.

Great work !

Wow! Pretty smooth operation. And, pro-grade video. Thanks!

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks David appreciate that.

No doubt every single worker of this crew knew what the heck they were doing. It was like a ballet performing at their best. Synchronized moves to perfection!

I never saw "sidewinder" dozers in action. Neat.

love these video`s

Great work you Guy's keep it up 😉😊

love to see a giant hand appear grab car & put back on track & say godamn it

@chazman4461

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha ha ha

@railtrolley

5 жыл бұрын

The Hand of God, or also known as the the 0-5-0 shunter.

@scottsilvey7522

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's a lot easier and takes less time but then R.J. Corman wouldn't have anything to do!!!

I don't know but it sure seems like their are more derailments than their should be and by other Rail Roads,not all of which are class 1. Nice video,by the way. Thank you for letting us share .

@BenjaminEsposti

6 жыл бұрын

PanAm is very notorious for having horrible track, running freights on horrible track, etc...

@michaelking3327

5 жыл бұрын

the USA rail system design hasn't changed much in the last 100 years other than signaling devices. some tracks in the USA are over 150 years old, but those tracks are not used much, if at all.

I would absolutely LOVE to be on a crew like this, re railing freight cars for the Norfolk Southern, CSX or any other railroad, anything to get freight cars back on their tracks and rolling again and by the way, EXCELLENT video. It’s just ashamed to know that the Industrial Brownhoist cranes had to be scrapped, otherwise they would have come in handy for situations such as these, what would have been the harm in keeping a few of them and re painting them with Norfolk Southern and CSX lettering. Oh well, ya know what they say about hindsight being 20/20.

@handsthatcreate

Жыл бұрын

Euge, thanks for the compliment and glad you enjoyed the video.

Great video! Thanks for posting! These guys certainly know their stuff. They make it look easy when there's so much potential for something to go FUBAR. Nashua, NH ... would that be a PAR crew doing the re-railing work?

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin, yes I believe the work train may have come from East Deerfield Yard and there was also at least one person from NS on the scene (he had the safety green vest on with the dark pants) as he seem to be calling most of the shots seeing it was their train. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Pulling the derailed cars while they are suspended by tow cranes, wow!

That's an old 571 Sideboom on the left and a 583 on the right. Nice 966 loader.

@tellmesomething2go

3 жыл бұрын

nice to know these things.

Real nice video recording R. Clark. Looks as if NS used their own equipment and there was no need for a 3rd party rerailer. Job well done and I'm sure we'll paid.

@Maine_Railfan

3 жыл бұрын

The derailment occurred on Pan Am, so Pan Am used its crews and equipment to do the rerailing.

It was a beautiful winter's day.

was hoping to see another part to see the rest removed its so facinating to watch

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Me too, but I was there for the better part of a morning and didn't have planned to be there all day. I'm glad I got what I did but I still wish myself how the trestle part went too. I tell myself it could've been nothing if they wanted to boot me out at first. Just imagine yourself tucked into a line of shrubs and thicket with a camera and camcorder on a tripod trying to get good views and not be a nuisance as that was me, lol. Glad you enjoyed.

Retired railroader with 51+ years. Worked too many derailments with railroad wrecking cranes and with off track contractors. Wreck clearance, as this video demonstrates, proves that the steel wheel on the steel rail is much more efficient than the steel wheel on natures own ground. Wreck cranes took a tremendous amount of time to get blocked up and stabilized to make a lift, and then have the blocking knocked down and reset to make another lift. Railroads eliminated the use of wreck cranes in the late 80's and early 90's and wreck clearance is done by off track contractors these days. Don't know how many more clearance operations the supervisor that was standing within 'snap radius' of the cable that was being used to tow the car toward the rail will have - cable snaps and his top half will no longer be connected to his bottom half.

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

MMI 16. I was amazed that they were so casual about being in the snap zone myself as your end result if it did snap paints a vivid bit true picture. I was lucky to be close enough to catch the operation where most times you wouldn’t be so fortunate. Maybe a few in the biz can get so E valuable information from the video. Thanks for the comment

@harrybobb6927

5 жыл бұрын

It would have been cool to use a steam locomotive to do all the pulling the cars onto the rails though instead of the very loud whines of that damn diesel i like the chug of a steam locomotive instead of a sound of a diesel locomotive very annoying thats one of the biggest mistakes that in railroading history is to bring the diesel locomotives into service the railroad companies should have kept making steam locomotives because they could have made a steam locomotive burn off a propane or a pressurized natural gas tank or burn a fuel oil base fuel or corn stocks or wood chips or corn pellets or it could burn tree leaves collected by citys road crews instead of a coal fire that was dirty

@johngilbert2972

5 жыл бұрын

mmi16 245

thats some strong ass chain!! does antbody know if there is a ho scale model of the sidewinders? or good diagrams that could be used?

Great job.

Difficult tedious work in unpleasant conditions. Video could have been half its length but fast forward saved the day. Periodic screen crawlers helped understand what was going on, thanks.

Wow that track bed is wasted. Time for an upgrade. Great catch.

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

Upgrade, lol not with Pam Am/ Guilford unless it's at another ones expense. There seem to be old turnouts and switches buried where the track gave way.

One morning behind my shop the were four big road locomotives derailed. A large crew of men showed up carrying big wooded blocks, jacks, pry bars and a rerail block. By noon the crew and the locomotives were gone.

Were the rotten ties caused by the river under the rail bridges? Did the river have a tendency to overflow and flood the tracks? Is it also possible that the bridges make the nearby tracks and steel rails freeze faster, thus accelerating their wear and tear?

Nice work!

@handsthatcreate

4 жыл бұрын

If that was meant for me, thanks lol.

I love the way Corman's crew uses four of the side lift dozers and walks the unit over to good rails. I think it takes six trucks to move move two dozers and associated equipment to a job site. This does not look like Corman's crew.

@handsthatcreate

Жыл бұрын

Actually the RR had it's own "work train" that brought everything there in one shot for the record.

Must have been something in the day three rail lines, wow.

Possibly the worlds most powerful tow truck!

@michaelking3327

3 жыл бұрын

miller makes a 100 ton rotator, though i doubt it has this much power.

Engine sounded like one of the old GP-9's.

Thank you!!!

Beginning looks like George Bailey 's bridge! The snow.

Good video. I am surprised they let you that close.

@handsthatcreate

7 жыл бұрын

Ya, me too as I was basically in a hedge line of small trees and quickly got a couple branches out of my way and didn't move and hoped they would let me be.... and to my surprise there wasn't a whole lot of other people around.

What would have happened if it was the middle of winter and it kept snowing?

Was that the Corman crew? We did a few big jobs with them when I was with Winters Rigging doing derailments. A very dangerous job but a lot of fun too. Everyone must be on their 'A' game. We had 43 cars in the Susquehanna River to fish out of the water in the middle of winter @ 5 below zero. Many loaded propane tankers, coal hoppers, and boxcars. We had to re-lay 12 miles of panels (new track) that got tore up. 24 hr round the clock, 2 -12 hr shifts. Took us 3 days to complete the job. We used 9 semi's, 1 rollback, light plants and generators, 2 side booms, 2 D-9's, 2 crane trucks, a complete repair shop on wheels, trailer full of extra parts and rolls of new winch cables and chains, a fuel truck, our food wagon and plenty of dry gloves, coveralls, boots and dry jackets. It was said that the railroad loses 1 million dollars per hour for every hour the tracks are blocked so time is at the utmost importance next to safety! The good ole days!

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

No that was Pan Am's / Guilford's own wreck train with a Norfolk Southern person in with the crew as it was one of their coal trains on Pam Am's trackage.

@michael-anthonywatchdog3818

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for responding. Great work done by all! @@handsthatcreate

I lived in Nashua for awhile, I know exactly where that is

Wow! Those are some Big Boy's toys!!!

The crawlers with the booms are called sidewinders. I grew up right along the Western Maryland tracks.

@gordonlyons5813

3 жыл бұрын

I think Sidewinders was their nickname. Were they not originally known as 'Side-booms', when they were being used for pipelaying?

I subscribed. Joe from Germany. 😀😃😃

Sure as heck wouldn't want to be around that cable if it broke. That looked like an insane amount of tension on it.

We in the UK have narrow cuttings ,so this loaded re rail procedure would not be possible . Is derailment mostly to do with the track alignment gauge or the waggon undercarriage failure ?

@rebelyank6361

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Fox Unfortunately it is due to absolutely junk track. Here in New Hampshire rail ownership has gone from bad to worse over the decades from Boston & Maine through Guilford and Pan Am and in some instances the state now owns the rails. With each owner less has been done until now when absolutely nothing is being repaired and hundreds of miles of tracks have been torn up. As you see here that is a 3 track bridge with only 1 set of rails left in use.

It seems as though tracks are seldom repaired when the time comes. As the lines deteriorate, they just operate with the trains running at a slower speed.

@rogerspencer4071

2 жыл бұрын

I am a retired engineer, and you are right. After derailment tracks will be replaced.

Whats all that poping noise from the locomotive? moisture ejectors on the air tanks?

@jamesshanks2614

7 жыл бұрын

cletrac 12c Exactly!

Thats some bit of chain! I wonder how much longer it was after the job was finished?

@handsthatcreate

4 жыл бұрын

David, that would be a cable pulling the cars back to the tracks with the engine. As many have stated and my shock on the scene was how carelessly they treated the cable's ability to slice them up if it had failed and it had good reason to at times as the engine was breaking traction while trying to assist the dozers. Thanks for watching.

I’m sorry Ik I’m really late but this was in Nashua NH???!!

R Clark: thanks for the note. I understand it was a figure of speech. I apologize if I sounded too nerdy.

Man those traction motors are getting a hell of a workout

@jamesshanks2614

7 жыл бұрын

compteck7 Not even working the motors hard. Working them hard is when your climbing the mountain and lose an engine and there isn't a helper or another train nearby to help you over the mountain and you reach the top at 8 mph at full throttle for the entire climb in mid August and yes you can smell the hot traction motors. Fortunately for that trip my power was 5 SD-40-2's and the train was solid coal 96 cars just over 12,000 tons. The only good thing was the engine failed 2 miles from the top.

@compteck7

7 жыл бұрын

On a dead pull, with about 75-80% applied power, those motors are getting a hell of a workout..and yes, those motors you had were put through hell, not just a workout..WTH would they give you just SD40-2's to pull that much weight considering you had to climb a grade.

@Greatdome99

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, like steam engines, electric motors can produce full power at zero RPM, but if they begin to draw too much current or get too hot, the control system will reduce power to prevent damage. AC traction motors can endure more stall conditions than DC motors; that's why most heavy trains are pulled by AC locos--more expensive, but worth it. And GE and Westinghouse equipment was far superior to EMD stuff when it came to overloading those motors.

Is there a group for emergency team at the railway in the social nets?

How does a crash like that happen in the first instance, what were the primary and if any secondary causal factors?

@Maine_Railfan

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it occurred as a result of a broken rail, and at such a slow speed, they can drag the cars for a good distance before the air would dump.

Awesome video! Curious about what camera you use?

They should have used 4 of those yellow machines (2 in front and 2 in back) and they could have done it quicker. That is one strong ass cable pulling the loaded car. Impressive.

Not easy re-railing a 143 ton car!

What did it do, derail on a bridge?

That chain...... amazing how 1 chain could take that much pressure. Locomotive pulling a loaded car through the dirt with 1 chain... wow

@handsthatcreate

Жыл бұрын

Actually that "chain" is a cable with far more strength than a chain but if it broke it would slice you like nothing.

PERFECTO!!!!!!!!!

Only on Guilford!

6:55 Had the chain snapped under tension, it's a good bet that everybody out in the open, especially on the left, would have been at risk of shrapnel injury. Get behind the dozer next time guys!

@handsthatcreate

7 жыл бұрын

Frank, I couldn't agree more and I was rather surprised at how they were putting themselves in a spot to get hurt if something failed. Maybe they haven't been around a snapping chain or cable but that cable with the pull of the engine had the chance to slice flesh easily had it let go and you would think they would be trained to distance themselves from such situations.

@billduckworth6760

7 жыл бұрын

You can have the best training in the world but you can't force people to follow their training. A failure from the lead / head crew person.

@jamesshanks2614

7 жыл бұрын

Training? This is old school railroading there hire someone and he learns OJT on the job training from men that have been doing this all their lives, they know the capacity of the cables and chains they are using and what is safe and not safe to do at a wreck site. They also use the equipment to change out wheel sets and traction motors when they have to. The first wreck Master I met back in 1965 was 74 years old and the BET roundhouse foreman and started out as a water boy on a track gang when he was 12 years old and was made wreck Master in 1935. His philosophy was the steam locomotives were a lot heavier than any Diesel the railroad every had. That man forgot more about moving heavy equipment at a wreck site then most men ever learn.

@jamesshanks2614

7 жыл бұрын

Frank Roberts I can remember reading a bout that crazy Russian General and always thought it was just a story until I was watching an old film of Russian rockets failures and there the crazy bastards were sitting in chairs at the base of the rocket they were hoping to launch when it blew itself to smithereens taking the lives of all who sat at its base.

@InventPeace1

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankroberts9320 I heard they are going to start using super high speed electric cars to carry the person who lights the Atlas rockets away from the launch area? (right match and fuse, lol).

Guess there is no kinda hydraulic remote control jacks that can push it up and then sideways a little at a time, repeat, until back on tracks. I think they took out some 15' of ties to make that happen.

oh man that rail bed is absolutely done for. surely they had to redo the whole area from scratch around the bridge before putting track back down?

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

I would assume so with the amount of ballast they brought in but seeing how the north mainline was I'm not sure how involved they got ;). Many of the old speeds are now down to 5-10 and it takes all day just to cover a few miles with the lack of upkeep in many areas!

Nice job crew Is there ever a time you put four of those Dozer machines on a car like each corner Then walk it down to put it back on the tracks Keep Safe out there !

Seems like my 30 minute wait for roadside assistance isn't so bad after all...

Pretty much the best way

Probably the worst thing to do is have the RR official there to tell those guys what to do. Best thing to do is get out of the way and watch them take care of the mess. No need to unload the cars, pick them up and walk them over to good track and to hell with dragging them through the debris and slop. Very counter productive. Someone will get hurt. * no point in 'welding' chains to hold the truck together, that's what the hooks are for.

9:45 just watching this i couldnt help but think that one of those rubber tyred gantery cranes they have at ports for containers but you know shorter and beefyer or a straddle carier would have worked well here

@handsthatcreate

6 жыл бұрын

You maybe right but also realize any form of a crane wouldn't have helped for the cars stuck on the trestle due to lack of access. Also remember those were loaded cars at over 200,000 lbs too.

I can't believe anyone would stand close to that chain.

@handsthatcreate

2 жыл бұрын

Cliff, there were a few safety issues that seemed to crop up during the filming as if the cable snapped they would be sliced like nothing. It was a bit eye opening at time, lol. Thanks Rich

that static or ticking noise a locomotive engine makes, what is the cause of it?

@enwri

6 жыл бұрын

The little spits are air relief valves because the compressor runs nonstop, big ones are brakes

@nounoufriend

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like the air Auto drain valves to me ie Spirex valve,s .Compressor Unloader different sound and fairly quite as it only lifts compressor valves (presume its GM loco sounds like one )

@enwri

6 жыл бұрын

That'll be it then.

A loaded coal hopper weighs way more then just 100 tons. A loaded corn hopper weighs 130 tons . So the much more dense coal is closer to 140 tons each .

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

I know it weighs more than that just used that for a “figure of speech “ in the title and didn’t want to be accused of over stating the weight lol. Some even commented the cars didn’t even have coal in them even though the snow is clearly on the mounds of coal. 🧐. Have a good one.

@bradhardy2629

5 жыл бұрын

@@handsthatcreate I worked for the soo line railroad for 10 years as a conductor and Engineer so it's not like I was pulling those numbers out of my ass . I know for a fact what the numbers are.

@handsthatcreate

5 жыл бұрын

Brad, easy as I never said you’re numbers were wrong! I have seen enough cars and the gross and net weight figures posted. Wasn’t trying to stir a hornets nest and was being sincere with my answer. You wonder why things get worked up into needless high blood pressure. Take care.

That is one heck of a bridge! Big RRoading through there at one time, eh?

@rebelyank6361

6 жыл бұрын

wallace wood Many decades ago, sadly now there is almost no rail activity in the state, who now owns most of the few remaining rail corridors. The future is very bleak. The only thing the state likes to do with the rails it bought is to rip them up to satisfy the damn bicyclists.

Sand on the rails helps!

The weight of the snow on top of the coal probably made things more difficult.

How come the wheel assembly or whatever its called doesn't get damage or come off during derailment? Is it that well built?

@handsthatcreate

7 жыл бұрын

Relerford, because the cars stayed upright in this case the wheelsets never left the trucks and yes they are very strong and can take a lot plus this train was moving slow before the derailment due to the railbed condition. The wheelsets or axles were kept in place with chains welded to the trucks as the cars were lifted to reposition. If the cars tipped on their sides or more the wheelsets could've fallen from the trucks as they do in that type of derailments. Hope this helps.

@relerfordable

7 жыл бұрын

Yes...so those type of train cars just sit on the wheel sets you mean during regular use? Is that how all train cars work?

@rebelyank6361

6 жыл бұрын

Yes most rail cars just sit on the trucks with a large pin between the truck and the carbody

' train trailer box is a really so heavy weight

I would have just picked it up with my hand and placed it back on the track. Much quicker that way.

@kansasstatealerting2424

4 жыл бұрын

Trevor Thomas same but I’m not a giant 😂😂😂😂