Cat seemed like it was playing. When it realized it was a possom, he was were like...oh sorry, dude. lol

Sad to see it was the juice train too. Thank you Lord the trainmen involved are able to recover

Whoa, never touch suspected hot stuff with your palm unless you intend to leave some skin behind

@pmzoeller

Ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw that.

@pastasauce

19 күн бұрын

​@@weasel65352:56 someone forgot their templestick

Thankfully the design of the locos involved seems to have held up and likely played a part in how serious (not serious) the injuries were. For those wondering why crash tests are a thing, that right there is your answer!

@moodydon1

Ай бұрын

The standard for cabs changed in 2009. The 1st locos with cabs that met the new standards, were built for CAT, before they bought EMD from the private equity firm.

The expression on the CSX MoW crew says it all. I hope the train crews are alright.

@hawghead4596

Ай бұрын

If I was him I would get my lunch box out of the truck, put the keys in the ignition, go out to the road and start hitchhiking to another state.

@Nardur12321

29 күн бұрын

3 people to hospital with minor injuries apparently.

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, including the collision in Folkston, Georgia, adorable 2 animals in Fort Madison, Iowa, Rocky Mountaineer train in Revelstoke, Canada, and so much more, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much.

So this was it. The Folkston collision that everyone was talking about.

@DTD110865

Ай бұрын

Good thing the fire station was close enough to put the fire out. I don't know how many non-residents and non-railfans know it was that close, and the reason things didn't get worse there.

My childhood home was right next to the railroad tracks in Woods Hole, Mass., the end of the line for the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad. I've been fascinated by trains all my life and wish I'd become a Lady train Engineer! Thank you, Virtual Railfan!

Love the cars on the Galesburg train from 4/15.

8:57 CSX I032 Head On Collides with CSX L743 in Folkston, GA

From what I have heard about the wreck. Mostly from people and scanner. Signals were out due to maintenance making PTC offline. MOW crew said the switch was lined for the main which was incorrect. Causing the Collision. As of now the MOW crew is at fault. Very similar to the Cayce Collision

@BigAlFPV17

Ай бұрын

Still too early to tell. Unfortunately more employees will be blamed along with the mow crew but we'll see what happens when the NTSB totally completes their investigation.

@AustinTheRailfan

Ай бұрын

@BigAlFPV17 yeah. Only time will tell. Most of it is from the scanner

@joeylawn36111

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the details.

@davidimhoff2118

Ай бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for posting that

@AustinTheRailfan

Ай бұрын

@@joeylawn36111 your welcome

Dang it, now I REALLY want to ride the Rocky Mountaineer through Revelstoke!😢😊

Wow! One of the best grab bags I've seen so far, great content choices guys 👍

Nice work on the severe weather coverage today! Thanks Virtual RailFan!

@SmokeyGoodness

Ай бұрын

...And Ryan Hall, Y'All!

Nice shot of the signal dropping in Galesburg, Amtrak in La Plata, nice lash up in Quincy with load of axles, ballest train in Hesperia with DPUs,never know what You'll see,the anti climbers on the motors on GE and EMD help them from riding up on each other,Conductor and extra crewman riding the shove on tank car,nice video!🛤🚂

Cool catches and glad no injuries resulted from the Folkston collision.

@Sheaun

Ай бұрын

There were injuries. Reporting says that three crew members were hospitalized.

Love your grab bags

We ❤ trains everywhere.

And the 'Darwin Candidate' wouldn't even put away his phone after narrowly escaping serious injury while crossing the tracks directly in front of the loco. Way to go, dude !!!

DANG! That was a close one!

I had a Frito-Lay car in the 1970s, HO scale...

@DTD110865

Ай бұрын

Was it anything like the one shown here?

Nice Frito Lay car!

@DTD110865

Ай бұрын

That looked older than I expected... and far less colorful.

Great grab bag!

7:56 cool heritage unit

@LakeStateRailfan

Ай бұрын

Not a heritage unit, but okay.

There were injuries, yall. 3 CSX crew members were hospitalized. My question is, how did this happen? From what it appears, the CSX smacked into the back of the rock train.

@davidimhoff2118

Ай бұрын

You’re asking a question way too early. Everyone wants to know what happened but until it gets investigated we just have to wait. Yes 3 men went to the hospital. Hospitalized makes it sound like they are admitted and we really don’t know their condition until someone reports on it.

@thetreedemoknight4827

Ай бұрын

Most of what I'm hearing is that the MOW crew wrongfully confirmed that a switch set to the mainline, and the intermodal train was instructed by dispatcher to pass a red signal over the aforementioned switch, sending it into the rear of a rock train. Might be speculation though, take all information with a grain of salt until official information is available.

@gragor11

Ай бұрын

@@Train_Tok_Man Almost killed? You an insider or just like making things up. If you fall more than 10 feet t work you go to the hospital for a check up. If your train crashes you got to go to the hospital for a check up. Risk management. Now how is Virtual Rail some how responsible for creaming this accident?

@carsonthorpe6696

Ай бұрын

@@Train_Tok_ManI have a feeling you would be complaining if they didn’t show it too.

@frankely6378

Ай бұрын

This was a head on. The intermodal was lead by 2 locos, the rock train by 3. The collision pushed the rock train locos back into the first few cars of that train. It looks like the 3rd loco from the rock train actually got the worst end of the deal. The first few cars of that train certainly did. There are more detailed reports that say the signals were in suspension for some maintenance, and the switch under manual control. The switch didn't get lined correctly, and there you go.

My wife and i rode the Rocky Mountaineer gold leaf in 2006 Vancouver to Banff what an experience that was, only a few of us in the car with all the glass roof to see to the top of the Rockie sand the dining room down below with the big windows so that you did not miss anything, fantastic

Had NO idea the Frito Bandito had a Train Car. 😬👍

7:28 These private coaches were just in Denver parked at Union Station. The middle car was a heavy beast. Look close and notice it has three axles on each truck. 😮

9:52.OH THE WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD!!!!!!!!

Very good videos

*Awesome Catches*

5:25 Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

Enjoy The GB ! Unfortunately in Folkston ! Peter Possum & Minnie Meow bout to square off in FMD!

That is a scary head on collision. Somehow I missed that in the news.

Great catch at Folkston and boy sure are no end in Darwins 😂

Lots of good catches in this one. Can anyone tell me about the Incident Response Training cars at Waycross @4:14? They look like a lot of different types; how does the training work? Thanks in advance and thank you VRF!

Being a worker for a railroad is a dangerous and at times a labor intensive job. Respect those involved in the accident..until the facts are known..

LOVE your videos!!! thank you

The CSX OCS cars on the back of that manifest train at Waycross were in Augusta, GA for the Masters, I'm betting the train is M691.

All things considered, those engines look to be in pretty good shape. I would expect most, if not all engines repaired and put back into service

Checking for hot bearings, wouldn’t an ir thermometer be more accurate or even superior to just touching them? And more hygienic.

@tonyanderson-ln9gl

Ай бұрын

Hands don't need batteries, they're always at hand (heh), and read instantly. Hot / cold is good emough. For safety sake, she should use the back of her hand; heals faster and less likely to stick to a hot surface. SOP in steam engine rooms.

Despite 5204 not being in the lead, the impact still left her with a lot of nose damage.

You have to love the MOW equipment at 22:30. :-)

CSX carriages have names too. Would be nice to show them, just as you did with other cars, VRF!

Amtrak needs some heat guns...not very expensive.

This is why Wide cabs are much safer than standard cabs im glad the CSX crew's are alright keep in mind there was human beings out there and not just machines

at 5:35 the possum (?) is defending his territory.

5:25....national geographic moment with out sir david attenborough

18:58 Someone ordered a ridiculous quantity of chips! I'll have BBQ flavor, please. 🤣

@bethdudley8563

Ай бұрын

My favorite!

@robertf3479

Ай бұрын

Must have my baby sister coming to visit. 😆

@ByronNoe

Ай бұрын

I prefer sour cream and onion

@pricey130

Ай бұрын

Yes please with the bbq

@gtavstepfordcounty1733

Ай бұрын

Chili flavor is my favorite

12:51 Is a new Greenbrier mill gondola, and BBXX is a newly minted reporting mark. I can't find even a mention of it online.

Regarding the Folkston collision... I'm truly thankful both crews didn't sustain life threatening injuries, but are the shareholders ok?

Hey, @Hyce777, i think the ntsb is going to have a field day with this one

There's local news coverage of the incident. Three crew members injured but not seriously.

How is it that M8s are able to come off the Danbury Branch? Is there a layup track that is out of view and just under the wire?

What caused the collision? Was there a faulty switch or signal?

What is the speed of those cross-overs? The train was moving pretty fast thru them. I hit a Waste Management garbage truck that did more damage on my engine than looked on that engine. I did not catch on fire though.

Hopper @12:54 looks like Silver Town Mint logo. Silver ore?

Odd to see the M7s? come off the Danbury line in CT.

@chrisdamato6409

Ай бұрын

They build up the old ‘Dock Yard’ by the Maritime Center so that went the Walk Bridge replacement goes full on, they could store M8’s there.

Office cars coming back from Augusta maybe ?

12:51 Who owns the BBXX reporting mark? I can't find it.

@J3scribe

Ай бұрын

It's brand new. I spent 10 minutes searching with no result.

14:27 How does a VIA Rail train wind up being towed through Rochelle Illinois? That Darwin Candidate. Super cool dude strolling along looking at his phone one road width away from the locomotive. I don't think I've seen that particular scenario before. Interesting that the camera caught the head on crash. Any news as to what happened? I assume that was a signals crew there at their truck.

@garycampbell3188

Ай бұрын

The VIA rail train is brand new on its way to be delivered.

No doubt those cabs and modern safety features of those locomotives with the reinforcements are the reason those crews families are not picking out caskets this afternoon

I wouldn't want to be the controller that caused that head on

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that "Darwin Candidate" at Waycross has been show here before in another "Darwin Candidate" moment?

@joepeach997

Ай бұрын

That is a possibility. I think many of the residents see the train as an inconvenience, and will cross/craw/ascend/whatever, whenever they can.

No seriously, I think I got a little dust in my eye seeing all them kids waving

At 6:10 that opossum wasn't a happy camper with the cat playing games. Wonder if it was a mommy opossum carrying her youngun' on her belly. Cats will eat the baby opossum just like a mouse.

@n.e.barton1299

Ай бұрын

I have seen food arguments over cat food on the porch

@Mcdaffodilhill

28 күн бұрын

Did some enhancement of the video, no babies on board. If there were babies, the fight would have been stellar, indeed.

heyyy! why did you cut the SEPTA car? that aint cool!

Great collection of clips. One thing I don’t get is the fascination with a signal changing from green to red. If you drive your car around you see this hundreds of times. If it were a semaphore maybe but not a couple of light bulbs.

@user-bb3yv8dy7q

Ай бұрын

I think it started with another Railfan Vlog and VR picked up on it.

@joepeach997

Ай бұрын

Actually a few asked to include them and the way the PTZ operators move the cameras you often don’t see them. It’s funny, we can offer 60+ clips and someone will fixate on a 2 second light change. Darn if you do and darn if you don’t.

Was the editor sleepy? The same Decatur scene was in here twice.

@joepeach997

Ай бұрын

I am the splicer, editor, audio, prepress, color analyzer, rewinder, titler, small notes placer, uploader, placement editor and local dogcatcher. And I like some cuts so much, I post them twice. (Yeah, that one slipped, good catch)

@robchit1

Ай бұрын

@@joepeach997 Yeah, that's the ticket lol

@Qrail

Ай бұрын

@@joepeach997 besides being chief cook, and train washer. Watcher? Thanks for your time. I can’t thank you enough.

I read the comments, and probably missed it, but what was the mystery logo?

@hirsutusi5536

Ай бұрын

That was an interesting logo. I've searched for BEXX and BBXX but can't find anything

@herbcraven7146

Ай бұрын

I think it was from the Oregon Trail Raliway. It died of dysentary in the 80s.

@hirsutusi5536

Ай бұрын

@@herbcraven7146 Can't find anything on that either. If that railway died in the 80's, that paint job, reporting marks and logo sure looked fresh.

Oof, that engine had it's nose smushed in.

18:44 why do the trains go so slow past the Roanoke VA camera?

@nathanjplatt

Ай бұрын

Going into/ coming out of a railyard

@gragor11

Ай бұрын

@@nathanjplatt Thank you

@nathanjplatt

Ай бұрын

@@gragor11 welcome!

12:32 Banksy?

9:52 Someone is definitely gonna get fired after that. CSX probably heard about it already and I'm willing to bet some crewmembers are gonna get fired if they haven't been already.

@jamesmckenzie3532

Ай бұрын

Might not be crew though. There's more to the story.

@metronorthrailfan2244

Ай бұрын

@@jamesmckenzie3532 Oh. I see. I don't know if it was anyone's fault or not so I don't know if anyone got or will get fired

@ClearToRailfan

Ай бұрын

MoW set the switch wrong, which caused 32 to slam into the local

@metronorthrailfan2244

Ай бұрын

@@ClearToRailfan So they were the ones that caused that fiasco

@TrainsandTrucksProductions

Ай бұрын

While we don’t know the full story, it is believed that a switch was misaligned, causing I032 to collide with L743, when I032 was supposed to go on a separate track. However, once we get the more/full story, we will get more information.

it was a TAIL ON

4

How does a head - on even happen now a days with all the PTC

@Raiders33

Ай бұрын

There's a rumor that there was a Signal Suspension through that area --- maybe why the CSX Maintenance truck was right there.

10:40....what is that towing all this weight?

Bad "order" or bad odor???

Profiting off of collisions that could result in deaths is disgusting to me.

9:52 me shutting my bedroom door at *2am* 14:58 strange thunder sound

They union must have gave that up but when I was working, if a maintenance of way vehicle moved a car, ever who was first out on the Engineers, Conductors, and Brakeman extra board, could claim a days pay.

Was anyone injured in the CSX accident?

@Raiders33

Ай бұрын

No, but one of the crews went to the hospital.

At 9:33 you can hear the train going big hole. They must have known something wasn't right.

Folkston: What a way to run a railroad. Was that conductor checking for hot axleboxes on the Amtrak train with his bare hand? I suppose if the skin comes off he has found one . In the UK that is a big no no. A Tempilstik is used which melts at a designated temperature.

@charlottecunningham2141

Ай бұрын

That was a lady conductor

That was a bad "order" coach at Galesberg? Or maybe a bad "odor" coach?

@b3j8

Ай бұрын

Looked like the hotbox detector got them. Conductor checked the rest of the wheel bearings, just in case.

@donnaj9964

Ай бұрын

@@b3j8 What happens to all the passengers that were on it?

@b3j8

Ай бұрын

@@donnaj9964 I suppose they were moved to the remaining coaches.

@renegadetenor

Ай бұрын

I've been on a 'bad odor' coach...unfortunately it was my most recent Amtrak experience:)

@Keikdv

Ай бұрын

@@b3j8 Checking was in La Plata from the same train. Would be nice if VRF shows clips in correct order.

I heard it happened because a switch failed

@chipsrafferty8362

Ай бұрын

MOW set the wrong switch position

@ClarissaPacker

Ай бұрын

@@chipsrafferty8362 they got some explaining to do

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226

Ай бұрын

Apparently Hal had control of the PTC

@kennethhanks6712

Ай бұрын

​@@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226MOW work had necessitated disabling the CTC/PTC systems in that section of line and switch positions/signaling were being done locally manually and apparently someone erred (to be conclusively determined after all investigation completed).

@kennethhanks6712

Ай бұрын

​@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 MOW work had necessitated deactivation of the CTC/PTC systems and the local traffic was being handled manually. Apparently someone mis-aligned a switch causing the collision but the official investigation when completed will confirm-or otherwise.

can a train withstand a tornado or not

10:24 What happened here ?

is NTSB involvolved

@bobwickes1380

Ай бұрын

Always, especially with injuries.

Can't see it happening

hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan & Friends Randy

Wasn't a head-on crash (crashed into the rear of the stationary train and into a coal wagon)!

@kennethhanks6712

Ай бұрын

You might want to check up-it was a head on (southbound local from Waycross and northbound juice/container train for northeast corridor supposed to go on Jesup sub) apparently caused by mis-aligned switch.

Wonder if CSX interviewed the nose picker CSX crews that were on the side of the tracks, in camera shot, when it happened and after. They sure as heck didn't look like they were moving to help.

I have walked (illegally) upon the ballast along the side of the rails. If you were to give me a choice between ballast and shale on the side of one of the peaks in the Rocky Mountains…I’ll take the shale.

There is no tower 55 in Fort Worth they demolished it! How in this day and age do trains collide head on?

@robchit1

Ай бұрын

Seems railroaders will continue to use certain place names regardless if the buildings or other details still exist

@bobwickes1380

Ай бұрын

So glad I spent countless hours at Tower55. Hard to believe it's all gone. In my 34 years of over the road trucking out of NJ and Maryland, instead of spending a weekend in a truckstop, I'd load up with food and drinks and park on Broadway St. at the Tower. Good Times.

Just as I remember growing up. Chunky women at home in Cumberland MD!

Looks like Amtrak equipment is junk.

What an absolutely pathetic texas eagle consist. Amtrak should be ashamed

@whiteknightcat

Ай бұрын

By the time it reaches the Austin Subdivision it's lucky to have four cars. Several now call it the Eaglet.

1st

@cmac9029

Ай бұрын

Nobody cares. Get a life.

@davidkelley1488

Ай бұрын

@@cmac9029 Nobody cares what you think!