Derailment Cleanup Day 2 - Front Royal, Virginia - Norfolk Southern Freight Train 12R
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- Derailment Cleanup Day 2 - Front Royal, Virginia - Norfolk Southern Freight Train 12R
WATCH PART ONE HERE:
• BIG Derailment Near Fr...
the derailment cleanup continues, I stopped by to see what progress on the derailment cleanup had taken place. In this video, this Spot just east of Front Royal, VA has almost been restored!
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It’s absolutely incredible how fast these guys are able to clean up a massive wreck.
OK got it. I meant what I said. I thought you did real good. I id not know half the stuff you talked about and I never seen railroad people team working like they were doing. Nice job.
Take care.
Dittos. I'm very impressed by how quickly they are resolving this derailment.
A friend of mine who spent a few months cleaning up the soil surrounding a train wreck in Nebraska said that the railroads lose about $1 million for every HOUR a double main line track is out of service. So, there's some incentive for a speedy recovery there ;)
When stuff like this happens they keep us working till its done. Some of us go in and we dont leave till sun up the next day. The track cant be down no matter what it takes or how long it takes. the track has to get back to operational. The last derailment we worked i went in on a monday and didnt leave till tuesday night. We slept in our truck for 4 hours then we got a cup of coffee and a donut and we were back at it till it was done. Paycheck was huge but wife was not happy lol.
DANG! Would of loved to see them get those engines back on the tracks!!
What caused this derailment?
Excellent video gave insight in to the working of railroad accidents and the removal of damaged cars and repair of rail line. Great explanation. Thank you for sharing your work.
No problem Clyde thanks for the view!!
I'm mind blown at the pace at which it has been cleared up. Fantastic job by the crew members.
They are true professionals!
Wow, amazing progress in such a short time. Those crews were really hustling to get the line back open. They certainly have been earning their pay as it has been 90+ degrees and humid these past few days. Thank you for providing this follow up video.
Absolutely!! Thanks for the view!
For a large part of my life, I lived next to a freight line. But during the early 70s I got to see one of the last manual track repair crews - at least the last on that line - Penn Central. I got to see railroad men hammering spikes, etc. I got to speak with them every day for a week or so while they did minor repairs in my area. One of them told me they were all about to be laid off because the railroad had already purchased equipment that could do their jobs. As sad as that is, I'm glad I got to meet them and talk to them and see how the work was done.
You are one of the very best of the railfans I have seen on CZcams! I lived in Ashland, VA for about 11 years, right on the tracks no less, and I have learned so much more from you. Thank you and I have subscribed! Signed: a female fan of our RRs - and now of Railfan Rowan - great job!
This is great, Rowan! Keep up the great work. This is why we love vintage films of this subject. People recording what people DO.
Good point, glad I could help out history! !!
Great video Rowan. I’m a follower now.
One minute in and I'm reminded of a story about a landslide that took out a major road and a railroad line in the Idaho panhandle. Within 24 hours, Uncle Pete had the rail line back in operation, whereas the state had only gone out to stare at the hole where the highway was. Problem for the folks relying on that highway: it was the only connection to Spokane. They had to take a tortuous route over minor roads to get there. UP built some temporary platforms and wheeled up cars from their business fleet (the old "City of ..." cars) and ran passenger trains for free so folks could get what they needed until the highway was reopened months later.
The "state" is garbage lol good story thx
The state has to go through a bidding process that takes days or weeks. The railroad just calls the repair crew and says to go fix it.
@@arthurroberts491 - This is true, but sadly the people often demand that the lowest bidder gets the contract, no matter how fly-by-night or inexperienced they are. And boy do we pay for that.
"...the state had only gone out to stare at the hole where the highway was..." You just summed up the difference between government and private industry. Gov't doesn't care if they turn a profit, or utilize their resources properly, as its OPM, other people's money: OURS, i.e., taxes. They're extremely inefficient, most having been elected based on popularity, and most don't know the first thing about running a business. And when they don't have enough money, they simply turn to either printing more, creating new taxes, or raising current ones. There's no business on the planet that could remain in business if they operated the way governments do.
I am flabbergasted at the speed of the recovery! I thought it would take a month to get that cleaned up. My hats off to those workers. Great job, fellas!
Can anyone tell me what they do with the rail cars they dragged away? I assume the 80 footers they cut up for scrap, and hall away?
Any car which can be salvaged will be rerailed on site. Anything else is cut up and scrapped for transportation by a local contractor. Been on plenty of work trains to derailment sites where we haul cars away to a siding to be scrapped (if cars are determined to be safe to move) or bring what's left of the original train to the next terminal.
If nationalized, it would have taken a month.
Didn’t know this channel existed before today... huge rail fan in the NOVA area and now have a new go to channel for trains in our area. Thanks Rowan!
Yay, nice to meet you, maybe we'll run into each other one day!
When I worked at the B&LE, they had a stockpile of track panels, just for this. Penn Derailment Service would come in and move the detailed cars out of the way, the panels would be put in place, ballast and tamping done. At some later time, the field welders would weld the joints together. Not surprised that NS got track in so soon. Thanks for the great post.
You're welcome! Glad you liked it
Great coverage and great too that so many people came together to bring this track back into service . Now imagine doing this kind of work by hand with pack mules , pick axes and nitroglycerin and across uncharted territory at that .
That's insane, I can't imagine doing all that with out machines
Big KUDOS to all the hard working railroad personnel. They sure make a massive mess clean-up up so easy - and that's a true mark of greatly skilled tradesman. Thanks for the update, nice video. This is just another reason to have such respect and admiration for everything railroad.
Thanks Darreoll!!
Props to NS for that hard work through the night and day.
Its just AMAZING WHAT THEY ALL CAN DO!!!
Thanks for the follow up Rowan, you are truly a professional. Stay safe and keep well!
Amazing how fast a mess like that can be cleaned and repaired. I used to live about 4 miles west of that location and passed it everyday going to work. Great video thanks
Very good, Rowan. I love how detailed and descriptive you are with these cleanups, and your camera work is also top notch. I've been a railfan for many years. Your insight on the safety aspects, your acknowledgement of all involved .. I didn't hesitate to subscribe after watching your vid from Harpers Ferry. Keep up the great work young man .. with coverage like this I'm a fan for life. I'm very impressed with your work. Thank you.
Another well-done video; thank you.
A great video, a pleasure to watch. Thank you for all your efforts.
I live in Front Royal and am familiar with the NS line in Linden. This line used to be the Southern before the merge with Norfolk and Western. I remember seeing a short article on face book about it but not much else as I recall. I had no idea how huge this was and what it took to clean it up and get the tracks repaired. Thanks so much for both videos of this derailment. Your did a great job explaining what was going on and camera work was really good.
Thanks so much Lawrence!!
A very good video of an incident not usually seen or reported on in such detail. CONGRATS . always something interesting
From you .
Thanks for sharing!
Great footage! Great that so much technology is available for quick repairs and kudos to the great men that had to do those repairs by hand years ago
Kudos indeed!
Very beautiful clean and clear footage. My son enjoys the videos and so do I! Thanks
Amazing amount of work done in a very short period of time. Some very good workers on the job.
Excellent video
Great narration and explanations
Hi Buddy. Wow that’s absolutely incredible 😄 In the U.K. it would take months to fix that mess 🤣🤣 Take care Stevie 😎🇬🇧
they got that done quick great vid
Terrific catches!
Thank you for update.... wow they GET on it huh....
Nice job!
Great to see your channel back. Love your vids.
More fantastic coverage by Railfan Rowan! 🙂
Thanks Chap
Certainly interesting to see how they deal and clean up situations like this. Brilliant footage rowan 👍👍
MORE wonderful coverage!
Thanks Cheffy
Hi Rowan, what a wreck that was!!!! Right in peoples backyards too. Good coverage!!!!
Thanks Lindsay
Watched part 1 and this vid of course. Very well done! Excellent editing. For railroads, downtime is big bucks lost. It's a 24/7 all hands on the rail repairs. And yes, a slow order is in place for through trains. With men and equipment on repairs, safety is always first. I'm a minutes old sub and will enjoy backtracking, lol, your previous vids. Take care. Stay safe. God Bless you. 👍✌
Great job! Thanks for providing the video and narrative.
No problem!!
With nails on sleepers...This is so mmmmh. Greetings from Germany
Spikes on ties. ;-)
Great stuff! 👍
Great video. Very informational Keep it up.
It’s mind blowing how fast this was cleaned up! Wow!
Thanks for taking time to go and record the event Rowan
Keep up the good work
Thank you very much. Excellent photography. Really enjoyed.
Thank you ginger
This was very interesting watching this take place. Thanks for sharing your video and knowledge of the work being done. Have a great day!
Thanks Douglas!
Wow thats amazing
Hi Railfan Rowan, Love your content, Love Trains. Keep up the good work.
Great video. Excellent coverage.
Thanks Peter!
Cool video
Who says American workers are "lazy slobs"? I am proud to see how efficiently this job was done and with no accidents!
Well presented Rowan. Lovin it!
Thanks Roger Neves!!
i am a NSC shareholder, just deposited a dividend check from NSC today. this is one of the best run rails in the USA. one thing it needs to do is get its operating ratio down. the lower it is, the more profitable this company is for its shareholders.
AWESOME.
love watching
Another great documentary! Very nice narration Rowan! God bless and happy foaming!
Yooonthanks again VRP
Railfan Rowan you are welcome!
Big fan here. Please keep us updated on the progress of this derailment. You did an excellent job on this.
Thanks Wayne! Will do sir!
What a beautiful place.
Switch ties is what there called. Ballast is moved by a regulator and what picks up the track is called a tamper. All lot of times they will use and under utter to remove the crushed ballast and dirt from under the ties. Bringing in new ballast on a train dumping it and then the tamper will come and pick up the track allowing the new ballast to settle in and the regulator will come along and smooth it out. After there done with the maintenance they will issue form C on our bulletins with speed restrictions for a certain amount of tonnage that has to travel over the disturbed track before it’s settled. Once the allotted tonnage has been meet the track inspector will come out and take a look and see what it looks like. He’ll check the width of the track 4 feet 8 inches between the rails and make sure that all switches and signal controls are alright.
Great work and reporting, young man. Hope to see some aerial drone footage soon.
Hey Rowan I just happen to come upon this 2 day derailment I just have to let you that was magnificent video! Thank you
Good content
I subscribed just because of this 2 video coverage of the derail. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Dark Wing!
Wow, havent heard about this... hope the crew/crew's were ok. Gj Norfolk southern. Surprised how quick it was rebuilt and cleaned up. Nice Rowan!
Amazing progress! They don't just mess around...
Nope, them people don't get paid to stand! They had it done really quick!
Open track must cost them $ millions a day.
Trains has always fascinating to me for years and I would love to film trains from mainly from the crossing. Explains how fast they got it done in short period of time.
Thanks for the view Jan!!
That's nice
Interesting documentary on removing of damaged cars and rebuilding of track. I must also mention that your narrative tells me you need to learn more about the industry and the vocabulary.
good coverage !
Thank you!!
WOW, only 27 hours from a mess to almost functional again - that is amazing!
It's pretty incredible
Hi From Over the Pond in the UK..Excellent Video's Parts 1 and 2...Your Narritive and Knowledge of your Rail over in the US is immence to say the least 'encore..
Ps Ive subed and liked cheers stay Safe Bud.
Thanks Tony I appreciate it sir maybe I'll be able to get to the UK one day to railfan!
Fabulous workers. 27 hrs. And, like you said before how they don't know what they're dealing with til they see it. Basically, yes but particularly no. Thanks so much.
No prob, yep thanks for the view!!
That is pretty amazing, that was a serious derailment to clean up that quickly.
Very dangerous work, not only dealing with heavy freight cars, but when steel gets twisted and bent, you never know which way it's going to go when it comes loose. Like a compressed spring.
Cranemaster, Hulcher and R.J. Corman, re-railing services to the rail industry. PWALPAR (on CZcams) was a carman for Norfolk Southern. He operated an on-rail steam crane doing this same job. He's retired now. Thanks for the video. Jon
That was quick
what a quick service!!! Thank you, Reporter!!!! Wondering How do they do fast clean up in 27 hours!!! what an amazing service!
A large team effort! Hundreds of people on site throughout!
Thanks so much!!
When a train derails man it’s non stop action getting it cleaned up. I had to do a lil internship while in the military and had one happen in Tennessee. And when I say it was go time like we were headed In on a mission. Rushed out and you really have to think and move fast. Thankfully this wasn’t a hazmat situation Recovery ops is no joke. I miss recovering. Put our construction skills to work
This crew is just as impressive as the one I watched clear a big wreck on the C&NW in 1980 just outside the Great Lakes Training Center. Like Rowan says, they make handling 100+ ton wrecked cars look easy even though I know it's not.
Cool story thanks for sharing!
New Sub This Is A Awesome Chanal Thanks For This.
These Repair Crews Don’t get Paid to Sleep. Main Lines are BIG Money 💰and need to be Open.
Rowan, just liked and subscribed! Dude, you are amazing. I especially appreciate your expertise in explaining what's going on. You make a lot of sense, and you add excitement and passion for an industry to a novice like me. Again, thank you for sharing. From Ocala, Florida (CSX territory). lol
Thanks so much Ringo! I appreciate the kind words sir!
Hear , hear , we absolutely agree from CN , and CP country in the great white north . Your skills , techniques, and enthusiasm will take you far young man .
Your discription of this job is very interesting.
Pretty damn impressive how fast the repairs were being done. If similar damage was done to an interstate highway it would be 6 months before they figured out what to do.
It was incredible to watch thanks for the view!!
This is nfairly standard practice. I was with NJT and we had complete switches built and stored at the Meadowlands repair yard. After leveling out the grade ties are laid and rail attached a train can cross at whats called walking speed. Exactly as it sounds the crew is ready if anything goes awry , then ballast is inserted and leveled. Normally restricted speed is held for so long with observers standing by.
Man nice wow look at the rails that are taken out
Isnt that wild bro??
Rowan yep
it's pretty interesting to see what a motivator that loss of revenue can be
Really great videos, thanks for posting your great work .I have now subscribed also. I and my wife and son love to watch trains very near my home here in Alliance Ohio, train tracks here come from east and west as well as north and south, it is a very busy rail-fan watching area.
Nice I've heard of your area! Very cool thanks for the sub!!
~ Hi Rowan, thanks for these videos, I enjoyed watching them.
For your knowledge, here in Canada, "Canadian Pacific Railway" the section between the three signals is called the "OS", "On Switch". The track machine that straightens and levels the track, is called a "Tamper" and the unit that cleans up and manicures the ballast is called a "Regulator". I'm sure that other railroads have different names for all three. Thanks again. 😎👍🏻🇨🇦📷📸
Thanks for that information, I don't know the specific words and terminology so thank you
Go team go!!
More please :)
What you are looking at is an amazing engineering group. People & materials working with precision to get trains back in operation. You really have to appreciation the kind of leadership and workmanship going on here.
I think you would be the coolest Railroad spokesperson. You are very knowledgeable and sound good to listen to. Hey, do you think you should have stayed all night and recorded, like come back every 2 hours or something? That would have been cool. Nice work.
I would have loved to, unfortunately my job got in the way, as well as those people wouldn't have wanted me in their backyard all night! Lol thanks for the compliment!
What can be said time is money. Especially when it's a railway. Them people don't play when one of them go down. Thanks for the video.
Would've been nice to see them locomotives being moved...
I would imagine the restoration crew starts losing money the longer it takes...
Nice video. Greetings from Indian railfan. Keep in touch always. Happy and safe railfanning
Thanks Somnath
nice video
when are you going back to lorton va
liked video 👍😮
Thank you!!
they need to train some of our bridge builders and show them how to do it ASAP.. LOL
Nice again I have a question
Real cool how much you missed.
Would really have been cool to watch them re-rail the mover units.