Here's how you can tell the train is way too long. At 19:50 the conductor has to hold his radio up in the air as far as possible just so the engineer can hear him! They need mobile repeater extenders in the middle of these huge trains. lol
when I worked for the USN on a recovery ship our vessel was only 200 ft long in the control room only 50 ft away someone tried to call after steering with the hatch open they could talk, but once closed they could not talk, they tried to get a repeater on board and it would take up the entire budget of the ships op, the USN turned it down
EXACTLY! Just like the idiots that buy a house directly next to an airport, then constantly complain about the airplane noise! Come on, how could you *NOT* know the airport was there? People are just plain stupid, and no one is ever going to fix that issue!
@@Og-Judy nope, you are incorrect. Once a "NO TRAIN HORN ZONE" is set in place it IS 24/7/365 from the time of its inception. We have many new NO TRAIN HORN ZONE areas in Florida. The trains CAN NOT use their horns in these zones unless it is an emergency situation. Otherwise, bells/horns on the train, as well crossing bells are silenced. Some crossings the bells will still work from 8am until 6pm, then they are silenced. But, the train itself in these NO HORN ZONES are now silenced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year {366 on leap years}. I'm actually surprised we haven't heard complaints about the other very loud noises that emanate from a passing train. Like the wheel squeals, thumping of a car with a wheel that has a flat spot, the locomotives rumbling by, or the vibrations from the passing train{s}!
I grew up in Missouri and remember those MO-Pac's going thru every day and night. We had a Mo-Pac rail shop in my hometown of Sedalia, MO. I remember the blue colors with the red and white logos to this day. thank you for the memory.
Good catch on that separation. Makes you realize how close to failure those components are on those long trains. Local residents are fairly fortunate that the separation ended up spanning that one crossing so they could get through. Also lucky catch on that Mo-Pac heritage unit. I've actually got a HO scale Mo-Pac transfer caboose on its way to me right now.
That was great coverage on the emergency, that event was a rare treat! It's interesting seeing all the blocked crossings. Also: T'was a WET day in NY but I like seeing trains in the rain, so thanks for your efforts out there in the weather.
Not so rare since NS runs trains over a mile+ long. (A legacy of HH and his deluded idea of psr) I live near a town that ONCE had trains that would go into the passing siding all the time. I have not seen a train in the passing siding in at least 5 years now. The siding is not long enough for todays trains! I expect NS to take out the siding.
I like those pedestrian crossing gates. We don't have those. One time when a train was going by my house I heard a loud bang early in the morning. The train broke into 3 pieces. I used my car to transport parts for the crew so they could fix the breaks. They kept extra parts in the caboose. That was a while back. lol
Well, what starts with a hairline crack ends in the knuckle break. That just happens with the railway. It's always nice to see someone filming it. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
It’s a shame that many Railroad management people can watch this video and not understand the problem behind the busted knuckles. (I don’t know, maybe the trains aren’t meant to be over 2.5 to 3 miles long going up and down grades and curves). Anyways, still another great video from the WWoT!
Railroad operations managers absolutely understand this problem. They are also struggling to maintain profitability during times when the very logistical core of North America is changing. Truckers are more competitive than ever. Coal traffic is dwindling. Oil traffic is fragile. You have many many problems to understand and busted knuckles is but one of them.
@@newmanattack Attempt to justify what? I've only been in this industry approaching 4 decades so educate me. What specific part of my statement was 'absolute nonsense'
You can't say this has anything to do with train length. Multi levels wear knuckles worse than any other car type. I've seen them paper thin on the pulling faces before when inspecting them. It also appears to have a casting defect that that probably weakened it over time. Also this is a common scenario, especially with multi levels, that an air hose seperation puts enough forces to break a knuckle somewhere. It'll find any weak areas.
I whole heartedly agree. It's great to have a radio with you in times like these or anytime actually. You know when one is approaching at greater distances & can be camera ready.
Look like that knuckle was all bright and shiny except for that black spot about three fourths of the way down imperfection when it was cast caused the break, just my opinion keep them trains coming.
Nice and relaxing thank you very much. Yes it's Monday an extension of Friday and more crap at work. Not complaining too much I hope but thank you for the relaxing videos, it is so nice.
Great job bro. Lucky you. A parting of the rake and it's recoupling. Whole new thing I got to see. Loved that end parallel runnin along with freight. Damn those vegetation that came in between.
@@WideWorldofTrains I read where it has to go at least 600 miles to be economical for the trucking company. If it goes cross-country, that's a great savings because of not having to use a truck driver until it gets to the destination.
trust me regular semi trailers are going to start dying out soon they can use containers the same way and no shifting cargo between modes of transport!!!
1:01 middle road blocked 6:08 lincoln avenue blocked 6:22 franklin avenue blocked 7:28 bucknor street not a railroad crossing 7:39 lord street blocked 9:14 hoyt street blocked 9:36 nevins street not blocked but if the auto rack on both sides 11:00 towsend street blocked 12:18 roberts road blocked 14:50 werle road blocked
That's pretty impressive braking distance from about 40 mph, where the two parts of the train stopped. 173rd car? Heavens. Think what a strain on the couplings that must be.
Hey wide world of trains 🚂 I wanted to let you know that I loved the video you got a good few shots of where the train came apart and of the broken knuckle on 173th and 174th cars also a good shot of Norfolk Southern 310 getting put back together
The LED mee-mool lights *(o)T(o)* are strobing at a very fast flash rate. The flash rate is synchronizing withe video camera's recording "frame" rate and then going out of synchronization withe recording rate.
Well when you run PSR Land Barges you can close a town with a broken knuckle. NS should face major major fines when they run a train that is way too long and they close a town.
I am just amazed at the beauty of this region along route 5 and north of Chautauqua, Westfield, Dunkirk. Has to have some of the largest oldest maple trees on the east coast. Simply enchanting area.
Great catch. First time seeing a broken knuckle. Sounds like good ideal to take the knuckle off the last car and use that as a replacement for the broken knuckle.
I have noticed NS doesn't use DPUs on that line through Dunkirk. Interesting that they used to, as you say. I see Jawtooth captures NS trains with DPUs in the Cincinnati area. Why no more in New York?
At 14 minutes with the passengers window down, we lost sound. Thanks for the close-ups with the broken knuckle at car #173. 😁👌👍😷 Completely agree with lack of DPU(s), one in the middle, one trailing at rear.😎🤠
Any of you railfans on location offered help driving engineers back and forth ? Thats actually rule number one being the railfan on site : always instantly offer help if needed and if you can !
it looks strange to me that the knuckle broke on the end of the train, where the force trasmitted throught the knuckle is far inferior than that of the first cars...maybe it was already damaged by metal fatigue... or did the hose separation mean that the end of the train had the brake on?
yeah, I'd say it was old, very worn and previously stressed to the max and ready to break at any time, for sure preexisting defects. hard to say where, when or on what line it would break and it very likely wouldn't be caught on normal inspection when coupling or servicing.
very nice catch on that broken knuckle............also the heritage mopac loco...........those EMD'S are a beautiful looking locomotive...........thanks, good job....WWT
Cool video. Wow do I ever remember having days like that. Like you said, it’s a pretty long train. It wouldn’t hurt to run a DPU. thanks for the video. 👍👍👍❤️
@@WideWorldofTrains I worked for Southern Pacific and the Northwestern Pacific in California and then for the Central Kansas Railway and the Kansas Southwestern in Kansas as an engineer.
I hear a lot of complaints on how long trains are, yet everyone wants their Amazon next day delivery and plumbing in their homes. I don't support longer trains but people are just as much to blame. Toxic chemicals have to be transported somewhere. We do deserve to know about what goes through the towns but it would be a massive eye opener
Hello from the UK. Interesting video. In the UK our trains are never as high as this, so that containers are not double stacked. Double stacked containers would not be able to clear railway bridges or tunnels. At 9:27 there is a shot of a railwayman in front of the end of an autorack. I never realised how tall autoracks are in the USA and this shot really demonstrates this. Nothing of that height would ever get under a bridge or under a tunnel in the UK. Also, more railways are being electrified with overhead cables. Again, trains this tall could never operate on such lines.
Hello Jeremy, thanks for visiting my channel. You're right those auto rack cars are very tall. Before they start a double stacks here in the US many bridges were either raised or removed to allow clearance for the taller double stacks and auto racks
All of the Dunkirk, NY crossings visited during the knuckle break are as follows with crossing Id and street name: 1.) 471757G Middle Rd. 2.) 471764S Lincoln Ave. 3.) 471763K Franklin Ave. 4.) 471762D Lord St. 5.) 471761W Hoyt St. 6.) 471760P Nevins St. 7.) 471759V Townsend St. 8.) 471758N Roberts Rd. 9.) Return to Nevins St. crossing where the cars are hooked back together.
Interesting situation about the knuckle…getting it off the last train to replace it on broken car. Good engineering! Wondered how they lifted it around…they seem to be awful heavy to carry!
hello I don't know if its just me but the crossing flasher light are working off and on not flashing the hole time as the train goes by like it should, not a good sign?
Sorry for missing the premiere but video sounds really interesting, and nice catch on the Gennessee and Wyoming salt hoppers. And as far as 310 getting DPUs if they were smart they'd run them as rear end power like what they do on the pocahontas division coal trains
That NS train had a lot of salt cars in it. The ones marked GNWR for Genesee and Wyoming RR. These days that's Rochester and Southern RR. I actually thought it was one of the salt cars that broke a knuckle considering how rusty some of those cars are. I'm in Rochester so I see those R&S trains once in a while.
I hope you called in the defect on the very first crossing you were at during the very beginning of the video. You can see the signal flashing back and forth and then dims out and stops flashing for a couple seconds then comes back. Signals would have fun figuring that one out.
Here's how you can tell the train is way too long. At 19:50 the conductor has to hold his radio up in the air as far as possible just so the engineer can hear him! They need mobile repeater extenders in the middle of these huge trains. lol
Yes this is true, he mentions that on the radio that he is holding it up higher to get better reception
No they need to quit being dicks and they need to shorten these trains
@@guerropeuto801 Shareholder value first, safety and public interest last.
@@WideWorldofTrains being a Ham I found if you had a better antenna would work I been told those short antenna's are usually about 1/2 mile
when I worked for the USN on a recovery ship our vessel was only 200 ft long in the control room only 50 ft away someone tried to call after steering with the hatch open they could talk, but once closed they could not talk, they tried to get a repeater on board and it would take up the entire budget of the ships op, the USN turned it down
The no train horns, is a joke. The trains were there first. If you didn't like the trains, why would you move near the tracks?
Right on, Bob!
EXACTLY! Just like the idiots that buy a house directly next to an airport, then constantly complain about the airplane noise! Come on, how could you *NOT* know the airport was there?
People are just plain stupid, and no one is ever going to fix that issue!
Or build near a hog operation and complain bout the smell.
No train horns is generally for hours people are SLEEPING not 24/7🙄
@@Og-Judy nope, you are incorrect. Once a "NO TRAIN HORN ZONE" is set in place it IS 24/7/365 from the time of its inception.
We have many new NO TRAIN HORN ZONE areas in Florida. The trains CAN NOT use their horns in these zones unless it is an emergency situation.
Otherwise, bells/horns on the train, as well crossing bells are silenced.
Some crossings the bells will still work from 8am until 6pm, then they are silenced.
But, the train itself in these NO HORN ZONES are now silenced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year {366 on leap years}.
I'm actually surprised we haven't heard complaints about the other very loud noises that emanate from a passing train.
Like the wheel squeals, thumping of a car with a wheel that has a flat spot, the locomotives rumbling by, or the vibrations from the passing train{s}!
That was fascinating - and it shows how well the automatic brakes work. Thank you.
Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoy my videos
I grew up in Missouri and remember those MO-Pac's going thru every day and night. We had a Mo-Pac rail shop in my hometown of Sedalia, MO. I remember the blue colors with the red and white logos to this day. thank you for the memory.
We used to have a MO PAC roundhouse in my hometown of Sparta IL. It was featured in the original In the heat of the night movie.
Good catch on that separation. Makes you realize how close to failure those components are on those long trains. Local residents are fairly fortunate that the separation ended up spanning that one crossing so they could get through. Also lucky catch on that Mo-Pac heritage unit. I've actually got a HO scale Mo-Pac transfer caboose on its way to me right now.
Glad it was just a Sunday.
😁😄👌👍😷
That was great coverage on the emergency, that event was a rare treat! It's interesting seeing all the blocked crossings. Also: T'was a WET day in NY but I like seeing trains in the rain, so thanks for your efforts out there in the weather.
Thank you very much Rick! Im glad you liked the video
Not so rare since NS runs trains over a mile+ long. (A legacy of HH and his deluded idea of psr)
I live near a town that ONCE had trains that would go into the passing siding all the time.
I have not seen a train in the passing siding in at least 5 years now.
The siding is not long enough for todays trains! I expect NS to take out the siding.
I like those pedestrian crossing gates. We don't have those. One time when a train was going by my house I heard a loud bang early in the morning. The train broke into 3 pieces. I used my car to transport parts for the crew so they could fix the breaks. They kept extra parts in the caboose. That was a while back. lol
Caboose! Wow 25 years ago?
That was nice 👍🏻 of you Jaw Tooth 🦷. Johnny
Just like yesterday Brian only 1/4 of a century later. That’s all. GN. Johnny
Your definitely the good samaritan Brian, good on you, & merry Christmas. 😇🥳
Wow that's cool, I just saw this comment, its from 4 months ago lol
Well, what starts with a hairline crack ends in the knuckle break. That just happens with the railway. It's always nice to see someone filming it. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Thanks Sven hello there
A Broken knuckle . 😅the train guy know just what to do. Very sharp. 😅
As an engineer for the NS for 33 years out of buffalo, I love how people who only watch know ALL the answers!!
I agree. I learn a bit when I was younger parents had a friend that ran work train. I got to ride for the day. Was the most exciting thing of my youth
Started on SOU in Georgia. And yep...amazing how CZcams Railfans can easily point out all the things we do wrong.
Crazy how they can stop so fast in emergency.
That is a hitch. To connect to another. But this one, the metal was worn out and it just broke. 😂
I lived across from train tracks in northern Michigan , every day I ran across the street and waved to the engineer !! Highlight of my day !!
Stopped faster than I had expected. Those design engineers do a great job.
It’s a shame that many Railroad management people can watch this video and not understand the problem behind the busted knuckles. (I don’t know, maybe the trains aren’t meant to be over 2.5 to 3 miles long going up and down grades and curves). Anyways, still another great video from the WWoT!
when annual bonuses are based of profits common sense be damned!!!
Railroad operations managers absolutely understand this problem. They are also struggling to maintain profitability during times when the very logistical core of North America is changing. Truckers are more competitive than ever. Coal traffic is dwindling. Oil traffic is fragile. You have many many problems to understand and busted knuckles is but one of them.
@@cdavid8139 attempting to justify this is absolute nonsense.
@@newmanattack Attempt to justify what? I've only been in this industry approaching 4 decades so educate me. What specific part of my statement was 'absolute nonsense'
You can't say this has anything to do with train length. Multi levels wear knuckles worse than any other car type. I've seen them paper thin on the pulling faces before when inspecting them. It also appears to have a casting defect that that probably weakened it over time. Also this is a common scenario, especially with multi levels, that an air hose seperation puts enough forces to break a knuckle somewhere. It'll find any weak areas.
I've never seen this--great grab. Radio traffic is awesome--makes the difference. Nice job as always. Thanks for putting this together.
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it
I whole heartedly agree. It's great to have a radio with you in times like these or anytime actually. You know when one is approaching at greater distances & can be camera ready.
The length of freight trains in USA is incredible to us Australians. It seems inconceivable that the locos can move the train.
You need to get out more and look at freight outside the cities. Freight in Australia can be between 2-3km long if its needed.
Trains in the US are generally much heavier than other parts of the world
Your iron ore trains are longer and heavier than most US trains. They are incredible
Look like that knuckle was all bright and shiny except for that black spot about three fourths of the way down imperfection when it was cast caused the break, just my opinion keep them trains coming.
That could be, good point
Great camera. You can see the point of failure at 10:49 in the broken knuckle where there is a spot of rust surrounded by the freshly torn away metal.
Looked like maybe a casting fault on it as well where it's not nice and shiny
Wow!! That is amazing! Wish you couldve filmed them putting the knuckle on. But not complaining, great video!!
Thanks for watching!
Wow WWOT! You catch some awesome trains and such. Can't wait for the premier!
Thanks appreciate it
@Brandden Rittenhouse What part?
@Brandden Rittenhouse Yes about 200 cars on this train, i get lots of big train videos
Hey wwot I might have to miss the video tonight my auntie have to be at work at 630pm so good video as always
All good
I think with a train this long, slack can do the damage. Remember each car has 6” slack so it’s like a big slinky. Puts a huge strain on couplers.
Thant knuckle is BROKE broke! 😧 That UP1982 is beautiful!
I watched this man when I was five, now I'm ten.
Nice catch on the emergency stop. 9731s K5LA sounds outstanding. Those are the K5LAs I've grown on to. Idk why but they sound awesome.
Yeah I agree
Your content is amazing! Thanks for the excellent coverage. 👍
My pleasure!
Nice and relaxing thank you very much. Yes it's Monday an extension of Friday and more crap at work. Not complaining too much I hope but thank you for the relaxing videos, it is so nice.
You're very welcome, thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoy my videos
Great job bro. Lucky you. A parting of the rake and it's recoupling. Whole new thing I got to see. Loved that end parallel runnin along with freight. Damn those vegetation that came in between.
Have you ever given a train crew a ride to the broken knuckle and back?
Back when I was an over the road truck driver, KLLM was a strictly trucking company. Their addition of containers is new (at least to me).
These containers are new here started to see them last week
@@WideWorldofTrains I read where it has to go at least 600 miles to be economical for the trucking company. If it goes cross-country, that's a great savings because of not having to use a truck driver until it gets to the destination.
trust me regular semi trailers are going to start dying out soon they can use containers the same way and no shifting cargo between modes of transport!!!
I can remember when KLLM was called KLM before they were sued by KLM Airlines.
I hate to be having to go to work at that time and have a train blocked you from hours
Thanks for another great video.!!!
One of my favorite Heritage units and caboose’s to boot!
1:01 middle road blocked
6:08 lincoln avenue blocked
6:22 franklin avenue blocked
7:28 bucknor street not a railroad crossing
7:39 lord street blocked
9:14 hoyt street blocked
9:36 nevins street not blocked but if the auto rack on both sides
11:00 towsend street blocked
12:18 roberts road blocked
14:50 werle road blocked
Cool 😎 🆒️ thanks for your comments
When something goes wrong, it notifies the, engine and the crew. Then they notify the repair crew. And there Boss 😊
That's pretty impressive braking distance from about 40 mph, where the two parts of the train stopped. 173rd car? Heavens. Think what a strain on the couplings that must be.
Yes and especially that the power is over 2 mi away and where the knuckle broke there were several curves
I think a pusher DPU would help out a lot in this situation on this particular train and line
Hey wide world of trains 🚂 I wanted to let you know that I loved the video you got a good few shots of where the train came apart and of the broken knuckle on 173th and 174th cars also a good shot of Norfolk Southern 310 getting put back together
Thank you very much!
Wide World Of Trains, you made another sure shot. That great catch in the rain was worth the while.
Fantastic coverage!
Glad you enjoyed it
I think there’s a few wires loose somewhere as the two red lights below the “X” sign seem to go out every now and then.
I thought that too, but it's the shutter on the camera that gives the illusion of the lights going on and off.
The LED mee-mool lights *(o)T(o)* are strobing at a very fast flash rate. The flash rate is synchronizing withe video camera's recording "frame" rate and then going out of synchronization withe recording rate.
I noticed that too, seems to repeat at regular intervals, anyway, greeting from New Zealand.😁😄👍
Well when you run PSR Land Barges you can close a town with a broken knuckle. NS should face major major fines when they run a train that is way too long and they close a town.
Thanx for the great video. That's a long was for the conductor to walk to find the break. At least it was daylight hours not at nite.
He got a ride from somebody this time
Wow they really run these things way longer than they used to.
I am just amazed at the beauty of this region along route 5 and north of Chautauqua, Westfield, Dunkirk. Has to have some of the largest oldest maple trees on the east coast. Simply enchanting area.
Yes can you imagine it 200 years ago? Back then there were more northern white pines and less hardwoods, but still a lot of Maples
Yep, very scenic area, especially along Lake Erie 🌅
Great catch. First time seeing a broken knuckle. Sounds like good ideal to take the knuckle off the last car and use that as a replacement for the broken knuckle.
It's crazy how a train had blocked about 8 railroad crossings.
Even though I’m about a year late in watching this, it still interesting to see it. Thanks for the opportunity to watch the train people in action.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey man good catch up on the ns train I am glad you were there so you could film the train
The way the cars are bouncing on rail bed . Surprised more knuckles aren’t damaged .
Yet another great video I had missed. Broken knuckle! Excellent coverage Mike.
Glad you enjoyed it
I have noticed NS doesn't use DPUs on that line through Dunkirk. Interesting that they used to, as you say. I see Jawtooth captures NS trains with DPUs in the Cincinnati area. Why no more in New York?
IDK but wish they would use dpu's again
@@WideWorldofTrains if ns had put dpu's on the train would prevent all of this
At 14 minutes with the passengers window down, we lost sound.
Thanks for the close-ups with the broken knuckle at car #173.
😁👌👍😷
Completely agree with lack of DPU(s), one in the middle, one trailing at rear.😎🤠
I love how this guy is playing railroad police so funny.
My old man did 30 years with Norfork. Hes said a country is only as strong as it railroad.
Cool 😎 🆒️
Any of you railfans on location offered help driving engineers back and forth ?
Thats actually rule number one being the railfan on site : always instantly offer help if needed and if you can !
it looks strange to me that the knuckle broke on the end of the train, where the force trasmitted throught the knuckle is far inferior than that of the first cars...maybe it was already damaged by metal fatigue...
or did the hose separation mean that the end of the train had the brake on?
Could be if you look closely at the knuckle look like there might have been a defect that maybe an air cavity when it was forged
yeah, I'd say it was old, very worn and previously stressed to the max and ready to break at any time, for sure preexisting defects.
hard to say where, when or on what line it would break and it very likely wouldn't be caught on normal inspection when coupling or servicing.
Awesome video, the best part of the video is always DPU alright.
Fascinating! Excellent catch.
very nice catch on that broken knuckle............also the heritage mopac loco...........those EMD'S are a beautiful looking locomotive...........thanks, good job....WWT
Thanks appreciate it
Great video WWoT, great catch!!!!
Thank you very much!
That was a great show, thx WWOT!
Great catch, I love the Dunkirk area, been around awhile
Wow, what a nice catch plus an emergency stop!
They still haven't learnt their lesson NS. Cool Heritage unit
That answers my question about scanners then! Thanks! Another great video. Nige
You can buy scanners online, as well as get the frequencies that way. They are different for every area
@@WideWorldofTrains thank you.
Cool video. Wow do I ever remember having days like that. Like you said, it’s a pretty long train. It wouldn’t hurt to run a DPU. thanks for the video. 👍👍👍❤️
It sure is, did you work on the railroad Don?
@@WideWorldofTrains I worked for Southern Pacific and the Northwestern Pacific in California and then for the Central Kansas Railway and the Kansas Southwestern in Kansas as an engineer.
I watched a coupler break because of extreme cold where been mild and ice built up in the coupler.
Who here likes trains?
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2:52 I believe that is when the Knuckle broke
Cool Love that Heritage EMD!
Thanks Brian I'm glad you enjoyed it
I hear a lot of complaints on how long trains are, yet everyone wants their Amazon next day delivery and plumbing in their homes. I don't support longer trains but people are just as much to blame. Toxic chemicals have to be transported somewhere. We do deserve to know about what goes through the towns but it would be a massive eye opener
Today was an eye opener for me seeing those Amazon cars
That is how a train is supposed to emergency stop
Hello from the UK. Interesting video. In the UK our trains are never as high as this, so that containers are not double stacked. Double stacked containers would not be able to clear railway bridges or tunnels. At 9:27 there is a shot of a railwayman in front of the end of an autorack. I never realised how tall autoracks are in the USA and this shot really demonstrates this. Nothing of that height would ever get under a bridge or under a tunnel in the UK. Also, more railways are being electrified with overhead cables. Again, trains this tall could never operate on such lines.
Hello Jeremy, thanks for visiting my channel. You're right those auto rack cars are very tall. Before they start a double stacks here in the US many bridges were either raised or removed to allow clearance for the taller double stacks and auto racks
Just gotta love Trip Optimizer. Ripped the train in half.
LEADER is better found on EMD products Trip Optimizer was designed by someone that doesn't know dck about railroading
And the car came apart from the other car. Ok now I understand 😊
Some of those old covered hoppers are wonderfully rusty. You got a good look at them there when they stopped right in front of you! 😏
All of the Dunkirk, NY crossings visited during the knuckle break are as follows with crossing Id and street name: 1.) 471757G Middle Rd. 2.) 471764S Lincoln Ave. 3.) 471763K Franklin Ave. 4.) 471762D Lord St. 5.) 471761W Hoyt St. 6.) 471760P Nevins St. 7.) 471759V Townsend St. 8.) 471758N Roberts Rd. 9.) Return to Nevins St. crossing where the cars are hooked back together.
I grew up 1 block from the Lincoln Ave crossing, we used to hang on the sidewalk gates when they went up, we were about 12 years old
No grade crossings, concrete ties only no running of hotbox detectors and modernize brakes.
Your comment shows how little you know about trains.
Train brake going into emergency is just like the air brakes on a semi truck when you have an air leak.
Interesting situation about the knuckle…getting it off the last train to replace it on broken car. Good engineering! Wondered how they lifted it around…they seem to be awful heavy to carry!
You'd think they'd have software for adding up the total weight of all the cars in the train, and figuring out what it needs to pull it.
You could have asked the conductor if he wanted a ride to the head end to get another knuckle then take him back
hello I don't know if its just me but the crossing flasher light are working off and on not flashing the hole time as the train goes by like it should, not a good sign?
Nah its just the camera
Awesome stuff!
Q001 and Q009 both by Fairport NY in the last 30 minutes. Csx 3194 leading Q009.
When I was young, and a riailfan at 6 years old, there was no fencing in Nebraska. And on the UP line to wyomingI saw the last coal run of the DD40X
Notice that it shook the car and camera when the knuckle broke?
from it slaming into it
bad assery catch brother
Sorry for missing the premiere but video sounds really interesting, and nice catch on the Gennessee and Wyoming salt hoppers. And as far as 310 getting DPUs if they were smart they'd run them as rear end power like what they do on the pocahontas division coal trains
Yes I think End DPUs would work good in this situation
Love your rail stuff. I live in Ohio but my wife (Robin Kell)was from Dunkirk. My sister in law and brother (Gromala) in law still live there
I drove for PTI in Ohio for about 7 years. Handled crews from CSX, NS and Amtrak
Awesome footage, so rare to see one caboose let alone a double caboose ending.. thanks for sharing
Wow I heard air release before the knuckle broke.
That intro tho! You in the NS cab had me cryin!
Neat catch. I think DPU's will help alleviate this issue as well. Thx!!
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Can't wait to see a emergency stop in a Permiere! :D
Sorry I missed the premiere but I’m gonna watch it right now, good job btw wide world of Trains
It's okay
And the cabooses, great shots!
Thanks a lot!
Nice that it was day you were being escorted about. Too cool. Unique capture alright!
That NS train had a lot of salt cars in it. The ones marked GNWR for Genesee and Wyoming RR. These days that's Rochester and Southern RR. I actually thought it was one of the salt cars that broke a knuckle considering how rusty some of those cars are. I'm in Rochester so I see those R&S trains once in a while.
Yes the salt mines are near there
Dunkirk Ohio has a criss cross track north south track is active east west is for factory pick ups
I hope you called in the defect on the very first crossing you were at during the very beginning of the video. You can see the signal flashing back and forth and then dims out and stops flashing for a couple seconds then comes back. Signals would have fun figuring that one out.
That's the camera doing that
Trippy! That must be one hell of a new fancy lens you got to do those kind of tricks on just one signal!