AFTERMATH of a derailment step-by-step process of clean-up to reopening the line

[@davidg5369]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@blendamorris4419]

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

[@markbickelhaupt4414]

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

[@celioleitao7303]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you Celio

[@BeeLineEast]

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

[@rodsmith3911]

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

[@TheNemosdaddy]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Your math is completely wrong

[@dennisb-trains23]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@bnrailfannz8262]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@John-ru5ud]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Yep

[@TheNemosdaddy]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Not necessarily. Depends on the work rules, the union, and the circumstances. If I know the crews are good and the circumstances point to something beyond a rule violation or obvious train handling I'm not going to purposefully lose a good crew.

[@davidg5369]

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

[@wallochdm1]

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

[@codyhilton1750]

Excellent video.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you Cody

[@vettebecker1]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@vettebecker1]

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

[@supercuda1950]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you

[@TrainsForever]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@TrainsForever]

@@therailroadtiespiker that’s strange 🤔

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@TrainsForever]

@@therailroadtiespiker ahh. Got ya

[@willieb58]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@ArnoldStafford]

I o

[@danbedford5419]

Good video, what a mess , sorry about ur ankle

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you and yes it was a mess.

[@danbedford5419]

@@therailroadtiespiker ur w

[@earlschmitt884]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@Thechief49-x4t]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@cdavid8139]

If it is 'madness' then I have been involved in 'madness' for 40 years. I've moved branch line grain trains over track much worse than this.

[@SWITCHMASHER]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you switchmasher

[@MandG80439]

Still amazes me how small a kingpin is

[@northfloridarails2136]

Another fine video.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you North Florida rails

[@vernonmatthews181]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@vernonmatthews181]

@@therailroadtiespiker thanks for the update.🤔🍻

[@rockymountainjazzfan1822]

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

[@danmathers141]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@davidg5369]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Generally you move trains over the line at reduced speed until a larger effort involving track gangs can be scheduled. Of course that won't be true on a mainline.

[@frankmosch3757]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Yessss so true. Lol

[@shopshop144]

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

[@grumpyg9350]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@tomcander3669]

You're ignorant

[@simonetaormina7080]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@deedsddd6774]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@johndemeen5575]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@mikes7639]

Hind sight is also good in the stock market

[@1ROB82]

No worries! It’ll buff out.

[@peter-fuppe-fuchs]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@meanwolverine4573]

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

[@quintinivey9359]

Profits vs common sense.

[@quintinivey9359]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@3watchit]

I didnt think NS ran on crappy track like this

[@cdavid8139]

All Class I railroads in North America have branches like this

[@frankjackson8706]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Has nothing to do with 'not caring'.

[@jasonpoole2093]

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

[@Wandering_4ever]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@ohgary]

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

[@nbk9372]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Why surf videos when you have licensed track inspectors going over the line?

[@simcaptainrik]

Hope you ankle is healing

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@ohgary]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@danmathers141]

I missed the part where the cars were removed.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@jeffreymartin6369]

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

[@bill0118]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Capitalism. All I need to say

[@cdavid8139]

Simple. In North America (US, CA and MX) our railroads are privately owned and move incredible tonnage. Where in Europe most freight rail traffic now moves on the highway, in North America long haul heavy tonnage trains are the norm. They have to make a profit for the owners and are not taxpayer funded like poor Europeans. We tend to keep branch lines like this one in service for smaller communities rather than the European way of pulling up the line. Our main line operations (US, CA and MX) do not suffer from a lack of maintenance. Lower speed branch operations which feed the mainlines will indeed not be maintained to full standards.

[@neilgarrod318]

Been there more then once

[@allenmarvetsthewildbuck3205]

Guessing the rail failed which caused derailment

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Yes and a little too much for the light rails.

[@allenmarvetsthewildbuck3205]

Looks like a spur line

[@therailroadtiespiker]

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

[@mikephalp7364]

Well you forgot a critical part! The surf gang!

[@juliussinischo3958]

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

[@cdavid8139]

A Chinook helicopter has a lifting capacity of around 24000 lbs. An empty covered hopper is going to weigh twice that much.

[@michaelhband]

👍👍👍❤❤❤🚂🚂🚂

[@jeffburch5903]

🍻

[@vickie7490]

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

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Rails and the bedding. Pour maintenance.

[@vickie7490]

Thank you!

[@johndemeen5575]

Guess I missed most of it.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

What did you miss?

[@johndemeen5575]

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

[@jeffsmith9328]

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

[@paultiller6766]

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

[@cdavid8139]

Railroads in general are privately owned. Railroads pay taxes.

[@AMTK87]

0:14 earape

[@ChainsawNW1218]

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