BARGES BREAK LOOSE, VEHICLE SCRAPED BY ENGINE, CROSSING ARM DESTROYED BY TRUCK & ENGINE!

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@matthewrinehart9514 6 ай бұрын

Seriously talented crews out there taking care of barge problems

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

Amazing maneuvers for sure!

@yankeefist9146 6 ай бұрын

Can you imagine the radio traffic?

@Mcdaffodilhill 5 ай бұрын

Running an errand this week, we happened to hit a CSX intermodel, a two mile one. I was happy, husband not so much. One car in front of us, Chap stepped out and motioned back up. We had stopped two car lengths behind him, not wanting to be close to the rails. What would the railroads be without JB Hunt, the mind boggles.

@GretchenDawntreader 6 ай бұрын

hehe even got wigwag at the end! Nice footage of the great barge rodeo at Fort Madison, quite a merry chase to get em all under control.Glad the bridge reportedly is basically ok

@kens.3729 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful Blue Conrail Unit. 👍🙏

@kens.3729 6 ай бұрын

It’s Called, “Barge Rodeo”. Yee Haw! 😬👍

@the-terrible63 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains in multiple locations, especially the railroad crossing arm destroyed by a truck in Chehalis, Washington, CSX military train in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Heritage Units, and so much more, I like them, they're awesome, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice weekend.

@TheMetGuy 6 ай бұрын

Love these grab bags

@Keikdv 6 ай бұрын

Thanks window, for your opportunity! That was 10 more for my list.

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

I always wanted FRIES with my BAT CAVE. Now comes the interesting part, who will be the first manufacturer to provide us with these?

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 And do you want a burger with that?

@lisabehe4546 6 ай бұрын

Spuds and fries! And Cooter, too 😂

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

@@donnaj9964 No, but a ribeye would be nice.

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 LOL!!

@beeble2003 6 ай бұрын

Surprised the engineer in La Grange didn't hit the horn harder. Wouldn't have made a difference in this case, as the truck and trailer presumbaly didn't have anywhere to move to. But the horn definitely gave the vibe of "Hey, folks -- train's here" rather than "MOVE OR YOU GET HIT". You can easily imagine a parallel universe where the guy just didn't realise his trailer was fouling the track and would have moved if the train had clearly signaled the problem.

@CRPULSE300 6 ай бұрын

Phosphate trains out of FL are always great for finding fallen flags. Alot of x- Rock and every color x-CNW covered hoppers of various designs

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

It was so nice to see Belen again, and Revy of course is always a pleasure--so glad they got their PTZ cam back! But can'tcha just imagine the conversations going on with bosses and insurance agents after all of this stuff happened? "Boss, we have *another* claim in LaGrange..." "Boss, we have to replace the crossing arm at *that* intersection because...um...a train hit it..." "Boss, you know those barges we *were* towing...?" Anyway, thanks for another jam-packed and amazing Grab Bag!

@BillLimon2 6 ай бұрын

I always get the biggest smile on my face when fans show up to wave to the cams

@whydoibother1632 6 ай бұрын

I watch other channels and people Freak out when people have cameras in public. It's amazing

@BillLimon2 6 ай бұрын

@@whydoibother1632 lol yup I watch those too 😂

@MrBnsftrain 6 ай бұрын

0:08 CSX grain train in Wichita 1:05 Amtrak phase VII geep trailing on a CSX train 1:15 two dash 9s sold to GECX 1:24 a single SD60E reversing without any cars in Jonesborough 1:44 lots of CP Rail ballast hoppers. I wish they did a version of this for CPKC but called it CAM Rail 3:06 Erie Western and Rock Island hoppers 3:23 BNSF 8-car OCS (again at 5:52) 5:30 CSX 1850 leading 7:14 CN welded rail train 8:25 a Grand Trunk coil cover on a CSX coil car 9:01 semi truck gets bonked by the gate, and rips it off for the train to hit. I can't tell if the red pickup drove onto the crossing when the lights were flashing. I wonder how much a replacement gate arm coasts? 10:47 truck with trailer drives towards an oncoming train! the train scrapes past the trailer 12:10 ALC42 honks in Ashland 12:35 UP yellow and two warbonnets as DPU on a grain train! I usually only see three tail DPUs on coal trains 12:44 CSX 1899 leading 13:17 EJ&E orange geep switching the Waupaca Foundry 14:33 SD40-2 moving an LMX B39-8 14:58 MRL 4313 as DPU (again at 25:07) 15:13 It's been awhile since we've seen switching action from the Belen cam, this one with BN green SD40-2 6843 (current number is 1707, but its old BN number is visible) 16:14 amtrak 111 and 108 "Red-Head" on the Lake Shore Limited 16:27 single H3 SD40-2 and BN green caboose 17:04 long-hood-forward H3 GEVO (with unusual replacement panels) with MOW vehicle flatbeds 18:38 NS 1070 leading 19:05 P42 69 in Phase VII paint with four superliners! One lounge and three coaches, meaning it's a Carl Sandburg. The midwest trains used to sometimes run with Superliners, usually in winter, but haven't since 2017 when consists on most routes had to be 7 cars long to make PTC and signalling work.The Carl Sandburg is an exception as it usually runs with three or four single-level cars 19:35 CSX OCS 21:30 MoPac hopper and Western Pacific boxcar 21:44 out of control barge! INI55499 hit the bridge, broke free, and sank! BNSF closed the bridge for three hours. The barge was recovered around the time I wrote this comment 24:50 NS 9786 has white that extends around the windshields 25:15 NS 8101 leading 25:26 CSX doubleheader on a military train in Oklahoma City 28:40 NS high hood SD40-2

@jamesmckenzie3532 6 ай бұрын

4:28 Nice wavers at the Tucson AMTRAK station

@alleghenyshenangorr2017 6 ай бұрын

Great video, former Southern waffle boxcar coupled to Progress Rail GP38 and still good paint on the WP boxcar! Thanks

@timwright3592 6 ай бұрын

21:55...Nice saves on the runaway barges!

@DTD110865 6 ай бұрын

So if an ordinary citizen like you or me sees something like this, what do we do? Dial 911 so they can contact the harbor master, or call the harbormaster ourselves?

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

@@DTD110865 I'd call 911, they would /should know who to get to handle it.

@lancomedic 6 ай бұрын

@@DTD110865 According to the news they were already talking to the authorities because the barge struck the bridge and the damage to the bridge was unknown.

@trish3754 6 ай бұрын

someone’s going to get his pay docked for the repair of the crossing…big ooopppsss

@debthill8285 6 ай бұрын

Saw a semi take out a crossing arm in Fort Madison last year

@garysprandel1817 6 ай бұрын

Caught the barge rodeo and figured it for a sure grab bag inclusion. Think about it those Rock Island hoppers have outlived the Rock Island by 44 years.

@ivoneboettgerbatschauer2242 6 ай бұрын

Loved Thanks VRF🌹

@coconutmall333 6 ай бұрын

This Tugboat really built for stopping washing runaway barges. Although it was started to sink in-merge.

@richardbause2453 6 ай бұрын

I always wondered what railroad car "Bat Cave" " Fries" 🍟 tasted like 😮😂 🤔 ? Why in Lagrange is everyone afraid 😨 of going down passed the oncoming train on the opposite side in the wide open area to GET OUTTA THE WAY 😮🤔🤔🤣??? CRUNCH,CRUNCH...😮

@boxesoftacos 6 ай бұрын

28:10 Bat cave... More like the Bart Cave!

@peterp1158 6 ай бұрын

Batman on the right half of the car

@kevinbaker4241 5 ай бұрын

(3:09) Erie Western hoppers are a very rare find, as the railroad only operated from 1977-79, utilizing former Erie/Erie Lackawanna trackage in Indiana. Get pictures of them while you can, as they don't have much service life left before they're off to the scrapyard.

@michaelfoster1453 6 ай бұрын

15:11 Now that's a relic. SD40-2

@diesel71 6 ай бұрын

Nice Conrail heritage power unit.

@csxtraincountingrailfan4452 6 ай бұрын

Happy National Train Day VTR

@JacobWheeler-xr4ed 6 ай бұрын

great video of that grab bags as always

@bubbatrubbah505 6 ай бұрын

Nice!

@BarredCoast0 6 ай бұрын

9:10 that's what you call knocking down the signal. 😂

@jamesghiorzoe107 6 ай бұрын

That poor gate took a double hit.

@diggy794 6 ай бұрын

It always seems to be someone turning north out of that cross street that ends up getting hit at LaGrange. Those gates need to come down earlier

@maynardcarmer3148 6 ай бұрын

Or eliminate the parking on that block.

@b3j8 6 ай бұрын

I agree. It won't prevent people from foolishly trying anyway, but at least they'd know a train was approaching before even starting their turn.

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

@@maynardcarmer3148 Eliminate the parking and get all of the businesses upset.

@sirkrunch 6 ай бұрын

Poor guy. In this case he certainly can't get turned around in time. If it had been me, I'd have just stopped in the oncoming lane at the halfway point of the block and waited it out. Instead of trying to squeeze in on the right at the last second.

@rrchapman 6 ай бұрын

Make it a one way street so you can only go south. Then there is a full lane to wait in.

@bobbyfellerd2993 6 ай бұрын

When you include the photo and pause to show the boxcar etc. in full the way it was before it got old/rustic or graffiti punks got ahold of it, DO THE PHOTOS COME FROM A BOOK of rolling stock photos, CAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO BUY A COPY

@Alxnick 6 ай бұрын

Most of the time, they're just catalog photos of models

@Mind_Crimes 6 ай бұрын

Whenever I see the La Grange feed, I always marvel at the choreography of the cars along the first ungaurded pass & the train never colliding. Guess I'm about to reconsider this. Who even designed such a road?

@robertdshannon5155 6 күн бұрын

Looks like an executive inspection train.

@ClariNerd 6 ай бұрын

This weekend will be interesting for the rural cams

@paulw.woodring7304 6 ай бұрын

The highlighted signal aspect at 19:35 in Waycross, GA for the CSX OCS was "Slow Approach" (Red-over-Red-over-Yellow). "Slow speed through switches, turnouts, etc., approaching the next signal prepared to stop.

@lancomedic 6 ай бұрын

The barge footage will be valuable to the NTSB. Three forms of transportation were affected by that incident.

@nigelterry9299 6 ай бұрын

Some very tatty old heaps in this one! Quality viewing!!!!

@-Cece 6 ай бұрын

Good entertainment for a sick day. I got chilled and caught a cold mowing my lawn in 40 degree weather 😞

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

Oh bummer--get well soon!

@davidbrown4823 6 ай бұрын

The EJ&E unit was great to see. what is the back story with the names on the refrigerator cars?

@beeble2003 6 ай бұрын

2:42 Engineer: "There's something... different about this locomotive. But I can't quite figure out what it is."

@stephenbillings 6 ай бұрын

I like the names on the Lineage and Cryo-Trans.

@Z4Zander 6 ай бұрын

Is there any rhyme or reason behind the names or is it darts on a dart board.

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

@@Z4Zander It may be easier to remember a 'name' than a 'number' for what the dock workers are told to put which items.

@Z4Zander 6 ай бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 Maybe,but in the age of bar code scanners and wi-fi seems a bit 3rd world.

@thomasboese3793 6 ай бұрын

@@Z4Zander Not at all, remember, you're first and foremost dealing with humans and the lowest limits of the group you're working with. A word like 'Fries" is far easier to remember than a string of 6-digit numbers, especially when the difference may only be a single digit, and you have four locations your item could go, but only one is the proper location.

@paulbergen9114 6 ай бұрын

There are several ways they name those cars. Some are names of warehouses they serve and then the names of the cities they're located in. As for the names of the people it might be their own employee. Just saw one several months ago where the warehouse is still there but the former CNW line they were on has been torn up@@Z4Zander

@rickdee67 6 ай бұрын

7:48 BEAUTIFUL smiles , ladies! And why is it that people who tow those dump trailers around think they own the road? Grr

@kenm3245 6 ай бұрын

Hopefully they were reported and charged with destroying railroad property

@avalanche1391 6 ай бұрын

⁠@@kenm3245 Unfortunately by the looks of it, it looks like it was the best option because the gates came down after the windshield was under the gates. Only way for them to see the gates coming down after that was to look in the mirrors, but even then, nothing they could do. The gate also potentially would’ve stayed on if the corner/door structure didn’t catch it.

@rickdee67 6 ай бұрын

@@kenm3245not the semi driver but the Dually that was towing the dump trailer at 10:50. Semi driver simply got caught and kept going to prevent a collision!

@yankeefist9146 6 ай бұрын

I wonder how often the NTSB reaches out to RailFan for videos showing incidents?

@Ldybelladonna 6 ай бұрын

Was always wondering about the spaghetti works building, it's a apartment building now

@CXensation 5 ай бұрын

Once again LaGrange driver provides for entertainment 😅

@Mcdaffodilhill 6 ай бұрын

Always urging everyone to get back from tracks, seeing results of recent accident where NS train hit dump truck and the damage done to other cars parked near by is eye opening. Get back!

@1361057 6 ай бұрын

Looking at all the room to the left of the tracks you just wonder why drivers don’t swerve to the left and they would have plenty of room. 🤔

@BRIANumber7-RCandModels 6 ай бұрын

I looked more into the runaway barge. Apparently it struck the railroad bridge which caused it to runaway and partially sink

@joeylawn36111 6 ай бұрын

18:13 Those ‘Badger State Ethanol’ cars must be made to carry either wheat or corn to be made into ethanol.

@rodhard688 5 ай бұрын

Only when someone gets seriously injured at LaGrange will they move those tracks.

@WaffleDragon 6 ай бұрын

That barge was really...barging down the river, huh?

@noeyesmike Ай бұрын

THAT ONE TRAIN HAD A LOT OF ART WORK DONE BY 20 TO 30 YEAR OLD CHILDREN

@grec9177 6 ай бұрын

CSX just running their pass cars just to see how much they can get away with charging I have never seen the shades up in any of these cars

@poowg2657 6 ай бұрын

5:00. Sometimes I wonder if depressed center flats need counseling and then I snap out of it.

@richarderickson8840 6 ай бұрын

Breaks my heart seeing ROCK rolling stock. My Father would roll over in his grave if he knew what became of the rail line he put his years and soul into.

@skylordawesome9547 6 ай бұрын

Figures it was Spirit of Ravenna that hit the trailer at 12:00

@bowlinerailfan 6 ай бұрын

Recently, a crossing arm in a neighboring city had one of it's arms broken somehow. The CSX repair men replaced it but left the broken piece on the side of the street near the crossing. When I arrived there later to film a train, I found it and thought about keeping it, only to find that it was both too wide for the car and much heavier than it looks. I'm not joking about it being heavy. When you see these arms broken like what happened at 9:03 , you know it takes a strong amount of force to break it. And based on how it was flung back as the train hit it, it's a good idea to get clear of the crossing should you see a crossing arm get broken and left on the track like that. Safety first.

@donnaj9964 6 ай бұрын

Wise words to heed--thank you!

@Ryman-sp6ye 6 ай бұрын

can you put a camera up at pine junction, Gary Indiana or on the metra racetrack?

@robchit1 6 ай бұрын

There is a site to request locations at VR

@randydobson1863 6 ай бұрын

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

@TheMidgardViking 6 ай бұрын

Anyone know what cause the barge catastophe? Did they ever get them rounded up? What about the sinking one? What did it hit and did they salvage it? Cargo? Sorry, more questions than answers at this point.

@TubbyTubberson 6 ай бұрын

Is that 3rd to last car on the BNSF Business Train a former converted RDC?

@robchit1 6 ай бұрын

On the La Plata cam it looks like a former dormitory-lounge

@johnrhansonsr 22 күн бұрын

I know some of the graffiti is pretty but if it is that easy to have access then that tells me our rail system is totally unsecure.

@B422TMack 6 ай бұрын

Ok Silly question . What's the reasoning for the names on the Cryo Trans boxcars ?

@tiladx 5 ай бұрын

Those barges were most likely released in a relatively safe area rather than breaking loose. They would have been released so the first barge we saw, which was taking on water and sinking, could be cut from the rest of them so they wouldn't all sink. Yes, there is a lot of coordination, but that was all intentional.

@robertgift 18 күн бұрын

10:46 Can't blame the pickup driver. Should have gone left into the opposing lane. No use panicking the driver further withe locomotive horn. (When traffic is trying to get out of themergencyehicle's way I turn the siren off. No use adding more distraction.)

@up1943productions 6 ай бұрын

11:14 CSX 3440 was a accident

@Zebrails 6 ай бұрын

7:24 SD40-2 5783+5378... Same numbers... just shifted.

@MarkTheLostTraveler 6 ай бұрын

26:04 Can somebody tell me what's up with these train cars and why the pause the video to read the names on the cars.

@smisky1086 6 ай бұрын

cause they are each named differently and it's something "unique" like the heritage units, or ancient cars from long-gone (or very small) railroads/private car owners..

@shaunmccusker8175 6 ай бұрын

Heh ... I haven't heard the Pac Man "Waka-waka" for Canadian Pacific in a long time. Thought maybe you guys stopped doing that. But then, we haven't seen the old logo for CP much lately, have we?

@georgebrill6549 6 ай бұрын

I'd like to know if they managed to save the sinking stone barge. If you have a multiple barge tow, and one barge is a sinker it is common practice to cut the sinker out of the tow so as not to keep it from taking another down with it. Sometimes the sinker can be saved. 38 yrs. on tugs.

@robchit1 6 ай бұрын

As of 5/14 it is still there with another work barge for protection against river traffic

@debthill8285 6 ай бұрын

@@robchit1they are bringing it up now …

@robchit1 6 ай бұрын

@@debthill8285 Work is continuing into tomorrow

@Yormsane 6 ай бұрын

21:45 Does anyone know what the runaway barges were carrying?

@johnmiller1919 6 ай бұрын

The loaded barges had grain, corn and possibly some soybeans as well.

@kenm3245 6 ай бұрын

Donkeys. Because they were haulin a@@

@debthill8285 6 ай бұрын

The one that sank had corn…they are bringing up and cleaning it out today

@roadrailer1656 6 ай бұрын

0:40 no radiator on Dash-9

@Z4Zander 6 ай бұрын

6671 is an ES44C4.May have the grilles removed.

@roadrailer1656 6 ай бұрын

@@Z4Zander Nah. It's 4471. It's a Dash-9. You can tell by the radiator housing. The exhaust location. And Hi-Ad truck design

@roadrailer1656 6 ай бұрын

@@Z4Zander AC4400's also have the same design. Although on the conductor side. It would have a larger housing behind the conductor. For the rows of invertors. But BNSF didn't own any AC4400's.