Cars bust though auto racks on train that goes into emergency!!!! MUST WATCH!!!!

Crazy video of a southbound csx freight slamming into emergency!

[@michaelpowell3980]

Insurance Agent: I'm sorry Sir, you wrote off how many cars? Railroad: Yes.

[@jims8180]

I've been watching trains for 35 years and that's the fastest I've ever seen a long loaded train come to a stop. I counted 10 seconds.

[@tiavor]

ever seen one with inductive breaks?

[@hughjardon5869]

The train went into emergency at 4:40, full stop at 4:57. That is 17 seconds. Speed was probably only 35-40mph. It take exponentially longer as the speed increases.

[@codeblue2532]

This will keep RipTrack in overtime for awhile...

[@gregnancyspear4367]

@@tiavor You mean electroniclly controlled pneumatic brakes? those are only on unit trains where all the cars are the same.

[@russellgxy2905]

@@hughjardon5869 Still, that's pretty impressive as far as loaded mixed freight trains go

[@HappyHands.]

The braking capacity of these trains is absolutely amazing considering their weight

[@michaeld53]

you must remember all the wheel brake together .

[@bumrush9422]

@@michaeld53 The brakes set up sequentially throughout the train from the point of the air hose separation.

[@bumrush9422]

Depends greatly on tonnage, number of cars and physical characteristics of the road. For example, a 10,000 ton 90 car coal drag is a lot harder to stop than a 10,000 ton 150 car mixed freight. More cars means more brakes for a given weight.

[@annaplojharova1400]

But the deceleration is still limited to steel-to-steel friction coefficient, so pretty lame compare to what the rubber should be able to offer. I can not help myself, but I do see there lazy job at loading...

[@cdavid8139]

@@annaplojharova1400 With no more evidence than this video you have determined individuals were lazy?

[@MiddleTennesseeRailProductions]

That was one HELL of a buckle! I'm amazed it stopped that quick.

[@codeblue2532]

When the engine crew “dynamites the switch” the metal brake shoes on each steel wheel of about 1100 lbs. fully sets by losing its 90 lbs of air instantly that was keeping the shoe from the wheel . This individual action times the number of cars can stop the train and cause flat spots on steel wheels. Also each draw~bar beginning at the ‘knuckle’ has a certain amount of telescoping/shock absorbing value, if I remember correctly. My Switchman days on the UP were over even before Operation Red~Block went into effect.....lol

[@greenmanofkent]

That raises some serious questions about their procedures and protocols for securing and inspecting their loads, whether it was the railroad or the shipper who loaded the cars. There is no way an emergency stop should do that amount of damage.

[@Ben31337l]

If this was the amount of damage done to the external car, think about the sort of damage done between the cars inside. That's going to take some substantial cost to fix all those cars.

[@BossSpringsteen69]

It doesn't take much to shift the loads. I've seen many an autorack in the hump yard knock the cars off the blocks at slow speeds. Somewhere well over 4 mph to about 10 mph

[@Ben31337l]

@@BossSpringsteen69 So they use nothing other then chocks? Geez! At least tie down the cars to the decks. If they're going to a hump yard, at least state a "Do not hump" label on the wagon if the load isn't tied down. It's hard to explain this, but it is easier for someone in a locomotive to have control over the speed at which wagons couple at compared to someone in a hump tower with only the ability to slow the wagons down (slow the wagons down too much and they will not couple, too fast and they risk damaging or spilling the load as well as damaging the wagon itself).

[@TowGuy90]

@@BossSpringsteen69 thats funny cause you cant hump autoracks and humps will slow the car down

[@user2C47]

From what I've heard in other comments, the entire load is declared as totaled and crushed or donated to vocational schools.

[@JohnDeere1025r]

9:33 for thumbnail

[@therocinante3443]

You're a hero

[@juanrojas4979]

Thanks 👍👍

[@onemoremisfit]

I worked a job unloading new vehicles from autoracks back in '86 and '87, I know exactly what it's like inside them. They were triple deckers for compact cars, double deck for trucks and larger vehicles. The vehicles are secured with ratcheting chain devices mounted in the floors of each deck the railcar, the ratchets are heavy blocks that slide in rails in the deck floor for position adjustment, the blocks are secured with spring loaded pins mating to holes in the rails. The vehicles are each chained down at 4 corners and the ratchets are tightened to pull the vehicle down on its suspension springs under tension. A 3/4" drive breaker bar is used to turn the ratchets to tighten them. They are held down with a lot of force and the chains and ratchets are very strong. If one vehicle comes loose, it might be caused by a bad ratchet or somebody failing to do a thorough job chaining down the vehicle. If a whole bunch of cargo breaks loose, that just plain takes a lot of force. We used to occasionally see some autoracks with badly damaged doors that looked like what you see here, they were still in use and we had to keep a railroad bar handy to pry them open. We used to see an occasional damaged vehicle. I never saw a whole train with multiple vehicles that broke loose, but probably would have if I had worked that job long enough.

[@Kooooshball]

I’ve worked unloading them for about 5 years now and they use plastic chocks now. No ratchets unless it’s a triple. Now it’s only on one side in the triple, front and back drive wheels. So this is pretty normal that they jump the chocks unfortunately

[@onemoremisfit]

@@Kooooshball Sounds like it would at least be easier to unload them now. Back when I worked that job it was bust ass work, rain or shine, everything in that railcar was solid rust, and you were expected to be fast. the pay was not great either, but they did have health coverage benefits. Some cars broke easier than others and you could get a rhythm going on the easier ones. We'd smack the pin in the rusty old block and it would break and move under the tension, then sock the chain to skid the block a couple inches to make slack in the chain, then reach under to swing the hook out of the slot on the vehicle frame by feel without having to look at it. A lot of the time there was enough tension on the chain that the block would move far enough on the first break without having to sock the chain, as long as it was not too rusty. "A" deck on the triples was the worst, especially being 6'2''. Short guys have it better on that job, tall guys learn to keep low after a few bumps on the head. C deck has more headroom but gets hot up there in the summer and the tin roof could burn your shoulder in the days when they let us wear shorts and a wife beater or no shirt at all. Eventually they came up with uniform coveralls they made us wear, right before I quit.

[@rgchalifoux]

How about securing the plates between the rail cars. That was the scariest part of the job for me as the autos were diving off as I got the plates installed. Many close calls.

[@rgchalifoux]

The vertigo working between the rail cars is hard to believe.

[@rgchalifoux]

I was paid by the car. Every safety rule was broken. So dangerous. It should never be a non hourly non union job.

[@marksark1119]

You would think the cars would be chained in place in the auto racks for transport to prevent the very thing shown in the vid. It will be a heck of an insurance claim and payout.

[@mcgurkg1]

MarksArk 1 those cars are held in place with wheelchocks some have straps that wrap over the tires. I’m glade I didn’t have to inspect those ones. Lol

[@donmcmannamy3409]

They a re s trapped down at the wheels 1 strap per tire holding 2 to 3 tons each veh depending what they are. That is why you don't want to do emergency stops with trains or trucks. It could have been worse

[@cdavid8139]

railroads tend to be self-insured in situations like this. No insurance claim.

[@davep6977]

@@cdavid8139 CSX :" attention employees. We will offering a couple hundred new cars for sale that we acquired. Minor dings and dents"

[@cdavid8139]

@@robertscott5331 Railroads do not always crush the cars. Often they are donated to high school shops or other facilities like that so students can learn on them. The agreement usually stipulates the cars can never be made legal to register. It's not so much liability as it is that the car manufacturer does not want the railroad to pay for the cars and then sell a defective product.

[@kens.3729]

I was Always under the Impression that these Vehicles were Secured inside the Auto Racks. 🧐

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

now back in the day we used to climb right up into those things when they would sit there unhooked unsecured and start them up turn on the air conditioning sometimes roll down the windows and just sit there and drain the battery listening to Tunes.. that was prior to all this crazy security and everything else circa 1978 through about 1985 lol. bring a chick in there with you get away with it some of those big two-door boats were like having sofas in the back. 😍😂

[@JasmineLindros]

It shouldn't matter whether they were secured. The coefficient of friction between rubber tires and steel deck plates is higher than between steel wheels and steel rails. There should be no way the cars could slide if the only force acting on them is the pathetically inadequate deceleration rate of a train.

[@adamturowski8948]

@@JasmineLindros And nevertheless, it happend.

[@roadmonkeytj]

@@JasmineLindros it's about momentum you have a 5-9000lb object traveling along at for argument sake 40mph ... You then slam the object it's resting on into a sudden stop effectively reversing the direction it was traveling while the vehicle still trys to travel forward ...only way to prevent that it to tire strap each and every one

[@roadmonkeytj]

My question is who foots the bill as CSX receives these with the doors secured as they are loaded at the plant.

[@abysswalker2403]

i never knew the cars could get damaged so much from braking

[@InsituProductions]

When the emergency gets slammed on and there are a few other circumstances, yep they can.

[@ruffian2952]

Slack.

[@InsituProductions]

I haven’t checked this channel in quite a while and needless to say I was shocked today when logged in and saw that this video has done as well as it has! Thank you to everyone that has watched it and liked it! Okay so let me go out here and say this as there has been some confusion. Me and kotabeaner (Dakota) filmed this train at the same time on the same platform. The train goes into emergency at 4:40

[@Bacon47SuperSakura]

Uh oh!

[@kevin12567]

@MERCENARYREVY Because a coupler buckled causing separation of the railcars from the rest of the train, causing the brakes to automatically engage on the separated railcars.

[@Bacon47SuperSakura]

Uh-huh I'm trying to see the problem here with the train

[@RandomUser2401]

with Murican trains mindlessly honking all the time the hell out of their horns you never know when an actual emergency is happening.

[@Libertylute]

@@RandomUser2401 What a bizarre comment! Engineers are required by law to blow a certain pattern ( - - . - ) as a warning every time they approach a grade crossing. Obviously that occurs frequently in urban settings, unless a municipality legislates an exemption. In rural areas it occurs only about once a mile or less.

[@rayvan23]

Thank you Bullrun. The sound is a symphony...best EVER!

[@cmdrsymstar5987]

Excuse me mr. train driver, do you think you can get my shipment of cars here in one piece this time? Train driver: I’ll try my best 🤞😉

[@TrainmanSky]

OMG look at the shunt that happened In between those two cars at 4:39

[@shemcg7830]

The night scene is ✨beautiful ✨with the horns bellowing in the dark! 👩🏾‍🦳👍🏾 ❤️

[@neilfranklin5644]

The revenge of the train on the cars that replaced them, perhaps.

[@beeble2003]

Er, trains have been around for a lot longer than cars.

[@BNSF4749Railfan]

Non-railfans know nothing about trains

[@bumrush9422]

At 8:50, after inspecting the train after an emergency application, he is required to proceed at restricted speed until clearing the next signal.

[@ruffian2952]

Length of the train.

[@MrLiipz]

Depends on whether it's in CTC, ABS and if PTC is cut in.

[@jamesleopard8518]

This reminds me of when the man with the binoculars pulled the emergency cable inside Annie the orange coach in the episode Thomas and the Emergency Cable

[@ziggy3237]

I see a dealership scam in these cars future. Anyone wanna buy brand new, crashed cars?

[@BossSpringsteen69]

I'll take two. It's better than an autorack flipped on it's side.

[@ziggy3237]

@@BossSpringsteen69 truth.

[@skunkhome]

They don’t throw them away

[@marccharboneau4463]

No thanx!

[@jayl8034]

For the RR , its an Insurance write-off. For the dealerships its a little hammer work and some paint-stick. Good as new! lol, Figure @ 40 cars need some work at least!

[@brunoskorniak9722]

Since nobody is asking: why did he have to go into emergency brake? Prolly some yahoo going around crossing gates further down the line because where he was going was too important for him to wait. Now look at the damage....

[@helensarkisian7491]

Don’t feel bad about missing the problem; I needed to reverse and freeze several times before I saw what the man was talking about. The train is carrying cars (automobiles) in the containers. Many cars rolled into the front or rear of the container. They hit the ends hard enough to cause the container end to bend outward (bowed). Pause the video and look at the ends. They should be flat but several are bowed outward. It’s a huge “oops”.

[@helensarkisian7491]

PS: another video shows the damage fairly well (don’t know if same train but definitely the same problem.) search for “CSX Auto Train ...” by Millenniumforce. The thumbnail shows a car’s back end coming out of the container door.

[@Fireguy97]

@@helensarkisian7491 Helen, the cars hitting and bowing out the ends of the carriers is the result of the train going into emergency, not the cause of the accident.

[@helensarkisian7491]

Fireguy97 : I missed that bit. I’m sure someone got a good verbal spanking for that - or at least should have.

[@drthmik]

Apparently a coupler buckled causing the train to separate and an automatic emergency stop on the separated cars

[@mmi16]

Train experiencing Emergency brake application, when able to move again will observe Restricted Speed until the next signal.

[@pnwRC.]

The amount of damage done with that E-stop was AMAZING!

[@rland]

Having worked for an automobile tranportation company, I do not think this emergency stop did all this damage, unless the car and truck tie downs are just that flimsy. I suspect the autoracks were humped somewhere which is a definite NO in the industry. It is my experience if they were propertly tied down, then the cars that broke loose were totaled and in all likelyhood scrapped. Unless things have changed with the big automakers they could not even be used for parts because that leaves them liable in case anything happens (even years later) and it can be traced back to this. The ones responsible will be either the railroad (especially if the autoracks were humped and/or the company (companies) that loaded and tied down the vehicles at the assembly plants.

[@haroldalexis4200]

Excellent job. Exclusive as you were filming this. I was well into it. Well done. 🙂

[@CapStar362]

15:00 - hey im thirsty for some Orange Juice now, dammit!

[@amarillotexrails18]

Late reply, but do you have any?

[@geac9100]

That all happened because there is not enough ballast before the diamond. Notice the cars dipping up to the diamond. Diamonds are supposed to flex. There is no flex at the Plant City diamonds from any direction, that's why trains there are so loud. The buildings around the track add to the sound albeit, but the proof is in the rail head. The diamonds are bolted down so tight this causes excess wear to the track and wheels. I've looked at those diamonds and the rail coming off them, the rail is flattened out. Diamonds are supposed to have flex action. That's just old school mechanical track knowledge. I bet that little incident cost csx a pretty penny.

[@johnpakulis4675]

Thanks GE! For my money, as someone not associated with the rail industry, your comment was the most informative and enlightening of all in the replies. And there have been some very knowledgeable replies.

[@jameshhenderson8243]

It should. “Errors” like this drives up the price of already overpriced vehicles.

[@BangkokBoy101]

So did vehicles break loose when the train started slowing down? Or is that why the train slowed down originally?

[@seanwitt2463]

We use to kick loaded auto racks in Richmond, CA. That all ended when kicked one and the vehicles inside were not chocked down at all. They came crashing out of the end and piled up inside. Rear wheels were sitting on the windshield of the next car. These were $100k BMW M class 740’s.

[@codeblue2532]

Did you keep your Job Insurance current ?

[@Dr_Won_Hung_Lo]

Wow some insurance company wasn't too happy about this! I can tell you from loading and unloading autoracks that when we load cars onto the racks all we do is set the parking brake and emergency brake with wheel chocks on each wheel of the car. That's all that holds them down. No wheel straps or anything like that. If you look inside an autorack you'll see that the cars park on top of a grating that the wheel chocks inside lock into. The chocks are made out of hard plastic, the same type of plastic used to make handgun frames. So it would not take a whole lot of effort to bust the chocks and fling the cars inside around

[@thoughtfinder]

It's a good thing they caught that in time. If them automobiles would've come out of those railcars that could've lead to a train derailment

[@HighRail62]

In a word "WOW". Super catch my friend. Thanks for sharing! :)

[@T1971-w4c]

The hardest miles a new car will travel is between the factory and the showroom.

[@mightyV444]

The noises from 4:46 until the train stops could be a cool ending for a song! 😁👍

[@fusionflarexd9296]

Wow, my job involves loading and unloading cars onto these exact rails. Crazy to see how a sudden stop could do this much damage. No chock can hold a car down completely. I bet that was incredibly expensive because of whoever caused the stop

[@25mfd]

are you union or no

[@pgtmr2713]

Chock no, chains yes. Just need bigger chains. We had to tie down our aircraft to the deck at all times, unless it was being moved. Of course that won't do any good if the tie down point fails, or the tow point isn't strong enough.

[@elizaevans3736]

When the taggers are spray painting their message on the cars do the cars inside get spray painted too? Just curious.

[@25mfd]

unfortunately yes

[@peterp1158]

The railroad knows there's damaged goods. Where do the autoracks go next - to the original destination, to a salvage yard, back to the factory?

[@JT_8283]

So are all of the damaged cars going to have to go under the rail roads insurance

[@InsituProductions]

As far as I know that’s how it works.

[@cdavid8139]

Generally Class I railroads tend to be self insured in incidents like this. No insurance claim.

[@Mrfort]

Like subscribe and click the bell. one doller each to me.

[@henrybruening6969]

@@cdavid8139 you are absolutely correct on this

[@henrybruening6969]

@@InsituProductions yep thats how it works

[@csxtrainfan319]

I’ve seen some many autorack trains. And I’ve also watched a lot online and I’ve never seen this much damage from an emergency stop.

[@fpmacko]

Uh oh. Better get Maaco.

[@claytontanner7631]

What was the cause for them to go into emergency braking? Someone on the tracks? Do you know the report?

[@retiredarthritic2083]

A multi million dollar incident. Someone is going to pay for this.

[@isaacarthur1445]

Ik who will the people driving the train will

[@25mfd]

yep... CSX

[@chriswright8464]

Here in NJ the Tropicana train would drop its load at the warehouse in Jersey city NJ.

[@zenos.5315]

Just think,back in the 60s,these auto transports had absolutely no protection on the sides. Some new cars were objects of vandals pelting them with rocks along the way.Some cars became sleeping quarters for the homeless.

[@Railfanner121]

That’s the diamond that millenniumforce films at!

[@mile290productions3]

The screech is so harmonic! Has anybody else here seen CSX 5367?

[@marshabennett7440]

Interesting that some are bulging and others aren't. Does that mean that the people that tied them down properly are not the same people that had the loads shift?

[@filmer765]

Who else thought that those autos were secured inside those auto racks?

[@robfriedrich2822]

Well they should have secured, but demolishing cars and goods is cheaper.

[@nightrider6769]

Very nice catch. Out of all the train videos I've watched I've never seen this happen. A lot of damage to those auto racks and the cars in them.

[@GeneralPurposeVehicl]

Might not have been the first seeing cars fly though autoracks, but it was the first time seeing a Mightyena painted onn the side of a train! 9:15

[@h8GW]

I like to play this at 2x and pretend our rail network is actually timely.

[@ronwade5646]

How many air bag sensors and front bumpers, air bags, air bag computers, rear bumpers and hitches?

[@misterflibble6601]

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage? Millions maybe? Looked like most of the auto racks were damaged and some expensive looking SUVs in them

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I worked at an auto auction that got former rental cars in by rail. The automobiles are normally chained down at multiple points. It’s a pain to unchain automobiles from 3 deck auto rail cars.

[@mhenhawke5093]

Are the cars not chained down or do they load them and just leave them in neutral?

[@StevieWonder737]

Somebody ought to be fired over how poorly those cars were secured in the autoracks

[@amtrakandcsxrailfanning351]

Yea good catches and video Sorry about that freight having trouble with it auto rack cars at the beginning that when into an emergency

[@stephenfrasca7092]

Yes I don’t know all the details of trains but how does the engineers know when something wrong with a train car is there a sensor on the train cars to alert the engineer or something

[@25mfd]

there are no sensors on the railcars or anything like that... however there are some telltale signs crews watch for... like the amp meter that shows how hard the train is pulling... if the amp meter is pulling harder when your moving at track speed than when you first started moving from a dead stop they MIGHT be an indicator of trouble... also crews are required by the rules to check their train when they go into curves to see if there's trouble... but beyond that unless you're relatives are descendants of nostradamus there's just no way of predicting trouble

[@TowGuy90]

Hes restricted because he went in emergency, you have to do it for 1 train length. Not because if the shifted load

[@howardshubs7157]

I'm not seeing the damage. NVMD, I get it now: the doors at the short ends of the cars are bent all to heck on some of them. I wouldn't want to be the insurance companies involved.

[@HouseWashingRick]

damn this guy knows his trains i wouldn't know what to look for

[@nanettewaver6952]

I don’t get it what’s wrong. Am I missing the point ❓❓😢

[@Monkey_Snot]

30 min I'll never get back.... you know you're American when you set up a tripod and stare at a train LOL

[@justintuckermanrailfan8429]

I have been living by a very busy main line for over 25 years and with my experience of the UP train in 2001 right after the trade center bombings having a traction motor fly off, even that train took at least 30 seconds to stop and it was shorter than this one. The only way you are going to stop a train that fast at 25 to 30mph is either a train collision or a train hits a dead weight eighteen wheeler causing the train cars from behind to push extremely hard on the train. However, it usually takes at least a minimum of 6 hours to clean up the mess and this took 2 1/2 to 3 hours. So, I think I have the answer. The G forces on the tight radius curve is pushing back on the train as it stops causing the back half to push hard. I have also seen this similar since while on the mower. To the counterair, it is a great catch and my favorite was the local at the end with the fred on the lead unit.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

My dad, patriot and die-hard Chrysler man, ordered a custom Plymouth Reliant in 1980. Naturally, it may have been the last car transported by the Milwaukee Road, which at that time had more derailments than trains. But he got his car, did his duty to Chrysler, and had a puke yellow Plymouth Reliant with a red velour interior. But it was curiously delayed in delivery. I always suspected the train derailed, the car was damaged, the car was repaired, and nobody said nothing about it.

[@aaronfilion1384]

Who fixed the car?

[@sharkey086]

It's incredible those doors are so strong that no cars busy completely through them.

[@princedarkness8029]

9:33 its outside the train

[@franktuckwell196]

So why would that happen, because it was loaded wrongly? Or driven too fast? Or just knackered old wagons that should have been on the scrap heap years ago?

[@kotabeaner]

That Was Cool To See That Man!

[@rickprusak9326]

As far as the vehicles inside the vehicle transporters. It's not the fault of the train company. Those vehicles are loaded from the factory by auto factory employees. I have a friend who works for Ford, and that's all he does all day. Drive vehicles into the rail cars. Another Ford employee applies the wheel chock to the tires. Who ever manufactured these vehicles are responsible for securing them into the transport rail cars. The train company locomotive connects the rail cars on the main track line out of the factory property, and onto the rails to their destination.

[@eddienash5426]

SO what happens to those smashed cars? Patched up as sold as CLEAN NO ACCIDENTS?

[@usafa1993]

The autos rolled over the chocks. The chocks were not designed to restrain that many forward Gs.

[@rogerstill71]

I'm glad to see they put shutters on the auto carriers now, or what ever those cars are. I remember the low-class kids in our school whipping ballast rocks at auto carriers when I was a kid, and I remember that one rich spoiled kid got arrested by the cops for it. His father was mulcted many $ for it, too.

[@cathy7861]

So a coupler buckled (why?) causing the back end of the train to separate from the rest of the train. Did the autos actually fall off the rail car? Now are they going to reverse another engine to hook up with the orphaned cars? Or will they be able to hook up because the coupler on the first car was buckled? And if so how do they get the first car off that track?

[@kamala2111]

Great catch

[@InsituProductions]

Thank you!

[@automan1950]

We would get donated cars from such accidents at Alief Center for Advanced Careers as does San Jacinto College in the Houston area. The manufacturers can't repair them and sell them as new. Insurance pays for the losses and there is a huge salvage value in them.

[@earthbarnes6694]

So many cars and still so many legal qualified people that don't have one?? or don't have a reliable one

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Auto rack damage like this is probably more common today. Especially in railroad yards that have shut down their hump operations and gone back to old fashioned flat switching. Now, when auto racks are "kicked" they are more likely to exceed their "no more than 4 (mph)" coupling speed leading to a greater chance of a faster and harder joints with standing freight cars. Hard coupling speeds cause the automobiles to jump the chocks, run into each other and punch through the entrance/exit doors. Yeah, it's pricey damage, but perhaps it's considered "the price of doing business" in the railroad industry to get the cars out of the yard faster to their destinations.

[@BossSpringsteen69]

Thanks Hunter Harrison

[@michaelstoner8360]

Because when the train stopped some of the cars were damaged at the bottom

[@Boxcarphilly]

Wow, at the 15:00 mark, a Tropicana unit train. Never seen one of those before. All reefers, right?

[@paulwoodman5131]

Is there a spot to ride on the juice cars?

[@codeblue2532]

Any OJ spilled and dripping.......no!

[@mpgarr]

They used to run regularly run all Tropicana trains up from Florida to the north, but that no longer happens anymore. Just a few cars together here and there in a one of those "mixed bag" trains as I like to call them. Kinda sad that they no longer run such trains. Go look for a video about one of the last complete Tropicana trains from Distant Signal. He well documents the trains that come from and through southern Central Florida.

[@8546Ken]

Since each car has its own brakes, why should it take much longer to stop a long train than a short one?

[@18436Melissa]

Me: *trying to shut the bathroom door at 3AM* The bathroom door: 4:47

[@geoben1810]

So do we know why it went into emergency?

[@dirkbaeuerle2952]

Isn’t the loading company, the auto company, responsible for making sure the cars are tied down properly?

[@johnkeller6171]

What is wrong, how are the shifted? Is it the front part of the car is bowed out toward the car in front. The amtrak train which followed made a lot of noise with the clack clack kind of stuff. Is that caused by an opening in the track?

[@terrysweat4187]

I’ve never seen a loaded freight train come to a complete stop in 10 to 12 seconds max, now that’s amazing to see and I can say that you definitely were in the right place at the right time.?? Not to sure CSX would be to sure that you were with the damaged that was caused but that was definitely a great catch. Awesome 👍👍

[@acreageliving]

huh?

[@pacman3556]

I wonder if the dealership will show them the Carfax

[@markissboi3583]

9:31 cars poking thru

[@peterrivney552]

Where is this Dimond crossing for the first video ? Your video is great getting all those trains in there thanks keep up the great work.

[@AshPuppy]

What was the reason for going into emergency?

[@InsituProductions]

It’s been such a long time ago but I want to say it was a loss of air pressure.

[@DevonMopiedmont1143]

that was a very sudden stop. a lot of slack in those cars.

[@greenbriar07]

Welp, now I feel bad for the insurance claim adjusters who had to look at all those cars... yikes.

[@NSandBNSFrailfanProductions]

4:38 the brake was on emergency stop

[@EB-ef5tg]

I didnt see anything wrong with any of the cars as they went by. Wish Id kown what to look for. Did anyone else watching NOT see anytning or unerstand what they were looking for? I musta missed it

[@elskersvn6162]

Bruh wdym lmao those carriers were bulging where the cars had been rammed into them and some of the cars were even through the sheet metal and you could see the fronts of them

[@mhenhawke5093]

The first train stopping in 11 / 12 seconds amazing ,didn't think possible at that speed, Hope every thing was okay and nobody hurt , for what ever reason that stop was for. M. Canada.

[@markfrench8892]

Someone definitely lost their job!

[@just-incase3483]

All those foreign made GM vehicles ain’t worth anything anyway!

[@oldrustycars]

Imagine all that damage that we don't see. If the cars in front hit the inside, I would think all the cars hit the one in front of it.

[@dannyhaley7610]

what was the cause for the emergency?

[@InsituProductions]

From what I can remember the train was loosing air pressure and then lost it all of the sudden randomly

[@tampabayrails]

The air hoses broke on the train

[@CPL_Productions]

No der

[@BossSpringsteen69]

Hunter Harrison

[@TheJeromeFanner]

The sound of the screeching tho it’s satasfiying

[@Mrfort]

Thats sounds painfull on the wheels?

[@kevin12567]

That's because the brakes are truing, which grind the wheels around their circumference to prevent flat spotting (which would be very bad on metal wheels).

[@dallasmcdowell1819]

@@kevin12567 Yes and when the wheels are locked up it does cause flat spot on the wheels which is why trains only use the brakes on cars not locomotives so their wheels will stay round and true.

[@codeblue2532]

@@kevin12567 ::when I was a gandy~dancer in the 60’s, we were told that the rail was “singing” as a resonance response of the flange of the 1100 lb steel wheel rubbing against the ‘head’ of hot rolled steel rail..mostly occurring on curves. Any accuracy to this ? I thought the 90 lbs of air pressure in the brake line kept the shoes from touching the wheel, but maybe the shoe ‘rocks’ or ‘toggles’ while secure in place to accomplish the “truing”...?

[@MacFyrestone]

Question. Why tf are cars not chained to the floor in autoracks like they are on Autohauler trailers on the highways?

[@MacFyrestone]

If a semi slams brakes in an emergency (which mind you would be even more abrupt), those chains are so tensioned you'll barely see the cars do more than rock their suspension

[@raymondleggs5508]

The Interlocking tower/switchman's shack is older than every single piece of rolling stock on the whole train.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

I thought it takes MILES to stop a large freight train. Nobody ever told me that a freight train could stop hard enough to send its cargo smashing through the bulkheads.