Biggest Train Collisions and Mistakes Caught on Camera

[@earndoggy]

A train engineer doesn't "fail to switch tracks". He has no choice, he goes where the tracks on the ground go. It was a railroad worker who failed to throw the switch. A train can't just stop.

[@littlechris5656]

I thought it was funny them shouting 'stop, stop' like the train driver can stop such a large heavy engine in a couple of feet!!!

[@eltomas3634]

The engineer also forgot to move his excavator. If he only had a good memory, none of this would have happened.

[@earndoggy]

@@eltomas3634 lmao!!!

[@JFMidiotsatwork]

Well said!

[@NaturegotAngry1993]

An incident that no one wants

[@squarebodycasewademckenney6190]

That steam engine ones hurts me, beautiful machines getting destroyed/damaged.... hopefully they got/can get fixed

[@-Master_Of_Disaster]

Don't worry, thankfully these steam engines were build tough. This was back in November 2022 and it isn't so serious how it looks at first. It only took a week to repair it. It's fine and working again. You can google "Norfolk and Western 475" and read Wikipedia if you want.

[@jeffharper7579]

I believe they did.

[@wvu33771]

They did it’s running like gold

[@dunxy]

DW, we can rebuild it!

[@eligebrown8998]

Agree

[@nicholasgeorge4156]

I’ve been on jury duty and the case was of a railroad track inspector terminated for time card fraud because he was actually doing his job of reporting bad or missing tracks (what he’s legally obligated to do) when his boss told him not to so they could get a bigger bonus. So sketchy. No wonder there’s derailments if they don’t report missing tracks. He sued and won of course. Gotta follow the laws

[@farvision]

25:35. acceleration is NOT caused by inertia. Inertia would keep the velocity constant. Gravity would accelerate.

[@Formal-DeHyde]

I don’t even know why I keep watching; it’s like watching a train wreck, you just can’t stop.

[@jocktulloch3499]

Train engineers are not the ones who set the switches.

[@Warclzugritter]

A.i voices don't give two fks.

[@100SteveB]

For such a rich country I am always shocked at how bad some of the American rail network is.

[@eligebrown8998]

We are to

[@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy]

Amtrak derailments: **starts sweating profusely** *"Whew! That was close!"*

[@FJA---]

At 8:08, the engineers don't remove the derailed cars from the track. At most they'll disconnect from the cars and get out of the way. There are specialized crews that deal with derailments. Used to be railroad workers from the Rip Track, but now they have scabs come in and do it. At 27:20 that's a surfacing gang. The 1st machine is a Jackson 6700, the 2nd & 3rd machines are Kershaw Ballast Regulators (I ran both of them for many years). You can see the cars drug off to the side and the tread tracks so the sidewinder derailment crew had been there moved stuff out of the way and left. Now they're putting fresh rock on the replacement panels so the surfacing gang can get the track back up to the required 25mph restricted speed and will finish surfacing it the next day to get it back to whatever the normal speed is.

[@Truex007]

As a CDL truck driver in America, I've been in a couple spots with trains. Most memorable was when I was coming up to a grade crossing and the lights came on less than a truck length away. I've never stood on those brakes so hard in my life...

[@BlackslooklikeHarambe]

Lmfao you got SCARED 😂😂 Next time stop your cab on the tracks and record it while you’re inside of it as yo get bonked and go on a ride

[@KibuFox]

26:01 You know he TOTALLY timed that brake check to soak his conductor.

[@user-is7es]

Listen to him giggling the whole time! 🤡

[@AussiePom]

Mr Train Wreck telling everyone what they can plainly see in front of them but for some reason just can't comprehend what is happening.

[@manuelrouse7896]

😂 he was so annoying

[@arthurhackman3229]

The single biggest problem with trains are outdated government regulations and failure to inspect tracks!

[@youchwb6005]

That blue train crossing the road is the stuff that you have in your dreams.

[@randallmacdonald4851]

You missed a bad one: in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.

[@daledavis9353]

One summer evening in lower Delaware, I was on my motorcycle and had to stop at a railroad crossing. A CSX train with over a hundred cars was slowly crossing the country lane. It stopped for several minutes, blocking the road, because it had been guided into a siding to unhook some of the cars. Then the train would go back where it came from. This process took about twenty-five minutes. Local drivers knew not to wait; they'd turn around and take another route. One afternoon, a man had gotten off work and was riding his bicycle home. The long train was there, blocking the road, again, and he decided not to wait. He threw his bike under one of the cars, climbed underneath and tried to pull his bike with him. The train started moving and he couldn't get out from under it in time. Trains are nothing to mess with.

[@Warclzugritter]

Sounds like an average Cyclist to me!

[@Formal-DeHyde]

Casually dropping a park ride in it… 😂

[@lrich8181]

Was that the Earthquake ride at Universal?

[@jwhite5008]

4:50 is Chelyabinsk, Проспект победы / Каслинская улица crossing - in that city the tracks are known to be in a bad condition. Not the first derailment either. Spoiler alert: city authorities did NOT do much of anything. Metro train at 14:00 is probably Moskva-2018 (Москва-2018) in Moscow. Yes it actually does that, cool to look at. The engine at 3:46 and probably at 13:42 is 2ТЭ10М - made in USSR but still used today. It's a beast but it works. The engine at 26:30 is probably Russian ТЭМ21 or something like that. You can tell it's Russia by all the snow, amount of swearing, and people doing really stupid things with large vehicles.

[@CRASHCENTRALUS]

Defensive driving should be everyone’s priority. You never know what’s around the corner.

[@iinspireNP]

so good amount wasn't even collisions nor mistake at all, clickbaiting........

[@Denverbroncos87]

My wife and I witnessed a derailment in our neighborhood. An engine had 6 boxcars behind it and the last boxcar had its back wheels off. 1st we told a nearby policeman but he didn’t believe us. So we ran to the engine to hopefully get the attention of the engineer. There were businesses and a few factories with sidings but 1 siding goes behind many homes. The police man realized what was happening when he saw us make a mad dash for the engineer. Didn’t take long to get the boxcar back on track. I still talk with the engineer. He’s a cool guy. His fiancé and my wife have become good friends. If you see something, say something. You might save someone’s life.

[@KelleysQuiltsandCruises]

That old bridge burning was all over the local news. Richmond is a suburb of Vancouver, BC.

[@rayblaak4915]

It is actually its own proper city, but yes it is right beside Vancouver. That fire was a little crazy.

[@Holoether]

great mix and well edited 🙂

[@wewinusa]

This video just shows how unpredictable life can be.

[@Timbertimetv]

I never realized just how dramatic train accidents could be! The footage from different countries is so captivating, especially seeing those incredible efforts in extreme weather. Amazing video, really pulls you in!

[@Denverbroncos87]

When you realize there’s 1 person who never knew the seriousness of a train crash… 🤨 I witnessed a train derail…. I didn’t play stupid… my wife and I got the attention of the engineer 🤨

[@thomabb]

The derailment in Pittsburgh was from a landslide that hit the train and pushed it off the rails.

[@Vixen2619]

Why did the tanks cross the train tracks? To get to the other side.

[@RD9_Designs]

That one at 7:35 had to be a test... otherwise, how was it recorded by 3 cameras, including one in the car pointed right at the oncoming train... totally set up.

[@markzappasodi]

Yes, absolutely. Once I saw multiple angles, I realized that's what it was.

[@leardvr]

The crowds gathered watching didn’t give it away?

[@RD9_Designs]

@@leardvr didn't even see em! Was too focused on the train!

[@bingefinger012]

20:27 It's like a huge snake is moving 😱😱

[@Andrewvictory]

Turns out, watching a trainwreck is far more entertaining than living through one.

[@e.j.crimson3121]

what got me laughing was at 15:14.

[@carrieadcock1250]

The way he said Metairie lol. Met terry!

[@Flies2FLL]

Have you ever been around railroad workers? These are the FILTHIEST people in existence! I've stayed in hotels with these people that give a free breakfast in the morning and if one of them sits at a table next to me I have finish eating quickly and leave, they smell so badly! It isn't the employees themselves, it is their clothes. Railroads treat their employees like farm animals. Did you know that until recently these people were not allowed to call in sick? And they put them on the road for weeks at a time without a chance to wash their clothes. Railroad work is by nature FILTHY, but the companies don't care.

[@yanni2112]

00:40 I've been on that train. There's a great Motel that's all Sleepers down the road. Awesome if you love trains. Red Caboose Motel in Amish country, love from Long Island NY. New Sub.

[@trp225]

0:08, 3:11, 3:27, 12:10, 13:42 - not a Collisions or a Mistake by the train.

[@Orxenhorf]

Flooding is a VERY good reason to halt trains. If you can't see the rails, you can't see if anything has been washed out.

[@SinkyYT]

What is it with all the train accidents in Pennsylvania?

[@dexterpoindexter3583]

Is anyone else getting a sore belly from laughing at the "switch" in the thumbnail? 😜

[@rindumissu5076]

I love trains

[@lorenavelvet]

Good Morning 🔆 to everyone from Colorado, USA! 😊

[@Itzmyrave]

Buckley space force here

[@YouMatter-UDo]

I'm looking for a place and finally found a nice house well priced then looked it up on a map and saw an active line went less than a block behind it. Scratch that one! I want to be at least a half mile from a rail line and I love trains!

[@SteveF1967]

A couple cars getting dented is not a fatal consequence.

[@user-is7es]

IKR! I guess it is if you're a car or maybe a railroad employee getting attacked by someone whose car you smashed. 🙄

[@ramsesastro5632]

You missed the famous Santiago de Compostela derailment at 100 mph in Spain in July 2013

[@chrismd1561]

This video should be called "How bad is the railway infrastructure in the Americas"

[@mountainman5025]

Empty propane tanks are more dangerous than full ones.

[@User_92020]

Why

[@marvindebot3264]

Those weren't even propane tanks.

[@WJCTechyman]

Around the 25:50 mark, has me thinking of the "Springfield Pool-Mobile" from The Simpsons, especially watching the water roll over the nose of the locomotive then I can hear Otto saying, "Whoa, I gotta replace that window."

[@10Peter25]

14:34 - This clip reminds me of a story a childhood friend told me about how he acquired a significant limp in middle age. According to the story, my friend was working as a truck driver when he approached a railroad crossing at night in a dense fog. Because of the near-zero visibility, he T-boned a freight train sitting on the crossing. My friend ended up with his truck's engine sitting in his lap and the lap of his assistant driver. This caused compound fractures in both my friend's right thigh and his A-driver's left thigh. They're both damn lucky their femoral arteries weren't severed and that they're still alive today. Surgery couldn't perfectly repair the fracture to my friend's femur, so he walks with one leg a few inches shorter than the other to this day.

[@gregoryheim9781]

No object can accelerate from inertia alone. Run away train cars accelerate from gravity. That's gradeschool science.

[@zerovalon6243]

Hydroplaning is a thing even for trains. 🤦

[@nottinghillad]

Voice over telling us what is already visually apparent

[@hackdaniels7253]

1:20 - Someone will correct me, but propane tanks are never empty, unless they've been specifically de-gassed.

[@tommunyon2874]

I noted a section of free-floating rails, where the ballast had sloughed away, at a pedestrian crossing. I reported it to BNSF, and had to hope my message got through, since I got no acknowledgement

[@BiffTannen1983]

1:05- "Oh, great... Now I gotta fkn' stay in my car." He had PLENTY of room to go behind the train. 💯

[@Damidas]

I like how the only video without any explanation or narration is a goddamn military tank crossing the tracks in front of an oncoming train lol

[@Flies2FLL]

The biggest train wreck in history occurred on November 5th......

[@divingadventures121]

Yup, nov. 5, 2020

[@Flies2FLL]

@@divingadventures121 How's that weather in RUSSIA this morning Yevgeny?

[@SharkyCartelRailroad]

2:40 that train was CSX, not Canadian National

[@LonnyJay-vh4yg]

I think the scariest experience that a human being could have is being stuck in the cab of a modern locomotive and to look through the window coming up on a crossing and they're being a fuel transport truck or some kind of a flammable tank truck full of fuel knowing that there's only One Way out and the tank rupturing how's the train next contact with it and they're being an explosion and along with the whole cab in front of the locomotive being engulfed in fire and being burned alive, nightmarish food for thought. Those engineers and conductors have good paying jobs at the same time having this stuff on your mind all the time❤ good video thank you

[@Scraghunter]

Engineer had nothing to do with the switch being wrong at Strasburg. Night maintenance crew forgot to put it back where it was supposed to be. Engineer did make a bad assumption the points were in the right place.

[@Gmoz79]

The ones that got their cars damaged, serves you right for not parking properly

[@CraigGrant-sh3in]

Just because propane tanks are "empty" doesn't mean its not dangerous

[@budwhite9591]

14:55. What are those engines? Emd? GE? They look really different

[@mkay1957]

I was walking out of the post office in Sonora, which is right next to the train tracks and immediately saw that 3 tank cars were off the tracks, and watched as one of them hit a couple of parked vehicles and then knock down the crossing signal. All I could do is watch this happen. The trains always go slow through town, and the tank cars had offloaded propane a few miles up the hill and were empty.

[@mospeada1152]

For parking near tracks, perhaps there should be a painted line denoting the extreme extent of train overhang?

[@Brian-kl1zu]

The train stopped short of the truck; then continued. Too bad; so sad for the truck owner? Can't delay the train for a bit? Guess they do things differently in Mexico. I think it was in Mexico.

[@user-is7es]

@@Brian-kl1zu Engineer saw the massive dent in the tailgate and was like "Oh well. Previous train already banged it all up anyway." 🙄

[@codyedwards2407]

Standing a coin up on a TRAIN moving 216MPH and the SOB doesn’t even move!

[@terranceparsons5185]

For that second clip somebody was helpfully shouting "stop, stop!".

[@asprinklingofclouds]

Is that Adam Rose running to stop the trains crashing in the thumbnail?

[@BillHunclebuncle]

Why is british dude doing narrations about things they know nothing about?

[@tyronenelson9124]

Why do KZbinrs have to lie so much these days just to get views, this just causes under-education and confusion. The first train did slow down, as you can hear the brakes!

[@steverobinson8214]

Sure glad that guy was there to point out that it was a train wreck!

[@bigbluetruck3464]

Always keep a camera on hand in America... always action in America 😄

[@WestWard0x]

17:10. No one gonna talk about the passenger carts that wasn't connected to the engine

[@mackk61]

5.00 fatal consequences????????

[@user-is7es]

20:00 Oh boy! There ain't nothin' quite like some delicious home-grown grease and smog covered produce! 😋

[@11000038]

Ouch! I hate it when that happens! 😁

[@bobsmith-wg9fz]

the insurance call the the third one...the train swerved and hit me!"

[@alwayslive7460]

DIRT ACCUMULATION IN THE GRADE? YOU'D THINK THIS COMMON OCCURRENCE WOULD BE MITIGATED-

[@StacyLongendyke]

Ive seen retired train cars used for livestock out buildings when painted white they stay cool inside.❤❤❤❤

[@USMCArchAngel03]

Was she on the ground Ray??

[@char1737]

They drove through that flood like it was nothing ! OMG! I'm gagging ! YES GOD!

[@johnevison6063]

What’s with the clickbate thumbnail? The train arriving from the right could not possibly make it over that track. Shame really. Great video.

[@drcovell]

The bit around 24:19 is the Universal Studio tour showing how disaster scenes are filmed!

[@robbierichmondtyrecop3916]

17:21 that loco threw some flames

[@maddag4205]

14:00 I just want to see more of Subway video. That's cool as hell.

[@jwhite5008]

This looks like "Moskva" metro train in Moscow (Москва-2018 version). It has a wide passage through the entire train which helps distribute the crowd a bit more evenly at peak times - despite

[@ashleydavis3342]

It was good until you put the theme park ride in it

[@steveb936]

Good job the Ray @2:10 told us it a train wreck, I thought is was a 747 coming into land at London Gatwick airport

[@anthonyjkenn6319]

The Central Avenue train derailment in Metarie, LA was on CSX lines, not Canadian National.

[@VOI2210]

Looking at these train accidents, I can only think: 'Maybe trains also need a course on how to stop in time!'

[@RD9_Designs]

It generally takes them a mile to come to a full stop. Unless someone radios them when they are still a mile away, they have no way to know when something is wrong with the tracks, or there's a vehicle stuck at a crossing at the last minute, or that the switch wasn't thrown to put them onto the right track, until they get there.

[@deltavee2]

Stop? Hahahahah They know how to stop. Any idea of how much inertia there is in even a small train?

[@FJA---]

This is very likely in the top 25 stupidest things I've ever seen written in a KZbin comment. Congratulations to you for your efforts.

[@BiffTannen1983]

The photoshopped thumbnail is ridiculously funny. 😉

[@Straightcutbox]

1:39 to 2:46. Ray ruined his pants on this one.

[@AlaaSherzad-n7s]

Nice video

[@johnsyler8580]

" Train Wreck". Thanks Captain Obvious.

[@RD9_Designs]

As the Louisianans will tell you, METAIRIE Is pronounced MET-a-ree, not met-AIRY.

[@lrich8181]

Yes...home of Crystal hot sauce!

[@EpicATrain]

15:00 CODE BLUE CAM! lol

[@Rosettasweitzer]

Is not code blue cam

[@TheSafierdrgn]

It's the song that channel uses. That's what they're referring to.

[@joemorrow3504]

Grain is highly flammable Believe me I've seen a grain elevator fire 800 ft high

[@167curly]

Those gawping clowns on the trackside in minute #3 were lucky not to be crushed by derailed cars!

[@cadence4527]

11:28 The best part is all of the cars in the rearview mirror turning around as the train is derailing in front of them. 24:53 Nah, they just shown that they bein' good buddies.

[@haroldreardon8070]

The narrator has chosen about 60% of his yap as incorrect, not even close, far fetched, totally rediculous. and on and on.

[@lordsplonge8147]

Like 'heat dissipation ' to explain the arching by the third rail unit at 12.40. It's the snow and ice causing bad contact between the collector shoes and the top of the live rail.

[@admiralcraddock464]

The train driver at 5.30 was a muppet as that truck could have punctured the loco`s fuel tank.

[@1rmrider]

The derailment at 7:55 there is a live rail cam there by virtual rail fan. There has been several derailments there coming down the bridge to the left.

[@Flies2FLL]

At 6:53 we see a KDKA broadcast about a train wreck in Pittsburgh. KDKA is the only station east of the Mississippi that has a "K" as the leading letter of a four letter call sign, all other stations use a "W". Why stations have a call sign at all is a mystery to me-