Norfolk Southern Train Derailment and Cleanup - Bethlehem, PA (7/5/24)

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NS 10K-04 Derailed just short of Bethlehem's River yard after exiting "Yard-side" to continue its jaunt east to Croxton NJ. No Injuries were reported and the involved cars were empty, Cranemasters arrived on scene within 90 minutes of the collision and began rerailing the cars.
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[@tigerphid9677]

It is amazing that these crews show up at these derailments within hours and get them cleaned up quickly and efficiently.

[@Sam-lr9oi]

To be fair they get lots of practice (I agree that it's impressive work)

[@kens.3729]

@@Sam-lr9oiEvery Derailment is so Different because there are so many Variables. Location is the one (1) thing that is Always Different and makes it the most Challenging. 👍

[@thelazyfarmer]

What is it with Norfolk Southern? I know every railroad has derailment but NS seems to have more than its share.

[@kens.3729]

@@thelazyfarmerWall Street, Shareholders and Greed continue to Rule the World. NS just Paid East Palestine, OH, $ 600 Million for Destroying their Town Forever. 👎

[@haroldreardon1407]

They show up quickly because they are on 24 hour call and that is their job.

[@jeffjones4006]

Derailment crews are the stars. Very heavy dangerous work done efficiently and safely. Great video.

[@WarrenLacefield]

So glad no one was injured. Really good KZbin video. Part of my family's legacy comes from Norfolk Southern. My father-in law, Vonnie Ralph Brown, was in charge of safety for the railroad for many years (during the 80-90's) and pretty much on call 24/7 for serious derailments anywhere on the line. Back during WW ||, he was the supervisor in charge of the Southern Railway terminal or yard (?) in Cincinnati for about 10 years. Very proud of him.

[@TruckHaulinTalks]

Norfolk Southern at one time was known for it's high standards on safety. Hopefully they can get back to those past achievements quickly.

[@garyfranks2586]

[@ThePhilmaywalt]

Thanks for the post. I live 45 mins from Bethlehem and hadn't heard about it...

[@RBRailVideos]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@ThePhilmaywalt]

@@RBRailVideos I certainly did. I am in Phoenixville in Chester County and had not heard of it. I was astounded by how quickly and efficiently that the derailment was cleared up. Those crews are an unknown group that undo what was an unfortunate accident caused. Hats off to them and to you for the wonderful videography!!

[@RBRailVideos]

@@ThePhilmaywalt Thank you, appreciate the compliment and absolutely. those guys work magic!

[@metlheaddrumr]

The news don't report on much

[@metlheaddrumr]

​@@ThePhilmaywaltI used to live in Collegeville

[@russelmanary2501]

That crew is absolutely amazing; as everyone knows their job. I find that kind of repair work a treat to watch.

[@bobtrevorah2305]

Thanks for your time and effort! In the '80s, my friend and I spent numerous hours here and in the Allentown yard railfanning Conrail. Cool video!

[@myrnawashington9057]

The track inspectors or the train maintenance crew or engineer will be blamed for this. Lots of nervous people right now. I'm happy there were no injuries or leaking tankers.

[@tythomas1991]

Could possibly be heat related.

[@glennfoster2423]

​@@tythomas1991 Or not!

[@PTSF_Jaeger]

I always appreciate getting to see Cranemasters crews at work. The 200RS in particular is a treat

[@brucefye3778]

Hi Richard! New subscriber. YT put you in my mix today. Great railfanning derailment video.😊

[@RBRailVideos]

Awesome, thank you!

[@MK-xl9tt]

This is right behind my son’s apartment building (old Lehigh valley railroad building), we were visiting and watched from the bridge.

[@markbickelhaupt4414]

Richard, Great video! Low impact lift💪! Just one Cranemaster Mantis crane and one Caterpillar RR Trackhoe. I would guess that is not a mainline! Not much room to work.

[@manidig]

It's a tight spot. About 9 years ago a CSX trash train derailed on a curve in a tight spot in New York City...shutting down the Metro North Hudson line. Hulcher and RJ Corman were called in and when they saw it both said "No thanks." In house crews at Metro North got it cleared.

[@MK-xl9tt]

This was early on they also had 2 of the side cranes(not sure what they’re called) that they on the pipelines.

[@markbickelhaupt4414]

​@@MK-xl9tt They are called "Side winders"!

[@MilePost106]

I have lost count as to how many derailments there have been the last 2 weeks all over the country.

[@George-tz1cv]

Chaulk it up to bad track not being repaired and lousy rolling stock maintenance. Railroads are going cheap and nothing is being done.

[@mathuetax]

@@George-tz1cv The prior administration removed a law by executive order that would have dealt with 'some' of this. Despite all the complaining about the derailment in Ohio, even had a former president show up, nothing has happened since.

[@cdavid8139]

@@mathuetax The executive order removed was to require equiping trains with electronic braking. Something that many experts contend would cost billions and do nothing for safety on the vast majority of North American railroads. (The regulations would have to apply to Mexico and Canada as well as the US).

[@ut000bs]

@@mathuetax no, the executive order removed had nothing to do with this. Also, derailments are not uncommon and never have been. They happen for many different reasons. There are an average of about 3,000 derailments in the US every year and that has been pretty steady since the 1980s. You simply see more of them these days. They are selling news right now.

[@FrogandFlangeVideo]

Great cleanup video !! Thanks for sharing it. James.

[@donnabarnes2115]

Thank you for your video efforts. Great job.

[@RBRailVideos]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@islandnightowl]

More of these videos please! Very interesting!

[@northernncrailfan2722]

amazing video

[@frankkie3849]

Nicely done,,thanks for sharing,,,😊

[@RobertWoods-vs5oz]

With the latest and best equiptment, also great pay And training any things possible

[@poowg2657]

Looks like the guard rails didn't do a very good job keeping the cars on the ROW. Cool video.

[@manidig]

The cars came off their trucks. If you notice the trucks are still between the rails.

[@poowg2657]

@@manidig Good eye, I didn't catch that.

[@marksnyder2232]

Interesting, on that crawler crane, they have the track pads painted / cast 3 pads red, one pad black. I wonder if that's so they have better visual cues for inching and positioning? If so, interesting idea, I'll have to keep it in mind.

[@Scrapy-ih7ob]

I just drove through this part OF PA on SATURDAY going to grad party, no hint of accident that accrued, guess the crew did fantastic job cleaning up.

[@ryanv3751]

Cool process and purpose made / modified machines! Hoe operator could use his feet to track and keep his hands free to move boom and stick instead of stopping a bunch of times to reposition. But we all had our first days on the job.

[@joedjetski1194]

It’s sad to watch these guys work. Safety is obviously at the bottom of the list, standing in areas of pinch points, no tag lines, working without gloves, and the list goes on. Hopefully no one gets hurt, but unfortunately it’s just a matter of time.

[@phillyracer83]

Crazy a csx train derailed today again in south Philly

[@mariofilippi3539]

Really enjoyed this rerailing video, thanks. I wonder if that is the Delaware River. Cars look like they had coal in them at one time.Thanks.

[@MK-xl9tt]

It’s the Lehigh river

[@WayneParker-ri3ui]

Haven't gotten OH.taken care of yet,people s wells,creeks cleaned up

[@gragor11]

0:39 Highly specialized cranes for the job. More so than the Side Boom tractors. Must cost more for sure. I wonder if the major difference is the same difference between a boom lift recovery vehicle and a rotator. Reach.

[@PTSF_Jaeger]

I can tell you CM designed the 200RS in house, specifically for this application. It's capable of up to 100 tons, and designed for pick-and-carry work

[@music100vid]

If you had done a lot of editing on the video it would have allowed me to much easier follow what their plan was for getting the first car on the track. It seemed excruciatingly slow for anything to get accomplished. An hour long video can be whittled down to tell a complete story in 5 minutes with practice. Still, I'm glad you were able to share the derailment with us though. Not something we get to see every day. Very interesting where it occurred and wonder how it happened.

[@davidelmore2546]

These guys are slow, Corman would never take this long for one damn car

[@exceptionallyaveragejoe]

Eh. Garden variety derailment. Good video though!

[@paulwaddell2854]

That crane operator is so slow, must be getting paid overtime. Yeah I can say it as I used to work in a steel mill where they would have never been operating a crane that slow

[@PTSF_Jaeger]

So you've worked in a completely different application with a different machine, that was specialized for that application?

[@hvanvleek]

A steel mill is a production facility trying to make a profit. This is a derailment where safety and precision is. Apples and oranges!

[@randyb1890]

Did the heat have something to do with the derailment?

[@rut5161]

If the railroads weren’t so greedy with their long trains that defy the laws of physics these wrecks wouldn’t happen

[@norbertdx]

how long was this train?

[@SeanJAnimations]

buddy, lmao

[@SeanJAnimations]

@@norbertdx 125 cars I believe

[@ThomasEvanchick-gk7os]

I would have had this clean up in 20 minutes!

[@RomeKG471]

Sprockets to rear mister! lol

[@JohnnyCarroll-wi6tx]

good job cranemasters. simper fi carry on

[@dsloop3907]

wow

[@Pyrotrainthing]

For a Modern East Coast Railroad Norfolk Southern channels the safety of one from the 19th century.

[@andrewhatton1606]

The CEO needs to be in prison

[@w9gb]

This old Lehigh Valley or Central NJ trackage?

[@Davidson120]

Cars were Empty I Take it No wait going around that Curve over the Bridge!😮

[@rightturner562]

I'm guessing some one dropped the ball in regard to MOW along this stretch of rail..

[@russelmanary2501]

Wonder what caused it, didn’t look like much damage

[@briansnyder9012]

Lot of practice lately

[@leecarey4375]

Where's part 2?

[@shadowdemon13]

Another Norfolk Southern.... Seems to me, WV, VA, PA, they have serious maintenance issues....

[@ghostgardenfarms]

If they had proper maintenance on the tracks they would not have any derailments to clean up,

[@norbertdx]

what is "proper maintenance?" What was the reported cause of this?

[@ghostgardenfarms]

@@norbertdx I have no idea what caused this derailment, that was not mentioned in the video, but I am sure it had to do with an issue with track maintenance, of some kind

[@ghostgardenfarms]

It may have been a broken rail joint, a loose tie sleeper, or a rotten tie sleeper, with out track inspection and regular inspections this is what happens

[@pierluiginistri8042]

Ma con le traverse in legno ed i chiodi dove vuoi che vadano se non fuori dai binari ?

[@thomaswilson8634]

Is the bridge damaged badly

[@RBRailVideos]

I don’t believe so.

[@feminazislayer]

Another ns derail.... shocker

[@JuanJuan-qc1cg]

Richard Ballsack???

[@RABSTRAINS]

Norfolk Southern to me appears to have quite a few derailments!!!👎👎 They push the rain crews to get the commodity moved, faster and more volume moved means big dollars for the company. Sometimes safety takes a lower priority when money and production is at stake, but they will always tell you safety is # 1. I rail fan and love trains, but also realize what the corporate people are expecting and pushing their crews to do. I am sure these derailment crews are kept busy and are awesome at their job.🔥👍

[@kens.3729]

Saw a 14,160’ (under 3 miles) Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) train yesterday. How many RX Crossings does that Block and how Safe does that Sound ? 🤪👎

[@RABSTRAINS]

@@kens.3729 I hear ya! Totally Agree!

[@scottcannell5584]

Wow how did this happen what caused the derailment

[@inothome]

Possibly heavy cars behind unloaded cars with too quick a decrease in speed on a curve and the lighter cars get pushed straight instead of following the curve. With no weight in the unloaded cars they can just get pushed over the rails.

[@Elliottblancher]

@@inothome the empty Cars would have tipped over if that was the case, not jackknife

[@haroldreardon1407]

​@@Elliottblancherempty cars will tip over or jack knife, whatever they want to do with the forces put on them. The cars didn't read the 'rules'.

[@DanielUnger-gn9ct]

That's the 2nd derailment on n by that bridge that A know of now the first one was on the other side where there was a company where a switch would have a single car go into the building n it derailed by the switch hit part of the building it would go in n if am correct one car ended up partially into the canal n on the walking path n the other car was on the hill or embankment n next ta the building the cause was a worn switch that caused that derailment

[@PacoOtis]

Folks, you might ponder editing your videos as this one is quite boring. Best of luck!

[@BrianUSAOwl]

Every train spotter in the world was busy this day rushing to the site to take videos.

[@Elliottblancher]

How the hell did this happen

[@RBRailVideos]

Likely a quick stop and the loaded cars behind the empty’s forced them to jump the tracks.

[@Elliottblancher]

@@RBRailVideos Norfolk Southern you had one fucking job and somehow you fucked that up

[@danielcobbins8861]

@@RBRailVideos The loaded cars should have been in front of the empties.

[@Honeydwarf85]

​@@danielcobbins8861 not is PSR can help it! What a joke

[@manidig]

Anyone who ever had a Lionel set knows if you put light cars between heavy cars and go real fast the light cars tip and derail. Someone did not slow down or did it too late. And these empties should have been on the tail end.

[@lackawannavalleyrailfan]

What a mess

[@ocsrc]

This happens too often

[@johnpennington7107]

Sidewinders would be better for this job.

[@chiva2507]

All very good and well,but a very slow "timeline" video.

[@garyaction7106]

How come I don't see any women working on this wrecking crew ? Just a joke people .

[@WarrenLacefield]

Because you didn't watch close enough. Joke not too funny.

[@bobray3330]

I don't see the modern strong independent women on this cleadup crew.

[@donaldrodgers8389]

CONRAIL never had as many derailments as Norfolk Southern/NorF**k Southern.😊

[@normandedgerly8445]

I'm sorry but clearly you know NOTHING about Conrail if you actually believe that! 😂😂

[@cdavid8139]

Conrail had far far far more derailments than Norfolk Southern. They were a disaster. The way they solved the problem was by abandoning thousands of miles of track and stopping service to hundreds of industries.

[@cdavid8139]

@@normandedgerly8445 I can't believe someone actually thought Conrail had less derailments. LOL

[@mikeyoung5211]

Every other country has great railroad service and trails but not the USA , sometimes the worst. How come