Almost done with clean-up of grain train derailment in Herbst, Indiana

[@kens.3729]

Thanks for another Update on the Clean-Up. Routine Maintenance is a “Must” on Every Railroad and is not an Inconvenience. 🤔👍

[@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896]

thank for the update that was cool to watch .😊😊😊

[@cdavid8139]

Well shot and documented. Shows the challenge faced by many short line and regional operators as they balance low-revenue with high-tonnage traffic demands

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you cdavid

[@cdavid8139]

@@therailroadtiespiker DeNada.

[@ralphgreenwood5857]

Excellent Coverage! Thanks Again!👍😊

[@reginaldlawrence412]

Looks great and glad no one got hurt.

[@rearspeaker6364]

that is #1, everyone goes home, the deer, mice and rats have a free buffet.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

@@rearspeaker6364 haha I did find a dead mouse up on the track when I was filming a was gonna put it in the video then decided not to. It was in a pile of corn. Lol

[@rearspeaker6364]

@@therailroadtiespiker you can say, he died with a full stomach, LOL!

[@tomstarcevich1147]

Lots of 🐦 bird food laying along the tracks now 😳

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

Nice catch... Thanks for making and sharing..

[@gmftrainvideos]

It's coming along!!! Great video!

[@heinzbreuer2674]

The Start in Black und wiht good .the working Video toll gemacht weiterhin good Lucky Train greetings from Germany Rhein side Cologne 🚂🚂

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Thank you and greetings from Kokomo.

[@poowg2657]

It's like the company I work for. We've done away with our preventative maintenance program because it "costs too much". We have orders to "run it 'til it blows" . The company even has T shirts proclaiming "We run to fail". Obviously the same is going on with this rail road company in the video.

[@cdavid8139]

It isn't. GWI is a great and successful operator. I highly doubt the truth of your story that the company is publicly proclaiming "We Run to Fail". That sets them up for significant lawsuits.

[@rodsmith3911]

Good to see the line getting repairs. Pity it took a derailment and the waste of good grain cars and their contents to get those repairs done. A bit of regular maintenance would have prevented the derail in the first place, but just try telling the accountants who spend the money that. The whole line is suffering from a distinct lack of regular maintenance and they run huge grain trains there. Why don't railways understand that the track and infrastructure needs to be given properly organised preventive maintenance as the trains won't go anywhere if the tracks aren't looked after. It's a worldwide problem caused by the short term view being taken by the operators. The guys who invested their money and some Herculean efforts to build the lines must be turning in their graves at such ignorance of the obvious need to keep the line in good repair. At 75 and with half a lifetime working to keep railways running I sometimes despair of the modern attitude to maintaining our heritage. So thank you for the videos that can highlight the poor state of the infrastructure. Track lasts much longer when looked after and bridges need coats of paint to save hiige costs in the future. Keep those videos coming!

[@BlackMan614]

It's common across the industry. Track rated for 10mph gets next to zero maintenance. Notice here, they only fixed the damaged section. Nice of them to tear up the farmer's field.

[@Zenergy0101]

It always comes down to the same thing... money. I am in total agreement with you after having spent 40 years in the business. It's shameful to see how once vibrant, profitable lines, in the heartland of America, have fallen in to such a sad state.

[@rodsmith3911]

@@BlackMan614 Yes, it's down to short term accounting a worldwide problem! They'll fix the next section when one comes off the road there. Gone are the days of the local Permanent Way gang looking after their own section of track. We need the railways more than ever at this time of climate change they could be a saving grace for the planet.

[@AWSmith1955]

@@rodsmith3911 If only Eisenhower put as much emphasis and investment on rail as he did the interstate system in the fifties.

[@farmerbill6855]

Seriously? How busy is that section of track? I'd guess it will barely pay for the section they fixed this year. It's not much more profitable than shipping by truck when you add the cost of end to end roadbed repair. The idea behind owning a company is to maximize profit, not go broke making sure the rails are shiny. You think you have a better way? Buy the railroad and run it yourself, I'm quite sure they'd sell it to you.

[@ralphaverill2001]

Did they leave the grain for the local wild life to cleanup?There would be some fat squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, followed by fat foxes, coyotes, and bobcats. The local deer population would likely be glad to help as well.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

They cleaned up a big portion of it

[@RogerDiotte]

That's the best "mile" they'll have now, GBO reads "Trains restricted to 10MPH between Mile 1.3 Terminal Sub and mile 50 Terminal Sub". Next Restriction 10MPH between Mile 51 Terminal Sub and Mile 100 END OF Line Terminal Sub. ALL trains Track Speed (40MPH between Mile 50 Terminal Sub and Mile 51 Terminal Sub). Giver Boys.

[@michaeljohnson4636]

A heritage line would be closed down for having track in that state of repair in the UK all heritage lines here have a max speed of 25mph except for one that is double tracked that can get exemptions for testing new stock

[@cdavid8139]

That's right. In the UK the line would be shut down and this grain would be rolling down the highway in hundreds of trucks. This one train alone took over 500 trucks moving hundreds of miles off the highways. It took massive pollution out of the air and preserved the capability of the farms in the area to remain competitive. I think I'll take the North American way and let you guys shut down your low-density rails so the truckers can win

[@miniaturefarmer464]

The real cost of cutting costs.

[@tomstarcevich1147]

Definitely 👍

[@rearspeaker6364]

save a dollar, waste a hundred.

[@rickcope3226]

Very good videos

[@johnnycats5157]

Hope the RR paid the farmer who owns that land they are using to scrap the cars and run equipment over. Looks like the crop was already put in, too.

[@cdavid8139]

It all gets worked out in the long run. The farmer in general will usually be very cooperative as they depend on the railroad to move their product so they in turn get the most they can per bushel

[@xTheRedShirtX]

Sadly CEOs want to pocket as much money as they can before spending that extra money on the company and making sure stuff like this doesn't happen.

[@cdavid8139]

This is a short line operator. GWI is in the business of saving low-tonnage railroads of this type. Pathetic assumption

[@alcopower5710]

Excellent content 👍

[@mikec6347]

Slow repairs. Must not take that line serious enough.

[@bruceferrero8178]

Good Ole tip up!

[@kingjames8283]

I'm curious about how many acres of corn each bottom hopper car holds and all the hours of work farmers put in just to fill a single car? All the man and machine hours used to plant and harvest all that corn, transport to elevators, and load all those rail cars only to be lost to derailments because the railroads don't give a hoot about the infrastructure and equipment. Just a waste. A second part of the question is being that the corn was probably being moved to one of numerous ethanol plants here in Indiana, does the condition of the corn matter and is all the spilled corn processed at the ethanol plants regardless? I assume this shipment was headed either to the Logansport or Linden plants to be processed into bio-fuels.

[@cdavid8139]

These cars hold around 3,000 bushels. To say railroads do not give a 'hoot' shows you know very little about the industry. GWI, who runs this branch, absolutely does care about infrastructure and equipment. They are well respected operators in the industry. In general corn that is cleaned up off the ground will either be disposed of or sometimes sold back to local farmers for animal feed. Doubtful it will ever make it as bio-fuel given the cost of handling it or taking it to the plant in a truck.

[@frankjanvari3796]

next step is to get rid of the stick rail and replace it with welded rail .

[@cdavid8139]

I think you do not understand the cost of doing so. It's around $500,000 a mile...plus. If GWI had that type of revenue on the line it wouldn't be in this shape to begin with.

[@WJack97224]

I seems the RR operators don't care about preventive maintenance as they pass the buck of the losses to the insurance companies who then pas the cost to shareholders and then the owners of the lost goods just pass that cost on to customers.

[@beeble2003]

No company passes costs to shareholders. Costs are paid by customers. Shareholders contribute to the capital costs of the company and are rewarded with a cut of the profits (if any).

[@tmng9908]

I hope the grain cars are repaired

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Nope the three are being scraped.

[@tmng9908]

@@therailroadtiespiker will there be new grain cars?

[@therailroadtiespiker]

@@tmng9908 there was a grain train waiting to come through as soon as they open the tracks.

[@beeble2003]

The cars that rolled were 30-40 years old. Won't be economical to repair.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

@@beeble2003 yep they were scrapped

[@tomstarcevich1147]

Cool vid 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃👍

[@albertcyphers1532]

I'm surprised they aren't ankle deep in wildlife eating the corn. Why take it away? what the animals don't eat will biodegrade. What's it gonna hurt besides excessive animal poop

[@rearspeaker6364]

the animals are waiting for everyone to leave.........

[@cdavid8139]

As the corn rots the runoff becomes a contaminant. It starts to smell bad and eventually can get into small waterways and kill the fish and become poisonous to other wildlife. With that said, there will be a good bit of it left over for wildlife.

[@roboftherock]

Why did you degrade the original 6:10 - 6:30 to provide the opening 0:01 -0:26? What was the point of adding all those random dots? Was it intended to infer a plague of insects?

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Wow you have too much time on your hands to sit and dissect my video but thanks for watching it with such great attention. Lol

[@roboftherock]

@@therailroadtiespiker My first thought was you were in a swarm of insects when I saw the opening. I puzzled over the same scene without the swarm. I conclude you have as much spare time to do the effect as I have puzzling it out. :-) That was good coverage from outside the work zone.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

@@roboftherock it's a filter to give it the look of film done back in the sixties and seventies but I guess it does look like bugs if you think of it that way. Lol

[@charlesguay639]

I,ve been following this incident since day one. To bad this installment of the cleanup, shows NO actual cleanup.

[@therailroadtiespiker]

Well they were out in the rain the day before I filmed this part doing all the cool stuff and I wasn't going to walk in the mud and get my camera wet. Lol