Train goes into emergency with a broken coupler CSX M401

Feb 27th 2023

[@geoffreysmommy]

I feel bad for the crew member that has to walk all the way back to find out what happened. Then maybe walk back to the engine to get another knuckle to replace it if they have one. Then carry that back to the break to replace it. The knuckle weighs about 80 pounds. If not then they have to call for someone to bring them one. Hopefully they can get someone like a train master or someone else to help. My husband worked for the railroad for almost 20 years and he had to replace them several times. He worked at a hump yard. One time they were getting ready to hump a cut and the first car had the draw bar from another car still hanging on to the end of the first car that came up top of the hump. Somehow the draw bar got pulled out of another car.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah they have to do a lot and ik that the are heavy I got a piece of one and I was omg this thing is so heavy and CSX came to where I was I called them and told them where it was at and they came like 10 minutes after I called ig I would have called they probably would’ve been trying to figure it out for a long time!!!

[@MeigsCountyRR]

While on vacation in Sept. I spent some time at a hump yard in Pasco, WA. They're slowly doing away with them. But it was fascinating to watch the process. 😀

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@MeigsCountyRR oh ok that’s cool bud did you see lots of trains!!!

[@MeigsCountyRR]

@@CSXMainLineProduction This is in Pasco Washington. The hump yard starts around the 21:00 mark. I wish I had known what it was earlier and I would have gotten some more video of it. I'm still learning my way around YT and railroads in distant cities. 😀 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZC9aneGj9Slg9k

[@danielfantino1714]

Legend says brakemen he´s still walking toward end of the train to found what went wrong....and he´ll be back in the locos next year 😅

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

lol bud!

[@branpurn]

Don't see that everyday. Thanks for sharing.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah you don’t and You’re welcome bud!

[@davidimhoff2118]

It’s pretty cool that you got that on video. Next time if your car is near there you should drive down to the engineer and see if they want a lift to the spot so the crew can get moving. Also to save time for us, you could edit out the walking since at that point you aren’t really showing anything. I’m sure you had some adrenaline going on. Good catch.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah thank you so much bud I find know much about editing then but now I do so ik what to do now lol but thanks so much bud! Appreciate it!

[@trainchasersatwork]

Nice video! Happy railfanning! Nice you aided CSX in your reporting the location of the cars. Awesome coverage

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Thank you bud happy Railfanning!

[@sernajrlouis]

Cool video and channel just subscribed

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Thank you so much!!!

[@captainkeyboard1007]

Yes, that train "broke a knuckle," and I heard the brake air escape the straight air or the brake air pipe.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yea it did!

[@Phantom-Signal]

Great video Sir! Right place at the right time as they say. I hope the person in that vehicle packed a lunch lol

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yes, right place right time and I hope they did too They turned around after sitting there for like 30 minutes. I told a few people what was going on. They wanted to know how to get around so I told him how to get around.

[@Phantom-Signal]

@@CSXMainLineProduction I haven't been so lucky yet but I'll keep trying lol

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@Phantom-Signal yeah bud I wasn’t expecting something great happens every week to me

[@Phantom-Signal]

@@CSXMainLineProduction send that luck my way. 4 years ago I became paralyzed from the waste down so I can't get out exploring like you anymore, I need to be on pavement as trying to roll a wheelchair alongside train tracks is, well, a horrible adventure, but I go where I can go...

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@Phantom-Signal oh dang bud I’m sorry to hear about that I hope everything works out for you and you get great catches.

[@AaliyahHolt]

what causes the knucle to break? If the train is too long or something? i watched a video online years ago where another KZbinr caught on camera the knucle breaking. Commenters asked how the engineer know he lost half of the train and people responded the air loss applies the brakes or something. I can imagine the walk the conductor has to make to find the breakage. man the train was almost done when it broke

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Not sure if it was just too long but that part of the train just had a weak spot and it couldn’t take that weight no more and it let lose and yes the Air brakes let out and they get the notification in the Cab of the train which automatically stops the train and many folks got a separation on camera this was my first that’s what I meant by first time on camera yea it was almost over with and I called them and told them where it was at so the picked the conductor up and took him to it and they fixed it!!!

[@michaelminton1224]

I thought this would only happen with O-Gauge Lionel trains at home but this for real.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yes it is it happened in the most weirdest and odd spot!!!

[@NelsonBrown]

You can hear it just after 2:58.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah bud

[@NelsonBrown]

@@CSXMainLineProduction well clearly you heard it, or we wouldn't even know it happened. 😅

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@NelsonBrown Yeah bud!

[@islawilliams9572]

kind of unusual breaking right at the end, i would have thought in the middle for sure but not there !!!

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah same thing I expected the middle!!!

[@southerncsxvlog]

Oh No!! That doesn’t happen a lot of times. Hope they got that repaired

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Oh yeah, it been repaired. I actually got another video of it further down going into the training yard. He had a speed restriction. After this happened

[@southerncsxvlog]

@@CSXMainLineProduction Oh Ok Thanks Goodness! I hope you enjoy your night!

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@southerncsxvlog I am bud

[@captainkeyboard1007]

Perhaps CSX brought a new coupler that you may call a "knuckle."

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@captainkeyboard1007 yeah called and told them where it was at!

[@jimpetersen8095]

Not the first time on camera dude! But maybe your first time on camera. But still a cool video

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Ik not the first time on camera but yeah for me and thank you!

[@tylerblackwell2688]

almost at the end too

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah and that weird!!!

[@JointedStudios]

May I use this audio?

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Sure bud what for?

[@timbarnes2259]

Some of those wheels sound like they are square..

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah

[@Paul070]

From a retired freight conductor be careful where you are walking! you were trespassing along their right of way. Happy railfanning.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

No that’s a road and they told me I can stand where ever I want but don’t be too close on the tracks if it was a problem they would have said something and call the police!

[@timbarnes2259]

Just recording dangerous consists..

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@timbarnes2259 what you the people told me I was good they would arrest me they see all the time!

[@luddite333]

tell local news to get out and ask questions - the entire system is fallin apart - if you walk along the rails and look close you know

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah bud

[@rack_9]

You only saying this because of the derailment in Palestine and now you think you're a rail expert. Stuff like this happens all the time,it's part of railroading. You just hopping on the bandwagon of other "experts" and following the trend thinking you know what your talking about.

[@rack_9]

@made-in-the80s Exactly

[@minerran]

Its not the first time emergency has been filmed on camera dude! Many, many videos on you tube show that.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah ik that I meant to say it was my first time that’s what I actually meant. I can’t go back in the video and change the words. But my first is what I meant

[@timbarnes2259]

Shorter trains have a lighter load on couplers and there fore are safer.. No way a crew can physically check all of that huge consist every day..

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah you’re right about that and it had no DPU For such a long train!!!

[@M1A1Abrams]

See if they still used CABOOSES the engineer, would not had to walk as far plus the CABOOSE with the brakeman in it!! Would had the problem fixed So Much Sooner!!!!!

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

Yeah!!!

[@rack_9]

The Engineer never leaves his/her seat if the train goes into emergency. Only the Conductor gets out and walk it.

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@rack_9 ik

[@rack_9]

@@CSXMainLineProduction I was responding to the other dude 😅

[@CSXMainLineProduction]

@@rack_9 oh sorry my fault