World's Worst Railroad Track

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[@wearegamers1894]

@Noah Nectro Studios great

[@evanstraintubeyt6950]

No

[@ROTE]

Ok!

[@paulpaulpink4705]

paul you CSX patrol

[@kaleomartin9161]

Awesome content!

[@jeffwallace957]

I had spaghetti today. It was straighter than those tracks.

[@halo-sd5qe]

LOL

[@rushylvania.northern]

Ohpiss

[@dumdum7786]

Richard Simmonds is probably straighter than those tracks

[@srrailfan6257]

Lol😂😂😂😂 ya noodels also straight......

[@TheAj0712]

😂

[@jagc1969]

This is not a railroad track. This is a low level rollercoaster.

[@kirkhugginsjr9317]

Lol

[@kirkhugginsjr9317]

Lol

[@sanjayjay9703]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Lol

[@jamesdukes1869]

If u look at the freight yard that definitely looks like a roller coaster

[@CardboardSliver]

It just always amazes me a giant brick of metal rides on two little ribbons of metal supported by slabs of dead tree.

[@realcanadian96]

XD

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

Why tf are you so wise?

[@engineergaming4295]

Or how a 200 ton sewer pipe with wings flys higher than birds

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

Or how metal in the shape of a toaster with spinning rubber rings go faster than horses

[@maotingdew]

Or how a giant shoebox with a triangle front can be moved on water

[@yourlocalfrenchmemedealer6843]

"Hey, did those guys install the rails?" "Yup." "How much time did it took?" "2 minutes."

[@West_Cascade_Rail]

More like 100 year old track

[@spaceflight1019]

It looks like the road in Radiator Springs the first time Lightning McQueen paved it! I'm guessing that the revenue generator on this line went bust decades ago.

[@nathanh.5373]

More mike "Hey who maintained that track for the past 70 years?" "Nobody."

[@ruslantsviatkov3415]

Рельсы на лапшу похожи, точно спагетти итальянские😅

[@randolfo1265]

@@nathanh.5373 - Yeah: "Hey who maintained that track for the past 70 years?" "Nobody." - LET'S GO!!!

[@RegM86]

That locomotive went off-roading.

[@pavansreenivas6823]

Its like off-railing!!!!???

[@TetyLike3]

*off-railing

[@NR.gamer241]

**Off-tracking**

[@patprokopf8961]

Bro💀

[@GamingRailfanner]

Me: mom can I buy a railroad Mom: no we have railroad at home At home:

[@HODMEChannel]

Lmao

[@GamingRailfanner]

XD

[@Planeguy-]

Toy rails are straighter than this (railroads at home)

[@GamingRailfanner]

I come back to 137 likes

[@Planeguy-]

@@GamingRailfanner I am the 137th lol

[@O-P-96]

I've seen abandoned railroads videos where the rail tracks are straighter than these ones. Also, where is this line located?

[@crashboxnat545]

Googling the name on the side of the locomotive says the company is based in Kansas, so I would guess it's somewhere in the American Midwest.

[@Nikon_Rails]

This is the Rock Island Railroad down in Mississippi. They bought that engine recently. The track has since been replaced.

[@crashboxnat545]

@@Nikon_Rails Good. As someone who's working to be a railway design engineer, looking at the state of this track gives me extreme anxiety.

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

The abandoned former B&M rails in Danvers are waaaaay straighters

[@justinjessamy2635]

@@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798 literally

[@magreen311]

Listen closely when the whistle blows You can hear a faint "help meeeeeee"

[@itwontcomeout5678]

Wake me up, wake me up inside SAVE MEEEEE

[@kempmt1]

I seriously didn’t believe that train tracks could get that warped. I’m wondering if those train engineers get “sea sick” from the constant rocking side to side. The company, state, or whoever is responsible for the tracks should upkeep them constantly.

[@kh-ro5su]

i can believe it. this is what small government, free market governance aka USA looks like. a disaster

[@MisterAviation]

I can actually see the rail moving downward from the weight of the train. Not only that, the bumps get pushed forward too

[@kekero540]

You see the train is so MASSIVE air just forced the tracks to conform.

[@ericfichon5988]

Rails by themselves have no rigidity at all. In a normal track, rigidity comes from the sleepers, and the ballast or concrete in which sleepers are housed. Of course, here, it looks like everything has been built on a soft terrain, and/or not maintained at all during decades. One video to illustrate the flacidity of rails: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYesn2adj7mqh9E

[@danielvelazquez1919]

The tracks: Im gonna end this suspension's whole career

[@lazyrrr2411]

if Modelers want to be Authentic , they're going to have to beat up Scale Track like this 〰

[@southasianbrat3878]

When a child try to draw railway track without using any scale😂

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

When a child try to make comment without using any english

[@bippo1223]

@@TheBigMclargehuge damn

[@tackywhale5664]

When you have no civil engineering degree and have no idea how to use a theotolite, yet you still try to build a railroad:

[@vitaminprotein.4036]

Looks like the loco is holding those tracks together smh.

[@JamisonArimoto]

Meanwhile, at the Napoleon, Defiance & Western: "At last, a worthy opponent!"

[@HODMEChannel]

That's for sure!

[@cadespencer6320]

Napoleon, Defiance & Western does not look like this very much now

[@rushylvania.northern]

@@cadespencer6320 ur no fun

[@rushylvania.northern]

I'm dumb

[@sintiavasquez4527]

@@HODMEChannel 4ee

[@tfs4499]

Worked for a shortline that had track that was as bad as this; rerailed cars and locomotive on a regular basis!

[@HODMEChannel]

Sad how some railroads operate that way. This one will be laying new rail in the near future.

[@thenthson]

How do they rerail trains anyway

[@kevin12567]

@@thenthson By lifting it up with a crane

[@thenthson]

@@kevin12567 makes sense.

[@A.Martin]

@@HODMEChannel depending on if the rails themselves are damaged you can get a special train that lifts the tracks and puts new fill under them. But chances are if the tracks in that poor condition all the sleepers are done for and need replacing anyway.

[@BobanPRaj]

Door bell rings, Mom opens the door, Locomotive driver: hey, do you know which way is the rails? I got derailed, and I didn't noticed. *Locomotive parked aside the road

[@RNG_Lemon]

when you just start to mess around in the Trainz editor.

[@Whatthechuckttv]

This is the new revived Rock Island Rail short line in the Mississippi Delta (The Mississippi Delta Railroad {MSDR}). That line has been disused for nearly 20 years until this year when the reborn Rock Island began operations. Now the arduous task of bringing the lines back to proper serviceable conditions has begun.

[@Sinistar24]

The only thing worst than this is riding a boat in a north atlantic storm.

[@spaceflight1019]

See if you can still find the bridge voice recorder transcript from the El Faro. The bridge crew describes what a Cat 4 hurricane is like.

[@KofaAvenueAnimations]

For some reason, I want to speed this up and add the Benny Hill theme.

[@allenbarnes7202]

Locomotive looks like it is out 4 wheeling

[@ayonsamajder]

Train travel is the smoothest. Train Travel :

[@Zekumas]

Those tracks are straight, its ground under them that is the issue, its gone soft, and the ties have all rotted away.

[@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb]

Yup , remains cn 's cowan and ernwood sub in manitoba are starting to look like this

[@Terk131]

They must have taken Dramamine for that ride, damn....

[@kanishkmishra7264]

That's some real Thomas and Friends shit you got out there.

[@rebelderf]

Looks like the roads in Michigan.

[@lovelysartstudio8299]

As a Louisiana native, I share your pain 😔

[@jozsefnagy281]

But it's still better than the roads in hungary...

[@cezarcatalin1406]

József Nagy Oh don’t even get me started about how some roads look in eastern Europe. Most roads here in Romania, for example, were built and maintained during the socialist era... but after 1990 no one bothered to maintain some of them so they look like some ancient cracked rock formations after 30 years.

[@albearx]

@@cezarcatalin1406 the money for restauration gets stolen by most of the corrupt politicians.

[@matthewwindisch9449]

Seriously! Can’t believe they allow trains to run on those tracks!

[@danielmyers1903]

Not sure how this could be legal!

[@HODMEChannel]

Restricted speed the entire way till they hit the brand new track that is 25MPH. New rail, ties and ballast will go in one the locations I filmed within the next couple years.

[@LRSX]

I wouldn't want to go 5 mph on that track. Lol

[@mattkennedy6115]

It’s Mississippi

[@HighRail62]

Enjoyed your video. It certainly ranks right up there as the worst Tracks I've seen. Thanks for sharing,my friend!

[@HODMEChannel]

Thank you for watching!

[@atsf-3415]

Wow, and old Cimarron Valley GP30 from Kansas!

[@HODMEChannel]

Very cool locomotive! It will receive the Rock Island blue scheme in the near future!

[@ryandavis7593]

I remember one day years ago that this unit was idling next to her sister 3023. The 24 dropped a valve and of course quit. Not to be outdone the 23 caught fire in her electrical cabinet. If the one went down, they both did.

[@erikmcc804]

amazing HO DM&E. i just subscribed and really enjoyed Penn Central 2.0 lol thanks

[@rusticbox9908]

Bangladesh should really upgrade it's infrastructure.

[@worldatnewera6721]

It is not Bangladesh dear

[@Deuce_and_a_half]

@@worldatnewera6721 Are you familiar with the concept of a joke _dear_ ?

[@izaicslinux6961]

@@Deuce_and_a_half No dear.

[@ylette]

@@worldatnewera6721 Well, duh.

[@Atupaitea]

@@worldatnewera6721 go home

[@linkunliu2118]

One could say, that this train is off tracking

[@frnkz11]

Trust me, having passenger trains going through this at a slow speed (obviously to avoid accidents) would be really fun. Who doesn't need an experience of off tracking trains 😂❤️

[@David-lr2vi]

“Is there a chance the track could bend” “Not on your life my Hindu friend”

[@lawb1614]

Ok, Lyle Lanley! 😂

[@donjoey22]

Mono- Doe!

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

Monoraillll

[@lawb1614]

"I call the big one Bitey."

[@tylerbonser7686]

No Krusty! The world needs laughter.

[@lmlmd2714]

Narrator: As the project progressed, concerns were raised about Amtrak's new Acela program.

[@joostderidder]

Nice vid. Thanks for uploading and sharing. I've watched a few vids showing tracks in the same (or worse) condition. Especially the 70cm-gauge tracks in Russia (used for logging or peat-transport) are like this.

[@nyeti7759]

I used to be a permanent way engineer and this makes me wince. Amazing what some operators have to live with.

[@TexasRailfan2008]

At the beginning, that is an AT&T long lines tower in the far background! Look it up,it’s quite intresting

[@ranjitatta9815]

Plot twist: the rail road is perfectly fine the train is defective

[@pamd.happykat8187]

LMAO!

[@jozsefnagy281]

Wow!

[@akashniftyvlogs6919]

Looks like the engineer skipped track laying lesson.

[@Rebel9668]

I think the forced perspective of zooming in makes the tracks look so bad. When the camera isn't zoomed in you can see the locomotive isn't going very slowly considering. It's going much faster then the old Maumee & Western before it was taken over by Pioneer rail and became the ND&W.

[@wes5150.]

It reminds me of working for the Penn Central Railroad in the '70s !

[@yafuker6046]

Would that have been Lancaster, Ohio?

[@wes5150.]

@@yafuker6046 Toledo, and Sandusky Ohio early '70's

[@yafuker6046]

@@wes5150. Reminds me of the PC (later ConRail) tracks I used to enjoy watching trains rock & roll on as a kid. You could pull the spikes out by hand! Line was completed in 1854, ran from Zanesville to Cincy. Mid to late 70s it became a bike trail.

[@wes5150.]

@@yafuker6046 When I was there yes, you could pull a lot of spikes out by hand. Being very native to So Calif and durring their Winter when you went to 'Place' a spike you really couldn't see the Tie, and when you pounded on it it felt like you were 'Driving' the spike but come Spring I'd notice the spikes I had driven into the dirt. Well, at least it held while things were frozen. One winter there and I was on my way back to Sunny So Calif. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. A 'Sentimental' journey for both of us.

[@yafuker6046]

@@wes5150. One more brief anecdote: About 10 yrs. before pulling those rails, there must've been a derailment somewhere, because they diverted a pretty long train pulled by two U-25s onto these tracks and I thought, mygod, I hope those tracks can take it! I was maybe 12 at the time.

[@haroldreardon3039]

Joe is correct, the Blomberg truck can handle extremely rough track. Most have no idea how they are built and why they are so good. Short line RR's don't have millions of $ laying around for new ties.

[@Jack_rabbits_sage_brush]

That is true. But they can, over time, replace the ties. Instead of doing whole miles worth, just do short sections at a time. Start off with the worst areas and then work your way out. I would go into Barns yard in Portland OR for the BNSF RR to the UP yard. I would tell the Hog head to stop the movement, and then I would get off and walk the track until I got to a point where it was safe, and then turn around, and restart the movement, watching the shove from a stationary point. I refused to rid on the side of the cars in that yard. The Yardmaster there would get all pissed off because of how much time it was taking to put away a transfer. I would tell him OVER THE RADIO, when you replace these ties, I will ride the cars. I did that for a reason. It is recorded and if someone gets hurt, there is now proof the RR knew about it. The old adage "Being Railroaded", where do you think that came from? The entire mess that we are in this country is because of the RR called UP. Yes, all of your towns have a ZIP code. Which is a Zone Improvement Plan. It was a devised scheme the UP came up with to compensate the workers for putting down the transcon RR. If they worked hard, they got land. And it was land along the RR tracks. The Peysuer Trust is what owned all of it. And that is also where we got our FBI, which came from the henchmen of the Pinkertons who were the strongarms for the RR. It is a good rewarding career, but forewarned, they do Railroad you................literately.......

[@WastemanAlex]

shortline that I railfan about to drop a mil to fix a bridge 😭

[@25mfd]

that is some wobbly rail... but railroads sidestep maintenance with the "FRA excepted track" tag... works every time

[@gali01992]

Now I'll never get the image of a train engine in a kid's bouncy castle out of my head...

[@sammyvh11]

Looks like flex track on my layout lol

[@user-wu1ds2sz3w]

Conductor: 'We re probably going on the ground somewhere today." Engineer : " Probably? Hey my day is looking better and better!"

[@Nikon_Rails]

This is the Rock Island Railroad down in Mississippi. They bought that engine recently. The track has since been replaced.

[@MotiGayUwU]

Developed by Michel Jakson🕺🕺 Because he wants you to dance 😂😂😂

[@arijit276]

It might be a test track for railway off roading.

[@Bkn348og]

that train makes some good wheelies

[@HODMEChannel]

Trucks are sure broke in!

[@adamaviation6236]

We should accept all tracks for who they are

[@bruceraggett4506]

You mean "Tracks lives matter"?

[@cdavid8139]

Well shot video. Wish them luck. I do remember seeing this locomotive up in Satanta or Dodge City or some place like that.

[@HODMEChannel]

C David Thank you!

[@TowMater603]

"Don't put a coin on the track , you could derail it" Meanwhile this Loco runs on this.... lol

[@Sbi_life]

They are not railway track, they are roller coster for ants.

[@PallabDutt]

Wtf with your name and dp 😂😂😂

[@Galm_1]

Those tracks are still much more predictable than my life at least.

[@SamZarifYT]

These tracks are so bad that you can derail a train by looking at it the wrong way

[@sohailmohammad78]

The only straight thing about video was the sound of EMD, going into my heart. Good video. ❤

[@mukulsoni1356]

Train driver was like Am I drunk or my train is on the road?

[@jessstone7211]

Its remarkable that engine doesn't go on the ground. Any time I see neglect like this, I'm reminded of the old saying, "what a way to run a railroad"....

[@CTTrains193]

The crews are probably like “Stop looking at us!!”

[@charliefischer59]

Probably would have had a smoother ride just on the ground

[@RichardASK]

I'm astonished the 'gauge' stayed close enough to keep the wheels on. Do they have extra wide tyres to account for the 'iffy' gauge?

[@mattberg916]

The old GP30! A beautiful piece of machinery. True testament to the equipment to be able to traverse such poorly maintained ROW

[@dannyhonn973]

UGLY!

[@news603redux]

The tracks are exaggerated due to the zoom lens closing in and flattening the depth of field. They're in rough shape for sure, but not nearly as bad as they appear.

[@BNSF1458]

Its honestly disturbing that they run ANYTHING on those tracks

[@737Garrus]

Jeez! The rail bends under the weight of the train! It just asks to get derailed at ANY moment, but i just stays glued to the 2 metal stripes.

[@ishelishan3435]

The guys tried to bend it like Beckham 😅😅

[@retarded_kidsupertrooper2081]

What's the point of this railroad and how often is it used? Like 1x a year? To deliver 5kg bananas 10 milles away?

[@ron234halt]

Sending just the engine was a smart move in case of derailment. Were those tracks that terrible from wear or neglect? And what is their condition now circa Dec. 2020?

[@MrKabDrivr]

It seems like they are riding down this track just for the heck of it...

[@supressorgrid]

So crooked it could be named The Biden Line.

[@nickbaker666]

When your tryna set up your own run to McDonalds and come out da woods like wasupppp

[@yashbirsingh4629]

Looks like he is moving back and forth to straighten the tracks to get them ready for bangladesh first bullet train 🚆

[@wasserdagger]

I'm guessing the only kind of music the engineer listens to in the cab is... rock 'n' roll.

[@haroldreardon1407]

Definitely NOT the worst track in the world, by a long way.

[@KenanTurkiye]

Don't you love trains, trams, aren't they all beautiful :) come take a ride! (at folder 2, look my way)

[@anthonygermano9363]

You sure are asking alot of that track for sure. Brave souls in that locomotive.

[@HODMEChannel]

Track has seen better days with almost no maintenance in the past 40 years till now.

[@teamidris]

Wow that is rough. It’s like instead of using ballast they laid the rails directly onto the A34 through Stafford :o

[@SgtLuke]

Do you and your fellow coworkers have hand gestures for whenever y'all are going along bad railroad tracks? I would use some for times like these so the chances of derailment would be less likely to happen. Here are gestures that I would use: Hand with palm facing out: Stop Hand doing a "come here" type gesture: Come forward Hand with palm facing downward moving up and down: Slow down Hand with palm facing upward moving up and down: Speed up I am just throwing that out as a recommendation and I also want to help keep you and your crew safe and the locomotive on the tracks.

[@rajat8314]

Those tracks represents the loco pilot's heart beat 😂

[@wearegamers1894]

Contact to INDIAN GOVERNMENT. they will help you for improving your RAIL line.

[@acts2211]

Never thought you could get seasick riding in a diesel locomotive but apparently this video proves me wrong

[@SmoulderDrache]

I call it "The Train Derailer 9000"

[@RioGrande3004]

Good to see D&RGW power living on with the same road number! Still has the old cast P3 horn on it!

[@joannpritchett5076]

OMG! I'd feel antsy walking on these tracks much less driving a locomotive over them. Wow!

[@Shortline819]

I can see the previous owners didn't know what the words "track maintenance" were. It's another thing the old and new Rock have in common. I know they have a stretch of 25 mph track that was just put in recently. I hope they plan to give the entire railroad that overhaul. I bet they will.

[@HODMEChannel]

Shortline 614 Lots of work is being done to the railroad as fast as they can do it with little man power. The plan is within the next two years is to extend the new track all the way to Clarksville. The previous owners as you mentioned did not do little to any track work at all as you can see in the video. Glad to see the railroad in new hands.

[@swingrfd]

@@HODMEChannel, Clarksdale

[@sayandas760]

It's like why should roads have all the "gaddha"

[@daymonpancheri8846]

That’s the railroad equivalent of a gravel road 😂

[@sasquatch1159]

There's rail here in Australia that's been decommissioned for 30 years in better condition

[@autumnk.1504]

That train literally looks like it wants to fall off the tracks.

[@MrWc867]

1:45 did he just hand him a hamburger or burrito? Nice guy

[@HODMEChannel]

Water! Gets hot in the Delta!

[@Benthetrainkid]

Is this Cimarron Valley or Penn Central?!

[@zianeshkasparen4358]

I bow and take off my hat for the machinists steering thae train over that. Genious. 🙌🏽

[@mikebrinkerhoff92]

As a railroader I can confirm that it’s impossible to not make a football comment went handing something to someone off a moving locomotive.

[@HumbertoSqualavarez42069]

If build back better was a train track....oh wait.

[@MrGuit12]

US has sent vehicles to Mars.