A seriously "oh crap" moment : Australian Railways 

You may have easily saved many people, homes, environment, cargo, jobs and did a hell of a job. Great story..

Cool story.

That's kind of a hero thing.

@Buttfucker3000 aptly named poster here

What's even crazier than that, I did the exact same thing as a child. Saved everyone in towns lives!

Fucking oath mate.

Australian isn't a language....?

ًOh, yes it is.😄😄

Isn't Strine mostly swearing anyway?

Fuck yeah!

hahaha

Lol! Normally I wouldn't like a comment like that, but I have to admit That was funny! :)

Being an Aussie myself I bet the C word was mentioned alot.

Hi

@@MohdShahid-wz5ot Yo. :)

Your English is just Fine!

Thermal expansion I'd imagine.

Excellent English. Bravo

Don't you worry about your English, you're doing just fine 👍🏻

I often wondered why the rails were painted white in Italy. Does it prevent heat buckling all together or just reduce the likelihood of it occurring?

KryzMasta like a speed bump

I'd be more worried about train speed. The track was moving VERY slowly. : P

Worked at the bottom of Conrod... :P

Works for F1, so why not? XD

Thats absolutely funny lmaoo

Or a large number of kangaroos to start running down the track

..or a gaggle of geese with huge swinging bollocks swoop in and they just start tea bagin' everyone..

I was thinking the exact same thing

Wishful thinking

Me too. I don't trust bridges in my car.

Wow are you psychic

@Steve Blayney Me too! I guess it's true, brilliant minds do think alike! ;)

Same😂

you r geniuos

Well then had to rewind but dam how does that even happen

My great grandfather lived Grew up in the coal mines of centra PA. He told me of how his uncle was killed when a braking system failed and he was burried by coal in that era. Other family members and coworkers were trying to dig to get him out. I guess he was using a hand break on the rear of the car. Crazy times back then.

the germans actually had a pretty unifying culture with a passion for getting out from under the fiat banksters that persecuted them. They obviously failed, though.

@@JustinCrediblename - Yeah, you're right. The fat bankers gave money to the church guys, who arranged for the government guys(who they also gave money to) to keep them in power. Except that the government guys and the banker guys - who ran the whole world - let a war get started that had the whole world fighting amongst themselves - and this changed everything; except for the way the world is run. It's still run the same way, which is why bad, weird stuff still happens all the time.

@@JustinCrediblename yeah they was fighting capitalism and communism at the same time. I mourn the 65m who died in the Holodomor prior to the 85m who died in WW2

No way my grandpa was the train, he shat super hard when the tracks spread and used it like a reverse thruster, some got on the engineer and your grandpap tho.

No engineer here. Driver in Aus

Depends?,,,,, maybe.

@Craig F. Thompson Engineer in the US, though at this point driver would likely be more appropriate iirc because in steam era the driver would also be responsible for on-the-move upkeep minus fueling (that's the job of the fireman)

@Craig F. Thompson 🤷‍♂️ Tomato tomahto, it's all the same thing

Driver

"Hey yeah, it"d be like that Samuel L Jackson movie." "What, 'Snakes on a Plane '? "No - 'Long Kiss Goodnight'. "

@@calmblueocean7243 🤣🤣🤣

Alaskan Bull Worm?

that would be real australian

If you left Adelaide doing 5 hits of acid.. perhaps.

lmfao

Haaah!!

@@hotdrumchick 100 points for you...

Just pause it bro, then the train won’t derailed

@@brodster7042 brilliant idea! Thanks.

True, I think the old clickity clack tracks with the expansion-contraction joins were safer than tensioned continuous tracks. Continuous tracks work fine after laying while the rail is still under stretched tension and therefore won't expand lengthwise in the heat, but it needs to be regularly re-stretched or after a hot period the track relaxes (loses stretch-tension) and will then expand lengthwise and buckle in the next hot day. Tensioned tracks are a bit of a con in places where hot weather occurs. Now we are inconvenienced by slower rail speed limits on continuous tracks during hot weather because rail authorities _know full well_ the continuous rails have lost tension and will lengthen in heat. The old segmented tracks with expansion gaps at their joints did not pose this problem. We should either bring back clickity clack rail so that our trains do not have to go slow speed on hot days. Or regularly re-stretch and re-tension continuous rails as they require.

Where in STL/when did that happen?

@@PurpleMintSam Webster Groves in the mid 1970's on the long curved grade that parallels Glen Road, a bit past the old stone commuter station.

@@ivermec-tin666 I was living across the river then, remember that happening when you mentioned it.

In India 2022, we still use that clickety clack... In summer temperature reach to 48 to 50°c in india

LOL!

that has killed me, i found it fuckin hilarious, lol

You forgot "mate" at the end of "HOLY #^%#&((($@!"

More like "FOOOKIN' 'ELL, MATE!"

at 50, may be it can also be “WHAT THE F**K“ :D

Only Dingos

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The audio is only there when nobody is listening.

Haha don’t be silly. Anyone can hear the audio. You just have to be upside down

Engineer was a Mime.

At least people are happy the clacking is gone

People actually complain about the clack? That's the most satisfying part of trains. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I loved the clacking sound as a kid. It help me fall asleep on night trains.

@@Tropicanax7x I think there's an equal amount of claking overall just it's all concentrated in a single derailment.

I wonder why they didn’t just cut them at an angle so the wheels had a smooth transition or something like that

I think "OH SHIT!" Is know across the world...

He said "holy guacamole, mayte! I knoy this doesn't happen often! Kangaroos! Summer christmas!"

Nope all F bombs C bombs. That would be about it. Then down the road to pub to get rid of the shakes.

And what shitty country might you all be from?

If your goals weren't to be a youtuber (lol) you may have read a book or 2 in school and you wouldn't have to ask what shitty country this is in, Go back to the mindless gaming that you do.

and cars

Dam that track was wavy!! I WONDER how that HAPPENED??

Damn train gophers!

extreme heat condition make metal to expand. if there is no gap between long section of rails the result is like this.

@@anthonyagnelneri4076 it happens from heat. When it gets hot out the steel tracks expand, same thing happens but in reverse when it get cold they shrink

akupehsluarketatAR it would become paper clips.

akupehsluarketatAR It would have ended up in someone's backyard.

maddogmcrae naw just woulda burst into flames cartoon style

It would have been running on elevated tracks that were continuously welded, on a floating bed, and can't deform like that?

akupehsluarketatAR It would have straighten the rails xD

That's good enough for me

The japanese bullet train has a full time team on the tracks every evening & night constantly maintaining track, & an envyable on-time & safety record.

"Well, its in the 'As-Built' drawings, so its certainly part of the design"

@@ericstyles3724 But what the japanese don't have is a railway system that goes through thousands of km's of empty desert, and no 50 degrees weather that causes lines to bend

Yeah, the track is there, and it’s still one continuous piece of track, what maintenance is there to do?

***** ..........ok.......do you call them kabitzers in Australia?

Rubberkuppalkippers?

+Phillip Mulligan "Please don't squeeze the Sharman!" Lol!

+joe sharman Joe, then why didn't you just answer the question? Is the proper term "Driver"? From my understanding, that is what most locomotive operators are referred to as in a number of European countries that have some cultural/ancestral ties with Australia.

+joe sharman OK, so "Driver" is the correct name of the position.

+tryithere when this was shot those were two different gauge bidirectional tracks

Rod Williams Ahhh, thanks.

At different times; different terrain; differently governed States; different requirements; different available amounts of capital. It happens the world over. Just think about it and all will be revealed. It's all in the right history books.

+R Hamlet Australia has three mainline gauges - there's also 1067mm (3' 6") as well. Look it up.

Because of the stupid system of eight state-territory governments who employed different 'experts' from overseas when railways were being built. SA, Vic and NSW had all agreed on 5'3'' then NSW employed an Irishman who decided they'd go to standard gauge - too late for SA and Vic who'd gone along the broad gauge track and for around 100 years it was a mess.

Gomez Adams?😂

Koalas*

@@regretfulman4784 he said what he said

Any full grown jackalope could better a drop bear.

@@-oiiio-3993 Had to look up what jackalope was.

@@johnmerton3630 Fair enough - I looked up 'drop bear'!

I must've been here before, since it was already liked... but I don't remember when.

You do know that just because a video was recommended you don't have to watch it right?

@@tylerbonser7686 What??? Unpossyble.

@@ziiofswe I know it sounds crazy, it's actually just a theory right now.

@@tylerbonser7686 I wonder who'll be the first to dare trying.....

Yo listen up, here's a story. About an engineer that talked in a blue word. And all day, and all night, And everything he said, Is just blue-like him-inside, and outside. Blue his mouth with a blue middle finger in a blue gesture And everything was muted for him, and his-self, and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody, to listen to. *Chorus* I'm _through_ Fuck this guy, He was high, Built a rail, on the fly. Now my train can't get by. Must've said, watch him fly! Yeah for real, made me cry. So funny? Not for me, Time indeed, to reti-re!

Cuthbert Nibbles what is that?

Nibbles...that was gold

@@vegemite7706 Da-ba-dee, da-ba-die...

The water and sewer pipes in Reykjavik are built the same way for the same reason. They're also aboveground, because permafrost.

In Eastern Europe you also see pipes with bends (for expansion) a lot.

I think on the bridge would be a change of underwear.

lol this comment section gets better and better with each comment

Yeah.

Richard Turner heart in mouth? More like shit in pants

"heart in mouth? More like shit in pants" Or both, for good measure.

Twozup Thanks, i watched it several times and could not figure it out. Now, i cant miss it.

Twozup yeah I didn't even see that the first time through. Definitely something wrong with the guys whose supposed to be checking the rails for stuff like that

k98pro This can happen at any time anywhere, and without any indication that it is going to happen. So no blame for track maintenance

It's a sun kink - the CWR was laid when the temperature was colder, and not enough play was left in the expansion joints. Warmer temps, and hot sunshine, the metal rails expand, and hit their limits - then expand a little further, pushing the spikes/track connectors aside, and bending the rails, making a sun kink. They usually happen in seconds, when the force of expansion suddenly overcomes the friction of the rail fittings. www.progressiverailroading.com/people/audiovideo/Sun-Kinks-and-Track-Buckling--32617

James Eaton Not entirely true with certain, or long welded rail. Then it often is faulty drainage of the rail bed in combination with differences between night- and day temperatures. Or any other reason imaginable related to track, sleepers, used stones.

Lol

Lucky it stayed on the track and upright. That could’ve caused a massive derail at that speed.

Scoliosis is a human condition. For tracks it is known as railiosis...

@@billyboblillybob344 Ha ha ha ha ha....

Down here in Louisiana the rail tracks are pretty bad as well! I've watched trains switching going slow and still having derailments! There's a video on You tube called Central Avenue derailment and I saw that one happen! I'm guessing that because most of Louisiana is swamp land the rails are constantly moving and getting screwed up! Just like the roads and highways!

Kim ... You need learn to treat America better. We don't want to have to go to nuclear war with you. We just want to be friends with North Korea. Please, listen. People can die.

There are gaps lefts in successive rail tracks to allow for thermal expansion.

@@AlphaCentauri24 until those gaps get closed because it's 45 degrees.

CWR *can* deal with big temperature changes, but it has to be anchored and restrained really well so that the thermal expansion manifests as longitudinal compressive stress rather than causing the rail to buckle sideways.

@@vikkimcdonough6153 Correct, in fact, very correct. CWR is prestressed to overcome the worst of the heat, but changes in ballast and track fastenings can throw the prestressing all out of whack. In 1969, there were a rash of derailments in the UK due to incomplete or disturbed prestressing, and British Rail had to lay down the law on how CWR was installed.

@@channelhismojo Cold shrinks steel, heat expands it!! At 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the gaps would be larger!!! At 45 degrees Celcius(113 degrees Fahrenheit) the gaps would be much closer, very little gap if any!!!

+ChuffChuffWoo I must say I laughed!

+ChuffChuffWoo lmao im guessing yes

+ChuffChuffWoo I think it may have been more explicit. But don't blame him.

oh darn

Oh dam, there is a huge kink in the track - fiddle!

As an ex railway engineer that is one hell of a visual in my head

Things on the rails go so smooth, Until they don't.

😂😂😂

More like fucking aaaaaaaahhh..... bloody fucking rail

And coffee everywere inside lol

Funny 👍🏻

I can hear Ringo narrating this.

THEN you should keep your eye trained

i wonder if they had a loco-motive?

Ryan Court i read ya

Ryan Court I read ya like if your coming down on a Rail

Maybe the audio is muted because they were listening to train and we're embarrassed.

From the land down under, where? Toss 'em in the out back.

im sure the out back would toss em back!

Carl Crowson certainly no one would have wanted to go waltzing Matilda with thee.

badlandskid make sure it didn't fall in the billabong, the jumbuck has to drink.

Ben Wetzel don't put them in the jolly tucker bag together.

I swear it's Melbourne's only choice, throw 'round your train and mute your voice! Aussierail! Aussieraaaail, AUSSIERAAAAAAAAIIIIILLLLLL! AUSSIERAIL "Aussie-D'oh!"

@@TransportBaz hahahahah! And instead of Leonard Nimoy stepping in to help....no wait, he didn't do anything!? Wait, was that even the same episode??

I've sold AussieRails to Melbourne, Sidney, and West HavenBrook and by golly I sure put them on the map!

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 It was! The cosmic ballet goes on!!!

Wow. These days a person would be rounded up by the filthy, racist, left-wing nutjobs who voted for Joe Biden and thrown into one of Kamala Harris’ notorious “Kamala Camps” for even mentioning the word “hindu” or acknowledging that “Apu” was a character on the Simpsons. Phil Hartman, God rest his soul, would have been executed for uttering the line “Not on your life, my hindu friend!” What a sad world we live in. All I can say is f the left. F the futhamuckin left.

Followed by the drivers flatulence.

Wasn't expecting a Far Side reference, but it's still one of the best comments I've seen today

yep, I hit a sun kink, 50 mph, 7000 feet stack, 3 sd70m's lead, around the curve and there it was, plugged the train immediately with the toggle switch rear eot, plus from the front 26 brake lever in cab, hit the kink at 25 mph, high noon, 87 degree day, wobbled through the kink, stopped in 3/4 mile, nothing on the ground.rear of train in a swag with us up coming out of it, rear squatted down, kept train stretched,

best ever

marfalight my father in law always talked about sun kinks.

And he ain't talkin' !

I, being a typical Aussie, can manage a probably fairly accurate guess... At the very least some words beginning with "sh", "f" & "b..h.." possibly all in the same sentence & breath, repeated as needed!

"there is no sound by request of the owner" because the owner did not give permission for rod to upload this video. the sound was removed to make it harder for youtube to strike it for copyright infringement.

He said: "That's another fine mess you got me into, Ollie!"

@@EarlJohn61 Bloody Oath, Mate.

I thought the same thing!

But then it stayed on the track thankfully. Came real close to jumping off and probably would’ve tipped on its side with that terrain.

You fellas are sharp

It's a welded track. So whoever came up with that idea is a butthole. I'm 100% they tested longer sticks to prevent hammering and they were met with this in the 1800s, so they went for shorter sticks.

It took me a few seconds to see what you did there.

scdevon me2 lol

scdevon same

scdevon the units stayed on but the cars prolly didn't

Subaru Sti you would be suprised actually

scdevon me too when I saw it I was like wait NO

@See, the thing is lol. Freedom units. 😂

True 😆✅✅👏

It's like that meme guy rubbing his hand behind a tree.

le happy kangaroo

😆😆

I've just come from the video were they got their revenge. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-czpmAosl8EM.html

Carol Ziegler ...are you replying to a deleted comment?

Lol

Like that cat that jumped in the pool lol

@@Gregorio416 was asking myself the same question

Covid lol

There was a music on the background so the audio was copyrighted out

@@cheesebusiness it says in the description "no audio at the owners request" so no, it wasn't copyrighted you dumb piece of shit

Because most certainly the guy yelled something along the line's of FUCK ME, HOLY SHIT, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, and he's either a prude who doesn't want others to hear him swear, or he doesn't want Vline/Metro identifying him and punishing him for giving customers the idea that heaven forbid their drivers might swear.

Is that a reference from spaceballs? XD

@@Kinsanth_ I don't think it is🤔. Is it? I honestly just made it up trying to be smart assed...

@@CrowT it has similarities with the scene "i am surrounded by idiots" xD

It'd be heat that buckled the track after it was laid

I thought it was a small animal racing with the train!

+1..hah

The 1st thing I did when the video started was wipe my screen with my thumb to get that off! I only came to the comment section to see if anyone else did the same thing! 😂🤣

I was thinking the bridge would have dropped, or there would have been a dip in the track or something. Not that far off I guess, but missed the location...

A friend's husband was a railroad engineer. He said it wasn't a matter of IF you'd hit a vehicle at a crossing, it was a matter of WHEN. They all dreaded it, and hoped it wouldn't be fatal for the vehicle passengers, because the train will always win that encounter.

Yep

No

No, seen the messed up track coming.

Oh yeh

Why?

glitchy?

By putting curves IN our curves..

@@MFnDahk Yes

Thats clever

The road outside my house was built in segments. When you view it from the hillside, it does look as if drunks laid it out--or someone couldn't agree on which direction "north" was.

The cartoonist Al Jaffee died last year at 102, he might have been the last of the Usual Gang of Idiots.

So Thomas, today you weren't a very useful engine. : Sir Toppem Hat

+Khadijah Brown Any faster and it would have.

Khadijah Brown it did

it probably did...

I have no idea why but that was such a British comment

@@commandermaze6334 lol it wasn't British he wrote pants instead of trouser

@Favre he probably meant /underpants/, which we often simply call pants.

@@omfgmouse eeeeeeffff

how does that happen, please explain?

@@WCephei77HD excessive heat causes the rail to expand and sometimes it has nowhere to expand to except length so it literally kicks itself out of alignment and can be very dangerous.

@@brucechilcot7133 oh crap! I'm an LE trainee, I know about heat speed restrictions but I didn't know this is how tracks can get to! Many thanks for your help, appreciated!

I'm sorry but we were called engineers you don't drive trains.

@@WCephei77HD they are called sun kinks . They get so hot that the rail will kink out.

This should be pinned

BamaRailfan No I think on that bridge before the curve would have my sphincter twitching a lot tighter than on the blind curve.

Curved trestle.

I figured he would have just hopped over to the next track until he got passed the messed up rail

@@NikoBellic04 Really? I'm pretty sure that you didn't get a joke

@@mojzesz9846 don't think anyone did because it's a shit joke

I was expecting the engine to derail and roll on its side. Pretty amazing that it managed to (mostly) stay on... wonder if any of the following cars came off

That's the trouble with each-way running.

So ... you crapped your pants? Wow XD

Pretty sure that's not what I said. Reading ... becoming a lost art.

That's funny shit right there.

... thats not a hot day.. this is a hot day !! The grass would normally be green but its all brown in the dry summer... its bloody hot out there..

The heat caused thermal expansion ..buckling the rail

Easy for you to say when the track is at this state

you need to tell someone how to lay their tracks!

@thebirdee I just wish the 5% of the world that still uses imperial would return the favor and put Celsius in brackets whenever quoting Farenheit :) Perhaps you will be the first now that you know how valuable it is.

Apsolutely true

shutup millenial

People still liking this type of comments, wow

It certainly is. That is why we think that foreigners should stay away. So that we can wallow in our self pity down at the local pub in peace.

There was one time when the school bus I was on stopped on the tracks and then the gate came down on the bus. School buses are *NOT* supposed to stop on tracks, ever!!!

Phil Stone He did a decent job in getting the speed off before the overbridge.

Imagine this happening in Ireland that where are trains operate from about 40 km an hour up to 60 kilometres per hour average that's not even for intercity though intercity operates from 80 km an hour up to 120 kilometres per hour

Except in our case I think it's more because we're used to such cold temperatures, the margin for heat is much lower as they've been adapted for colder temperatures. I'm not exactly sure how they pretension rails, but it probably tension them left here to account for shrinkage during cold temperatures.

Absolutely no one in Australia actually says 'crikey'.

They probably said some other words and that's why there is no sound haha.

Lmao nobody cares you disliked the video

Friggin eck Sheila!

@@christopherlee627 Missing the point.

its heat from the sun bruv

Or trustees from prison

XD

I do my best work drunk.

They weren't drunk , they said hold my beer so they couldn't have been drunk your drunk.

lol someone won’t get this joke

Smudges are very fast indeed.

The old pantographaroo.

@@509ryan Your prophecy came true

@@509ryan I saw that but I though damn my monitor sure is getting dirty then realized it was on the glass on the train.

It didn't. It was derailed. The locos usually stay upright. Too heavy to fall over at that speed. With the bend I'm sure some of the following wagons tipped over

@@capnskiddies " It was a rough ride for a few moments but the loco and train stayed on and the crew were as James Bond would say " shaken not stirred" don't use "sure" anymore

It was a derailment, the lad above wasn't wrong.

Engineer view? This is a driver cab view.

I just went UH UH NUH UH NOPE NOPE GOODBYE 😂

It didn't - note the position of the windscreen wiper in relation to the tracks.

The camera moved, jolted by the movement of the cab, that's why. If you "read" the description: "the loco and train stayed on"...

Theres another one around youtube in tasmania where the tracks buckled worse than that as the train ran over them. Derailed 7 cars but the majority stayed on the track

Alan Plumb it helped because it was going slow,if it was at full speed it would have been a disaster.

That's insane

A sleeper is a railroad tie?

The commuter trains in the Toronto area often slow down in extreme heat.