BARGES BREAK LOOSE, VEHICLE SCRAPED BY ENGINE, CROSSING ARM DESTROYED BY TRUCK & ENGINE! 

Running an errand this week, we happened to hit a CSX intermodel, a two mile one. I was happy, husband not so much. One car in front of us, Chap stepped out and motioned back up. We had stopped two car lengths behind him, not wanting to be close to the rails. What would the railroads be without JB Hunt, the mind boggles.

hehe even got wigwag at the end! Nice footage of the great barge rodeo at Fort Madison, quite a merry chase to get em all under control.Glad the bridge reportedly is basically ok

Beautiful Blue Conrail Unit. 👍🙏

It’s Called, “Barge Rodeo”. Yee Haw! 😬👍

Thanks window, for your opportunity! That was 10 more for my list.

21:55...Nice saves on the runaway barges!

It was so nice to see Belen again, and Revy of course is always a pleasure--so glad they got their PTZ cam back! But can'tcha just imagine the conversations going on with bosses and insurance agents after all of this stuff happened? "Boss, we have *another* claim in LaGrange..." "Boss, we have to replace the crossing arm at *that* intersection because...um...a train hit it..." "Boss, you know those barges we *were* towing...?" Anyway, thanks for another jam-packed and amazing Grab Bag!

0:08 CSX grain train in Wichita 1:05 Amtrak phase VII geep trailing on a CSX train 1:15 two dash 9s sold to GECX 1:24 a single SD60E reversing without any cars in Jonesborough 1:44 lots of CP Rail ballast hoppers. I wish they did a version of this for CPKC but called it CAM Rail 3:06 Erie Western and Rock Island hoppers 3:23 BNSF 8-car OCS (again at 5:52) 5:30 CSX 1850 leading 7:14 CN welded rail train 8:25 a Grand Trunk coil cover on a CSX coil car 9:01 semi truck gets bonked by the gate, and rips it off for the train to hit. I can't tell if the red pickup drove onto the crossing when the lights were flashing. I wonder how much a replacement gate arm coasts? 10:47 truck with trailer drives towards an oncoming train! the train scrapes past the trailer 12:10 ALC42 honks in Ashland 12:35 UP yellow and two warbonnets as DPU on a grain train! I usually only see three tail DPUs on coal trains 12:44 CSX 1899 leading 13:17 EJ&E orange geep switching the Waupaca Foundry 14:33 SD40-2 moving an LMX B39-8 14:58 MRL 4313 as DPU (again at 25:07) 15:13 It's been awhile since we've seen switching action from the Belen cam, this one with BN green SD40-2 6843 (current number is 1707, but its old BN number is visible) 16:14 amtrak 111 and 108 "Red-Head" on the Lake Shore Limited 16:27 single H3 SD40-2 and BN green caboose 17:04 long-hood-forward H3 GEVO (with unusual replacement panels) with MOW vehicle flatbeds 18:38 NS 1070 leading 19:05 P42 69 in Phase VII paint with four superliners! One lounge and three coaches, meaning it's a Carl Sandburg. The midwest trains used to sometimes run with Superliners, usually in winter, but haven't since 2017 when consists on most routes had to be 7 cars long to make PTC and signalling work.The Carl Sandburg is an exception as it usually runs with three or four single-level cars 19:35 CSX OCS 21:30 MoPac hopper and Western Pacific boxcar 21:44 out of control barge! INI55499 hit the bridge, broke free, and sank! BNSF closed the bridge for three hours. The barge was recovered around the time I wrote this comment 24:50 NS 9786 has white that extends around the windshields 25:15 NS 8101 leading 25:26 CSX doubleheader on a military train in Oklahoma City 28:40 NS high hood SD40-2

28:10 Bat cave... More like the Bart Cave!

Phosphate trains out of FL are always great for finding fallen flags. Alot of x- Rock and every color x-CNW covered hoppers of various designs

Love these grab bags

4:28 Nice wavers at the Tucson AMTRAK station

15:11 Now that's a relic. SD40-2

Nice Conrail heritage power unit.

Loved Thanks VRF🌹

someone’s going to get his pay docked for the repair of the crossing…big ooopppsss

great video of that grab bags as always

I always wondered what railroad car "Bat Cave" " Fries" 🍟 tasted like 😮😂 🤔 ? Why in Lagrange is everyone afraid 😨 of going down passed the oncoming train on the opposite side in the wide open area to GET OUTTA THE WAY 😮🤔🤔🤣??? CRUNCH,CRUNCH...😮

(3:09) Erie Western hoppers are a very rare find, as the railroad only operated from 1977-79, utilizing former Erie/Erie Lackawanna trackage in Indiana. Get pictures of them while you can, as they don't have much service life left before they're off to the scrapyard.

2:42 Engineer: "There's something... different about this locomotive. But I can't quite figure out what it is."

When you include the photo and pause to show the boxcar etc. in full the way it was before it got old/rustic or graffiti punks got ahold of it, DO THE PHOTOS COME FROM A BOOK of rolling stock photos, CAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO BUY A COPY

The EJ&E unit was great to see. what is the back story with the names on the refrigerator cars?

7:48 BEAUTIFUL smiles , ladies! And why is it that people who tow those dump trailers around think they own the road? Grr

This weekend will be interesting for the rural cams

Whenever I see the La Grange feed, I always marvel at the choreography of the cars along the first ungaurded pass & the train never colliding. Guess I'm about to reconsider this. Who even designed such a road?

I like the names on the Lineage and Cryo-Trans.

Always urging everyone to get back from tracks, seeing results of recent accident where NS train hit dump truck and the damage done to other cars parked near by is eye opening. Get back!

Good entertainment for a sick day. I got chilled and caught a cold mowing my lawn in 40 degree weather 😞

Only when someone gets seriously injured at LaGrange will they move those tracks.

Recently, a crossing arm in a neighboring city had one of it's arms broken somehow. The CSX repair men replaced it but left the broken piece on the side of the street near the crossing. When I arrived there later to film a train, I found it and thought about keeping it, only to find that it was both too wide for the car and much heavier than it looks. I'm not joking about it being heavy. When you see these arms broken like what happened at 9:03 , you know it takes a strong amount of force to break it. And based on how it was flung back as the train hit it, it's a good idea to get clear of the crossing should you see a crossing arm get broken and left on the track like that. Safety first.

CSX just running their pass cars just to see how much they can get away with charging I have never seen the shades up in any of these cars

18:13 Those ‘Badger State Ethanol’ cars must be made to carry either wheat or corn to be made into ethanol.

Breaks my heart seeing ROCK rolling stock. My Father would roll over in his grave if he knew what became of the rail line he put his years and soul into.

Anyone know what cause the barge catastophe? Did they ever get them rounded up? What about the sinking one? What did it hit and did they salvage it? Cargo? Sorry, more questions than answers at this point.

can you put a camera up at pine junction, Gary Indiana or on the metra racetrack?

Is that 3rd to last car on the BNSF Business Train a former converted RDC?

5:00. Sometimes I wonder if depressed center flats need counseling and then I snap out of it.

Ok Silly question . What's the reasoning for the names on the Cryo Trans boxcars ?

11:14 CSX 3440 was a accident

I'd like to know if they managed to save the sinking stone barge. If you have a multiple barge tow, and one barge is a sinker it is common practice to cut the sinker out of the tow so as not to keep it from taking another down with it. Sometimes the sinker can be saved. 38 yrs. on tugs.

That driver of the semi must be dumb. He clearly saw the train coming and still proceeded across, while breaking the crossing gate.

No I not everything again!

Why so much Canadian locos on our American rail?

where's Revy??

Please stop pausing with the car names....

Pausing every lineage car is killing me …… 🫠

Surprised the engineer in La Grange didn't hit the horn harder. Wouldn't have made a difference in this case, as the truck and trailer presumbaly didn't have anywhere to move to. But the horn definitely gave the vibe of "Hey, folks -- train's here" rather than "MOVE OR YOU GET HIT". You can easily imagine a parallel universe where the guy just didn't realise his trailer was fouling the track and would have moved if the train had clearly signaled the problem.

Seriously talented crews out there taking care of barge problems

It always seems to be someone turning north out of that cross street that ends up getting hit at LaGrange. Those gates need to come down earlier

Wow! Excellent catching all the trains in multiple locations, especially the railroad crossing arm destroyed by a truck in Chehalis, Washington, CSX military train in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Heritage Units, and so much more, I like them, they're awesome, @Virtual Railfan, thank you very much and have a nice weekend.

Great video, former Southern waffle boxcar coupled to Progress Rail GP38 and still good paint on the WP boxcar! Thanks

This Tugboat really built for stopping washing runaway barges. Although it was started to sink in-merge.

Caught the barge rodeo and figured it for a sure grab bag inclusion. Think about it those Rock Island hoppers have outlived the Rock Island by 44 years.

Some very tatty old heaps in this one! Quality viewing!!!!

The highlighted signal aspect at 19:35 in Waycross, GA for the CSX OCS was "Slow Approach" (Red-over-Red-over-Yellow). "Slow speed through switches, turnouts, etc., approaching the next signal prepared to stop.

Was always wondering about the spaghetti works building, it's a apartment building now

9:10 that's what you call knocking down the signal. 😂

Nice!

I looked more into the runaway barge. Apparently it struck the railroad bridge which caused it to runaway and partially sink

The barge footage will be valuable to the NTSB. Three forms of transportation were affected by that incident.

Figures it was Spirit of Ravenna that hit the trailer at 12:00

That barge was really...barging down the river, huh?

I always get the biggest smile on my face when fans show up to wave to the cams

Happy National Train Day VTR

Those barges were most likely released in a relatively safe area rather than breaking loose. They would have been released so the first barge we saw, which was taking on water and sinking, could be cut from the rest of them so they wouldn't all sink. Yes, there is a lot of coordination, but that was all intentional.

I wonder how often the NTSB reaches out to RailFan for videos showing incidents?

Once again LaGrange driver provides for entertainment 😅

26:04 Can somebody tell me what's up with these train cars and why the pause the video to read the names on the cars.

0:40 no radiator on Dash-9

7:24 SD40-2 5783+5378... Same numbers... just shifted.

21:45 Does anyone know what the runaway barges were carrying?

Hi Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Virtual Raifan & Friends Randy

Heh ... I haven't heard the Pac Man "Waka-waka" for Canadian Pacific in a long time. Thought maybe you guys stopped doing that. But then, we haven't seen the old logo for CP much lately, have we?

This stopping the video to show the name of every Cryo car is getting tedious. Enough already. We get it.