Canadian Pacific Train Derails in Illinois 

very long trains and putting a light weight center beam in the middle and this is what you get.

That was painful to watch

No Biggie, Happens on my layout all the Time.

Those darn centerbeams always causing trouble!

I thought maybe the engineer was stopping because of the derailment. But the they start moving again.

That groaning of the twisting steel at the end was terrifying. Props to the camera-woman but I'd be twice as far back

The sheer force is insane

It's nice to see a video in landscape mode instead of vertical.

I can hear the conversation in the cab now! Conductor: "hey, this thing feel like it's pulling hard?" Engineer: *clicks the throttle up a notch. "Nope".

Quite a catch!

Am left wondering why the locomotives didn't detect a sudden increase in rolling resistance that was inconsistent with the gradient?

Trains are entirely too long. How does the driver know what the hell is going on, a mile behind him?

This is why the railroads have dragging defect detectors nowadays which is why you don't see cabooses on the ends of trains anymore. Not to forget EOTs & defect detectors also replaced the cabooses. The jobs those three things do were all done manually from the caboose by the conductor & brakeman who rode in it back in the day.

Lol as an engr myself this is hilarious 😂 1. The fact that those cars wouldnt tip and pull the hoses apart is unfortunate 2. Maybe the engr wouldnt of realized it at first but you gotta think when buddy was backing up he felt something off. You feel all the little movements in your seat when you run these trains. So funny, you know mangements gonna freak with all the damage along that stretch 😂

Soo car! Derail CP train . On former Milwaukee rail. Keep it in the family.

*No Defects*

You were at the right spot at the right time to catch that on the vlog, good job, thanks BigAl California…❤

I do wonder if the crews had a sense something was wrong and were trying to move cars off a road junction. I have heard railway engineers say that cars will often put themselves back on the tracks.

Wow great video!

sIx engines? Holy cow!

I liked the “oh boy” description! Nice catch!

Those spine cars! It's always those damn spine cars! 🤣

Yeah you only need one person to crew a train! Sure.

Why is there a guy on the other side and when the camera sees them they stop filming?

I guess if I had saw the first part I would have headed to the front of the train and told them to stop.

Are the shareholders ok?

Wow awesome catch

Great catch.

That is why you don't put an empty freight car in the middle of heavier, loaded ones! As soon as you try to stop, it will get pushed off.

Very observant. To the casual eye nothing much amiss until one of the cars starts tipping...

Great footage

Wow amazing video

I live by a railroad and they always have a truck running alongside the train for events like this!

Great recording, I was waiting for the car to roll on it side. But I guess after the crew bring the train foward and then back. They look down the line and see a car on its side and stop.

Well someone actually got the derailment on video after all! I saw the aftermath and I gotta say it was insane!

To the person who filmed this in their car should drove down and told them what's going?

Excellent video

You didn't call CP and let them know?

Would you be cited if you go and disconnect the airhose or release the coupler pin?

Great catch! Can’t find it, grind it. Lol

Great camera work! There should really be a detector that lets the crew know when wheels leave the rails. Could’ve saved a huge cleanup.

Quality in motion

Are they switching? That would explain the change of direction and all the power. This is one of those rare moments when I would dare to pull a cut lever, break the train, dump the air, and walk up to the head end to tell them their train is in the ground... or ya know, you could have just walked it's only like 10 car lengths from the head end

Could have gone to front and warned crew if problem

Why not drive to the front and warn the engineer a railcar is derailed.

Top marks for the fantastic footage, truly first class bit of camera work. Ignore anyone that says you should have called the police it would all of happen long before they did anything and you would have missed the moment to film it and put id on RU-vid. Great!!

With that many locos, the head end never wudda felt that first part.

How the heck did the train derail this isn't train simulator world

So when did the crew finally find out they were on the ground? Who told them?

Small problem, turned into "Nah I think we're fine..." to keep going forward, stop- "Hm I wonder if we can correct this" then back up LOL.

Ouch 😳

Nice job CP you just turned a few thousand dollar fix into hundreds of thousands of dollars

Picked a switch. The best possible move in this situation would have been to call phone number on the blue sign that identifies the grade crossing (the parking lot is between two streets) and inform the dispatcher what had happened. Word would have reached the engineer within a couple minutes.

Probably loaded cars on both sides causing and accordian effect.

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Rails aren’t maintained very well where I live. Especially at the road crossings.

Them damn center beam empty flats!

Looks like a METRA station parking lot with the spot numbers suspended on overhead wire.

As soon as I saw the empty center beam I just knew...

Who owns the rail bed?

A bit of a delay in block.

Não tem o ddt?

Empty bulkhead flat cars are so vulnerable.. they get pushed around very easily.

Thankfully this person stood there and didnt do anything.

another prime example of precision railroading.

That's going to leave a mark

Instead of just standing there filming. I would have either tried to tell the driver if he were not too far up or find a line side railway phone or contact emergency services.

Butiful train!!!!❤

Wow talk about a front row seat.

Just driving on causing more damage...

If I was NTSB I would be talking to you about your video

You had plenty of time and opportunities to make it to the head end and warn the crew. No instead of doing the most sensible thing, you just grabbed your popcorn and kept watching... I hope people will not just keep watching when you've been in an accident and you need help.

The engineer kept moving because he didn’t know that the train derailed.

Go to crossing and call the phone number in case of emergency

great catch camera person.

Any logical person with brains would go up to the engineer and let him know what's going on. I hate some people with cameras 📷 everything don't have to be recorded

People are complaining that she was supposed to go up to the train cab and tell the crew it was derailed, but keep in mind not everyone is a foamer. This is kind of a big event and critical thinking goes out the window when adrenaline is involved

Why does this video fill like 360?

anyone giving a damn or just watching? when was 911 / RR Dispatcher called to STOP the 5 locomotive CP rail train???

That’s what you get when you put an empty center beam in the middle of a heavy long train . When will they learn?

Center beams cause derailments on my HO scale layout.

Always one of those crappy center beams

The Movie derails too

Obviously, a simple bad track situation was made worse by an apparently clueless head-end crew that did not seem to notice the increased drag that required an unusually large throttle position at low speed. Also, they did not seem to bother to look back on their train for the problem that was only 11 car lengths behind the 6 units head-end. 2024/04/05. Ontario, Canada.

Somebody forgot to tell him that a rail car has derailed

This is what I worry about when pulling really long trains in my Railroads Online game. Something bad happening in the middle of my train around a corner that I can't see, and won't feel until something solid stops me or I drive off with half a train. At least real trains have air lines throughout the train that when broken, stops the train for you. In this particular derailment, the train air line did not get separated, but since the crew was only 10 railcars and 4 locomotives away from the derailment, they saw the derailment once the hopper car started leaning outwards from the track as they were backing up, so they stopped the train before more stuff got torn up. My opinion of the cause of the derailment: The centerbeam's last truck (wheelset) split the switch, causing the trailing railcars to follow it down the wrong track.

1:44 YOUR TRAIN IS DERAILED!! 2:36 3:43 *_but the driver didn’t care_*

This is hard to watch. The scraping of the wheels on the rails. The wheels being dragged through the dirt. And the most hard to watch the cars are about to fall over. 🤦

I have to admit that if I were there, I would be tempted to pull the pin if this could be accomplished with little risk.

Rip train

So many centre beam derailments :( Amazing more carriages did not derail . . .

what are the chances of being on that spot filming at that time.

No matter the cause, management will blame it on poor train handling on the part of the hoghead.

Ooh he's in big trouble

Not the first thing to derail in Illinois 💀

That’s a goody! Hey you feel that? No keep going. It’s our go home

Scary when you never lose the air

If it were me, I would have put the camera down and dumped the train's air to make sure they couldn't move again.

Well now I don't feel so bad about my center beams jumping the track at this one bad spot on my layout sense there is now prototypical evidence to support it's the railcar design and not my substandard track laying skills that causing me problems!😂😂😂

Ok I assume it was a fully loaded freight train but why would u have an empty center beam flat car towards the front of the train that damn center beam car should have been coupled to the locomotive and I assume the grain car was empty also? both empties should have been on the front of the train; the back trucks on the center beam car locked immediately when the train began to move; I am glad no one was injured...very scary...very expensive derailment no doubt about that