Hello everyone! In this video, I have collected for you amazing moments when a fist holding railway cars breaks at the BNSF train and other locomotives. The emergency braking system is activated.
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I am retired from Union Pacific and the only people I knew that could get that excited over a knuckle or drawbar break is a MOP (manager of operating practices).
As a knuckle is known to break separating a train when it brings shivers to train watchers hearing the train go into an emergency brake application as the squeal of the brakes in the first two videos brings shivers to train watchers.
I was on a train once that came uncoupled. It was in the middle of nowhere, in Northern Ontario, back in the mid '70. The knuckle didn't break, but the steam pipe did.
We used to mess around on the tracks in Detroit when I was a teenager, I uncoupled an air hose by hand once on an active train, never did that again. LOL
Tak mi właśnie coś nie pasowało, że ta cysterna nie ma żadnego napisu :) Dzięki. [EN] That's how I was confused that this tanker has no writings :) Thanks.
Thats the Westinghouse brake for you. Compressed air is required to release the brakes. A classic way to brake in an emergency is to pull a handle which dumps all the air in the system. If there's no air pressure, the brakes automatically come on. The air hoses between carriages will have breakaway fittings, and that'll be where the air comes out.
2:22 is probably the scariest. High speed and if the driver brakes too hard it could derail the whole train, while if he doesn't it will just keep going until he NEEDS to slow down
You clearly don't know how train brake system works. In that case air pressure drops and emergency brakes kicks in. However due to huge mass and high speed it will take a moment for it to stop.
@@jamescooling not fake, just normal fly shunting (switching). Basically hump shunting without the hump. The wagons run to their intended siding with their momentum and will be slowed and stopped with ‘retarders’. In some places (especially China - the clip is likely Russia) a brake man will ride on the leading wagon with a hand held brake controller. Indeed only the first two North American clips appear to be actually ‘train divided’ incidents. I guess this is part due to the very heavy trains causing fatigue to couplers and part to the high number of rail fans filming, increasing the probability of it being filmed (see also the endless videos of collisions on US level crossings)… The passenger train and the single wagon in Poland are clearly tests.
@Астольфик Sorry, my comment wasn't clear, only the specific clip starting at 1:41 (with the level crossing) appears to be Russia this is showing fly shunting of the sort you refer to in your reply. My conclusion that this Russia is based on the loco, which appears to be a ЧМЭ2 type. The second clip with fly shunting at 2:40 is in the US, while I presume the passenger carriages 2:22 are being tested in Spain as these are Spanish built 'Talgo' type carriages. A coment elsewhere confirms the last clip 3:26 to be at a railway testing facility in Poland, plus the loco is an EU07 type only found in Poland (though based on an earlier UK design). The clips that appear to be genuine emergency braking after a knuckle coupler parting at the start of the video are in the US and Mexico (assuming Ferromex doesn't have US operations into the US).
Whats with the video with coaches at @ 2:30 ? Didn't seem like it 🥴 Seems pretty dangerous to me, if the leading train happens to start braking they might collide and derail Correct me if I'm wrong
Exactly I have the same kind of brakes on my semi truck ,that's why we have to do a leak down test every time we get in to make sure the spring brakes engage at low psi.
Same applies with the Automatic Vacuum Brake, which is fully released with 21 inches of vacuum showing on the gauge.... to partially apply the brakes, you simply reduce the vacuum by the desired amount.... or if it's lost completely, the brakes will apply fully... the vacuum exhauster, or vacuum ejector on steam locomotives will maintain the vacuum at 21 inches with the driver's brake handle in running and released... P.S.... retired train driver from UK... The Automatic Vacuum Brake was in common use in UK when I started in 1978, but is now in existence only on preserved railways... the UK railway network is almost 100% air braked now...
This is a very good fact to know. I am familiar with electric trains like rapid transit (subway) trains. They use dynamic, electric and air brakes. I can understand the concept with freight trains. I liked freight trains before I have seen subway trains as child.
On trains the air both applies and releases the brakes. Give it a few hours for the air to bleed out of the brake cylinder and you're right back to no brakes.
its been 40+ since I worked the rails, but that first one looks to me like a drawbar, not a knuckle. Drawbar pull - I was told - was far more dangerous than broken knuckle becuase the drawbar weighs around 600 pounds and can tumble and then cause derail. The drawbar is held into the trucks by a 'cotter key' that IIRC is a flat block of steel that can withstand enormous pounding. But if the cotter falls out, you 'pulled a drawbar' and the conductor must walk the track to find the pieces before trains can move again. On the American trains, note the successful emergency stops, without derailing anything, due to Bendix air brakes.
@Walter Foster Train brakes actually work the opposite of the way truck brakes do. They are OFF by default, must be charged to come on, and then have an Emergency Reservoir of air that can apply the brakes if an emergency application is detected by the Control Valve. Eventually, that Emergency Resevoir will bleed off because it's not 100% perfectly air tight, and hand brakes must be manually applied before this happens or the cars can start rolling.
@@liberty7835 as the cars are aired up, the spring brakes are pushed away from the drums. When the air is evacuated, the spring brakes return to their default position which is pushed out against the drum. All the wheels have them on every car.
Only as long as there is air in the auxillary tank. Whay happens when that air is gone ??? We have a town in my state called Esperance, the folks living there can tell you exactly what happens then. Nind you the wagon consist was parked 40 Kilometres from town, train crew forgot to apply hand brakes, when air was gone, so were the brakes, they rest is history.
It happened to me, as a passenger on an Amtrak train west of Harrisburg, PA in 1992. Most people didn't know what happened, but the conductor told me later. That train was also plagued with brake problems too- kinda scary.... We had to stop repeatedly in Ohio & Indiana because of the brakes. 🚬😎
@@garydergut4741 problem with that is brakes can fail at anytime even brand new ones. The only thing to stop brake issues is to replace the brakes every 2 weeks cause most of them last 30-60 days
Good thing I’m watching this because I love trains so much that i am a big big big big big big big big fan of trains. Thanks so much for making this video🤩
Years ago on the railroad we did what was called a dutch drop. Engine would get the car rolling then a little slack . Cut the car loose , the engine would take off down the no lead and then the switch men would line the switch and let the car go down another track after the engine got in the clear.
Supposedly with that little red light mechanism they put in the rear of every train freight train, that is supposed to react quicker than a brakeman. And now they often place DPU at the ends of Trains .
Amazing catches. Im a new subscriber. Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida. I also watch train videos from Roman's Milwaukee Roads, showing trains in Wisconsin.
Thank you very much for your information! I recognised the train as a TALGO, but I thought this was in Spain. Have the Kazakh TALGOS the (In Spain so named) RD system, so they can change the railway gauge easy and fast? Greetings from the Netherlands.
These people need to calm down, geeeez! This is simply a mechanical failure that is automatically taken care of by the braking system. Trains are not animate object that 'uncouple themselves'.
I found that, "oh my Gawd guy" annoying as heck. You can tell he is naive about trains. As a former conductor, I was just thinking about how I would have to lug a new knuckle back to that break. One break that I noticed in the video, the drawbar was broken off at the knuckle. That is going to take a little more time to repair than just a new knuckle.
I moved into a house by a rr crossing in 2020 and during the first few months, a coupler broke and as in these videos, the brakes engaged, which we heard inside our house, stopping the train. I peered over our fence to watch repair, then retrieved the severed knuckle once maintenance and the train departed. It is still sitting on my porch near the mailbox
I was working as a student conductor and we had a train separate right after we picked it up off interchange, oddly we were coming downgrade and it separated somehow, anyway the part hooked to the engine stopped first, and the separated cars were still rolling and made a damn hard hook to each other lol
Yeah. That can happen. If the separation occurs near the front of the train the head end may brake far quicker than the tonnage running up on you. The separated cars become a menace and bad things can happen
