One way to rerail a 100 ton loaded coal car from derailment 40' from tracks! 

we have walked back a derailed locomotive that was approx 40 yards from track using nothing but rail jacks and ties and re railed it. thanks too the old guys who are disappearing quickly for all the tricks

Really cool how the dozers and train and everyone coordinated this recovery of the loaded coal car. Thanks.

Fascinating stuff even to a non-rail buff like myself. Thanks for the post!

Great video,very interesting. I once watched a real life team lift and move a de-railed coal car using air bags. They emptied the wagon with what looked like a mobile auger. Once empty it was lifted and moved using great big air bags. It took maybe four hours to do it but a fairly small team did it with no obvious problems. Wish I had filmed it!

UNBELIEVABLE!!! My son and I were looking at train videos and this was the third one we clicked on to watch. The description (One way to re-rail a 100 ton loaded coal car from derailment 40' from tracks!) looked interesting and the length perfect for what we wanted to see, a massive re-railment from a de-railment. Imagine our shock when we saw it said Nashua. I didn't think it could be NH. Of the thousands of train videos online, the third one we click on is from our (New) hometown! This happened less than three months before we moved here. Thank you for this video not only for that, but it is definitely one of the best derailment ones I have ever seen! Now, we have to find out where it is from where we are. Just amazing! Thank you!!!

What a dangerous job! Thanks for posting.

"Okay, guys. You four get on one side and the rest of you get on the other side. On my count, everyone lift 'er up and get 'er back on the rails."

that was something to watch. I watched a video where they put a car back on the tracks in the UK that was something to watch too. thank

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

I always wondered how they did that. Wow...thanx!

Thanks for your patience in obtaining this most interesting video!

Just a great job, recording for posterity the how it's done. Thanks for posting.

Nice clear steady video.

No doubt every single worker of this crew knew what the heck they were doing. It was like a ballet performing at their best. Synchronized moves to perfection!

Awesome video, man they got their work cut out for them, would have loved to have watched the entire clean up process, very interesting to see how this stuff is done. Thanks for sharing !.

What a great video. Love the performance by the men and machines to re-rail that car. What a performance, and that SD40, oh my, what a beautiful sound.

Wow.... Those sidewinder boomside liftermover dozers are cool. Damn those Hobos, for putting pennys' on the tracks.

I never saw "sidewinder" dozers in action. Neat.

Great job.Boy those Cat side booms are powerful.

Great work !

Cool to watch! Those sidewinder bulldozers can really lift! Ive seen them lift locomotives.

Dang !! What a flipping Mess !! Those 'side-winders' ? are Awesome !!! :) Had my nose to the screen...lol

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing what can be done with the sidebooms. Got to see it first hand on the B&LE. Penn Erection was the contractor, I do believe.

RJ, as you can see if you read my description it says “sideboom” and I made a typo in the film as many spectators call them “sidewinder “ including people there and I stayed with it as they are seen as the same to many. Now, you should research yourself as “dossier” has no place in your comment and maybe you need to see it’s definition 🤓. Those dozers are medium size and certainly not “big ass” as you state seeing the ones I work on are much larger (D-8,D-9, D-10 and TD-25’s). Thanks for viewing.

Nice filming! That would make great training video for new railway associates.

Great vedio and great work to the crew working

Really appreciate your great work. I'm a Nevada ol boy, like the heat and crave the sun. I could never have even considered going out in the weather the video started with, no matter how mild you northerners you may consider it. I tried to record twice over four hours, but my camera shut down, too hot, 105 degrees by 10 am,, May 27th, so maybe it takes all types. Anyway, thanks for recording this operation.

Had class 66 (JT42CWR ) on ground with no track under it , we did it with MFD jacks and packing .Also layed some track on side on what was left of sleepers and very slowly drove loco on to good track with steel plates and wood packing .Took about 10 hours though They did great job here though and fairy quick did not like the chain they hauled wagon with would been well clear of that could kill if it had broken

Best Rerailing Video I've Seen . . Excellent Work Recording That !

I would absolutely LOVE to be on a crew like this, re railing freight cars for the Norfolk Southern, CSX or any other railroad, anything to get freight cars back on their tracks and rolling again and by the way, EXCELLENT video. It’s just ashamed to know that the Industrial Brownhoist cranes had to be scrapped, otherwise they would have come in handy for situations such as these, what would have been the harm in keeping a few of them and re painting them with Norfolk Southern and CSX lettering. Oh well, ya know what they say about hindsight being 20/20.

great video...great camera work!

Pulling the derailed cars while they are suspended by tow cranes, wow!

Great camera work Rich, thanks for the video.

was hoping to see another part to see the rest removed its so facinating to watch

love these video`s

Wow! Pretty smooth operation. And, pro-grade video. Thanks!

love to see a giant hand appear grab car & put back on track & say godamn it

Beginning looks like George Bailey 's bridge! The snow.

One morning behind my shop the were four big road locomotives derailed. A large crew of men showed up carrying big wooded blocks, jacks, pry bars and a rerail block. By noon the crew and the locomotives were gone.

Retired railroader with 51+ years. Worked too many derailments with railroad wrecking cranes and with off track contractors. Wreck clearance, as this video demonstrates, proves that the steel wheel on the steel rail is much more efficient than the steel wheel on natures own ground. Wreck cranes took a tremendous amount of time to get blocked up and stabilized to make a lift, and then have the blocking knocked down and reset to make another lift. Railroads eliminated the use of wreck cranes in the late 80's and early 90's and wreck clearance is done by off track contractors these days. Don't know how many more clearance operations the supervisor that was standing within 'snap radius' of the cable that was being used to tow the car toward the rail will have - cable snaps and his top half will no longer be connected to his bottom half.

Great job.

That's an old 571 Sideboom on the left and a 583 on the right. Nice 966 loader.

Engine sounded like one of the old GP-9's.

I agree that these Cat side winder dozers are terrific pieces of recovery equipment when used in the right situation for the right job, i have 2 cat dozers i use for heavy recovery work with massive hyster winches & large ground anchors for winching of realy heavy sunken & bogged machinery.

Possibly the worlds most powerful tow truck!

I love the way Corman's crew uses four of the side lift dozers and walks the unit over to good rails. I think it takes six trucks to move move two dozers and associated equipment to a job site. This does not look like Corman's crew.

It was a beautiful winter's day.

Must have been something in the day three rail lines, wow.

Difficult tedious work in unpleasant conditions. Video could have been half its length but fast forward saved the day. Periodic screen crawlers helped understand what was going on, thanks.

Real nice video recording R. Clark. Looks as if NS used their own equipment and there was no need for a 3rd party rerailer. Job well done and I'm sure we'll paid.

Great work you Guy's keep it up 😉😊

Wow! Those are some Big Boy's toys!!!

I don't know but it sure seems like their are more derailments than their should be and by other Rail Roads,not all of which are class 1. Nice video,by the way. Thank you for letting us share .

Wow that track bed is wasted. Time for an upgrade. Great catch.

Good video. I am surprised they let you that close.

Nice work!

Great video! Thanks for posting! These guys certainly know their stuff. They make it look easy when there's so much potential for something to go FUBAR. Nashua, NH ... would that be a PAR crew doing the re-railing work?

I lived in Nashua for awhile, I know exactly where that is

Thank you!!!

Man those traction motors are getting a hell of a workout

The crawlers with the booms are called sidewinders. I grew up right along the Western Maryland tracks.

thats some strong ass chain!! does antbody know if there is a ho scale model of the sidewinders? or good diagrams that could be used?

Not easy re-railing a 143 ton car!

Sure as heck wouldn't want to be around that cable if it broke. That looked like an insane amount of tension on it.

R Clark: thanks for the note. I understand it was a figure of speech. I apologize if I sounded too nerdy.

I can't believe anyone would stand close to that chain.

Sand on the rails helps!

Was that the Corman crew? We did a few big jobs with them when I was with Winters Rigging doing derailments. A very dangerous job but a lot of fun too. Everyone must be on their 'A' game. We had 43 cars in the Susquehanna River to fish out of the water in the middle of winter @ 5 below zero. Many loaded propane tankers, coal hoppers, and boxcars. We had to re-lay 12 miles of panels (new track) that got tore up. 24 hr round the clock, 2 -12 hr shifts. Took us 3 days to complete the job. We used 9 semi's, 1 rollback, light plants and generators, 2 side booms, 2 D-9's, 2 crane trucks, a complete repair shop on wheels, trailer full of extra parts and rolls of new winch cables and chains, a fuel truck, our food wagon and plenty of dry gloves, coveralls, boots and dry jackets. It was said that the railroad loses 1 million dollars per hour for every hour the tracks are blocked so time is at the utmost importance next to safety! The good ole days!

They should have used 4 of those yellow machines (2 in front and 2 in back) and they could have done it quicker. That is one strong ass cable pulling the loaded car. Impressive.

It seems as though tracks are seldom repaired when the time comes. As the lines deteriorate, they just operate with the trains running at a slower speed.

That chain...... amazing how 1 chain could take that much pressure. Locomotive pulling a loaded car through the dirt with 1 chain... wow

I subscribed. Joe from Germany. 😀😃😃

Stay away from those cables!

Workers needed much ingenuity to remove and replace wagons !

Awesome video! Curious about what camera you use?

That is one heck of a bridge! Big RRoading through there at one time, eh?

Probably the worst thing to do is have the RR official there to tell those guys what to do. Best thing to do is get out of the way and watch them take care of the mess. No need to unload the cars, pick them up and walk them over to good track and to hell with dragging them through the debris and slop. Very counter productive. Someone will get hurt. * no point in 'welding' chains to hold the truck together, that's what the hooks are for.

Were the rotten ties caused by the river under the rail bridges? Did the river have a tendency to overflow and flood the tracks? Is it also possible that the bridges make the nearby tracks and steel rails freeze faster, thus accelerating their wear and tear?

Seems like my 30 minute wait for roadside assistance isn't so bad after all...

9:45 just watching this i couldnt help but think that one of those rubber tyred gantery cranes they have at ports for containers but you know shorter and beefyer or a straddle carier would have worked well here

The weight of the snow on top of the coal probably made things more difficult.

Nice job crew Is there ever a time you put four of those Dozer machines on a car like each corner Then walk it down to put it back on the tracks Keep Safe out there !

' train trailer box is a really so heavy weight

I'll bet that's one tow cable without any kinks in it after they got done.

Only on Guilford!

What would have happened if it was the middle of winter and it kept snowing?

Guess there is no kinda hydraulic remote control jacks that can push it up and then sideways a little at a time, repeat, until back on tracks. I think they took out some 15' of ties to make that happen.

oh man that rail bed is absolutely done for. surely they had to redo the whole area from scratch around the bridge before putting track back down?

Thats some bit of chain! I wonder how much longer it was after the job was finished?

PERFECTO!!!!!!!!!

A loaded coal hopper weighs way more then just 100 tons. A loaded corn hopper weighs 130 tons . So the much more dense coal is closer to 140 tons each .

6:55 Had the chain snapped under tension, it's a good bet that everybody out in the open, especially on the left, would have been at risk of shrapnel injury. Get behind the dozer next time guys!

Great video the should bulldoze the bed so the cars cannot sink when they are dragging them to the rail head

I hope those 2 guys guiding the sideboom dozers got danger pay (or a dismissal ... lol) for their work.

Sorry. Bergungstechnik aus dem vorigen Jahrhundert. Mal etwas vom Multitasker von Kirow gehört. Das ist Technik from Germay.

I’m sorry Ik I’m really late but this was in Nashua NH???!!

Pretty much the best way

Is there a group for emergency team at the railway in the social nets?

Good filming, you need to research the equipment better the Big ass Bulldozers are equipped with side boom wenches, so the are called Side Boom Dossers. The pipe line industry also uses side boom Dossers.