Tehachapi Derailment: The Aftermath 

Thanks Mark for letting us know about this derailment and the aftermath.

you stay safe up there!!! long ago back in 2011, i lost a steer tire off my 2009 Freightliner Cascadia at the top of the drop there at Tehachapi and (thank you Schneider and Prime Inc for those simulator trainings!) managed to bring her to a solid stop without becoming one with the scenery!

Thanks for taking us up there Mark

The're pretty quick getting the lines opened. Lots of money and customers sitting around waiting isn't a good thing for them. Thanks for heading up and giving us an update.

Great video, Mark. They sure repaired that section fast.

Mark, I was surprised there were not a bunch of railroad officers keeping you from videotaping. I thought they still had 18th century jurisdiction to prevent "trespassing." Thank you for your dedication to bringing us the pictures. Be safe.

That was a very nice video. Thanks for showing us the "aftermath".

Thank you Mark! Glad you provide this channel for us

Now this is what yo7 would called Close-up Action. Very Impressive, Mark. Thanks for your efforts with this Derailment and ALL the other videos you post for us. 👍

Great coverage, thanks. I hope you keep making videos following the progress of the clean up

That's pretty crazy! I'm glad you were on the scene to capture this, very interesting, what a mess, it's going to be one hell of a challenge to fix it.

I worked as a switchman/brakeman in the 1970's for Southern Pacific. Our moto was" up hill slow, down hill fast, tonnage first and safety last " But the pay was really good. That was in the days of having a caboose and a rear brakeman and a head brakeman, ran for a lot of switches in those days. Worked out of Taylor Yard.

Great coverage Mark. I enjoy what you put out. It's like being able to travel without leaving home, and reminds me of when I lived in SoCal.

Thanks for keeping us updated on that Mark that was very kind keep them coming brother

Great shots & info! You were right up in there - so cool.

The sound that the derailment made must have been something to hear.

Thanks for your hard work to bring this to us.

Mark thanks again for your continuing coverage of the cleaning up of recent tehachapi pass derailment. Also thank you for caring enough about the content that gets uploaded to your channel to double check the footage you record before putting it up and making it public. Other channels I subscribe to sometimes forget to it more often than they possibly should and I feel like I need to leave feedback on the useablety of the audio the video or both. Anyway keep doing what you can to get us more content for your channel.

Old stomping ground, love the area. Just heard about the train derailment. Thank you for sharing. Really cool.

Hey Mark!! Kevin J. Keller here, from Dayton, Ohio! We know each other from your a Selfless contributions to the Tehachapi Train Depot! Just LOVE your work here!! Thanks for keeping the memories of my time there so Precious.

Very good video Mark Tehachapi has a place in my heart cannot wait to go back pretty soon. Awesome video and aftermath derailment at Tehachapi loop CA.

Thanks for the upclose and personal view! What a mess... but, no one injured (I expect).

Mark, your videos are always exceptional, but this one is another step up! GREAT video, and excellent commentary (hey, I like your commentary and speculation, I like it) - I am amazed at how quickly the crews have replaced the broken line and (apparently) have reopened the track to traffic. This must be a major route - the track crews must have worked all night to repair this line. Clean-up is going to be a bit of a challenge I guess - as you say, not too much room to work. As always, take care of yourself, be safe, and keep the hot coffee and calorie-free donuts handy. TU.

Thanks for the video Mark, much appreciated.

Hello from New Zealand. Great coverage of this latest whoopsee. The opening shot was certainly an eye opener. Most impressed with the track staff getting the mainline up & running. Will subscribe to keep an eye on future developments . Thankyou

Thanks for the update! Nice to see from the top of the wreck! Hopefully clean up soon to get the prime packages to there correct location.

Thank you for the video - you do great work! 👍🚂

Wow that was sure something Mark! Great coverage and views, thanks our friend! (Dave).

Thx Mark for you informative and entertaining video. Keep 'em rolling

Thanks for the update Mark.

Good follow up and hopefully, more to come. Thanks

Hey thanks for that video Mark. We appreciate it. ❤️👍

Thank You Mark! I was watching your video yesterday and I knew you would make an updated video of the carnage!! Ha! Ha!

You guys do great work it's a lot of time to do it

As a track maintenance foreman you absolutely NEVER depend on crossing warning devices as an indicator of an approaching train. This is why we have a required sight distance per speed of track for lookout protection. Never ever in a blind curve. BTW in my area railroads use Hulcher tracked equipment to pick up derailed rolling stock.

Awesome Mark. Thanks for the update.

First time commenter, long time follower; how very informative! I was up for Father's day and drove past four times, only happened to notice it on the second pass.

Drove by that when returning from Bakersfield, the amount of derailments that have happened on the pass is definitely concerning. Great coverage!

Thanks for the coverage, watching the trains go by is one of the things I miss about from where I lived many a year ago. And yes, it is a common happing for trains to derail, even with the constant maintenance of the tracks. There is no way to predict when a rail crack.

Nice coverage Mark! I’m always amazed how quick you guys get everything back together after a derailment.

Thanks for the video and content, stay safe, and keep up the good work.

that was a great informative video thanks so much for your time. we live in Bakersfield and for a while we didn't hear any trains at night. now we know why

thanks for the up close footage - very interesting.

Yet another great video !! I see you have the "gray ghost" back.

Excellent video and commentary!

Great job mark . Love your work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Robin 🇺🇸🇨🇦

Wow, great video! Thanks!

Thanks for the video Mark.

Thanks for the update.

Great Footage, ThankYou!!

Mark, thanks for the great videos. Those are protective housings on top of the tank cars. They keep the valves and fittings from getting sheared off in case of a roll-over.

I like the two different perspectives. The RR bedding is just so wild. All that material of rocks. Incredible

Awesome footage. Just 2 weeks before, I witnessed a train in Tehachapi with sparks and flames under the rails. Apparently it was braking hard and was still gaining speed. This was around 8:00pm on a Sunday. Very loud and very bright scene. This was south on the 58 just west of the 14.

That's going to be a challenge to clean up! Saw that on the hillside on Wednesday afternoon.

WOW!! I hope to get out that way soon! Subscribed!

A pleasant, train-spotting, demeanor you possess, mon ami !

So interesting. Thank you!😊

Thanks for the report!

Thank you for this video.

awesome job Mark

Awesome , Thanks MCM😊

Thanks for the look on the"loop". My Ole dad had a infatuation with the "loop", he even built a compressed HO layout of it, pretty clever it was the train would run it go through the tunnel and come back through the tunnel in opposite direction. He had everything athearn made in "espee". I need to go and rescue the motive power and rolling stock. His railroad, aside from the holes in the wall is all gone. Dispute between him and mommy dearest, he tore it all down in 77. I ran some on it, it was a fun run.

You actually have a good voice for narrating these vids. Great work! (This is from a guy who dreads the sound of his own voice with a Boston accent)

"MCM, another damn fine post. Excellent videography, ('didn't see any "shakiness') !!! Had to subscribe this time !

Hey Mark!! Virg. Great stuff. I just asked the wife the other day about that derailment as we were driving to pick up the grands.

Subscribed because of this one. Thanks !

It would suck if you’re a train hopper in a situation like this

Nice footage I will continue to follow ❤

Thank you Mark

Nice video. Typically a derailment in a populated area, the rail company wastes no time or worries about Expense. They got going Immediately. After the clean-up, no remnants of an accident is left. In mountainous regions of Mexico, their are many carcasses of freight cars left where they fell. This nice video gives you views of cars (tops, bottoms, bogeys) that you rarely ever get to see! well done.

I've loaded railcars like those, snd those domes on top of the tankcars are called crash box. They are designed to protect the dipleg and N2 valve for unloading. Great video by the way.

Good stuff. Thanks.

Terrific video of the loop from points I’ve never seen before. I can recall being on the Coast Starlight when it diverted from its normal route and took the loop, and your video adds even more to the thrill we experienced. Thanks so much.

Congratulations mark the derailment videos are your most popular videos!

Wait hold up how come I never heard about this from a local news in Bakersfield 😳🤯😱

I live right next to a rail yard where tankers are going back and fourth constantly at low speed, nice to know one of those things wont pop with a fairly non-violent derailment. Especially with the sorts of chemicals I see go by 😱

Excellent video Sir.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Good work! 👍👍👍👊😎

Just North of OKC is a dog food plant and at one time we switched it two times a day. Busy place. We had to go open doors etc for them for bad doors on box cars. Then after a long time I had to go there and the rails going in were covered with gravel. I saw a lot of docks had been built into the South side of the building and JB Hunt trailers were at all of them and I figured we had lost all that business to trucks but as I was almost back to our shop IN saw the piggy back tracks were being loaded with JB hunt trailers. So really we lost the switching but got the road hauls.

We had a dozen log and boxcar wagons go over when the rails washed out on a line here in New Zealand a couple days ago. The two locos and first half dozen cars made it through and the rest of the train is safe, but there's pallets of pulp and logs scattered throughout the farmer's paddock in the floodwaters

I find it amazing they had that line up and running in just over 24 hours. Also amazing is those tankers not leaking from that long tumble. Wow.

Thank you.

Thanks Mark!

I always learn something when I am listening to your videos. This time it was dynamic braking. I know it's there on these engines and yet it didn't strike me how it was used until you mentioned that single lead engine probably wouldn't have enough dynamic for the descent. This is worth a forehead slap :) Very cool! Thank you for that :) What is with the rampant theft from the railroads? I guess the crooks can't settle for the more normal types of theft when a single container holds more promise. Sad state of affairs.

Those tanker cars are the newer double hull design. That's why they are so much more resilient than the older single hull design was.

Outstanding how tough they make those tanker cars, I remember freight trains on the highline comming out of the north Dakota oil fields doing derailing and making a major mess

Open container contents looks like a boiler I’ve seen in that color and shape but they usually are cardboarded up for shipment so it’s anyone’s guess … it’ll be interesting how they’ll tug those up and over that left the train ride they were on….and it they were loaded. Great stuff MCM (and we dont mean 1900 )…

I seen many of these working for U.PRR .MY last 10 years was mostly surface and line Jackson 6700 . Lots of concrete ties Eastern Oregon .

Back in the 90s I worked for a train derailment company Hulcher professional services Inc. We had 72 divisions in the United States I was out of the Stockton division we worked the whole West Coast plenty of Tehachapi Loop, Sierra derailments . It was harder than Boot Camp at the Marines we would work 57 hours straight on any given time no exaggeration.

Mark, you are a jewell. No fluff, or fooling around. How did the local newspapers do?

I had a derailment on my property a few years ago and it took them almost a year to remove the cars.

Great video! I've been wondering what the deal is with this. I drive by it almost every day making deliveries to auto shops.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the cleanup/recovery. I have seen derailed railcars laying by the track for years in rural Tennessee. And the crash scene from The Fugitive - It's still an attraction beside the rails on a tourist ride out of Bryson City, North Carolina.

I was driving through a place called chaplin sk in Canada about 10 days ago. The derailment they had there piled containers so high the pile was bigger than some apartment blocks.

Better than a drone ; ) thanks man

At the San Diego Model Train Museum the have a replica of the Tehachapi loop it’s beautiful.

Is this on the east side of the loop, or on one of the curves north or south of it? Thanks.

Thoroughly enjoyed your derailment videos. I’ve worked on a few myself as a retired semi driver for the UP. Started in 1979 on the good ol SP as a track worker, aka gandy dancer, in Lovelock Nevada. Worked all over the western states & know the Tehachapi area. Mostly hauling track material & equipment. What was your OTS (On Track Safety) while getting your videos? 😉 Rick McNamer Smith River, Ca

It’s quite impressive that the IBCs held those two blue containers together. When I was working in the BNSF Telecom shop on Sheila Street it was always impress to feel the ground shake when a straddle buggy would accidentally drop a container.

Which direction is The Loop from where this derailment occurred. Only been that area the one time, this past October (for the Edwards AFB show) and visited The Loop as a side trip. Thanks from across the border (49th that is)