As a conductor for CSX, it’s all fun and games listening to the sweet sounds of slack until you’re spotting the last car of a 100 car train and you think you have the perfect spot, but then the slack rolls out and it sends an additional 50 damn feet to the end 😂
My first apartment was up the hill from a freight train yard. I used to love waking up in the night hearing the creaking and banging of the trains coupling and uncoupling and the long horns of trains coming and going. It was a pleasing distant sound and it would lull me back to sleep. Lovely video. Thanks! ❤️
2:27 was certainly the biggest bang irl, I remember looking into the yard and seeing they were about to couple with some speed. I knew it would be big but I didn't expect the mini earthquake I got.
When I was younger a CSX train came to a stop right in front of me when it stopped completely it was at the end of the train and it was a boxcar and it slightly rolled back and at the time I didn’t know trains could lock the couples together but 2 miles away you could hear each coupler from the lead locomotive to the back of the train lock together when I tell you it scared the hell outta me I almost cried
I love the sound design of slack action in da the morning. It sounds like big time railroading.
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Gotta watch that slack. When you're a rider it can save your life to be conscious of the slack as it's coming. Long trains are so much worse for the slack too. Riding near the end sometimes the slack is so huge it almost pulls you right off the end of the grainer
I remember a time when I was a little kid being at my grandmas house which there’s a train track right beside her house. There was a time a train came to a stop and I stood there waiting for it to move. All of a sudden you hear deep rumbling coming down the track and then right in front of me, boy that scared the crap out of me! Really loud in person
imagine the train as a long rope with knots at each knuckle. as you drive foward you pull each one forward one at a time in a wave until all cars are given momentium
I've seen a conductor get thrown like a rag doll from slack. If it's 10 cars or less I'm walking to every couple, cut, or switch. You ain't whipping my ass to death.
From when I did switching as a Brakeman on BSVY, you can definitely feel it from within the cab as well upon slowing down, especially with the loads we had to set out.
its wild when these trains move cus that impulse from the engine moves down the cars like a rope being pulled taught at the speed of sound. its like a car crash sound repeating until it hits you
Awesome compilation, love hearing some thunderous slack action. I hear it quite often near me when CSX is starting and stopping empty southbound coals drags for crew change. Thanks for posting 👍🏼😎
I came here after watching a video of a Mach 8.6 rocket sled at the Holloman High Speed Test Track... When I was stationed at Holloman and they ran a Mach 8.9 test, I heard it from my house and, by the time the sonic boom got to me it had echoed off so many things I mistook it for a train coupling. I realized what it was the next day, when I saw the e-mail saying "Well, we didn't reach Mach 9, but everything else about the test was successful." ...So I came to listen to train sounds and, yes, this is the sound I remember hearing at my house.
As a kid I had the honor of riding in the caboose of a local shortline (which still uses cabooses). We were ready to get an 80+ car coke train moving. The guys told me hold on. in a split second the road of the approaching slack hit the caboose and I went flying. It was like getting hit by a linebacker. They all laughed.
Sounds like a jet engine roaring over you, before you hear the loud CLANG of the couplers. For some reason when I first started railfanning, I thought that mean the car was a bout to topple over😅
nah those are child play, here on my city there is a hill right after a long straght way of rails, the trains aways arrive at this point of the via on a high speed, and because it starts a hill climb sudently it slacks the whole train. That shit slacks so hard i can feel the ground shivering from my house.
Is that perfectly normal? Or is that just an Engineer that is not as experienced moving trains around or just doe not give a hoot? Thanks in advance and take care.
It's perfectly normal, more experienced engineers can certainly be gentler on the train if they have the time to do so, but it's impossible to completely avoid coupler slack action.
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