Train Derailments and Mistakes Caught On Camera 

"How do you steer the Train" true railway expert

6:25 :it's hard to say what this giant cement object is..." It's a piece of a bridge and it's made out of concrete.

A rail worker in the US used to get 5 minutes to inspect each car. Today they get less then 28 seconds to inspect each car.

Asking Engineers how they steer a train is akin to asking airline pilots where the bilge pump is.

That person who doesn't know what a train is. There are people with PHD's that waiter in bars. What is this world.

“Who was steering the train?” In the 1980’s, a train went by and one of the wagons had a flat spot. Clunk, clunk, clunk. My brother’s girlfriend asked why it was doing that and my brother replied cheekily, “because it has a flat tyre!”. And she goes, “oh, I didn’t realise trains had tyres!” 🤣🤣

“What part do you two play in turning the vessel?” 😂😂😂

Too bad that you did not show the scene from the thumbnail...

I saw a derailment happen some years ago (outside of a lumber yard off Cove Rd. in Pennsauken, NJ- on tracks that aren't used anymore) An engine was pulling a cut of cars forward when the 1st car behind the engine started to sway back & forth at a very slow speed- the rear wheels of the engine jumped the rails. The engine righted itself back up onto the rails, but pulled the wheels of the boxcar behind it off the rails- for good. They were stuck there & were against the end of their shift, so a crew truck came & picked them up. 1 man arrived an hour later & by himself, put the boxcar up on the tracks again- by himself !! He used a bunch of timber, some jacks & "come along" or winch to do it.... And the boxcar was loaded !! He moved a dozen or so tons by himself !! Kinda cool to watch, actually... 🚬😎👍

Nice clickbait thumbnail you've got going on there 👌

I think the cement object that tipped over the 🚂 Is part of a bridge deck it certainly looks like 1

Overshooting a signal (incident in India) means that the train proceeded beyond a signal with a STOP indication. It does NOT mean that the train was supposed to switch to another track. In all likelihood, the other train was probably the one that was to switch in order to pass the one that should have stopped. Whoever wrote the script for this is as uninformed about trains as the investigator asking about steering. Sadly, most channels like this are clickbait.

6:34 Seriously, if you don't know what that is, I really don't know what to say. Its a bridge segment. Multiple segments like this one are glued together and then cables are strung between the segments and tensioned.

Well there's your problem right there ! Some one stolen the trains steering wheel.

#2 wasn't another train, but the DPU on the rear end, DPU standing for Distributed Power Unit. You need those not only because the trains are so long (the trains on these iron ore lines commonly have multiple DPU sets), but because if you put all the power on the head end, it'll tear apart the couplers. How they managed to loose their tail end DPUs? I couldn't tell you. Thats certainly a first for me.

Over shot a signal = They were supposed to stop.

The investigater actually asked "Why couldn't you steer the train?" Even those who don't know how a train works (mechanismwise) can tell you the signalmen "steer" the train

My husband saw a train wreck. A tanker truck had just filled up at a refinery next to some tracks. As the truck was crossing the tracks the brakes locked up. The driver got out to see if he could fix whatever was causing the problem. When the gates came down on the trailer. A few seconds later an Amtrak train drove through the trailer. Luckily it stayed on the tracks. Most of the injuries were minor and some smoke inhalation. The worst injury was a firefighter. He was on one side when another firefighter on the other side sprayed some of the flames. The flames got pushed under the cars and the first firefighter got burned. Luckily from what we heard it wasn't very bad burns. He could have been a lot worse.

0:40 Ha-ha. The story is about an accident in the USA, but in the video there is a Russian locomotive.

wow... just, wow... stop talking about railways. You miss the most basic fundamentals to even start talking about it. About everything in the last three examples concerning how railways operate was so off, I don't even know where to start...

That concrete load on this Thai train wasn't "unbalanced", it was balanced alright until the train came slowly into a curve, which is tilted to compensate for centrifugal force. and this is when the centre of gravity went outside of tracks and the whole thing tilted. Probably if the train has went into the curve bit faster the centrifugal force would keep the load safe.

The cargo that tipped on the Thailand train at 6:31 appears to be a concrete bridge segment of some kind.

I'm sorry but when you said those guys actually asked who was steering the train I started laughing so hard I was crying 😂😂

We had a press delivered from Michigan to Kentucky by rain. It was top heavy and they were supposed to go slow in turns. We drove backwards a few miles up the tracks in Richmond Kentucky and found the press flipped over in a curve. They were going about 15 miles an hour faster than recommended in the curve. Was very expensive to get it back on the train.

Steering a train is hard work!

The locomotive operator failed to steer away from the barge on his track. What a bummer!

At timestamp 00:39 / Why do you show russian "electritschkas" (=russian emu) when reporting from a train derailment in Ohio? At timestamp 02:21 / "The more railroads you have, the more common derailments become" is nonsense. Derailments become comon, if track and maintenance quality is poor. Example: the Shinkansen High Speed Train network in Japan startet in 1964 with approx. 500km network, today it is almost 3000km long. Since 1964 it had not a single accident causing fatalities (and we are speaking of human beings, not of freight), not even during a major earthquake in 2004. This is due to perfect maintenance and very advanced surveilleince technology. Or to put it in simpler language: american trains = steam train 19th century, japanese trains = spaceship 23rd century.

Always a good day when Most Dangerous puts out new content😎

Interesting, but the misleading thumbnail gets you an instaban from my recommendations.

we know the "steering the train" question but (6:24) "it is hard to say what this giant cement object is...Building" NO! it is a precast bridge segment

My guess is the question about steering the train came from a politician. Maybe the same nitwit politician that said he was afraid Guam would tip over. Laugh but it was actually asked in the house.

9:24 no, they failed to stop at the red, the Engineer has no control of the switches.

¡Increíble ni siquiera comienza a describir estos desastres catastróficos! Este vídeo es una montaña rusa de emociones. ¡Gran trabajo!

1:15 imagine one of your earliest memories being playing with a dump truck on the swingset, and then seeing *that*

0:39 I would really like to know how this train could have passed Wellington, OH since it is a Russian electric engine.

That train derailed here in Brazil was dued to maintenance of the tracks. The works were fixing the tracks and there was a difference in the gauge of that track, by the way it was a worker of the train company MRS who filmed the derailment, he was resting because that was time lunch.

"Thankfully, no one was hurt."

commuter train didnt stand a chance head on with the frieght locomotive . hey these are the best train fail vids on the entire internet keep em coming i love it thanks!

You won't catch me on a train in Brazil 😂😂😂😂

I can't believe that utility pole survived the first incident.

Same narrator as natural disasters channel :o

On the last video, no, your wrong. You must stop at all red signals along the track. If you overshoot it, you can(and maybe willl) collide with another train on the same track. There are signal "blocks" every few miles, and they turn yellow(when approaching a red block) and red after that. If you go into the red block, you can collide. One of the trains must have disobeyed their signal.

Its amazing how many of these that happen and get covered up real fast

What a surprise, that was epic!

This is mostly inaccurate commentary from someone who clearly knows nothing about trains. I was done when I heard “they pulled the emergency brake” not how that works clowns

I love how he mentions Selkirk in the first one because the train was most likely headed to Selkirk

Actually yes you do steer the train. Ofcourse following tracks but engineer does steer head power unit into turns etc

"Put the emergency brake into overdrive" is a meaningless statement. First, "overdrive" is a gear in a transmission that's above the top gear. It lowers engine RPM and torque, which increases fuel efficiency. It does NOT produce more power like people seem to think. Next, going into "overdrive" implies that the emergency brakes are on at a higher power setting constantly and they're just changing that setting to something else. Emergency brakes on a train have two settings. Off, and fully applied. Period. Once you place the train into emergency, the maximum amount of available air in the brake cylinders on each car is applied to the brake system. It's all or nothing.

Where was the thumbnail? Just clickbait?

For #2 i think the 2nd train was actually the back locomotive Trains usually have a locomotive in front and back

On the second to last one: The Carajas railway carries some of the longest and heaviest trains in the world. The cargo you can see is Bauxite, the ore that is then refined to produce Aluminium. The train is so long and heavy they have to distribute locomotives all along the train, if they would put them all up front the couplings would just rip apart. But then they don't have engineers in the locomotives throughout the train, just up front, and the others are remote controlled. It's much more likely that the coupling somehow separated and the remote controlled locomotives just kept on going. or... If I remember the documentary correctly, there is a section of track that is especially steep and hard to traverse, so they have stand-by locomotives that get switched onto the track behind the train to then give it a running boost, and I even think I remember I heard that exact "alarm" in that documentary when they showed this.

Is the mistake in the first one the fact that a Soviet locomotive got lost in Ohio? 0:38

Maybe the railroad companies should upkeep there railway systems better!...

1:03 I swear if a 3 year old brain rot kid says “Swag like Ohio, Only in Ohio”

I wonder . . . do any of the locals call the Missouri River the "Misery River" ?

6:20 The "giant concrete thing" was a bridge segment.

The siren you hear is the alarm going off in the Cabin, it was to alert the engineer he was going too fast.

So so so many major mistakes if someone had only done their research

that bs @ 4:50 sounded more like lawyers trying to put the blame on the train operators...

Trains run on the same tracks all the time. In the case of the last clip obviously one of those trains blew through a red signal meaning there was another train inbound. If you are facing a red signal you must stop until you get the green.

overshooting a signal means a train engineer/operator had passed a signal by a large distance. it does not mean it was supposed to switch tracks.

Excellent. I am thankful to your showing the Kacheguda station (Hyderabad) collision (11-11-2019) shown by you. Local press didn't give any pictures. I wonder how you got them; any way congrats!

Passengers: "Whiplash, whiplash! Call my attorney. Ka-ching.

At what point in the video is the thumbnail? clickbait?

Totally unknowledgable narration.

Awesome, I see we have a lot of work to do. Very nice production.

Once, US rail workers had a generous 5 minutes per car for inspection. Now? A mere 28 seconds. Madness.

Well i just don't understand why they didn't just steer into the next track to avoid taking damage and derailment, Such amateurs

@6:34 - it's a piece of pre-cast bridge.

first one is lock up axle of second locomotive is crash first at crossing island that lead to derailment

That guy jumping out of the passenger train was like fk this shit I’m out

Vídeo incrível! Infelizmente as colisões podem ser terrível tanto quanto o descarrilamento! Sou Brasileira 🇧🇷 vi as locomotivas batendo na cauda do cargueiro! Saudações do Brasil 🇧🇷

2 million for the first crash and that is a lot of money? What if I tell you someone is hemorrhaging 100 million per DAY?

NO, that WAS NOT caught on camera! Come on!

For crash #2, I think it was a different scenario (idk about the crash in-depth, this is also speculation). The first train had a long and heavy load, the two diesel engines that passed by were probably banker engines - engines that help give trains a push up steep inclines - or were helping slow the train down when it comes to a train yard. The couplers between the last freight car and the lead locomotive must’ve undone itself, as the train rolling through had a big gap between the last coal hopper and locomotives. The engineer was probably trying to play catch up, but wasn’t expecting the first train to stop (even if the first locomotive at the very front stopped the whole train, a train that length wouldn’t stop at the same time as the engine), therefore the two diesels chasing the end of the train crashed into the back of it ala flying kipper style (Thomas the tank reference, laugh now) Either that or the two diesels were pushing the train cars into a siding, couplers let loose, train cars stop, train hits train car, yada yada yada (ik ik, “aint reading allat”, but there’s my two cents into the second crash)

That big piece of concrete at 6:20 is part of a bridge not a building

That Brazil train chase- I believe those were helper units, to help push long trains through the hills. They are never manned, which would explain why it never slowed.

I think the world needs to copy Japan's railway safety system.

isn’t it somewhat funny how the cars just pile up instead of breaking apart

Thanx for video 🎥. 👍

at 216 since has scotlad become part of the usa and left the uk has that shows the jackobite special on the west highland line

I'll save you some time. The thumbnail train is not in this video.

Every single moment here has me rolling on the floor laughing! Definitely sharing with my friends!

Глядя на эти кадры, мне хочется кричать: "Конструкция железнодорожной магистрали, как выжатый лимон, устарела до нельзя!".

in India railway n trains accidents are common... for 6 months 3 accidents

The kids play set in #1 with the derailment so close to it is a scary what if.

Wish we had footage of that UP runaway that derailed going 150 MPH back in March.

If you ever feel stupid, remember the investigator's question at 4:48.

you can't stear a train hold my beer

There are more than 200 countries in the world that use the metric system. Please use it.

Thailand looks like a part of a roadway that shifted as the train was going around the curve

Asking why someone can’t steer a locomotive is like asking why cruise ships don’t drive on land.

The "Siren" you speak of is the whining sound of the dynamic brakes on the engines. The engineer likely threw everything they had into stopping it but dynamic brakes don't function well in this type of situation. They in fact have less braking ability without cars and by themselves remember the contact between wheel and rail are about the size of a dime.

For those who don’t know the little fridge units on the fridge cars and also fridge semi trucks have a small diesel generator on them so if anyone confused now you know

9:25 yes overshooting a signal means going past a signal that your supposed to look out for to switch tracks as to not have this happen. I also must bring up the part about steering a train. I get it, not everyone is a train nerd like me, but Jesus Christ in what world would you steer a train? I mean I understand having to guess on what overshooting a signal means, but whoever thinks you steer a train, i have no words.

I've only heard one derailing in my life. So for Context: from the time i was 21 I've lived next to Conrail train yard. Back when i was 13 around 3am in the summer (mind you my window was open) I could hear people talking over the radio and alot of radio chirping sound. I gotten up and looked around my room for the sound. Oddly enough when i heard it from outside i left out my room to see if my family members heard it to. No they didnt hear it (but that only cause we sometimes we get dickhead conductors who loves to lay on the horn so we gotten use to the sound.) For a hour in a half I listen to the sound and saw flash lights on train tracks hitting different cart. I got tired and decided to head back to bed. By next day i found it a bit strange as i walked across the track to go to the store to see a lone broken train cart was sitting on the main line of the railroad. Luckily being aquatinted with some of the Conrail workers i found out that the cart broke down due to old age and derailed itself. Conrail and the conductors of the train were gathered around that night talking to their people on what to do; it was later they decided to leave the cart (which was empty btw) and get to the destination. Conrail assist with removing the cart off the track and placing it on the sister track beside it, but once the train was gone they moved it back on the original track and shut down the line. It took two months for the company of that cart to finally retrieve the cart. Still could never get over the amazement of seeing a cart that was only on it's back two with the container sliding down touching the tracks.

Why when discussing the Brazilian railways do we get a cut to a Scottish railway (The Glenfinnon viaduct as used in Harry Potter). Darned amatuers made this video

I hate when you have a lack of lubricant when you're running a train

4:26 rip Mississippi River

Yikes, my boss, greetings from Indonesia..