With Hurricane Helene impacting the United States, learn about how railroads battle severe weather so they can keep trains moving. Follow me on social media! Instagram: www.instagram.... #train #hurricane #weather
Not just mother nature but humans as well. Always good to keep your ears and eyes open and your head on a swivel when outdoors wether in nature in around ppl in the city.
Speaking of Hurricane Katrina and trains. Amtrak will start back service from New Orleans to Mobile, AL this spring after 20 years. It used to be part of the Sunset Limited line that ran from LA to Orlando. The new line will be the Mardi Gras Express.
Lack of rail management this is always happened to railroads. They don’t keep up on track maintenance Which should be inspected constantly to prevent accidents of this nature They always try to cut corners seen this all my life it’s sad. It’s all about money.
Lack of rail management? Yeah I can definitely tell you've never worked in the rail sector.. our MOW guys do amazing work keeping the wheels on the rails. Instead of criticizing.. them, maybe you should appreciate them a little more, so save the propaganda for someone wanting to listen
11:03 hurricane Laura is the worst hurricane I’ve ever experienced it damaged the capital one building in Lake Charles Louisiana on September 7. They demolish the building that’s how bad it was
Great job, one other piece of snow fighting equipment is the flanger. It isn’t as cool to watch like the various snowplows but it’s important for keeping flangeways clear of snow and ice.
10:42 To all you viewers who have seen this video or have yet to see it, you probably don't even know the half of the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Since Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005, levees have failed, water pumps were submerged, the roof of the Superdome was literally blown off, and a crucial Highway toppled over like dominoes. Despite evacuation orders, 25,000 people stayed in Louisiana and only 1,300 people perished. There's a Modern Marvels episode that explains how New Orleans, Louisiana was impacted by Katrina. Search: Modern Marvels: Engineering disasters: New Orleans, and it will tell you all about it.
Railroads need to do a Much Better job with keeping up with Maintenance in specific Areas on right of ways on Different Subs. 🤔 Thanks for video, Charlie. 👍
Why doesnt v12 have a million subs???? One of the most professional channels on here and great content. RU-vid is not doing its job. Maybe you need some drama and have two woman fighting over a man or some political polarising opinion. Yoy might get promoted then.
White pass used there rotary plows till the end of the 1960s, the railroad itself survived in common carrier service until 1983, it was the last revenue narrow gauge route in Alaska and in general. The only narrow gauge rr left in service in the US is us Gypsum which is the only freight only 3 footer left.
Many years ago while working on a local section crew, we were called to a washout to help other section crews. We had no idea until we arrived how bad this situation was. Starting under highway 35E in Lillydale Minnesota the CNW line (at the time) was washed out. The rail was ribbonized so no jointed rail. The railroad ties pretty much stayed attacked to the rail, thankfully. The hole under the track was between 50 and 60 feet deep and 200 yards long. There was a second hole just to the west of the largest one but not quite as deep or long. This trackage was on a hillside above the Minnesota River but below the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks, and the bluffs above those tracks. At first, the railroad called in a barge on the river to bucket any and all the hillside that washed away the tracks above and below the CNW tracks, so when we arrived it was a swampy mess being swung from the river up onto the hillside and as close to the tracks as possible to shore up the hillside. We were tasked with using old railroad ties to crib up under the dangling track to bring the railroad track closer to level. It took many men handing ties down into the hole, more men stacking ties to form a # on top of each other to even get close to the bottom of the dangling track. This process took days. Eventually we had cribbed the track high enough to start the next process. At the time, being a daredevil allowed me to do things that NOW, I would have considered INSANE. A rock train was backed out to our location from Western Ave. A couple cars at a time came out. First was the side tilt cars with massive boulders that were carefully dumped on the low side (river side) of the tracks to hold the sidehill and cribbing from sliding back down into the river. These side dump cars were remotely operated, so no one needed to physically stand next to the cars. They dumped numerous car loads before the next step. This help build up the side hill so it wasn't so precarious. Before we starting dumping ballast from railroad cars, the powers that be at the time got permission from the Milwaukee Road to empty ballast on the top of the bluff, which slid down onto the Milwaukee Road tracks, and the CNW ran a caterpillar up the Milwaukee Road tracks to shove that rock down over the hill into the CNW washed out tracks. This process didn't work as they thought so this process was quickly stopped and we went to these next steps. Next step. The next day we were back again to help dump ballast. Each full car was slowly pushed out over the gaping cribbed hole. (Remember. No place to stand on the side of these cars to empty the cars). The ballast doors were cracked open on level ground by the back two dumping ballast by the crazy as loons section men. The front 2 doors on the same car were also prepared to be opened before the train crew started backing the loaded car over the massive hole. As the car started backing up at a snails pace, one half of the first cars ballast emptied in an instant into the hole. The engineer stopped to wait until the second half of the ballast car doors were opened more. As the car started to move back over the hole again, the second half doors were completely opened, and instantly, the other half of the first car was empty. Now we had an empty ballast car over the open hole. We prepped the next ballast car on both ends, both sides. This time, we the unloading section crewmen walked alongside the next loaded ballast car as it backed up to empty. And again, as the closest doors to the hole got there, instantly, the ballast in one end of the car would empty completely into the hole. It took many full ballast cars to fill that hole. Myself and other section crew members sometimes riding on the ladders on the sides of the car as the engineer moved the cars over the hole back and forth until the hole was filled. Each car, whether full or empty, tilted side to side from the weight of being over unstable tracks. Scary shit. 3 days working there with many men and equipment and eventually the track was rebuilt.
Good video presentation. Unfortunately railroad alignments don't have the ability to avoid some of the higher hazard areas and situations, just do their best to be proactively managing the risk. P.S. Your little model of the side boom rotating was quite "shiny" and sorta distracting!! Probably should keep that in your sight or it might disappear!! 😁😉
@16:00 Twenty year first responder. I've actually had a patient get partial thickness (aka 2'nd degree) burns from laying on pavement on a hot day. And this was in the mid-Atlantic, not someplace like TX or AZ!
Great video, Charlie. My last career was as a quality engineer. I would like to know if the Class I railroads use risk analysis or FEMA to prepare for these events. My assumption is "no" or they ignore their own analysis.
2 weeks ago we had 110 for week strait and the BNSF slowed down there hotshot coal trains. They normally run round 40~45 mph, this one was doing 25 on clear track wile it was 110 in the shade (no joke, we peaked at 115 for the day). It get hotter than hell here in central Texas.
Former MOW engineer here. I was working most of these derailments. I also remember one of my good friends from Chicago calling me because the tracks were “on fire” and I had to explain to him that it was a good thing 😂 great production as always!
Good special! Should have featured the time earlier this year, just outside of Lincoln, NE, when a train was hit by a tornado! It's a big time viral video. The crew members rode it out inside the cab and came out completely unscathed. They said about 30 cars were blown off the rails. But the locos remained upright with just some minor damage. Looks like locomotives make great tornado shelters!
"windshield looks like it's missing" NAAWWW it's not missing it took it out to clean the dirt off and they'll just put it back when they do the rest of the engine! 😃 Heeeere's your sign 🤣
I live right across the state line from the Draffin/Pike County train derailment. We’ve had a lot worse seasonal flooding, being way worse in 2022. The slide itself was huge and we came through right after they rescued the crew. They had to wait until a boat could get to them while they clinged to the front of the lead locomotive while the rear end was burning and the water was far too high to cross. The neighbors couldn’t do anything but call for help and tell them help was on the way
With Lower level tornadoes, a Locomotive can stand firm and upright on the Tracks. With upper level tornadoes, a Locomotive may be tipped over. Even then, Locomotives are Tough Machines & can’t so easily be picked up by wind.
There's one you missed for the wind section. It's supposedly footage from the loco showing the freighter getting blown over by a tornado near Harvard, IL. I was just missed by that tornado while driving an S-10 pickup in that area.
One other vintage rotary is OY, on the State run Cumbres and Toltec in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. With narrow gauge, former D&RGW equipment and museum volunteers to keep it running, the tourist line is a popular attraction.
I only just now found your channel and I thought it was cool to hear that you’re in Atlanta, I live north of Atlanta and I think it’s cool that Atlanta has quite a bit of trains!
Great video, Trains 🆚 nature is something the Railroads are use to, I remember seeing a huge Boulder that hit a CSX train in WVA and one motor in the river, good to see the SRR GE ES44AC running again!🛤🚂
I have to say of all ground vehicles to be stuck in for a tornado, a locomotive might still be the safest. Going to guess very few have been picked up and tossed like a car or even a semi would be. Or well maybe second safest before some wiseguy brings up the Tornado Intercept Vehicle.
All trains are required to stop when there’s a tornado warning in there area where the train is ik CSX does stop its trains when tornadoe warnings are issued I’ve even seen trains stop when someone records a video of a tornado warning
I was watching trains by my daughters school like usual, about a year ago. Almost always CSX and Amtrak, but one day a Norfolk southern locomotive and a Canadian pacific 🤢
Likely just run-through power, or leased power, or repaying horsepower-hours owed. Slim chance that it could also be an NS or CP train diverting due to some problem on their own route. They have to pay a fee for that, and wait for the host railroad to fit the visiting train into the host RR's schedule.
Extremely interesting video! I always wondered about trains and bad weather and conditions along the tracks. Thank you for an interesting video 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
What another great video!!! You truly do educate us about the rails and I thank you for it. If you put out a video everyday, I’d watch it, they’re all great. Ron
Thank you for this video on how Mother Nature can wreak havoc on railroad operations and how the railroad can fight back. I enjoyed watching this video. (Posted 9 September 2024 at 1610 CDT.)
on friday, september 6th Los Angeles hit 108° which is the hottest temperature its ever been i think commented Monday, September 9th, 2024 16:25 - 16:27 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
If I had a nickel for every time v12 productions made a video about train accidents, I have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Why are the transit police fighting fires? Thats what you have fire departments for. Both jobs require different types of clothing for the task that they perform.
No Disrespect but you don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about.. if you did you'd know private infrastructure doesn't trump mother nature
