Train DERAILS in Hiram, GA 

That's really interesting. Thank you for sharing. I've seen one of the big railroad wrecking trains in person at a museum. They're massive. Would have been interesting to see it in action.

Just the railroads saving money. Pay a wrecking crew like RJ Corman or Hulchers and you don't have to maintain the special equipment and pay employees. Not to mention people have died during derailment cleanups. Easier to put that liability in someone else.

Thanks man

I saw a railfan in Irondale Alabama it was a very long time ago I was thinking it was you or something

I forgot to ask him what his name was

yeah me too Dallas GA. I have waited for trains to pass at that location many times

Just moved to Savannah from Dallas, just heard about it, understand it’s pretty cold back in Paulding 😂

I learned something! Thanks for watching!

Thanks! That's a really good question. Wish I had an answer.

Answer for #2). A planned grade crossing takes longer due to all of the extra work involved. Not only are you replacing the rails, but you're also redoing all of the shunts that control the lights/gates, the alinement has no room for error in such a short work zone, and the road's approach on both sides must be first removed and later replaced. With a major wreck, large numbers of outside crews are brought in and work 24-7 until the work is done. If you watch the Virtual Railfan's camera at Cocoa, FL you see just how painfully slow laying track with one crew is. Double track and not much happens on a daily basis. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AQMdz9U5_L4.html

@@thomasboese3793 thanks for the input. I did kind of figure a 24/7 crew would definitely condense such a repair.

Yes, it does put things into perspective. As a railfan, yes, get your shots and capture your angles, but you have to make safety a priority. I’ve watched so many videos on YT with guys standing only 6 to 8 feet away from a mixed freight train doing 50 or 60mph...God forbid anything like a derailment ever happen, there would be no chance of escape or survival. I know everyone can’t afford to go out with a drone and a tripod, but I would just like to see SOME of these videographers use a little more common sense.

I was wondering the same

Old alignment. Go to HistoricAerials and you can see the old alignment in the 1955 aerial. Several changes to the alignment from there to Rockmart. The team track was a connection to the old rail bed. In the 60's, a hopper of hard coal would be spotted there for the local feed mill. A few locals were still burning coal to heat their homes.

Yeah, I saw the pictures. Hoping the train crew was ok.

@@v12productions yep. 3 workers inside the cab. 1 made it out with no help and the fire department helped the other 2

^prediction that was completely wrong as of 2022

it's "not" the railroad doing the reporting. The FRA will always uncover the truth of what happened so it doesn't happen again.

Yep

Pretty sure they don't have to steer these newer locomotives.

I saw a picture on FB showing NS moving them to Inman Yard in ATL. I would think they'd eventually go up north.

Not too unusual. That coal train was headed back to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

@@v12productions Oh I ask because I’ve seen lots of Norfolk Southern engines on BNSF trains and vice versa

It’s what’s called ‘run through power’. Back in the old days, every railroad would drop its power & caboose & gaining railroad would add theirs. Since most locomotives today are pretty much standardized, it’s cheaper & less time consuming to use power from an originating road. Also, say for instance BNSF owes NS money for some reason. BNSF pays NS back by NS using BNSF power & Vice versa. Distant Signal on RU-vid has a recent video on this

Luckily, the train was going well below the restricted speed.

Utility poles, power poles its the same thing. Some people call them telephone poles. You must not be from the south here in the US.

@@freedomfan4272 Also, The Northeast doesn't bury utilities because of the cost of drilling through solid granite.

@@freedomfan4272 Not to mention telephone predates power distribution by a handful of decades. I've always said telephone pole.

No it doesn’t.