Trains in Kansas UP coal train goes into Emergency Stop 

I think in this case it was a broken airline. I was on the side of the tracks that I had to take a few back roads to get to an open crossing then back to the highway. It was no big deal.

A train only goes into emergency when air stops flowing

You can throw a train into emergency just by closing the angle cock close to fast

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I tried that, just kidding. At the right place at the right time. I'm sure the conductor didn't like it.

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These cars look empty

When there going east there full. This coal train comes out of Wyoming.

I have had trains slow down and then stop and are tied down till the dispatcher tells them they can go. I never had a train stop like this it was squealing and squalling. I never heard any air sounds but the train was over 2 miles long. it was probably running about 40mph or more. I found another coal train on you tube that went into e-stop mode and it was similar but louder. It took the train I seen around one minute to stop. There was nothing on the news about a vehicle on a crossing. What happen when a coupler breaks? Won't the airlines separate ?

@@trainsinkansas576 Yes and you'll hear a loud hiss from the train line no matter where the break is, at the front middle rear you'll still hear the discharge of the train line.. This train had a very fast stop. I can't say what happen I wasn't there, but I have seen sometimes if something happened up the line and the dispatcher calls telling them to stop as soon as possible the crew won't use an emergency brake application. But use personal judgement and apply as much as possible, without dumping the train line as a train of this size will take awhile to pump back up to 90psi. still a great video and I hope many more like it to follow

Would you still hear it if the broken line was in front of the DPU's?

@@Dennis-vh8tz Yes you would The DPU when the emergency brake application happens will also open it's PC switch and dump the train line to help stop the train. The two places you won't really hear the train line dump is near the rea few cars or the the very front sometimes. Now if this train was setup with ECP or Electronically Controlled Pneumatic I don't know if you hear it then... ECP is something new to me and I don't know too much about it.. if you look at some locomotives down next to or very near the coupler you'll see an electric hose or plug... NS has it on all their AC44C6M, ES44AC, ET44AC, and some of the SD70ACe's it acts with the train line and helps control the train stop faster... but again I don't know if it's only on NS or if some other RR's use it.

@@brakemansmith9688 I was thinking the same but it sounds like the shocks on the cars, I replied it probably ten times at least.. I couldn't tell

It's amazing how fast they can stop depending on weight.

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Yeah definitely not emergency.. half these videos I see on here say "train makes emergency stop" when In actuality they are far from an emergency stop

'this one not quite 3 miles long

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@@trainsinkansas576 no problem can you do more trains go in a emergency brake

That was a first. That was a fully loaded coal train 2 to 3miles long and it stopped a lot sooner than I thought it would.

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@@trainsinkansas576 np

I would say that is a good engineer to bring that train to a stop like that.

yeah i didnt hear the air pop sound

Probably broken air line.

2 engines front plus 148 cars followed by 4 another engines plus 106cars passed away from screen to the end of video. Good job to you too.

I waited for a while but had to leave. It was more than likely a broken airline. There was no accidents reported on the news.

It was quite interesting and was a first.

What kind of stop was it looked like there were sparks coming off the brakes at 5:51 in the video. Let me know what you think.

You would not hear the air at that point.

Just sparks from the emergency applied brakes, that's fairly normal actually

Are there usually sparks when it is an emergency stops?

@@trainsinkansas576 Depends on the cars and brakes specifically, but for new brake pads yeah 100%. You can get sparks by leaving a hand brake tied just from dragging a car or the wheel grinding against a fresh pad

An airline most likely broke