It looks like the road in Radiator Springs the first time Lightning McQueen paved it! I'm guessing that the revenue generator on this line went bust decades ago.
I seriously didn’t believe that train tracks could get that warped. I’m wondering if those train engineers get “sea sick” from the constant rocking side to side. The company, state, or whoever is responsible for the tracks should upkeep them constantly.
Rails by themselves have no rigidity at all. In a normal track, rigidity comes from the sleepers, and the ballast or concrete in which sleepers are housed. Of course, here, it looks like everything has been built on a soft terrain, and/or not maintained at all during decades. One video to illustrate the flacidity of rails: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_VIn3gZTwQo.html
@@HODMEChannel depending on if the rails themselves are damaged you can get a special train that lifts the tracks and puts new fill under them. But chances are if the tracks in that poor condition all the sleepers are done for and need replacing anyway.
This is the new revived Rock Island Rail short line in the Mississippi Delta (The Mississippi Delta Railroad {MSDR}). That line has been disused for nearly 20 years until this year when the reborn Rock Island began operations. Now the arduous task of bringing the lines back to proper serviceable conditions has begun.
Door bell rings, Mom opens the door, Locomotive driver: hey, do you know which way is the rails? I got derailed, and I didn't noticed. *Locomotive parked aside the road
József Nagy Oh don’t even get me started about how some roads look in eastern Europe. Most roads here in Romania, for example, were built and maintained during the socialist era... but after 1990 no one bothered to maintain some of them so they look like some ancient cracked rock formations after 30 years.
I remember one day years ago that this unit was idling next to her sister 3023. The 24 dropped a valve and of course quit. Not to be outdone the 23 caught fire in her electrical cabinet. If the one went down, they both did.
Nice vid. Thanks for uploading and sharing. I've watched a few vids showing tracks in the same (or worse) condition. Especially the 70cm-gauge tracks in Russia (used for logging or peat-transport) are like this.
Trust me, having passenger trains going through this at a slow speed (obviously to avoid accidents) would be really fun. Who doesn't need an experience of off tracking trains 😂❤️
Restricted speed the entire way till they hit the brand new track that is 25MPH. New rail, ties and ballast will go in one the locations I filmed within the next couple years.
Its remarkable that engine doesn't go on the ground. Any time I see neglect like this, I'm reminded of the old saying, "what a way to run a railroad"....
@@wes5150. Reminds me of the PC (later ConRail) tracks I used to enjoy watching trains rock & roll on as a kid. You could pull the spikes out by hand! Line was completed in 1854, ran from Zanesville to Cincy. Mid to late 70s it became a bike trail.
@@yafuker6046 When I was there yes, you could pull a lot of spikes out by hand. Being very native to So Calif and durring their Winter when you went to 'Place' a spike you really couldn't see the Tie, and when you pounded on it it felt like you were 'Driving' the spike but come Spring I'd notice the spikes I had driven into the dirt. Well, at least it held while things were frozen. One winter there and I was on my way back to Sunny So Calif. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. A 'Sentimental' journey for both of us.
@@wes5150. One more brief anecdote: About 10 yrs. before pulling those rails, there must've been a derailment somewhere, because they diverted a pretty long train pulled by two U-25s onto these tracks and I thought, mygod, I hope those tracks can take it! I was maybe 12 at the time.
I think the forced perspective of zooming in makes the tracks look so bad. When the camera isn't zoomed in you can see the locomotive isn't going very slowly considering. It's going much faster then the old Maumee & Western before it was taken over by Pioneer rail and became the ND&W.
Joe is correct, the Blomberg truck can handle extremely rough track. Most have no idea how they are built and why they are so good. Short line RR's don't have millions of $ laying around for new ties.
That is true. But they can, over time, replace the ties. Instead of doing whole miles worth, just do short sections at a time. Start off with the worst areas and then work your way out. I would go into Barns yard in Portland OR for the BNSF RR to the UP yard. I would tell the Hog head to stop the movement, and then I would get off and walk the track until I got to a point where it was safe, and then turn around, and restart the movement, watching the shove from a stationary point. I refused to rid on the side of the cars in that yard. The Yardmaster there would get all pissed off because of how much time it was taking to put away a transfer. I would tell him OVER THE RADIO, when you replace these ties, I will ride the cars. I did that for a reason. It is recorded and if someone gets hurt, there is now proof the RR knew about it. The old adage "Being Railroaded", where do you think that came from? The entire mess that we are in this country is because of the RR called UP. Yes, all of your towns have a ZIP code. Which is a Zone Improvement Plan. It was a devised scheme the UP came up with to compensate the workers for putting down the transcon RR. If they worked hard, they got land. And it was land along the RR tracks. The Peysuer Trust is what owned all of it. And that is also where we got our FBI, which came from the henchmen of the Pinkertons who were the strongarms for the RR. It is a good rewarding career, but forewarned, they do Railroad you................literately.......
Sending just the engine was a smart move in case of derailment. Were those tracks that terrible from wear or neglect? And what is their condition now circa Dec. 2020?
Those tracks are miiiiiintttt. I’ve seen lines that have been abandoned for 30 years in far better shape than these rails. This engineer definitely drew the short straw.
Do you and your fellow coworkers have hand gestures for whenever y'all are going along bad railroad tracks? I would use some for times like these so the chances of derailment would be less likely to happen. Here are gestures that I would use: Hand with palm facing out: Stop Hand doing a "come here" type gesture: Come forward Hand with palm facing downward moving up and down: Slow down Hand with palm facing upward moving up and down: Speed up I am just throwing that out as a recommendation and I also want to help keep you and your crew safe and the locomotive on the tracks.
