CSX 7490 Leads CSX Q688, Mixed Freight, w/ "Crazy Eights" at South Tunnel Hill

[CorenDirebrew]

I caught A CSX manifest with 140 cats

[rahluvahi]

gosh!! the train is sooo long. seems like neverending train:D no wonder, it was difficult to stop back in 2001!

[CSX2665]

kool ex-cr lash up,i like it!

[reesebwhitehead]

Holy crap!The actual crazy eights train!

[TVRM610]

I actually did my year end project for US History on the #8888 runaway incident

[CSX2665]

@TVRM610 really? lol,wat did they say about it?,did they like it?

[TVRM610]

@CSX2665 That teacher doesn't like presentations, so all I could do is turn it in. I put all sorts of transitions, videos and other stuff on there, and she just had me print it off. So I did all that work for nothing, plus, her printer was black and white only, so there went my colorful slides. She said she didn't care about the videos. But she did let a girl present the history of popcorn by making the whole class some. I should have just used my 100 slide show on the history of steam travel.

[DJGENEX71]

You can always tell the difference in the CSX Conrail units and the NS Conrail units by the horn. NS either has a Leslie on it or a P-5 CSX ALWAYS uses K5LA's when they replace the horns...on everything! lol. Cool catch on the 'Crazy 8's' engine!!!

[indyfan22k]

Just saw the movie unstopable. I bet that's how this video gets so many views.

[2124reading]

To bad the locomotive 8888 is no longerr around

[GARailfan]

@2124reading What happened to it?

[2124reading]

@GARailfan Sorry it was late and i was confused and i sayed that thinking it crashed but it got stoped.

[GARailfan]

@2124reading Oh ok

[trio3d]

@GARailfan Only the brakes were damaged in that incident.

[Cerberus957]

@GARailfan CSX 8888 was in a yard switching cars when the driver got out while it was moving to change a switch, then the unmanned locomotive went to full power and went out of control for 55 miles.

[trainmandan05]

CSX has it in storage currently with a number of other EMD's and GE's that they don't need on hand right now., They plan on taking it out sometime soon but it will probably get painted to YN3 before anything else.

[whb1965]

IS THIS TUNNEL HILL GA???

[GARailfan]

@whb1965 Yeah

[whb1965]

@GARailfan I GREW UP ON THE OLD GA ROAD. ATHENS BRANCH. MAXEYS STATION..

[whb1965]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CRAZY 8S??

[GARailfan]

@whb1965 Dont know, this is the only time iver ever seen it.

[JRhalo14]

how do idiots do these kind of things?

[GARailfan]

@JRhalo14 What are you talking about?

[JRhalo14]

@GARailfan how does somebody let a train go away without anyone driving it

[TVRM610]

@JRhalo14 The engineer got off to throw a switch and thought he had the dynamic brakes set, but instead opened the throttle. The conductor and brakeman were on the ground at the back of the train, since it was a yard job, no brake lines were attached, so the train had no brakes, therefore, requiring another locomotive to run it down, just as in the movie "Unstoppable", which is based on the Crazy Eights incident of May 15, 2001.

[JRhalo14]

@TVRM610 ooooo well shouldnt he of flipped the switch before he started up the train

[DJGENEX71]

@TVRM610 But, I just watched the news story about the incident and it was stopped by a railroad employee that jumped on the locomotive when it slowed down and stopped it, not a chase like in the movie.

[TVRM610]

@DJGENEX71 Then how come Jess Knowlton and Terry Forson were ordered by a dispatcher to chase the runaway in locomotive #8392. They caught it, coupled it, and slowed it to 12 mph, when Trainmaster Jon Hosfeld jumped aboard at the Highway 31 crossing in Kenton, Ohio. They also had another train out in front of it just in case it was needed.

[DJGENEX71]

@TVRM610 Whatever, the news lies and so did their video footage of them doing it I guess.

[TVRM610]

@DJGENEX71 The footage didn't lie, most news accounts don't mention the crew of Q636 coming up from behind and coupling onto the rear. But that did happen.

[DJGENEX71]

@TVRM610 True, sorry they didn't mention that, they just said that it slowed down enough for someone to get on the engine. My bad.

[GARailfan]

@TVRM610 According to all accounts I know, have seen and have heard the train hit a steep grade which slowed the train to a safe enough speed for a crew member to climb aboard and stop the train.

[TVRM610]

@GARailfan All accounts I know, the train was caught and #8888 pulled the chase crew over the crest of a downhill grade onto a curve into Kenton, and the engineer hit full dynamics again, slowing it to 12 mph, when Jon Hosfeld hopped aboard and shut it down.

[CSX2665]

@GARailfan nope,sd40-2 #8392 latched on from the tail of 8888 and slowed it down using dynamic brakes from the #8392

[Webber362]

crazy eights is a famous locomotive (#8888)

[qnuts]

@Webber362

The inspiration behind "Unstoppable"

[clinton984]

Great horn and great catch of the 8888.  5*

[jmehl77]

If you ever get to check out the cab of CSX8888, you really should, it's really got some neat graffiti in it. Have you ever shot at the tunnel before, on either side of it, you really should, it's a whole new perspective, thanks for shooting this one!

[GARailfan]

Yeah it used to run from Birmingham up to Nashville on that route but now they run it over here.

[CSXAC4400CWno5112]

Q688 is a Birmingham - Avin, IL train

[CSXAC4400CWno5112]

I've seen 7490 and crazy eights before. 5*****

[guitars14]

Crazy eights! I've seen that engine a few times since that incident happened. Also like that Conrail on the point!