CSX Q603 in Emergency at Folkston, Ga. on 6-17-10

[pennsyr1]

A fascinating occurrence to catch on video. The mid-train separation was especially a surprise!

Thanks for posting.

[slowpoke96Z28]

are they like truck brakes and apply under spring pressure if they lose their air supply?

imagine that in front of you trying to get to work on time. who would believe that lol

[superbnsf1]

that must have been super rare for u

[jessemg95]

HA!

[MustangsMPHS2011]

Wow! That is an amazing catch and great video! What are the odds of that happening again right in front of you?

[rocky19380]

with all due respect, the engeneer did not slam on the brakes. when the air hoses part the brakes are fully applied the engeneer has no controil over it.

[Dexter1142]

I've seen the same thing happen to a train I was watching, but the slack in between the couplers opened the couple up. The knuckles didn't break. A co-worker and I were helping the crew get to the yard when it went into Emergency. When we found the gap, we noticed that the couplers were fine, and we hooked the train together again so that it could continue. The train crew was happy we were there, it was almost 100 cars long.

[gonetoworkbbackin5mi]

Man what fun to be in the right place at the right time.

[kae4466]

thank you chessie storm for posting this .

[xoxTaniwolfxox2]

Now thats something

[NebulaTrain99]

Wow!

This is certainly the last thing a motorist at one of those level crossings would want to see: a train sever in two directly before his very eyes, and subsequently find himself stranded for a great many hours.

[kae4466]

good thing u were in a safe location there !!!

[RailWolf7306]

Whoa, what a catch. I would say I would like to catch that occurence one day, but since it's a bad situation, I won't. It's still very interesting though.

[protomodelsdotcom]

Awfull nice of them to break down in front of the camera!

[DioHolyDiver83]

Did They Ever Replace The Air Hoses......

[f22bjm]

I'm from Powder Springs, GA. Do you see more CSX or Norfolk Southern trains where you are in Folkston?

[CSX2665]

did the train stop automatically or did the engineer slam the brakes?

[ChessieStorm]

@CSX2665

Engineer slamed on the brakes

[CSX2665]

@ChessieStorm oooo,i thought the train stopped by itself,since the air brakes r designed to stop the train immediately if an air hose goes loose but how did he kno the train uncoupled???

[danieldefenseM4]

@CSX2665

It does stop on its own when it loses air pressure.

[Jaanfo]

@ChessieStorm If they "Got an airhose" then it was an unintended (or automatic) emergency application of the brakes, by "got an airhose" they mean the air hose separated for some reason, which depressurizes the brake system, forcing the train into emergency. The slack action caused by the in-train forces of the emergency brake application was what led to the knuckle failure and the train separation

[177987auprr1]

@ChessieStorm Actually, the train went into emergency by itself. The airhose snapped so the train lost all equalized pressure that keep the brake shoes from applying on the wheel. The shoe was on the car and that's why you heard the screeching until it stopped. Anyway, sweet vid and sweet catch. Nice 4 unit lash-up too!

[trainman2816]

@ChessieStorm How do you know?

[Jaanfo]

@ChessieStorm It sounds like the air hoses between the 15th and 16th cars were hanging too low and struck the crossing, causing the hoses to separate. This would have automatically put the train into emergency. The in-train forces caused by the emergency application are fully capable of breaking a knuckle.

[302derek]

@ChessieStorm The train automatically slams on brakes. Anytime an airline comes lose the train goes into emergency.

[upac4400cw]

@CSX2665 train stops automatically, once the air dumps the brakes come on



[CSX2665]

@upac4400cw i no,i just wanted to b sure

[firefighter3339]

that is so wild to catch that train pulling apart on camera

[mpracing4]

@CSX2665 Train stopped automatically. When the air hoses broke apart the train automatically goes into emergency. The engineer can't apply any more brakes to an automatic emergency application!

[CSX2665]

@mpracing4 o lol and duh i no that...i aint dumb...i know how the air brakes work in todays world....

[Willysmb44]

WOW. I was counting cars until 0:44 and realized I sure wasn't going to miss that.

[LCRV1]

Hmmm, don't see that everyday!!!! I bet the bathroom really needed cleaning after that!!!!

[DetroitLove4U]

They took the tanker off and put it where?

[ChessieStorm]

@DetroitLove4U

There's a storage track just south of town along track 1, so the train crew put the tanker in the storage track for pick up later.

[1traintracker]

What a great catch. Awesome video.

[georgiaroadgeek]

That was a great video, dude! Great catch! :)

[likitty20]

its always texas people as engineer, i don't have anything wrong with that either

[LSZocker2009]

Oh man that was amazing and crazy!

Very good video and very good quality!

[SWIFT95330]

Wow, great catch. Thank's to everyone for explaining all the different sounds. I wouldn't have known what each one was exactly.

[michaelcorleonepate]

Great. (not for the engineer, but for us)

[grvolans]

right place right time. beautiful

[RCKTBOY7]

Dang! That's a little rare!

[formidable38]

You can hear that air hose go prety near to the back of the units!

What abit of filming, great stuff!

[ChessieSeaboardX]

Dang now thats a one in a million shot!!!!!

[ERIELACKU34CH]

wow that's incredible. what a stroke of luck(?)

[theoutdoorrailfan]

nice

[Brucelocomotiveman]

This is defected in track in hot weather that cause the separtion.

[Brucelocomotiveman]

This alway happen on my model rail lay first time seen it in real life wow.

[Brucelocomotiveman]

This always happen my model lay yal my first time seen it in person.

[Folkstonheaven]

All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[csxc408]

great catch, 5 stars on it, what i dont understand is the way it broke off.........never seen or heard something like this.........great catch though.........

[dashloc]

Holly cow ! the automatic emergency brakes system at work !

[csxketh1]

How busy was Folkston after Q603 got out of there?

[ElKabong75]

Great job having the camera rolling and the radio hot!  Very interesting video!

[CSX2665]

I've never ever seen anything so strange like this that would totally suprise if i was recording and all of a sudden boom! the train disconnects.that's cool right there.

[CQDX018]

Wow! Only two hour delay? That isn't bad considering the circumstances in this situation. Like Dave said. You can hear the rear of the train roll into the front about 39 seconds. I am surprised the train stopped as quick as it did and that there wasn't as much slack from the second half of the train. I know that there was a knuckle situation on the NS Brooklyn District and it split a coal train in half. There was also a DPU incident which led to a seperation but great video! 5/5/ and a fav!

[xXDJIndeedXx]

INSANE!!

PURE INSANE!!

I so wish i could of been there for this lol i would have had to go change my pants!

Never have i seen a train come apart on the move.

It's a good thing nothing really bad happened.

This just goes to show you'll never know what could happen on the tracks.

Sucks Youtube put that thumbs up crap on here, this one is for the books!!

Amazing catch man!!

[trainmasta227]

I mean seriously how does a guy find the luck to catch a train seperation accident i mean really plus i wonder wat happened when the ppl at the crossing saw that once i had a defective train car on my model railroad and it did the same thing i wish i could still rate bcuz i would make 5 stars but ill have to thumbs up instead

[trainmandan05]

Ahhh sweet!! I remember when this happened in my back yard back in 2003. An ns train was racing through and the train ended up splitting apart.

[bitterman112]

WOW! I've never seen this happen when I was railfanning. Would be real scary for this to happen on its counterpart, Q604 also which I've seen which is most likely near to about 160 cars running through Lakeland! Glad they fixed the problem & got the manifest on its way! Btw, Great Catch on Q603, he had an awesome lash up too, Never thought an EMD SD70M would lead, only saw it as dead power on Q604 sometimes, Thumbs Up! This is a quality manifest I've never caught before though.

[wheels069]

wow great catch not only does the train break apart it happens right in front of you. thumbs up and faves. very rare sight to see

[pwalpar]

wow talk about being in the right spot, good catch

[SFLRailFan]

That's a once-in-a-lifetime catch, for sure. Awesome job getting it, Eric. Nothing I can say that hasn't been said already. An incredible fortune for you and just another day at the office for the conductor, I'm sure. Thumbs up, Five stars (if I could), definitely Fav'd and shared with all my friends. *****

[professah360]

OH SNIDYY DAP DAYYNG!!! You don't catch that sight often! Great Braking By CSX!!!

[virginiatruckee]

Totally amazing! Great that you got the radio traffic in there, you had your act together that day. I'd rate it five-star, a TRUE five star, but Youtube won't let me anymore. I guess a thumbs up has to suffice.

[ChessieStorm]

@virginiatruckee

Thanks, just lucky

[TheRecorder]

At 0:13 the train goes into Big Hole. You can see just how long it takes to stop with a 100% brake application. Notice the head end portion of the train outrunning the rear, The Engineer actuating the independent brakes, in part, allows the 4 locomotives dead weight without brakes applied, about 832 tons in this case, to help drag the head portion away from the rear portion to avoid a possible collision between the two.

I agree with firecaptain5405, good time for a lottery ticket.

Good Job !

[SuperRailroads]

 Great catch!

[firecaptain5405]

Great catch!!! Hope you went and bought a lottery ticket after that. Certainly a one-in-a-million video catch.

@CSXBOY187

In this situation, the rear end of the train stopped much faster than the head-end of the train while in emergency. You can hear the slack roll into the head end at 00:40 causing the knuckle to break. Since the rear was stopping faster than the head, the inertia carried the head end farther away from the rear. Sucks for the conductor who had to walk the train.

[ChessieStorm]

@firecaptain5405

Yea, it crashed pretty loud, the slack that is, around that time. Certainly an unusal sound. One you don't hear too often. The video didn't really pick up how loud the sound was.

Fortunately for the conductor it was only 35 cars back and daylight, so he didn't have too far to walk.

[mikephfl]

That's what being in the right place at the right time is all about. Nice video!

[ChessieStorm]

@mikephfl

Yep, and to think I was upset that I wasn't on the other side of the tracks for the shoot.

[waterboy31602]

Great video.

[ChessieStorm]

@waterboy31602

Thanks.

[ke4crc]

nice job i like the comments on a video makes it more instating once in a life time catch 

[ChessieStorm]

@ke4crc

Thanks, it was exciting for sure when it happened.

[troy12n]

Took him 2 hours to change out a knuckle?

[ChessieStorm]

@troy12n

No, they put the car in the storage track there. They had problems with the derail at the storage and had to call a Road Foreman in to work it out. This is where most of the time was spent.

CS

[distantsignal]

Wow!

I've been railfanning now for 20 years and have never seen that. Great catch and nice edit job on the video.

DH

Tampa

[ChessieStorm]

@distantsignal

Thanks Danny. Like you been doing it a while and this was a first for me too.

Thanks for watching.

CS

Spring Hill

[CarNutandTrainNut2]

Damn, talk about being in the right place at the right time.

[skeley1]

Awesome catch, thanks for sharing.

[sidekike3]

thats craaaaaaazzzy!

[njtcoastline]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[CSXMiamiSub]

Awesome Video! This is an amazing catch! Did this incident cause problems along the line?

[ChessieStorm]

@CSXMiamiSub

Not really. Track 2 was clear and they ran northbounds on it.

[ChessieStorm]

@CSXMiamiSub

Not really. Track 2 was clear and they ran northbounds on it.

[lespaulguy32]

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[Boots1282]

so thats what happend was watching the web cam at folkston and was trying to figure out why he was stop for so long

[ChessieStorm]

@Boots1282

Yea, it wasn't frozen in time this time.

[trainamtrakcsx]

o my god

[ChessieStorm]

Thanks for the all the comments, lucky to say the least.

I hope you all pardon the obvious statements in here when it happened.

[railfan23]

WOW!!! Great catch on this and I know it wasnt a good thing but I would like to have been there for this. Like and Fav.

[GhostFearMe]

wow....crazy!

[skyman2002]

O.o @ 00:44!!

[cobras84robinjd]

Lucky and amazing catch Eric!! You never know what could happen while railfanning. Glad to see nothing bad did happen.

Thumbs up and a Favorite!!

[ecoRfan]

Looks like my dreams at night! Segments of trains moving at the same speed and time, but are separated. (even though this one has different speeds between segments, and stops). I must ask, why did this have to happen?

[trainsruleandroll]

DAMN!! Possibly the luckiest catch EVER!! Right place at the right time!

[CSXBOY187]

WOW!!!!! talk about something rare to see this happend right in front of you lol lucky that the second part of the train did not ram into the frist part of the train and cause a derailment, Outstanding video Eric this is a BIG TIME FAVORITE and two thumbs up

[HotRodJax]

luckyy!!!!!!!!!

[csx6900]

Wow! I've never seen that before! Amazing! Thumbs up and favorite!

[murjax]

OMG!!! Talk about a rare catch. What are the odds of this happening at Folkston? Crazy. I just gotta wonder what people at the crossings thought when they saw that lol.

[ChessieStorm]

@murjax

Many turned around and headed to the bridge overpass to get to the other side of town.

[jbovinette]

WOW!!!! Right in fron of the camera. Got lucky on that one. What a catch.

[csxrailfan2]

Thats a First!, a Emergency right in front of the camera! 5/5*

[tapemaster]

Right place at the right time.Good stuff.

[GSMR1702]

wow! cant believe it happened right in front of you! great video!!

[NahuntaSubFoamer5115]

Thats not something you see everyday...

[NSHorseheadSD70]

This is one of the more interesting train videos I've seen. It's not too often that you get to see the result of an air hose separation and broken knuckle.