Yep... One of those hit and miss deals with long-travel draft gears (cushioning couplers) and low slung trainlines. Problem is worse on the long cars (flats, autoracks). Can go miles and suddenly you get a just right motion that lowers the hose a little more than usual and snags a high obstruction.
This has to be one of the most curious incidents that stops trains!! A train goes for miles over dozens of crossings, and then, one crossing breaks the air line! What was different about that crossing? Hundreds of trains go by, and one train will catch and break the air line! A few years ago, here, an air line caught the crossing, and bent up the air pipe. UP had to call call out the carmen from Nampa (Idaho) to make the repair.
Crossings can be a pain! We used to run a contract train for TNT. they ran 50 x 83 foot low line flats, with long couplings. I remember one early morning when we lost the air at Euroa, and we were running an ETM. But a version that was not train lined. I started the long walk back after we came to a stand. Got to the very last vehicle and found the hose had hit the bitumen road surface, flipped up on to its self, hitting the tap handle and opening the brake pipe cock to atmosphere. Just my luck
Very typical with car carriers. Seen it happen near my house for years until they re-routed train traffic but I remember this would always happen with the car carrier loads once a year.
that was Loud. heard that hose blast out. Here on the long island railroad i was watching a passanger train pull in with a engineer trainee. He wasn't used to the brakes and had a heavy train 10 cars 2 locos. So he i was watching him approach the station and he was goin way to fast to stop. Doin about 68 miles an hour. you can stop perfect from 55 mph at the beginning. So half way in i heard a tremendous blast and knew right then he slammed her into emergency.
Impresive pull-up, even for a freight train! Can you imagine waiting at the crossing when the train stops 4 or 5 cars short of clearing the road? How long would you have to wait? God only knows!
I've seen this happen in front of me only twice, on a BN empty coal train, and once on a frieght train. Remarkably thats amazing when the train comes to an almost quick halt, You can hear these auto carriers each banging up against each other as the momentum catches up to the very last car. I've noticed that just about every 87' car, such as a flatcar a boxcar, and an autocarrier, sometimes sometimes I noticed that some 65' boxcars do have extended shanks and some coil cars. Great video!!
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That's the kind of unfortunate event that can end your day and ruin the day of a number of other trains. It's too bad, Railroading's more fun when you're moving.
ya but where I live we see coal trains everyday almost nothing but them on a line that sees 12 trains a day I was just saying a pathetic way of some interest in my area.
That sucks, especially if you have heavy loading towards the rear of the train. Bail off the engine brake and keep on powering until you lose amps, hoping the rear does not attempt to overtake the front, then take a wrench and a heavy brake pipe hosebag for a long, long walk...!
Actually, since I live in CSX territory, UP is a refreshing change. I was there to collect as much as I could. I suppose, given enough time, CSX will also be assimilated.
I caught the same train about an hour or so later, east of there and they came flying through as if nothing had happened, so I assume it was just a reconnection.
Not too shabby of a video! God, I hate that sound though. That means a long walk for us, and it looked hotter than hell that day too. Air brake basics, the 90 lb. trainline acts to charge as well as signal the brakes. When the trainline dumps that fast, valves on the cars dump the emergency reservoir into the brake cylinders. It's a pretty rough ride, usually the situation that necessitates pulling the air leaves you shaken anyway.
Heh, I have that fear too! Todays environment seems to cast a great deal of suspicion on railfans. I actually railfan MUCH much less today than I did a decade ago.
In today's locomotives they have air pressure monitors programmed into a computer. All the crews have to do now is look down at the computer to see how their air pressure is doing. I bet the hiss of the air house disconnecting made you jump.
They've had gauges for the trainline, main resivior, all that for ages, nothing new. Now it's a digital screen readout other than analog gauges. A reciever in the cab shows the brake pipe at the rear (EOTD) and your control stand shows what the brake pipe and resiviors are at on the head end. Dumping the air is somewhat tolerable in unit trains like that... the worst are mixed manifest, with different makeups of loads vs mts.-Jeffrey
Fred. "Friggin Rear End Device." Although much less eloquent when actually used on the railroad.. Railroads try to tell new guys it stands for "Flashing Rear End Device". Yeah right.
FRED is railfan terminology, on the rr it's an EOT and HOT. The HOT is the "head of train" which displays the information the EOT collects, and also houses a little switch that can be used to dump air from the EOT on the rear.-Jeffrey
The brake line is continuous from the locomotive to the rear car. Positive air pressure (90 PSI) keeps the brakes off. When the air is dumped, all of the brakes come on.
Sort of... the brake valve acts like an air operated regulator. You loose air pressure in teh line, it puts air from the car tank to the brakes the amount it was lowered. If the pressure changes too fast, like here, it dumps all the tank air and slams the brakes on as hard as possible. Then you have to pump the whole system up again... lots of air!
Talk about a brake!
acerocken 4 months ago
You can actually hear the hose breaking as it went over the crossing. at 0:37
BBT609 4 months ago
A QUELLE VITESSE ROULE T IL ??????
pizotjeannoel 6 months ago
The Conductor on the head end of that train said FUCK! when it dumped... he knew that it might be car 99 out of 100 cars he had to walk back
bpbpcoc 11 months ago
Wow, that sucked! Had to stop because of a busted brake line. Well, it just goes to show that trains break down too!
kenpalmer1965 1 year ago
@kenpalmer1965 And unlike your car when the break line breaks on a train it still stops, lol
It should be this way for all vehicles, pressure keeps breaks in off position, lack of pressure applies breaks.
nitruswolf 9 months ago
start walken lol
TOPWOP999 1 year ago
It's amazing they didn't get a knuckle or a drawbar. Those auto's are horrible, evil things to have on a train. Especially a whole train of them.
GEES44DC 1 year ago
you can also hear the brakes of a train good on another vid. i think it was called train vs semi
LuigiBros64 2 years ago
Seemingly applyed the brakes in way of emergency, chande it his owed to some accident that happened to him more ahead???
simigalaxtrain 2 years ago
Brake line caught on the grade crossing and separated.
e44e33 2 years ago 2
Love the title ;)
produKtNZ 2 years ago 14
Did, the freaking brake house snag on the crossing? Dang!
SantaFebuff 2 years ago
Yep... One of those hit and miss deals with long-travel draft gears (cushioning couplers) and low slung trainlines. Problem is worse on the long cars (flats, autoracks). Can go miles and suddenly you get a just right motion that lowers the hose a little more than usual and snags a high obstruction.
dodgeramb59 2 years ago
This has to be one of the most curious incidents that stops trains!! A train goes for miles over dozens of crossings, and then, one crossing breaks the air line! What was different about that crossing? Hundreds of trains go by, and one train will catch and break the air line! A few years ago, here, an air line caught the crossing, and bent up the air pipe. UP had to call call out the carmen from Nampa (Idaho) to make the repair.
maddennis55 2 years ago
Crossings can be a pain! We used to run a contract train for TNT. they ran 50 x 83 foot low line flats, with long couplings. I remember one early morning when we lost the air at Euroa, and we were running an ETM. But a version that was not train lined. I started the long walk back after we came to a stand. Got to the very last vehicle and found the hose had hit the bitumen road surface, flipped up on to its self, hitting the tap handle and opening the brake pipe cock to atmosphere. Just my luck
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ha ha ha ... that's what they get for sucking.
sidewalkpilot 2 years ago
damn i hate that sound...fucking going into emergency SUCKS
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wow learn to make sense of the title douche bag
xxHaloVidsxx 2 years ago
Very typical with car carriers. Seen it happen near my house for years until they re-routed train traffic but I remember this would always happen with the car carrier loads once a year.
DetroitLove4U 2 years ago
Them's the breaks!
text97 3 years ago
i guess you gotta like trains for this video. im so confused
kuliboys 3 years ago
Cool! im sure that cause some delays....? lol
UnionPacificRules 3 years ago
that was Loud. heard that hose blast out. Here on the long island railroad i was watching a passanger train pull in with a engineer trainee. He wasn't used to the brakes and had a heavy train 10 cars 2 locos. So he i was watching him approach the station and he was goin way to fast to stop. Doin about 68 miles an hour. you can stop perfect from 55 mph at the beginning. So half way in i heard a tremendous blast and knew right then he slammed her into emergency.
EMDFAN1988 3 years ago
Are those Honda cars from Alliston, Ontario Canada in those american express train cars?
mrke8ting 3 years ago
dude how would we know, They could be BMW's from south carolina or Chevys from Mexico.
adam1234a 3 years ago
I gotta ask...."American Express" train cars? What?
charlieb640 3 years ago 2
Impresive pull-up, even for a freight train! Can you imagine waiting at the crossing when the train stops 4 or 5 cars short of clearing the road? How long would you have to wait? God only knows!
teddybeareleventeen 3 years ago
i broke two fingers from the window slaming open against my fingers after a trainline separation at a road crossing at archer, wy. on the UP in 2005.
CNKILLERCLOWN 3 years ago
whoa BAM
admydragonch2 3 years ago
ohhh that had to hurt the old eardrums
DX721 3 years ago
I've seen this happen in front of me only twice, on a BN empty coal train, and once on a frieght train. Remarkably thats amazing when the train comes to an almost quick halt, You can hear these auto carriers each banging up against each other as the momentum catches up to the very last car. I've noticed that just about every 87' car, such as a flatcar a boxcar, and an autocarrier, sometimes sometimes I noticed that some 65' boxcars do have extended shanks and some coil cars. Great video!!
sittinsidewayzz 3 years ago
What happened?
FlyBikes089 3 years ago
Brake hose connection caught the grade crossing and busted apart.
e44e33 3 years ago
How does somethin like that happen? Slack line? bad connection?
roguesniper 3 years ago
Ouch, did when you was film them when happened you was hear they train's brake hose hit caught on grade crossing?
FlyBikes089 3 years ago
actually, they are actually SBU Sense & braking unit and IDU in the cab
sd40u 3 years ago
*Conductor wakes up and curses as he climbs out of the cab*
Sweet vid!!!
Giebs 3 years ago 7
Typical auto rack. The damn airhoses hang too low & wont adjust for the long ass drawbars...
L324RT12 4 years ago 5
they just applied out of nowhere. i hope they got it fixed
trainboy000 4 years ago
They were up and running about an hour or so later--I caught them at the next grade crossing.
e44e33 4 years ago
whoa, crazy u caught it on tape. u can hear the slack bunch up crazy.
SpecificationR 4 years ago
I've seen that happen a couple times and its kinda cool how their just crusin along then bam! they just stop fairly quickly.
guitars14 4 years ago
that happened to me we thought it broke down but i guess it was a break line
DNAngel50000000 4 years ago
Life comes at you fast.
SR722 4 years ago 4
It's sad to see them have to stop like that they were really haulin' it.
kskcsfan 4 years ago 16
theres nothing better than seeing a train gliding along nicely
russitms 4 years ago 5
exactly!
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MOPinPDX 4 years ago
Who's the rat that squealed on him?
Stikkmann 4 years ago
I think it would be interesting to see that happen but it would be disapointing for the train crew!
kskcsfan 4 years ago
That's the kind of unfortunate event that can end your day and ruin the day of a number of other trains. It's too bad, Railroading's more fun when you're moving.
Jaanfo 4 years ago 2
ya but where I live we see coal trains everyday almost nothing but them on a line that sees 12 trains a day I was just saying a pathetic way of some interest in my area.
kskcsfan 4 years ago
bitch and a half to walk the train for the broken line.
MarkConductor775 4 years ago 2
That sucks, especially if you have heavy loading towards the rear of the train. Bail off the engine brake and keep on powering until you lose amps, hoping the rear does not attempt to overtake the front, then take a wrench and a heavy brake pipe hosebag for a long, long walk...!
pacnat007 4 years ago
Nice to see a fright train stop at middle of no where ^^
jackieliem2007 4 years ago
bumfuck nowhere to be exact. 'specially some dirt road.
MarkConductor775 4 years ago 2
dude tha was cool u could hear it
adam1234a 4 years ago
whats autotrack
bigluke93 4 years ago
an autorack is a rolling stock that carries cars. The train in the video is hauling cars
youiladam 4 years ago
Nice catch of the AC6000CW's by the way, which I assume was the reason you were there in the first place?
cchan006 4 years ago
Actually, since I live in CSX territory, UP is a refreshing change. I was there to collect as much as I could. I suppose, given enough time, CSX will also be assimilated.
e44e33 4 years ago
I'm trying to understand what exactly happened. Where they just testing there brakes?
NSX86R 4 years ago
The brake hose connection between two cars snagged on the grade crossing and separated, putting the train into emergency.
e44e33 4 years ago
So that bursting sound at 00:38, was that the hose that separated at that time?
NSX86R 4 years ago
Yep.
e44e33 4 years ago
lol
Derailedtrain666 4 years ago
I wonder if they'd write up the crossing and/or hoses for repair after that.
syncplay 4 years ago
A nice way to do a robbery! A stop along the way.
giudeppemario 4 years ago
dang. That must suck for brakeman.
good vid though
ronthecyborg 4 years ago
would you have to replace the line or just reconect it?
vavom 4 years ago
I caught the same train about an hour or so later, east of there and they came flying through as if nothing had happened, so I assume it was just a reconnection.
e44e33 4 years ago
Not too shabby of a video! God, I hate that sound though. That means a long walk for us, and it looked hotter than hell that day too. Air brake basics, the 90 lb. trainline acts to charge as well as signal the brakes. When the trainline dumps that fast, valves on the cars dump the emergency reservoir into the brake cylinders. It's a pretty rough ride, usually the situation that necessitates pulling the air leaves you shaken anyway.
RRSloth 4 years ago
That's happened twice when I'ce been railfanning. I'm always worried that the crew will think I'm responsible for it!
zwsplac 4 years ago
That was my first response, as well.
e44e33 4 years ago
Heh, I have that fear too! Todays environment seems to cast a great deal of suspicion on railfans. I actually railfan MUCH much less today than I did a decade ago.
mathuetax 4 years ago
In today's locomotives they have air pressure monitors programmed into a computer. All the crews have to do now is look down at the computer to see how their air pressure is doing. I bet the hiss of the air house disconnecting made you jump.
WolfmanAndrew 4 years ago
They've had gauges for the trainline, main resivior, all that for ages, nothing new. Now it's a digital screen readout other than analog gauges. A reciever in the cab shows the brake pipe at the rear (EOTD) and your control stand shows what the brake pipe and resiviors are at on the head end. Dumping the air is somewhat tolerable in unit trains like that... the worst are mixed manifest, with different makeups of loads vs mts.-Jeffrey
GP30RDMT 4 years ago
Fred. "Friggin Rear End Device." Although much less eloquent when actually used on the railroad.. Railroads try to tell new guys it stands for "Flashing Rear End Device". Yeah right.
dirpidirp 4 years ago
FRED is railfan terminology, on the rr it's an EOT and HOT. The HOT is the "head of train" which displays the information the EOT collects, and also houses a little switch that can be used to dump air from the EOT on the rear.-Jeffrey
GP30RDMT 4 years ago
Thats probably one of the best videos I have seen documenting the emergency application! Thanks for sharing
nikearora 4 years ago
just wondering, if a brake line busted in the middle of the train (like i suspect, might be wrong) how did the rear cars get brakes?
vavom 4 years ago
The brake line is continuous from the locomotive to the rear car. Positive air pressure (90 PSI) keeps the brakes off. When the air is dumped, all of the brakes come on.
e44e33 4 years ago
ahhh.....i see ,a fail safe, as much as i watch trains and model them, i never knew that...thank you for answering my question.
vavom 4 years ago
Sort of... the brake valve acts like an air operated regulator. You loose air pressure in teh line, it puts air from the car tank to the brakes the amount it was lowered. If the pressure changes too fast, like here, it dumps all the tank air and slams the brakes on as hard as possible. Then you have to pump the whole system up again... lots of air!
kleetus92 4 years ago
That was a screeching halt
DASCO2136 4 years ago