Crew Change on the Fly at Brunswick - 1981

[radioshoppe]

In 1969 i was traveling by express train from Takli, Thailand to Bangkok. We have a (literally) running crew change in Northern Bangkok. without the train stopping. The train slowed on a long curve and three men (puchi's) started dropping out of the lead engine one at a time. From the nearby village three men came running one at a time and started boarding the engine. After the first was aboard the train started speeding up. The last man really had to run at full speed to get aboard.

[beatleman69]

I agree thats when railroading was just that, railroading where they took care of their online customers, now they want to put it on the shortines to do it. That caboose is a classic no doubt! CSX makes their crews wear green saftey vests now on and off the locos. They can't even climb on the cars anymore to apply or release the brakes on the cars, they now use a pole with  hook on it.

[TheZeke1974]

Gosh i miss that pain scheme...

[cbehr91]

"Three step applied."

Yeah, right.

[troy12n]

cant do that anymore...

[turnoutjim]

@troy12n I cringe watching this vid knowing how dangerous it is to do that nowadays, but to think, they used to teach you how to get on and off moving equipment

[patmix]

really gr8 old clip

train on !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trackside1234]

Then you should know, but don't, that most of the operating rules for CSX employees were the result of disastrous and fatal accidents. Go up to the cemetery on top of the hill and see how many B&O employees were buried there after being killed at work in the yards.

I have written extensively on the subject which you obviously have not.

[Trackside1234]

Obviously you know nothing about history.

[railroader1993]

Damn ambulance chasers.

[poppimds007]

Real railroading was with a caboose!!!

[L324RT12]

Back when railroading was railroading.

What I wouldnt give.

[natalie3895]

I really enjoyed this video and thanks for the info on each locomotive that was cool! Those were the days when things were more relaxed and everyone wouldn't sue for anything!

[Trackside1234]

The cemeteries are full of railroad men who did this sort of thing. And you used to see men with one leg or one arm in wheelchairs on the streets of Brunswick.

[poppimds007]

And were did you get your facts? My POP did it for over 20 years and never a problem.

[railroader1993]

I agree. Anyone who can't handle a two foot or less drop from a >5 MPH vehicle is just soft.

[Ahgjan]

Yes, much more interesting than stopping there for an hour like they do these days...

I say it looks better with a yard there than a parking lot and lumber yard...

[1975grandville]

Nice flying crew change, an interesting piece of history. I remember a family vacation several years ago we stopped for the night in Winslow, AZ. I was up early the next morning watching flying crew changes on the Santa Fe. The crew would exchange and the train would notch to run 8 and would fly out of town. Wish I had grabbed my dad's video camera for that.

[stuntedcards]

some wobbly cars on there

[bno4333]

It's actually running through on a yard track, that's why it's got the wobbles.

[monty5329]

I dig the notice on the bottom of the video of the current status of each loco. well done.

CDMV

[KC8WJG]

That is so cool. I agree, I wish they still did that too.

[VespineVid2]

That practice was discussed in a National Geographic Channel show about a crash on the CN in Canada in the 1980s, and how that was against CN rules but crews did it anyway.

I like the "Where are they now" text you put under each locomotive.

[chessie4155]

Awsum footage! Thanks for posting it..please post more

[FlatBlackXtreme]

You don't see that anymore. I wish the railroads still did that.