BROKEN RAIL -- Emergency at Carneys Crossing

[SgtRollo61]

man!! thats a busy place!!

[bigdv519]

Great video. Its a similiar operation on my model railroad. :)

[RoflmaoAtSheepeople]

Very cool job nice work and fast.

[24preacherboy]

Why are there no black people in this video?

[79supergasdriver]

@24preacherboy Ummm...probably because they just weren't working that day, or maybe assigned to a different crew in a different place, or maybe NS is a racist company that hates black people (since that's exactly what you wanted to hear). Go throw your victim complex elsewhere and leave these hardworking men alone.

[MrBNSFconductor]

Cool video.. Where was the "Emergency" at?

[bertbert14]

@MrBNSFconductor

I originally titled it Occurance at CC.

No emergency--but "Yellow alert?"--lol

[ussoldierrail]

@MrBNSFconductor This is a great video, u a RR employee? My dad and two uncles worked for CSX and are no recent retires. All were engineers and or condcutor brakeman at some point for C&O N Conrail to CSX. We rail fan when we have the time. My son got wounded last week in combat and I am a handic- vet.. toledoOHindependentrailfan is our deal on photobucket, we are christian n share our pics just no pubs deal GOD BLESS brother

[ussoldierrail]

@ussoldierrail I actualy used this video to inspire me to build some MOW trucks out of some match box type deals. They are not HO scale but who cares I am not one of those silly PHD X high school science club tatle tales. I have a large HO scale layout but realize that they are tyos not real trains as these foamers from train orders and trains mag seem to think. Like Model RR mag bunch of yuppie suburbian morons who cause all of us to get into trouble at the tracks there unsafe rail fan..

[ussoldierrail]

@ussoldierrail One last thought also thank you for taking the time to do this right. Most foamers will take about 1 m inute of film and get right back to the engines only. There is a guy in toledo mike harding that is a trouble for all real rail fans,. this guy tresspasses drives illegaly go's in between tracks and onto over passes you name it. Total jerk with 0 repsect for trains or the public and his little foamer group. Again this is a great video keep'n real brother

[bozerabc123]

Good video but the sound quality is shit

[starguard]

Man I would LOVE having a Job like that

[onrr1726]

if this was a CSX operation they would take about a month to fix the issue and still run trains on it.

[lennyos]

sd50 pusher set?

[werdCanada]

bahah green pants

[Denvermorgan2000]

looks like they used a CAD welder to weld the track together again cool.

[JetMechMA]

Just "perfect." oops.

[JetMechMA]

Perfect video man. "Track No 3, no defects." Just perefect.

[lonleyinosky]

that was not a person thermite welding near the end, it was the signal maintainer putting copper wire across the joints to ensure continuity in the rail. I work on BNSF MOW and this is a simple routine rail replacement, the thermite crew probably showed up later to do the actual welding.

[NS9710]

You would NOT have seen me there when that train came gliding down #3, I'd watch it from the other side, if it derails the cars would go away from you!

[Barnekkid]

Great video. My heart is with the blue collar types who do the hard jobs like this and then fade into the backdrop until the next time.  How did they weld that? It didn't look like thermit.

[moonspots01]

Too cold too fast?

I remember the I-79 bridge across the Ohio river north of Pittsburgh cracked due to extreme cold in 1977.

[Heroduothecomedian]

woah i never saw tractor trailer trucks running on rails before 0.o

[groganzolla1]

I did this work for 9 years in the Canadian Rockies. What the heck was the smoke at timestamp 8:35 all about? I changed out a lot of broken rail in my day, but never saw this before.

[isilder]

@groganzolla1

it is clearly a thermite welding process occurring.

Aluminium plus iron oxide >  Iron, Aluminium oxide + heat

[groganzolla1]

@isilder I was a Trackman-Thermite Welder on the Canadian National Railway... familiar with thermite butt-welding continuous welded rail (CWR). My question was to what purpose. Someone suggested it amounted to a tack-weld to provide an added assurance similar to a lock-washer. Cheers!

[trainluva]

the Railway workers was supposed to be wearing a safety vest on them while working on any working & running lines & they sre supposed to have a safety officer with them as well hand signalling the trains to let the train crews know that that section is cleared of any workers

[Boss302fan]

@trainluva How do you know what the safety rules regarding vests are for this railroad? How do you know there wasn't a "safety officer" or "foreman" or whatever the terminology on site? 

This is why I despise a certain small portion of railfans out there. They see a video or receive a tiny bit of information and the next thing you know they are know-it-all second guessers.

[XxROBERTSONx]

hey man am goin to clollege to do railway engineering can i ask how is the pay

[Boss302fan]

@XxROBERTSONx A lot.  Good for you. Railroads are going to need up and coming young people to replace all us old farts!

[njRRtrainer]

Was great to see a well run team in action , glad you were able to stand by and catch the action

[otef434]

Where was the emergency? Anywho, broken rails disturb track circuits for wayside signals, cab signals, or crossing devices. Usually a malfunction is the indication. Once the offending circuit has been found, you either walk, drive, or highrail that segment and visually inspect. It's not that hard to spot. The repair can be anything between a set of joint bars, or as they did in the video, replace a segment of rail.

[TheRobert2254]

he talks like tommy chong

[shadowknight227]

two conrails connected together. sweet!

[1jpenev]

why do they flash their lights like that?

[jmm2000]

@1jpenev Most rail companies have engines that flash their lights at crossings or railroad workers as a warning. It's usually standard operating procedures to do that or mandatory on some rail companies.

[robertgift]

Nicely done. Thank you.

Was that section of rail already bent to match the curve?

Bent where?

[bertbert14]

@robertgift Thanks Robert,

The rail was not bent when delivered and placed on the track.

The mow crew replaced it using muscles to fit the slight curve of probadly 1%or 2% at most curve. The way I understand it, they used the gas heater on the rail to "relax" the rail and hold it in the new curved position, and to take the tension off of it so it would not want to straighten back out again..Then they sealed the nuts to the bolts with some thermite, much better than a lock washer. --lol--Doug

[smartassstevie]

probably a signal malfunction picked it up or inspector. you never know, it could have been a railfan. it has happened.

[alberttwo68]

Good job, well done guys ! thank you for this video! I can see there is many usable and good machines and devices for troubleshooting. Btw, how does repair crew find the crack location ? by means of any signal reflectometer ? or just visual inspect ?

[Landaux]

4:35..LMAO! Looks like a 1920s silent film! Wouldnt it be nice if we could REALLY work that fast? :-D

[williamsdemo12]

i live up surgur rd then take a right on the level 1361 level rd lilly pa it awsome hearing those trains in the morning and night

[csxsd70ace]

Csx is a horriblr rail road to rail fan they are assholes for the most part. NS is very friendly. CSX "officials" will come after you for nothing more than looking at a train? Dont even try to go to walbridge (toledo) OH and go near there yards!! They have cameras on poles by the roads. I guess dont realise its rail fans who find trouble spots on the rail, see criminals, report bad gates, ect? Or even bad rail cars. O well I model CSX and my father retired after 39 years as a engineer. NS NS

[csxsd70ace]

Too bad you could have not gotten closer! I know the NS police or local cops would have not liked that very much. Last year me and my wife got our balls broke by some over zelous CSX official when we were filming a ore train out of toledo. Long story short he said we were trespassing and I said we were ona public road? Which we were. he almost ran me over with his truck and then tried to open his door on me and knock me over almost!

[Landaux]

Same thing happened to me when I was just documenting a new switch that was put in @ the BNSF diomond in Dobbin Tx, and the big 'Billy Bob Boy' ccame up to me in a superviser truck and bashed me hard. Sheesh. I too was on the road crossing.

[caleb187420]

they probably could've used about 4 more people

[NSNORFOLKSOUTHERNFAN]

Where did you get the scanner

[bertbert14]

They are available at a lot of places.Radio Shack has OK models, better ones out there.I have an older Yaesu TF60 FM transceiver,(much better--google it) with magnet mount antenna--which is great. Doug

[bertbert14]

Hi RDG484, I saw new rail? plates inbetween the track three when I was just up there--from Carneys-not sure how far west they went. Maybe swooner than later??What do ya exactly mean no superelevation?? Doug

[RDG484]

Superelevation, i.e., "banked" curve, not level with the ground like with straight track. Hope this helps.

[RDG484]

They need to replace that outer rail on Track 3 from Carney's to the overhead bridge at Lilly. Too many expansion "patches" and virtually no superelevation.

[bertbert14]

Thanks. Just trying to share Tom and The Station Inn with others, who may become railfans in the future.

[OhioRails]

I love your "A Visit to The Station INN Pa"! It is put together so well! Tom showed it to me when i stayed there in August, and in December. Plus I have it favored on my YouTube page. Great Job!

[FlyBikes089]

What an beautiful!

*Add NS playlist and 5 rating!

[bertbert14]

The Video "A Visit to The Station InnPA"

posted earlier this year

is also very relative. Enjoy.