Lunging locomotives finally grip the rails as CSX 419 stalls. PART I... Read story...

CSX 419 & 411 with loaded coal train V605 stalls coming off the Salsbury Branch just outside Meyersdale, PA. The engineer informs the dispatcher that they have no sand. Watch closely as these two brutt AC4400 actually lunge, and bounce up and down trying to get traction coming up the steep grade of the branch to the mainline. With the locomotives in #8 notch, the hood doors viberate, and you can here the wheels grinding in the sand. It may be a slow video, but you will see what it takes to get this train rolling. The crew in the helper engines never left the comfort of their warm cab in the 19 degree weather. The crew, and some railfans hand sand the rails, and V605 backs up to get a second run for it, and finally makes it out. The whole ordeal to well over an hour. There is now a second clip (PART II) of the progress of the train heading west before it heads east to Cumberland, MD. Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for watching. jackmp294 01-04-2003
Link to PART II...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miwu8hWVOVs

here is the link to smooth running of V605 down the other side of Sand Patch after meeting the west bound K111 slab train..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxR6Gr2-wPs

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[foroke1]

That's why you use EMDs :)

[1jackdk]

@foroke1 I don't think being out of sand is going to help EMD either! Thanks for watching...

[trainfart]

It looks a damn cold winter day. Thanks for sharing. You have some great videos! :)

[1jackdk]

@trainfart 19 degrees! It sure was bone chilling! Glad you enjoyed it. Take care...

[produKtNZ]

@1jackdk and 32f is 0 degree's c (freezing point of water for reference) :)?

[1jackdk]

@produKtNZ Yes it is. I know that! It was 19f. a good bit below freezing So what would that make it in C?

[offamychain]

Cool video. Will spinning wheels cut grooves in the rail? Or do they make the wheels out of softer material so they will grind off before damaging rails? I couldn't help but laugh at these guys, even knowing their situation. Here's a couple of hundred ton locos, hitched to a kazillion ton load of coal .... and a guy in front of it with a 4 pound sack of sand. I think that's what they call UNDER-kill.

[TheUnderRage]

I you have ever heard sand on a train track lik that, you know it's the worst sound you have ever heard.

[alexander1485]

@foroke1 EMDs have no torque, they just load faster!

[OMBIC]

LMFAO, the dudes out there with the smallest bag of sand and that train fucken is like 1000000000000000000000 tones HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

[theamerican]

@foroke1

For awhile, the regular train that was delivering and picking up on this branch were two SD70's, but now they have a GEVO and an C40-8 that bring it in and pick it up.

[machinisto]

У них что, песочниц на тепловозах нет?

[sbeer6er]

i didn't see any wheels spinning

[metraF40PH163]

@TheLegoair If you read the discription it is out of sand. EMD would do this to. GE's are not bad, maybe it's your opinion but, they are just as good as EMD. My point if it does not matter who makes the engine if you don't have sand this will happen to any locomotives EMD or GE

[metraF40PH163]

@foroke1 That has nothing to do with it, if you don't have sand this would happen with EMD too.

[metraF40PH163]

@JerryNSretired Reminds me of when our 44tonner's sanders did not work. We were trying to pull our 0-6-0 which was sitting for many years & there was a lot of wheelslip. We made a few crew members get handfull's of sand and throw it under the wheels, it worked & got us moving & that's what counts