Norfolk Southern Runaway Horse! (Part 1)

June 4, 2007: [READ ENTIRE DESCRIPTION SO YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS VIDEO! Brightness is added so you can see perfectly, as if you were there that night.] A runaway horse around 2130 strands traffic. First train 20R followed the horse for 2 miles at 2 miles per hour to the crossing, as seen I am taking the video when the horse finally clears so he powers up and heads on his way. Good horn action from a SD70M-2 leader! The next scene is where it all goes down. NS 17G crawls its way up to the crossing gives some good horn and bell action and stops just in time before hitting the horse (runs in front at 2:43), which can be seen standing in front after minute 3:30, he is the 'brown thing'. You cannot see them but there are owners trying to catch him, but the horse darts off right in from of the cam at 4:05 when the conductor comes off board. Then 17G starts its move, and then at the end of the train, someone asks 'have you seen a horse?' This was perhaps the most asked question that night. The next train is 18G (see part 2 for this), unsure of the whereabouts of the horse, so he crawls along. As he passes me, we have a little chat, as you will hear in the video (my terrible voice, lol)...but then continues on as he takes a meet with 15T, not shown in this film because that was in a dark desolate area. Sheesh, this all caught me by surprise, you don't see that everyday. Later in the night they found the horse, the poor thing was lost and tired trying to find its way home. This video is long but it doesn't seem it, you'll grow attached it has very good audio and filled with action.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Norfolk
• Southern
• NS
• SD70M-2
• Dash-9
• runaway
• horse
• manifest
• intermodal
• 20R
• 17G
• trains
• railroads
• Harrisburg
• Line
• FRED
• loco

[FlyBikes089]

Horse is okay now? Did they already take the horse way to Animal Shelters or lost it?

[o00o00ozy]

Yeah, I think the owners found it later that evening around midnight. It ran off into a farmer's field. Traffic began moving normal speeds in a matter of minutes after I left the scene.

[Hickler90]

Haha i thought u meant a runaway Horsehead schemed Loco..lol good thing i read first eh? But nice night video, love the intermodal trains, thats a big chunk of what rolls past here all the time.

[o00o00ozy]

I know that's what a lot of people will think, but nope, just the spare horsepower out for a nightly walk on the tracks :). This is something you don't see everyday...heh, never a dull moment, I bet the engineers had a laugh after that one. Probably a horse and buggy runaway! lol.

[lakota123max]

god bless the train for stopping=)) worth it because they wont get the rep of being cruel, better than saving money and hitting the animal

[jusprazem]

@o00o00ozy thats amazing..the horse saw the HORSE emblem on the front of the norfolk southern train..i believe the horse felt at home

[2011LEGOFAN]

@roundhouser You really want that to happen?

[KillahGreenBud]

it's good to know that some people can stop a train for a horse, thank you :)

[railroader1993]

Wierd that NS cares enough about one horse to slow all trains. I bet that cost them more money than a new horse costs.

[iRECKONER]

WOW talk about a random evening HA!

[robertgift]

Glad the slowed stopped and did not kill the horse.

Thanks for posting.

[TheMantisTycoon]

Horse vs. Horsehead

[thetrainman407]

NS hitting a horse, now wouldnt that be ironic!!!!

[fleecejackets]

Now wouldn't it be funny if that horse was a thoroughbred lol