Train Hits Trees On The Track After Storm

We had a terrible thunder storm May 30th 2007. Trees were down for 3 miles on the right of way. We stopped and decided to leave our train there. Some of the trees were big and we thought they could possibly derail our train.
MOW crews cleaned the mess up the next day. We were using 2 GP-38 locomotives, there was some minor damage with broken ditch lights, mirrors, ground lights, antenna and bent railings. It's a night I'll never forget.
Thanks for Watching
Hogger01

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• Railroad
• Railway
• Locomotives
• Trains
• Storms
• Canada
• USA
• Weather
• Rain

[bpbpcoc]

Nice job destroying one of our old locomotives.  That was LIRR #257.

[hogger01]

Hi bpbpcoc. That old girl is alive & well.

It's the pride of the fleet!

Thanks for watching!

Hogger01

[CWREmployee]

Were you given authorization to destroy your locomotive before you proceeded through the trees? I work for a shortline tourist railroad and we stop for anything in the way of our engine. Tho are engines date back to 1955

[hogger01]

Hi CWREmployee, this branchline is in the middle of nowhere, no roads to get to us. We cut off our train because we thought it might derail with branches snapping back under the wheels of empty box cars. We were given permission to proceed with our locomotives to see how far the path of this storm went. We ended up with broken ditch lights, bent hand railings and a damaged speedometer cable.

A night I'll never forget.

Thanks for watching!

Hogger01

[luvmyctd]

My buddies grandfather (93 yrs old now) was an engineer for CN all his life (used to run way up North) and he has endless stories like this. These videos really help bring his stories to life. thanks for the great vids!

[Gunsnclapton4]

@CWREmployee Foamer

[stupidkid658]

@J3110M4N14 do you know how to spell or is it just alot of typing screw ups

[J3110M4N14]

wow that is lot trees on the track it was proubey a good idea to stop becoues of the larger trees but i mean how often do you get to ram your whay thure trees

[J3110M4N14]

wow that is lot rees on the track that was prubelbey a good i idea to stop sence you lost your dich littes

[CrossCountryTrainz]

@ronmcmahon damn you put what i was going to lmao good one hehe

[Shirehorse148]

It's a TRAIN, not a Volkswagen bus people. Don't freak out about some broken ditch lights and a cracked mirror.

Keep up the good work hogger.

[brent198122]

How did you become a train engineer? Where you a union employee who got to bid on that job? Or did you have to have special courses to apply to be an engineer? What are your shifts like? 12hrs shift or 5 eights? Any help to give me my dream job!

[ohiofoamer7612]

Cool. I work for a tourist railroad and I remember 2 years ago stopping for down trees. The one was a big tree and we didnt want to derail the train. No damage was done to our Alco S4. Then last year Another guy and I Tried to clear our line but we didnt have a chainsaw. So another person had to come out whith a saw.

[stasiu5005]

u should make like 50-60 mph and make your way trough this wooden shit :)

[7855waldo]

"Branch line" - WORST pun ever.