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The 80s were certainly an exciting time in American railroading.

I was an operation lifesaver presenter . I love trains and grew up with lots of knowledge about them. Wonder how many life's I might of saved?

Excellent job on the Video. If Documentary filmmaking is not your main career then it should be. Keep up the great work.

I never blame amtrak for derailing on tracks they don't own, aside from crew error. They have no control over the quality of the tracks, which are often just good enough to usually not derail freights. E: And it's always a damn dump truck!

If I had a nickel for every train crash I've heard of happening in Philadelphia, i would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

My friend knew this train crew well.

The music is a bit too loud for the narration.

The air keeps the brakes from operating! Dump the air and the brakes engage!

The leader and trailing unit of the accident in 7:31 are NS 7546 & NS 9913

Excellent video friend

No Deadmans handle?

The one frame of Minecraft at the beginning

Never knew runaway train was based on a true story. Great video!

Amazing

Am I the only one who thinks this is too similar to thunderbolt 1000 siren productions video on the crazy eights?

By the way if you wondered then that car in the background is a 2015 Nissan X-Trail

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Was the driver never questioned as to how/why he came off the engine?

skin me pro kills yes

Where you edit videos?

Many comments are from people who lived in the area when the event occurred but never heard about it. I think it's because there was no accident that whould've alerted the news media and the railroad did not report it because of the negative publicity it would generate.

Rochester native (born in ‘62) I’ve never heard of this incident. Thank you

very good

We are talking "lite power" here, NOT a "train". This and that other 'lite power' video made the same mistake.

What bout the north goodman yard ,its old i think

Great video! I don't recall it at all. I was age 7 and had just left Rochester that afternoon, traveling east through Newark! The only reason I remember that is because it was a weekly ritual.

Too much back ground noise; poor voice quality made this unpleasant to listen to.

The moment the music kicked in, I recognized the soundtrack from "Runaway Train" -- awesome accompaniment to your video!

11/21/24: A great story, indeed, but not as impressive as Harris-Walz going off the rails in 2024!

Well done

the tootage at 9:07 is of the csx runayay 8888 that has gone in to rail road legang has the crazzy 8's and parts of this film remind me of the film unstopable seen the film runaway and what a good film

I would like o see a Documentary on te train wreck in Longview Washington, in 1995 think was the year 8 Locos were completely destroyed unrecognizable. I drove by it a week later. Never seen such a horrific pile of wreckage ever online or in person.

Throwing any of the engines into emergency should have stopped all units from pulling.

Born in Syracuse in 1946 and spent my adult life in Rochester working for Kodak, but I do not recall this happening. I really appreciate learning about this. 👍

Click bait in the title! In the UNITED STATES of AMERICA there called engineers! Not drivers

Cringe

I remember reading an article about this in either "Popular Science" or "Popular Mechanics" magazine.

Interesting narration but the video is almost all stock footage that has nothing to do with the event. Some of the railroads shown did not exist in 1962, The NTSB report pertains to an accident 17 years later.

You know the units of the accident in 7:31 ?

Love the soundtrack and video from runaway train. Awesome movie.

Jumping back and forth between the swaying units at 90 mph? Pulling out a thick power cable? If true; he must have had more adrenaline than blood.

11/18/24: Yes, that was me in 1962, ten years old, determined to bring the train to a halt. I still can't believe I did it. Well, thanks for the publicity. Now all my buddies at the bar will finally stop accusing me of lying!

1 minute and 40 seconds into the video and I'm already bewildered. Those GP20s were close to brand spanking new, WITHOUT DYNAMICS?? If a class 1 railroad today didn't have dynamic brakes on all their mainline equipment, it would be a PR disaster. The NYC just didn't care that a 240,000+ pound locomotive might not be able to stop under it's own power. No shit Penn Central imploded if this is how they operated before the merger.

Can u do the one at 0:12 Behind 4004 is 4554 & behind 4044 is bnsf 4114

I always thought "Runaway Train" was a great movie and was influenced by Kurosawa. To what degree I was never sure. The music and the scenery made that movie particularly fitting for the meaning of the story, what is the meaning of a man concerning what is good and what is evil. To face one's destiny bravely, as the convict did is good. At the same time to continue to inflict harm on others, as the Warden was doing, is not good and showed the Warden to be out of touch with the meaning of life. It was very satisfying to learn of the real world events that led to this great film. Thank you.

Dynamic brakes are usually required on locomotives operating in mountainous regions. Between Rochester and Chicago, the terrain is nearly flat, meaning dynamic-brake equipped locos are unnecessary.

Great work .well produced. You should do one on the Boston and Maine runaway that happened in the 80's during the strike that killed the B&M.its said that employees on strike did it in protest for the skabs that were hired to run trains.

Great job on the video. Do you know what mile marker the runaway stopped at, or what street? Thanks.