2 Mile Long Train Stuck in Snow
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It was a very snowy morning on March 1, 2015 in Sheridan NY. when I went out to try to catch some trains. This CSX train was trying to set off on its route and needed to get the cars that were on the siding but there was plenty of snow in the way.
So the 2 engines had to plow some snow first and got stuck when I turned the camera and they had to back up and try again. Then after it latched on to the cars it spun its wheels a bit before getting enough momentum to get the train moving.
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They had to use the engines to plow the snow away, he had to back up a few times. When I panned away the engines must have gotten stuck because the backed up again as I panned over. And you can see the snow was plowed all the way to the train. They probably moved it some then got stuck so they had to uncouple and plow the snow some more, otherwise why would the video show the snow plowed to the train if they weren't already couple to it?
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They are required to use the engine to make sure the track is clear, especially at crossings. It wasn't "stuck". They were following company procedure. It takes a lot to get an engine "stuck" in snow.
That engineer did the same thing I did to start a heavy train that had set in a crosswind of drafting snow for a couple of days. I had too much power to try and pull it forward all at once, so I backed it up to clear the rails ahead of the cars and got them moving one at a time It works when you know what you are doing.
Let's see you jump into action and do better. Geeze
My Grandfather was an engineer for CSX for years. He changed over to Amtrack and did that until he retired. His run was in WVa at night. When I was a kid I got to ride with him on is runs a lot. And I got to ride in the engine twice. Scared the hell out of me the first time. It was so loud. And when he took me down in the engine room I just about shit myself. The power of it was scary but awesome. Just something about trains that I love. I guess it is my great memories of my time around them.
Wow, very impressive for just a GEVO and an SD50 to pull all that, especially on wet, icy rails from a dead stop, them sanders were working overtime that day!
Less about being stuck than the train being underpowered.
A little bit of both
I saw this video ages ago and loved it, i think its the sounds and the real feeling of power from the engines. I'm glad I found it again. Good job.
Thanks Tim
This was absolutely amazing! Thank you. I'm from England and we just don't have these kinds of freight trains
Great video love listening to the engines working hard. Thanks for standing out in the freezing cold to capture this so people can sit in the warm to watch. And ignore the know it alls.
Thanks I'm glad there are people that appreciate the work I do. It isn't easy being out in that cold I did it yesterday to get some trains and it was like 10 degrees out
It's nice to be inside, I was just thinking that!!!
I used to live across the road from train tracks, and every day(even in the rain) I'd run barefoot across the road to get a picture of it before it was gone.
Man, hearing those engines reverberating is just incredible!
511 dislikes, come on people, that was brute force railroading at at it's best,and in the ice n snow.i got pumped just watching. That engineer was excellent and he only had 2 locomotives, on wet/slick rails. He's got my vote for President 2020. Awesome video.
I know nothing about trains but this is amazing all the creeking and grinding of the iron , those engines must be so powerful to pull this !
They are very powerful and steel wheels on steel rails offers low resistance compared to rubber tires on pavement
Starting at around 5:20, the sound of the engines throttling up, one of the most beautiful sounds in the world, in my opinion. Great video! I just subscribed! 🙂
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@@WideWorldofTrains ok will do, thanks!
I like the horn on that locomotive. It sounded very commanding. The power of those engines is amazing. They got that long train moving pretty quickly in snow and ice conditions.
Thanks it was a really nice horn
The locomotive and the last car are in different time zones ! ^^
LOL yea looks it
Wow! That's the longest train pull I've ever seen thank you patriot
This is what I love about modern locomotives. So much power to pull such a long train. Although I’d imagine if it were going through sections that were not flat, they’d either add more locos up front, or towards the rear of the train as DPUs.
Yes true this was before CSX used DPU's
@@WideWorldofTrains CSX originally used DPUs on some of their coal trains in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, but since PSR got implemented in 2017, they've been using them regularly like BNSF, UP, CN, KCS, and CP have.
Thanks for the winter scene during this hot summer weather!
GREAT video here! Manmade power versus Nature...a Classic clash.
They should have used the Norfolk Southern Flamethrower engine! That woulda de-iced everything lol 😎
Trains and snow, 2 of my favorite things during the winter time.
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Thank You very nice, and it’s amazing to me how those engines can pull all of those cars!
Thanks for watching im glad you like it
My three year old great-grandson loves them all!!
I love the train.......love this video!!
Great filming,excellent presentation 🙏 thank you dear friend
I wish you nice day
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Oh man! Thanks so much for making this!
trains stuck in the snow. csx trains is my favorite and a long trains.
dear Friend love it. Really enjoyed. Thumbs up.
Wishing you good health and beautiful Time.
God bless you.
Yeah I'm a little late watching this. This kept coming up so I decided to watch, didn't realize it is several years old, but it makes no difference to me. That was a long train. Thanks for sharing your work and thanks for going out in the cold snowy weather to film this train :-))
Thanks Kathy appreciate it
I live in Pennsylvania and tried railfanning myself for my last video...all I can say is...cold. Hah! I have a much higher appreciation for people like you putting out content like this. Great stuff and thank you!
Tentative Dan Thanks for watching I appreciate it
Wide World of Trains you're welcome. Was the snow actually still covering the rails after the first pass over it?
Unbelievable ! Thank you for the vid !
It's all good. I most enjoyed your video of trains at work. Regardless of the wheel slip. Thanks for braving the bad weather to make this vid.
Thank you for the kind words. I have videos where I was out in 10 and 27 below weather, here is one th-cam.com/video/DWlMK-rc0ks/w-d-xo.html
Great in every ways ! thanks a lot !
Awesome video! Now that's how you prove CSX isn't moving tommorow. lol
-Albert
Another great video, thanks for sharing
It seems to escaped some - this speed (17:47) is probably the siding/turnout speed; the train will speed up once it is on the mainline.
Cool video! I enjoy the sights and sounds brings back memories of kick the bed rocks down the line, life was good. Those of us who are old enough to have experienced the steam locomotive and watched the transition to diesel power are truly blest.
Thanks steam era was the best
Yes for sure. I remember well the last passenger steam train going past our place in the mid sixties. Putting pennies on the line and collecting them flattened after the train had passed. I know the smoke from the old trains was polluting but tell you what - I miss it...
_blest_ is very archaic. Did you also see the War of 1812 too?
@@coloradostrong Fought in it !
i love trains:)
great video thanks for shareing geting out there. in the snow storm. from middletown,ohio a railroad fan.
Jawtooth, you should visit Michigan/Indiana border when lake-effect snow is falling. That's snow.
Very nice work the snow was pretty i liked it keep up the good work
After having seen trains flying through big snowbanks, I was surprised it got stuck!!!
Great video. Thank you Arthur Baker
What's more impressive than the non stuck stuck train was that they were able to couple in and make air across the entire train and release the brakes!
Something gratifying about a train unless you are in a hurry waiting for this thing to pass! Gotta love trains though!!
So true! Thanks
Bin begeistert von Euren schönen langen Zügen .Im Modell habe ich schon 150 Wagen drann gehabt mit 2 Dash-9 in Gartenbahn Grösse Spur G.
Grüsse vom Peter aus Berlin Germany
great job love trains that was a long train.
Thanks I'm glad you like it
That's amazing that two units can pull that two mile long train
Would really suck coming down that street to a 2 mile long train rolling at walking speed like 7:00 in!
Make you late for work. 😡😡
Really great video!! I like seeing long CSX trains! And to be honest, I found 2014 way better than 2021 because of a nice locomotives that I missed.
Thank you very much!
Great video! super crew! Thanks!
Good catch ! nice film, i really enjoyed that ;-)
Hello WWOT, the train was not stuck. What the engineer did was using the snow on the rear loco and was putting extra sand from his sanders, before he coupled onto the train in the siding. He never got stuck or slipped a wheel when pulling put the siding.
Never seen a train stuck in snow. Fascinating. Not for them I bet.
HEAVY train, good engineer, never stalled the train.
Gary Plastek being a good engineer has nothing to do with a train stalling out. Too many variables that are not under his control that can contribute to a stalled train.
Show,impressionante ee comboio enorme era meu sonho ser um maquinista de trem. Um comboio desse e um ogulho pra um maquinista,muito emoinante. Meus Parabens.
What is it with trains that produce a kind of fascination that no other transportation vehicles produce ?
Looks like the engine got some wide whitewalls there. 😆
MrAudienceMember So do many of the cars. And then many of the cars have graffiti on the sides.
5:50 Nice Horn of this train!!!
I like waking up to the sound of the trains moving through Bay City, Michigan when I am there!
What crossing was this filmed at
Man,that's a lot of snow.
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All very familior sounds. Igrew up next to the tracks on railroad Street
Hard to believe that just two locomotives could pull a two mile long train!
Lots of power in those 2 units but I know what you mean
Flat area very easily
Great coverage.
Thanks appreciate it
Nice snow action!
Thanks appreciate it
Nice, video but don’t the locomotives still have snow plows and carry sand so the engineers can clear the rails and drop sand down for traction under the wheels ?
To Steven Noel and others, yes, snowplows are pretty much a requirement now, and yes they still have sand. Case in point; when my dad was a kid, he and some friends would sneak over to the Wabash tracks at night and grease the rails, of course, this was nearly 100 years ago in the steam era. They would get a charge when those big steamers hit the grease and the drivers spun like crazy, until the engineer(s) dumped sand on the rails for traction. The railroad cops had an idea who was behind all of it, but never could catch them in the act. So, yes, plows and sand are here to stay.
Wasn't a stuck train, but simply rail cars on a siding, the motors are moved to connect, and once connected became a train. Note the FRED on the last car!
It was stuck thats why it stopped and backed up, then stopped on the crossing. Then when it started out again it didnt go right away
@@WideWorldofTrains Cars had been parked on siding without power (note that the mainline tracks have the snow blown away and rails are visible while the siding still has snow covering the rails). The motors were the first thing moving toward the cars (note how the "cow catcher" is plowing snow). At 6:50 you can clearly see that the lead motor's wheels are not slipping and at 7:40-8:15 neither are the trailing motor's wheels slipping. Plus as the cars go by, you can see where snow had piled up against the wheels while they were parked in the siding, likely before the snowfall ended (though the wheels on the motors are missing the snow so betting they were brought to the cars, going past them to the switch and then what you show is them moving back on the siding to connect).
I was expecting a couple of engine on the end, but .. nop. insane, even when they were empties.
Great video!
Thanks
Your welcome!
what length, weight and capacity of those last big tanks?
Wow!!!
I know right
A more accurate title would be "Engines come to get train stored on team track covered with a little bit of snow."
And likely mostly empties to boot. Only two locos.
Team track? Haha!
Какое необычное видео, а скажите пожалуйста зачем поезд останавливался потом бригада отцепила тепловозы и они стали ездить туда сюда?
Great videos
That guy did a hell of a job getting that thing
Yea he did thanks for watching
Nice video.
Great cache !!
Thank you
Amazing just how strong the couplings must be, that is one hell of a force on the couplings near the front of the train.
Yes good observation, thanks for your imput
Exactly what I was wondering. Perhaps there are other engines, in the middle and at the rear. Maybe the train is empty!
Pity the guy waiting at the junction
It took 10 minutes from the Locomotive to the last car to cross that road
Which Means both locomotive & the last car are in two different towns
Nice heavy east snow storm will slow anything or one down CSX train?? That too!!
and we thought hunter harrison was a drag on the csx train with precision railroading. fer shame, boys and girls.
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Nothing stuck. Started moving smoothly and gradually increased speed. Sixteen minutes of train cars moving past the camera. Exciting?
It was stuck that's why the two locomotives had to back up and try again. Yeah it was pretty exciting wasn't it since I was standing out there in near zero weather for that long
Clifton Dean About as exciting as watching paint dry.
Please forward the video link wrt snow banks which is shown in previous video. Very interesting ,as in India we do not see such scenes.
Now that I've seen this 2 Mile Long Train Stuck in 3 inches of Snow I feel so much betterer and prouderer about my difficult efforts at pushing my own snow 3 feet deep the last few days with my blue plastic snow shovel. I'm overweight but I'm not Train weight.
Hate to comment on a video from 4 years ago, but.......No one was stuck here. Train started moving with locos barely above idle. Engineer being careful to make an easy start, keeping speed down as he was approaching a cross over switch in the distance. Didn't hear any throttle adjustment at any time to help control wheel slip. It's not the amount of snow to push thru, but the thin layer on the track surface that causes loss of traction. Once the loco has pushed thru there is the same amount on the track surface whether there is 6 inches or 2 feet of snow. I expect the moves back and forth was to spread some sand on the rails before trying to start, as a precaution. By the time all slack was taken from that long a train the locos would be past the crossing in the sanded area.
How is a moving train stuck?
is it still there now ?
Amazing.. raw power.
Yes it was that they could get all that tonnage going in those conditions
i have watched it a few minutes ago and i am watching it again ... the two engines i suppose are plowing the railroad tracks back and forth and i think twice or more , besides the train logo i noticed agp, atlantic gulf pacific ... i suppose what i notice is a vehicle stuck in traffic for the train to gain inertia to move a little bit faster ...thanks
I didn't realize that the bell pattern could go slow down like that on the GEVO...I thought they would chime faster
Train was NOT stuck. The engineer made a couple back and forth moves to clear the track so when hooked to the cars there was better chance of traction to get the cars rolling and the train moving. Just standard practice. But NOT stuck as implied.
I was before I got there thats why you can see the snow was plowed right up to the cars
Wow....very long train .
Well - it appears to be a moving train, and quite early in the video. But the title says "stuck in snow." OKay - words are whatever you want them to mean! I wish I could be stuck like this train when I AM stuck!!
Great Video. Never mind the critics. The armchair critics. The train was stuck. That's why the loco decouples and cleans the rails, and then takes another bite. Skillful engineer.
Yes I couldnt have said it better! Thanks
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Nice catch and great camera work capturing this rare event. Apparently the surface area between a railway wheel and the rail head is about the same as a dime, which is why all it took was a bit of snow to stall 8000 + horse power. Thanks for sharing, it's rare to film a stalled train like this and you did a great job.
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Interesting that the brakeman/conductor was wearing a white jacket. Doesn't help his/her visibility on the snow. Not the best from a safety perspective. Oh wait. It's not white. It's an approved "safety" yellow. Sorry about that!
There's no way you could count cars the way you pan that camera around
Am I missing something? I watched a video of a engineer clearing the ice and putting down extra sand, and then he couples and pulls a very heavy train without any noticeable wheel slip. Nothing in this video shows a train stuck...??? If you think he was stuck when he stopped and backed up, listen to the engines and brakes. He was at idle, stopped and backed up. If you thought he was struggling when he started pulling the 2 mile consist, he wasn't. He applied a notch at a time and gradually accelerated without creating excessive forces on the couplers. You should learn more about how to operate a locomotive before labeling your videos. I've seen so many people say things like, "a train broke down on the tracks", when in fact it was simply waiting for clearance to proceed...
The light power got stuck in the beginning
I was asking myself the same thing. Where's the stuck train?
Never had to use them but we had sanders on our Locomotives, and he was powering up just like normal if you put to much on the throttle at a stand still your not going anywhere but your going to raise hell with the drive wheels as they pound themselves against the rail loosing traction , a good way to over stretch the couplings, damage something and maybe even find yourself get fired. I saw no problems here .
Mr Pilot Steve.
Before you start running anybody down I think you need more lessons on what this video is all about.
Answer to your first question. Yes you DEFINITELY are missing something.
Its called Experience in being a Vigilant Locomotive Engineer.
There are people out there who have a passion for trains and putting them down only shows your ignorance rather than kindness in explaining what is happening here without stressing out.
You will have your version ,Someone else will have theirs, but the only person who knows what is happening here is the Locomotive Engineer operating those locomotives and train.
Right here is my take on the action.
Either that train has stalled before the signal which may have displayed a Green Light OR or the train has stopped short of a red light and so the Locomotive Engineer has decided to secure his train , uncouple the locomotives and do what we see here in order to lift the train from a standing start after receiving a green light.
We dont know what happened. Well I dont anyway.
I can see the signal was at green while he was clearing the track of snow and most probably laying sand going backwards and forwards. Having done that a few times will give the locomotives better tractive effort to lift the train from where it is and carefully one notch at a time increase the throttle as the train traverses over the areas of track that was cleared and laid with sand thereby increasing the speed and momentum of the train and allow the locomotives to operate and move more effectively at a rate-able speed for the conditions without excessive wheel slip. Once the entire train and locomotives have got this 100% momentum going you are best to stay in whatever power notch you are in before wheel slipping AND no matter what speed you are doing because moving is far better than stopped and remain there until the train is clear of all troubles to prevent stalling again.
Having said all this, I think the owner of this film is Correct. The train did become STUCK but in Railway terms we normally use the word STALLED. A minor error lesson learned.
You should learn how you treat people, they are far more important than locomotives.
Great filming Sir!
Wayne M.
Locomotive Engineer 40 years.
@@matiu1 Thank you for the in-depth explanation of what likely happened. I think that people are complaining about the video because the term "stuck" usually means something isn't able to move. The video could have been labeled "2 Mile Long Train Starts Moving After Being Stalled In Snow", since the video never actually showed the loco attempting to move while stuck. Quite honestly, based on the title, I expected to see the wheels slipping or something.
Where was this?