For those of you wanting a bit more of info on the actual locomotive 8888 here you go. It was a SD40-2 owned by CSX transportation. The locomotive was painted in CSX’s YN2 paint. The engine was a former Conrail unit which CSX acquired in 1999 after the brake up of Conrail. Multiple museums attempted to purchase it, but in the end, it was rebuilt by CSX into a SD40-3 numbered 4389.
8:42 actually applied the independent brake and the dynamic brake, the dynamic brake uses the train's generator to power the brakes, and the engineer set the throttle to 8 (basically: full throttle) but the independent brake disabled the dynamic, so the train sped off on full throttle. Also, what are those readings? BTW there was another conductor, but they were now actually on the train, and the two ppl were in contact via radio, the conductor ran to get help when the train sped up and the engineer didn't radio back. But that was after the conductor told the engineer many times that the train was getting a little to far for comfort. The conductor radioed 4 times in total, but only got two through to the engineer.
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Yes, the following was a real disaster: "The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[4] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometer (0.6 mi) blast radius.[5]" (Wikipedia).
The Russian one: *IT'S ALREADY 2004 and YOU STILL DON'T HAVE ATS INSTALLED The Ohio one: *How can you go fix the rail yourself instead of EB the train and contact engineers*
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Did you know that a train got directed onto the main line, it stopped, but an express train was going full speed on the same track. The driver decided to make the train go extremely fast so it could run away. He jumped out the cab and ran. The express train stopped, but the other train had already reached a high speed. It finally stopped 6 miles after it lost it’s water.
This reminded me of anime "Astro Boy Episode 32 : Runaway Subway Train" 1980 (Tetsuwanu Atom is a Japanese name, Tezuka Productions, writer Osamu Tezuka, 1980 is a colour remake of 1963 series, first anime series of the world)
So, you have a crazy Russian putting lives at risk.....and you have heroic Americans who worked together to stop a major catastrophe. I am proud to be an American.
Well i do remember the run away that went straight into a house in the middle of the night while people where inside luckily it was night and the bedroom was upstairs and the train crashed trough the downstairs wall
When I saw the title. I was thinking back to how the Cloquet Fire of 1918 started. It was a dry time of the year and sparks flew from the train. Igniting the brush. Thing is, the train engineer disobeyed the management and got many of the townsfolks out.
Nowadays most class 1 locomotives in North America are equipped with PTC (Positive Train Control) where a set of buttons have to be pressed every few minutes to make sure the engineer is alert. If they aren't pressed in time, the locomotive hits the brakes and shuts down.
You forgot to mention something about the crazy 8 incident: Many people attempted to board the engine while it was still moving, but they all chickened out last minute because of how fast the engine was going.
I’ve heard about 2 separate trains that lost their brakes while going down the same hill and flew off the tracks and destroyed houses on separate occasions.
Don't forget about that 1985 film "Runaway Train" that stars both actors Jon Voight & Eric Roberts, even though that movie was never based on a true story.
I KNOW almost same story as the second your story, but ill tell how the train was runaway and the end: the train was a runaway just becauze of the train engineer, he was trying to use brakes while he was going 100miles per hour and there was a really short wave, and it was too fast that the train could crash into the river, and there was a random helpers that was in front of the train, and you may ask: WHY ENGINEER DOESNT USE BRAKES??? Well it was broken. And those random guys with the helper train IMMDIATLY (idk how to spell that word) used brakes and the runaway train crashed into it and it stopped it, and they were all fine. Love your videos :3
Recently the Hoboken Terminal had a train that nearly destroyed the entire station. Some died, many injured. It was awful to see and how scared everyone gets in addition to event. It’s basically a NYC station, and it’s always the fear of the public when accidents happen like this that it’s another terrorist attack.
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[4] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometre (0.6 mi) blast radius. The trains still run through the two but the twon is just deserted and gone.
Some misinformation about this video in the CSX Crazy 8's incident. The locomotive 8888 was a former Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) now CSX Transportation owned SD40-2 locomotive. On this day, CSX 8888 was assigned to the railroad yard in Walbridge, Ohio (Toledo). This is where the CSX Toledo Branch and CSX Pemberville Subdivision meet. The Walbridge to Kenton Mainline is actually the former Conrail, now CSX, Toledo Branch, which runs between Walbridge Ohio, and Ridgeway, Ohio. From Ridgeway Ohio, the line becomes the former Conrail, now CSX, Scottslawn Secondary Mainline. The locomotive and these railroad lines were acquired in 1999. On this afternoon, the engineer of this train symboled CSXT Y-115 was given orders by the yard tower to move a string of 47 cars from one track in the railroad yard to another track to make room for an inbound freight train. As the engineer was moving the set of cars, he noticed that the switch was lined against his movement. The train was moving slow, but it wasn't enough to stop in time before the switch. Realizing what was going to happen, he decided to hop down from the cab, throw the switch, then reboard his engine. Before leaving the cab of the locomotive, he applied the train's Locomotive Brake. This is a brake that stops only the locomotive, but not the rest of the train. Given that the air hose (The train's brakes line) between the first car and the locomotive was disconnected (Which is common practice for switching within yard limits), he decided to apply the Dynamic Brakes. The problem was that the SD40-2 locomotive was of an older design, and the Throttle (The gas pedal for locomotives) and dynamic brake throttle were combined into one handle, with a selector switch. This engineer forgot about this, so when he went to grab the dynamic brake, he accidentally threw the locomotive into Notch 8 (Full power). The other problem is that when he applied the Independent Brake, he disables the locomotives Alerter, which is a device that will go off if the engineer doesn't cancel the alarm or doesn't make any adjustment to the controls. However, when the Independent brake is applied, the Alerter is canceled out. This system is a safety feature that prevents the traction motors and wheels from locking into position. The train left the railyard thanks to the programming of the switches, onto the CSX Toledo Branch. From there, the train headed down the mainline doing an average speed of 35 mph, going as high as 51 MPH. The authorities, aka the police, were not in a position to stop the runaway train. The police and fire officials' job was to keep people out of harm's way and to be on location in the worst-case scenario. However, the issue was is that at the of the train's route in Columbus Ohio (The Capital) there was a curve where the train wasn't going to make and was going to derail near downtown. The Ohio Governor at the time, Bob Taft, was evacuated from the city in the event that the train was going to derail, and put the Ohio National Guard on standby should the worst-case scenario happened. The first attempt to stop the train was by having the train run over what is called the derail. The derail was on a siding and could be set by the dispatcher to be attached to the rail. Unfortunately, the derail is only useful to stop runaway railcars, not locomotives, so when the train ran over the derail, it shattered. In Findlay, Ohio, a police officer using a Twelve Guage Shotgun and a buck round shot at the train to enable the train's emergency safety cut-off switch. This cutoff switch shuts off fuel to the generator, and thus the train would have coasted to a stop. However, not only did the officer mess, but the button needed to be depressed for roughly 10 seconds before it would activate. A few miles down the line, there was CSX train Q636, which was waiting in the siding for the Runaway Train to pass. The locomotive in charge of the train was CSX engine 8392, the same model SD40-2 as CSX 8888 was. When the train passed, the Dispatchers ordered the crew of the train to uncouple their lead locomotive and chase the train down in reverse. They caught up to the train just North of Kenton, Ohio. They managed to slow the Runaway Train down to about 11 MPH, however, given that CSX 8888's throttle was still wide open, it wasn't enough to fully stop the train. Jon Hosfield, who had heard about the Runaway since just after it began, has chased the train almost all the way from Toledo with another person. From there, as the train started coming over a railroad crossing, he positioned himself and jumped onto the handrails, climbing into the cab, and shutting off power. The investigation found that it was simply Human Error that caused the incident. After the incident, CSX 8888 was released back out into the open as a CSX Locomotive with a new set of brake shoes and a new control stand where the Dynamic Brake Switch and Throttle are two levers again. The engine served CSX for many more years until 2013 when an alternator Failure put the engine on the sidelines. As of 2021, the locomotive has been rebuilt into an SD40-3 locomotive number 4389, and it remains a part of the CS Roster to this day. May 15th, 2021 marked 20 years since the famous incident happened. As an Ohioan and a railfan, I have always asked myself if this incident could ever happen again in the United States.
but one runaway train i know about is the cojan pass. it's weight was underestimated, and when it went downhill, it's brakes failed, and exploded into a neighbrohood.
I remembered riding a train last year from North Quincy Massachusetts to Boston Massachusetts to go to the New England aquarium. Thankfully this never happened to me in terms of idiotic train drivers.
11:09 28 Apr 2013, a single U20C locomotive runs from the train depot, reaching a top speed of 145 km/h without a driver while warming up the engine, the brakes are also damaged during the trip because the locomotive is at full power when the brakes are applied and the reverser lever is in the forward position.
a northbound csx freight train "q636-15"was on a siding so the runaway train wouldn't hit it.the crew of lead engine" csx gp40-2#8392(not 8391)decided to catch the runaway to slow it down
Meanwhile in Romania *song* LADIES AND GENTELMEN THE TRAIN *IR1862* IS LATE ABOUT *103* MINUTES Because we are need to get big salaries so we are revolting
I would like to ellaborate on 8888: when they claimed the setting was to accelarate, it was also that the dynamic brake was turned on and activating the throttle will slow the train down, but since the brakes were completely burned, that was how the runaway even started
I have one for you the largs train failed to stop because the breaks had major failure it crashed through the platform and killed 3 people and injured 2 more the train stopped about halfway through the road as the friction from the ground would have slowed it down
Hey there, BrightSiders! Do you remember any movies about vehicles that lose control?
Titantic?
Unstoppable
BRIGHT SIDE polar express
Unstoppable
Unstoppable is was based on the crazy eights incident.
The second train incident almost matches with the 2010 movie Unstoppable
Same idea
Even I thought of the same movie.
Me too
The guy after me is going to say the same
the movie was actually based on the crazy 8's incident.
You made us afraid of planes now your making us afraid of trains.
Next up : automobiles.
After automobiles: walking.
@Zed haha! 😂
Exactly 😁
You’re*
For those of you wanting a bit more of info on the actual locomotive 8888 here you go. It was a SD40-2 owned by CSX transportation. The locomotive was painted in CSX’s YN2 paint. The engine was a former Conrail unit which CSX acquired in 1999 after the brake up of Conrail. Multiple museums attempted to purchase it, but in the end, it was rebuilt by CSX into a SD40-3 numbered 4389.
Nice information. I’m Trying to figure what happened To CSX 8392 after it was sold to NRE
pretty scary knowing this train went flying by my home town
Doctors: Your fine! Just a suit and tie. Your good to go!
Me: Oh SUUUUURE He's the real person.
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8:42 actually applied the independent brake and the dynamic brake, the dynamic brake uses the train's generator to power the brakes, and the engineer set the throttle to 8 (basically: full throttle) but the independent brake disabled the dynamic, so the train sped off on full throttle. Also, what are those readings? BTW there was another conductor, but they were now actually on the train, and the two ppl were in contact via radio, the conductor ran to get help when the train sped up and the engineer didn't radio back. But that was after the conductor told the engineer many times that the train was getting a little to far for comfort. The conductor radioed 4 times in total, but only got two through to the engineer.
The reason Eddie didn't stop?
No one cut the crusts of his PBJ sandwich
Sounds just right
He sneezed and no one said bless you
Lol
lol
Maybe he didn't sleep for 4 days
I love that you added the crazy 8's incident. I love the story because it inspired the movie "Unstoppable"
Unstoppable is my favorite movie with real people in it and is realistic
CSX 8888 is something you can not miss
Unstoppable was filmed in public
Unstoppable is actually my favourite movie!
The crazy eights story is what the movie Unstoppable is based on.
Plus I’m going on a brunch buffet train trip today.
Shane Thompson where’re you heading?
“It’s a hard not life for us”
Hi I love that move and I think it’s on netflix
have a nice trip
Robert Larrazabal what do you mean
Correction at 10:11: The locomotive that coupled onto the back of 8888’s train was 8392, not 8391.
Hey I like trains too on my other channel I do train videos
CSX 8888 wasn't able to be preserved then went from an SD40-2 yn2 to an SD40-3 yn3 in 2017. CSX 8888 is now CSX 4389
Wait,so.. it changed it's class?
@@Gnappopo no, still EMD
@@Gnappopo It just changed to a higher tier locomotive and paint
Bright side: wait a runaway train is real???
Me: bruh do u even watch thomas and friends???
Edit: omg!! 13 likes??? 1 reply???I AM SO LUCKYY!!!!!! THANK YOUUU!!!!
Edit 2: 21 LIKES!?!??!?!?! YAAAY
Loooooll
hey! its kind of common if you are commenting on such a big channel
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Yeah i mean im lucky cuz my comment is commonly ignored
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Yes, the following was a real disaster: "The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[4] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometer (0.6 mi) blast radius.[5]" (Wikipedia).
Thats crazy.
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Bright side of life: join the dark side luke
That engineer is like some bad guy
The Russian one: *IT'S ALREADY 2004 and YOU STILL DON'T HAVE ATS INSTALLED
The Ohio one: *How can you go fix the rail yourself instead of EB the train and contact engineers*
sup
woah
o_o
“Going off the rails on this crazy train!”
"End of the line. Last stop: TOTAL DESTRUCTION!!!"
I'm late by like half an hour
Me by 45 mins
the El Cajon pass derailments of 1989 1994 and 1996 are some good ones
When you learn more from TH-cam than school
Nice
TRUE
8392 stoped the train.
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I've heard of the second incident. Inspiration for the amazing film "Unstoppable".
One of my childhood favs!
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Did you know that a train got directed onto the main line, it stopped, but an express train was going full speed on the same track. The driver decided to make the train go extremely fast so it could run away. He jumped out the cab and ran. The express train stopped, but the other train had already reached a high speed. It finally stopped 6 miles after it lost it’s water.
There were several horrible wrecks at the El Cajon pass.
Yes. There were 3 in total.
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This reminded me of anime "Astro Boy Episode 32 : Runaway Subway Train" 1980
(Tetsuwanu Atom is a Japanese name, Tezuka Productions, writer Osamu Tezuka, 1980 is a colour remake of 1963 series, first anime series of the world)
I heard about 777
I saw it in Unstoppable movie
that was the 777.
And it was not CSX.
RoSteel R/wooooosh
Unstoppable was inspired by 8888
@BlackRafGTR 23 are you sure about that?
@@TweezersUnlimited sure about what?
2:53 where did his tie go ?
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@@ian-yu3wr oof
Ah yes, the “Special” brake and “strangely misaligned” switch.
The special break is the dynamic breaks
All cajon pass crashes first do 1989 when a train started accelerating... And then it hit a bunch of houses in San Bernardino CA from derailing
So, you have a crazy Russian putting lives at risk.....and you have heroic Americans who worked together to stop a major catastrophe. I am proud to be an American.
me too
A really long time ago. James was a runaway, he derailed...
And Thomas chased him
Ah yes
My favorite
Well i do remember the run away that went straight into a house in the middle of the night while people where inside luckily it was night and the bedroom was upstairs and the train crashed trough the downstairs wall
Wait did you guys notice that when Eddie’s speech bubble was supposed to say “overslept” it said.. “loverslept”
I didn’t know he had a wife..
portable derailers dont look like that in your video,its a metal stick with a "derail"sign attached to a metal thingy that fits on the rail
When I saw the title. I was thinking back to how the Cloquet Fire of 1918 started. It was a dry time of the year and sparks flew from the train. Igniting the brush. Thing is, the train engineer disobeyed the management and got many of the townsfolks out.
this is the crazy Eights incident, which is what inspired unstoppable
edit 1: i think?
it did
Yes it did u r correct
777
Not 8888
@@gameplayerailway ugh, the real engine was numbered 8888, the movie was 777
True I heard that story awvr 777
*Legend has it the train is still Driving to this day.*
Legend has is that Crazy Eight incident was staged to make news topic and a movie. The engineer secretly said.
WHAT?!
JUST 6 YEARS BEFORE MY BIRTH?
this is very interesting video though...
Gavin - Taekwondo aren’t you afraid of trains?
Gavin - Taekwondo aren’t you afraid of trains?
You should not tell her people your age
@@TycoonTitian01 huh?
Samir Nawrozada math.
Nowadays most class 1 locomotives in North America are equipped with PTC (Positive Train Control) where a set of buttons have to be pressed every few minutes to make sure the engineer is alert. If they aren't pressed in time, the locomotive hits the brakes and shuts down.
You forgot to mention something about the crazy 8 incident: Many people attempted to board the engine while it was still moving, but they all chickened out last minute because of how fast the engine was going.
The second incident nearly match to the "Thodari" Tamil movie 🤔
Its related to the movie unstoppable
@@TheAviationGuyID oh..
YES I'VE HEARD OF THE CRAZY 8S INCEDENT, AS A FAN OF THUNDER BOLT 1000 PRODUCTIONS
Ah yes, so am I
So no trains,planes, cars or any type of travel that relys on combustion engines got it? ill just take my unicycle then 👍
Where's spiderman when you need him?
The last one was the movie unstoppable
The movie was inspired by that incident
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I was about to say I’m waiting for someone to say something about Thomas-
Doctor : you have 10 to live
Me : 10 what??
Doctor : 9…8…7
I’ve heard about 2 separate trains that lost their brakes while going down the same hill and flew off the tracks and destroyed houses on separate occasions.
I think you are talking about the cajon pass runaways. Right?
Don't forget about that 1985 film "Runaway Train" that stars both actors Jon Voight & Eric Roberts, even though that movie was never based on a true story.
The second one was the movie instopable it’s really called 777
True.
Yea it’s a good movie
Yes. The crazy eights incident was what insired the movie "Unstopable".
There was on that exploded in Québec coming from the states the engineer whent to sleep
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I KNOW almost same story as the second your story, but ill tell how the train was runaway and the end: the train was a runaway just becauze of the train engineer, he was trying to use brakes while he was going 100miles per hour and there was a really short wave, and it was too fast that the train could crash into the river, and there was a random helpers that was in front of the train, and you may ask: WHY ENGINEER DOESNT USE BRAKES??? Well it was broken. And those random guys with the helper train IMMDIATLY (idk how to spell that word) used brakes and the runaway train crashed into it and it stopped it, and they were all fine. Love your videos :3
At 10:11 you said that 8391 was coupled to the runaway to slow it down. But the number was actually 8392.
You lied the 8888 brake shoes were burned of by csx
And this is called the *BRIGHT SIDE*
Ikr
The intro sounds cut off this time
The 2 one was just like unstoppable 🚄🚃🚃🚃🚅🚃🚃🚃🚂🚅🚄🚃🚃🚃
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You should watch thunderbolt 1000t siren production he made a great video on all of this
I watch him all the time he makes the best train documentarys
1st dude must have thought he was playing GTA3
The second train was like the same on 777 and 767 in the movies unstoppahle
Thats because "Unstoppable" was inspired by that train.
Recently the Hoboken Terminal had a train that nearly destroyed the entire station. Some died, many injured. It was awful to see and how scared everyone gets in addition to event. It’s basically a NYC station, and it’s always the fear of the public when accidents happen like this that it’s another terrorist attack.
In Scotland about 30 years ago there was a train that did almost completely destroyed a station
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[4] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometre (0.6 mi) blast radius. The trains still run through the two but the twon is just deserted and gone.
This reminds me of death train
The train 777 after the man change the track, the train go faster
Thats a movie dude
It’s a movie and a real thing to
It the movie
"Gahdammit Dewie!"
@@Foreeverrrr no it’s not?
Anyone watching this in 2019
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ayy
It’s 🎉
It’s 2024
Some misinformation about this video in the CSX Crazy 8's incident.
The locomotive 8888 was a former Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) now CSX Transportation owned SD40-2 locomotive. On this day, CSX 8888 was assigned to the railroad yard in Walbridge, Ohio (Toledo). This is where the CSX Toledo Branch and CSX Pemberville Subdivision meet. The Walbridge to Kenton Mainline is actually the former Conrail, now CSX, Toledo Branch, which runs between Walbridge Ohio, and Ridgeway, Ohio. From Ridgeway Ohio, the line becomes the former Conrail, now CSX, Scottslawn Secondary Mainline. The locomotive and these railroad lines were acquired in 1999.
On this afternoon, the engineer of this train symboled CSXT Y-115 was given orders by the yard tower to move a string of 47 cars from one track in the railroad yard to another track to make room for an inbound freight train. As the engineer was moving the set of cars, he noticed that the switch was lined against his movement. The train was moving slow, but it wasn't enough to stop in time before the switch. Realizing what was going to happen, he decided to hop down from the cab, throw the switch, then reboard his engine.
Before leaving the cab of the locomotive, he applied the train's Locomotive Brake. This is a brake that stops only the locomotive, but not the rest of the train. Given that the air hose (The train's brakes line) between the first car and the locomotive was disconnected (Which is common practice for switching within yard limits), he decided to apply the Dynamic Brakes. The problem was that the SD40-2 locomotive was of an older design, and the Throttle (The gas pedal for locomotives) and dynamic brake throttle were combined into one handle, with a selector switch. This engineer forgot about this, so when he went to grab the dynamic brake, he accidentally threw the locomotive into Notch 8 (Full power). The other problem is that when he applied the Independent Brake, he disables the locomotives Alerter, which is a device that will go off if the engineer doesn't cancel the alarm or doesn't make any adjustment to the controls. However, when the Independent brake is applied, the Alerter is canceled out. This system is a safety feature that prevents the traction motors and wheels from locking into position.
The train left the railyard thanks to the programming of the switches, onto the CSX Toledo Branch. From there, the train headed down the mainline doing an average speed of 35 mph, going as high as 51 MPH. The authorities, aka the police, were not in a position to stop the runaway train. The police and fire officials' job was to keep people out of harm's way and to be on location in the worst-case scenario. However, the issue was is that at the of the train's route in Columbus Ohio (The Capital) there was a curve where the train wasn't going to make and was going to derail near downtown. The Ohio Governor at the time, Bob Taft, was evacuated from the city in the event that the train was going to derail, and put the Ohio National Guard on standby should the worst-case scenario happened.
The first attempt to stop the train was by having the train run over what is called the derail. The derail was on a siding and could be set by the dispatcher to be attached to the rail. Unfortunately, the derail is only useful to stop runaway railcars, not locomotives, so when the train ran over the derail, it shattered. In Findlay, Ohio, a police officer using a Twelve Guage Shotgun and a buck round shot at the train to enable the train's emergency safety cut-off switch. This cutoff switch shuts off fuel to the generator, and thus the train would have coasted to a stop. However, not only did the officer mess, but the button needed to be depressed for roughly 10 seconds before it would activate.
A few miles down the line, there was CSX train Q636, which was waiting in the siding for the Runaway Train to pass. The locomotive in charge of the train was CSX engine 8392, the same model SD40-2 as CSX 8888 was. When the train passed, the Dispatchers ordered the crew of the train to uncouple their lead locomotive and chase the train down in reverse. They caught up to the train just North of Kenton, Ohio. They managed to slow the Runaway Train down to about 11 MPH, however, given that CSX 8888's throttle was still wide open, it wasn't enough to fully stop the train. Jon Hosfield, who had heard about the Runaway since just after it began, has chased the train almost all the way from Toledo with another person. From there, as the train started coming over a railroad crossing, he positioned himself and jumped onto the handrails, climbing into the cab, and shutting off power.
The investigation found that it was simply Human Error that caused the incident. After the incident, CSX 8888 was released back out into the open as a CSX Locomotive with a new set of brake shoes and a new control stand where the Dynamic Brake Switch and Throttle are two levers again. The engine served CSX for many more years until 2013 when an alternator Failure put the engine on the sidelines. As of 2021, the locomotive has been rebuilt into an SD40-3 locomotive number 4389, and it remains a part of the CS Roster to this day.
May 15th, 2021 marked 20 years since the famous incident happened. As an Ohioan and a railfan, I have always asked myself if this incident could ever happen again in the United States.
Ever heard of Pelham 123?
This incident reminds me of the “Crazy 8’s Incident”.
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PEOPLE THE SECOND ONE IS COPIED FROM THUNDERBOLT1000S DOCCUMENTRY
thomasawl The YT police man yup. That’s brightside for ya. Always copying/getting stuff wrong
@@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast srly? your wrong, how was he suppose to know?
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@@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast heh nice try i see where your going with that but its one out of many. so no im not moving.
Yes I do know another runaway train.... from Soul Asilum
youxkio has anybody mentioned the El Cajon pass runaways
but one runaway train i know about is the cojan pass. it's weight was underestimated, and when it went downhill, it's brakes failed, and exploded into a neighbrohood.
Crazy 8 is also called devil 8
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TH-cam at its best.
The engineer is purple Guy/wiliam Acton from fnaf or that other one :D
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When I lost my mind I broke our TV it ended beat by my father
فتاه - cutekey why did you lose your mind
ok then.........
I remembered riding a train last year from North Quincy Massachusetts to Boston Massachusetts to go to the New England aquarium. Thankfully this never happened to me in terms of idiotic train drivers.
11:09 28 Apr 2013, a single U20C locomotive runs from the train depot, reaching a top speed of 145 km/h without a driver while warming up the engine, the brakes are also damaged during the trip because the locomotive is at full power when the brakes are applied and the reverser lever is in the forward position.
Lol this story is from my exact birthday date January the 11th
This is like the train movie “unstoppable”
The 8888 runaway inspired the movie
Sorry I'm Late 😂
a northbound csx freight train "q636-15"was on a siding so the runaway train wouldn't hit it.the crew of lead engine" csx gp40-2#8392(not 8391)decided to catch the runaway to slow it down
john was at a railroad crossing when csx#8888 passed by,he went onboard by the front of the train and applied the brakes to stop it all
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*song* LADIES AND GENTELMEN THE TRAIN *IR1862* IS LATE ABOUT *103* MINUTES
Because we are need to get big salaries so we are revolting
No im Late
What are you talking about I've seen people comment 1 year after lol
Yay I’m early let me tell a joke
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I would like to ellaborate on 8888: when they claimed the setting was to accelarate, it was also that the dynamic brake was turned on and activating the throttle will slow the train down, but since the brakes were completely burned, that was how the runaway even started
Nice job! But the locomotive number of the engine that hooked onto Crazy Eights is actually 8392
Oh the Unstoppable Movie when a 2000ton BullChug train got hijacked and the hijackers jumped out before the train got speed...
I have heard of 777 and 1206 in Pensilvania USA 1206 was the hero train like the 8888 story.
777 and 1206 don't really exist. They were just in a movie. But that movie was inspired by the 8888 story.
I love the 8888 CSX train incident.. there’s also a movie about it.. it’s called “unstoppable”
The second train your talking about awvr 777 from unstoppable right?
I have one for you the largs train failed to stop because the breaks had major failure it crashed through the platform and killed 3 people and injured 2 more the train stopped about halfway through the road as the friction from the ground would have slowed it down
He totally mixed up his engines! 😂
The second train is like having an auto train
Hehe