@@sanddabz5635 I heard that standard procedure they send a high rail through and only if the track is still in place do they send the trains through after it.
@@KuvDabGib Water 3 inches over the rail head requires mechanical dept approval prior to operating over the rail for that very reason--traction motors aren't cheap!
Now that's a brave engineer going over steel track, road bed and bridges not knowing if anything had been compromised by the flooding which was up to the top of the wheels!!! Glad it all went alright with no catastrophes to date!!! BRAVO!
Thanks for not overlaying music, or over talking the beautiful sound of that Engine, and train. I saw the Andrew Jackson completely above the Opre Mills parking lot in Nashville, Entirely above the parking lot, listing a good 15 to 20 degrees..., being pulled down by the sunken dock... Her Stacks Leaning over the roadway back in May of 2010.
You can see in some parts the very top of the rail is still visible and you also have to think of the weight keeping those wheelsets pressed down on the track displacing the water as the train moves.
Well, we're rolling on rails held in place by plates and spikes, resting on ties supported by gravel resting on water saturated soil, also known as,...mud. ugh
"Sir, Wit is unappreciated on You Tube. It is a severe violation of the terms of service that state, "You, peon, will service us with free material that enables Google to gross billions of dollars each month). Cease and desist!"
For non-rail experts the technical term for that train speed is "gingerly." One hopes that crossing was preceded by a railbed inspection truck. May your ballast remain true and silt-free CSXT and BNSF sure got a lot of free publicity out of what was nominally a CPKC operation. Yes, I understand that RRs swap locomotives routinely for efficiency. Congrats on the CP-KCS merger, BTW. You have built an impressive rail network spanning North America. FYI, the COER mark on at least one of the covered hoppers stands for the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad, a short line in Southern Illinois with an interesting name.
There is literally nothing to congratulate about. They treat their union employees like shit and shave costs anywhere they can for the sake of the bottom line. Don't fool yourself capitalist success for good well being of the public. The railroads will shove shit down the public's throat if they can get away with it.
When I lived in central Indiana, there were still some small timber b ridges over creeks. The lines would park loaded coal cars on them during flood events to keep them from floating up and moving.
Truly a remarkable catch. I've never seen anything like this in railroading and I'm 60 y.o. I'm sure the conductor was praying that no knuckles would break at this moment.
Excellent video , I think this is very interesting to watch a train running through a flooded area like this. It looks unusual but very cool and seems safe as long as the crew runs at restricted speed. I love how the wheels plough through the water like the Bow of a ship. Great stuff , well done. 😁👍
Great video and catch, you don't see that every day.. Hope the floodwater receded and doesn't affect any more people, hope anyone that was affected will be okay 🙏
It's pretty cool that coming around that corner, before he even touches the water, you can see the pressure wave generated by this large item. I guess it could be from the ground he's compressing as he approaches, but still, massive.
I believe that here in the UK the regs are that a track is complexly closed if the water is above the rail head, if it's below the rail head but above a certain height then I think it's a max speed of 10mph
I can not imagine what the feeling would be going across a bridge with this locomotive and not being able to see for sure what , if , anything was still holding tracks in place ! wow !
A couple of weeks ago, a CPKC train derailed up here in northern Maine due to a washout. I don't know if the track was inspected prior to the train going through or not. The locomotives ended up off the tracks, and a diesel fuel spill resulted. Latest news is the railroad is having difficulties repairing the washout because the ground is so saturated and muddy due to recent heavy rains, heavy equipment can't get to where it's needed. And although I'm not a railroader, it seems to me that just because an MOW vehicle that weighs maybe 1-2 tons was able to safely navigate the tracks through flood waters, doesn't mean three locomotives weighing 200 tons each plus the weight of the hopper cars can safely do it. It worked this time, but how long will that kind of luck last??
canadian plantation had us push-pull trains thru nasty Big Muddy floodwaters that were up to the trainman platform on rail cars, all qheels and trucks completely submerged.
Its a fascinating sight to see, lived in western Indiana for awhile with low lying creeks,small rivers etc all over. With flooding There was always a MOW vehicle that ran it before they sent it, if it was bad they'd leave it in the yard or do a tie down
Wow! i never saw anything like this before, i see the bottom of the hopper cars just touching the water, what about the axel bearings being exposed unless their sealed very well.Great video.
6.21.2 Water Above Rail Do not operate trains and engines over tracks submerged in water until the track has been inspected and verified as safe. Operate engines at 5 MPH or less when water is above the top of the rail. If water is more than 3 inches above the top of the rail, a mechanical department supervisor must authorize the movement. Running locomotives with the water above the rail can result in damage to the traction motors by creating electrical short.
Unfortunately, the entire shipment consists of 88,000 unprotected tons of plaster of Paris, all of which got wet. Which means that the train now permanently weighs 136,000 tons.
That is probably the limit if not slightly over for that speed. The risk is getting water into the traction motors, water and expensive critical electrical components don’t mix.
The motors themselves are pretty 'dumb' being chunks of steel and copper wire with (I expect) carbon brushes and maybe not very high voltages so any water would get 'burned' (cooked) out. Plus there will be plenty of grease around. After all cars etc still work in the rain. they will have been designed and tested to work with a certain amount of water but not submerged.
Wow, that is something you don't see everyday. Sure wish I was there. Awesome video!
Go ahead and share it on your channel with credit from me.
As a former railroader I can attest this is a true test of nerves, facing an abnormal is not easy!
Oh wow. My grandfather worked on the old Pittsburg Shawmut & Northern RR for 41 years. When steam ruled.
@@gregcarnes80 spoken like a true snowflake
BNSF boating babie!!!
Unlike flying an airplane, you only have one way to go and that is to follow the RR tracks wherever they take you. 🚂
@@highlife0586 ppp
Hard to believe they took that kind of risk. The roadbed could have been completely washed out! Great unusual video!
I'm sure a MOW vehicle had traveled through earlier to confirm everything was okay.
Or AC/DC engines which are literary all the way down could be shortened and fried...
@@sanddabz5635 I heard that standard procedure they send a high rail through and only if the track is still in place do they send the trains through after it.
Exactly
@@KuvDabGib Water 3 inches over the rail head requires mechanical dept approval prior to operating over the rail for that very reason--traction motors aren't cheap!
Now that's a brave engineer going over steel track, road bed and bridges not knowing if anything had been compromised by the flooding which was up to the top of the wheels!!! Glad it all went alright with no catastrophes to date!!! BRAVO!
I think it's safe to say that a maintenance of way vehicle had traveled through their earlier and confirmed the track was okay.
Er, what flooding was up to the top of the wheels? It was barely covering the rail.
@@beeble2003 The traction motors are mounted low. It doesn't take much to short one out.
@@williamjones4483 I didn't think they'd be that susceptible to moisture? Snow doesn't seem to affect them at all.
@@williamjones4483 The OP claimed that there was flooding up to the top of the wheels. I pointed out that this claim is completely false.
Thanks for not overlaying music, or over talking the beautiful sound of that Engine, and train. I saw the Andrew Jackson completely above the Opre Mills parking lot in Nashville, Entirely above the parking lot, listing a good 15 to 20 degrees..., being pulled down by the sunken dock... Her Stacks Leaning over the roadway back in May of 2010.
This is incredible- thanks for sharing.
What an awesome catch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats crazy. Seems like an awful big risk to take.
The train was clearly holy, the railway Jesus Christ
You can see in some parts the very top of the rail is still visible and you also have to think of the weight keeping those wheelsets pressed down on the track displacing the water as the train moves.
@@Unknown_Ooh THe problem could be that the railbed is washed out.
😂
Well, we're rolling on rails held in place by plates and spikes, resting on ties supported by gravel resting on water saturated soil, also known as,...mud. ugh
Great Video! Thank You!!
That was really an awesome catch!
Always refreshing to see a train in full compliance of a no wake zone.
"Sir, Wit is unappreciated on You Tube. It is a severe violation of the terms of service that state, "You, peon, will service us with free material that enables Google to gross billions of dollars each month). Cease and desist!"
Heck I'm just amazed that they can even make the damn things float!
No woke is always good.
@@GenerallyGeneralLee
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A great coverage. Thanks for sharing.
Nice catches!
Phenomenal video, thanks
Wow, I've never seen the like of this. Thanks for recording and sharing it.
Thanks for sharing this video. An aspect of the flooding I hadn’t thought about !
Wow what a sight for eyes. I never saw before such a breathe taking rail journey.
Wow!!! Amazing footage!!
Impressive pictures, very well captured in the video.
For non-rail experts the technical term for that train speed is "gingerly." One hopes that crossing was preceded by a railbed inspection truck. May your ballast remain true and silt-free
CSXT and BNSF sure got a lot of free publicity out of what was nominally a CPKC operation. Yes, I understand that RRs swap locomotives routinely for efficiency.
Congrats on the CP-KCS merger, BTW. You have built an impressive rail network spanning North America.
FYI, the COER mark on at least one of the covered hoppers stands for the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad, a short line in Southern Illinois with an interesting name.
There is literally nothing to congratulate about. They treat their union employees like shit and shave costs anywhere they can for the sake of the bottom line. Don't fool yourself capitalist success for good well being of the public. The railroads will shove shit down the public's throat if they can get away with it.
Wow amphibious train
🙌🙌🙌
Wow! Crazy, great video!
Great Job.
When I lived in central Indiana, there were still some small timber b ridges over creeks. The lines would park loaded coal cars on them during flood events to keep them from floating up and moving.
lol
Amazing video, great images with train in wather! Big THUMBS UP
Thank you 😊
Truly a remarkable catch. I've never seen anything like this in railroading and I'm 60 y.o. I'm sure the conductor was praying that no knuckles would break at this moment.
AMAZING!!😮❤
Great catch! I have never seen anything like that, I’m shocked a train could even navigate through that!
WOW!!! This is scary and cool. Thank you for this video, you are one intrepid photographer!
Thank you.
Wowsers, awesome video and catches 📸😊
Wow, very interesseting.
Great video! I loved watching the train go through the water.
Super cool video!! That’s crazy to see.
Awesome! Never seen anything like this before. Wow!!
Excellent video , I think this is very interesting to watch a train running through a flooded area like this. It looks unusual but very cool and seems safe as long as the crew runs at restricted speed. I love how the wheels plough through the water like the Bow of a ship. Great stuff , well done. 😁👍
Great video and catch, you don't see that every day.. Hope the floodwater receded and doesn't affect any more people, hope anyone that was affected will be okay 🙏
It's pretty cool that coming around that corner, before he even touches the water, you can see the pressure wave generated by this large item. I guess it could be from the ground he's compressing as he approaches, but still, massive.
This is some amazing footage
Great video! I've never seen something like that before. It almost looks like the train is floating through the water.
I believe that here in the UK the regs are that a track is complexly closed if the water is above the rail head, if it's below the rail head but above a certain height then I think it's a max speed of 10mph
Jaw-droppingly amazing.
Staggering to see such a load go through such a complicated area. Thankfully there was no slippage of rails
I can not imagine what the feeling would be going across a bridge with this locomotive and not being able to see for sure what , if , anything was still holding tracks in place ! wow !
Wow, that's incredible.
Awesome video.
i never knew that i wanted to see something like this until now
Very few of us could have thought this. Peace
Amazing video
Never seen that before, very interesting
It was just a few months ago the Ol' Miss was drying up.
Not any more.
Great video and narrative.
Like your midwest accent. Great video. Awesome!
SUPER. POZDRAWIAM .
Very cool video!
That was unbelievable!
Percy was an inspiration to every railroader in these situations
Great video ❤😊
Awesome footage
A couple of weeks ago, a CPKC train derailed up here in northern Maine due to a washout. I don't know if the track was inspected prior to the train going through or not. The locomotives ended up off the tracks, and a diesel fuel spill resulted. Latest news is the railroad is having difficulties repairing the washout because the ground is so saturated and muddy due to recent heavy rains, heavy equipment can't get to where it's needed. And although I'm not a railroader, it seems to me that just because an MOW vehicle that weighs maybe 1-2 tons was able to safely navigate the tracks through flood waters, doesn't mean three locomotives weighing 200 tons each plus the weight of the hopper cars can safely do it. It worked this time, but how long will that kind of luck last??
Very cool catches! Keep up the good work!
Thank you @Charlie Brooks
Wow fantastic 🙏🙏
Awesome catch with CSX & BNSF power
A mighty sight watching a train sailing through the landscape 🙃
Nice footage, bro!
Like your accent.
Some best/rarest footage seen in 70 yrs as railfan👍 MN
Now that is something you don't see everyday.
canadian plantation had us push-pull trains thru nasty Big Muddy floodwaters that were up to the trainman platform on rail cars, all qheels and trucks completely submerged.
Ha, how are those wheels bearings going to survive?
@@grandcrappy it's not even reaching the bottom of the journal boxes.
@John Pollard 2019, Davenport. Nasty waters, we hadda push-pull thru waters up to the trainmans platform on rail cars.
Actually it's pretty common in that area but I wonder how does CSX feel about one of its ET44AH's going swimming 😂
Nice video
Nice Video
looks like train running in ocean... good capture. subscribed your *channel*
Here in Australia max depth of water over the line is three inches.
No derailment incredible work by cpkc
Its a fascinating sight to see, lived in western Indiana for awhile with low lying creeks,small rivers etc all over. With flooding There was always a MOW vehicle that ran it before they sent it, if it was bad they'd leave it in the yard or do a tie down
Wow!! The stress must take it out of the conductor. It seems insane to have the train still go through.
The engineer has already said his prayers before they got to the flooded tracks !
Nice way to keep the traction motors cool 😁
Wow! i never saw anything like this before, i see the bottom of the hopper cars just touching the water, what about the axel bearings being exposed unless their sealed very well.Great video.
6.21.2 Water Above Rail
Do not operate trains and engines over tracks submerged in water until the track has been inspected and verified as safe.
Operate engines at 5 MPH or less when water is above the top of the rail. If water is more than 3 inches above the top of the rail, a mechanical department supervisor must authorize the movement.
Running locomotives with the water above the rail can result in damage to the traction motors by creating electrical short.
What's the RR say on how far and how fast the they can run on flooded tracks and are their any weight restrictions on what they can carry ?
You can see the powerful camera flashes reflecting of the distant trees..
É fácil aprender Inglês ouvindo o Senhor falar! Parabéns!
المخاطرة من ابصعب تصديق اخذوا هذا النوع من التضحية كان من الممكن انةيتم غسل قاع الطريق بالكامل ...فيديو رائع غير عادى❤❤ 1:23
That water crossing was surfin on the rails!
Unfortunately, the entire shipment consists of 88,000 unprotected tons of plaster of Paris, all of which got wet. Which means that the train now permanently weighs 136,000 tons.
Unbelievable Flood water camera footage!!!
all that water doesn't compromise the rails?
Per chance our narrator attended the Huell Howser school of speech. Cheers!
Possibly. Or the Daffy Duck Dispicable School.
run tracks on a flood plain and I guess that is going to happen sometimes, lol. beautiful
Unusual seeing a train where all the engines are other railroads.😊✌️♥️🇨🇦
Talk about “walk’n on water”‼️🤣🤣🤣
The Spice must flow!
Funny looking CPKC Loco
Good old Canadian Pacific. They did us proud!
What's the deepest water they will traverse?
What if the tracks were washed away? How would they know?
Gosto muito desse trabalho,vídeo muito legal,sou aqui do Brasil, parabéns,DEUS abençoe,um abraço.
Train on the water, boat on the tracks 🎶
😑
I wonder how deep of water a train could reasonably go through
That is probably the limit if not slightly over for that speed. The risk is getting water into the traction motors, water and expensive critical electrical components don’t mix.
3 inches
The motors themselves are pretty 'dumb' being chunks of steel and copper wire with (I expect) carbon brushes and maybe not very high voltages so any water would get 'burned' (cooked) out. Plus there will be plenty of grease around. After all cars etc still work in the rain. they will have been designed and tested to work with a certain amount of water but not submerged.
How would they know before hand that the track is not washed out under the water
Track maintenance inspects the main before the train gets permission.
I believe it's supposed to be 5mph if 2" above the rail
Some nice rides on that consist.
Looks like something I did with my toy trains when I was a kid lol.
I wonder how fast a train would have to go in a situation like this to worry about hydroplaning...
Front loco said to the other ones …. Hang on we’re going to make waves in the industry.
Gastonia, is a passing piont. They run 50 MPH through. Three engines lead.
wad·dle
verb
walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion.
"three geese waddled across the road"