TRAIN PLOWS CAR DOWN THE LINE! F-UNIT, HAPPY HONKER, TRUCK STUCK ON RAILS, THE BRICK
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1:48 GEVO, SD70MAC, and Franken-GEVO
1:58 an ACS64 with a train of two private cars!
2:08 CP 7030 has the Strathcona's coat of arms on its nose
2:32 CSX slug
3:08 NS, ex-BNSF WFRX, and UP triple-header
3:43 CP snowplow train
4:00 SP gray trailing
4:07 side dump cars
4:46 car had no idea a train was coming! A crew member should've protected that crossing
5:17 a snow-covered train led by CSX 1850
5:42 NS 8098 leading over Horseshoe Curve
7:38 UP 1943 leading
8:02 wow, NS inspection vehicles 99, 34, 36, and 38 on one train!
8:56 H2 dash 9, H3 ES44C4, H3 ET44C4, BN green SDP40 (originally built as Great Northern 324 as one of six for both passenger and freight service, another 14 were built for Mexico), Algoma Central F unit, and BNSF H1 SD9 (originally built for CB&Q as 452). A BN coil car and EcoMaterial Technologies (EMTX) hopper are also on the train
9:29 this crossing on the Ft Madison camera is rough in the winter. A truck got stuck just before the third track
11:07 this crossing has a traffic light, but there are no right turns between here and the Erie Canal aside for a trailhead parking lot. All occupants managed to leave the car before the train slammed into the car
14:30 P42, ALC42, and a private car on a fast Coast Starlight
15:14 Amtrak 100 "Midnight" leading the Lake Shore Limited
15:30 CSX 1973 leading
15:48 H2 dash 9 pulling an automated inspection train. Another with two locos in the next clip
17:38 Family Lines and RF&P hoppers
18:42 Amtrak 160 "Pepsi" on the Southwest Chief
18:50 CSX "Do Not Hump" automated inspection boxcar
20:08 CSX GP40-3 with a giant MAN engine. MAN is a well known truck brand in Europe, but their vehicles were never sold in the US to my knowledge
Ft. Madison gives new meaning to dont stop on tracks!
That was an eerie morning glow in Strasburg.
Nothing more eerie than hearing a trains emergency brakes applied
especially if one is on a passenger train overtaking a freight on winding track. The possibility of plowing into derailed equipment is the first thing that comes to mind.
I feel sorry for the engineer and crew-members of the train that demolished that guy's car. It has to take a while to get something like that out of your head. I really enjoyed seeing the Spirit of the Union Pacific and the snowplow in Revy, though, and this ending may be your most-beautiful yet! 🌹
It's worse when someone is injured or killed, hitting an empty car isn't too bad. Of course, until a crew member goes back & finds out the car was empty... both fear the worst. I've hit 14 cars & 2 pedestrians in my nearly 40 year career with Canadian Pacific. A number of fatalities ensued. I remember all of them right back to my first in 1973.
The car was fine, it just had some very minor scratches that would buff out.
Exactly, when they hit them even at a lower speed there is little way of knowing that no one is in there. People panic during those situations and may not get every living thing out.
@@rjb5847 I am sorry that had to happen to you--and I can understand how you never forget.
Every time I see 1073, it looks more and more like an authentic Penn Central unit as beat up as she's getting.
And the Darwin candidate award of the year goes to... . . . .... . . . . The person driving the car!
About truck in Ft. Madison, the driver drives over that track 2 or 3 times a day, he knows the layout, but, thank you Rusty or one of your crew for being there at the right time to assist
Hey Virtual Rail fan, I really like your new outros, the music and the scenery is beautiful👍
The vehicular incident in Fairport ended up on the local news, based on my YT recommendations.
Yes, I watched that particular video!!
Yes and the news stations worked with on the video use.
That train hitting and plowing the car should be shown to every driver at least once a year so they see trains and ships take a long time to stop. As a sailor, we would often have boats, especially sailboats cross right in front of the bow so close sometimes you wonder if they are going to brush and indeed I saw one ship graze a sailboat and it took the boat's crew everything to keep it upright and stay onboard. Some of the sail hit the water and much more and it would have been gone. Note: I was on a electric train to South Bend, Indiana that hit a station wagon, and once on the North Shore, North of Chicago, that hit a truck. Not nice either time.
That beautiful in Strasbeurg Pennsylvania it so beautiful it made cruy It was so amazing
2:00 That’s how I see myself after winning a lottery: traveling the country in my own private two-car train (providing one is an observation car 🤨).
They really need to fix that crossing in Fort Madison. I've seen at least 3 vehicles get stuck on that track over the last 2 weeks.
Given the large amount of vehicle traffic increase with the opening of that restaurant on the river they will likely have to make it wider as well.I've seen semi trucks struggle with the turn there. If there's traffic coming one way those trucks, given the width of the crossing now, will mean a rather nasty turn. I can even see them moving the straight lane east a bit so traffic heading north can go straight across.
There's a turn like that in the town that I live in and most semis need half the oncoming lane, and the tracks are a block away. Here it'll make it very dangerous if that truck has too right a turn and can easily end up struck on the track, especially with ice on the road. They'll likely have to make it at least 4 lanes, that way trucks have room to make the turn. Also with 4 lanes traffic turning left won't be held up in traffic if the traffic turning right stops them. That's going in. Going out you're going to need a straight lane/left tun lane and a right turn lane or traffic will back up a long way, given the fact that there are so many time where trains stop there, meets happen, trucks stop over the crossing and such.
You can't even blame the drivers.
Until they change the crossing, they need to find another place to cross. That pickup's tires must have been bald...
@@toomanyhobbies2011 that’s the only place to cross for that area.
12:30 They should stack the broken cars right near the gate as a 'friendly reminder'. Maybe that helps...
Beautiful sunrise. That SP in Hesperia 😮, two YN2s, Conrail heritage unit 😮, Chessie System heritage unit 😮, and darwin award X2. Hope the driver survived. Bonified bonehead. The TRE bombardier car in Indiana 😳. Did not see that one coming. Nice horn salute at Altoona.
Great Grab-Bag as usual. I enjoyed the car on the tracks, it's my understanding that no one was injured. How someone could just drive on them is mind boggling! And your closing with the beautiful music is just wonderful! Thank you for uploading and sharing!!
Probably blindly trusted GPS
@@ren-uz2mz I'm sure that's exactly what happened!
This happens a lot. I'm thinking you could maybe put some of those flexible reflector things on the edge of the road and between the tracks. Maybe that would be enough to clue the people in.
they should be teaching people that when they get stuck on the tracks to immediately call the police or the emergency number on the crossbuck to prevent collisions like that. Not sure it would have helped with just over two minutes, but you never know
I suspect a lot of people reading GB comments are glad to be reminded about those notices. (I am.) So much that it taught in driver ed is forgotten by American drivers -- even basics like signaling turns/lane changes, stopping at stop signs/red lights, yielding right of way, preserving following distance, driving with the speed of traffic.... Getting into the habit of doing the right thing automatically is ideal, but giving and noticing reminders still beat lessons of experience that damage people or property.
@@LeftVegasAnd not doing something dumb just because your GPS tells you to!
Seven cars go by.And not a one willing to stop and help out except for the guy in the pickup with the amber rollers. Eight vehicles and only one willing to stop! And for all we know, he might be a CSX employee...... Really puts your faith in humanity!
They're probably scared of getting sued.
Oh my! As much as I love to watch trains and all the beautiful places shown on these videos, I believe I love the beautiful, stirring music at the closing of each video! It really touches my soul and makes me think…… for all the evil and sickness, all the loneliness, all the hurting hearts, all the people separated by perhaps one wrong done in their life…… for all that, there is so much good and beauty if we only take the time to look for it. Music speaks to the heart and soul of people and brings a new perspective to our everyday lives. This closing song is just so fitting and so beautiful !! Thank you so much VR!
You are so right, and more people need to see that and mention it when they do...thank you.
Thank you for sharing that little slice of heaven that is Strasburg!
12:15 The moment you were all looking for
Beautiful sunrise in PA!😊
Wow! Excellent catching all the trains, especially a CSX train plows into a car in Fairport, New York, a UP military train in Tucson, Arizona, CSXT1973 in Fairport, New York, & more, @Virtual Railfan, thank you.
12:00 and on that track too! What a way to lose a car and ruin lots of people's day
Them are some Beautiful pictures at the end ❤
Thank you
Wow, ya'll Beautiful sunrise!!!! Keep rolling out those awesome Grab bags, thanks Virtual Railfan.
9:30 That's the second vehicle that got stuck at the crossing in Fort Madison. BNSF really needs to do something about it. Kudos to the person driving the utility truck was nice to help them get off the crossing.
And once again it does not appear any of the bozos bothered to call the emergency number of the railroad posted in the crossing signs while they played "Russian Roullette"
with the possibility of a train coming by.
Wait until you hear about Ashland VA
Same utility truck was there for both incidents. Could be working in the area anyway, could be someone doing something about the issue.
This is actually relaxing. I remember those "All about Trains" dvd's from the 00's and thinking then that you gotta be a bore to watch something like that lol
11:08 😮
9 engines on that one train. Wow!
9:20 you missed a good BN Coil Car cover before that EM one
I kinda wish Amtrak would stop at that Strausburg Jct area
I think the plows on trains are interesting.
Thank you Virtual Railfan, In watched the """Fairport incident" go down in real time. Thanks for the closeups.
This one is a nice compilation. Thank you again.
Happy New Year! Great railfanning video catches. Great ending. Beautiful sunrise in Strasburg.
Thank you Joe Peach and team for another great grab bag. The military train race in Tucson was wonderful to see IRL.
They just get better! I'm in danger of deserting my own country's trains and spend all my YT time watching your videos and those of your respected contemporary Wide World Of Trains! (😮😮😮😮) WHAT A LOVELY ENDING!!! Whoever wrote that piece of music obviously knows a lot about Bach. And a glorious sunrise and did I spot signs of a steamer??? Keep these grab bags coming! Greetings from UK David (J. Crook failed La Plata chat participant)
(@19:02) check out the weird bearing of that blue “Do Not Hump” boxcar (2nd axle back from the front.) 😮
7:42 this Heritage Unit is so BEAUTIFUL
UP 1943
I had thought the crew member of 8098 would make grab bag! We chased the train and they waved to us while making a crew change
I often wonder about the drivers dropping in on the tracks. How, why etc. Beautiful sun rise at Strasburg Pa.
Still, it must be awful for the train crew because they don't find out if the car is empty until after they've hit it. For all they know it's a fatal.
These are the best
I liked the scene at Chattanooga, the way the morning light was catching the Trains.
The Grade-crossing at Fort Madison seems to be causing problems in icy weather, possibly it needs re-laying soon?
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Excellent Video!
Nine locos heading one train! It would have been interesting to see how many cars it was hauling to require such superpower. Please bear in mind that not everybody is exclusively interested in the locomotives!
On CP, we could not couple more than 8 locomotives together, at least as of when I retired in 2010. Nonetheless, a large loco consist like that almost certainly is not handling enough cars (tons) to equal the haulage capacity of the consist at the front of the train. The tensile strength of the couplers between the last loco & the first cat could not withstand that force. The equation changes with distributed power of course. Long engine consists at the front of trains are usually due to a need to balance power (i.e too any locos at one end of the road). Usually there is some limit on powered axles in a block of units, so some will be "off the line" and not actually pulling.
first car, not cat %^^$%%v !! Darn typos
ACTUALLY, THESE GRAB BAGS, ARE QUITE REMARKABLE, A CHOREOGRAPHY OF SORTS; ALWAYS EXCELLENT; THANK YOU TO ALL THE FOLKS WHO PITCH IN! from Gainesville, Florida
During the Viginia Museum NS 34 Research segment I was more intrigued by the only blue car in the parking lot. Ft. Madison the occupants of the 2WD Nissan, to avoid this example of what not to do next time, put some weight in the back, get better tires, gun it on the approach or don't drive ...ever. The Hoodie driver that placed Mom's car on the rails which resulted in it being moved to another municipality ... no worries you're still her little miracle.
I was looking at that white truck and I was thinking, I could get that off that track! But then I was in the military.
*Nice Catches*
All units on cp snow pushing trains should be pac man units. Provincial law! 😂
Nice ending..................
The occurrence of people driving onto railroad tracks is probably something that will never be understood.
some people I think percived the tracks too late. So they think its a street when its tracks. They shoulc have the the white line painted across tracks
What amazes me is that almost everyone knows that railroad tracks are always right past a gate/lights/upright arms/markings on the road/signs/etc. Yet they lose all knowledge of that and turn onto the tracks...and some keep driving with the ties beating their car to death!
News reported that the 27-year-old driver was unfamiliar with the area and that his GPS told him to turn there. News noted that several people have reported the same issue with their GPSs. He's fortunate that a veteran firefighter got him out before the train arrived.
I would hate to be him when he tells his insurance agent what happened...
@@joepeach997Too right--that car is toast.
I checked the crossings I navigate ,looking for the blue signs. They are useless at least these. They are small ,not very obvious. How many people actually know they are there? I never knew until a few years ago when i read about them here.
13:00 He had a one in three chance of being on the wrong track, and he lost.
I’m surprised that hasn’t happened in LaGrange.
They hit a car a month or two ago that turned onto the track as the train came by.
-_- Well. Mr. Ft. Madison driver, I trust you learned your lesson?! (although I doubt it!)
Fort Madison crossing really needs work done, no reason for it to be that rough
But amazing timing for the utility truck
There was an old CNW wagon
What’s the new symbol on the CP engine? Nice to see the Jordan out at Revy.
Another great video.
What does insurance say to driver who was dumb enough to park a car in front of a moving train?
Can authorities or railroad issue a citation for stupidity?
If they could then 46% of voters would have been cited.
The happy honker has returned
i remember the car i was watching the cam when it all happend
Well made
@11:54 How in the world do you think that's a street? BOZO!
The GPS told him to turn right in 1000 feet.
12:00 This person must have REALLY bad luck and it was the same track the train was on too 😔
I don't see why people turn right and onto train tracks like that.
Attention on other things but driving.
There are many reasons people do this. Inattention, intoxicated, tired, and, interestingly enough, improperly programed navigation tools.
I don't know why either I thought it was a navigation they were using.
Not looking out windshield and trusting gps to much
There's signs that say tracks are there. Must have been staring at their navigation for a while to miss it.
How to clear the tracks of a car 101. (No humans were injured in the making of this video)! 🤣
Honestly, some people just don’t need drivers licenses.
I find it odd that the train striking the car pushed it a long way down the track before being placed in emergency. You can clearly hear the air being "dumped" at 12:31 well after impact at 12:22.
5:05 I mean yeah man, SD40-2's are cool but is the shot reeeeeally worth it?
9:02 My newest short is on those three engines! In September 2022, I found BUGX 1751 in Tehachapi and got a selfie on his engineer's side ladder. BUGX 6326 is one of only 6 GN SDP40s ever built, one of 20 total built, and 1553 is a rebuilt BNSF SD9-3, originally a CBQ SD9. I never saw this catch coming, but I took lots of pictures when I saw it! I love those units! I hope they all end up in museums!
I wonder if those are the two passenger cars heading to the Reading & Northern at 2:00.
I suspect that it's a diagnostic car. The first car in the consist has all the scanning equipment and the second has people analyzing it, and likely has computers galore for the data. There are almost always 2 cars on these. I see them all the time where live. the exception are the Sperry cars, but even then I've seen them with 2 cars as well
Those cars 1:57 in the video were indeed heading to Reading and Northern and are Currently sitting at Outer Station
Yikes!
Another car got stuck at the same place at Fort Madison at 4:16 Central Time (16:16) today. This time a local on the tracks had to stop and the police showed up to help. But they still have not fixed the problem - the crossing is still mired in built up ice and snow and the cars and trucks continue to bounce over it.
12:13 for the car crash. You know why I'm here
The car passing in front of the train at 4:55 should have stopped (if he was paying attention) But that is a crossing that should be flagged by the conductor to stop drivers such as this.
It is out of view to the right but there is a rail crossing and yield warning sign before the crossing just as you can see the signage for the opposing direction traffic. The crossing probably does not see enough traffic to warrant a far, far more costly set up of lights, gates, etc.
@@kennethhanks6712 Looking on Google Maps, there isn't a crossbuck or yield sign on the direction this car was traveling. There is a yellow caution sign that states trains will NOT sound their horn. So no proper signage, no lights, no horn. There are good sight lines though, so drivers should be able to see them. The train probably appeared much closer to the crossing than it was in reality due to the camera zoom.
@@roger0929Thanks for the correction but there is at least some warning indication of upcoming rail crossing so-be prepared!
w vid
we can't don't see why people turn right and onto train tracks like that for?
Ok, start the score card for the year
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Fairport, NY.. 1
Ashland, VA..0
Lagrange, KY..0
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That car driver on the Roanoke cam was not paying attention and almost caused a very bad situation! There needs to be train gates installed or something like that!
That is an industrial spur with only a crossbuck and yield sign. It wouldn't get much traffic. You drive over it time after time, and then there is a train.
@@frederickschulkind8431 Looking on Google Maps, there isn't a crossbuck or yield sign on the direction this car was traveling. There is a yellow caution sign that states trains will NOT sound their horn. So no proper signage, no lights, no horn. There are good sight lines though, so drivers should be able to see them. The train probably appeared much closer to the crossing than it was in reality due to the camera zoom.
I knew it would happen eventually in fairport. Been saying that for a few months after watching all those doinkers live in fairport😂
Nine locomotives? How long was that train??
I know this question has probably been asked before, and probably answered before, but I have to ask, what could possibly motivate a person to turn onto the railroad tracks while going over a grade crossing? In all of my 72 years, I must have driven over crossings hundreds of times, but never once have I had the urge, even when driving a 4WD truck, had the desire to make such a turn.
There's a pair of signals across the tracks for the lift bridge ahead. The placement of them almost makes it seem the tracks are a road. Silly, but a mistake that is easier to make in the dark if you don't know the area.
If yall are wondering where the train accident is: 12:16
hello Virtual Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours cool & Thanks Virtual Railfan Friends Randy
12:17 I just don’t understand why cars, trucks and other vehicles go on the tracks and make the engineers think that it’s there fault
5:48 👋
Gotta love it!
I've seen the Car crash on several channels with no attribution to VRF. How do I report them? It's obviously your video.
Even if they have our info line at the top and/or attribution, we need to know. Only those that have our permission can do that. Please contact Support@virtualrailfan.com Thank you for letting us know!
@@joepeach997 You are welcome, Joe.
What is that weird clicking at Fort Madison?
Water dripping from melting ice. I saw one of the Moderators say he was turning down the sound. And then there were complaints about No Sound. 😊
Very jerky playing...is it always like this
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For the life of me!! I just don't understand 😔
Primo 👍
I witnessed the Fairport incident here on VR!
The poor engine driver
The person must have been drinking to drive onto the tracks.
Many don't need any stimulus to make a bad/mindless turn onto the tracks.