CSX train jumps tracks and crashes into garage in Niagara Falls; no injuries reported
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- It was just around 8:30 a.m. Monday when the CSX train jumped the tracks and crashed into a garage at the corner of 35th Street and Seneca Avenue.
Didn’t “jump” the tracks, ran off the end instead
Oh wow I thought this was from the story posted around the same time ago about the kid who purposely derailed a train by throwing a switch.
"Ran the buffer block".
Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" comes to mind.
Yep for all her yapping she still never said exactly what happened.
That's what we get from so-called news people in this day and age. Glib ignorance. 😅
"Mom..........I dont think I need a train set for my birthday anymore...........there's a real one in the garage!"
😂😂😂
again
@@feminazislayer It's sickening to see someone laughing at someone else's comment that should have never been made where in a situation like this it could have been a lot worse. You laughing at someone else's comment and that person making the comment they did shows that you two are not only immature there's a lot more wrong with both of you.
@@feminazislayerGET OUT 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gonna have to swap out the yellow sign for a "Watch for Locomotives" sign instead.
I was thinking, instead, a sign for the train that reads "watch out for garages," especially since it is the second time it happened
That guy just won the CSX funded lottery! DANG!
He won the other part of the lottery two lawsuit every decade WOW 😅 I bet CSX wanted to buy his property. He said no because he’s making more money them crashing into his house then selling the property.
Definitely settling out of court etc. I’m sure the owner is getting some property estimates all that good stuff
How many months is he gonna have to wait for that check?
@@nb2008nc Since this is so cut and dry, it probably will be 30-60 days.
Narrator: "Fortunately no one was hurt, but the fat controller was very cross."
The Fat Controller: You have caused confusion and delay!
@@TheInsanebrain247 *Sir Thophom hatt*
Radio control locomotives strikes again. Fairly common now day as the railroads are cutting cost by having untrained personnel running locomotives like a Toy RC car. Most people are not locomotive engineers or even Conductors operating these things.
Please provide your sources for this information.
@@Ollie1979 It's common knowledge that engineers are being eliminated to save money and switching locomotives are being operated remotely. Tons of youtube videos on the subject.
It’s usually a rail yard where these are used
Cutting costs? Lolololol!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅
Untrained personnel running the country you mean.
A car wouldn't do much to slow down a locomotive. As the guy said, it's upwards of 200 tons, compared to a couple of tons for the car, if that.
Being off the tracks and on ground is what stops a loco, they dont roll much cause they just dig down and stop quickly with all that weight
I was thinking the exact same thing
It's like a child removing a paper bag.
Love that statement from CSX. But let's be clear, their "primary focus" is profits -- the safety stuff comes second (at best).
cookie cutter response from the risk management department. And you are exactly right, safety third!
Exactly what i commented, They submitted to wallstreet and investors, then try to cut out manpower was its very necessary by doing this bs automation and shrinking down crews. Railroads are vital but these dumbasses behind a desk dont know a damn thing about the field
Thomas goes to breakfast IRL
😂
who invited tomas
You miserable engine! Just look what you’ve done to our garage!
T
I think this is that episode's sequal but it's diesel's turn
If the engineer wasn't on the engine, they probably didn't know how close the engine was to the end of the track, I don't really think the RCL failed
That wye should be pucked if RCL uses it.
So where was the person who was supposed to switch the track onto the other section of the wye?
@terrycummings81 no clue, the switches might be dispatch controlled I'm not sure
@@terrycummings81 Supposed to be in line of sight of the end of the track by Federal FRA rules and regulations.
@@terrycummings81 he was standing by the switch stand
" HI insurance agent, a locomotive just tried to park in my garage! It didn't quite fit..."
Sounds like a farmers commercial. We know a thing or two about runaway trains because we’ve seen a thing or two about runaway trains. 😂
All of these remote controls to operate big machinary is nonsense.
The original purpose was to add power in the middle of a long freight train. In that instance there was still an engineer at the front of the train controlling it.
@@James_Knott Not really. This is a dramatically different remote controlled device than one used for DPU service
@@James_Knott DP is a different idea, and system than RCO. DP has been around a lot longer. There are redundancies to a train with DP, first being an engineer controlling the DP from the train itself. RCO remotes do not have as much information on their controls as locomotive computer screens do in the cab.
It's not nonsense, it's a very useful tool
Especially in a rail yard moving wagons around
Thats what happens when these companies submit to investors and wallstreet only, they want to cut out man power where its needed
If Tesla driverless cars are driving over people, what do we think of 200 ton Train with no driver is going to do! That was insane!
Build a massive stopping bunker berm at the end of the line, and stop remote controlling the trains like if it were a model train set. Pretty simple fix really.
yes, Mr Naturally Aspirated !. '' can't F I X stupid '.
Ah, the old massive stopping bunker berm at the end of the line ploy.........
Thomas: "I crashed into the home of station master for breakfast."
Duck: "And I crashed into the barber shop to get a close shave."
CSX 2757: “and I crashed into the garage to destroy it.”
0:28 The yellow sign says watch for motorcycles
I was just about to point that out ! Ha - Ha ...... DAVE™🛑
Should read, watch for locos.
CSX statement translated 'Our primary focus right now is the health and solvency of our shareholders and executives. We will make noises to the effect of concern for the surrounding community, environment, and labor to keep people from looking too closely at our labor practices. CSX appreciates the swift actions of government agencies in cleaning this up while we dodge as much public scrutiny and legal accountability as possible to minimize losses to admin and shareholders. The cause of this incident will not be found to indicate that unoccupied operations are a problem and our own internal investigation is sure to pin the blame on whatever the least financially damaging scenario is that we can extrapolate from the record of events. We are sure we can fix this with our public relations staff and avoid the dreaded expense of hiring additional employees and employee training.'
Accurate. 👍
That sounds like a statement that every railroad company should be saying
I am a retired Railroad Conductor. The most dangerous thing the railroads have done, is removing the Engineers from the locomotive.
That's a cash savings to the big boys and gals
Thomas thought he was being clever, but really he was only moving cause a careless cleaner had meddled with his controls
Raise your hand if you think that a 3500# car did ANYTHING to slow down that 400,000# locomotive. Was the home built BEFORE the tracks were installed, or were the tracks built first? What city planner allowed a home that close to the railroad? Or vise-a-versa?
I'm guessing the house was there first. Turntables were used before "Y-turns" came to be.
I doubt that....I bet the tracks were their first. Way first Turntables are used in yards to turn a single locomotive around.
Wye's are used so they can turn, depending on how long the wye is ,
a locomotive ,many locomotives and as many cars as the why is long.
That looks like a gp 38. Only around 275. Nothing is stopping it though.
@@OnlyTheEd no. Y tracks have been around since railroading first began.
The sign says "Watch Out For Motorcycles!". Hell, watch out for locomotives!
The fact that an incident like this has now happened twice in the same location and nothing has been done to prevent such is rediculous
I agree. The dude should have sold his house and moved years ago
@@cdavid8139 No, the dudes in the railroad should build a end-of-track buffer that stops a slow moving consist _before_ it fouls the street.
A shock absorber, a sand drag, all that stuff.
@@u2bear377 on that we can agree u2bear.. Whether or not the railroad owned property was there first or not does not mean the railroad should not take sufficient precautions to protect the public. A bulldozer and a mound of dirt and this incident doesn't happen.
@@cdavid8139 Yeah, I feel like most people live where they have to these days. Telling someone to sell their house instead of having adequate public safety is kind of the problem honestly. Privately owned rail has always been a bad idea. The first time two companies decided to slam two trains together for fun, and it went wrong, should have been the earliest wake up call that the decision making need not be in the hands of non-professionals.
Anyone who remembers Con-Rail should be sad that it failed. The U.S government should have primary control over all of the rail lines in the country. This way they could mandate better working conditions, higher pay, and far, far better safety practices, without the inevitable corporate pushback and subsequent layoffs, firings and pay reductions that would follow, because of greed.
Remote control trains... we can't even accurately operate remote control toy cars.
@@xX_Gravity_Xx Name ANYTHING the government runs in the USA that is run well. Conrail I remembered well. They abandoned thousands of miles of track and hundreds of customers, cut thousands of jobs and then sold to the highest bidder. Amtrak is a government run rail operation that is a disaster and one of the worst passenger rail operations in the world. Our privately owned rail operations move incredible tonnage with little taxpayer support (indeed railroads pay taxes). Rail salaries in the US are among the highest blue collared salaries in North America. And I am not advocating telling anyone to sell their house. Just suggesting that when you buy a home do not buy it next to an industrial area, airport, or rail operation. Use your brain.
I personally wouldn't live in a house that near to the tracks to begin with.
Locomotive didn’t jump the tracks it simply ran off the end! Fake news as usual
That’s usually the term they use when a train comes off the tracks, it’s sorta a umbrella term
Not really, it’s a derailment, using the term jumping the tracks would be something a 5 year old would say.@@maho_nishizumi_tigertank
Yeah, a 1.5 ton car stopped a 100+ ton locomotive going further. What are these people smoking?
meth.
The car would be in bed with you 😂
It's the news what did you expect a smart response haha,they are dumb ...
That good news york state meth
It’s a Y they use that to turn around a train and this is why I hate locomotives not manned railroads need to stop trying to save money and put safety 1st
I used to be a telecommunications technician with Canadian National and back in the mid 70s, when I worked in Northern Ontario, I frequently rode freight trains. Back then, there were 4 crew members on a freight train, the engineer and brakeman in the locomotive and the conductor and brakeman in the caboose.
@@James_Knott Same with me James. I started out with 4 man crews in the 70s. ANd throughout the years I watched as high-tonnage trucks running at 70mph on the government paid for interstate highway systems ate our lunch. ANd back in those days in 1970 the train crew spend 1/2 of their time doing absolutely nothing.
@@cdavid8139 They weren't the only ones with time on their hands. That's the way it was in telecom too. You work when something fails, but you have to be around just in case. Also, when I was working up north, I often had to wait hours for a train to pick me up. I recall one trip. I was in Capreol, Ont., which is where I was based. I got a call to go to Foleyet, which is some distance north. I hopped on a freight at about 4 PM, with my shift ending at 4:30. I got to Foleyet and had my work done in about half an hour. I then went for dinner, someone invited me to their home for a couple of drinks, hopped another freight to go back around mid night and got back to Capreol around 7 the next morning. All but the first half hour was at time & a half overtime, that is 4:30 PM to 7 AM, with straight time for the first half hour. I was trying to sleep on a bench in the caboose, but was occasionally tossed off by the motion! On another occasion, I had to fly from Toronto to Edmonton. Again, I was finished my work in a half hour, so I turned around and took the next plane back to Toronto!
@cdavid8139 They weren't the only ones with time on their hands. That's the way it was in telecom too. You work when something fails, but you have to be around just in case. Also, when I was working up north, I often had to wait hours for a train to pick me up. I recall one trip. I was in Capreol, Ont., which is where I was based. I got a call to go to Foleyet, which is some distance north. I hopped on a freight at about 4 PM, with my shift ending at 4:30. I got to Foleyet and had my work done in about half an hour. I then went for dinner, someone invited me to their home for a couple of drinks, hopped another freight to go back around mid night and got back to Capreol around 7 the next morning. All but the first half hour was at time & a half overtime, that is 4:30 PM to 7 AM, with straight time for the first half hour. I was trying to sleep on a bench in the caboose, but was occasionally tossed off by the motion! On another occasion, I had to fly from Toronto to Edmonton. Again, I was finished my work in a half hour, so I turned around and took the next plane back to Toronto! There were plenty of other occasions when I'd be riding in the club car, having a beer, while being paid time & a half! 🙂
@@James_Knott I think all long time railroaders have similar stories. I've sat in a cab for an entire job and never turned a wheel. Sort of the nature of the beast at times
Welp, there's a Thomas the Tank Engine joke to be made here somewhere, but atm I've got nothin'.
Thomas comes to breakfast
Sir Topham Hatt isn't going to be pleased
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
That is a gem!
First, driverless vehicles which is a nightmare - and now locomotives are running loose without a conductor?? YIKES!
So an unmanned train plowed through a garage/ house... That's a solid lawsuit especially if someone was seriously injured.
It wasn't a train, it was just a locomotive. The "wye" track (@1:10) that approaches the garage is for turning a locomotive (or perhaps a pair of locomotives) around. Yard operations are performed at very low speed, and by using a remote control, the operator can walk around and decouple cars manually without having to get in and out of the locomotive. The operator was most likely standing near one of the three turnouts so they could be manually thrown from one track to the other. They might have thought the turn-around track was longer than it actually is, or they might have gotten distracted, but either way they were most likely within line of sight of the locomotive at the time.
Either way, their fault.
And the railroad's that the end-of-track equipment wasn't enough for stopping the loco(s).
1:06 “The buffers will stop me,” He thought hopefully. But that siding had no buffers. It just ended at the road!
This is exactly why I would NEVER buy a house that close to a set of railroad tracks.
like if it was on the tracks
Yes, the little 2k lb car kept the 300,000lb engine from hitting the house. Thats hilarious thinking.
Glad it didnt hit the house though.
This is exactly why driverless and autonomous trains and semi-trucks is a bad idea. Hell even autonomous cars have proven to be a bad idea over and over again. Be it a locomotive, semi-truck, or a piece of heavy construction equipment like a bulldozer, there needs to be a human onboard in case things do go wrong in which they can intervene. In this case, it appears the remote control operator was either positioned on the front catwalk of the locomotive or even standing on the ground by the switch and not paying attention to the locomotives position. At any rate, most locomotives have dashcams which will show where the remote operator was at the time of the crash. Whether CSX railroad will allow us to see that video footage is yet to be seen.
So you immediately jump to the conclusion that the operator was not paying attention? You must be in management. Yep. Let's blame the crew first!!!! No need to look further.
Things I wish this video said:
“From what turned out to be a stinky situation” 0:05
“She said it sounded like a freight train!” 2:24
CSX goes to Breakfast
clever one
A train near a house in July? Why do I feel like this is going to be a polar express live adaptation waiting to happen?
This is something out of a Thomas the tank engine episode 😭😭😭
Thomas comes for breakfast. Atleast it's not a station master's house this time
Or a close shave for duck
Thomas comes to breakfast
I hope the home owner takes a lot of pictures and hires an attorney and a building inspector.
Squidward: it sure is nice being inside my garage
SpongeBob: Hi squidward!
Squidward: AaAAaAAA-
*CSX 2757 crashes into squidward’s garage*
Dang, glad everyone's alright.
Correction, there was a leak of some diesel fuel from the train. The tank has a capacity of 2,000 gallons, but highly unlikely that entire contents were lost.
Was the engine a first person view operation or was it no line of sight remote control ???
......Food for thought.......
Reminds me of something Thomas did. He ruined breakfast after crashing into a house
Remote controlled, unmanned locomotives??? Who made this brilliant decision?
$$$$ . It's not a new thing
exceptionally common. Ever see a train with more than one locomotive? The others are linked via remote control to the primary at the head of the the train. (used to be wired, now they're remote) .. same thing with trains that have an engine in the middle of the length of cars.
Remote controls are frequently used in freight yards to move cuts of cars around to make up a train prior to departure. The operator can walk around and get a much better idea of distance, leading to reduced coupler damage, etc.
This is your government prescribing the rail roads to cut thier costs and letting them use terrible technology to do so, just wait till AI starts to interfere with everyone's daily lives...
they are now hiring remote train operators that have atleast 30 hours of microsoft train simulator time
Been around seince the 70s
The train didn't jump, the tracks. The tracks just ended, under the locomotive. Remote control cabs?? Is American companies, getting THAT FRICKIN CHEAP??? There should always be an engineer, or two, on board at all times. We need more regulations, in American businesses.
this just looks like an alternate set for Thomas Comes to Breakfast
Here comes the train!
It’s called a “wye” it allows engines or short trains to reverse direction
The Locomotive just wanted a friend. lol
This is the end result of automation and ai
I hate most robotics, A.I., and many other things that take away gainful employment from competent, industrious human beings. But I got to break the news to you, that model of locomotive was produced from the early 70’s to mid 80’s. The remote operator control came out in the 80’s and the operator performs train/locomotive movements from direct line of sight, usually within 50 ft of the head end of movement. It’s not automated like a factory production line or like inventory management. If you don’t believe me feel free to Google EMD GP38-2 locomotive for the production dates of the locomotive and you can also Google remote control systems for locomotives if you want to.
And 5G!!!!
That didn't "jump" the track. They drove it off the end of the track, straight through the end of track bumper and dirt berm. They were operating it way too fast for that length of track for it to have had enough energy to go that far through so much stuff. Should have been going 5 MPH at most on such a short track.
There ya go. Look at a video and blame the crew. You must be in management.
@@cdavid8139 Bwahaha! Try physics. The mass of the locomotive doesn't change, so the energy needed to plow through all of that stuff came from one variable... SPEED.
@@Orxenhorf the SPEED of the locomotive can changed and you leapt to the conclusion that an employee operating the locomotive was moving it 'way too fast'. That is what management often does. "The plane crashed...must be the pilot". The boat ran aground..."must be the captain". The train went on the ground..."Must be the engineer'. In this case, from the information I have, the locomotive and/or the RC unit had issues. But hey...good ole Orxenhorf is gonna blame the hard working employee without any research at all.
@@cdavid8139 CSX has already said that it was not equipped for remote control (If you think RC fails into accelerate mode, you're a bigger fool than your irrelevant and unrelated ideas about planes and boats.) and that two employees were onboard trying to reposition it when it began to roll due to HUMAN ERROR. They jumped off when they realized they couldn't stop it.
I firmly believe there needs to be an engineer on every train.... these aren't toys or rc cars. It's amazing there hasn't been far worse accidents.
"Honey we have a new vehicle in the garage!"
I never knew that Trains were able to be remote controlled. Wow!
Bet you a dollar CSX tries to deny any responsibility.
“The stationmaster was furious!”
"His wife picked up a plate"
“You miserable engine! Just look what you’ve done to our breakfast! Now I shall have to cook some more!”
“Remote controlled train locomotive runs off end of track”
Fixed your title.
How fast was that train going to run through the bumper block? Why even have a bumper block if it isn’t going to hold whatever hits it?
Why not have a derailer there to help stop it before it hits the house?
"How's your project coming along?"
"Well, it's a bit of a train wreck"
several Monet and Picasso paintings were obviously destroyed as well. pay up CSX
JUST LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO MY BREAKFAST!
The sign in the yard says watch for motorcycles. It should say watch for trains.😳
Time to revamp that wye, it's happened twice now that's enough..
time to move the house. The railroad was there first
@@cdavid8139what a stupid take on the situation
@@cdavid8139 The wye was not.
And even if it were, the railroad stops across the street from the house.
No rolling stock beyond the end of track.
@@u2bear377 THe wye may not have been but the railyard and railroad owned property was.
@@cdavid8139 Minus the wye, the house is quite far away from the yard tracks.
CSX is now offering door to door delivery! Now competing with FEDEX and UPS!
Trump 2024 take back our country
Why did that locomotive have to turn around? It's a switching locomotive (an EMD GP38-2 to be exact). They're designed to go backwards and forwards through the yards to move freight cars to where the cars are needed. There should have been no need to use that wye track to turn it around.
Either for maintenance or refuelling or just using the Y to run around a rail car, but you are correct they are remote control so direction doesn’t matter
If they're heading out of the yard and onto the road, they probably want the cab facing the right way.
@@James_Knott as the OP said already, it’s a remote controlled yard switcher, it doesn’t leave the yard, and no one is on board driving it, therefore it doesn’t matter what direction it is facing, this has also been said in the story
Several reasons. One is maintenance so you even out wheel wear. ANother is that they needed the low-hood facing another direction. THere was definitely a reason. Railroads do not make moves like this just to burn time.
So they operating this loco only around the yard and she never has an engineer on board? So she's controlled from the yard master tower? Did someone had too much ongoing movements and forgot that there is a locomotive running remotely into a end of track?
Now thats one HUGE train set!
Americans are champions in train derailment.
Per train?
Per train-mile?
Per unit of payload transported?
Antarctica is the most train acident safe place in the world!
Happened before and railroad did not build a mound of soil to block sound and locomotives/runaway railcars? On the yellow sign, change "Motorcycles" to *Locomotives* .
No comments because you tube doesn't like the truth
On behalf of CSX, I wish to offer my sincerest apologies to Santa Claus. Rest assured, he will be fully compensated for all damages. In addition, I'd like to congratulate him on his recent weight loss.
The train was being controlled Remotely? You saying there was no human on board that train? Hmm, A real live Silver Streak.
Remove that crazy dead end track loop, why is it even there? Hope they get a brand new, updated garage after this!
It's a turnaround, like a 3 point u turn in a car.
@@gantmj Y turn :)
Looking at the Historic Aerials site, there was a home there before the Y turnaround was built around 1966.
I figured as much. I've been seeing a growing trend of "don't build your home near a railroad track", when all that serves to do is blame the victim for the railroad companies failures. Railroads run straight through towns, carry volatile and toxic cargo, and quite a few of them literally get built next to apartment complexes and in general directly into poorer or less desirable neighborhoods, AFTER the neighborhood was already there.
It matters not, when what was built first. That argument won't make houses cost less, or give anyone that's died in this manor their lives back. The corporate railroads need to be held responsible for the countless thousands they've killed, and the countless lives they've destroyed.
Thomas took that 1 out also
.he's a pissed off loco from the west side
Oh, nah... Sir Topham Hat ain't gonna like this one. This has caused confusion and delay!
Was the crew injured??
Thanks to Jesus nobody is hurt 🙏
Which came first the railroad or the house 🤔Who would build a house at the end of a railroad yard ?
"You miserable engine, just look what you've done to my breakfast! Now I'll have to cook some more!"
No, it didn't 'Jump the Tracks' it 'Failed to stop before the end of the tracks.'
The only way to fix this is to END remote control. Put crews back on the locomotives! As a Railfan, I have always been opposed to remote control. I have several railroad friends who think the same way.
Railroads implemented remote control for only ONE reason: to maximize profits to the top brass while minimizing safety. There should be at least two crewmembers on every train any time it is moving; three minimum on local switchers, turns and yard transfers.
At one time, most freight trains had 5 crewmembers on them back when cabooses were still in regular use. The conductor always rode in the caboose along with a brakeman or switchman. The engineer was always in the lead hog (of course). There were also a fireman or brakeman, and another switchman in the lead locomotive.
The railroads should bring back 5-man crews and cabooses. With recent, increasing reports of detector failures, it would be a good thing. Err on the side of safety. (Of course, I know it will never happen.)
CSX FSD FAIL!
And they cannot say anything about n.s at all
Did he say maybe the car in the garage maybe stopped the train 😮. I don't think so!
How did that happen?
Gotta love the TH-cam controller kiddies. Three comments by me and they all just seem to " disappear" extraordinary
Probably not a smart place to have a house just saying… kinda asking for that immediately at the end of track? I couldn’t sleep at night in there.
People getting angry at remotely operated trains...the idea is that with the engineer being outside he has a better view, and can arguably operate much safer than being inside a closed box with poor visibility and no visibility of the danger areas. Relying on someone outside on a radio to scream commands adds delay to the reaction time, which could be critical. Fear of technology is unfounded. Aircraft have had autopilots for 60 years, and land themselves. A remotely operated train is magnitudes more reliable.
Nothing to see here just Americaa failing infrastructure. Rail ways are out dated expect more train derailments.
Looks like CSX 2757 (CR 8150) crashed into the garage backwards. Reminds me of the time Thomas crashed into the stationmaster's house.
Years ago i was watching a train pass by and the train tracks were flexing up and down. Next couple days i pass by and i see about 20 train cars laid over in people's yards.
There should be a sign for the train that says “Watch for garages”
I actually near 30 minutes from Niagara Falls, I wonder how that train not stop while switching
time to ban remote control locomotives.
put humans back in the cabs.
No worries. Railroad companies enjoy unusual legal perks from governments. This won't effect them.
A train ran into it before yet still there? And yet they didn't think maybe of moving? Kind of like a Darwin award then ain't it! 😂
HEY! YOU CAN'T PARK THERE!
I CAN AND I DO.
That is 100% a radio-controlled locomotive those are the only locomotives I've seen a fixed with Amber strobe beacons on top of the cab there there to warn people about remote-controlled operating locomotives has a warning device to anybody that may be near by the locomotive
Running off the end isn't jumping the tracks.
The people in the house: no we keep our kids really safe from the trains
The train:
That turnout needs to be removed or relocated
or...move the house
Just build a buffer stop that _can stop_ the consist.