No doubt but these are short line railroads. they do not go far. Just point a to point b. Normally only 15 to 30 miles. Put in to transer stuff from poit a to point b with in those mile limits of the track. I doubt any hazmat is travelled on these lines. Likely just material that needs to go from point a to point b and back.
@@_RocketRooster Let me add that one thing that has always sort of bothered me as an adult for last 50 years is why the rail road tracks are not fenced like the interstate highway system aside of right of ways. They get away with this shit because lobbyist pay off politicians with campaign donations to avoid this law ever making it to the vote on the senate floor. They pay off both parties. I do blame the railroads for personal responsibility but I also blame our congress for not acting how ever many requests have been made to write a bill to block the tracks from people just walking in anytime they want to. I know this is a bit of a different topic but they should be equally as worried for citizens as they are their own employees and they are. They don't care about anyone or anything but their money. Nobody else in the USA could get away this. Not even the US government and that is why the interstate highway system is fenced.
@@monmixer The root of all evil is the love or lust of money! From Washington DC to Norfolk Southern with 260 crashes average per year! Absolutely criminal!
Great video, but I posted 4 years ago and no response....I just was curious why at certain crossings...you hear this cowbell sound, then loud horn blast. But in this one a ting sound and a whistle blast. Does this depend on the area? I am asking, because sorry, I just do not know
This has to be the most nerve racking job in the world,I bet the engineer drinks a couple gallons of whiskey a day driving on these raggedy-ass tracks and should have been condemned at least 30 years ago.
To be fair travelling that slow the train is not going to cause to much damage if it derails but yes, they suck with public safety even more than their own workers.
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I have seen tracks 40 years old which were in a way better shape.
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@@monmixerthe issue is if weird chemicals get spilled into the nature.
You may as well slap chains on the wheels and run the locomotive over the rocks at this point. How in the world is this still considered a track lol. Shriveled bacon for rails
6:33 looks like a huge mechanical caterpillar, the head moving back and forth looking for the path to crawl. 10:20 looks like the truck in the movie Sorcerer.
What nation? You’re kidding right? You seriously don’t know which nation this is? 😆 This is the United States Of America! 🇺🇸 Where else are you gonna find a GP7, CHINA?! 🇨🇳 NOOOO WAY JOSE!
The sleepers must be in terrible condition for the track to be that bad! Has this track ever had a major overhaul or replaced? It must have been replaced in some parts. Never would you see that in the UK, not even in sidings. Although over there, I know its not this bad everywhere!
The old GP7 and GP9s had many 2 stroke units and when a derail drags it will instant drop the RPM about 200 RPM ON a ground hit moment and that flags the engineer instant that something is off the rail or a brake can drag
By the way, can anyone know what is the cause of the terrible state of the rails? Is there unstable soil? Or would the rails themselves be initially substandard?
I don't know but my guess is they are state owned or most likely privately owned lines . Maybe if the feds owned the lines they would be maintained better , just guessing. I don't think the feds want to own state lines but in England , France and germany they are maintained by federal centralized governments . More people in europe use trains and they demand faster and safer trains and lines . The car is still king over here in the USA and passenger trains are not used very much so rail line are not high priority. In USA rail is used mostly for freight which does not have stringent safety standards like passenger trains .
Decades of deferred maintenance. The swamp it was built on didn’t help, but the real issue was decades of deferred maintenance. The current owners of the line have improved track conditions as they can, and while it is by far better than what the video shows, it’s still not great. But they are making progress.
Is it because of a change in Government policy that rail transport has suddenly become viable again, and these abandoned railways are being recommissioned?
Same goes with my layout as well. But, these rails look like they can’t handle the heat not like the model ones can. No wonder why the tracks are in terrible condition.
I love this railroad. Everyone laughs at them. They are making money and you aren't, laugh at that. The rails are fine... Lack of maintenance for 60+ years will do that. They are only moving at walking speed (if that!), but the rails are in gauge and that's what counts. I would hate to be the T&E crew on any of these trains, as I think, that would be the most boring job in the world. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching! Hopefully someday they’ll be able to get a heavier gauge rail. The current rail is nearly 120 years old and pretty brittle. They’ve done a good job so far with the ties and ballast.
Is Pioneer finally getting around to doing something with this? They must like picking up their toys and putting 'em back. Someone pick up a few rear-end devices for them at the hardware or someplace. 😉😁
Непонятно, для какой аудитории вы пишете здесь на русском. Это англоязычный канал. И естественно, что авторы сами охреневают от этого трындеца так же, как любой другой человек. Писать им менять шпалы - странно. А писать им на русском - тем более.
@@Goldarr1900 Who said they couldn't? Speed is a factor too. Trains have conical flanged wheels and great suspension systems for rugged terrains and turns. These tracks of course are ridiculous beyond belief.
Even if it could be donated, I doubt there's a readily available supply of rails to fix this. Maybe they could have bought old hand-me-downs from China or India or former USSR, though?
Besides looking scary this must be hard on the boogie wheels or what ever tbey are called and the running gear . Looks like metal fatique is happening really fast . I would not want to buy any second hand locomotives or cars from these guys .
Another great video. Amazing that doesn't derail.
Thank you!
I passed by the 105 yesterday afternoon at Cecil. Definitely was getting some work done
Cool, when I went by MofW guys were working east of 127 so I kept driving north
It is so hard to believe these people would allow the tracks to get this distorted! No wonder there are derailments that happen so frequently! WOW!
No doubt but these are short line railroads. they do not go far. Just point a to point b. Normally only 15 to 30 miles. Put in to transer stuff from poit a to point b with in those mile limits of the track. I doubt any hazmat is travelled on these lines. Likely just material that needs to go from point a to point b and back.
@@monmixer It shows that the RR has no concern for maintaining their tracks to a safe level nor any concerns for the lives of their employees.
@@_RocketRooster Right, like most but not all big corporations.
@@_RocketRooster Let me add that one thing that has always sort of bothered me as an adult for last 50 years is why the rail road tracks are not fenced like the interstate highway system aside of right of ways. They get away with this shit because lobbyist pay off politicians with campaign donations to avoid this law ever making it to the vote on the senate floor. They pay off both parties. I do blame the railroads for personal responsibility but I also blame our congress for not acting how ever many requests have been made to write a bill to block the tracks from people just walking in anytime they want to. I know this is a bit of a different topic but they should be equally as worried for citizens as they are their own employees and they are. They don't care about anyone or anything but their money. Nobody else in the USA could get away this. Not even the US government and that is why the interstate highway system is fenced.
@@monmixer The root of all evil is the love or lust of money! From Washington DC to Norfolk Southern with 260 crashes average per year! Absolutely criminal!
😱 No wonder there are 1000 derailments per year!
Yeah, this one hits different after Feb 2023
Great video, but I posted 4 years ago and no response....I just was curious why at certain crossings...you hear this cowbell sound, then loud horn blast. But in this one a ting sound and a whistle blast. Does this depend on the area? I am asking, because sorry, I just do not know
This has to be the most nerve racking job in the world,I bet the engineer drinks a couple gallons of whiskey a day driving on these raggedy-ass tracks and should have been condemned at least 30 years ago.
To be fair travelling that slow the train is not going to cause to much damage if it derails but yes, they suck with public safety even more than their own workers.
I have seen tracks 40 years old which were in a way better shape.
@@monmixerthe issue is if weird chemicals get spilled into the nature.
Amazing video as always. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for watching!
sellerscasey1 -
The of the derailments were much worse before they fixed this line, looks good now, great repair judging by this video.
You may as well slap chains on the wheels and run the locomotive over the rocks at this point. How in the world is this still considered a track lol. Shriveled bacon for rails
Omg the train bell I’m dying 🤣🤣🤣
Nice! PREX 105 was tied down in Cecil last night with an eastbound local.
Cool it’ll probably move first thing Monday
Love the focal length & angle. Made laugh!
Thank you, I thought it was hilarious when I did the first one. That got over 3 million views
6:33 looks like a huge mechanical caterpillar, the head moving back and forth looking for the path to crawl. 10:20 looks like the truck in the movie Sorcerer.
What do the trestles look like? Yikes!
Where is this train? What nation?
What nation? You’re kidding right? You seriously don’t know which nation this is? 😆 This is the United States Of America! 🇺🇸 Where else are you gonna find a GP7, CHINA?! 🇨🇳 NOOOO WAY JOSE!
The sleepers must be in terrible condition for the track to be that bad! Has this track ever had a major overhaul or replaced? It must have been replaced in some parts. Never would you see that in the UK, not even in sidings. Although over there, I know its not this bad everywhere!
The LSD Railroad. It's a miracle a train can run along this track at all.
Awesome video ! All the best from Poland, +
Thank you !!
thats what decades of neglect and puttin off maintenance gets ya...max speed of 5-10mph
Are these train tracks in the usa?
In HO scale speed, he's doing 35 mph's
PREX 105 has a really nice horn
Gettysburg 105
Owner: Gettysburg Railroad
Model: EMD GP9 Built As: GTW 4548 (GP9)
Serial Number: 22837
Built: 3/1957
She's old,sorry it doesn't have a better horn😢
AMTRAK WANTS TO BUY THE LINE !
Insanity at work.
How would you ever detect a rear car derailing?
You don't have to detect it. Your train going into emergency will make it clear.
@@wwhazlett Dragging an upright derailed car may not break the airline. So yes the driver can drag them without knowing.
You can feel the pulling usually & thats why an engineer is suppose to look back @ their train every minute or so 2 check.
The old GP7 and GP9s had many 2 stroke units and when a derail drags it will instant drop the RPM about 200 RPM ON a ground hit moment and that flags the engineer instant that something is off the rail or a brake can drag
wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it...geez, spaghetti tracks...lol.
Keep up goin' fellas, ye just made my day😂Seriously that track is in terrible condition.
"Bad" isn't the word! Horrendous fits the situation quite nicely.
Где это?
США 👍👍👍🇷🇺
WOW How does that engine even stay on that track?
Luck that the gauge holds
Well, at least the drive a safe speed. 😉
I love wobbly trains on sketchy tracks.
Awesome video!
Thank you
By the way, can anyone know what is the cause of the terrible state of the rails? Is there unstable soil? Or would the rails themselves be initially substandard?
I don't know but my guess is they are state owned or most likely privately owned lines . Maybe if the feds owned the lines they would be maintained better , just guessing. I don't think the feds want to own state lines but in England , France and germany they are maintained by federal centralized governments . More people in europe use trains and they demand faster and safer trains and lines . The car is still king over here in the USA and passenger trains are not used very much so rail line are not high priority. In USA rail is used mostly for freight which does not have stringent safety standards like passenger trains .
This rail way was built on what was called the blackswamp.
Decades of deferred maintenance. The swamp it was built on didn’t help, but the real issue was decades of deferred maintenance. The current owners of the line have improved track conditions as they can, and while it is by far better than what the video shows, it’s still not great. But they are making progress.
Nice video!
Thank you!!
Is it because of a change in Government policy that rail transport has suddenly become viable again, and these abandoned railways are being recommissioned?
Those Christmas lights don't seem to be doing any better. 😂😂😂
The elevator closed a few years ago but I figure they stopped updating the lights long before that
The tracks on my ho scale train table are better than that😂😂😂😂
Same goes with my layout as well. But, these rails look like they can’t handle the heat not like the model ones can. No wonder why the tracks are in terrible condition.
Dude .... That has more bumps then a Motocross track!!!! 🤣
It is nice to see that in the age of Walmart, local businesses and employees staying loyal to a company while it pulls it head out of its butt. 👍
does the nd&w ever haul stone out of lafarge plant south of cecil on the old ch&d?
Ain't no way man.
I love this railroad. Everyone laughs at them. They are making money and you aren't, laugh at that. The rails are fine... Lack of maintenance for 60+ years will do that. They are only moving at walking speed (if that!), but the rails are in gauge and that's what counts. I would hate to be the T&E crew on any of these trains, as I think, that would be the most boring job in the world. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching! Hopefully someday they’ll be able to get a heavier gauge rail. The current rail is nearly 120 years old and pretty brittle. They’ve done a good job so far with the ties and ballast.
Evidently, they're not making *that* much money, or they would at least fix the tracks. That's like basic stuff. Railroading 101.
That’s a train track?
I. Am really surprised that none of the cars came of tracks
It came several weeks before.
Why not new railroad tracks?
Money Corruption
Love the Videos, what color space are you grading these too?
Thank you! The colors are as the camera shoots them, I don’t alter that aspect of the video
Is Pioneer finally getting around to doing something with this? They must like picking up their toys and putting 'em back. Someone pick up a few rear-end devices for them at the hardware or someplace. 😉😁
They’ve got some nice track machines now. I don’t think I’ll get many more bad track videos before they get it leveled.
would you be allowed to film them while they fix the length at Cecil if they ever get it fixed?
I am allowed anytime I film from public property
You gota be kidding me
If you watch the video at 2x speed you can really appreciate how bad these tracks are!! When it's slow at 2x, that's a BAD track!!
forget high-speed rail projects, this is snail-speed rail. like what 2-3 mph? how does this even make business sense to operate, lol
Como trafegam com trilhos tortos e mal conservados parecem fantasmas ,mas são magníficos gosto muito de trens
How is that even possible?
Nerves of steel.
Awww I feel sorry for the little guy, all he has is a bike horn😢
Is the railroad that broke? Whats a few miles of track compared to a derailment!
They have 40+ miles of track like this
When crackheads steal all of your cross ties...
меняйте шпалы девочки
Непонятно, для какой аудитории вы пишете здесь на русском. Это англоязычный канал. И естественно, что авторы сами охреневают от этого трындеца так же, как любой другой человек. Писать им менять шпалы - странно. А писать им на русском - тем более.
Very cool.
Thank you!
You are very welcome.
They need to fix that Track
That is crazy track.
That is exactly what my 4 year old said when he was watching me edit this video
Did this used to be a mainline for the wabash railroad. It sure doesen't look like a mainline.
Hard to imagine it was a mainline but it was
How much customers are on that track
7 that I’m sure of, probably a few others.
I cannot believe that there are rails in much, much better condition that this tracks, yet i see train derailments on better tracks.
Notice how slow this train is going through.
@@jklax So what’s your point? I’ve seen trains derail going slow.
@@Goldarr1900 Who said they couldn't? Speed is a factor too. Trains have conical flanged wheels and great suspension systems for rugged terrains and turns. These tracks of course are ridiculous beyond belief.
@@jklax 👍
Ask the CEO if a portion of the yearly bonus could be donated to repair the tracks
Even if it could be donated, I doubt there's a readily available supply of rails to fix this. Maybe they could have bought old hand-me-downs from China or India or former USSR, though?
0.25 speed is how fast it was going
When will they fix these tracks
They’re getting better, slowly
Scott Taipale ok that’s good to here
I'm surprised this train didn't derail. GF1 🥴😖🥴😖🥴😖🥴😖😬😬😬😎
А у нас поезда с ровных рельс сходят
Это другое. ЖД-катастрофы по вине машинистов или локомотивов случаются везде. Но не везде рельсы приходят в такое плачевное состояние.
This what profit over safety does to the working environment does
In normal video mode, 1 m.p.h.!!!!
It's a damn shame we let the battle of Gettysburg happen again.
Wow BULLET TRAIN
That is one crazy track, I am surprised that the FRA still allows this track to be used commercially.
They mainly haul tomatoes paste, cement and plastic so no major risk if the go off the rail. They did scrape open a fuel tank a few years ago.
Scott Taipale wow hell of a combination, we could make a concrete plastic pizza! Cool vid thanks
history view Google FRA excepted track.
Automcanic found it, 10mph limit. Well it looks like a very remote track segment
しっかし、整備するって事しらんのか？・・・wwww
Is it a sin to bring in a surfacing gang?
Yes
Amtrak avelia liberty
Besides looking scary this must be hard on the boogie wheels or what ever tbey are called and the running gear . Looks like metal fatique is happening really fast . I would not want to buy any second hand locomotives or cars from these guys .
O M G 💀💀💀💀💀
Bruh he just speed it up the video it wasn't even going that fast and the railroad crossing Bell was very fast and the horn was too high-pitched
We’ve seen abandoned tracks far better than this
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Catelli railroads. Riding on noodles as always.
Эпичненько)))
That is not track, attempting this is down right stupid.
До чего Путин страну довёл! 😂😂😂
Американскую!!!
asi za to môže Putin a Rusko
Путин рельсы погнул
это настоящий гиперлуп И.Маска .
НО скорее вы просто тролль-какер.
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BNSF Railfanner At severance Colorado
Get back in school lil foamer