Kid, when I worked in government (2 years) after my Vietnam service and my university days, I would visit Folkston. Interesting place and close to the Okefenokee Swamp.
At 0:45, you can hear air, and the train starts slowing down. I think this is when I032 realized they were lined on the wrong track and tried to stop their train, but were unable to in time.
FYI, that I032 was SUPPOSED to keep going north to Savannah. Instead, someone misaligned the switch at the “Folkston Turnout” and sent him up the #2 Waycross main….and right into the rock train. The signal system and PTC had been turned off due to multiple problems/repairs throughout the day.
@@southerncsxvlog You mean lack of PTC? What's crazy is that they were allowed to run above restricted speed in the absence of a working CTC/PTC system.
You can first hear him throw the train into emergency when they round the curve and see the other train. Look closely in the upper left after the second bang, and you’ll see the two double stack cars jacknifing. First bang was the actual collision. The second one was those cars coming off.
I understood now from anb’s comment, but that was louder than the pothole incident that was created by a Mack truck on daily dose of internet 😂 1:04 louder than a metal door
@@southerncsxvlog trust me I’ve have instances like this. I was once at Fostoria in Ohio and drove to a local place to get a snack, while I was gone I watched the Virtual Railfan cam for the Railpark. What I saw was the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Valley heritage unit pass. I facepalmed so hard I feel like I gave myself a concussion. But I’ve caught many other interesting things while railfanning so I’ve gotten over it. But it’s like war, stand your ground.
This WAS NOT caused by PTC, as the PTC and CTC were cut out. There is no way these trains should have been going that fast through that junction without PTC/CTC. Luckily, it sounds like the new rules that the FRA writes for cut out PTC/CTC won't be written in blood this time. By my car counting and calculations, there was approximately 2,945ft of train that passes prior to dumping the air. Based on the locations, the crew dumped the air within seconds of going over the switch the wrong way, but they only had maybe 1,500 feet to stop, probably more like 1,200 by the time they recognized they were on the wrong track and dumped the air. Both trains were running left hand, likely the rock train was in the hole as it had gotten passed by other southbound traffic, and the intermodal was going to pass something else northbound.
743 was waiting on track 2 jesup sub for 032 to go north on track one on Nahunta sub. 037 was gonna go track two nahunta sub south but was told to stop.
If you want a higher quality video I can send you the original screen recording, just lmk and I can send it wherever! I did the little zoom at the end there cause I was trying to see the smoke at the end the and you can actually see the well car set going sideways!
Yep. CSX I032 went through a misaligned switch at 1:20 PM and struck L743-15 that was supposed to wait on I032 to pass. One of the engines caught on fire and unfortunately a crewmember is now dead
@@southerncsxvlog PTC was apparently cut out (not operational) at the time of the incident because of ongoing signal maintenance. Somehow they were allowed to proceed as fast as they were despite all switches being lined manually. The switch wasn't manually set correctly so the train ended up on the wrong main colliding with the rock train.
This was sent by my friend on Discord earlier & I’ll share it here
Kid, when I worked in government (2 years) after my Vietnam service and my university days, I would visit Folkston. Interesting place and close to the Okefenokee Swamp.
@@fastsetinthewest Nice!!! ❤
At 0:45, you can hear air, and the train starts slowing down. I think this is when I032 realized they were lined on the wrong track and tried to stop their train, but were unable to in time.
Yep. At least it wasn’t at full speed
That is correct. All 4 were able to go home. Could have been a tragedy.
FYI, that I032 was SUPPOSED to keep going north to Savannah. Instead, someone misaligned the switch at the “Folkston Turnout” and sent him up the #2 Waycross main….and right into the rock train. The signal system and PTC had been turned off due to multiple problems/repairs throughout the day.
Agreed. PTC is the main issue
not just somebody, the radio clearly names the fool in charge of the switch. Somebody bout to meet the unemployment line.
or worse.
@NS6677 Yep
@@southerncsxvlog You mean lack of PTC? What's crazy is that they were allowed to run above restricted speed in the absence of a working CTC/PTC system.
You can first hear him throw the train into emergency when they round the curve and see the other train. Look closely in the upper left after the second bang, and you’ll see the two double stack cars jacknifing. First bang was the actual collision. The second one was those cars coming off.
Yep. Those are the scariest sounds no railroader wants to hear
I understood now from anb’s comment, but that was louder than the pothole incident that was created by a Mack truck on daily dose of internet 😂
1:04 louder than a metal door
Oh yea
talk about having a csx truck and workers. at the right place at the right time!
🤯
It's one thing to be close to the tracks , luckily the tracks themselves are typically in better order at railfan platforms and crossings
True
Holy hell is right that is a first for me in a while i hope the csx engineer were ok
Yep. Currently 3 are Injured & some of the locomotives are damaged
@southerncsxvlog holy cow wow
@@jasonhadfield1551 Yep
the crew on board has non-life-threatening injuries
@@usa_rail_productions Yes
1:04 is where the crash happened
Yep.
You can hear the air dump (emergency application) at 0:48. it had 16 seconds to slow down before impact.
@@ethanmcdowell9677 I can hear it. At least it wasn’t using full speed.
0:45 would be the emergency brakes
@@FECRF Yes
There's some very short footage of the impact showing what had happened to the lead at the time of impact, want me to share the link?
Sure
Sure
So, where's the link?
PTC working out real well 👍
Yea…. Totally
on todays episode of how many people aren’t going to do their homework on the cause of the accident
PTC was cut out in this area due to track work
@@j.padron8531Yep
I'm surprised more of the train did derail. That was a pretty sudden stop.
Yep. Only like a quarter of a mile before coming to a complete stop head on
The one day I don’t watch the Folkston cam for hours .
That's got to be the worst feeling ever to miss something important after waiting or do something for days
@@southerncsxvlog trust me I’ve have instances like this. I was once at Fostoria in Ohio and drove to a local place to get a snack, while I was gone I watched the Virtual Railfan cam for the Railpark. What I saw was the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Valley heritage unit pass. I facepalmed so hard I feel like I gave myself a concussion. But I’ve caught many other interesting things while railfanning so I’ve gotten over it. But it’s like war, stand your ground.
Agreed
Good video. I thought it was L743 14 not 15?
I thought it was L743-15 but thanks for correcting me but Thanks!
The chat must’ve been going crazy
They were going haywire
I’ll have to go check it out probably just rewind to the time that this collision happened
@@user-pd4cl2ty4d Perhaps
@@user-pd4cl2ty4dThey took the stream down a little bit after this so you cant do that.
Well that is about as close to a bad wreck as you get LIVE ! little did anyone around the train at that time knew what was ahead.
Yep. There are some videos and pictures that have the front end of the accident too
Praying for the crew own the train.
They are now alright
!!!THE SOUND OF THE CRASH WAS SOOO LOUD!!!! OMG😮😮
I agree. It’s something no railroader should ever hear or encounter
This garrett i met you at train day
Hey Garrett It Was Nice Meet Ya
are the shareholders ok?
3 are injured at the moment
What happened with the cam? And great video
Uhhh. CSX Took it down for a hour and then VRF Put it back up around 3:30
@@southerncsxvlog I could recorded this for my ig
@@NCandVArailfanner send me that on instagram pls
Shortly after the crash VRF had a technical problem causing all their cams to go down for a bit.
This wasn’t related to the crash
@@southerncsxvlog can I use this for my ig? I will put credit
Damn
Pretty messed up with tons of rubble, right?
Crazy how this happened not long after I went railfanning there
How long ago was it. Before the incident.
Coming out of rice yard waycross ga..hump yard..
Yep. Just a little bit south of Waycross
1:03 Impact
BOOM!
This WAS NOT caused by PTC, as the PTC and CTC were cut out. There is no way these trains should have been going that fast through that junction without PTC/CTC. Luckily, it sounds like the new rules that the FRA writes for cut out PTC/CTC won't be written in blood this time.
By my car counting and calculations, there was approximately 2,945ft of train that passes prior to dumping the air. Based on the locations, the crew dumped the air within seconds of going over the switch the wrong way, but they only had maybe 1,500 feet to stop, probably more like 1,200 by the time they recognized they were on the wrong track and dumped the air. Both trains were running left hand, likely the rock train was in the hole as it had gotten passed by other southbound traffic, and the intermodal was going to pass something else northbound.
Perhaps your correct
743 was waiting on track 2 jesup sub for 032 to go north on track one on Nahunta sub. 037 was gonna go track two nahunta sub south but was told to stop.
@@CecilStembridge I'm not following. What does 037 have to do with 032 being lined into a head-on with 743?
@@woodalexander nothing. Just sayin what all traffic was there.
@@CecilStembridge So both tracks on Nahunta were running left-hand?
If you want a higher quality video I can send you the original screen recording, just lmk and I can send it wherever! I did the little zoom at the end there cause I was trying to see the smoke at the end the and you can actually see the well car set going sideways!
Alrighty Send That To Me!
@@southerncsxvlog I'll message you on Instagram here in a bit! I've got a little bit of work to do for classes beforehand
@@Trainman42 Alrighty
That is scary,like to know how that happened
Yep. CSX I032 went through a misaligned switch at 1:20 PM and struck L743-15 that was supposed to wait on I032 to pass.
One of the engines caught on fire and unfortunately a crewmember is now dead
@@southerncsxvlog wow sounds like someone will be in trouble if there ok
@@ELWtrains Yep. Someone is getting fired for that one
@@southerncsxvlog I personally know all involved. How do you know someone passed?
@@Arby1965 someone on discord told me but I don’t believe someone died now actually
So we don't run trains longer without a second place DPU we been riding them allot faster
Agreed
What just happened buddy
I think this train hit the back of another train.
In local reports, I032 had a misaligned switch and then struck L743-15 at the curve in Folkston GA
@@treysrailfanning1296 Yes
@southerncsxvlog oh wow that is bad accident
@@antoniowarren1343 Yep. It’s very bad and 3 are injured as of right now
So much for PTC....
Yep
Thank hod the crew is ok as we can all see PTC was a great waste of money!
The crew should be making a full recovery soon and the PTC is at fault
What does Holly Hell mean?
I’m not gonna use cuss words so I decided to put “HOLY HELL” to express shock & awe feelings to express it
@@southerncsxvlogSo your surprised that happened?
@@RAtheGoodRailfanner_888 YES, IT’S A LITERAL TRAIN HEAD ON COLLISION
@@southerncsxvlog You mean buddy or what still?
@@RAtheGoodRailfanner_888 What? Im saying it’s a “HEAD ON COLLISION”
In before VR copyright strikes (ew)
Here 🤚🏼
Oh my gosh. What caused this? 😳
It’s scary. CSX I032 struck L743-15 At 1:20PM just off camera on the Folkston, GA Railcam due to misaligned switch and PTC problems as well
@@southerncsxvlog just informed my viewers. Thank you for this video 👍
Glad the crew on board has non-life- threatening injuries
@@usa_rail_productions Alrighty. Your Welcome
@@southerncsxvlog PTC was apparently cut out (not operational) at the time of the incident because of ongoing signal maintenance. Somehow they were allowed to proceed as fast as they were despite all switches being lined manually. The switch wasn't manually set correctly so the train ended up on the wrong main colliding with the rock train.
@@HueyRailfanning Yep you are correct.
Wow What Happened Here train derailment.
Misaligned Switching & PTC Issues is why
Head on collision
@@BRIANumber7-RCandModels Yes
PTCs fault
Yep
What does balls mean?
Uhhhhh…. Idk about that one and something I shouldn’t talk about
@@southerncsxvlog*now isn't the time to ask that question
@@southerncsxvlog I was just curious about some words in different ways lol!
@@railfandepotproductions Agreed
@@southerncsxvlog Alright! Maybe another time possibly!
Not a good sound.
The scariest sound to be heard on the Rails
I suspect Alcohol might have some involvement
I don’t know about that one… I think it was the PTC that caused it & misalignment switching
@@southerncsxvlog MOW has PTC suspended because the switch was giving them problems all day.
@@darthvader43609 Yep. I heard about that one
@@southerncsxvlog well a similar accident happened in 2021
@@Elliottblancher What was it?
Isn't this from Virtual Railfan's camera?
Yes. I did credit the creator in the title above & was the first to publicly post a video about it
@southerncsxvlog Ah. Didn'tbsee the credit because it doesn't show up when the title is long. Thanks.
@@Big_Bag_of_Pus It’s Okay. Your welcome