Salem Illinois train derailment 48 years later
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- Amtrak's very 1st fatal disaster.
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Small critique: music is a bit loud in places, overpowering your narration.
Great video thank you
Thank you for stating that.
I do agree. If the music was lower it would be nice, I like the sound of it.
Agreed. The sound mixing needs help. At times the music overrode the voice-over.
I agree with some editing work he would blow up on yt
It’s a common complaint on this channel, which is a shame as this channel is otherwise rather good.
I have request it's not a well known crash at all but, it happened in Texas and is one of the worst crashes 13 people died. It happend in Forney Tx.
Please look into this.
Like if you want this to happen.
Forney, TX Train Crashes Into Truck, Aug 1929
Submitted by Stu Beitler
Texas | Train Wrecks and Accidents | 1929
13 MEMBERS OF TWO FAMILIES KILLED BY CRACK TEXAS TRAIN.
TRAIN HAD APPARENTLY STOPPED FOR SUNSHINE SPECIAL, THEN LURCHED FORWARD ONTO TRACKS, EYEWITNESS SAYS.
Dallas, Aug. 12 (AP) -- Joyously returning from a holiday in the city, 13 persons, members of two rural families, were killed by a fast passenger train at a grade crossing near here last night. A 14th was in a serious condition in a local hospital today.
A truck bearing them home from Dallas was struck by the Sunshine Special, Texas and Pacific train, and smashed.
The dead:
MRS. IVA BADGETT, 45.
ERA and VERA BADGETT, twins, 22.
TEXAS BADGETT, 15.
EMMA BADGETT, 19.
BIRDIE BADGETT, 8.
JESSIE BADGETT, 7.
MARY JOE BADGETT, 3.
E. F. McHENRY, 53.
MRS. ANNIE McHENRY, 43.
BEULAH McHENRY, 14.
EMMA McHENRY, 10.
BILLIE McHENRY, 4.
MARY LEE McHENRY, 17, was seriously injured.
A coroner's inquest at Mesquite was set for today.
For hours after the catastrophe, which took more lives than any other of its kind in Texas history, the torn bodies lay in a heap on the floor of an undertaker's establishment at Forney, Texas, while officials sought relatives of the victims in efforts at identification.
What caused the machine to jump into the path of the locomotive was not ascertained immediately. Claude Chapman of Mesquite, said to have been a eye witness, declared the truck was halted as if to await a train and then dashed on.
G. W. Garrett, a farmer living nearby, said he saw the train splinter the truck, which belonged to BADGETT, but could not tell who was driving or the reason for the collision.
The crossing itself was rather high and on a side road just off the Mesquite-Forney highway.
The Texas and Pacific company today started detailed investigation of the accident one of the worst grade crossing crashes in the hostory of Texas.
Engineer J. T. Vawter, who was in charge of the train, declared that he blew his whistle and it looked as if the truck had stopped. Suddenly, he said, the vehicle seemed to have leaped upon the rails in front of his train.
He said the passenger train was brought to a stop as quickly as possible without danger of buckling and causing some of the coaches to leave the track.
Passengers piled out of the train as soon as the cause for the sudden stop was learned and several women fainted as they viewed the badly torn bodies along the right-of-way.
A member of one body was found lodged on the front of the locomotive where the pilot was knocked off by the impact. The vehicle itself was stripped of its body, fenders and other parts. A body was seared badly when the remainder of the machine caught fire.
Sheets were obtained from the Pullman cars and the bodies were gathered from along the right of way ahd those of the McHENRY family were taken to Forney while the BADGETT family victims were removed to Mesquite.
Funeral arrangements for the victims were being completed today. The bodies of the McHENRYS will be taken to their old home in Paul's Valley, while members of the BADGETT family will be buried at Long Creek, near Mesquite.
The worst grade crossing accident before yesterday's in late years in Texas occurred near Round Rock in which 11 members of a Baylor university basketball team were killed.
Port Arthur News Texas 1929-08-12
"They wont shatter and send passengers out of the window like a missile"
That happened in the Amtrak 501 accident in 2017
You mean they were or weren't thrown out of the windows in that crash?
@@florjanbrudar692Were I think
I never knew that amtraks first disaster was in 1971
Nice job in history
You learn something new everyday
@@chrishines6048 yes
Nice. I actually requested this. He didn't mention that though.
You spelt Amtrak worng
Wrong*
Great video, though the music was too loud.
yes, it was
holy shit is that the creator of tornado simulator 2
My thoughts exactly.
alex_ander yo!
@Randy Wiesendanger
Then what was it?
As a video production student in college, the only advice I would give would be to lower the music volume so it's easier to hear you. And, as a rail fan myself, awesome video once again! Love the details and explanations to every video in this series!
Thank you for making this video! I am from nearby Centralia, Illinois; this is about 10 miles from Salem. I believe that this is the rail disaster that my great-grandfather was involved in. He was a conductor.
love the video but for the future can you please lower the background music a little.
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I personally remember this wreck. In June of 1971 I was finishing my schooling at a local hospital that some of the victims were taken. I remember xraying the engineer.
This was just Amtrak's first crash, nobody knew that there would still be many more accidents and lessons to learn in the future.
We can't see the future.so it so harder
Harrison La time traveler most aren’t Amtrak’s fault. Same can be said about every single railroad, airline or auto.
I read somewhere that the railroads that were turning over their equipment to Amtrak didn't bother to spend any time and money on maintenance and repairs, so they were often in poor mechanical condition.
@@oakrail8100 Watch Back To The Future...It's real. MJF knew he'd have Parkinsons and he said so in the movie
Yep a lot more
Love your videos man. Your content has gotten better with every video, keep it up.
Amtrak's first fatal accident. unbelievable. :O
breaking news Amtrak train number one has derailed at Salem Illinois, i am here with driver Nicholas fredirko, Nicholas, what can you tell us your side of the situation
@@Jaidyn228 oml lol-
"Perhaps it fixed itself!"
Ah when the check engine light comes on then goes off
You let the video get too loud and we could hardly hear you! Your voice is too soft! Can you fix it?
The term "hot box" actually refers to an axle bearing that has run dry of lubrication which would then overheat. It would not be caused by a flat spot on the wheel. Something is not right about your description of the derailment and why it happened.
1971 the collapse of the legacy steel companies and the industry as a whole was under way I post this because I caught a glimpse of a rail car loaded with coils most likely from USS Gary works.
I used to railfanning to New Orleans line all the time. Now CN runs the track
Wait, do they?
Yes it does. From my understanding the halfway point for the line from Chicago to New Orleans is either my hometown of Centralia,Illinois or just a little further south from me. I am only 15-20 minutes southwest of the location of this fatal train derailment.
who excited for the Armagh rail disaster documentary
That one red tank engine-bobby I am
Me Too
The music on your videos is often too loud for example at 1:05
Please please please, do the Paris Gare De Lyon runaway next!
YES!
Since you are having trouble in college, why don't you work for the railroad or be a narrator as a profession?
Great great video and narration although I live in Salem Ohio and we had a huge train wreck through our town in 1996/1997 can’t remember what year wiped out our old train station and caught two engines on fire. We still have all the old pictures and newspaper clippings from it too. Was a tragedy think it killed 2 engineers
Great video as always! :D Love watching em!
How to recreate this incident on a model railroad: 1 take a train and lower its knuckle to the point when it derails when it goes over a switch. 2 run the train with coaches at a speed greater then half. 3 watch it unfold.
Also still waiting for the D. C. Metro crash 10 years later
A hotbox isn't a locked wheel. A hotbox is an overheated wheel bearing that tends to catch fire.
You have to do the infamous FEC strike of the 60’s.
Great job on these train wreck documentaries. I have seen others on some of these wrecks like Chase, Maryland and the Cajon Pass wrecks, but you give much better ones with more details, like locomotive numbers, names, and aftermaths. I look forward to more in the future.
Never disappointed with your narration
Good video but sears tower wasnt finished in 1971.
hifijohn it was built in the 30s
JJMANNY 72 no it wasn’t. 1973 to be exact.
Everyone in the comments. Press H for honor and S for salute
No just type it out
Your Average Joe 2
Lmao
Your Average Joe 2
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@@alfaperson2290 nvm
@@scorpioengine4797 😂
Please lower the music of the video. I cannot hear you at points.
Other than that, great!
Violent, sad and tragic . Anyone agree 👍?
Thunder: the train derails me: yeah I picked up on that
My grandfather was best friends with the conductor that was killed in this event, Carol Fletcher. He too was with the IC and often was a conductor in the City of New Oreans.... My grandparents and the Fletchers bought ajoining lots at Lake Sara in Effingham in 1963. RIP Carol. I never meet you, but I have known you through the many stories my grandpa "Gabe" shared before his passing in 2016. Also, I agree, the music audio is too loud and often I cant understand what you are saying; please turn it down or take it off.
Great job pumping out videos quickly
Do you think you can do the camp creek train wreck?
I live in southern Illinois particularly Mount Vernon. SO this means southing to me.
Can‘t wait for this video
A sliding wheel set is NOT a "Hotbox" per se....(A hotbox is a burning or failed bearing on the axle.) Other than that, good report...20 years as railroad worker, I am supposed to know this stuff! ;-)
vonmazur1 that wasn’t even a constructive correction, it was more of you being a fucking emphasized ass. “I’m supposed to know this stuff ;-)”
I’ve been waiting for this video
Love this work and channel
Great video! I don’t know how you can upload almost every day. That’s awesome. 3:51 and 6:28 what is the music that you used? I really like it.
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Naruto Kaneki the link is not available :(
Can you write the name of the song?
Do the Magnolia, Mississippi crash/fire of 1961 on the City of New Orleans. It involved E8 4022 and 4105.
Me: Rides Amtrak
Also me: **chuckles** I’m in danger...
Chuckles, I'm also a fatality.
Brady Rinard, a ghost from one of Amtrak’s derailments...
Its not that dangerous.
The term Hotbox describes a situation where the bearings surface has run out of lubricating oil and generates a great deal of heat, begins to smoke, and ultimately catches fire igniting the "not so anymore" oil soaked rags inside the bearing house. A wheel with a large enough flat spot on it that prevents it from turning is not called hotbox.
A "hotbox" is NOT from flat spots on wheels, it's from the heating of a failing or failed axle bearing. If a flat spot causes a wheel to stop turning, there would be heating of the wheel on the spot where it's sliding on the rail. While that could cause a derailment, it's not the same as a hotbox, so named for the box on the trucks that held the journal bearing and oil in the old friction bearings, and carried over to the roller bearings now used.
Great video but as locomotive for CN RR the town Tonti, Illinois is pronounced like Ton-tie like a tie you wear
Just a note; Tonti is pronounced tawn-tie, not tanw-tee. It remains a timetable location today as it is a passing siding.
Do it over without the music. Music adds artificial drama, this video doesn't need that kind of help.
The music was over taking your voice I was unable to continue watching this video I am very sorry I had to give it a thumbs down
Salem in the 1600s: It's a witch!
Salem in the Early 2000s: The train crash is the work OF a witch!
The music is so f*****g loud I can't hear anything you say
I'm fine. Turn up the treble, maybe?
Good morning America how are you Illinois central Monday morning rail 15 cars 15 restless riders 3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail good morning America how are you I'm your son city of new Orleans ok fine I won't sing the WHOLE song
One of the engines is numbered “2024.”
Meanwhile, who’s watching in the year 2024?
Nice to learn about a event that was not to far away from where I live that I had no Idea about
Do the St.Paul train yard crash please please
Thumbs down because I couldn't hear the commentary over the loud music.
If you have to have music, play it very, very, very low volume in the background.
Nice documentary! Rest in peace to the 11 souls.
0:46 - City of New Orleans?! Willie Nelson wrote a song about it when the Illinois Central was still a thing!❤🎉😊
Do the head on crash in two harbors Minnesota
0:46 - City of New Orleans?! Willie Nelson wrote a song about it when the Illinois Central was still a thing! ❤🎉😊
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Please do the Grand Canyon limited acadent
3:49 *_F-ING HAM_*
E9 units have 567C engines in them. I've seen E8 units that had B and BC blocks in them plus ACL 501 at NCTM has a pair of 567A engines I believe in her. Also E units ranged from 1800hp (thus the E designation) on the EA/EB units all the way to 2400 on E9 units. And even if the unit was at least running but isolated, and the reverser switch gear unlocked it still wouldn't have had a working locked axle detector system because the prime mover for that particular axle would have been isolated anyway unless it had some sort of "aftermarket" locked axle detection system added later.
Riding on the city of New Orleans
Illinois central Monday morning rail
Man the city of New Orleans is a really unlucky name
How about the anniversary of the bridge collapse of 1876 on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern aka New York Central?
As stated below again: the music is much louder than your voice over. But why do you have to use that horrible music in the first place ????
funny you mention, Amtrak doesn't have the cleanest safety record, ..well, don't forget, airlines, automobiles, trucks, and ships
I love trains
me too 😀
The City of New Orleans is a service with a pretty poor history, I seem to recall that was the train that went into the bayou after a barge collision knocked one of the bridge decks out of line in conditions of heavy fog with a large loss of life. In that case it rather seems the strength of the coach windows may have led to increased loss of life as passengers were unable to break the windows to escape the sinking coaches...
The music is really loud.
"It all goes downhill from here."
What will Your next video on rail accidents be about and when where will it be? And do you think you'll do the 2013 Santiago de Compostela Derailment?
Love watching your videos but a little scary since I might be entering training for CSX
Small detail but the music is loud at certain points which makes it harder to hear you but another great video bro !
1:21 it feels now there i'm re-watching this video in 2024.
Great video man
A locked axle is not a hot box
Thank you Siren! LIRR Kew Gardens crash of 1950? It was the second deadliest in New York's history. I don't know the first crash. Again good stuff, and if you want to make it, it would be cool to see the Kew Gardens crash in the next five years or so. Thanks!
I grew up in Salem. My dad was an Illinois State Trooper and was the first emergency responder on scene. A family friend was farming near by and witnessed the derailment and called for emergency crews. This video does a very nice job of detailing the technical issues that caused the wreck. There is another story to tell about the impact of the derailment on the town of Salem, I’ll. Salem was a small town of roughly 6000 people in 1971. It didn’t have a local trauma center with capacity capacity to handle the casualties; 11 killed and 163 injured. But the local Civil Defense Unit, first responders and medical personnel did a miraculous job of triage and saving lives. Civil Defense was an active organization and partnered closely with government and healthcare officials to prepare for disasters of this type. Salem sits in what is known as Tornado Alley and much of the prep work was in anticipation of a tornado. And for the record, Tonti is pronounced with a long I. Truly appreciate the work you’ve done.
Wait so back in the 60s, this was the first ever Amtrak crash?😮
Super loud music again.😳😔
effingham
F-ing ham
F**KING HAM!!
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Every now and then a train goes by that has one axle hammering away like its wheels are D shaped....
RIP train that derailed in salem 1957-1971
What are the song titles? I actually like the music a lot.
Resurrect-tony Anderson
Do the Seattle Portland Train crash 2 years later
and rest in pieces #4106 & #2024 in their retirment
Despite the crash, Amtrak was still going with success even up to this day with their amazing trains. 1971 is also the year where my dad was born as a surprising part I want to tell you all. But anyways I’m still glad that the locomotives are still being maintained well for service for Amtrak trains.
The good reasons why, very bad track, before Illinois central closed up they could not repair bad track, which was almost all their tracks.
At 2:18 why was there no train crash sound effects?
Headphones don’t work might be just me or anyone else? Not a hate I love your vids keep it going 👍👏👏👏😀🙂
Now it has been 51 years since the train derailment
Been wondering why i haven't heard form this channel in a while, turns out i never clicked that bell icon. It's clicked now.
can you make the music a bit louder i cant really hear it
some of the audio from the amtrak videos can be heard at the end. you need to work on that. but great video nonetheless
Subbed, good channel man :D
The one thing that this guy needs to make his videos perfect is for him to spend some money on a good microphone.
True.