@Vladimir poopin Don't count out all thes Chinese immigrant refugees crossing the southern borders now. Bet they are quite familiar with toxic ground water.
@@dangeary2134 That is correct. Typically lower speed track involves more switching activity & that increases chances of minor incidents. Failures per ton mile on most Class 1 lines is a relatively rare event in terms of trains run & more so now, ton/miles..
Britannica Dictionary definition of ENVIRONMENT 1 : the conditions that surround someone or something : the conditions and influences that affect the growth, health, progress, etc., of someone or something... In other words, the world around him. Good thing he didn't have his earbuds crammed in his ears and turned up so loud he couldn't hear an atom bomb go off, let alone the change in sound of a broken rail
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing. If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time. I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)... ....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
ALL the train tracks need to be vigilant about inspections of train tracks! Everyone who can should participate. This man is a hero, hopefully his community honors him!
As if the rail industry doesn't have Trains that have Cameras on the front to monitor Damage tracks and even an AI system to document it...that wasn't rust...it was cut... Thermochemically...
@@sommebuddy yup, I noticed the crack was just to the right of a thermite weld. The date was probably when it was last inspected or the date of when the track was thermite welded.
I am impressed that he noticed the sound change and took the initiative to go investigate it. Most people would not bother and then be surprised when the train comes thru their house.
@@DONTSTEPNSNEK507 no we're not. There number of train derailments are about the same as they have been for well over a decade. In fact, they are down a lot if you compare them to pre mid-2000's for some reason. Did you check out those stats, Ernesto? I'm guessing you didn't bother to see if there was an actual uptick, right? Also, in this case, you can see the break is where the tracks were welded. Did you look up what it looks like when a track weld breaks? Did you look up how tracks are welded? Why not? Do you think that's useful information? Did you ask yourself why the railroad isn't saying it was an terrorist doing it? Why wouldn't they come out with that information so that their maintenance doesn't come under fire? And why wouldn't any take credit for it if it was done maliciously? Did you ask yourself any of those questions? If not, why not?
Looking at the condition of the ties at the break, they are years past their replacement date. As a qualified track inspector, I would have had a crew out there long ago. Rails don't break that easily. They have to either lack support or have an internal flaw, or both. The condition of the rail suggests to me that there was a wheel slip by a locomotive right there, when starting a stopped train. The resulting burn caused a weak spot in the head of the rail and eventually the hammering of passing wheels caused a V shaped chunk of the rail to pop out. The crack quickly propagated downward through the web and the base. All of the major railroads in the US have an unacceptable backlog of deferred maintenance in track and cars and that is causing the derailments that have been happening.
Since you are a track inspector I’ll post here rather than making a new comment. 1. I agree on condition of ties! I’ve used old ties that were replaced for projects, most looked better than that. 2. The area just to left of cracks looks like a weld to me. Having done some welding I know a welded piece is likely to crack right next to the weld, especially if proper pre heat / post heat stress relieving is not done correctly. 3. When the tugboat / barge hit the bayou bridge and bent the rails 3 feet out of position, causing the horrible Amtrak crash, they said the alarm was NOT triggered because the rail was not broken so the electric circuit was maintained. Why did this rail, obviously fully broken, not trigger that alarm?
@@Bitterrootbackroadsit obviously isn't track circuited signalling which would have shown occupied in that condition. The lineman wouldn't have been able to pass electrical current to "lift" the relay for the circuit. Possibly axle counter (mag heads count axles in & out of block). This being one of the risks of that tech. You could lift the rails and leave the cable and signal trains into it. Or it's just manually signalled.
I know it’s everyone’s public duty to call something like this in because of safety concerns but the railroad should do something for this person he saved lives and tons of money being paid out
@All Law The stat I found said there is about 3 per year nation wide and not all derailments are catastrophic. A trian can derail and just get stuck where it's at with out a wave of destruction happening. Obviously this usually at low speed and in a train yard. it's when the train is going fast you need to worry and sometimes it's caused by a wheel strut failing, not just the track.😅
@All Law but not all train derailments are bad . Just an axle coming off is considered a derailment. Even if it goes back on without incident. Trains are still the safest and most cost effective way to transport these typified goods. Major derailments don’t happen much. Especially for the amount of stuff going down the track.
@@DanO530.8 I guess even though there's very few plane crashes over all, the death toll on them is quite large which tends to make them a bigger story. I imagine most train derailments are trains moving goods and materials.
As already mentioned a majority of the derailments don't result in crashes, but any derailment does risk one or more cars leaving the tracks completely and thus needs to be investigated and repaired ASAP.
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing. If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time. I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)... ....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
@@Stacy_Smith a person can get in trouble quick for hiking tracks around here, NW Arkansas. Kansas City Southern owns the tracks through my town but they are used by multiple companies’ locomotives and stock. The siding goes all the way across town so traffic is heavy and often moving fast. Not to mention most trains are long and heavy, often with three locomotives and extra power units. Fortunately my town council keeps up with track conditions as a matter of town safety.
That track looks like it was cut with a torch. If you look closely at the top of the track it seems this is where the torch would have started it's cutting after the preheating. Once you're cutting just keep blowing and going straight down like you see here. This doesn't look like a crack at all to me.
Here’s an idea for a story- Get out there and film the repair crew fixing it, ask THEM how & why it broke. Learn something about thermite welding of rails. I can’t believe the number of comments from experts claiming they know all about metal work telling us how it was cut with a torch as opposed to cracking. They must think the saboteurs brought a vacuum cleaner with and cleaned up all the slag?
Wild that some average Joe noticed by sound that something was off and not the people who work on the trains daily. Although I'm getting the impression that these companies don't like hearing about problems.
Many years ago my father was a fire lieutenant in a large city north of Boston Massachusetts. A number of times they had tanker car derailments that involved leakage of hydrochloric acid, Being he was on the safety committee he wrote a letter to Guilford Transportation Industries on the poor condition of the tracks. He received a letter from the railroad basically telling him to mind his business. They don’t care about safety!!!!!
the only workers that would be aware would be MOW or passengers on Amtrak ... the front end crew on freight would never hear anything as they would be pass the cause .... !
@@pearl_kill_Gaming Actually that happened during the Obama administration but the lies Pete and Joe tell are nothing but that. Just keep carrying the water and get some help with that TDS.
Broken rail is more common than you think, temperature change especially in the very cold weather causes Broken rail easier. Rail running in the cold weather causes it to separate at joints.
I live on tracks...and I can say I know when it's full..when it's empty,which way it is traveling without ever opening my eyes. The sound becomes part of the day and night... .and I'd be able to tell by sound if something was off Kudos to this gentleman
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing. If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time. I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)... ....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
@@Stacy_Smith after the derailments they have had lately, there is no way they would charge someone doing their job. If they did it would not be prosecuted. If they tried any good lawyer would win that case in front of a jury.
@@Stacy_Smith I seriously highly doubt anything would stick in Ohio now. It would be stupid for them to even try to charge someone for doing their job there. At least in front of a jury.
Geez, that's something I would not want to get used to lol. I get what you're saying somewhat though because I live just off of interstate 90. Noise is just always present and I love when heavy snow storms hit because it's the only time of complete silence.
Yea my Grandpa had a house with tracks in his backyard only 45-50ft. Away from his and all his close neighbor’s houses and you can definitely hear a difference if something is wrong or different with the track. It takes a while to get used to two or three trains running through your backyard everyday but once you do, you really get used to it.
@@davepowell7168 it can take days. Early in my railroad career we had an RFD vehicle inspect the rails and passed. Roughly a week later the track inspector found a the beginnings of a break in a rail in a curve. The BTMF crew I was on at the time had to replace approximately 300 ft of rail about 150 feet on each side of that break.
@@gandydancer823 Thanks for your obviously educated insight. My experience was from a Naval base rail which was slow moving and the ship to shore dockside crane rail Don't electronic sensors detect this at speed?
haha i used to date a girl right beside a train track, the house would be extremely shaky, all the dishes and wall orniments would all rattle every time the train went by. She could sleep right through the late night ones too, I guess you get used to it.
The lord sure is wise, he knows to take credit only when something good happens, when something bad happens he just looks the other way and washes his hands clean. Politicians particularly seem to have learned a lot from the lord's wisdom, they are doing so well following in the lord's footsteps. 😌
@@mechveteran01 what about the idea that the break is exactly where a weld would be on the track? I suggest looking up videos on track welding before forming the opinion that it was an intentional act.
It looks like it was cut rather than cracked. There's a visible V groove in it. I wonder if the tracks where the other trains derailed had such damage.
What I want to know is why the signals on either end of the section with the cracked rail didn't automatically change to a red aspect when the crack occurred - train signals are powered by electricity flowing through the rails, and whenever there's an interruption in that circuit, they're supposed to change to red on either end of the interruption to help to prevent an incident.
I don’t think the actual electricity to run the signals runs through the rails, but they DO send impulses more like a telegraph signal through rails that is supposed to be interrupted if a rail breaks and trigger an alarm. Remember the barge that hit the bridge in the bayou? Rails were bent 3 feet and they claimed a little harder hit that would have broken rail would have triggered an alarm. Amtrak in swamp with many dead that time.
Why do idiots have to make everything into some grand conspiracy, not every bad thing that happens is the fault of magic evil people. The US has awful infrastructure thats decaying and has been for close to 70 years now, not at all shocking to think with how poorly everything is maintained that now theres starting to be massive disasters from it.
All rail companies have cut back on, or eliminated entirely what used to be track "section men" which were each responsible for a 25 mi section of railbed. That was back when I was a teen, more than 40 years ago.
The chalk marking on the rail seems to indicate the date 07-31-22. Is it common for an RR to find an issue like this and wait so long to fix it, or is this story a re-post from a repair that was completed last year?
I live near csx and amtrack lines. People often get sighted for trusspassing for walking along the tracks as a short cut. I'am glad this man found that flaw in the rail. This prevented a major derailment. But I'am surprised that he wasn't reprimanded for trusspassing.
Given the circumstance, I'm sure the courts would be pretty lenient on him, for inspecting and reporting a legitimate problem like this. Once the jury sees the photographs of the track rail, he would be acquitted.
The track fractured and the section behind the tie would droop under weight causing the wheels to smack into the supported section. Very alert resident is a hero. I doubt the train crew heard or felt it. Kudos dude!
@@markrobinowitz8473 Not commenting on rail maintenance - but it is true maintenance is neglected for profits in other cases. PG&E starting thousands of wildfires in California...the company is a convicted felon now after killing more than 85 people in the Camp fire. They're on trial for others like the Zogg now too.
unlikely. If there was a belief it was deliberately cut, then these rail company would be putting it out there to avoid being blamed for poor maintenance. I think you're just looking for a reason to have it support whatever theories you've had about the others. I ask you this, can you explain exactly what makes you think it's deliberate? I thought that maybe it looks like someone took a cutting torch or something to do it, but I don't know enough about rails or cutting metal to come to such a conclusion. I would think that the rail company would be quick to point out that someone is doing that. Maybe it was a failed previous repair?
Have you worked on the railroad before this was a once n a lifetime find you probably don’t know anything about the railroad and or track maintenance to be out there saying what needs to be fixed 😅😅😅😅
Good ideah, and who raises money for bail when your arrested??? Who pays your funeral when your hit??? It's private property just like your property....
This is a true story: I was walking along the RR tracks in a rural area in WA state when I came upon some spikes between the rails. I noticed right away that they had been pulled up from the ties, that someone was trying to derail a train. I called immediately to the local police, who called BNSF to hold all traffic until it could be investigated. They investigated ME. After the investigation I was issued a citation for criminal trespass. I had to go to federal court in Seattle where the judge dismissed the charge. The sheriff's deputy, whom I called as a witness, could not believe that this had happened. Like the saying goes, "no good deed goes unpunished".
Reminds me of the Murdaugh case. Cops sometimes decide their job is “just arrest whoever reported the crime” because that’s way easier than finding a sophisticated criminal.
Maybe they thought you knew too much. I feel the many recent derailment$ have been intentional. Perhaps the p0lice in your area (BN$F) were already aware of the crime.
@@andreabontempo643 Two cops came to my house, one was local and the other one was federal, and they played good cop/bad cop with me. The "good" cop said he would help me out if I confessed but the federal cop (FBI if I remember correctly) said I was going to prison for a long, long time. I was scared. As they walked out of my home they said they would be back but they never came back. Meanwhile, I sweated it out thinking I was going to prison any day. I told the judge that they made my life a living hell for around three months and he said "don't worry, I'm dismissing this case". I never felt so relieved of anything in my life! Moral of the story: Just let the train crash next time.
Ok. So I'm a metal fabricator, and been doing it for over 30 years. And I know exactly what a oxy-acetylene torch does to metal. And that is exactly what caused the gouge in the material at the top of that rail. Then you can clearly see the "bluing" down the side of the rail where somebody intentionally weaked the metal so it would crack when pressure was applied to it. This was a deliberate act to derail a train. The ones responsible just never thought about the resident thats lived on those tracks their entire life and knew the difference in pitch between two rails meeting and a terrorist act. This is just beyond blatant to anyone that has worked with metal before. It would have taken a while to cut that much material out and then turn the rest of that rail cherry red to weaken it like that.
We check our track?! If you did you'd see the crack without having someone tell you. I miss seeing those pick up truck that drove up and down the tracks. Always Wonder what they were for, and now I don't see them as often as I used too, but now I'm pretty sure they checked the tracks.
@@garycallihan4206 that is completely false our railroad workers are underpaid and they work without any sick days. These guys go to work sick and tired all the time because the railroads work them to death. Do your research before making assumptions.
The railroads do check their track. If you understand how our railroads operate you’d understand that a wheel on a railcar or locomotive would not derail on a crack that small. Still a good thing for that neighbor to check that but there’s a thing called “jointed rail” where the rails are separated and held in place by using fishplates. That’s where the “clickety-clack” comes from
its not really scary there is a old archival video of a US army test on youtube from 1944, look for "US army derailment test" they tested what it takes to get a train off the tracks, and its actually really suprising how big of a hole trains can pass without issue in the end they needed a 58" gap to do the job... and that only worked on empty train cars
same thing happened behind my old apartment in annville pa on a Norfolk southern track when I found a big gouge shaped like a wheel ... I called and the track was checked , shutdown , and fixed the next day
Somebody burned that with a torch. And yes, the cutting of metal with a torch is called "burning" because that is what it is. Iron doesn't burn under normal fire conditions but if it is hot enough, and there is enough oxygen it will burn. That's what the torch does. It heats the metal, then a stream of oxygen is added to start the metal burning and to blow the burnt metal out of the way.
I could never live that close to the tracks. I lived 1/4 mile away in one house, and that was too close when the feds forced the railroads to blow their horns 4 times at each crossing, 24/7/365.
I agree: I'm perfectly alright with the roar of the locomotive engines and rumble of the train coming through. What wakes me up are the train horns! If you have to live near railroad tracks, just hope your house isn't near a railroad crossing. The flashing lights, ringing bells and train horns would be too much!
If you are able to detect that, you are living dangerously. The metal split for some reason, probably due to stress caused by unstable substrate and deteriorated ties. They eliminated the symptom but not the root cause. Those wooden ties are pretty worn out.
Because trains don’t detail other places, do they?? Your comment has nothing to do with the situation. You just saw the town you are from & wanted to comment to get attention. If you hate it so much, why waste your time commenting on anything happening there? Did you get the attention you needed?
@@SMaamri78 Umm, you mistook my comment. I wasn't being sarcastic. I meant it. Believe me, MY vote didn't put California in the crapper. What put it there, is what put our country where it is now. Criminals and corruption. IfI lived there, I'd find any means oossible to get out!
Hopefully the infrastructure bill that was passed last year can be used to fix our nation's track. We shouldn't have to depend on citizens to inspect the tracks.
*It's actually quite common for a fracture to develop right next to a weld joint* Especially when rail is now cheap import made from used bed-angle and not from Bethlehem Steel!
If one tries to weld cast iron they know a crack is most likely to show up right along the edge of the weld like this. I know rail is NOT cast iron, but you’re correct, any impurities, or even improper heat treat / annealing could leave a brittle spot bound to fail like that.
I've walked a lot of railroad tracks but never saw anything like this. I can only imagine it was caused by the rail flexing up when it was being pushed down on both sides. For me, just changing the rail won't do it, needing to level that part of the track.
@@VictorLarsen-fy9ls you must be British, because here in the States, (across the pond), they are called ties, and yes, ive seen plenty of them in my neck of the woods, and i am sure there are kazillions of them, because the U.S. railroads are more interested in making profits rather than maintaining the track and cars, which leads to costly and dangerous derailments.
That looks like a Thermite sabotage of the train track. Sorry this is NOT all a coincidence. I used to work at the railroad, Those rails last FOREVER especially when greased. That was a purely Sabotage, Go look up what Thermite can do! Also you can make it from stuff at the store.
Class1 freight railroads have been putting profits over maintenance for decades. Taking tracks out of service = less $. Good catch and thanks for raising the red flag!
Yeah they have, no CEO wants to be the one that cost the company millions in update/maintenance costs, they all want to be known as the one that brought record profits for the shareholders.
@@sommebuddy they are stable and don't make a whole lot, only 2% dividend payouts on average. I wouldn't invest in them unless I was far older than I am and about to retire.
I live near Union Pacific tracks in in Iowa, you can hear what normal track sounds are, when there is an issue with a locomotive or car and when the track is off. They are probably the more reliable when it comes to taking care of the tracks that run through or near residential area's
Those folks live awfully close to those train tracks, even worse is living below them. I couldn’t sleep with all the recent derailments. The railroad or city ought to purchase those properties and turn the area into a park. Or at least be mandated to inspect those tracks weekly/monthly. *Anywhere trains go above homes should be inspected thoroughly every single month regardless* .
I get the concern and am happy it's fixed. I drove a train for 12 years and it's actually surprising how large of a gap it takes to derail a train. A documentary I watched about WW2 mentioned experiments to derail trains back then and it was more than a foot on straightaways. When we derailed, it was usually at a switch or at a grade crossing in the winter with an empty rolling over first. Not having enough weight to cut through the ice inside of the rail so the inner brim came up and over the rail.
So what you are saying is the gaping crack in the rail shouldn't have been fixed til it was large enough? You know that abrupt changes in temperature or even the constant vibrations can very quickly cause that to happen?
Probably intentionally done to cause more toxic materials to spread into our neighborhoods and waterways. This man listened to his gut and checked things out. Most people would've dismissed this and there would have been toxic consequences. These railroads need to be looking at the tracks daily to keep us safe. These derailments shouldn't be happening at all!
All trains should have a system with sensors (ultrasonic, accelerometers, any other type) hovering over the tracks, collecting and logging data for safety evaluation! A system not only could be installed on any locomotive (old or new) but it save tons of money and lives!
@@BossSpringsteen69 its was also a drama seen of the bugs bunny and daffy duck show. Bug was on the train from nyc to California. Daffy was on the tracks with a stick of ACME dynamite stick. The duck empty the dynamite powder on to the rail tracks . Then strike a match to burn the rails like you see in this video. Real termite
do idiots have to make everything into some grand conspiracy, not every bad thing that happens is the fault of magic evil people. The US has awful infrastructure thats decaying and has been for close to 70 years now, not at all shocking to think with how poorly everything is maintained that now theres starting to be massive disasters from it.
Congratulations to that home owner that heard the difference in the sound of the train AND went to investigate and report back.
Sabotage that track was cut with ax . Domestic terrorists
I’d love to see the layout in that guy’s basement!!!
theyre supposed to have inspectors for this kind of thing. wonder where your taxes go.
@@cartermcafee1142 do you really think they cut a train track with an axe?
@Vladimir poopin Don't count out all thes Chinese immigrant refugees crossing the southern borders now. Bet they are quite familiar with toxic ground water.
It's so rare to hear stories about derailments that don't happen.
True, but nonetheless, they happen every single day.
@@rjb5847 fortunately, most happen on spurs and short lines where the trains are not moving very fast.
@@dangeary2134 in the 70s a train could derail standing still but today that's rare now but you never know it could happen.
@@dangeary2134 That is correct. Typically lower speed track involves more switching activity & that increases chances of minor incidents. Failures per ton mile on most Class 1 lines is a relatively rare event in terms of trains run & more so now, ton/miles..
@@brendenburke272 it just happened in Massachusetts last week.
Thank heavens for a man who listens to his environment and saves lives to boot!
More like listening to change in metal. What the heck with the environment comment.
Noise change in the environment around us, maybe?
@@Greenpeppersandeggs ok
Britannica Dictionary definition of ENVIRONMENT 1 : the conditions that surround someone or something : the conditions and influences that affect the growth, health, progress, etc., of someone or something...
In other words, the world around him.
Good thing he didn't have his earbuds crammed in his ears and turned up so loud he couldn't hear an atom bomb go off, let alone the change in sound of a broken rail
@@Savetheworldfirebidennow Are you really that shook by the word environment?
This man is a small hero, and he very well might have saved many lives.
Big hero
*Yeah A Big Time Hero* 🌟👍🌟
Yes for real. Even the train driver
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing.
If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time.
I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)...
....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
@@sommebuddy those trains themselves are not just deadly inertia missiles, what they carry can be toxic or explosive and even classified materials.
ALL the train tracks need to be vigilant about inspections of train tracks! Everyone who can should participate. This man is a hero, hopefully his community honors him!
As if the rail industry doesn't have Trains that have Cameras on the front to monitor Damage tracks and even an AI system to document it...that wasn't rust...it was cut... Thermochemically...
This was a very obvious cut with a torch, I been in metal working for over 10 years. Look at the discolouration and how smooth the "crack" was
@@jpborths2 I believe this is a new form of terrorism.. we have to watch and guard our tracks now. I wonder if our planes are next
@@sommebuddy yup, I noticed the crack was just to the right of a thermite weld. The date was probably when it was last inspected or the date of when the track was thermite welded.
@@madmax2069 until socialism ends though got to assume things like this are sabotage..
Makes sense. After living years hearing a particular noise and it suddenly change. Good that he acted on it.
I am impressed that he noticed the sound change and took the initiative to go investigate it. Most people would not bother and then be surprised when the train comes thru their house.
@@smo-guiver8315 there is no way I'd think anything of it myself. I mean, unless it was a very drastic change.
WE ARE UNDER ATTACK
@@DONTSTEPNSNEK507 no we're not. There number of train derailments are about the same as they have been for well over a decade. In fact, they are down a lot if you compare them to pre mid-2000's for some reason. Did you check out those stats, Ernesto? I'm guessing you didn't bother to see if there was an actual uptick, right?
Also, in this case, you can see the break is where the tracks were welded. Did you look up what it looks like when a track weld breaks? Did you look up how tracks are welded? Why not? Do you think that's useful information? Did you ask yourself why the railroad isn't saying it was an terrorist doing it? Why wouldn't they come out with that information so that their maintenance doesn't come under fire? And why wouldn't any take credit for it if it was done maliciously? Did you ask yourself any of those questions? If not, why not?
@@Chris-Christopher- yea sure robot 🤖
Looking at the condition of the ties at the break, they are years past their replacement date. As a qualified track inspector, I would have had a crew out there long ago. Rails don't break that easily. They have to either lack support or have an internal flaw, or both. The condition of the rail suggests to me that there was a wheel slip by a locomotive right there, when starting a stopped train. The resulting burn caused a weak spot in the head of the rail and eventually the hammering of passing wheels caused a V shaped chunk of the rail to pop out. The crack quickly propagated downward through the web and the base. All of the major railroads in the US have an unacceptable backlog of deferred maintenance in track and cars and that is causing the derailments that have been happening.
The ties do look crappy. I wonder what the speed is on that section track? I suspect this line is not signalled too.
Since you are a track inspector I’ll post here rather than making a new comment.
1. I agree on condition of ties! I’ve used old ties that were replaced for projects, most looked better than that.
2. The area just to left of cracks looks like a weld to me. Having done some welding I know a welded piece is likely to crack right next to the weld, especially if proper pre heat / post heat stress relieving is not done correctly.
3. When the tugboat / barge hit the bayou bridge and bent the rails 3 feet out of position, causing the horrible Amtrak crash, they said the alarm was NOT triggered because the rail was not broken so the electric circuit was maintained. Why did this rail, obviously fully broken, not trigger that alarm?
@@Bitterrootbackroadsit obviously isn't track circuited signalling which would have shown occupied in that condition. The lineman wouldn't have been able to pass electrical current to "lift" the relay for the circuit. Possibly axle counter (mag heads count axles in & out of block). This being one of the risks of that tech. You could lift the rails and leave the cable and signal trains into it. Or it's just manually signalled.
I was thinking a bad weld that dislodged--but sounds like you have a lot more experience with this...good explanation.
wow that makes sense, before i saw this thought it looked like it was cut! although seems odd they were stopped right behind those peoples houses....
I know it’s everyone’s public duty to call something like this in because of safety concerns but the railroad should do something for this person he saved lives and tons of money being paid out
@All Law wow that’s a lot you only hear about planes for the most part
@All Law The stat I found said there is about 3 per year nation wide and not all derailments are catastrophic. A trian can derail and just get stuck where it's at with out a wave of destruction happening. Obviously this usually at low speed and in a train yard. it's when the train is going fast you need to worry and sometimes it's caused by a wheel strut failing, not just the track.😅
@All Law but not all train derailments are bad . Just an axle coming off is considered a derailment. Even if it goes back on without incident. Trains are still the safest and most cost effective way to transport these typified goods. Major derailments don’t happen much. Especially for the amount of stuff going down the track.
@@DanO530.8 I guess even though there's very few plane crashes over all, the death toll on them is quite large which tends to make them a bigger story. I imagine most train derailments are trains moving goods and materials.
As already mentioned a majority of the derailments don't result in crashes, but any derailment does risk one or more cars leaving the tracks completely and thus needs to be investigated and repaired ASAP.
THIS is not a broken track, it's sabotage. It seems someone has figured out how much we depend on our rail system.
Kudos to him for checking it out and reporting. I’ve lived within a few hundred yards of a tracking and siding for several years.
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing.
If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time.
I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)...
....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
@@Stacy_Smith a person can get in trouble quick for hiking tracks around here, NW Arkansas. Kansas City Southern owns the tracks through my town but they are used by multiple companies’ locomotives and stock. The siding goes all the way across town so traffic is heavy and often moving fast. Not to mention most trains are long and heavy, often with three locomotives and extra power units. Fortunately my town council keeps up with track conditions as a matter of town safety.
@alllaw3862 That would mean 4.8 train derailments per day. Stop spreading miss-information
@@machintrucGaming derailments aren't always catastrophic, they often occur at low speeds in yards and are fairly common
@All Law i bet he thinks it's "fake news" lol
Really good situational awareness.
That track looks like it was cut with a torch. If you look closely at the top of the track it seems this is where the torch would have started it's cutting after the preheating. Once you're cutting just keep blowing and going straight down like you see here. This doesn't look like a crack at all to me.
Yeah, that not a fracture....its looks molten.....
OK, but not an open-air jet fuel fire, that isn't nearly hot enough. Steel-cutting torches must somehow produce more heat.
Exactly what I said. Somebody cut it.
you're not a metallurgist, are you
@@frankmacleod2565
Don't have to be to tell that's melted and not broke.
Here’s an idea for a story- Get out there and film the repair crew fixing it, ask THEM how & why it broke. Learn something about thermite welding of rails. I can’t believe the number of comments from experts claiming they know all about metal work telling us how it was cut with a torch as opposed to cracking. They must think the saboteurs brought a vacuum cleaner with and cleaned up all the slag?
Totally!
Give this neighbor a medal 🎉 Union Pacific should reward him
Wild that some average Joe noticed by sound that something was off and not the people who work on the trains daily. Although I'm getting the impression that these companies don't like hearing about problems.
These tracks are ancient.
@@GT-mn3bx They’re especially ancient down south
Many years ago my father was a fire lieutenant in a large city north of Boston Massachusetts. A number of times they had tanker car derailments that involved leakage of hydrochloric acid, Being he was on the safety committee he wrote a letter to Guilford Transportation Industries on the poor condition of the tracks. He received a letter from the railroad basically telling him to mind his business. They don’t care about safety!!!!!
the only workers that would be aware would be MOW or passengers on Amtrak ... the front end crew on freight would never hear anything as they would be pass the cause .... !
You think people (like all 2 of them) who are sitting right next to a loud engine are going to notice the sound of wheels?
Maintenance is expensive and repairing old rails is obviously less important than overpaid CEOs.
Can you prove this rail is old?
Just deregulate. Trumps plan
@@BossSpringsteen69 the break in the steel... maybe.. the thing that is right in front of your fuggin face? Maybe?
@@pearl_kill_Gaming Actually that happened during the Obama administration but the lies Pete and Joe tell are nothing but that. Just keep carrying the water and get some help with that TDS.
@@pearl_kill_Gaming 3 years later and you still cant get Trump off your mind lol
Your mind adapts to noise ...when the sound is off, it's like an instrument that needs to be noticeably tuned. Audible. Amen and smart man!!
Broken rail is more common than you think, temperature change especially in the very cold weather causes Broken rail easier. Rail running in the cold weather causes it to separate at joints.
I live on tracks...and I can say I know when it's full..when it's empty,which way it is traveling without ever opening my eyes. The sound becomes part of the day and night...
.and I'd be able to tell by sound if something was off
Kudos to this gentleman
RIGHT, even if you don't know "what" is off all you need to know is that "something" is off. The problem is that IF you get caught inspecting it they CAN, doesn't mean they will, but they CAN, prosecute you for trespassing.
If you hear something that sounds a little off call the railroad before inspecting. Good Samaritans get hemmed up all the time.
I know this for a fact because Baltimore & Ohio has called in on me and my friends hiking the tracks back in the day. (About 30yr ago)...
....and no there wasn't any close call or sabotage, we were just hiking.
@@Stacy_Smith after the derailments they have had lately, there is no way they would charge someone doing their job. If they did it would not be prosecuted. If they tried any good lawyer would win that case in front of a jury.
@@Stacy_Smith I seriously highly doubt anything would stick in Ohio now. It would be stupid for them to even try to charge someone for doing their job there. At least in front of a jury.
Geez, that's something I would not want to get used to lol. I get what you're saying somewhat though because I live just off of interstate 90. Noise is just always present and I love when heavy snow storms hit because it's the only time of complete silence.
Yea my Grandpa had a house with tracks in his backyard only 45-50ft. Away from his and all his close neighbor’s houses and you can definitely hear a difference if something is wrong or different with the track. It takes a while to get used to two or three trains running through your backyard everyday but once you do, you really get used to it.
As a locomotive engineer those folks need to move . Way to close to the tracks.
Yeah that very image is frightening. Watch "Disaster on Duffy Street" documentary. I will NEVER live near tracks again!
Vertical break less than 3 inches good for ten mph. If it is class 4 or higher it is twice a week inspection requirement.
@@gandydancer823 That fracture didn't happen overnight.. cracking years ago
@@davepowell7168 it can take days. Early in my railroad career we had an RFD vehicle inspect the rails and passed. Roughly a week later the track inspector found a the beginnings of a break in a rail in a curve. The BTMF crew I was on at the time had to replace approximately 300 ft of rail about 150 feet on each side of that break.
@@gandydancer823 Thanks for your obviously educated insight. My experience was from a Naval base rail which was slow moving and the ship to shore dockside crane rail
Don't electronic sensors detect this at speed?
I can't imagine living THAT close to an active rail line.
Its exciting!
It's fun.....but that's just me i guess, have the vast majority of my life.
to a railfan that's awesome
@@sommebuddy 😂
haha i used to date a girl right beside a train track, the house would be extremely shaky, all the dishes and wall orniments would all rattle every time the train went by. She could sleep right through the late night ones too, I guess you get used to it.
That man just saved a lot of people
Well done. That's what we all need to do. Take notice what's around you. She saved someone.
Dude should get a reward cause he potentially saved millions of dollars and 100s and possibly 1000s of lives
Reward that man with year supply of ear plugs!
Well done , very happy this was found before it became a disaster 🙏🏼
@All Law Because they move millions of cars daily, hump yards,and flat switching yards are the main culprits, main line derailments are rare.
They should give him a reward for spotting that!!!
He probably get extra taxes for stopping the governments shenanigans🙄
@@ronboerste1813 ❤🎉
Yeah they’ll drop his rent to 2800$ i stead of 3000$ 🔥!
He'll get sued for trespassing on railroad property.
If they aren’t trying to fix the railroads, what makes you think they’d reward him? 😂
Done on purpose to derail another train. This is happening daily
Ok so this is my means of transportation to and from my family. I'm so grateful for his ears. I travel the rails because of those sounds. Thank you.
It takes all of us to stop disaster from happening by being observant! Look, Listen, find....report!
snitch
Train transportation makes billions and they can't pay people to check them themselves is comedic
Word on the street is they cut a massive amount of staff that repairs tracks and trains. .its on the net if u know where 2 get the real news.
@@rubenrendon711 they do check it but we can find it faster
@@sommebuddy there has been lots of heigh profile train accidents lately 2 be concerned about. I live 20 miles away and they go at least 15mph agree
The government say's "HOW DARE YOU" stop our shenanigans🤔
LoL
Praise the Lord this man noticed. He literally saved lives
Why praise the lord when the man did it?
Always praise the lord.
@@john._blazedrula LMFAO, what one?
The lord sure is wise, he knows to take credit only when something good happens, when something bad happens he just looks the other way and washes his hands clean. Politicians particularly seem to have learned a lot from the lord's wisdom, they are doing so well following in the lord's footsteps. 😌
AnD even stopped the Terrorist That have been tagging are Country ! that are Some are helping !
I'm no train track expert but that looks intentional and very recent if you ask me.
My first thought as well. Looks like it was done with an oxy/acetylene cutting torch.
@@gawkingwatches7988 agreed 100%
@@mechveteran01 what about the idea that the break is exactly where a weld would be on the track? I suggest looking up videos on track welding before forming the opinion that it was an intentional act.
i agree, i don't trust the media that this was natural.
Thermite
It looks like it was cut rather than cracked.
There's a visible V groove in it.
I wonder if the tracks where the other trains derailed had such damage.
Possibly laser.
@@yaiburanakul8505 A blue laser from a Jewish satellite?
How did that happen those things just don't crack like that by themselves
What I want to know is why the signals on either end of the section with the cracked rail didn't automatically change to a red aspect when the crack occurred - train signals are powered by electricity flowing through the rails, and whenever there's an interruption in that circuit, they're supposed to change to red on either end of the interruption to help to prevent an incident.
is it dark territory or is it signalled? next question if signaled, what kind of signalling system?
@@omrail oh, gee, I didn't even think about it maybe being dark (unsignaled) territory - I dunno!
I don’t think the actual electricity to run the signals runs through the rails, but they DO send impulses more like a telegraph signal through rails that is supposed to be interrupted if a rail breaks and trigger an alarm. Remember the barge that hit the bridge in the bayou? Rails were bent 3 feet and they claimed a little harder hit that would have broken rail would have triggered an alarm. Amtrak in swamp with many dead that time.
@Bitterrootbackroads yes, you're right. There's an episode of Forensic Files that covers that incident - well worth a watch.
The track split where the tracks where fused together with thermite , you can see the joint
Certainly looks like a failed weld to me- and the numbering on the web of the rail is also a clue....
Why do idiots have to make everything into some grand conspiracy, not every bad thing that happens is the fault of magic evil people. The US has awful infrastructure thats decaying and has been for close to 70 years now, not at all shocking to think with how poorly everything is maintained that now theres starting to be massive disasters from it.
So, like it was a failed previous repair or something?
@@Chris-Christopher- No It's where they join the new tracks together , in the past they where bolted together now they weld them .
Looks like it says 04-21-22. That weld didn't last too long.
Rails crack sometimes normally. Good for this guy to notice it. Especially living in such a precarious spot like that.
All rail companies have cut back on, or eliminated entirely what used to be track "section men" which were each responsible for a 25 mi section of railbed.
That was back when I was a teen, more than 40 years ago.
The chalk marking on the rail seems to indicate the date 07-31-22. Is it common for an RR to find an issue like this and wait so long to fix it, or is this story a re-post from a repair that was completed last year?
its disconcerting... not disconcerning. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya
@@DeagleGamesTV he is a "beta" guy
I live near csx and amtrack lines.
People often get sighted for trusspassing for walking along the tracks as a short cut. I'am glad this man found that flaw in the rail. This prevented a major derailment.
But I'am surprised that he wasn't reprimanded for trusspassing.
Given the circumstance, I'm sure the courts would be pretty lenient on him, for inspecting and reporting a legitimate problem like this. Once the jury sees the photographs of the track rail, he would be acquitted.
He could make an argument that his property is right up against theirs, and the damage was noticeable from the property line.
What good timing he made. It would be wise to have many inspected to have better peace of mind.
The track fractured and the section behind the tie would droop under weight causing the wheels to smack into the supported section. Very alert resident is a hero. I doubt the train crew heard or felt it. Kudos dude!
You'd think every train would have some kind of track / crack detector on the front of it.
Probably same thing that happened in Ohio where the toxic materials spilled It looks deliberate smh
Deliberate? Maybe lack of inspections but that rail is thick. Oh mighty railroad oracle, how do you think it was broken?????
The deliberate is a lack of maintenance. It costs money that could go to CEO bonuses.
@@markrobinowitz8473 Not commenting on rail maintenance - but it is true maintenance is neglected for profits in other cases. PG&E starting thousands of wildfires in California...the company is a convicted felon now after killing more than 85 people in the Camp fire. They're on trial for others like the Zogg now too.
Yep It doe's🤔
unlikely. If there was a belief it was deliberately cut, then these rail company would be putting it out there to avoid being blamed for poor maintenance.
I think you're just looking for a reason to have it support whatever theories you've had about the others. I ask you this, can you explain exactly what makes you think it's deliberate? I thought that maybe it looks like someone took a cutting torch or something to do it, but I don't know enough about rails or cutting metal to come to such a conclusion. I would think that the rail company would be quick to point out that someone is doing that. Maybe it was a failed previous repair?
That track sure does look kinda funny. Almost looks like it was cut on purpose
That is a true broken rail. You can't inspect rails from your sofa. Get off of it and learn how to inspect rails properly.
wow
did you get past 8th grade
go back to momma
you aint 'ready' yet
@@BossSpringsteen69 Says the person inspecting a photo🤣
@@MrDan1509 look up "railroad thermite welding". I'd say it's a failed weld.
@@Chris-Christopher- Not saying its not... Where did i say it wasn't?
We all should be checking our tracks around our towns. Make it known. Tale photos. We all need to be looking out for each other
At that point , you are considered a trespasser on RR property though.
Have you worked on the railroad before this was a once n a lifetime find you probably don’t know anything about the railroad and or track maintenance to be out there saying what needs to be fixed 😅😅😅😅
Good ideah, and who raises money for bail when your arrested??? Who pays your funeral when your hit??? It's private property just like your property....
Looks melted. Stay alert, we are at war.
yes.. everyone go out and get arrested for trespassing. Idiots.
This is a true story: I was walking along the RR tracks in a rural area in WA state when I came upon some spikes between the rails. I noticed right away that they had been pulled up from the ties, that someone was trying to derail a train. I called immediately to the local police, who called BNSF to hold all traffic until it could be investigated. They investigated ME. After the investigation I was issued a citation for criminal trespass. I had to go to federal court in Seattle where the judge dismissed the charge. The sheriff's deputy, whom I called as a witness, could not believe that this had happened. Like the saying goes, "no good deed goes unpunished".
Insane! These criminals get protected and the person doing the right thing gets in trouble. What???!!!!
Reminds me of the Murdaugh case. Cops sometimes decide their job is “just arrest whoever reported the crime” because that’s way easier than finding a sophisticated criminal.
Maybe they thought you knew too much. I feel the many recent derailment$ have been intentional. Perhaps the p0lice in your area (BN$F) were already aware of the crime.
sounds about right, geez
@@andreabontempo643 Two cops came to my house, one was local and the other one was federal, and they played good cop/bad cop with me. The "good" cop said he would help me out if I confessed but the federal cop (FBI if I remember correctly) said I was going to prison for a long, long time. I was scared. As they walked out of my home they said they would be back but they never came back. Meanwhile, I sweated it out thinking I was going to prison any day. I told the judge that they made my life a living hell for around three months and he said "don't worry, I'm dismissing this case". I never felt so relieved of anything in my life! Moral of the story: Just let the train crash next time.
Ok. So I'm a metal fabricator, and been doing it for over 30 years. And I know exactly what a oxy-acetylene torch does to metal. And that is exactly what caused the gouge in the material at the top of that rail. Then you can clearly see the "bluing" down the side of the rail where somebody intentionally weaked the metal so it would crack when pressure was applied to it. This was a deliberate act to derail a train. The ones responsible just never thought about the resident thats lived on those tracks their entire life and knew the difference in pitch between two rails meeting and a terrorist act. This is just beyond blatant to anyone that has worked with metal before. It would have taken a while to cut that much material out and then turn the rest of that rail cherry red to weaken it like that.
Railroad thermite welding done very bad. Terrible quality control.
That's my geuss . . .
We check our track?! If you did you'd see the crack without having someone tell you. I miss seeing those pick up truck that drove up and down the tracks. Always Wonder what they were for, and now I don't see them as often as I used too, but now I'm pretty sure they checked the tracks.
higher profits, in Ohio & beyond
Workers now look at their digital devices and declare that they have labored.
I see inspectors nearly every day on the tracks. Should have been a signal issue as well so it's hard to believe it happened much before the report.
@@garycallihan4206 that is completely false our railroad workers are underpaid and they work without any sick days. These guys go to work sick and tired all the time because the railroads work them to death. Do your research before making assumptions.
The railroads do check their track. If you understand how our railroads operate you’d understand that a wheel on a railcar or locomotive would not derail on a crack that small. Still a good thing for that neighbor to check that but there’s a thing called “jointed rail” where the rails are separated and held in place by using fishplates. That’s where the “clickety-clack” comes from
Wow scary. I'm so glad it was spotted and people kept involved until it was fixed
its not really scary
there is a old archival video of a US army test on youtube from 1944, look for "US army derailment test"
they tested what it takes to get a train off the tracks, and its actually really suprising how big of a hole trains can pass without issue
in the end they needed a 58" gap to do the job... and that only worked on empty train cars
same thing happened behind my old apartment in annville pa on a Norfolk southern track when I found a big gouge shaped like a wheel ... I called and the track was checked , shutdown , and fixed the next day
Somebody burned that with a torch.
And yes, the cutting of metal with a torch is called "burning" because that is what it is. Iron doesn't burn under normal fire conditions but if it is hot enough, and there is enough oxygen it will burn. That's what the torch does. It heats the metal, then a stream of oxygen is added to start the metal burning and to blow the burnt metal out of the way.
I could never live that close to the tracks.
I lived 1/4 mile away in one house, and that was too close when the feds forced the railroads to blow their horns 4 times at each crossing, 24/7/365.
Lol I sleep through the horns
@@jayasmrmore3687 Some people do.
Most don't, and drowsy drivers that lost sleep the night before make our roads more dangerous.
I agree: I'm perfectly alright with the roar of the locomotive engines and rumble of the train coming through. What wakes me up are the train horns! If you have to live near railroad tracks, just hope your house isn't near a railroad crossing. The flashing lights, ringing bells and train horns would be too much!
Talk to your mayor/city council. They have quiet zones in the US
No way in hell i could live with a train that close right in my backyard 😳💯
Imagine trying to go to sleep, and a two-mile long train passes at 3 in the morning?
*I knew it there was someone causing these derailments it's too suspiciously quick for two derailment to happen so quickly between each other*
It happens all the time 😂
Way more than 2 recently. 5-6 I've heard on the news.
It's worse than you thought, like the independent food processing plants
there aren't more derailments now, just more coverage.
2,000 a year all because of poor maintenance . Just news now because of the Ohio disaster !
Whatever happened to the track inspectors?
This dude saved the entire neighborhood from what could have been a disaster
Couldn't save property values though.
Who cares about property
If you are able to detect that, you are living dangerously. The metal split for some reason, probably due to stress caused by unstable substrate and deteriorated ties. They eliminated the symptom but not the root cause. Those wooden ties are pretty worn out.
it was racism and climate change and trans phobia is the reason it split
God blessed this man! 🙏🏼
What god
If you live or work near tracks you should invest some time and just look for any damage.
Yes someone cut that track on purpose it did not break on its own. Being a builder I can tell just by looking at it.
How do we know that people are not just going around and taking blow torches to the tracks? To then purposely cause these derailments...
As someone who’s from Sacramento… I have no idea why anyone would PURPOSEFULLY choose to live in Sacramento 😅 I left as soon as I could.
I would leave *California* as soon as I could! 😏
@srvntlilly …. Just leave your voting habits in CA, if your voting habits have helped put CA in the crapper as it is now.
Because trains don’t detail other places, do they?? Your comment has nothing to do with the situation. You just saw the town you are from & wanted to comment to get attention. If you hate it so much, why waste your time commenting on anything happening there? Did you get the attention you needed?
@@SMaamri78 Umm, you mistook my comment. I wasn't being sarcastic. I meant it. Believe me, MY vote didn't put California in the crapper. What put it there, is what put our country where it is now. Criminals and corruption. IfI lived there, I'd find any means oossible to get out!
And the engineers running the trains didn't notice?!
@@TheHermitHacker Isn't it like going over a pot hole?
You can sometimes feel a broken rail, but seldom can you hear anything from outside, from within the cab, especially if the engine is under load.
You can here that and feel it in the locomotive....I got 21 years on the railway...
Lucky people. Happy and in a cool neighborhood.
Do they not routinely do maintenance checks on tracks?If not I think it should happen more often!
Hopefully the infrastructure bill that was passed last year can be used to fix our nation's track. We shouldn't have to depend on citizens to inspect the tracks.
*It's actually quite common for a fracture to develop right next to a weld joint* Especially when rail is now cheap import made from used bed-angle and not from Bethlehem Steel!
While we should support steel made here & not overseas, NIppon & other imported rail has held up just as well as any other.
If one tries to weld cast iron they know a crack is most likely to show up right along the edge of the weld like this. I know rail is NOT cast iron, but you’re correct, any impurities, or even improper heat treat / annealing could leave a brittle spot bound to fail like that.
I've walked a lot of railroad tracks but never saw anything like this. I can only imagine
it was caused by the rail flexing up when it was being pushed down on both sides.
For me, just changing the rail won't do it, needing to level that part of the track.
Thats cut with a torch...
Please keep off the tracks. It is illegal & dangerous to trespass on railroad lines. Google Operation Lifesaver for more info.
That, and expansion and contraction of the steel over the years due to hot and cold weather.
It looks melted to me. Something very off there.
Hats off to that guy for being "Eagle-eyed" and with hearing like a cat! He averted what could have been a tragic accident!👍👍👍👍😀😃👍♥️♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❗❗❗
He sure sniffed out that one.
Have you seen rotten sleepers everywhere there, is that ok in your opinion?🤣
@@VictorLarsen-fy9ls you must be British, because here in the States, (across the pond), they are called ties, and yes, ive seen plenty of them in my neck of the woods, and i am sure there are kazillions of them, because the U.S. railroads are more interested in making profits rather than maintaining the track and cars, which leads to costly and dangerous derailments.
Who cut this track?
The gremlins
Do these places not have companies like herzog? Our tracks where I live are tested everyday with pickups that have sensors on their train wheels
Reporter literally reading the company line
Im surprised FBI didn't blame him.
Why would the Federal Boob investigation blame him ??
Probably waiting till he hurts somebody's feeling's on yt 😮 Then they'll tie it all in 😂😅😂❤🎉
if you live by tracks, share this video with everyone
Remember when trucks with rail wheels used to inspect the tracks. When did that stop happening?
@@sommebuddy Maybe they should loosen their wallets and get more rollers out there.
That looks like a Thermite sabotage of the train track. Sorry this is NOT all a coincidence. I used to work at the railroad, Those rails last FOREVER especially when greased. That was a purely Sabotage, Go look up what Thermite can do! Also you can make it from stuff at the store.
Someone is cutting rail tracks around the states so water can be contaminated, they already got the Mid & East Coast
Dumbest comment of the day.
What are you smoking?
@@BossSpringsteen69 they're coming to Jersey next i heard
Class1 freight railroads have been putting profits over maintenance for decades. Taking tracks out of service = less $. Good catch and thanks for raising the red flag!
Yeah they have, no CEO wants to be the one that cost the company millions in update/maintenance costs, they all want to be known as the one that brought record profits for the shareholders.
@@sommebuddy they are stable and don't make a whole lot, only 2% dividend payouts on average. I wouldn't invest in them unless I was far older than I am and about to retire.
It happens all the time.
What are the numbers written on sude of rail dated two years ago???
I live near Union Pacific tracks in in Iowa, you can hear what normal track sounds are, when there is an issue with a locomotive or car and when the track is off. They are probably the more reliable when it comes to taking care of the tracks that run through or near residential area's
We need a million or more like him .....
I bet $2000 dollars that a train is going to derail in that very spot anyways
I bet 20000000000 that nothing would have happened aside large wear on wheels
@@eXTreemator you're wrong, even a little bump will derail an entire train
Those folks live awfully close to those train tracks, even worse is living below them. I couldn’t sleep with all the recent derailments. The railroad or city ought to purchase those properties and turn the area into a park. Or at least be mandated to inspect those tracks weekly/monthly. *Anywhere trains go above homes should be inspected thoroughly every single month regardless* .
I love trains but I couldn't live that close to them they blow diesel smoke all over the place.def needs to be more distance from the trains.
either option has its con. being a park, it's ripe for illegal camping and dumping.
It looked cut with with a torch to me
I get the concern and am happy it's fixed. I drove a train for 12 years and it's actually surprising how large of a gap it takes to derail a train. A documentary I watched about WW2 mentioned experiments to derail trains back then and it was more than a foot on straightaways.
When we derailed, it was usually at a switch or at a grade crossing in the winter with an empty rolling over first. Not having enough weight to cut through the ice inside of the rail so the inner brim came up and over the rail.
So what you are saying is the gaping crack in the rail shouldn't have been fixed til it was large enough? You know that abrupt changes in temperature or even the constant vibrations can very quickly cause that to happen?
Have you seen rotten sleepers everywhere there, is that ok in your opinion?🤣
Probably intentionally done to cause more toxic materials to spread into our neighborhoods and waterways. This man listened to his gut and checked things out. Most people would've dismissed this and there would have been toxic consequences. These railroads need to be looking at the tracks daily to keep us safe. These derailments shouldn't be happening at all!
We all need to take notice of what is going on... Use your cameras... everywhere...
so stupid.....
All trains should have a system with sensors (ultrasonic, accelerometers, any other type) hovering over the tracks, collecting and logging data for safety evaluation!
A system not only could be installed on any locomotive (old or new) but it save tons of money and lives!
you gonna pay for it?
i saw it on cbs 12..was this a deliberate set up?
I'd like to know if this break occurred because of malicious activity?
Good job
Sabotage...
No...tage
If this is wrong I don't wanna be Thermite.
How long was that broken? Decades ago, even 80 years, tracks were inspected daily. This track was not inspected even weekly.
Smart guy. Good for everyones safety that he pays attention.
@All Law I am not surprized.
That is purposely done.
Do you have rail road experience?
@@heh2k Do you!???
Says the one with no railroad experience.
@@BossSpringsteen69 its was also a drama seen of the bugs bunny and daffy duck show. Bug was on the train from nyc to California. Daffy was on the tracks with a stick of ACME dynamite stick. The duck empty the dynamite powder on to the rail tracks . Then strike a match to burn the rails like you see in this video. Real termite
do idiots have to make everything into some grand conspiracy, not every bad thing that happens is the fault of magic evil people. The US has awful infrastructure thats decaying and has been for close to 70 years now, not at all shocking to think with how poorly everything is maintained that now theres starting to be massive disasters from it.