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So what was the cause of this accident? track failure or a grade crossing incident? I take it these locos will be shipped to Altoona, PA. for repairs even when they are this far south?
afaik it hit a truck on the crossing. the engineer and truck driver survived.
http://wiat.com/2017/09/27/hwy...ith-tractor-trailor/
Drones are amazing. You can hear all the work down below but can't hear the props spinning on the drone. It's also cool how still they can sit. The only draw back I've noticed, is out of all the drone videos I've watched, I never saw one with a lens that can zoom in.
I think that is the first Drone Video I saw when I didn't hear the blades. But actually heard the sounds of the subject
Dave Zucal posted:Drones are amazing. You can hear all the work down below but can't hear the props spinning on the drone. It's also cool how still they can sit. The only draw back I've noticed, is out of all the drone videos I've watched, I never saw one with a lens that can zoom in.
The audio was most likely recorded on the ground and dubbed in. The problem of drone prop noise hasn't been solved.
---PCJ
Neat footage. Is wreck clean-up particularly perilous, in terms of safety for the workers? It looks potentially quite hazerdous.
Amazing !! They sure seem to know what they are doing and don't spare the horses !! I was surprised how well the EMDs took the hit. Doesn't look like either engine is bent and not that much sheet metal damage.
still amazed by this situation that the truck driver was not killed, which was great news of course.
mark s posted:Neat footage. Is wreck clean-up particularly perilous, in terms of safety for the workers? It looks potentially quite hazerdous.
I suppose anything Railway related is dangerous but these guys know what they're doing. I'm been at 3 or 4 wreck sites but we only had the 250 ton crane (the big hook) and never felt I was in any danger making a lift... No hard hats or safety vests . The big hook is an amazing piece of equipment operated by the car dept.. At one time it was their pride and joy. They manned it. Other cranes such as the American hoist, Burros. and just about everything track related were manned by the work equipment.
The closest mishap I had was..... We'd been hauled off our regular assignment right at the Yard office and assigned to the Auxiliary ..the wreck wasn't that far from our home terminal. lots of radio chatter. After being on duty for about 24 hours and just about to make a lift the engineman decided to move on his own, it turns out he dreamed someone told him to back up. No damage That was it for us that day.
Dave Zucal posted:Drones are amazing. You can hear all the work down below but can't hear the props spinning on the drone. It's also cool how still they can sit. The only draw back I've noticed, is out of all the drone videos I've watched, I never saw one with a lens that can zoom in.
Plenty of drones have optical zoom cameras, this one apparently didn't.
Gregg: Thanks for the comment and shared experience. Your mention of your 250 ton wrecker brought to mind an experience related to me by a retired C&NW employee, called to operate a CNW 250 ton crane. This was in 1977, at the site of the Amtrak derailment on the IHB bridge in LaGrange, IL. The Amtrak locomotive derailed, wrecked the Burlington bridge and ended up hanging nose first in the IHB tracks. The CNW, in good neighbor fashion, sent down their Proviso wrecker, to supplement the BN/CBQ steam wrecking derrick on scene. In the process, my acquaintance lost half of a finger (can't recall precise details of how, but was in the operation of the crane and tangling with the boom cables).
What strikes me about the potential danger in wreck clean-ups, is the un-predictability of the heavy equipment being moved about -- not like safety management in a factory setting where all activity is repetitive, predictable and study-able.
Save those steel coils!! 
If you watch the video, you can see the truck or whats left of it at the foot of the embankment near the second engine lying perpendicular to the track bed.
I am amazed at how much earth work they are doing. On a separate note, I see the tow truck waiting to pull the rig. He probably would be better off with a dump truck to haul it away.
Jack Swan5010 posted:Save those steel coils!!
Those coils are canned, most likely imports, they should have buried them on the sight. We ship/receive a couple hundred rail cars a month from NS. Every one is a battle, to say NS is hard to work with is an understatement.
We shipped this rail car to a customer. The customer couldn't get the lid on the car off and shipped the car back to us. This is what I found when I got the lid off. This coil weighs 44,000 pounds. It was pinned in car when it left out mill. We have video of car being loaded.
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Well that truck driver was very blessed. But his days of driving truck is pretty much over. I have a family member who used to drive for overnight. Once some like this gets on the record, he will not be getting a job with any of the big trucking companies. Their insurance won't cover him. And with the internet you can be sure they know all about this accident.
FrankM posted:We shipped this rail car to a customer. The customer couldn't get the lid on the car off and shipped the car back to us. This is what I found when I got the lid off. This coil weighs 44,000 pounds. It was pinned in car when it left out mill. We have video of car being loaded.
Rough handling is an understatement? Movement caused by slack action?
