[8N][4k] The Rescue of Coal Train N319, CSX Abbeville Subdivision, GA 01/19/2022
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
- CSX N319-15 was a loaded coal train that departed from Evansville, IN on January 15th, 2022. It's destination was Cross, SC. On the 18th, he reached Hull, GA where he took the side track and stopped. Upon starting again, the mid-train DPU, a Tier 4 ET44AH engine, malfunctioned. The train stalled and the two lead units of AC4400CW type were insufficient to provide enough traction to get the train rolling again. Over night, three helper engines - two more AC44s and an ES44AH - were brought to Hull. They had been on the grain G303-15 train to the nearby feed mill in Comer, GA.
The new crew that arrived the next day decided to use the ES44AH as a rear DPU. This required multiple engine moves, and hence a rather elaborate operation ensued. The continuous and professional work done by the crew to get the train moving in Hull and to return the helpers to Comer consumed almost 5 hours. Enjoy this video, which shows a typical railroad operation in great detail and with stunning footage, in 4k quality! - Розваги
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Great video. With minimal crew size and power the operation seems to have been accomplished with much more time and effort than seems to be appropriate for the task at hand. Very interesting and well documented process. Thank you.
Thanks very much! Great you find this video and the story it tells informative.
Remember, they are union so time means nothing.
@@richardcline1337 Being Union means nothing. What a shitty comment. This has everything to do with PSR. This could have all been avoided if they ran two trains with two crews and probably would have made it to their destination quicker. 🖕Jim Foote.
Back in the later 70's to late 89 we lived in a mobile home park that had tracks running along side it. I loved hearing the train go by. My father-in-law worked for C&O Railroad for 30+ years. I still miss hearing the train. Some days I can hear it leaving the yard but it is about 10 miles from me.
Cool!
This was one complicated rescue mission. I'm sure the locals in Hull and Comer really "appreciated" the lengthy mucking around. By the way this is what happens, when the railroad is stingy. They want to run super long trains with minimal, often not enough power. If there's a malfunction, chaos ensues. You've documented this unusual process very nicely. I really enjoyed this longer video. :)
You're absolutely right. I always praise BNSF for putting extra power on their trains, but out there in the west it would take much longer to bring in auxiliary power - and a rescue mission like this would simply interrupt their busy schedules. One has to say that what is shown in the video is not a daily occurrence. Most of the time, there's no problem (and we get plenty of these coal trains), although it has happened before, of course. Great you enjoyed the video.
I don't understand why they simply did not take the "new" DPU back there and couple it up, then run back to the head end and couple up and go. It seems like a lot of extra work to me.
@@patwilkinson1201 burning on duty hours.
@Bob Paulino Someone who works for CSX pointed out that these decisions are not made by the crew. Power assignment is done in the headquarters in Jacksonville, FL. The crew just did what they were told to do.
@@mbmars01 -- They might want to give some thought to getting more advice from the people at the scene.
This kind of drama is okay. No one is hurt and nothing is wrecked. Thank you for showing what it took to rectify this situation. Very interesting. You caught a surface grinder. Excellent video.
Absolutely right! Glad there wasn't a wreck. It was very interesting to watch how they got it all worked out.
A great video of the intense mess a breakdown can cause on a railroad, I also note a small acknowledgement from the crew at the end . Well done Mb
Thanks! It was surprising how long it took, but the crew did a great job.
A dispatcher's nightmare! Great video and commentary. I loved the long-lens views, too, especially with those GE's under power. The heat waves they generate are fantastic!
Cool you enjoyed the video!
Running lean works great until it doesn’t.
Haha, exactly.
Took me a while to figure this one out . That seemed a bit more complicated than need be , but , what the hell , as long as engines and/or cars are moving , I'm a happy puppy . Thanks for including signals . It's cool to see almost as much as the crew and to know what it means on the block signals . Finally , the sharp crystal clear videos and action catching techniques are truly impressive. Top shelf old boy . Cheerio
Thanks for your continued effort to watch all videos on this channel :) Really appreciate it!!
Looks like someond d😮evising a rescue with as many moves as possible😂
341s horn sounded like a dying turkey XD
Lol
Nice job. The random construction equipment was a nice brief distraction from csx lol.
Thanks. Lol, it was.
Thank You ever so much!
You're very welcome!
Awesome video- thanks for being patient with the switching move, not many of us get to ever see that. Editing of explanations was right on point. Keep up the good work !
Thanks! Great you like it. Patience is a necessary skill when watching railroad operations...
I love the steerable trucks, they look awesome!
Glad to see you're still filming the Abbeville sub I haven't seen your videos in a while now but I still enjoy them
Yep, I do. Very cool!
I'm from abbeville 😊
I live about 1000 feet from this line in Coronaca on the other side of Greenwood; just before it crosses Lake Greenwood heading through Waterloo to Laurens.
Cool! I've yet to visit this area.
Nice catch. You caught the Tier 4 that has a 1st Gen K5HL. Nice
... and I didn't even know that lol
@@mbmars01 MB, is this sub anywhere near Laurenburg,NC?
Beauty aye! Very nice for a rainy afternoon. Thanks again.
Yeah, that's the right thing to do on rainy days! You're welcome!
Love that DPU and Pusher !!
Complex operation indeed. Thanks for your work.
You're welcome!
Excellent Enterprising Emerging Evolving Railfanning Endeavour on the field as well as digital documentation. Hearty Greetings and Congratulations from India 🎉🙏
Very cool you like it. Awesome also to have railfans in India watching the videos here :)
Really cool to see operations like this!
Great you enjoyed watching it. It's a bit arduous at times to spend so many hours watching and filming an operation like this, and producing a video about it, but I it was worth the effort.
Great video brother you got the coal train with flashing lights plus paving machines in the back ground 👍
The road construction vehicle was a nice contrast, but it was also fitting that it came by when the CSX crew tried to get that coal back on the move again lol
Well
Thanks! Yea, I know. I've seen the road construction equipment out there multiple times.
Actually called a milling machine.
It was Wirtgen milling machine. It removes the top pavement layer and elevates into a dump truck which takes the millings to a plant to be recycled into new paving material.
Belle opération de sauvetage. Merci.
Thanks for watching!
Intro is absolute spectacular, looks like a Model Train when the camera is zoomed in far, good job on the intro
Cool, thanks! Great you like it.
man it was really neat how you walked us through this entire ordeal with the stalled coal train!!!
Great you like it. It was quite a bit of work to put the puzzle pieces together and understand what they are doing, but also fun to tell the story :)
love the horn on csx 341
those splendid machines!
Thank you for such a great video. Very interesting mate. Cheers.
You're very welcome!
Another Great video my friend. Keep up the great work. 👍😎😎
Thanks very much!
The machine at 10:00 is designed to grind the surface of asphalt paving to recycle the old surface into trucks for delivery to the asphalt plant to make new asphalt in the resurfacing operation.
Right, that's what I thought.
I saw one of those in operation the other day.
It's always good to see them recycling the old asphalt. Saves a lot of money and oil as well as not needing to dispose of the old asphalt in a landfill.
@@mbmars01 ...asphalt rotomill...
I appreciate your videos over the years. You let the sights and sounds of trains dominate the videos without the repetitive, stupid commentary on other sites. I subscribed because of your work and the Ukrainian flag on your icon. Thank you...
Thanks very much! Some people prefer this video style and others a different approach. That makes UA-cam interesting and there's always something for everyone.
@@mbmars01 You are constantly doing fine job, only wish I have to see trains from engines to last car. I don't know how many coal hoppers this train had, and especially with manifest trains their versatile mixture of interesting cars. You can cut it, but at least in one instance the whole train. In this video just once to show us the complete train! Thank you (I think it can only improve your videos) 🙋
@hades decent 666 Thanks! These coal trains have typically 110 cars. The way I'm filming simply doesn't always allow to show all cars. I often try to catch the more interesting trains more than once, though, so that the most interesting details are captured.
Great Video Hull Those Cars CSX Has Have Alot of Derailments Then and Now
Thanks!
Hello my best friend.
Awesome video. I like it so much. Thank you for your sharing amazing video. Greetings from Vietnam 🙏👍❤️👍🤝🙏👍❤️
Very cool! Great you enjoyed watching the video. Greetings back to Vietnam!
Thanks for dcumenting this entire thing!
You're welcome!
Well done
That was very interesting. Your videos are very well done. Thanks.
You're welcome! Good you like the videos. Keep watching!
Amazing rail movie! Great rail activity! Good work, master! Thumbs Up 🚂🚂🚂🚂😎👍👍👍
All the best from Romania
Andrew
Thanks very much! And greetings back to Romania! Stay safe in these crazy times.
What a fantastic video MB, I can’t wait to see more CSX Abbeville Sub! I’m uploading one of my videos as well! :) I haven’t seen your videos in awhile lol.
Thanks, great you had fun watching it!
Great video. Taken 5 minutes from where i live. Love your videos!
Thanks! Yea, I know - 5 minutes in both directions (Hull and Comer), right?
@@mbmars01 right across from the old freds building
Gotcha, cool!
Well done sir! 👍
Thanks!
Precision scheduled railroading !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, these incidents happened before PSR, too, maybe even more frequently, because there were more trains.
That was a pretty good video. Now I understand a little more about the use of DPUs.
Nice, thanks!
Explanation of DPU working!
Very good presentation! GE locos work very hard!!
Thanks!
That looks like fun . Driving all those locomotives. Hard work though
Outstanding Video !!!
Great, thanks!
Keep up the excellent work!!😎 You have my like👍👍
Thanks so much!
Awesome job
Cool, thanks!
Great video thanks for sharing my friend
You're welcome!
Excellent video!!
Thanks!
Amazing catch man! Just subscribed
Very cool, thanks!
As bad as this was in real life, this would make an amazing operation puzzle for a model railroad complete with all the caveats and restrictions thrown into the operation.
Absolutely! Nice idea, I could do that on my layout :)
Quite an operation! Excellent video - one of your most interesting yet! I wonder if the crew made it to Greenwood without dogging?
Nice you like it. Yes, I know that they safely made it to Greenwood.
Fantastic video,I guess this doesn't happen all that often however when it does it makes for interesting action for us railfans but not so much so for the railroaders! The consequences of running super long trains!
Thanks, Mike. Yes, thankfully it doesn't happen that often as it used to years back, but this, to a certain extent, is due to running fewer trains. The coal trains, at least the loaded ones, usually have 110 cars. This hasn't changed over the years. Sometimes they combine two empty trains and these beasts have obviously more than 200 cars.
27:33 Damnit CSX There in sync
thanks, entertaining, amazing stuff and detailed description.
Glad you enjoyed it!
2:17 And here folks - is a PRIME EXAMPLE of a sheer lack of locomotive lighting maintenance - as we see a new train arriving WITHOUT a lower LH side lamp .. Sure the other side lamp is alternate flashing - but alternate to what an extinguish (non lit) LH side lower headlamp that obviously refuses to operate.
You cannot blame anyone for random light failures of any kind on an engine . The fixtures in or on an engine take a real pounding day in , day out . I think the railways do a good job trying to keep their equipment maintained and safe !
@@donhunking2286 Don, they just don’t maintain shop personnel like they use to, sorry, blue flag rules have created maintenance issues specially when the equipment is attached to a train sitting on a main track….ms~~~
Very interesting and unusual switching
Glad you think so!
Cool ditch light pattern. Never seen that.
I also don't remember I have ever seen that before.
Great video, interesting moves that we as fans don't get to see that often, also good example of a Leader PTC locomotive that can communicate with a DPU! Thanks
Nice you enjoyed watching this operation. It's always cool to see trains with DPUs.
That's was awesome 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice you enjoyed it!
That new crew just screwed the pooch.
All they had to do was take the feed engines
to the bottom of the train and push, cut off on the fly,
back into Comer.
Super film!
Thanks!
Used to see those coal gons going through Monroe, NC with a little snow on top.
LOVE This Video !! Outstanding Job Bud !!! I still offer my Porsche Convertible to get some awesome unrestricted videos in the open air. I drive you film.. Just let me know. I live right here in Athens, GA.
Lol, thanks, Tom!
Beautiful video!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank you 🤗
Awesome video
Thanks!
Awesome
Thanks!
your explanations were helpful; I would have been completely 'buffled'!
Great. That's fully understandable. It was a complicated procedure.
Great vídeo.
Thanks!
Good Video.
Thanks!
Glad you’re back. Was this in Madison County?
Yes, this is in Madison County.
wow what a parade!
Dream job......
Absolutely noice!
Thanks!
👍👍☝️✅ Excellent cover of this event! It could have been faster, but only 562 & 929 were DP capable, also non of the units ( and on the auto rack train) has no new symbol on the side of the nose DP in the circle, I've seen plenty of them recently started to add it! I can think of faster ways to accomplish what took 5 hours!
Very good job done 👍✅ Excellent video like!🙋
Thanks, great you like it.
@@mbmars01 Honestly, I love your videos! WWOT is somewhat famous, but very sloppy. Your enthusiasm and dedication is visible everytime. Germany videos were awesome addition (I live in Europe)!
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Awesome. Cool, so you live in Serbia? Greetings back! I'm always stunned that so people from all over the world watch videos here.
HA, YEAH!,LONG COAL EXPRESS GOT THE AUTOMOBILES ON THE HIGHWAY WAITING NOW YES!,28:13 🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚂
Lol
Nice video!
Thank you!
Your welcome @@mbmars01!
3349 has a headlight out!
That was alotta moving
Indeed...
Seems like a SUPER long and complicated process and you edited a lot of the dead time out. If it takes all of that to swap engines around, you can only imagine how long it takes them to make these long super trains up in the yard.
Well, these unit coal trains are somewhat special, because many of them run between the mine and the power plant back and forth, so they don't actually need to be necessarily re-assembled in yards. At 110 cars, they are not really very long either, but since all cars are loaded, it is rather heavy, which is why thinking about the proper power arrangement is important.
I have often wondered how much monitoring can be done on the DPU, from the lead engine.
WOW. that's a lot of coal.
Yup, thousands of tons.
got to charge up all those tesla's🤣
Why did they not shove the stalled train?
Odd, why not crew the singleton and push it forward to the loaded consist?
I am part of your subscriber base 👍
That's very nice!
Lol I might see you out there
Probably, some day!
The road butchers are starting early by you...
the self steering road begins, along with broken windshields.
Chaos indeed. Did they even attempt to assess the malfunction DPU?
Did CSX actually pay a third party taxi company to transport a crew 1/4 mile to their train?
I'm looking at this and it becomes clear why rail can't compete with trucking.
You have to assess it. It's done remotely over the radio from Jacksonville by the Mechanical desk. You use the taxis for more than just a ride to your train.
that's because companies are greedy, and unions protect their workers from working themselves to death, with nothing to show for their efforts.
Csx has a shuttle service under contract for all of its division and for the most part the drivers are very cooperative keeping in mind they have “hours of service” to comply with as they did during my 40 years as an Engineer……ms~~~
If only csx and ns would appropriately power their trains with enough power, they wouldn’t have this problem so often. On bnsf coal trains have a min of 4 locos
I know... but the CSX guys here say it's against their rules to put more power on these trains.
@@mbmars01 yeah not a referendum on ns or csx crews and or even the power desk but totally on ns and csx mismanagement and the dreaded psr. Seems interesting that as all rr but bnsf adopted psr bnsf became the top railroad in the world by profit.
Yea, I also generally like how BNSF runs their trains. I don't remember I witnessed any noteworthy hiccups during my visits.
And they seem to try a little harder to maintain a fleet of engines that seem to be cleaned regularly .
I think CSX has the dirtiest locomotives out of all the railroads.
CP is dirtier!! and UP locos used in tunnels are the worst!!
Why does CSX seem allergic to rear DPUs? It seems so much harder to run a 2x1x0 train than a 2x1 and add engines as needed for mountain passes. Not to mention having to dig that mid DPU out of the train at its destination in order to get it ready for another train. Also nice catch with all those AC44s! BNSF doesn't use them up here in the Northwest, mainly GEVOs and Dash 9s.
It's a good point. There are also CSX coal trains with rear DPUs through here, so I don't know why some have mid-train and others rear DPUs.
Just out of curiosity, what railroad do you think has the best paint scheme?
Of the current Class I railroad schemes, I like the KCS Belle scheme the most; in a more historical context I'd say the Santa Fe Warbonnet scheme is my all-time favorite.
Same here!
I live in the area and keep looking to see you out here. We don’t seem to get as many trains as we used to.
Cool. It's true, we lost a lot of trains when CSX implemented their precision-scheduled railroading strategy a few years ago.
@@mbmars01 And they went to longer trains which means fewer people.
... which is part of the reason why they embraced PSR.
@@mbmars01 indeed. Do you live in this area?
I live about 20 minutes from Hull.
been a while since u uploaded
Well, the production of a video like this takes about an entire week (and making train videos is not my main job, just a hobby...).
Yeah, I can understand that. But it’s nice that you uploaded in a while.
Yeah, I try, as time permits :)
the trees make it lose radio signal so it shuts down … that’s why it wasn’t so popular on the east coast. lot more open space out west ✌🏻
What does the synchronous ditching light mean? Is that a shunting sign?
I think this was just a weird flashing mode setting.
Great video mbmars!
Good you like it, thanks!
nice video wonder why the csx coal train had isseus?
Thanks! Well, the DPU's engine cut out and the train wouldn't move with the original head power only.
I like train videos on UA-cam 👍
Nice!