BLMR Doomed1
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2008
- A day of railfanning on the Blue Mountain Railroad became a little more interesting than expected. This is a 4-part series shot while following a train from Walla Walla to Wallula on April 13, 1997.
Part 1 is switching in the Walla Walla yard, includes hooking onto a car spotted on a siding with 1890-vintage 55 lbs rail. Things get off to a rocky start a little later when a rail breaks, derailing two cars. They are spotted out, and the resulting train has two empties at the front end with the rest of the train being fully loaded. - Авто та транспорт
This is grim.It's true that there is a lack of lubrication and general up keep of rolling stock in this from 1997.Let's hope that since then,Australia has caught up with the rest of the world with regard to preventative maintenance.
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LOL, the railroad runs right over by my home, I live in Weston. The rails between Walla Walla and Weston are HORRIBLE. Some of them have over an inch worn off the top of the rail itself. The route up Dry Creek Canyon was actually a very heavily travelled interconnect for three different railroads 50 years ago. They met in Centerville (Now Athena), and there was a switching area for the various railroads to exchange cars there.
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Actually, the three met in the city limits of what is now Athena. There's nothing there of it now, but I can show you where the grades used to run. Very old maps, from the 50's to 70's will show you the routes of the old rail grades, and they'll have the rail line's name on them.
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where is this rail road ?? also looked like they were going pretty fast on that old 85 pound rail with heavy GP 38s
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Looks like someone put the rail in the wrong place!
Running covered hoppers on anything smaller than 100 lb rail is bad news. That track is in rough shape.
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Old rail + bad ties and vegitation = Derailment.
fermin benedetti how does grass have anything to do with that
@@ThatCubKid Old rails = rust-deteriation, bad ties, is rotted cracked and weather damaged without service, vegetation-grass has roots that bore through the 'moist' ties and parts of old track that keeps moisture with a root system of most grassy areas, can weaken the ties, worse over years of neglect and abandonment. In Ireland, TX there is an old St Louis South Western Depot, with cross-ties still in the dirt road when it headed south-east to Levita, TX back in 1914-1941 era railroads. Most vintage rails are left abandoned on private land after the railroad company went bankrupt / defunct. 10 to 90 years of vegetation, and weathering, made some tracks so unusuable, top 'speed' was 5 mph. There was NO track service legislation to preserve the tracks or remove the track-rails after the company went defunct, and no contract agreements to restore/repair/resurrect the rails to safety standards. Some rails during WW II, was ripped, lines abandoned, and rails were used for the war effort especially old rusting locomotives..
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Hey did they fix it?
Two empties on the head end with a bunch of loads behind and then braking on a curve yet.....its no wonder he derailed. Did they say if the rail rolled over or was it from speed? Many times braking and pulling to hard can result in that type of an incident if the railbed is weak.
The narrator said the "Rail Broke".
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how is it now,,,,
State of The Art--circa 1970 Penn Central! lol
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Can we just use alloy instead of metal?
Some tracks, would require 'total' root canal replacement. Safety laws are passed to make sure each track is safe to operate. In some cases, if the company or railroad can't afford or refuse to spend the funds to upgrade the track, it's a risky effort to try. Most railroad companies, never thought about robust/effective maintenance service deals to keep tracks in good safe condition. Federal government deregulated and it was up to private owners to keep the track safe. Highways were built better, air lines flew people faster, and railroad companies didn't have the budget or federal assistance to repair the old worn out track. UPS, FedEX and DHL all had better ways to move goods. If the Federal government forced railroad companies to repair/service these old grade tracks, would cut derailment and delays. Most Texas railroads went bust, and instead of the cost of removing the tracks, they left it on private land. I've walked a few yards, on old defunct tracks.. Even in Georgia and parts of the south, you got saplings, trees, and thick vegetation growing between the cross ties. Mesquite trees are the worst! Try removing the entire rail/cross tie, ballast on an old road bed, remove the roots of the trees and saplings for say 1 to 50 miles of forrest area? $15.00 to $30.00 an hour for track workers pulling 10-16 hour shifts removing old track, remove the tree roots, or chemicals to kill the trees and rebuild new track... Cost wise... 5 to 20 million + bucks vs cutting a new line, and faster routes.. vs old routes..
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how does that happen all of a sudden - and more importantly, how does it get fixed?
I don’t know, the rail just suddenly snapped. The guys didn’t even notice and were ready to throttle up and pull out of town. I noticed a car leaning a little bit so I alerted the crew, just in time. They spotting out the derailed car and went on their way, but 25 miles later they derailed on the mainline and dumped several cars on the ground (see BLMR Doomed 4). It was a surreal day of railfanning!
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wow
85 pound rail in a switch. no fun to drill and bar
you dont see that clean break in the rail under neath the side frame of the truck? Drilling and barring isnt any fun.
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why is this on my recommended videos?? and why i'm watching it at 3 AM??
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I suppose UA-cam wants you to learn some 30 year old railroad history...
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What state is this in?
Washington State, Walla Walla.
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What state is it in? Looks like the state of Confusion! & Complatiency ! From the looks of the way, its broken-up ties and the flanges singing on the sharp inside edges of the track automatically spell disaster ! It's a good thing they were JUST switching on it and not running a couple of mph under OS. That company must not believe in Maintainence of Way! GP38's are heavy units and need good rail to run on, and rail cars carrying coal do too !
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Oh shit!
WHOOPS.. lol
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thats ackward!!
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How about replacing the railways. Those were probably laid in 1935. Maybe it's better if a disaster happen first, then you'll do something about it, right? Unbelievable! 🙄
Yes those rails are probably 80+ years old. That was taken in 1997. Now in 2024 they still have not replaced the rails but the track overall is in better condition and still used regularly.
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85 pound rail is to small for TODAY'S TONNAGE. , PLUS IT IS AS OLD AS WW ll
+Tejasnite in the second shot where the flanges are really squealing and I'm kicking the rail it is around 60 lbs. The foundry date of the rail on that siding was 1885. It has since been torn out.
85 lb rail? what rr uses 85 lb rail even for yard track? whatever rr does use it is either too stupid, too cheap, or both.
This railroad does. Here's a shot I took several years ago of the same line about 30 miles away i113.photobucket.com/albums/n228/VMac822/Railroading/IMG_0273.jpg
***** You can actually see 'rail roll' clearly in the second shot. Good job!
Well, I guess they don't mind a derailment once or twice a week. When I worked as a track inspector, the FRA would send one of their track inspectors twice a year to accompany my partner and I. He (the FRA insp.), was only interested in the main line and would find fault wherever he could...This joint needs tamping, this bolt is loose, now, I want to string line this curve etc. etc. Never once did he want to see our main freight yard because it was very small. I worked on a Commuter Railroad, 98% passengers, 10% freight. I don't know how thoroughly the FRA checks yard tracks but if they saw this stretch of track and if it was in their jurisdiction to do so, they'd shut it down. Cheers.
No...it was a General Motors, Electro Motive Division General Purpose 38, built about 1965, roughly. They were quite good pulling units. They were component units that, in my opinion, were a lot easier to trouble shoot and repair than the newer ones today. They were outfitted with a DC Main Generator and could be controlled very well. Their Dynamic Breaking worked well, too. All this was before solid state came out. I worked on a bunch of them. DANDY UNITS !
Trust me...the stuff around WWII was the infancy of Diesel Electric Locomotives. WWII era still used Steam !!!
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Why is that shit in my recomendations ?
Я думал это у нас на заброшенной или второстепенной линии, так все похоже
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