This has to be the funniest train incident ever. The train running away from everybody, the police trying to shoot the train, having another train chase over the runaway. Just so damn funny
My favorite quote(s) from Unstoppable is: “We’re gonna run this Bitch down” -Will Colsen 2010 And then when Frank said: “Your Breaking out. Ga grup, haw ba” -Frank Burns 2010 I live off of that movie now
Yeah, I have an O gauge steam loco with "666" die-casted right into the loco and is made by Marx. It ALWAYS crashes on my layout, methinks the devil does that. I've since retired it but once in a while I run it just for fun....muhahaha
Thankfully it had a relatively happy ending,(other than for the engineer) so it could be treated lightheartedly. I understand that the basic idea, of hooking another loco onto the back of a runaway has happened several times over the years in America - shows the value of automatic buckeye couplings. Until recently it wouldn't have been possible here in England.
Like Old Iron, only Edward coupled up from behind and braked James to a slow crawl so that a driver / fireman from another locomotive could jump in and apply the brakes
It's freaking amazing that they managed to stop the train without any major accidents. Kudos to the awesome engineers that caught up to the train and slowed it down!
@@twistedyogert Maybe. Or maybe he got hired by another railroad someplace that was willing to give him a second chance like say a short line operation. The thing that he did is actually a pretty common thing that trainmen do. He was in a hurry and took a shortcut to save time, had probably done it a hundred times before and this time it bit him in the ass.
It's pretty hard for railroad employees to get fired. LOL I wonder if the engineer tried to appeal his firing and what his union said to try to defend causing an incident like this.
Shotgun barrels (specialty) are rifled to use a "slug" as projectile rather than typical smooth-bore for pellet (buckshot) loads. I am also confused by the inaccuracies of the narrative. Ohio cops, tho, like to shoot things (testicle-building exercise)
I watched Unstoppable recently. This documentary resembles most of the movie, except one person died in the movie and the conductor was injured on the locomotive that going to stop the train, and a few slight differences is that one of the ditchlights got damaged when it hit a horse trailer.
@@TheAkashicTraveller yeah, which actually would have been a lot better than what happened. As a railroad conductor, I think it wasn’t really their fault as the radios were faulty. But that driver did an extremely risking thing by getting off a moving train to run ahead and throw a switch, then try to hop back on. Like that shit is crazy to even think about. But, sometimes derailing is much better than another outcome, which is why they make derailers (obviously). And if the engineer had just blew the air out of the train (makes the train stop much quicker) even if he did go over a bad switch and derail I can say there’s a very good chance he wouldn’t have lost his job. Although in this line of work, many many many things can go wrong. And they will always point fingers.
Seems like Unstoppable was more accurate than people give it credit for. Okay, so there was a little embellishment here and there to keep it entertaining, but the basic storyline more or less follows what actually happened to 8888.
I remember watching this as "breaking news" on TV, and wondering why they didn't just chopper someone aboard to shut it down. Granted, it might have taken more than half an hour to get the train stopped -- but that beats the stew out of 2 hours!
@@wireflight Because A. the railroad doesn't keep helicopters around for emergencies, B. it's really hard to do something like that, and very few pilots are trained in flying over a moving vehicle steadily enough to transfer a person to it...that's stunt-man work, C. it's really dangerous to do something like that: where and how is the railroad going to verify to the stunt-pilot that there is a mile or two of totally clear track without any gantries, overhead cables, bridges, signals, or anything else sticking up or crossing the track that the helicopter might hit or snag the cable on as it flies past. Even if the railroad knew of a section that they didn't have anything like that on, it doesn't mean that there isn't something ELSE that the railroad knows nothing about right by the track. Who's going to go over the whole thing to verify first? And what are the odds this clear, straight section of track would happen to be within the few miles ahead of the runaway train? Not to say that it couldn't be done, just that railroads don't keep trained pilots around, with heroes trained to rappel down onto trains moving at 60mph and special clear zones of track specially intended for safe low-level flying. It would take hours to locate a copter and a pilot skilled enough and ready to do it, plan out a safe place to make the attempt, gear up with rope or other equipment. Like 6 hours would be an amazingly fast time to put something like that together, never mind how long it would take to actually carry it out. If something seems like it should obviously be done that wasn't done, always assume it's because there is things you hadn't thought of or weren't aware of, not just that everyone is an idiot except you (which seems to be the general default opinion of most people). Look, a train has a limited fuel load; it's not going to go forever, they knew this. Far safer to wait it out, unless there is reason to think it might derail in a residential area and kill someone. If they really have to stop it before that, this is why they created derails, which will pop the locomotive right off the track. It's not going far after that. They didn't do that because it can do a lot of damage to the locomotive, the rolling stock and the track and track bed, and there is no point if they figure it will safely stop eventually anyway. THe helicopter idea is just pure Hollywood, just not practical in the real world, where you can't just call up the airport and borrow a chopper and stunt pilot for dangerous, exciting low-level rescue missions on a few minutes notice.
Well...Denzel's cockiness in tbe movie irritated me. Every cocky engineer ive met or worked with was not on the level of his cockiness. Any cockiness to his level would have got him fired a long time ago.
@DOMENIC EXPRESS111 why the heck are you watching this, aren't you a bit too young to watch this, however since I can determine your grade, good luck with your midterms and testing
Ffarquhar Developer says who? He’s clearly a train enthusiast so I say it’s better for him to learn of this situation at an early age. Provides him with much needed information should he ever choose a career in the Railroads
That's one of the things that I don't get about unstoppable. Why can a road-switcher pull 25 cars just fine, but 39 with you need 2 heavy-hual locos on full power?
I don’t even think it was pulling 39 cars. I separated the train into sections. The first 6 cars + the first four tankers in the movie equals 10 cars. Adding the 3 coal cars and the 2 flatbeds hauling the pipes equals 15 cars. Another 4 tankers equals 19 cars. Adding the last 6 cars equals 25 cars.
@@YourMid740, I have seen 2 videos of the entire 777 consist before. The videos were taken while the movie was being filmed though, and both were shortened. Probably for filming purposes.
He attempted to hit put on the breaks and set the trottle to slow it down. Unfortunatly he failed to put the breaks on and apparently slow down throttle with the breaks on is the same as speed up without the breaks on also. Also the other break, which he did hit, disables the deadman switch. If the train controls weren't designed by a moron everything would have been fine even if he didn't get back in, the train would have just stopped. In short they put the blame on the driver when it really wasn't his fault. I just hope they didn't ingore the real issue and at the very least fixed the deadmans switch on all trains.
The deadman’s switch is deactivated when the brakes are applied. It was working. This locomotive had a combination controller. Dynamic and power are on the same lever. They are sort of confusing. Most of them have been taken out of service by now.
Runaway train (not just break failure or wrong weight calculation) were quite common, especially before cars have pneumatic breaks (modern ones that requires negative/pressure to disengage)
Why the engineer thought it was a good idea to get off the train in the first place is beyond me. I mean seriously in what world would it be okay to leave a moving locomotive unmanned?
To change the setting from throttle to dynamic braking requires clicking back on the selector lever something like 3 times. Not clicking it enough does not change the setting, which is what happened to the engineer of the runaway. Since EMD's of that vintage rev up when going into dynamic like they do when the throttle setting is increased, the engineer thought he had succeeded in putting the unit in dynamic. Really, that locomotive with conventional dynamic brakes wasn't going to put out much more braking effort at the low speed it was moving when he first tried to stop. He would have been better off with just the independent brake. There was no way he was going to stop before he ran through the switch, which he was trying to avoid because he had a spotless record up to that point, hence the desperate move to throw the switch ahead of the locomotive. Definitely should have taken the hit for a run through switch instead.
"The Crazy 8's incident will NEVER be forgotten." Seriously, dude, train fan that I am, if I hadn't accidentally stumbled across this video, I would never even had the chance to remember it! Great video, though. Thanks for posting.
they were most likely hoping the spread would give them a better chance of hitting the small button on a train moving 40-50mph or whatever it was moving. A slug would take more accuracy.
CattleRustler I’ll have you know that man was a former Marine! He qualified as a marksman. He knew how to stop a motorcade, which is sort of like a train but with cars so you might be on to something here. It’s too bad it didn’t happen that way, then we could’ve spent the next 50 years trying to figure out who actually shot that train....
This might be my favourite video of yours I’ve seen so far. No fatalities, or injuries. This is just hilarious. I mean, yeah dude got fired, but that’s fair
3:10 Thomas runaway theme 4:30 sans theme 4:58 Lone Ranger theme (fells like Thomas and the jet engine version) 6:59 asrilal dreamer theme Plus I don’t get why is considered a accident it’s baccily a runway. And this came up for unstoppable train Edit: uhhh
Diesel locomotives 200 tons. Fully loaded freight cars 120 tons. Large steam locomotives 350-500 tons including fuel & water tender (equivalent to fuel tank on diesel). A million ton train would require locomotives spaced through the train. To try to pull a million ton train with all of the locomotives at the head end would break the couplings. A million ton train would be a stunt, not practical.
4:44 this is where I started grinning like an idiot. It was such a stupidly started problem with much at stake and people decided that a high-speed chase would be the best plan. Makes me proud to be human.
MAN those SD40-3 cabs look weird!! I'm glad railroads are still able to keep, update, and keep using their SD40s, but I guess that comes with a cosmetic price haha
I believe the 8888 should have been preserved maybe. New locomotives like the Dash 9 and ES44ACs will take over, but SD40-2s will do small switching, but also might become obsolete.
Why? Just because they like to chose stupid titles like that for sappy documentaries about tragic events in the past? No reason it can't refer to anything in the past.
you know what would be interesting is if this train crashed into somebody's house around breakfast time. That would represent the Thomas and Friends episode, "Thomas comes to breakfast".
Today marks 19 years since this runaway that was inspired to make the 2010 movie Unstoppable 9 years later that's a really good movie that I recommend watching.
Thanks very much for this! I'd never heard of this before! Normally I don't like documentaries that mix real life footage with simulated but this worked very well to explain what happened!
I remember reading a similar story like this many years ago in a book. It was sitting in a yard running while awaiting a new crew. I don't remember the exact details, but it somehow manage moving on its own picking up speed. At one point it jumped a derailer and land on another set of tracks. ( This has to be a work of a fiction writer ) but it was interesting.
One of the reasons not mentioned here why the engineer was having trouble getting back on the train was due to spaghetti. The engineer had been eating meatballs in the cabin and his hands were very slippy with marinara sauce. I hope this accident would be a catalyst for the introduction of PTC (Pasta Train Control) but sadly the NTSB stopped taking my calls months ago.
Willy Del yeah he said it in the video , museums wanted to contain it in display but csx wanted to keep the sd40-2 but then they changed 8888 into a sd40-3 number 4389 so if you see a sd40-3 number 4389 remember about the csx sd40-2 8888
*CSX 888 is still in service today in 2017 it was rebuilt as a sd40-3 labeled as 4389 it is still in service according to CSX and it still has the spirit of 8888*
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Sorry to be so picky, but could you please not use Thomas the Tank Engine music for your videos? It kinda feels out of place and not appropriate for scenes where a serious situation takes place in your video (mainly in your videos where you talk about serious crashes). But like the use of the "Runaway Train" score from that classic masterpiece. Fits the topic of this video.
As a pilot with an interest in understanding aviation accidents, this was very intriguing. The one thing that stands out to me in this incident, beyond the bad decision to leave the train, was the horrendous design of the control interface. One thing that's often found to be a causal factor in many aviation incidents, beyond human error, is the human factors design of the systems. That means having a clear, intuitive purpose for each control lever, screen, light, or noise. The fact that the same lever, moved in the same direction, can either mean FULL brake or FULL throttle, also without any clarifying indication to the operator, is simply dumbfounding. Hopefully they contacted some interface design engineers and learned their lesson for later locomotives.
Some sort of way to remotely disable the locomotive would have been nice too. Probably have some sort of system in place now but this was 17 years ago.
It's actually even worse on 8888 than in the simulation - 8888 used an older control scheme that required a switch to be pushed about 3 or so times before it would switch from power to brake, and there was no super clear indicator for if it is on brake or on power. It's understandable how the guy made a mistake in the heat of the moment.
It would be interesting to hear your take on the runaway oil tanker train in Quebec that burnt down the majestic town of Lac Magentic that I had once visited before this.
7:44 For people who haven't seen that movie I highly recommend watching it it's a great movie and by far my favorite train movie besides old 587 the great train robbery
4:26 oh no a runaway train. Better play megalovania
Haha ture
The train was having a bad time
Lol
Lol
But not
This has to be the funniest train incident ever. The train running away from everybody, the police trying to shoot the train, having another train chase over the runaway. Just so damn funny
This is actually very funny to me
And then when they stopped it, the train in front finally arrives and connects:
YO GUYS I SAVED EVERYBODY I STOPPED THIS TRAIN ALL BY MYSELF!
the runaway themes make it better
And that there were no casualties
We’re lucky no one got hurt
My favorite quote(s) from Unstoppable is:
“We’re gonna run this Bitch down”
-Will Colsen 2010
And then when Frank said:
“Your Breaking out. Ga grup, haw ba”
-Frank Burns 2010
I live off of that movie now
"Don't get sentimental on me; make me think I'm gonna die." ~Frank
"It *_got away_* from you?! It's a train Dewey, not a chipmunk!" ;)
Aleatha Vogel “I had to leave the cab to throw a switch”
"It was 39 cars!!!"
I had to leave the cab to through the switch
LMFAO I have that DVD
Aleatha Vogel that had to be one of my favorite quotes from the movie
lesson to be learned: any train with the same number repeated as their number will crash
777, 8888
What vid is 777 in? Kinda new here and haven't seen it
Don't forget.666
Spirit_ Wolf3737 the movie “Unstoppable”
Not true, there is a CSX 777, and it has not ran away, which is what I hope you mean by "crash"
Yeah, I have an O gauge steam loco with "666" die-casted right into the loco and is made by Marx. It ALWAYS crashes on my layout, methinks the devil does that. I've since retired it but once in a while I run it just for fun....muhahaha
8888: What shall I do, I can't stop! Help, help!
8392: We're coming! We're coming!
YESSS🤣🤣
Uh oh! I spy wonky eyes! Henry….
5:34 - The engines swayed and lurched. At last, “Got Him!”
Orange balloon: STOP THE TRAIN!!!!
Lolololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!"
Big smoke is that you?
Ashley gaming plays gacha life and Roblox noice goocha life
Yes
Nani? 何？
Picked the wrong fool!
The train sim clips made this short documentary more interesting
They were by my boy Gustavtime
What sim is this?
Tarciso Filho Train simulator 2018 by dovetail games (soon to be patched to Train Simulator 2019 including a 32bit to 64 bit upgrade)
They were made most likely to show what might have happened based on the description given in the video.
@@MerleTrains looks like a game from 2008 tbh.
Thankfully it had a relatively happy ending,(other than for the engineer) so it could be treated lightheartedly. I understand that the basic idea, of hooking another loco onto the back of a runaway has happened several times over the years in America - shows the value of automatic buckeye couplings. Until recently it wouldn't have been possible here in England.
this honestly sounds like a thomas the tank engine episode...
yea, i noticed the music lol
"Luckily, noone was hurt."
This actually was I think
I agree
Like Old Iron, only Edward coupled up from behind and braked James to a slow crawl so that a driver / fireman from another locomotive could jump in and apply the brakes
**CSX changes 8888's cab to a SD40-3**
_look how they massacred my boy_
They are nice on the interior though.
51HankySpanky SD40-8888
It’s now CSX 4389
They should have just, gave the locomotive to the museums
@51HankySpanky More like SD40-3, or SpongeBob SquareCab
It's freaking amazing that they managed to stop the train without any major accidents. Kudos to the awesome engineers that caught up to the train and slowed it down!
Yelp
I agree
Actually calming it down, THAT IS..... from the way it looked
Equally to law enforcement for blocking crossings.
I'm just gonna guess that engineer lost his job.
Edit: Yup, that's what I figured.
Well he works at a fast food chain now 😂
@@BruDia At least he's away from any vehicles.
@@twistedyogert Maybe. Or maybe he got hired by another railroad someplace that was willing to give him a second chance like say a short line operation. The thing that he did is actually a pretty common thing that trainmen do. He was in a hurry and took a shortcut to save time, had probably done it a hundred times before and this time it bit him in the ass.
@@po9318 hahahah
It's pretty hard for railroad employees to get fired. LOL I wonder if the engineer tried to appeal his firing and what his union said to try to defend causing an incident like this.
“Buckshot from a rifle” boi
ironmatic 1 he also called it a bullet 😂😂😂
I herd of that lmao
12 gauge rifle hmm
Shotgun barrels (specialty) are rifled to use a "slug" as projectile rather than typical smooth-bore for pellet (buckshot) loads. I am also confused by the inaccuracies of the narrative. Ohio cops, tho, like to shoot things (testicle-building exercise)
Laughed also
I watched Unstoppable recently. This documentary resembles most of the movie, except one person died in the movie and the conductor was injured on the locomotive that going to stop the train, and a few slight differences is that one of the ditchlights got damaged when it hit a horse trailer.
I laughed way too hard when the Thomas the Tank Engine run away music started up. XD
same lol XD
*"hello there" meme #1046888826 passing through*
Are you sad?
Why do I keep finding you
Time stamp
Brakes:Im Gonna have to stop you right there.
8888:
8888 nope
Look at your name please don’t name a ttain
Brakes:Im Gonna have to stop you right there
8888:
me: oh just let the train run out of fuel?
"Meanwhile the engineer noticed a mis-aligned switch"
**One specific track spazzing out in the simulation**
Too bad whoever designed that deadman switch was a moron. If the driver hadn't done what he did the train would have probably derailed.
@@TheAkashicTraveller yeah, which actually would have been a lot better than what happened. As a railroad conductor, I think it wasn’t really their fault as the radios were faulty. But that driver did an extremely risking thing by getting off a moving train to run ahead and throw a switch, then try to hop back on. Like that shit is crazy to even think about. But, sometimes derailing is much better than another outcome, which is why they make derailers (obviously). And if the engineer had just blew the air out of the train (makes the train stop much quicker) even if he did go over a bad switch and derail I can say there’s a very good chance he wouldn’t have lost his job. Although in this line of work, many many many things can go wrong. And they will always point fingers.
Time stamp pls
Seems like Unstoppable was more accurate than people give it credit for. Okay, so there was a little embellishment here and there to keep it entertaining, but the basic storyline more or less follows what actually happened to 8888.
Ashbridge Industries the movie is literally the same as this accident but with a different train
THE LEADER a few things are added in like the Stanton curve scene, the lashup derailment, etc
I remember watching this as "breaking news" on TV, and wondering why they didn't just chopper someone aboard to shut it down. Granted, it might have taken more than half an hour to get the train stopped -- but that beats the stew out of 2 hours!
@@wireflight Because A. the railroad doesn't keep helicopters around for emergencies, B. it's really hard to do something like that, and very few pilots are trained in flying over a moving vehicle steadily enough to transfer a person to it...that's stunt-man work, C. it's really dangerous to do something like that: where and how is the railroad going to verify to the stunt-pilot that there is a mile or two of totally clear track without any gantries, overhead cables, bridges, signals, or anything else sticking up or crossing the track that the helicopter might hit or snag the cable on as it flies past. Even if the railroad knew of a section that they didn't have anything like that on, it doesn't mean that there isn't something ELSE that the railroad knows nothing about right by the track. Who's going to go over the whole thing to verify first? And what are the odds this clear, straight section of track would happen to be within the few miles ahead of the runaway train?
Not to say that it couldn't be done, just that railroads don't keep trained pilots around, with heroes trained to rappel down onto trains moving at 60mph and special clear zones of track specially intended for safe low-level flying. It would take hours to locate a copter and a pilot skilled enough and ready to do it, plan out a safe place to make the attempt, gear up with rope or other equipment. Like 6 hours would be an amazingly fast time to put something like that together, never mind how long it would take to actually carry it out. If something seems like it should obviously be done that wasn't done, always assume it's because there is things you hadn't thought of or weren't aware of, not just that everyone is an idiot except you (which seems to be the general default opinion of most people).
Look, a train has a limited fuel load; it's not going to go forever, they knew this. Far safer to wait it out, unless there is reason to think it might derail in a residential area and kill someone. If they really have to stop it before that, this is why they created derails, which will pop the locomotive right off the track. It's not going far after that. They didn't do that because it can do a lot of damage to the locomotive, the rolling stock and the track and track bed, and there is no point if they figure it will safely stop eventually anyway. THe helicopter idea is just pure Hollywood, just not practical in the real world, where you can't just call up the airport and borrow a chopper and stunt pilot for dangerous, exciting low-level rescue missions on a few minutes notice.
Well...Denzel's cockiness in tbe movie irritated me. Every cocky engineer ive met or worked with was not on the level of his cockiness. Any cockiness to his level would have got him fired a long time ago.
bro the Thomas the tank engine song brought back memories
I KNEW the background music at the "runaway" point was familiar!
Yeah true I miss Thomas
@DOMENIC EXPRESS111 why the heck are you watching this, aren't you a bit too young to watch this, however since I can determine your grade, good luck with your midterms and testing
Ffarquhar Developer says who? He’s clearly a train enthusiast so I say it’s better for him to learn of this situation at an early age. Provides him with much needed information should he ever choose a career in the Railroads
Thomas is my childhood, I will never forget thomas
3:03
I love that you used the classic “Runaway” theme from Thomas! It fits so well! 😂
At first I was tough it was just a random song but then when I thought about it I remembered it was the Tomas song
Brings back so many childhood memories from my early life.
@Nathaniel Cruz The official title for the tune is “William Tell Overture”
4:56
This one Also is from ttte
Cringe
I guess it's better to be turned into a SD-40 than scrapped and end up as cans for WD-40 🤔
WD-40 might've been useful, spray the rails on a hill with it and the train slips to a stand.
8888 was a SD-40 but it’s a SD-40-3 now.
a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance my can of wd-40 couldve been from a damn train
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ
All you had to do was not turn trains into cans cj
"Connie the throttle was in Notch 8 Full power! Okay!? It was 39 Cars!!!"
That's one of the things that I don't get about unstoppable. Why can a road-switcher pull 25 cars just fine, but 39 with you need 2 heavy-hual locos on full power?
@@turnerdeedo4633 Thats what confused me about the film.
I don’t even think it was pulling 39 cars. I separated the train into sections. The first 6 cars + the first four tankers in the movie equals 10 cars. Adding the 3 coal cars and the 2 flatbeds hauling the pipes equals 15 cars. Another 4 tankers equals 19 cars. Adding the last 6 cars equals 25 cars.
So in summary it was not pulling 39 cars, it was pulling 25 cars.
@@YourMid740, I have seen 2 videos of the entire 777 consist before. The videos were taken while the movie was being filmed though, and both were shortened. Probably for filming purposes.
The engineer was hired by the PRR in 1966 and he thought he would be able to run alongside his engine in 2001?
He attempted to hit put on the breaks and set the trottle to slow it down. Unfortunatly he failed to put the breaks on and apparently slow down throttle with the breaks on is the same as speed up without the breaks on also. Also the other break, which he did hit, disables the deadman switch. If the train controls weren't designed by a moron everything would have been fine even if he didn't get back in, the train would have just stopped. In short they put the blame on the driver when it really wasn't his fault. I just hope they didn't ingore the real issue and at the very least fixed the deadmans switch on all trains.
The deadman’s switch is deactivated when the brakes are applied. It was working.
This locomotive had a combination controller. Dynamic and power are on the same lever. They are sort of confusing. Most of them have been taken out of service by now.
Nice use of the 1985 runaway train soundtrack
Railroad,Preserver,2000 I believe that's Half-Life, actually
Wait. Both were used, lol
@@alonectorch and Undertale.
Undertake ost was used quite a bit
Yeeeeeee
"Dewey! It's a train! Not a chipmunk!"
griffin rails I’m a fan of your channel dude
George Thomson me too
I remember that line from unstoppable
This train accident its like THOMAS AND THE RUNAWAY TRAIN wow!!!
They played the song in the video
That’s what it’s based of
Runaway train (not just break failure or wrong weight calculation) were quite common, especially before cars have pneumatic breaks (modern ones that requires negative/pressure to disengage)
Same
Why the engineer thought it was a good idea to get off the train in the first place is beyond me. I mean seriously in what world would it be okay to leave a moving locomotive unmanned?
They essentially do this in some railyards when they operate the locomotives via remote control.
The world of Thomas and friends
To change the setting from throttle to dynamic braking requires clicking back on the selector lever something like 3 times. Not clicking it enough does not change the setting, which is what happened to the engineer of the runaway. Since EMD's of that vintage rev up when going into dynamic like they do when the throttle setting is increased, the engineer thought he had succeeded in putting the unit in dynamic. Really, that locomotive with conventional dynamic brakes wasn't going to put out much more braking effort at the low speed it was moving when he first tried to stop. He would have been better off with just the independent brake. There was no way he was going to stop before he ran through the switch, which he was trying to avoid because he had a spotless record up to that point, hence the desperate move to throw the switch ahead of the locomotive. Definitely should have taken the hit for a run through switch instead.
Karl Rovey it was supposed to stop, the brakes were not switched on so it continued to speed up.
I know just have the worked he ran to change the track
*Luckily, no one was hurt.*
Then Thomas hits a car and kills Sir Topham Hatt. Que Roblox Oof.
*poo*
Except the engineer.
Mandy Plodek it’s just a joke idiot
Oof
The fact that this thing still operates after being rebuilt is impressive, and from the late 70s too.
I just watched UNSTOPPABLE a few weeks ago. Edge-of-chair watching! I’m so glad I came upon this presentation you put together!
ya know, this woulda made a great three stooges episode
hey curly!! i said stop! stop! Oh, soitenley Moe, just let me align the switch.. nuyk, nyuk, nyuk!
Lol that would be funny!
d e austin ... including star guests Buster Keaton and Stan and Laurel ...
😶😶😶😶😶 nononono😶😶😶😶😶😶
Yes
Very good, very informative. Loved the William Tell Overture for the train chase. Rossini is smiling.
4:26 Sans train Sans train
*the crew of 8392 is filled with determination*
youre filled with determination
Megatrainvania
Urt urt I am a train urt urt
Meme while
Da real unstoppable
This is the locomotive that inspired the movie, after all.
Thatz what I was thinking.
Ya
Ramon Pardo and some parts where inspired by the 1985 movie, runaway train.
*The
The most intense part of unstoppable
"WE JUST LOST OUR BREAKS"
"The Crazy 8's incident will NEVER be forgotten." Seriously, dude, train fan that I am, if I hadn't accidentally stumbled across this video, I would never even had the chance to remember it! Great video, though. Thanks for posting.
Buckshot is from a shotgun, not a rifle. I would also think they would have used slugs?
they were most likely hoping the spread would give them a better chance of hitting the small button on a train moving 40-50mph or whatever it was moving. A slug would take more accuracy.
@a e s t h e t i c a l THey were trying any and everything they could think of.
@a e s t h e t i c a l its not a crazy idea tho. Youre throwing 7-15 lead balls at the button from a safe distance. They used the only tools they had
A lone shooter 6 floors up in a book depository building could have easily made the shot (rolls eyes)
CattleRustler I’ll have you know that man was a former Marine! He qualified as a marksman. He knew how to stop a motorcade, which is sort of like a train but with cars so you might be on to something here. It’s too bad it didn’t happen that way, then we could’ve spent the next 50 years trying to figure out who actually shot that train....
This might be my favourite video of yours I’ve seen so far. No fatalities, or injuries. This is just hilarious. I mean, yeah dude got fired, but that’s fair
Their was an error and he didn't get fired
3:10 Thomas runaway theme
4:30 sans theme
4:58 Lone Ranger theme (fells like Thomas and the jet engine version)
6:59 asrilal dreamer theme
Plus I don’t get why is considered a accident it’s baccily a runway. And this came up for unstoppable train
Edit: uhhh
Trains cars ROBLOX Fan 22 actually Lone Ranger was really t&f.
That's the William Tell overture.
TheCreepersGood huh
its Asriel
its Asriel Dreemurr
Tell me, where can I find a "1,000,000 ton" freight train?
Australia
The 1,000,000 ton freight train store, obviously. Or ebay.
Big Boy coupled to 20 freight cars
Diesel locomotives 200 tons. Fully loaded freight cars 120 tons.
Large steam locomotives 350-500 tons including fuel & water tender (equivalent to fuel tank on diesel).
A million ton train would require locomotives spaced through the train. To try to pull a million ton train with all of the locomotives at the head end would break the couplings. A million ton train would be a stunt, not practical.
Wal-Mart 😎
4:44 this is where I started grinning like an idiot. It was such a stupidly started problem with much at stake and people decided that a high-speed chase would be the best plan. Makes me proud to be human.
0:26 I recognize that music from the 1985 movie runaway train
Rea life crazy 8 event, and 2 great train movies joined together.
Btw great movie! 🎉🎆🎇👻
Me too is it from gravity falls?
Is that from unstopable?
MAN those SD40-3 cabs look weird!! I'm glad railroads are still able to keep, update, and keep using their SD40s, but I guess that comes with a cosmetic price haha
They do look weird but their actually quite functional
Train: Bye bye idiot
Conductor: WAIT! COME BACK!
Random person: *Stops train*
Train: Man, i just wanted to have some fun
LOL
Imagine if it never stopped.
Lololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@florjanbrudar692 Help I can’t stop! 400 years later:help I still can’t stop!
Welp I guess that was what unstoppable was 99% based off of
No 88% because 1 not same reason of how it happened 2 its csx not awvr
It really was. Just made a little more dramatic.
One question
Was it just me or did the operator of shotgun “chosen” to hit fuel safety switch, look like a rookie that hadn’t fired the gun before
You determined all that by that blurry ass video of him amazing
he hit the switch but it had to be held down.
Lol, I agree. The kick almost knocked the fool on his ass.
4:57 *(ttts) Thomas and the jet engine*
Or busy going backwards
Its Both
I love your mini docs! Your enthusiasm brings the stories to life! Thank you!
Not worthy for preservation my foot CSX
Matthew Cousino I’m literally dying of laughter
The 8888 was not worn out and was not obsolete. It was upgradable. There was nothing wrong with it. Operator (train driver) error.
I believe the 8888 should have been preserved maybe. New locomotives like the Dash 9 and ES44ACs will take over, but SD40-2s will do small switching, but also might become obsolete.
Thank you for using the music from Thomas and the Jet Engine
That's also from busy going backwards
I've never heard of this before. With the title saying 17 years later I thought this was something tragic lol
Why? Just because they like to chose stupid titles like that for sappy documentaries about tragic events in the past? No reason it can't refer to anything in the past.
If only thanos car was there, it could've stopped this madness
Stupid meme
No, actually the stones killed the conductor and engineer
Yes
ugh,thanos car, ew
Mtndewgang its a truck dumbass. Ppl like you ruin memes
4389 has been working RCL duties at Curtis Bay yard in Baltimore, MD for the past 3 years.
That would be a Interesting Table Story Starter. “Hey, Have I ever told you the time I stopped a Runaway Train By coupling On at 55 MPH?”
Hahahaha
Peridot lmao. That would be good.
it would lol
you know what would be interesting is if this train crashed into somebody's house around breakfast time. That would represent the Thomas and Friends episode, "Thomas comes to breakfast".
Norton Hatfield *snort* why do you Aim that at my humour so well?
Cajon Pass 1989:
Love how they bring my childhood into this good idea using thomas music😂😂😂
I loved the Thomas The Tank Engine music lol
I love how you added the "Thomas & Friends" Runaway Theme as part of this video. :D
Me to
not a thing, drunkard
Today marks 19 years since this runaway that was inspired to make the 2010 movie Unstoppable 9 years later that's a really good movie that I recommend watching.
Diggin the Thomas music
Dude, I love how you have the Thomas the Tank Engine music in this video.
I don't know why, but the music when the buckshot part plays slows down and toots always makes me laugh for some reason. Great video!
the undertale music in the beginning makes it so much more intense
cheboib I knew I heard undertale!! I thought I was going crazy 😳😬
oh my fuckinggod i love undetrail!!!!!!!
YESSS!!! Somebody said it!!!!!
Imma make UnderTrail an AU now. It's all just nature walks and hiking.
4:26
Undertale music plays
Me: Oh ye, this my jam
It’s swap sans megalovania
"All you had to do was fully stop the damn train, CJ!"
DAMNIT SMOKE!
Thanks very much for this! I'd never heard of this before!
Normally I don't like documentaries that mix real life footage with simulated but this worked very well to explain what happened!
I remember reading a similar story like this many years ago in a book. It was sitting in a yard running while awaiting a new crew.
I don't remember the exact details, but it somehow manage moving on its own picking up speed. At one point it jumped a derailer and land on another set of tracks. ( This has to be a work of a fiction writer ) but it was interesting.
Love your graphics! Pretty cool and made me giggle a few times. Also very informative, thank you!
I love how you used the old Thomas runaway theme
One of the reasons not mentioned here why the engineer was having trouble getting back on the train was due to spaghetti. The engineer had been eating meatballs in the cabin and his hands were very slippy with marinara sauce. I hope this accident would be a catalyst for the introduction of PTC (Pasta Train Control) but sadly the NTSB stopped taking my calls months ago.
Lmao
That would be an interesting headline to tell the story
"A plate of spaghetti puts thousands at risk"
In between this dudes 1st and 3rd most popular videos, both of which cover tragic events, is his 2nd most popular video about a circus on rails
The crazy 8s is here
Willy Del yeah he said it in the video , museums wanted to contain it in display but csx wanted to keep the sd40-2 but then they changed 8888 into a sd40-3 number 4389 so if you see a sd40-3 number 4389 remember about the csx sd40-2 8888
Does anybody else notice the Runaway train soundtrack if you do I salute you cause that’s an old school film.
And my favorite movie of all time too.
I recognized it
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren i love that movie, good one too!
Your bloopers make these videos just the best!
"With The Cab Of A Spongebob Square-Cab looking shape"
Me: EX-SQUEEZE ME?
Thats what she said
9:13 why I'll sue that person who called him at the wrong time!!!!!
*CSX 888 is still in service today in 2017 it was rebuilt as a sd40-3 labeled as 4389 it is still in service according to CSX and it still has the spirit of 8888*
Pretty good video but there has never been a train that weighed 1 million tons.
read.... the..... description......
When you hear Megalovania from Undertale. XD
Kate Davis *the crew of 8293 is filled with determination*
Meanwhile in Undertale: Sans: I'm gonna crash a train!
@@SgtPotatoChip6356 well actually it's underswap's sans theme
5:19 of the chase starts playing Thomas and Friends original Toad the brakevan runaway with troublesome trucks theme
That’s my personal favourite TTTE runaway theme
It also played in "Thomas and the Jet Engine"
@@jamesgroccia644My favorite episode!
4:59 NOT TO WORRY HERE I COME!
What's that song
@@bthompson1767 William Tell Overature
Dang this TTTE soundtrack is more fire than my spotify playlist
8888: help help I can’t stop I can’t stop!!
8392: we’re coming we’re coming!!
I was waiting for an old iron reference
The Molten Phenol if ignited, can level a whole town.
And at 5:40 there was a thunderstorm warning. A missed opportunity for a different movie there.
@@Nurichiri that’s was in a different area lol
@@NishnaValleyRailVideos Still, a runaway train with dangerous cargo crossing the path of a nasty storm would be a hell of a movie.
Uh, no. Phenol just burns with a sooty flame. It's not particularly healthy to breathe, but it's not a persistent pollutant.
Actually, if you ever used watercolor paints, their smell is due to phenol (that is used as a preservative).
This sound like that Denzel Washington movie...
It is. It's alright but I like Runaway Train a little more.
Delancey Cheeks, that’s what it was based off of
Unstoppable
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Sorry to be so picky, but could you please not use Thomas the Tank Engine music for your videos? It kinda feels out of place and not appropriate for scenes where a serious situation takes place in your video (mainly in your videos where you talk about serious crashes). But like the use of the "Runaway Train" score from that classic masterpiece. Fits the topic of this video.
Thomas: I’m the most heroic engine ever
Csx 8392: Hold my beer
As a pilot with an interest in understanding aviation accidents, this was very intriguing. The one thing that stands out to me in this incident, beyond the bad decision to leave the train, was the horrendous design of the control interface. One thing that's often found to be a causal factor in many aviation incidents, beyond human error, is the human factors design of the systems. That means having a clear, intuitive purpose for each control lever, screen, light, or noise. The fact that the same lever, moved in the same direction, can either mean FULL brake or FULL throttle, also without any clarifying indication to the operator, is simply dumbfounding. Hopefully they contacted some interface design engineers and learned their lesson for later locomotives.
Some sort of way to remotely disable the locomotive would have been nice too. Probably have some sort of system in place now but this was 17 years ago.
It's actually even worse on 8888 than in the simulation - 8888 used an older control scheme that required a switch to be pushed about 3 or so times before it would switch from power to brake, and there was no super clear indicator for if it is on brake or on power. It's understandable how the guy made a mistake in the heat of the moment.
Which is one of the reasons why the went to what they call a "combined power handle" on newer locomotives.
Greg Rowe PTC, but not all roads have it yet.
It would be interesting to hear your take on the runaway oil tanker train in Quebec that burnt down the majestic town of Lac Magentic that I had once visited before this.
I honestly like to believe this is what inspired "The Adventure Begins" runaway
7:44 For people who haven't seen that movie I highly recommend watching it it's a great movie and by far my favorite train movie besides old 587 the great train robbery
Ol'Captain Kirk and Denzel made quick work of it all!
You deserve the best for this comment
4:01 Correction: Firearms with smoothbore barrels, like .410, 20ga or 12ga shotguns are not rifles.
I like how he uses the thomas and friends run away theme
Spongebob SquareCab. Lol
TalenGryphon LMAO
How?
I LOVE THIS VIDEO MAKE MORE!!!! AND KEEP GOING
I didn't know I was alive when this happened
Neither did I, I was just 11 months old back then.
@Szymon Kasperczak Then you shouldn't be on UA-cam. UA-cam guidelines require you to be at least 13 to have an UA-cam account.
I was 7 but I didn't know about this.
me two
Thomas music!!!
When
pranks in the hood gone wrong 3:08
Thank you for uploading these they're really interesting stories
All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!