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I am retired from Union Pacific and the only people I knew that could get that excited over a knuckle or drawbar break is a MOP (manager of operating practices).
As a knuckle is known to break separating a train when it brings shivers to train watchers hearing the train go into an emergency brake application as the squeal of the brakes in the first two videos brings shivers to train watchers.
totally better too have them then non at all because look at the ones that didn't have that system those cars can keep going for a while if they don't have the break system installed.
I was on a train once that came uncoupled. It was in the middle of nowhere, in Northern Ontario, back in the mid '70. The knuckle didn't break, but the steam pipe did.
Whats with the video with coaches at @ 2:30 ? Didn't seem like it 🥴 Seems pretty dangerous to me, if the leading train happens to start braking they might collide and derail Correct me if I'm wrong
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its been 40+ since I worked the rails, but that first one looks to me like a drawbar, not a knuckle. Drawbar pull - I was told - was far more dangerous than broken knuckle becuase the drawbar weighs around 600 pounds and can tumble and then cause derail. The drawbar is held into the trucks by a 'cotter key' that IIRC is a flat block of steel that can withstand enormous pounding. But if the cotter falls out, you 'pulled a drawbar' and the conductor must walk the track to find the pieces before trains can move again. On the American trains, note the successful emergency stops, without derailing anything, due to Bendix air brakes.
@Walter Foster Train brakes actually work the opposite of the way truck brakes do. They are OFF by default, must be charged to come on, and then have an Emergency Reservoir of air that can apply the brakes if an emergency application is detected by the Control Valve. Eventually, that Emergency Resevoir will bleed off because it's not 100% perfectly air tight, and hand brakes must be manually applied before this happens or the cars can start rolling.
Exactly I have the same kind of brakes on my semi truck ,that's why we have to do a leak down test every time we get in to make sure the spring brakes engage at low psi.
Same applies with the Automatic Vacuum Brake, which is fully released with 21 inches of vacuum showing on the gauge.... to partially apply the brakes, you simply reduce the vacuum by the desired amount.... or if it's lost completely, the brakes will apply fully... the vacuum exhauster, or vacuum ejector on steam locomotives will maintain the vacuum at 21 inches with the driver's brake handle in running and released... P.S.... retired train driver from UK... The Automatic Vacuum Brake was in common use in UK when I started in 1978, but is now in existence only on preserved railways... the UK railway network is almost 100% air braked now...
This is a very good fact to know. I am familiar with electric trains like rapid transit (subway) trains. They use dynamic, electric and air brakes. I can understand the concept with freight trains. I liked freight trains before I have seen subway trains as child.
On trains the air both applies and releases the brakes. Give it a few hours for the air to bleed out of the brake cylinder and you're right back to no brakes.
2:22 is probably the scariest. High speed and if the driver brakes too hard it could derail the whole train, while if he doesn't it will just keep going until he NEEDS to slow down
You clearly don't know how train brake system works. In that case air pressure drops and emergency brakes kicks in. However due to huge mass and high speed it will take a moment for it to stop.
@@jamescooling not fake, just normal fly shunting (switching). Basically hump shunting without the hump. The wagons run to their intended siding with their momentum and will be slowed and stopped with ‘retarders’. In some places (especially China - the clip is likely Russia) a brake man will ride on the leading wagon with a hand held brake controller. Indeed only the first two North American clips appear to be actually ‘train divided’ incidents. I guess this is part due to the very heavy trains causing fatigue to couplers and part to the high number of rail fans filming, increasing the probability of it being filmed (see also the endless videos of collisions on US level crossings)… The passenger train and the single wagon in Poland are clearly tests.
@Астольфик Sorry, my comment wasn't clear, only the specific clip starting at 1:41 (with the level crossing) appears to be Russia this is showing fly shunting of the sort you refer to in your reply. My conclusion that this Russia is based on the loco, which appears to be a ЧМЭ2 type. The second clip with fly shunting at 2:40 is in the US, while I presume the passenger carriages 2:22 are being tested in Spain as these are Spanish built 'Talgo' type carriages. A coment elsewhere confirms the last clip 3:26 to be at a railway testing facility in Poland, plus the loco is an EU07 type only found in Poland (though based on an earlier UK design). The clips that appear to be genuine emergency braking after a knuckle coupler parting at the start of the video are in the US and Mexico (assuming Ferromex doesn't have US operations into the US).
@@liberty7835 as the cars are aired up, the spring brakes are pushed away from the drums. When the air is evacuated, the spring brakes return to their default position which is pushed out against the drum. All the wheels have them on every car.
Only as long as there is air in the auxillary tank. Whay happens when that air is gone ??? We have a town in my state called Esperance, the folks living there can tell you exactly what happens then. Nind you the wagon consist was parked 40 Kilometres from town, train crew forgot to apply hand brakes, when air was gone, so were the brakes, they rest is history.
Thats the Westinghouse brake for you. Compressed air is required to release the brakes. A classic way to brake in an emergency is to pull a handle which dumps all the air in the system. If there's no air pressure, the brakes automatically come on. The air hoses between carriages will have breakaway fittings, and that'll be where the air comes out.
I moved into a house by a rr crossing in 2020 and during the first few months, a coupler broke and as in these videos, the brakes engaged, which we heard inside our house, stopping the train. I peered over our fence to watch repair, then retrieved the severed knuckle once maintenance and the train departed. It is still sitting on my porch near the mailbox
Years ago on the railroad we did what was called a dutch drop. Engine would get the car rolling then a little slack . Cut the car loose , the engine would take off down the no lead and then the switch men would line the switch and let the car go down another track after the engine got in the clear.
It happened to me, as a passenger on an Amtrak train west of Harrisburg, PA in 1992. Most people didn't know what happened, but the conductor told me later. That train was also plagued with brake problems too- kinda scary.... We had to stop repeatedly in Ohio & Indiana because of the brakes. 🚬😎
@@garydergut4741 problem with that is brakes can fail at anytime even brand new ones. The only thing to stop brake issues is to replace the brakes every 2 weeks cause most of them last 30-60 days
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Accidental uncoupling while moving is actually not a very rare situation. However it is not that dangerous and people here are overreacting. The pneumatic brakes are designed in such way that in order to release them, the pressure must be maintained by a compressor. When a train suddenly uncouples, the pressure in the brake line drops, and the brakes in the uncoupled cars are automatically applied almost immediately.
Had this happen to me as a conductor on a trash train - all loads - at the bottom of a grade, starting back up the other side at nearly 50 mph. Fortunately, when the brakes went into emergency my engineer kept pulling as long as he could, since we didn't know exactly what was happening, and when I walked back to see what had happened, the rear half of the train was only about 20 ft. from the front half. It would have been possible, since the rear of the train was still coming downgrade, for it to catch up and collide with the front of the train if it had come to a stop sooner. There was no obvious cause for the separation other than one of the coupler pins vibrated open. I coupled the train back together and we went on after a brake test. There are reasons train crews are told to do their ground inspections at least 25 ft. away from a passing train, and this clip shows a couple of them.
@@MrPaul-id8vu When one is in the locomotive of a freight train and it goes into an "unintentional" emergency brake application, the crew really has no idea of why unless the reason happened near the front of the train. Basically, you use your training and sense of what is going on at that moment to deal with it and hope you make the right choices. I don't remember being particularly scared, more like, "now what?"
Quote, "my engineer kept pulling as long as he could, " Sack him for being incompetent. There's a gauge on the dash for the engineer to ascertain instantly what the brake pipe condition is and the pressure it's supposed to be as well as the flow of air. A quick glance at these will tell you INSTANTLY, the train pipe has parted, pressure is lost and brakes applied. Pulling against such notice, is incompetence of the engineer and could cause excessive damage to the track if the train has derailed as well as parting.
@@paulw.woodring7304 On the contrary, in my case, I saw lots of walking in the dark to find the cause. L.O.L. Sometimes it was the buffer, preventing recoupling. Then a LONG walk back to the Loco, grab the chain we carried for such purposes, and Boy was that thing bloody heavy, trudge all the way back to the part, call your engineer to slowly push back until damage buffers contact, wrap the chain around them and the wagon tongue, secure it, check pull. If O.K. connect brake hose, give anothet check pull once air pressure has stabilised. If all is O.K. proceed to next crossing loop and follow Control's Instructions.
3rd one could be a case of intentionality getting the cars rolling and then letting them roll for switching purposes called kicking. 5th one IIRC is not a broken knuckle but the cars were not sufficiently tied down with hand brakes when uncoupled for switching a lineside industry and started to roll away. The longer cut of the video you can hear the engineer open the taps to chase the loose cut and couple back on the fly. IIRC the crew was able to catch up and corral the runaway but there were pee tests and some unpaid time off all around.
No one in their right mind would ever kick a car (or a group of cars for that matter) over a road crossing. That would be so insanely stupid. Source: I’m on a switching crew.
I was working as a student conductor and we had a train separate right after we picked it up off interchange, oddly we were coming downgrade and it separated somehow, anyway the part hooked to the engine stopped first, and the separated cars were still rolling and made a damn hard hook to each other lol
Yeah. That can happen. If the separation occurs near the front of the train the head end may brake far quicker than the tonnage running up on you. The separated cars become a menace and bad things can happen
Supposedly with that little red light mechanism they put in the rear of every train freight train, that is supposed to react quicker than a brakeman. And now they often place DPU at the ends of Trains .
Could someone explain how the not connected parts still slowed down when the train braked? I have no idea what’s going on. Also. That last one of the cylinder on its own. How do they stop it??
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I know this is only one year ago. But that's why cabooses are very important. It's stopped the train and signals the engine. What they have now is so dangerous. It could be a runaway train at no chance of ever trying to capture it.
I believe that when the air-brake line is broken/disconnected, it activates the emergency brakes on all cars on either side of the break, so the entire train will come to a stop. No runaway possible.
Haven't in north America used caboose in decades was need when babbit bearings was on axles but design on truck assembly are over 100 years old it would cost billions to overhaul upgrade to a modern system like European and far eastern countries BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN HERE NOT IN OUR LIFETIME
@@liberty7835 well I am a railroad grandson to the Missouri pacific. Ans my post may get salt about why I said this. And in addition why the Southern Railway and the Norfolk and Southern would run their engines backwards instead of cab forward.
The caboose in this case does nothing for you but put the crew in the caboose in danger. In today's environment as soon as the cars separate the crew in the locomotive know immediately and both parts of the train are in emergency braking. There is no 'runaway'
@@Snow_owl1966 there a automatic braking system when air brake is disconnected! You manually release air then handbrake are used ! Close to a switch yard or If they did that they didn't have a rail to switch on close or something was wrong probably 25 years retired, truck assembly certified
Looks like a whole new meaning to 'slip coach working.' That last one, with the HCLX diesel makes me wonder if it wasn't intentional - what in England we'd call fly shunting or, according to Lucius Beebe 'High-daddy' switching.
Thank you very much for your information! I recognised the train as a TALGO, but I thought this was in Spain. Have the Kazakh TALGOS the (In Spain so named) RD system, so they can change the railway gauge easy and fast? Greetings from the Netherlands.
It's a train without passengers, It's just a normal practice test. There such a thing called - "drop-test" - a train gets de-coupled on the go, to test its stand-alone braking capability.
These people need to calm down, geeeez! This is simply a mechanical failure that is automatically taken care of by the braking system. Trains are not animate object that 'uncouple themselves'.
I found that, "oh my Gawd guy" annoying as heck. You can tell he is naive about trains. As a former conductor, I was just thinking about how I would have to lug a new knuckle back to that break. One break that I noticed in the video, the drawbar was broken off at the knuckle. That is going to take a little more time to repair than just a new knuckle.
The regular case of breaking couple by stretching is when on long enough heavy train after appliing automatic breaks for little reducing speed engineer has no passion enough to wait completely realising breaks on tail (1-1.5 min) and begins accelerating the head, so middle gets ripped.
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This is not emergency break for go the train need air for go no air = train stop, thé train are cut in 2 = air exit ant the train stop
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The "Oh my god" guy's over reaction was ridiculous as just chill dude
No joke it's embarrassing 🤣
Your God already knew
I think he was just excited it happened right in front of him and he had it on camera
Not very often one sees that happen. I might have reacted the same way if I happened to see it. So his reaction is in fact, understandable
Autistic people have a hard time with expressing themselves properly.
That awkward moment when you realize that you have ruined your best video with your own constant screaming
He almost drowned out the sound of the brakes!
Owe my gawd!!!!
Autistic people don’t have self realization.
@Aaron King The video is ok, just turn down the volume.
So embarrassing!
Some people get a little more excited, than others, about as break in a train.
I would have reacted this way too! ))
I am retired from Union Pacific and the only people I knew that could get that excited over a knuckle or drawbar break is a MOP (manager of
operating practices).
You're hearing asburgers vocalized
3:26 Here is a test wagon on a special railroad section in Żmigród (Poland). Most likely, the braking and driving systems were tested at this point.
I think so too!
Yup
Stopping right at the short platform BTW! That tank wagon undoubtedly knows good manners.
It surprises me how many times this type of event has been recorded by train spotters
How about “suspicious?”
Them guys be planting remote control knuckle busters on them trains just for clicks.
@@chuckgilly Thank you
never heard of that
watching trains derail is way more fascinating
@@realkingso4729 LoL
2:26 Multi-level damn...
The people in the second clip acting like the dang thing derailed, flipped over and heading their way
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Yeah bit melodramatic weren’t they
Oh my godddd. Oh my goddddd. Holyyyyy Cruddddd." Dude never cussed a day in his life.
Movie rule #1: shut the fxxx up. Nobody wants to hear the camera man ;).
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Just hearing those airbrakes sends shivers up my spine 🥶
As a knuckle is known to break separating a train when it brings shivers to train watchers hearing the train go into an emergency brake application as the squeal of the brakes in the first two videos brings shivers to train watchers.
totally better too have them then non at all because look at the ones that didn't have that system those cars can keep going for a while if they don't have the break system installed.
I was on a train once that came uncoupled. It was in the middle of nowhere, in Northern Ontario, back in the mid '70. The knuckle didn't break, but the steam pipe did.
@@galewinds7696 Yep, but no heat in the middle of winter.
@@James_Knottdid you survive
@@MannoulaZ Yes, as far as I can tell. 🙂
@@James_Knott thank god, I was worried
@@MannoulaZ LOL
2:48.. Wait no please! U can't just leave me here....
It used to be done in the UK. Its called a slip car or carriage. Its the ability to drop carriages or coaches without having to stop the whole train.
😮Thank you! Now I'll know, too!
Ah I remmber hearing and Reading about those
The last ones is like I'm My Own engine.
More like wait for me I’m coming too
Hello darkness my old friend
@carddamom Now that would make my day.
@@That2008CVPI The Sound of Silence
2:25 "Look!! I`m free, lets go!"
You gave me a good laugh👍
Passenger coach: going catch up to your engine!
1:49 Excuse me excuse me coming through. 2:27 Engine: Yay free day off. Passengers: What the heck man.
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2:27 There were no passengers on board. This was done on purpose for testing by Talgo and Indian Railways.
so true
The Engine is running from its responsiblities
@@doctorhabilthcjesus4610 this is Kazakhstan. there are no steppes in India.
Very nice compilation . The train's emergency breaking systems seems to function flawlessly,
even on a single tanker car !
Whats with the video with coaches at @ 2:30 ? Didn't seem like it 🥴
Seems pretty dangerous to me, if the leading train happens to start braking they might collide and derail
Correct me if I'm wrong
3:25 - 3:45 Poland, Żmigród, test track of the railway institute, routine brake test, but what a sensation.
Tak mi właśnie coś nie pasowało, że ta cysterna nie ma żadnego napisu :) Dzięki.
[EN] That's how I was confused that this tanker has no writings :) Thanks.
its been 40+ since I worked the rails, but that first one looks to me like a drawbar, not a knuckle. Drawbar pull - I was told - was far more dangerous than broken knuckle becuase the drawbar weighs around 600 pounds and can tumble and then cause derail. The drawbar is held into the trucks by a 'cotter key' that IIRC is a flat block of steel that can withstand enormous pounding. But if the cotter falls out, you 'pulled a drawbar' and the conductor must walk the track to find the pieces before trains can move again. On the American trains, note the successful emergency stops, without derailing anything, due to Bendix air brakes.
Nice and TY
That's what I thought like a Maxey brake on trucks without air pressure the brakes come on .
I was in Montana working with BNSF and a draw bar broke on me and we had to strap it to push it into a siding.
Westinghouse air brakes.
@Walter Foster Train brakes actually work the opposite of the way truck brakes do. They are OFF by default, must be charged to come on, and then have an Emergency Reservoir of air that can apply the brakes if an emergency application is detected by the Control Valve. Eventually, that Emergency Resevoir will bleed off because it's not 100% perfectly air tight, and hand brakes must be manually applied before this happens or the cars can start rolling.
2:49 " Thomas wistled long and loud, but the troublesome trucks didnt care."
With air brakes, air pressure keeps the brakes off. When there is a break in the air line, air is released, and the brakes will apply themselves.
Exactly I have the same kind of brakes on my semi truck ,that's why we have to do a leak down test every time we get in to make sure the spring brakes engage at low psi.
Same applies with the Automatic Vacuum Brake, which is fully released with 21 inches of vacuum showing on the gauge.... to partially apply the brakes, you simply reduce the vacuum by the desired amount.... or if it's lost completely, the brakes will apply fully... the vacuum exhauster, or vacuum ejector on steam locomotives will maintain the vacuum at 21 inches with the driver's brake handle in running and released... P.S.... retired train driver from UK... The Automatic Vacuum Brake was in common use in UK when I started in 1978, but is now in existence only on preserved railways... the UK railway network is almost 100% air braked now...
This is a very good fact to know. I am familiar with electric trains like rapid transit (subway) trains. They use dynamic, electric and air brakes. I can understand the concept with freight trains. I liked freight trains before I have seen subway trains as child.
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On trains the air both applies and releases the brakes. Give it a few hours for the air to bleed out of the brake cylinder and you're right back to no brakes.
2:22 is probably the scariest. High speed and if the driver brakes too hard it could derail the whole train, while if he doesn't it will just keep going until he NEEDS to slow down
It actually made me laugh a bit. Made me think he was running away from the train
You clearly don't know how train brake system works. In that case air pressure drops and emergency brakes kicks in. However due to huge mass and high speed it will take a moment for it to stop.
Looks fake to me.
@@jamescooling not fake, just normal fly shunting (switching). Basically hump shunting without the hump. The wagons run to their intended siding with their momentum and will be slowed and stopped with ‘retarders’. In some places (especially China - the clip is likely Russia) a brake man will ride on the leading wagon with a hand held brake controller.
Indeed only the first two North American clips appear to be actually ‘train divided’ incidents. I guess this is part due to the very heavy trains causing fatigue to couplers and part to the high number of rail fans filming, increasing the probability of it being filmed (see also the endless videos of collisions on US level crossings)…
The passenger train and the single wagon in Poland are clearly tests.
@Астольфик Sorry, my comment wasn't clear, only the specific clip starting at 1:41 (with the level crossing) appears to be Russia this is showing fly shunting of the sort you refer to in your reply. My conclusion that this Russia is based on the loco, which appears to be a ЧМЭ2 type. The second clip with fly shunting at 2:40 is in the US, while I presume the passenger carriages 2:22 are being tested in Spain as these are Spanish built 'Talgo' type carriages. A coment elsewhere confirms the last clip 3:26 to be at a railway testing facility in Poland, plus the loco is an EU07 type only found in Poland (though based on an earlier UK design). The clips that appear to be genuine emergency braking after a knuckle coupler parting at the start of the video are in the US and Mexico (assuming Ferromex doesn't have US operations into the US).
-1:13 Engineer: “Man I hate this I quit”
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When the air supply is cut off and the pressure drops, the spring brakes kick in just like on a rig.
Now tell them what % of the brakes has to operate!!
@@liberty7835 as the cars are aired up, the spring brakes are pushed away from the drums. When the air is evacuated, the spring brakes return to their default position which is pushed out against the drum. All the wheels have them on every car.
@@Dan-440 if they are working properly, some don't which doesn't give 100% confidence, but faulty ones are a rarity thank goodness.
Thanks for this!
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Only as long as there is air in the auxillary tank. Whay happens when that air is gone ??? We have a town in my state called Esperance, the folks living there can tell you exactly what happens then. Nind you the wagon consist was parked 40 Kilometres from town, train crew forgot to apply hand brakes, when air was gone, so were the brakes, they rest is history.
Save the "Oh My God" for when they're unhooked and free-wheeling.
2:00 i like how the arm comes down AFTER 4 rail cars have passed the road crossing.
3:36 🎶 “All by myself...” 🎶
*wow, the locomotive and all the bogies had emergency brakes activates as soon as they got unhooked. Impressive technology.*
Thats the Westinghouse brake for you. Compressed air is required to release the brakes. A classic way to brake in an emergency is to pull a handle which dumps all the air in the system. If there's no air pressure, the brakes automatically come on. The air hoses between carriages will have breakaway fittings, and that'll be where the air comes out.
@@uzaiyaro Pretty impressive. Thank you for the explanation sir.
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Tractor trailers work on the same principle.
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@@uzaiyaro yes the brakes work backwards to how you would think they work.
2:42 unstoppable train chase be like:
a wreck on a wreck
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I know all the unstoppable sayings for the most part
@@WarMaker85 sweet
2:10 I laughed hard, when I saw the locomotive chasing them XD
"Goddamn stop!"
@@MikhailVolochaev the next one..., i almost died laughing
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3:38 This reminds me of Where's The Brake? On The Polar Express 2004 movie 🍿🎥 when the last coach slid backwards down the hill
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I remember that!
Oh yeahhhh lol
2:42
The train: 😥Come back! Come back! Come back! (With a squeaky voice) 🤣lol
2:23 Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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What happened here?
@@seranistrickland4267 Coupling device defective!
@@seranistrickland4267 Catch me if you can
@@MrPaul-id8vu Testing the brake system of a new composition. Do not mislead people if they are far from this topic.
Damn, not only the knuckle, but the whole housing. That Gondola going to the scrappers.
I could've just said, troublesome trucks in action. But unfortunately I have to say, the OH MY GOD SQUAD!
The only great thing in the second clip is the brakes were thankfully louder than they were
Thanks to the good braking system, there was no big accident!
0:24 The knuckle coupler completely came out of the draft box.
3:25 - it isn't accident but kind of exam/test for new cars to test their breaks and so on. It is organised on experimental track in Żmigród in Poland
I moved into a house by a rr crossing in 2020 and during the first few months, a coupler broke and as in these videos, the brakes engaged, which we heard inside our house, stopping the train. I peered over our fence to watch repair, then retrieved the severed knuckle once maintenance and the train departed. It is still sitting on my porch near the mailbox
Keep that shit lol
The passenger train on buckle is kind of scary.
Holy smokes, i thought it was disconnected, it actually ripped the other coupler out :O
It's kinda funny just seeing a dare crusing around with no locomotive attacked
I love the sound of the brakes I’m weird like that
you need to hear my sister when she laughs... she looks like a train braking... 😒😒😒
2:25 tho, good lord. "SO LONG, SUCKERS!!"
And the clip immediately afterward, "wait, stop!! COME BACK HRRE!!"
Years ago on the railroad we did what was called a dutch drop. Engine would get the car rolling then a little slack . Cut the car loose , the engine would take off down the no lead and then the switch men would line the switch and let the car go down another track after the engine got in the clear.
Called a "FLY SHUNT" in Australia, and nowadays, an ILLEGAL move that can get you fired.
"No loose shunting!"
When the train separates, the emergency brakes immediately activate.
TY
As long as they run air through it the ones that kept rolling were bled off meaning no air at all and breaks are released
@@dakotajerman9765 which is illegal as hell on a main line.
@@Fuqmerunnin On Conrail, we actually have a location where we drop cars on the main.
Lmao @ 1:53
The cars finish passing and the locomotive comes up a little after like "WAAAAIT!"
Second clip.... Did he have to repeat 'Oh my god' so many times. jesus, one 'Oh crap' would have sufficed.
Just in shock probably wasn’t expecting that
I agree, thank you
2:26 - Run, Forest, run!
3:46 - look ma, no engine.
Seeing this while waiting at the railroad crossing would suck. Might as well find another way to cross.
It happened to me, as a passenger on an Amtrak train west of Harrisburg, PA in 1992. Most people didn't know what happened, but the conductor told me later. That train was also plagued with brake problems too- kinda scary.... We had to stop repeatedly in Ohio & Indiana because of the brakes.
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Technically every time you stop in a train that doesn't derail it's because of the brakes.
I can't believe the R R officials let the train leave because that is a federal offense if the breaks aren't working.
@@garydergut4741 problem with that is brakes can fail at anytime even brand new ones. The only thing to stop brake issues is to replace the brakes every 2 weeks cause most of them last 30-60 days
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Only in Ohio
On 2:27 is the best moment in this video WOW
Yes, the crazy speed made this video effective!
This was done on purpose for testing by Talgo and Indian Railways.
Engine's just trying to outrun the cars, I'd be shitting bricks 😂
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1:15 OHHHH MUHHHH GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!
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That part was funny! LOL. It was like they saw an alien spaceship or something.
@@mrspeeddemon727 LOLOL!!
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Good thing I’m watching this because I love trains so much that i am a big big big big big big big big fan of trains. Thanks so much for making this video🤩
Эффективно сработали автотормоза☝️. 👍
@@nilkin Неможет быть! 👀
Accidental uncoupling while moving is actually not a very rare situation. However it is not that dangerous and people here are overreacting. The pneumatic brakes are designed in such way that in order to release them, the pressure must be maintained by a compressor. When a train suddenly uncouples, the pressure in the brake line drops, and the brakes in the uncoupled cars are automatically applied almost immediately.
Had this happen to me as a conductor on a trash train - all loads - at the bottom of a grade, starting back up the other side at nearly 50 mph. Fortunately, when the brakes went into emergency my engineer kept pulling as long as he could, since we didn't know exactly what was happening, and when I walked back to see what had happened, the rear half of the train was only about 20 ft. from the front half. It would have been possible, since the rear of the train was still coming downgrade, for it to catch up and collide with the front of the train if it had come to a stop sooner. There was no obvious cause for the separation other than one of the coupler pins vibrated open. I coupled the train back together and we went on after a brake test. There are reasons train crews are told to do their ground inspections at least 25 ft. away from a passing train, and this clip shows a couple of them.
Oh no, you got through it !!? You must have been very scared! After all, it depends on you whether there will be an accident or not!
@@MrPaul-id8vu When one is in the locomotive of a freight train and it goes into an "unintentional" emergency brake application, the crew really has no idea of why unless the reason happened near the front of the train. Basically, you use your training and sense of what is going on at that moment to deal with it and hope you make the right choices. I don't remember being particularly scared, more like, "now what?"
@@paulw.woodring7304 That's right, when such a situation occurs, there is no time to think, everything is done automatically!
Quote, "my engineer kept pulling as long as he could, " Sack him for being incompetent. There's a gauge on the dash for the engineer to ascertain instantly what the brake pipe condition is and the pressure it's supposed to be as well as the flow of air. A quick glance at these will tell you INSTANTLY, the train pipe has parted, pressure is lost and brakes applied. Pulling against such notice, is incompetence of the engineer and could cause excessive damage to the track if the train has derailed as well as parting.
@@paulw.woodring7304 On the contrary, in my case, I saw lots of walking in the dark to find the cause. L.O.L. Sometimes it was the buffer, preventing recoupling. Then a LONG walk back to the Loco, grab the chain we carried for such purposes, and Boy was that thing bloody heavy, trudge all the way back to the part, call your engineer to slowly push back until damage buffers contact, wrap the chain around them and the wagon tongue, secure it, check pull. If O.K. connect brake hose, give anothet check pull once air pressure has stabilised. If all is O.K. proceed to next crossing loop and follow Control's Instructions.
Fantastic train video! I'm a tram and I approve this video! Ding ding!!!
3rd one could be a case of intentionality getting the cars rolling and then letting them roll for switching purposes called kicking. 5th one IIRC is not a broken knuckle but the cars were not sufficiently tied down with hand brakes when uncoupled for switching a lineside industry and started to roll away. The longer cut of the video you can hear the engineer open the taps to chase the loose cut and couple back on the fly. IIRC the crew was able to catch up and corral the runaway but there were pee tests and some unpaid time off all around.
No one in their right mind would ever kick a car (or a group of cars for that matter) over a road crossing. That would be so insanely stupid. Source: I’m on a switching crew.
Like the video very much .Take care
The last two video clips were obscured by video suggestions overlaid on the end of the video! Could you please fix that?
Thanks you! I'll fix it now!!
Wow how excited this guy got 1:17 just a broken knuckle happens everyday
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Dosent happen almost everyday
I was working as a student conductor and we had a train separate right after we picked it up off interchange, oddly we were coming downgrade and it separated somehow, anyway the part hooked to the engine stopped first, and the separated cars were still rolling and made a damn hard hook to each other lol
Yeah. That can happen. If the separation occurs near the front of the train the head end may brake far quicker than the tonnage running up on you. The separated cars become a menace and bad things can happen
What a fantastic, lucky catch!!!!
Such cases are rare!
Got rid of caboose decades ago to save fuel and labor. But every now and then a brakeman to call the engineer would be helpful.
Supposedly with that little red light mechanism they put in the rear of every train freight train, that is supposed to react quicker than a brakeman.
And now they often place DPU at the ends of Trains .
great upload my friend
That's nice video lol Why are there Diesels coupling invisible carriage? 🤣 2:56
I wish there were more crazy trains in this show. It is a daymaker. I enjoy your video very much.
The first train has their entire knuckle off of the other car connected to the other car.
if that had fallen, it may have derailed the train, embedded into the ballast, be thrown away from the tracks, a 900 pound cannon ball.
Nice compilation 👍
Thank you friend!
2:14 guys?! wait for me!
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Could someone explain how the not connected parts still slowed down when the train braked? I have no idea what’s going on. Also. That last one of the cylinder on its own. How do they stop it??
When the cars diverge, the air hose breaks, the air pressure drops, and the cars stop!
@@MrPaul-id8vu Ohhh. Ok good to know!
Hey, Bob.. does the engine seem peppier to you? 😂
I like how this one is running from the cars 2:26
My cousins husband accidentally broke a knuckle by no fault of his own and he got a 2 week unpaid vacation.
How did this happen? Was it his own fault for getting injured?
@@MrPaul-id8vu Not literally his knuckle. 😀 He is an engineer for Union Pacific.
@@subicstationditosailor4053 But there is also insurance, she must pay for the treatment!
It's always the crews' fault in the eyes of management.
@@exlimey1417 unfortunately this is the case!
3:20 - that's a planned test on a test track. One of the previous ones looks like that as well
When the wagons separate, the main air pipe parts and then all brakes are applied.
Amazing catches. Im a new subscriber. Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida. I also watch train videos from Roman's Milwaukee Roads, showing trains in Wisconsin.
I know this is only one year ago. But that's why cabooses are very important. It's stopped the train and signals the engine. What they have now is so dangerous. It could be a runaway train at no chance of ever trying to capture it.
I believe that when the air-brake line is broken/disconnected, it activates the emergency brakes on all cars on either side of the break, so the entire train will come to a stop. No runaway possible.
Haven't in north America used caboose in decades was need when babbit bearings was on axles but design on truck assembly are over 100 years old it would cost billions to overhaul upgrade to a modern system like European and far eastern countries BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN HERE NOT IN OUR LIFETIME
@@liberty7835 well I am a railroad grandson to the Missouri pacific. Ans my post may get salt about why I said this. And in addition why the Southern Railway and the Norfolk and Southern would run their engines backwards instead of cab forward.
The caboose in this case does nothing for you but put the crew in the caboose in danger. In today's environment as soon as the cars separate the crew in the locomotive know immediately and both parts of the train are in emergency braking. There is no 'runaway'
@@Snow_owl1966 there a automatic braking system when air brake is disconnected! You manually release air then handbrake are used ! Close to a switch yard or If they did that they didn't have a rail to switch on close or something was wrong probably 25 years retired, truck assembly certified
It be cool to see a p42 Amtrak unit get unhooked from the amfleets or super liner but nice video dude
Thanks you!))
@@MrPaul-id8vu np
It seems like the stateside cars have automatic braking when they come apart. The other trains not so much.
Trains have fail safe brakes everywhere.
"OhMyGawd" dude be doing his best Chris Farley impression
3:24 polish EU07 PKP Cargo my favourite loco
Looks like a whole new meaning to 'slip coach working.' That last one, with the HCLX diesel makes me wonder if it wasn't intentional - what in England we'd call fly shunting or, according to Lucius Beebe 'High-daddy' switching.
"Hey train, come back here!"
Two railfans: "OMG!" Others- "Take your Prozac..sheesh!"
An excellent video. 💙 T.E.N.
Thank you!
Around 2.11 felt like kids running ahead and mommy comes chasing them 🤣
Can you imagine the look on the train operator face when he arrives at a switch station and they ask,,"where's the rest"?
Seeing these SD70ACE, Gevos and Other locomotives satisfies me
2:27 TALGO TRAIN trials in KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿
Thank you very much for your information! I recognised the train as a TALGO, but I thought this was in Spain. Have the Kazakh TALGOS the (In Spain so named) RD system, so they can change the railway gauge easy and fast? Greetings from the Netherlands.
Salutari din Bucuresti !!
Tocmai am activat si clopotelul !!
2:28 That was probably scary for the passengers inside the train.
Yea I know especially those people who were trying to enjoy their trip on the train
It's a train without passengers, It's just a normal practice test. There such a thing called - "drop-test" - a train gets de-coupled on the go, to test its stand-alone braking capability.
@@digimaks Ok, now I know why the cameraman didn't get scared and now I know that this was done in a controlled environment.
3rd one is just the most useful crossing signal ever
These people need to calm down, geeeez! This is simply a mechanical failure that is automatically taken care of by the braking system. Trains are not animate object that 'uncouple themselves'.
You're right!
I found that, "oh my Gawd guy" annoying as heck. You can tell he is naive about trains. As a former conductor, I was just thinking about how I would have to lug a new knuckle back to that break. One break that I noticed in the video, the drawbar was broken off at the knuckle. That is going to take a little more time to repair than just a new knuckle.
Dose of really matter man? Hell I never seen sombody complain about sombody yelling in a Video.
nice catch!
The regular case of breaking couple by stretching is when on long enough heavy train after appliing automatic breaks for little reducing speed engineer has no passion enough to wait completely realising breaks on tail (1-1.5 min) and begins accelerating the head, so middle gets ripped.
Man, where are the giant hands to pick them up?
Cleetus, the cabletie tore again! I told you to use two!!
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Faster, Arnie, faster!! That tanker car is still chasing us down!!
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