Aftermath Of BNSF Train Derailment In Dakota City, NE After Striking Truck
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2021
- I apologize for dirty windshield and quick panning and zooming. Was sitting there about 10 hours during the whole process recording on and off and was hot outside and my silly phone overheats quickly when left on long periods of time so I stayed in my truck with the AC on at times to keep it cooled down. Don’t worry I wasn’t in the way I spoke to the workers off camera and most knew me from before and they were all polite and ok with me parked where I was. The process took way longer then it looks but I was facing a straight track that goes from Dakota City to Homer, Nebraska which is about 4 miles apart but I was a few crossings away from the actual road with impact and wasn't expecting this to happen. The collision was a truck carrying a massive cat bulldozer and the driver tried to beat the train. It happened out of sight while checking my phone but my scanner revealed there was an accident and derailment. The video shown is the aftermath as they fix the damaged rails and re-rail the few of what was part of the manifest. Thanks for watching!
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What a treat! You rarely get to see so much of the actual recovery in derailment videos. Thanks for taking the time to share so much of the details with us. Really interesting and I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks I appreciate it
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WOW! These guys are the ultimate EXPERTS! My Uncles worked MOW on the Gainesville Midland when I was a young man. They were True Engineers!
Awesome! Yes I agree they are true experts when it comes to events like this.
My dad worked at the Havelock shops in Lincoln for 40 years as a welder and just a couple of weeks ago I had asked him about what the process of getting a train derailment corrected or cleaned up was, he described it the best he could but seeing it made everything he said so much clearer.
Thank you for taking time out of your day to make this video. 🙂
You’re welcome
God bless your Daddy ! He had a tough 40 years ! You can learn a lot from him. Spend as much time as you can with him ! Encourage Him to tell you about some of the highlights of some of the hair-brained stuff He had to fix, or some of the dangerous stuff He was able to safely de-energize from stuff in a great bind and under pressure. Let Him know you're greatly interested in hearing about his life as a Railroad Welder, (Boiler-Maker),...it'll tickle Him ! Retirees LOVE to tell about their escapades. (We literally dream about scenerios we lived.)
@@general5104 Oh trust me we talk alot about weird and stupid welding stuff, I went into welding not for the railroad but I did become a welder.
Well actually we talk about all sorts of crazy crap, we're both goofballs, thank God you are correct that retirees love to talk about the good ole days because my mom passed from cancer last year so every time he gets a little depressed I can always rely on getting him to talk about things he did at work to pull him back up.
Thanks for the reply. Take care
Educational and informative. Glad they didn't ask you to leave as we all gained new knowledge watching this. Never too old to learn something new. At 73, I agree! Thank you. Grandma Smith in SW Kansas.
Thank you I appreciate it!
If they ASK ! You to leave tell them no thanks !!! They can't run you off a public easement!!! 😃😃😃😃😃
@@artmchugh5644 that’s true
I'm a retired engineer and have worked that line for years. You're following of the consist with the 2 cars brought back memories of all the times i worked from Lincoln Nebraska going thru the Ferry Yard and on into the 18th Street Yard into Sioux City. Thanks for your idea to film all the way from derailment to roundhouse lead.
Thank you and no problem
I mostly worked North out of Sioux City to Willmar MN. All of the Sioux City yard area is basically my working stomping grounds.
@@edrbts3I like to watch them pass by Merrill Iowa but the furthest I’ve traveled by the line is Sioux Center. But that is awesome tho it sounds like it was a great route on the BNSF.
The engineers don't wave from the trains any more, not like they did back in 1954!
My beloved late Father worked 38 years for Southern Pacific and worked at cleaning up many derailments. R.I.P, Dad.
"It's not my place to run the train, the whistle I can't blow. It's not my place to take on water, I don't make it go. It's not my place to build up steam or even clang the bell. But, let the damn thing jump the track and see who catches hell." - Author Unknown.
I remember reading that on a little sign, that someone had made and framed and hung neatly on the wall above the sink in one of our bathrooms at the shop I used to work at.
That was an amazing video. This crew handled this easily it appeared and I was dumbfounded how easy they made that look. I didn't realize what pushed that locomotive off the rail until I saw the right side picture. Amazing the damage that locomotive suffered too. Thank you for following this through to the end. Great video!!
Thanks I appreciate it!
Great job, Tykell. We don’t often get to see the behind the scene work that goes on in a recovery. Am always impressed with the level of experience these guys bring. Fascinating! Love your still photos, also. Lots of time to get a really good look at each one. Thank you
Thank you I appreciate it.
Thankss for your manifico film and great thank at the internet who the world became unisersel by sms. Merci for your reponse excuse me for my english merci
@@patrickricord2120Thank you! Sorry I didn’t get a notification for some replies.
Anytime I see or hear of a derailment I become sad. It's takes so much to get things back to the way they were. Tons of man hours are taken to fix a mistake that generally shouldn't happen. I hope everyone is safe. Really superb filming as well Tykell, A+.
Yes fortunately nobody was hurt. It was around 10 hours of non stop work to get things back to normal.
I hope the truck driver loses his job.
Gives the experts something to do. It’s all part of shipping freight.
@@TheMilwaukieDan Yes that’s true
@@TykellTruitt Perhaps a wider boom, - or better still one that comes down on each side of the road either side of the track(s). In the UK the booms all have a sort of "fence" that swings down underneath to make them look like a gate across the road. It wouldn't stop any vehicle but it looks damned 'real'.
And the train rides the rails again! Amazing that the engines and cars remained upright and able to operate again. 🇨🇦
What a great job on the video, much appreciated on filming the rerailing of the equipment. The chase was an added bonus!
👍👍and ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the kind words! Glad you liked the video.
Great video, well done, and thanks. The first derailment I filmed (back then in color S-8) was approx. 1974, on the Soo Line's Belgrade to Superior branch in MN. The wreck consisted of a few grain cars (no engines) laying on their sides along the ROW, just a short distance north from a highway crossing near the town of Isle. The crew had been using a diesel engine (GP-7 or 9, as I recall) to maneuver a steam powered crane to right the cars on their trucks as the tracks were apparently undamaged. At the time I hadn't realized the crane was, in fact, steam powered, although I had seen photos of such and had an interest in railroads from the time I was a kid. Since then I have taken dozens of photos, slides, color movies and videos of many RR activities wherever I could find them, but none quite like this. Anything steam was and is exciting to me, as the last steam powered revenue freight through my hometown (on the NP) was in 1959, just after I'd turned thirteen. Not having a camera until the early '60s, I have no photos of steam from those earliest days of my interest. One day, if not now, you will be more than glad you were able to film your experience with the BNSF wreck as you did, and with the quality of camera work in which you did it. At times, timing and sheer luck in filming works wonders, too.
Thank you. Yes that is true one day I’ll look back and be glad I did, and that would have been amazing to see that engine power back then!
EXCELLENT VIDEO !!! VERRRY WELL FILMED ! You got a perfect parking spot, twice ! Then chased the Lead End, & cut of cars, till they were Sided !
The first time I ever saw one of those tractors, with the crane on the side of it; I was 22 years old, watching the guys pull loco trucks out of a creek and then onto the rails and then set the loco onto them....that was over 45 years ago ! I have always been a fan of those pieces of equipment...!
Thanks again for an excellent video !
Thank you!
Thank you from the UK, great video and being able to see the recovery, you certainly gave a lot of your time up to film , appreciated. Stay safe .
Thanks!
The old pipe layers worked well. Nice they had access in the flats of Nebraska. I used to got out on derailments to clean up after the RR got what they wanted to salvage. We cut up a lot of RR cars.
You have to be impressed with the sidewinders that puts the cars back on the track and the drivers that operates them to. Good job men
Very impressive indeed!
Thanks for sticking around for all of that. Had no idea what was required to get things right. That crew sure knew what they were doing. Amazing.
Thank you !
This crew has done this before, I don't know how long it took to get things right but between good editing and heavy equipment operators seemingly not wasting any efforts this is more entertaining than a football game.
Thanks!
@Carl Ferrigno Lol
Much more entertaining that watching a bunch of overpaid buttheads.....hell! Watching grass grow in more entertaining than the NFL
@@docholliday3273 Haha thanks.
@@docholliday3273 Amen!
As a former Hulcher Professional Services employee, someone who did this kind of work, I really do appreciate this video. Been looking for a long time for a video that shows the full winch line. Hard to describe, so nice to see it. It is a heavy SOB, the hook, the 4 or 5 links of holy crap they call that chain and the inch and a half winch line. Not a fun ordeal when you have to lift that over a railcar that has derailed on its side. (we went over the top so when we pulled it over the coal contents would dump out and the car could be scraped.)
Thanks!
Just imagine doing that work when it's 100° and humid, with mosquitoes. And you have a hangover.
@@paragozar doing it with a hangover is your own stupidity.
This work was in the wide open area. Much different when deep in the woods or a swamp. Kudos to the good jobs.
Hulcher out of Selkirk NY always did a good job for us. Whenever we had a mess,they came in and took over the operation and did an excellent job..
Wow - this was interesting how they got those trains up and running especially and that massive equipment. Thank u for all ur time to record this and share with the world.
Thank you I appreciate it. Yes it was very interesting to see them getting it back running.
Thank you for taping that whole process, quite enlightening. I've never seen anything like that before.
No problem.
@lukiitas arias Thank you I appreciate it!
Fantastic job of sticking with it through the whole ordeal! Fascinating video!
Thanks!
Stumbled upon this thanks to the algorithm. First time seeing a derailment sorted out. Those CAT D’s with the sideways jibs are the oddest CAT’s I’ve ever seen and have some grunt to lift a loco with fuel back onto the rails. Also, took me by surprise that they lifted them forward of the torn up rails - good corordination between either side CAT whilst with the loco wheels off the ground. Big boys toys to the max.
I believe those are standard CAT pipe layers.
Fascinating video! I can't believe you sat in your car for 10 hours. What dedication! I'll be sure to watch you. I just discovered you today am now a new subscriber! Good luck Tykell with your channel! SGG
Thank you! Yeah it was a long day. I appreciate it I’ll sub back to you.
Great job by the brotherhood of railroad workers. It is totally amazing how they orchestrate getting such heavy equipment back on the rails and return the rails to service.
Was very impressive
Great to see such a well organized crew putting it all back on track👍
Looking like they didn’t even break a sweat
Wow!! Thank you for educating us on what it takes to free this train. Long, hard tedious work for those nen.
Thank you
What makes me laugh from a UK perspective is:
1. how quickly that was recovered, in the UK that probably would have taken 24-48 hrs
2. The way they just put the train back on the track then drive it back to the depot, in the UK often derailed units are put on trucks back to a depot or at least have an undamaged pilot engine on the front with the others dead in train.
In spite of America's rail infrastructure issues, you do have to appreciate that kind of expediency. Given how much more stuff American railroads have to move (you can get trains in excess of 2-3km long here), it's kind of a necessity. People tend to get irratable when their Amazon deliveries are delayed, for one thing...
I've seen those sidewinders pull cars out into the woods but I didn't know they could pick up a road unit. Quite the machine. Great video by the way, thanks for posting!
Thanks!
Around here the company in Hulcer. Side boom pipe layers.
Never thought that they were that strong I thought that they were just for pipe
@@scottjones7279 All you have to do is to add a counterweight to the opposite side of the boom and you could lift a building, or a locomotive!
@@CONTAINERMAN68 These are obviously more nimble than the old "Big Hooks". Certainly can get on site faster. But I kindasorta miss seeing the old Big Hooks.
I always wondered how they fixed a mess like this. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
No problem
I missed the derailment. Was it the front of the train? I couldn't make it out?
I saw where it looked to me that there were no ties under the track. Is that where and why it derailed
To those who say that it is always the train that "wins" in any collision with a road vehicle, I'd say that it's almost always the train or railway that loses once all the repair costs are paid.
Thank You for stopping to record the after work. I never knew how the track workers and their equipment worked.
Thanks !
@13:00 wild Hemp right next to the track! 👌💨☕🚂✌
Yes
Wow!!!! I'm impressed at how quick they sorted out that mess👏🏻👏🏻, nice camera work as well.
Thank you!
Great video! I have seen a couple retail operations, but at a great distance. It was a treat to see the work, close up. Hulcher does a smooth job with those sidewinders. It's like the loco & cars weigh nothing. Thanks for the video & your time!!! 👍👍👍
Thank you!
Is quite relaxing seeing public workers doing clean-up jobs after incidents or accidents... It lets you have a sense of calm that everything will be put back in order soon enough...
Yes I agree.
Those aren't PUBLIC workers. Rail cleanups are always railroad Laborers or Carmen's Laborers. Most railroads won't take the Liability of using Non-Railroad workers on their line-of-road properties...especially around a derail.
Damn...that's one hell of a derailment.
Great job catching it! 👍
Thanks!
Awesome video. I was wondering at the beginning of the video how they were going to replace the track. Very informative. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you.
Thank you
That was very interesting to watch. Now I know how things are put back together after a derailment. A lot of sweat and hard work went into that. Good job.
Thanks.
Excellent and very efficient work by this team to sort out a fairly straightforward derailment....
With no damage ...and therefore leakage from any tanks......both the tank cars and the locomotive fuel tanks...
Shift the cars still on the track .........back in the direction from which they came.
Re-rail the damaged cars....and the locomotive.....then let the locomotives and the two re-railed cars run forward clear of the location.....after cutting out the damaged and buckled rails...
Location then clear to repair / replace the damaged track......
Testament to the 'can do' abilities of the railway workers.
No drama....just fix it...
James Hennighan
Yorkshire, England
From an engineering perspective, that was an incredible rescue operation. Like nothing even happened... 100% impressive 😎🤙🏻
I have to agree, I’ve seen those pieces of equipment and had no idea what they were for, outstanding job. By the way I love trains. They pick it up. WOW 🙃
Another thing is impressive, this is the ejection of the track, which was allowed due to the lack of control and poor fixing of the track, plus high temperatures !!!
Good job Tykell!! Thank you very much for share this experience
Thanks no problem
An awesome reportage.
From start to finish it presents a clear point of view.
It could be a lesson for any railway company on how to deal with problems like this effectively and efficiently.
Thank you so much for this very impressive video. The huge 5 Stars from me..
Thanks I appreciate it
What's truly amazing is that there doing this job the same exact way they've done it for nearly 80 yrs. Even those old Cat pipe layers that they modified still do the job. Can you imagine how many times those things have paid for themselves??? And there probably 50 -60 yrs old. They where built back when we had pride in what we made. And built them to last.
It’s amazing how well they last and how strong they are.
They are or they’re …
Nice catch! Especially like the effort you put into following to get good views of the damage.
Thanks I appreciate it
The ingenuity of man to design machines to repair machines
Ikr
I watched a recovery years and years ago. Amazing. They make it look so easy. Obviously know what they are doing. They have some very big toys, too!
The repair - rerailing crew did an excellent job. Good footage.
Thank you!
Front loco gonna need a new front clip and ditch light 💡
@@coryhoover01 Yeah
*Montrer une operation de rétablissement de la voie avec l'évacuation des wagons endommagés, c'est rare !!! Merci pour ces images précieuses...*
Vous êtes les bienvenus. Merci d'avoir regardé.
Videos like this make me glad I'm retired. I've worked that line with a MOW surfacing gang many years ago. Derailments like this are a pain in the butt when sections of both rails are pulled up. The sidewinders make pretty quick work of it anymore and instead of putting the usually bent rails and broken ties down now they just cut the section out and lay down panels. Dump rock, do a quick surfacing, get it up to 25mm and open it back up. The next day after proper surfacing it's put back up to normal track speed.
I bet it was a pain. Just observing that day it looked like a lengthy task!
a new breed of trainspotter: the trainstalker !
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
LMAO!!!!
I've seen how rail can spring wildly when cut through with Oxy and when I saw the Recovery machine put his track on the rail I think he was doing it for that reason.
Yes was a safe choice.
i agree! from springing back
Ten hours onsite, wow!!!! Thanks for your dedication.
Thanks! Yeah it was a long wait but worth the footage.
Thank you so much for this video. I always wondered how things were done. Fascinating.
Thanks!
I simply amazes me that people are so inattentive, that they can't see a train, or actually believe that they can beat a train through a crossing.
This is not a 'new' occurrence. I have seen this happen countless times, and it baffles me even today, why people continue to be so foolish.
I guess their driver's ed class didn't bother to tell them that they can not win an argument with a 400,000 pound piece of steel moving at any real speed.
And, I didn't count the 1 or 2 million pounds that is chasing that locomotive.
Yeah it’s dumb
A lot of ignorant people do not understand that a large object moving at the same speed as a small object appears to be moving slower due to the way that our visual perception works. I learned that from a fellow accident investigator. Some people have to learn it by being the cause of an accident.
@@TykellTruitt Thanks for putting up the video, I always wondered how they re-railed a train that was on the ground. The use of those “pipeline” cats was pretty slick.
@@charlesward8196 Thanks!
You could be a Dr, or a mechanic, but you just can’t FIX STUPID,!!
That crew was johnny on the spot and handled business. That was the most interesting video I’ve seen in a long time.
I would have loved to see them replace the track; that would have been interesting too.
At the end, did the engineer think you were stalking him?
Thank you for a very entertaining video! Well done!
Thank you! Yes they did great. No the whole crew was nice, I usually follow the trains from Sioux City to Dakota City or vice versa.
I like how he parks the crawler on the rail to prevent it sproinging on him once it's cut.
Yes that was smart thinking.
I am mesmerised watching the two big cranes on either side of the engine, working in unison to get it derailed. Awesome.
Aftermath process of re-railing cars was fun to watch
Thank you for taking the time to show the recovery process. I watched an engine derail on a siding, it was a minor incident in the darkness of the night. Only the front set of traction motors (all three axles) were what that derailed as it happened during a switching operation. I was the transport for the crew. I had a crappy cell phone and couldn't get any good pictures. The derailer was left engaged oops.
Thank you. Yes it was fun watching the whole re-railing process. That’s an interesting derailment that you witness transporting the crew.
It always amazes me how quickly those Hulcher machines with excellent, qualified crews show up after a problem. They must have them hiding behind every bush out there somewhere.
Excellent video of the process!
Thanks!
Great piece of work Mr.Truitt. Helped with a few wrecks myself, but the modified Dozers that Hulcher and the other Contractors use, are a definite plus and are so versatile! Your editing was well-done, and your final
Video is a winner! Thank you for waiting it out and getting it done!! Cheers.and stay SAFE!
@@selwyncarter3227 Thanks I appreciate it!
I reckon Hulcher, Corman, and others have gear spotted all over just for such an occurrence. They DO show up fast, don't they?
@@The_DuMont_Network Yes they showed up less than an hour after the accident.
Nice documentation of the cleanup and aftermath. I've driven trucks through this region for years and am even now transporting wind generator blades through here (from Newton, IA to O'Neil, NE), on nearby NE35 (no, I have no comments or connection with the recent TX grade crossing/blade-truck accident). It's sad that drivers here treat grade crossings with so little care but this is what ultimately happens. smh Kudos for sticking with it until they finished up!
Thanks!
Never enjoyed a video so much as this one. Thank you sir it has been fantastic.
Thanks!
Hats off to these guys who know what they are doing and don't ass around like city or state workers.🇺🇸
Or Firefighters lazy buggers.
Great video and great work by the crew - made life a lot easier happening beside a road.
Thanks
Thank you for a great video. Rerailing is an art and these guys are masters. Great catch
Thank you!
Wow that was awesome to watch.
I've always wondered how they handled derailments. We had one derail several years ago and the tracks were closed for a couple days I think.
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more as fast as they come through here.
Thanks. Yes they were amazing at the repair process.
Great Coverage after the Derailment, Tykell. 👍
Thank you !
It's amazing how fast and efficient these guys are they really know what they're doing
It was very impressive
Thank you for filming. Those CAT sideboom
Short lifts sure are POWERFUL. It's amazing watching them. There is one of those stand by yards by my home. They have a big Excavator
And 977 or bigger CAT Loader on Trailers with sidebooms in a yard. All ready to go out.
Thanks
Formidable en si peu de temps !! Super travail,bravo á ces équipes ...
Je suis d'accord c'était incroyable
That’s some pretty sizable damage on the front of that locomotive. Looks like he must have been moving at a pretty good speed when the collision occurred.
Oh yeah I’m sure
They’ve been there and done that before it’s really nice to watch them move in and take over and fix the problem it takes time, equipment, supplies and most importantly intelligent people highly trained.
Yes true
Your description is clear and concise. Thank you.
Thank you.
That's pretty cool how they lift them and put them back on the tracks!! Never knew that. Thanks great video!!😊
Thank you !
That could have been a WHOLE lot worse than it was!
Yes a lot worse
Those side booms are tough machines. it was amazing how quickly they were able to clear all of this up. I watched a derail recovery in Southern Illinois a bunch of years ago. Two coal hopper cars derailed. They sent out a 100 ton Holmes stiff boom, he had to be right up against the side of the car, but they were able to reset on to the rails. I ask, what happens if they couldn't do the job. The supervisor said that they would send for a rail crane out of St Louis. It was steam powered. They didn't know what it's capacity was. Every time they had a lift, it either came up or the rigging broke. The old steam machinery never stalled.
That’s pretty interesting I didn’t know they used steam powered rail cranes.
I watched the steam "hook" that was kept in Pacific, Mo a few times. Impressive, indeed. 1950s & early '60s. It was a real show!
The crossing at 31:33 brings back lots of memories. We used to hop on there when we were kids to get to SSC.
This was an amazing video; I would never have thought that those four crawler cranes would have been able to lift the train engines and or train carriages. I would have liked to see how they repaired the rail none the less still an outstanding video, thank you.
Thank you
Excellent video, also a good ad for Hulcher services. Like any job like this it requires 10 supervisors for every worker.
When you are dealing with this much weight safety is more important than speed.
I'll give you a subscription for this and a like for standing waist deep in ditch weed without lighting up.
Thank you ! I’ll subscribe back to you
We have a Hulcher location near Gettysburg,Pa. All work hard on the worksite in a total effort dovetailing the little details together. Hand signals command.
It is interesting to see their convoy returning after completion, everyone has done his job, sleepy body's in the crewcabs. Tomorrow the wash racks and restocking.
Looks like the company that owns the truck is going to have a big bill.
I agree!
@Metra BNSF and MDN Railfanner IL Productions Yes true.
The local news in the Sioux City area never provided any information about the truck or driver involved that I heard or saw. It appeared that they might have been doing track work in the area I wonder if it might have been a BNSF truck that got hit. Train must have been traveling pretty slow at the time otherwise there should’ve been a lot more damage. I was by the site late in the afternoon that day as they were re-railing the lumber car. I’m sure the final bill exceed the $750000 minimum liability insurance a commercial trucking company is required to carry. Marshaling All the equipment and people that were there all day wasn’t cheap.
@@sandyg9228 It’s possible I wish I’d had seen the event to capture footage of the truck but it’s very possible it was a work truck. Also I agree it had to be expensive.
And they’re Hiring, a New Driver. Nothing will get your License Yanked Faster than this. 🤪👎
Highly educational. Awesome job Tykell
Thank you !
I am fairly impressed the strength of those thin steel cables from the cranes. just several those cables are able to hold the majority of the weight of this gigantic locomotive, which is 200 tons!
Same here it was impressive.
At the beginning of the video I thought "this will take a month to fix." Nope. These guys did it in an afternoon!
Yes was impressive!
I have a friend that used to do that type of work. He told me, one time, that they do everything according to a plan they come up with at their initial huddle. Then by, combination of radio and hand signals. They already know what different actions do when working their machines together, a certain way. He said you just have to concentrate and stay focused and DON'T GET IN A HURRY !!!
There was tons of energy in that twisted rail. This wasn't their first rodeo.
Yes true.
Great coverage start to finish!
Thanks!
Thanks for the dedicated video effort!
Thanks I appreciate it.
On the one hand, a whole day of work. On the other hand, the easiest way to clean up a small mess is to not turn it into a big mess but being careless or stupid.
I wonder if they made it a felony to hit a train if that would stop people from being stupid and trying to beat the train.
@@hom3gr0wn30 Where could you possibly house that many felons though?
How many hours did it take for the Hulcher crews to arrive to begin the clean-up? Looking at their listing of locations, they probably came from Grand Island, Nebraska which is 3+ hours away. Of course, they would have to get the crew together and load any equipment that isn't already on the lowboys. Nice video! You must have stayed there for a number of hours.
Under 2 hours after the derailment.
@@TykellTruitt Hulcher crews have a standing order of getting to the shop within a half hour of getting the call if they are off duty. Everything is already loaded and ready to work. Typical roll out time is 20 minutes after crew is assembled, depending on road permitting. The 583 pipe layers are heavy and wide so special routing typically applies.
@@wyattward4924 Oh alright makes sense.
Another thing is impressive, this is the ejection of the track, which was allowed due to the lack of control and poor fixing of the track, plus high temperatures !!!
Yes it was very interesting
Men and their machines. Remarkable what they can do. And the next morning, Americans were enjoying their breakfast delivered by none other than: BNSF!
Well that was fascinating to watch. What kind of truck and were there any injuries? Great job of filming this. Gracias 👍🚂🚂
Thanks! I did not see the truck unfortunately because it was on the other side when I first arrived but they got that part removed out of sight. There were no injuries as I know of just the accident.
Yes
Frank Hicks, a friend of my father and a former Engineer and member of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, told me a bunch of stories about the things they hit. He said that when they saw a tanker truck on the tracks, they put the throttle on full, and got down on the floor of the most protected area of the engine. They wanted to get through the fireball as fast as possible if it was filled with gasoline or flammables, and not be stopped in the middle of the fire. One time the tanker truck on the tracks was filled with coca cola syrup. He said he was very glad he didn't have to clean that engine afterwards. Saddest one was a woman who took her horse over a trestle to "teach" it how to step a certain way. It's legs fell through the ties and it was stuck on the trestle, and they could not stop in time after seeing the woman trying to wave down the train.
Yikes that’s pretty sad with the horse. I now understand why some accelerate or don’t slow down if there is a tanker truck on the tracks because the higher risk of a fireball.
Did the horse die?
Did the woman die?
No more "teaching" horse steps on active railroad!
Awesome video man! Im the guy in the white hard hat managing that jobsite. That crew is out of Grand Island Nebraska and we work for Hulcher. If you have any questions man feel free to ask. But great video i seen you sitting there was wondering what yall were up too. lol
Thanks! Haha thank you for letting me park there I wasn’t trying to cause any disruptions but it was interesting I learned a few things. Interesting day that was!
Wow, My best friend, Thank you for your hard work in making the video. I enjoyed the good video. Have a happy day.
Thank you
You call that a “big mess!” All the equipment is still upright, coupled together, the locomotives are still running, there are not cars all over the place. All I can see in your video is a couple of hundred feet of rail that’s rolled over. All derailments should be so clean!
Yeah it wasn’t that bad but could have been. I meant with all the work going on that it was kinda messy.
If this is the standard for a big mess then standards must be pretty high wouldn't you say?
@@TykellTruitt, interesting video in any case. You were lucky to capture it all, especially without being chased away by the police.
@@tracksidebc5854 Yeah I think they saw I was just going to watch and wasn’t seen as a disturbance or interference.
He prob called it a big mess because those weigh a lot and it’s going to be a while before they get back on the tracks
What happens to drivers (engineers) after they strike a vehicle or a person ? Are they relieved of duty immediately, for the sake of stress and counseling or are they allowed to continue the journey ?
They were picked up immediately after by PTI. But I’m not sure about the process after or how they were affected by this.
After most incidents involving damage or injury, the crew is relieved of duty, taken to a hospital for a medical checkup, and tested for drugs and alcohol. Post incident counseling is also provided.
What an awesome video....and no commentary...I really enjoyed it.. 💯
Thanks I appreciate it!
Nice capture of the cleanup. Wish I would have known I would have come down to see it.
Thank you.