The Flashing Rear End Device (FRED) is usually seen on the last car of the train. Sometimes, it can be placed on the rear of a locomotive during a light power move.
One time a train stopped in my area to let another train pass by, and the horn on the DPU was stuck. I'm in a valley and the horn sounded and echoed for over 15 minutes. Another railfan caught it about 30 miles up the line and it was still going off. 😅😅 Great Catch!
I saw this on the VR Quincy Illinois cam once, the DPU had a stuck horn in the wee hours. Must have annoyed the heck out of people. I reported it to BNSF and they thanked me.
I Love trains hand this horns. I would not have minded at all to have the horn stuck on by my house, but then I’m retired. I don’t have to get up early if I don’t want to. Look
My nephew told me about a CPKC train last year in Calgary Alberta Canada and the horn was stuck on for over 2 minutes before the engineer could shut it off. He lives there
@ 15:02 I was not expecting that! I was like.. "why the heck is that train derailing to the road??" Then I'm like.. "Oh!... there is a crossing on the highway too". LOL!
@@therailroadtiespikerthat whole section seems wicked convoluted. Cause I see the two crossings about what? 200-500yds away from each other. The one closest to us watching, have no barrier, and the traffic all seems to want to take a left across 2 lanes. Then at the end, as you've stated. There is also a crossing across all 4 lanes. Damn that intersection must suck...no?😂😂😂
@@KDill29 yes it does and no crossing gates. I think they’re going to be changing how the train enters the yard farther up the tracks. They extended the yard a good 1,000 feet last year.
Your welcome! I work right by a giant Union Pacific facility and locomotives constantly go through there. Shockingly I haven’t ever heard a stuck horn.
@ 13:09... that gray vehicle crossing the tracks.. what is that? Looks like the front of a Tahoe but with the back of a PT Cruiser. I never seen that before...
@@Husky1980 yes I think they were being built up around Fort Wayne a few years ago not sure if they’re still building them. They had a few here in town with the city but I checked the city vehicles and I didn’t see any of them still in the yard.
In the old days , before cell phones , or even radios , a constantly sounding horn or whistle , signified that somebody ,or something got hit , and people would come running to help
I've commented this story once. Here's for a new group: I live on land where my front lot has a track going through it. We had a train that was at idle. (Here in SW Oklahoma we're used to hearing trains idle for 3-5 days. All alone, just sitting there. Now this train was on day 2 of idling, and around 3ish am, the horn was stuck. Police went to investigate, found no tampering or any signs of breaking and entering. This horn would drive the police, jail, sheriff, and residents nuts. Now the company came out and fixed the horn by the next night. But it did come back to haunt us. This time the police called the local dispatch and let them know it's against city ordinance to blow the horn after 11pm, the company would be charged for breaking the ordinance. 😅 This was just the start of our police vs the rail road feud in my city. They don't like the rail road, the rail road don't like the police. It's to the point that now if they blow the horn after 11pm, they'll chase the train and conduct a traffic stop. I've seen a few conductors in handcuffs before over it. I understand both sides of the picture. But when the horn is broken, turn the engine off at least.
Railroads trump city ordinances- under commerce laws. The police cannot tell them not to blow the horn and in fact the r would be breaking the law if they didn’t. Any conductors being arrested for this would be falsely imprisoned and as such should sue. Also, no traffic stops on trains- they’re not under road laws for the same reasons.
@@MBTAMoreRailfan Actually both the engineer and conductor would go to jail. The conductors are responsible for the train. engineers are responsible for the engines.. I've been through this because we parked behind a home at 2 AM for a meet. they threatened a ticket and arrest if I didn't move. The road foreman basically told the police to kick rocks
The N/S loco 9917 with only 1 flashing headlight looked like it had seen better days! So did 100 as well. 😮 then the stuck horn! 😱 i wonder if these locos were taken to the repair shop after this? Dangerous work stopping traffic there it is a busy intersection. What a day for the crew! 😢 thanks Ty very entertaining! ❤😊👍
Nice upkeep. Headlight burned out, horn doesn't work, roadbed sunk away, ties busted up, rails all bent and twisted. Even the "mainline" rails are junk. Let's go haul some hazmat boys!
I’ve seen that a couple of times. Once, the bell was stuck on a rear DPU on a UP empty coal train through Durant, OK. Second time, the horn was stuck on a BNSF GEVO leading a loaded coal train through Sherman, TX.
@CSXRailfan6588 I live in Kansas City and I've heard a pick truck with one! (I don't know if they're legal or not), but I would still like to have one!
@@JackieBright I didn’t have my camera the day the crew stopped here in Kokomo as they were pulling the grain train out and got some food to go from Ray’s Drive in.
As an engineer myself, we have some ex NS GP38s and had a similiar issue with the horn getting stuck on. I didn't let it blow for 4 minutes though lol, just opened the breaker panel and dropped the horn breaker. Ours was a Bad horn switch. If its a faulty solenoid, the air cutout valve is near the horn in the long hood.
A buddy of mine at work once built a train horn out of PVC pipe and he installed it on the main airline on the air compressor in the machine shop and you could hear it all over the building.
It happened once to me.. it was one of those pos abomination Aces that was a trailing unit. Lasted 10 minutes then stopped.. had to be electrical issues
@@MrNorth69 at least it finally shut off. I had one get stuck going through Navarre Ohio at around 3am I know I woke up some angry people that morning. 😂
i never even knew this could happen (from the uk and horns are very different with a lot of trains having high and low horns) we dont sound horns as often as you guys so i think they last a bit longer implying they dont get stuck. Ive became quite interested with american railfanning as of often.
@@Leo-lt9fk they need to use the horns here in the states because we have a lot of unprotected crossing where trains can do 40 to 60 mph. Thank you watching
@@therailroadtiespiker yeah usually here in the uk we put the barriers over the road and the sirens at the railcrossing are very loud so you really cant miss a train
Wow, how nice!! I could listen to it for one hour straight!! Lol, just kidding. He could have turned the diesel engine off, but, it would still last for many minutes, with the air of the tanks of the compressors. And it would take an hour or more to turn it on again. Tks for sharing.
Is it just me not knowing what the American Standart for railroads is compared to our german ones, or are those rails I'm awful condition? They are so warped and not flat at all, is this just the way it is over there or is this a bad example?
Spray some ballistol on the horn button... that will probably solve that problem. Sometimes the buttons get stuck in the on position... especially if they haven't been used in a while. And man the ns fan in me will never die... that horn failure actually rekindled my love for this railroad!!!
A flashing red light for the traffic signal isn’t compliant, since it has the same meaning as a stop sign. They are to remain solid red through the crossing cycle.
Of course it's in compliance. This is a light branch line crossing the road with cross bucks and yield signs. add the flashing traffic light with a 10 mph movement and there you have it
These air horn systems on locomotive are really not complicated. Just the electric push button switch in the cab sending voltage to a solenoid in the air supply to the horn. Either the solenoid got stuck or the push button switch did.
Since you're in Indiana, how often do you get to film the Nickle Plate 765? When visiting family in Fort Wayne over Thanksgiving I did not bother to go out to the historical society's site. I figured no one would be there or that it would not be open.
For me it's ok also have a stock on horn in loco so dumb and ignorant drivers will noticed a train...the downside is if the area is a "no train horn zone"
I had that happen to me once in a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba. I'm driving down a highway and all of a sudden I hit bump in the road and the horn started going off and wouldn't stop. 😅😅😅😅
It's probably an electronically controlled horn since mechanically controlled horns have the operator valve at the stand to control the flow of air to the horn. In electronically controlled horns, it's a solenoid valve, and if the solenoid valve is gummed up, have crusty sliding points, broken or worn return springs, the valve can be kept open even if the solenoid is de-energized.
@@MrNorth69 I'm going to say that can be a possibility. Road and engine vibrations can potentially knock or vibrate the solenoid valve open (assuming whatever mechanism holding the valve in a normally closed state has gone bad), and my theory is once enough air seeps into the horn itself, it's a matter of having the rest of the air pressure push the rest of the valve open and that's what might cause the horn to stick. Fortunately, many locomotives (I think) have a separate horn cut out valve that sits just before the horn to kill it. There's also a horn control circuit breaker on electronically controlled horn locomotives; although if the issue is mechanical, then cutting it out electrically would not solve the issue.
@@ILoveTheDolphins294 I talked about it at the beginning of the video I was able to remaster the video in 4K and to give a lot of the new viewers to the channel a chance to see the video.
Great video! Now, THAT was an interesting crossing where the train literally crosses the highway. Also, I know it's part of the conductor's job but I'd be scared to death to ride clinging to the front/back of a locomotive, and stand out in the middle of traffic to halt cars so the train could pass. God bless and protect the men and women who this daily. ❤❤❤❤
Honestly it's not difficult if you know what to/what not to do.. cutting corners can kill us. and honestly thank you for the kind words. I was expecting to be insulted
I wish mars still made them, they were very successful. However if they did, they would probably ruin the design by giving them LED. Reflector lights are specially designed for PAR36 halogen bulbs.
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8:09 that's the first time I've seen an EOT device light on a locomotive
@@CraftyFoxe the dash-9 was on the bottom of the grain train and was used to push the train into the yard.
hi craftyfoxe!
Not expecting to see you here crafty
Is that really u
The Flashing Rear End Device (FRED) is usually seen on the last car of the train. Sometimes, it can be placed on the rear of a locomotive during a light power move.
You have to admit, some drivers need a train horn for 4 minutes straight to finally notice a train is coming.
"Shhhh, can you hear something? It sounds like Gordon - and it ought to be Gordon! But Gordon never whistles like that."
Bro I was looking for someone to reference this omfg
One time a train stopped in my area to let another train pass by, and the horn on the DPU was stuck. I'm in a valley and the horn sounded and echoed for over 15 minutes. Another railfan caught it about 30 miles up the line and it was still going off. 😅😅 Great Catch!
Make that 60+ miles up the line. OMG... the DPU's horn was going off coming up the Greenbrier river valley and you could hear it for miles. LOL
@@BlackMan614 🤣🤣🤣 Man that horn was really Stuck!
@jacksocrazy how he knew exactly whrrnsdrones
Isn't there an specific circuit braker for the horn? Just an idea.
Gordon from Thomas the Tank Engine: "It isn't wrong, but we just don't do it. Oh the indignity, I jammed my whistle before"
@@SSBB_5m4sh lol
I like the ES44ACs their like a Diesel Version of Gordon.
@@philipmancera2505 they do sound like it. Lol
@@therailroadtiespiker while the SD40-2s are like Thomas.
Great use of a reference
"Stop that noise!" - Sir Topham Hatt
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Thankyou sooo muchh!!!
"It is not that it is wrong.... we just do not do it." 🧐
WHAT!? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!
Sir Topham Hat: “Your horn has caused confusion and delay!”
I saw this on the VR Quincy Illinois cam once, the DPU had a stuck horn in the wee hours. Must have annoyed the heck out of people. I reported it to BNSF and they thanked me.
@@jameschristiansson3137 I’ve had a engineer tell me about having a horn stick for almost the entire trip
ok
@@therailroadtiespikerOuch! 🤔
@@therailroadtiespiker if it was the horn on clinchfield 800 I wouldn't mind
I Love trains hand this horns. I would not have minded at all to have the horn stuck on by my house, but then I’m retired. I don’t have to get up early if I don’t want to. Look
I want my man cave air compressor to be as powerful as the one on this train. Probably producing at least 100cfm of air. Bloody awesome video.
@@MasterHustler thank you so much for watching
Epic catch. Blown ditch light and EOTD on the locomotive blinking. Great video as always.
@@Phantom-Signal thank you so much for watching
My nephew told me about a CPKC train last year in Calgary Alberta Canada and the horn was stuck on for over 2 minutes before the engineer could shut it off. He lives there
@@baracc10 I wonder what make it stick?
@@therailroadtiespiker they were sounding the horn when leaving
"It isn't wrong, but we just don't do it."
"The noise was awful. At the station, everyone covered their ears. Sir Topham Hatt covered his ears too."
@ 15:02 I was not expecting that!
I was like.. "why the heck is that train derailing to the road??"
Then I'm like.. "Oh!... there is a crossing on the highway too". LOL!
@@Bassotronics the track has a sharp curve right at the intersection then runs down the sidewalk on Morgan street.
@@therailroadtiespikerthat whole section seems wicked convoluted. Cause I see the two crossings about what? 200-500yds away from each other. The one closest to us watching, have no barrier, and the traffic all seems to want to take a left across 2 lanes.
Then at the end, as you've stated. There is also a crossing across all 4 lanes. Damn that intersection must suck...no?😂😂😂
@@KDill29 yes it does and no crossing gates. I think they’re going to be changing how the train enters the yard farther up the tracks. They extended the yard a good 1,000 feet last year.
After a while it starts to sound like an old school badass tornado siren.
The horn sounds good but man I hate when they get stuck.
Wow! That must’ve blown some eardrums out haha! Great video -Bruce
@@BruceD-z8b thank you Bruce for watching…
Your welcome! I work right by a giant Union Pacific facility and locomotives constantly go through there. Shockingly I haven’t ever heard a stuck horn.
@ 13:09... that gray vehicle crossing the tracks.. what is that?
Looks like the front of a Tahoe but with the back of a PT Cruiser.
I never seen that before...
That looks like a LCV
@@Bassotronics now I have to go look at it again. Lol
That vehicle there is an AM General MV-1, a vehicle designed for handicapped individuals.
@@Husky1980
Nice! Thanks! I never seen one in person before.
@@Husky1980 yes I think they were being built up around Fort Wayne a few years ago not sure if they’re still building them. They had a few here in town with the city but I checked the city vehicles and I didn’t see any of them still in the yard.
Something is blown in that solenoid. Solenoids will tend to get stuck open if the magnets are faulty.
In the old days , before cell phones , or even radios , a constantly sounding horn or whistle , signified that somebody ,or something got hit , and people would come running to help
I've commented this story once. Here's for a new group:
I live on land where my front lot has a track going through it. We had a train that was at idle. (Here in SW Oklahoma we're used to hearing trains idle for 3-5 days. All alone, just sitting there. Now this train was on day 2 of idling, and around 3ish am, the horn was stuck. Police went to investigate, found no tampering or any signs of breaking and entering. This horn would drive the police, jail, sheriff, and residents nuts. Now the company came out and fixed the horn by the next night. But it did come back to haunt us. This time the police called the local dispatch and let them know it's against city ordinance to blow the horn after 11pm, the company would be charged for breaking the ordinance. 😅
This was just the start of our police vs the rail road feud in my city. They don't like the rail road, the rail road don't like the police. It's to the point that now if they blow the horn after 11pm, they'll chase the train and conduct a traffic stop. I've seen a few conductors in handcuffs before over it.
I understand both sides of the picture. But when the horn is broken, turn the engine off at least.
There’s a cutout valve for the horn, for this exact reason. Can’t recall exactly where it is, but it’s there.
Railroads trump city ordinances- under commerce laws. The police cannot tell them not to blow the horn and in fact the r would be breaking the law if they didn’t. Any conductors being arrested for this would be falsely imprisoned and as such should sue. Also, no traffic stops on trains- they’re not under road laws for the same reasons.
@@MBTAMoreRailfan Actually both the engineer and conductor would go to jail. The conductors are responsible for the train. engineers are responsible for the engines.. I've been through this because we parked behind a home at 2 AM for a meet. they threatened a ticket and arrest if I didn't move. The road foreman basically told the police to kick rocks
@@lifeintornadoalley at least this happened during the day and at the outer edge of town. Thank you so much for watching
Trains are very protected under federal laws though.
The N/S loco 9917 with only 1 flashing headlight looked like it had seen better days! So did 100 as well. 😮 then the stuck horn! 😱 i wonder if these locos were taken to the repair shop after this? Dangerous work stopping traffic there it is a busy intersection. What a day for the crew! 😢 thanks Ty very entertaining! ❤😊👍
@@Carolb66I think NS rebuilt 9917 now I need to look that one up.
@@therailroadtiespiker 9917 isn’t rebuilt just yet, Probably part of 2025’s Rebuild plan
Nice upkeep. Headlight burned out, horn doesn't work, roadbed sunk away, ties busted up, rails all bent and twisted. Even the "mainline" rails are junk.
Let's go haul some hazmat boys!
@@smoke896 yep
“Norfolk Southern, you have caused confusion and delay”
Irgendwie ist das US Schiennetz deutlich interessanter als unseres. Was denkst du?
When haven't they lol
@@W123fahrer Bin zwar kein experte, aber die sollen doch eine sehr schlechte Infrastruktur haben.
@@Der_Fuchs_ Ne eigentlich ist es deutlich besser als unseres😂 Wobei das auch nicht wirklich schwer istm
@@W123fahrer Naja...Warum würdest du sagen, dass es besser ist? Hab oftmals das gegenteil gehört.
I’ve seen that a couple of times. Once, the bell was stuck on a rear DPU on a UP empty coal train through Durant, OK. Second time, the horn was stuck on a BNSF GEVO leading a loaded coal train through Sherman, TX.
@@ROADTRAIN23 I bet that was fun GEVOs can have some horrible sounding horns.
@@therailroadtiespiker I actually love their horns so it was sweet music to my ears😌
@@ROADTRAIN23 same here….
Excellent video! I wish I had a horn like that during rush hour traffic!
@@kevinberniebarron7548 yes!!!! I say that all the time. 😂
I may or may not know where to actually get one
@CSXRailfan6588 I live in Kansas City and I've heard a pick truck with one! (I don't know if they're legal or not), but I would still like to have one!
@ same here I think it’s legal.
@ the one the pickup truck has wasn’t a real one I know how to get a real one though
It's really cool to hear the Radio Dialing into the traffic light and changing it to flashing red
@@jmaal12 it’s neat if I have my radio on in the house I know when the train is leaving and I have time to catch it to film it leaving town.
I can remember about 7 yrs ago eating over at rays and having the whole grain grew come off and grab something to go before departing out of town.
@@Letsgoexplore2468 lol I guess they have to eat somewhere
@@therailroadtiespikerI remember seeing a video of a train stopped along next to a Sonic and one of the crew coming down to order some food
@@JackieBright I didn’t have my camera the day the crew stopped here in Kokomo as they were pulling the grain train out and got some food to go from Ray’s Drive in.
As an engineer myself, we have some ex NS GP38s and had a similiar issue with the horn getting stuck on.
I didn't let it blow for 4 minutes though lol, just opened the breaker panel and dropped the horn breaker. Ours was a Bad horn switch. If its a faulty solenoid, the air cutout valve is near the horn in the long hood.
Wake up lads, new Federal Signal tornado siren prototype just dropped.
A buddy of mine at work once built a train horn out of PVC pipe and he installed it on the main airline on the air compressor in the machine shop and you could hear it all over the building.
Man I hope the crew’s hearing is alright
Gone
WHAT!?
this only represents a few weeks' worth of normal hornblowing concentrated into one morning, yeah?
Wow that would be a real bummer. I never had that happen to me and I’ve never heard of it. That be a real problem. Thanks for the video. 👍❤️
@@dmorgan28 someone commented that it sounded like a electric air horn problem.
It happened once to me.. it was one of those pos abomination Aces that was a trailing unit. Lasted 10 minutes then stopped.. had to be electrical issues
@@MrNorth69 at least it finally shut off. I had one get stuck going through Navarre Ohio at around 3am I know I woke up some angry people that morning. 😂
Gordon from that episode but a diesel locomotive in America in modern day. Oh the indignity
i never even knew this could happen (from the uk and horns are very different with a lot of trains having high and low horns) we dont sound horns as often as you guys so i think they last a bit longer implying they dont get stuck. Ive became quite interested with american railfanning as of often.
@@Leo-lt9fk they need to use the horns here in the states because we have a lot of unprotected crossing where trains can do 40 to 60 mph. Thank you watching
@@therailroadtiespiker yeah usually here in the uk we put the barriers over the road and the sirens at the railcrossing are very loud so you really cant miss a train
@@Leo-lt9fk it’s really crazy how the railroad doesn’t want to spend money on crossings.
@@therailroadtiespiker yeah for peoples safety it would be better especially with how heavy the us locomotives are
9917: This is embarrassing....
I've had this happen too only in Train Sim using the Rail Driver controls. Must have been annoying for the train crew.
One of the Ditch light is dead 2:59
I can see the crew looking like they are trying to fix the horn
People near there probably thought this was one of the trumpets of Revelation.
What i would've done if i was the engineer id have either the conductor or brakeman go to the trailing locomotive and have him sound its horn instead.
@@NorthKYtrainssirensandgaming03 that would have been safer to do.
Very cool that's pretty well made keep up the good work
@@ronfogarty3888 thank you Ron for watching
That would be a Huge Problem and Not easily Shut Off. Really feel for anyone that was Close to the Locomotive.
One beautiful horn, such a shame it had to be stuck open
5:42 whats that little " elliptical" sign the dude in the orange just flipped from GREEN to RED mean? What is that for?
The Norfolk Southern deserves this type of SNAFU after how they have treated their employees for decades.
I remember that happening once in the early morning hours, the horn was stuck for about 8 and a half minutes
@@csxtrainfan319 lol
Awesome vids even the throwbacks👍 thx for the hardwork and editing great job! Anybody know the name of the intro music?
@@Adam-yb5ub Sweet and Hot from 1931
Wow, how nice!! I could listen to it for one hour straight!! Lol, just kidding. He could have turned the diesel engine off, but, it would still last for many minutes, with the air of the tanks of the compressors. And it would take an hour or more to turn it on again. Tks for sharing.
I love to see trains in the shop, being worked or a rebuild..
Freedom of expression at it's finest 😉
Is it just me not knowing what the American Standart for railroads is compared to our german ones, or are those rails I'm awful condition? They are so warped and not flat at all, is this just the way it is over there or is this a bad example?
@@lemontree15 profit that’s all American railroads see it really sad because I come from a long family line of railroaders 4 generation.
Spray some ballistol on the horn button... that will probably solve that problem. Sometimes the buttons get stuck in the on position... especially if they haven't been used in a while. And man the ns fan in me will never die... that horn failure actually rekindled my love for this railroad!!!
@@robertsaberniak007 thank you Robert for watching
So the Morgan st crossing was enabled via radio tones?
@@tyrowan85 yes I’m thinking it’s because they go at an angle across the intersection.
The train horn is causing confusion and delay 😂😂😂😂
"It isn't wrong, but we just don't do it."
-Henry The Green Engine
A flashing red light for the traffic signal isn’t compliant, since it has the same meaning as a stop sign. They are to remain solid red through the crossing cycle.
A flashing red light most certainly is an acceptable traffic control signal at this type of rail crossing.
Of course it's in compliance. This is a light branch line crossing the road with cross bucks and yield signs. add the flashing traffic light with a 10 mph movement and there you have it
These air horn systems on locomotive are really not complicated. Just the electric push button switch in the cab sending voltage to a solenoid in the air supply to the horn. Either the solenoid got stuck or the push button switch did.
11:41 that is so annoying
What camera did you use during the 4 minute honk section?
@@henry8909 Panasonic 870
Excellent video my friends 😊
@@MarcelosalivaTRENESArg thank you for watching
That's some serious noise pollution
Would it be easier to turn off the power to both trains, and then restart them to see if that works instead of letting the horn runs that long
@@rhock1979 I think one of the problems they were having was they were right at the crossing when the horn stuck
Turning off the power may not solve the problem, depending on the type of failure that occurred.
Now a question comes to my mind, how long the horn can blast before it runs out of air?
@@BOXAXIU till the locomotive runs out of fuel. 😂
The horn will never run out of air as long as the locomotive is running with the compressor pumping air.
@@alecmesa7563the crew likely had to shut down the locomotive to get it to stop.
@@johndeerefan725 hmm, probably not. Considering when it did stop, it stopped abruptly, indicating the use of some kind of cut out valve.
Norfolk Southern what’s your function?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Since you're in Indiana, how often do you get to film the Nickle Plate 765?
When visiting family in Fort Wayne over Thanksgiving I did not bother to go out to the historical society's site. I figured no one would be there or that it would not be open.
@@billstarr9396 I haven’t been up to see it.
Dumb question, the air horn won’t lose air and get quieter? Or is the compressor just so big it keeps feeding constant pressure?
@@Bmg009 yes the compressor would keep feeding it even shut down it would feed it for hours.
@@therailroadtiespikerI guess that makes sense, wouldn't want to risk low air over using the horn. So they'd have way way more than needed in reserve
For me it's ok also have a stock on horn in loco so dumb and ignorant drivers will noticed a train...the downside is if the area is a "no train horn zone"
What causes a train horn to get stuck?
I had that happen to me once in a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba. I'm driving down a highway and all of a sudden I hit bump in the road and the horn started going off and wouldn't stop. 😅😅😅😅
@@thoughtfinder 😂
Wonder if it was a regular air horn--- or one of these new ELECTRONIC horns, cause I could see the problem right away.
@@Joe-d7m6k that’s a great question
@@therailroadtiespiker BET it was a NEW one, electronic!!
It's probably an electronically controlled horn since mechanically controlled horns have the operator valve at the stand to control the flow of air to the horn. In electronically controlled horns, it's a solenoid valve, and if the solenoid valve is gummed up, have crusty sliding points, broken or worn return springs, the valve can be kept open even if the solenoid is de-energized.
@@the_1drummajor Could that problem arise on a trailing unit? we had that issue a couple years back
@@MrNorth69 I'm going to say that can be a possibility. Road and engine vibrations can potentially knock or vibrate the solenoid valve open (assuming whatever mechanism holding the valve in a normally closed state has gone bad), and my theory is once enough air seeps into the horn itself, it's a matter of having the rest of the air pressure push the rest of the valve open and that's what might cause the horn to stick. Fortunately, many locomotives (I think) have a separate horn cut out valve that sits just before the horn to kill it. There's also a horn control circuit breaker on electronically controlled horn locomotives; although if the issue is mechanical, then cutting it out electrically would not solve the issue.
Thee NS had a mechanical problem and two oh the gears broke
Why didn’t they look and close the horns cut out valve.
R.i.p your hears
@@draganasselin8602 😂
Tore wild ass on that horn
that's not Davison Rd. its North Davis Rd. also known to us locals as old US. 35 highway.
@@allensanders5535 actually it’s the Morgan street crossing.
Good train videos
@@eugenekleis4235 thank you for watching
It sounds like a leaf blower 😂😂😂😂
@@Maria-qe6po lol
9:21 WOW
The wind from the locomotive
Horn wasn’t about to be outshone by the EOT device.
I saw one with the bell stuck lol
@@Csxt_type_guy actually I saw a NS grain train last week with the e-bell stuck on
@ it’s always NS lmao
No confusion on the vehicle traffic at all smh wrong description for video
@@mrmike1237 ?
bell?
That's when you cut the horn out. An comply with GCOR rules with out it.
Was waiting for someone to say to cut it out. Back wall, top row of breakers, on LH side as you face the breakers!
@@erikih706 Yeah, or the cut in/cut out air valve outside. Happens more frequently, then people think.
Hey I have NS 1100 in HO scale!
Oh man I love the horn. That would have been awesome for me.
@@luvthetux it was pretty cool!!!! I love train horns so I was enjoying it being stuck. 😂
Turn the air valve off or if it's electric, breaker, fuse.
😂 that's gotta be embarrassing & deafening at the same time
Is this a Reupload?
@@ILoveTheDolphins294 I talked about it at the beginning of the video I was able to remaster the video in 4K and to give a lot of the new viewers to the channel a chance to see the video.
@@therailroadtiespiker oh sorry, I didn’t click on the video till yesterday
@@ILoveTheDolphins294 not a problem just wanted a lot of the new viewers to be able to watch it.
This always happens to EMD's too.
Both GE and EMD had the same horn issue of getting stuck. I've seen a GE CSX unit with a stuck horn going through Ashland, VA, on VR cameras.
Nice 👍
Locomotives have a horn cut out valve.
Not all of them.
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2:34 K5LA???
Wow that's a rare fanonom
Great video! Now, THAT was an interesting crossing where the train literally crosses the highway. Also, I know it's part of the conductor's job but I'd be scared to death to ride clinging to the front/back of a locomotive, and stand out in the middle of traffic to halt cars so the train could pass. God bless and protect the men and women who this daily. ❤❤❤❤
I did that job for 8 years, moved on to since the engineer
Honestly it's not difficult if you know what to/what not to do.. cutting corners can kill us. and honestly thank you for the kind words. I was expecting to be insulted
the single flashing ditch light reminded me of the old mars lights
@@cindypacificrailroad2003 yes it does
I wish mars still made them, they were very successful. However if they did, they would probably ruin the design by giving them LED. Reflector lights are specially designed for PAR36 halogen bulbs.
It looks like the train is a bit heavy for the rail
@@mlkekooistra8011 yes they are
That locomotive is probably out of fuel now
What happened light
@@ChristianNoel_Likes_Trains the ditch light needed some work. Lol
@@therailroadtiespiker yeah it does
Had to turn down the volume on my ear buds!