What is really amazing about this video is someone held the camera horizontal not vertical, didn't say stupid things the entire time, and held the camera steady the entire time. A real rarity!
You couldn't even really hear the cars being destroyed beneath, as the roofs were being sheared off "accordion-ly"... Wonder how the conductor figured out it was happening...?
Now that, is a momentous peel. I feel like I just watched the grand parent bridge of the 11 foot 8 can opener bridge show their grandkid how it's done.
I saw it happen as a tower operator in Chicago. Not only did eight auto racks (fortunately empty) get their tops peeled off, but they almost took out some trackage used by three CTA routes in the process.
Every railroad has a department that's responsible for routing over size / over height / high cube rail cars. The clearances for all tracks in the system are known, and these auto racks should have never been assigned to that train. Somebody in the office done F'd up.
This is the first time I've seen this cut of the video, and something stood out right from the start. Part of one of the rail car's roof is peeled back before it gets to the bridge. The only logical explanation would be that the train stopped, rolled back, and then went ahead again. Has anyone ever seen any details on how/why that happened?
Why is it that, at the beginning of the video, the leftmost container is already open as if the load had already attempted, stopped, backed-up, and then tried again as we watched. Secondly, who could have been that fortunate enough to be at this remote(?) location to film this interesting event? I’d like to see an uncut take, that is how does the clip start? Thanks for anybody that knows more about this. It seems this account is for commercial licensing. I wonder what the videographer knows about this?
that's what I don't understand. the way the train takes so long to slow down seems like the engines are going and its just the roof slowing the train down. like the engineer just thinks its a slippery piece of track or something and backed up.
I was driving an autorack truck, new on the job. Those trucks are always over the limit but it is calculated into the route. I asked about a specific bridge, the boss and the experienced “trucker Fucker’s” told me that it would fit. I pointed out that the underpass had gotten new asphalt on and the clearance was lesser. They said that i should go, so I did. I crashed, and guess who let he high and dry? Yep, the boss and “colleagues”, lost my license for that and got fined, since it is driver’s responsibility. So yeah, never ever trust anyone, do the research and don’t take anyone’s word for validation.
Yes u r right.I drov semis for 33 years ,up to 15 foot high trailers in UK .I had to back up from many a low bridge ( innacurate signs ) it was my responsibility.Even had to avoid a no heavy truck route once and ò had guys in my cab say why you going this way ,the other guys dont avoid the restriction.My reply its their license they risk not mine.
From factory to scrap! But dealerships that ordered those cars for stock or specific customers are now in a bind. They'll be scrambling to get replacements from other dealerships. And customers who special ordered a car are really screwed.
@@mark351 true enough however if they are kia cars it is not easy to believe they are not better off the local scrapyard is nicknamed the kia graveyard because 80% of the wrecks are KIA and likely half the owners were KIA(killed in auto)
@@randalroe1929 I would as well... would love to… But unfortunately, I live in the peoples Republic of New Jersey. You get caught with a gun here, you will do serious prison time. Well, unless you’re a hardened criminal, in that case you can usually work out a deal with the district attorney.
Naaaa middle managers will probably blame the conductor for not paying attention to the consist high load and remembering the low clearance Bridge 🙄 if I had to geuss
@@deepspire something should have flagged in management or the assembly and assignment of the train that the track route had a low bridge, Perhaps the train got detoured from its normal route and no alarms went off. Some people probably got yelled at regardless.
Wait a second…….. 12’ 4” / 11’ 8” evil railroad cousin cutter bridge!!!! Rips the roof off of auto transport rail cars and turns 4 wheel cars into squished scrapped convertibles!!
Thought this is were they "trained". "If the loud crunch sound fails to cease and there are people yelling and red flashing lights in the distance, quickly apply your foot to the middle pedal and erase your phone history."
@@jasonlockhartsr4415 nah man. We in the trucking industry go by "Sure Wish I Finished Training" for SWIFT drivers. Them assholes have no business being behind the wheel of anything.
I've watched this like 6 or 7 times and still amuses. Have seen this in Chicago with containers on a low bridge and all the empty Nike shoe boxes laying there
Mr.Smith this is ABC auto dealership calling and we hope that you are excited to take delivery of your brand new convertible. We see it's on the next train in.
There is a bridge in Milwaukee that is too low for tri level auto racks... excess height cars need to be set-out before proceeding on the route under this bridge... Many years ago we had a Chicago crew shear off the top of an loaded autorack at this bridge, the car was sent to Cudahy car shop to repair the car... after a few weeks the shop released the car to be picked up by the railroad, and the knucklehead crew picked up the car and ran it under the same bridge! Sheared the top off a second time... You cant make this shit up!
Where is this at? I know that they can't go through the Amtrak station. But excess height cars go through Milwaukee daily. They typically just go onto the bypass for CP rail. Or is this bridge on the UP? The new line typically gets excess height cars as well.
@@TrafficCamWatch It did make the news the first time... i wish i still had the car number involved... but stories like this have a habit of getting swept under the rug! (Too embarrassing for the railroad if the public finds out!) Lol
I'm confused as hell because the way this was shot implies that there'd been a previous "shaving" of a few cars previously. There was a stop (perhaps for a red signal where the train rolled back a little?) and then the scraping continued for the first car we see, which already had most of its roof gone, and so on
My guess is that they were switching a yard, so moving backwards and forwards to drop off or pick up cars from different tracks. If they'd stopped at a signal, the train might have rolled back a little, but not _that_ much. At the start of the video, the train's going fast enough that it must have had at least a few car lengths of run-up.
Apparently the train was diverted onto this track because normal track had trains on it. The controller who switched the tracks by remote control, from his/her office, failed to check the maps for the height of bridges. This track is normally used by oil trains, as it has an oil refinery at the end. Oil cars are low, but car carriers are 2 or 3 levels and much higher. Nobody checked. Controller didn't check, drivers didn't check. They have maps in the train cabin. Driver shoulda checked maps.
What floors me the most is its obvious the train stopped, reversed, and then basically the engineer was like, eff it lets open a few more up for laughs
The railroad version of "Wolf Creek Pass" by C.W. McCall. "Right in the middle of the whole damn show was a real nice tunnel, now wouldn't ya know" "The sign said clearance to the 12 foot alignment. Chickens was stacked to thirteen nine." "Well we shot that tunnel at a hundred and ten, like gas through a funnel, and eggs through a hen." "We took that top row of chickens off slicker than scum off a Louisiana swamp."
Bad news: Your new sedan isn't going to be delivered on time Good news: For just an additional 500 dollars we can get you into the same car but, as a convertible !
@@rearspeaker6364 I was being sarcastic, to be honest. My pitch would have been a promise to do less damage than the guy responsible for the accident. Thanks for the help, nonetheless.
All jokes aside, between the yardmaster letting these cars out of the yard, the dispatcher not catching this clearance issue and changing the route, to the crew, a lot of people dropped the ball on this. Also, with a bridge overpass like this, there usually is a high - load detector before a clearance issue location. Either there was no detector (?why not?) or it wasn't working properly.
Finally, some else on here who understands how the railroads actually work... too many "experts" on youtube who dont have a clue! What railroad are you with?
Thank you! I worked in transportation for a decade and I'm stunned to see how many people are saying it's the driver's fault. The fact they're calling the Train's engineer a driver is your first clue. But yes, this was a failure on many many levels.
@@erict5234 Tuckerton Railroad. Also, I'm sure there's damage to the railroad bridge that these cars hit. The whole thing would have to be inspected & repaired before anything could run on it again! I'd be leery being in the same position as the filmmaker!
A lot of people are hating on the engineer for this, which is wrong. The crew doesn't decide which routes the train has to take, the dispatcher does. In this incident, the dispatcher is completely responsible for all damage done to the vehicles and autorack cars. The crew had no idea this was happening, so they probably wouldn't have been fired or charged, however, the dispatcher was probably fired and charged the entire $2,000,000+ for the damage.
My dad was an auto hauler in the 60-80's. He used tell us stories of things like this, where someone didn't pay attention to bridge clearance and would rip the top off new cars or trucks. Even better vehicles weren't secured on trains (before covered box cars) and they would fall off the train as it rounded a bend. I would've loved to see that on video.
Imagine being a kid wanting a mercedes or something like that and you happened to live near a bend in the train tracks and a brand new car just literally fell in your backyard
IMHO, based on decades of experience with them: 99% of this is 100% the fault of the dispatcher!! If the engineer follows the directions of dispatch, the boss WILL say "You should have known better!!" But if the engineer questions dispatch they WILL get "do as you are told!!" And with the modern railroad, dispatch has Total control over what line the train goes on, but as someone MUST be blamed, & no dispatcher in the history of dispatchers has EVER been held accountable for ANYTHING, the engineer will be fired for the dispatch error!!
Ok, my question here is, with a truck you blame the driver because there are options to go around a low clearance. Who do you blame here? They had to know the clearances on rail passes. And it not like an engineer can turn the wheel and go around.
@@ems7623, the word is literally derived from 'engine', so an 'engineer' is an "engine operator". That an engineer also designs and builds technical stuff is a later addition.
Somewhere, there's a folder with many documents regarding this incident. The documents probably cover many topics such as job loss, lawsuits etc etc. I'd be interested in the one with the dollar figure for the entire cost at the lower right hand corner.
Its funny that at the start of the video the roof has been pulled off of a car further back than the bridge- implying that the train operator fucked up the train, backed up, and then pulled forward again for the video. Operating a train requires a tremendous amount of force. The work done to make this vod sure was silly.
@Aloha Akahai Need to look close, there were quite a few that were damaged. It showed one shoved through the rear doors of the railcar and a bunch with roof damage.
@Aloha Akahai autos were all junked. Standard practice to junk even slightly damaged autos to avoid any libel or insurance issues that may crop up years later.
This happened in Memphis September 13 2020. It is a Ford transport train consisting of Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific autorack train cars. The vehicles inside are new Ford Explorers and Lincoln Nautiluses.
I imagine the railroad and Ford's insurance companies will work things out, the damaged railcars will get repaired or replaced, and the damaged vehicles will be auctioned off through CoPart for auto parts and salvage. I bet many will end up overseas patched back together and put on the road.
This happened a couple of times in Locust Point yard on CSX in Baltimore. The loop through the grain terminal and Domino Sugar has a low street overpass and racks have accidentally been sent around it. The last time I know it happened was after they had discontinued the yardmaster position in the yard, so there was no one there to spot the mistake. "Damn, why is it pulling so hard all of a sudden. Better give it a couple more notches!"
@@tripplefives1402 I was a CSX engineer and was relating what I heard about the one Locust Point incident, where the engineer involved actually did not pick up on what was going wrong and gave the locos more power and destroyed more racks and autos.
Isn't it amazing how they want to save a few dollars and it whines up costing them a fortune? Time and time again we see it but the powers-that-be just never seem to learn that lesson.
@@heronpage3883 yeah but in the long run they end up saving more money not saying it's right but between salary insurance benefits unemployment you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just by getting rid of one job
Probably a couple of people including the person who told the automatic switch to send that train down the track w/a low bridge . trains can't stop on a dime.
It's amazing to see how much energy is still stored at such a low speed. I see huge concrete trains near me (because there is a factory there). They are literelly rolling 5km/h for 2-3 kilometers while slowing down in order to stop. The train starts braking (even though it's slow to begin with) at one station and comes to a complete stop about 500m after the other station...
That bridge was trying to turn the new style enclosed auto carrier into the older open style car carrier Man says to the barber "A little off the top please," A few moments later' "What the hell, I said a little off the top, you butchered me!"
Worked at a rail freight terminal, trucks on one side, boxcars for unloading on the other. One day,while shunting the cars in, they had two auto racks in the string. Tore a third of the warehouse roof off…..oops
I work at a company that repairs these exact type of hightops, among other types of rail cars. It's intresting to see how the damage we fix actually happens.
These were already wrecked cars. Thee forces involved would have done entirely different damage to them. Pretty sure they were being sent back for inspection and scrapping elsewhere.
Train Driver: Hmm, train seems kind of sluggish today, also what's that strange crunching sound? Ah whatever, just push the lever forward a bit more I'm sure everything is fine. Train:
That bridge is the wig splitter 5 million. That train just got scalped by the bridge. The train's cars got peeled back like a sardine can. That train just got a buzz cut. All of that to say.... That bridge is the real MVP in this situation 🤣🤣🤣
“Do you hear that? It’s a funny squeaky sound” “You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant” Or a bridge shearing the roofs of rail cars and automobiles...
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I usually don't like to watch unboxing vids on UA-cam, but this is the best one ever!
i love unboxing vids but it's sad that he got broken cars. F UPS.
Lol
@@geoffreykail9129 watch it all the time love it did you watch this --------> ua-cam.com/video/V3-UugI0JoA/v-deo.html
Looks like a load of convertibles now.
That boxcar got peeled back like a sardine can, ha ha!!
What is really amazing about this video is someone held the camera horizontal not vertical, didn't say stupid things the entire time, and held the camera steady the entire time. A real rarity!
Good thing your comment makes up for the lack of stupid things said.
@@ThatsOneNiceKitty Spot on.
. . and then we have the forum . .
And the extremely annoying music that ruins alot of videos
I'd be more willing to pay UA-cam if they would only accept videos in landscape mode.
Conversely, that's one solid-ass bridge right there.
@ you dont have to get all technical lol
Yeah that Bridge looks like an Oldie but Goodie!!
@ You Betcha !!
🔥😎
@ the steel cars smashing through could shave the bottom of the bridge with the friction and heat eventually destroying it
Just imagine all those wrecked autos in a junk yard with a new car smell.
" autos " isn't that a term like " horseless carriage " from 100 + YEARS AGO ?
Only the roof of the car was destroyed not the entire cabin
Tavarish will fix them..
In Greek, Auto = self
@@keithpearson7059 irrelevant.
Only the bridge engineers can be proud of that moment.
+10 xp for bridge engineer
@@348frank348 + Respect.
Those engineers are morons for making this bridge so low
I would like but it would ruin the 666 likes
@@cupcakKe_express I liked the comment and then I liked it 😂
It was very satisfying how the corrugated steel folded so perfectly, like a big accordion.
You couldn't even really hear the cars being destroyed beneath, as the roofs were being sheared off "accordion-ly"...
Wonder how the conductor figured out it was happening...?
@@JeffCKeane I am guessing that he noticed a difference in the load on the engine.
@@JeffCKeane Is that a question?
thats a quick and cheap way to remove the roofs^^
I agree, but 87% of millennials don’t know what the words “corrugated” or “accordion” mean...
On the plus side, it cleared that second bridge pretty smoothly
One outta two ain't bad.
😂😂
Well I would rather be positive
This is the best "I'm so fired" moment I've ever watch on UA-cam
If you look closely you can see it's not meant to do that.
lol :)
Oh look, another "internet expert" who thinks he knows everything!
lol
@@AlbertaGeek r/wooooooosh
@@ccoeltrains No, my friend, I'm afraid the "wooosh" is you for apparently needing a sarcasm tag to get the joke.
Now that, is a momentous peel.
I feel like I just watched the grand parent bridge of the 11 foot 8 can opener bridge show their grandkid how it's done.
I saw it happen as a tower operator in Chicago. Not only did eight auto racks (fortunately empty) get their tops peeled off, but they almost took out some trackage used by three CTA routes in the process.
It's like the 11 foot 8 can opener bridge, train style :)
You mean 11” 8’ + 8’ or 12” 6, ?
@@calibratedindigo1338 Oh yeah, I forgot they raised it 8 inches :)
I knew I'd find this comment
That was exactly my thought
@@Ageviest Well you must be too :)
Every railroad has a department that's responsible for routing over size / over height / high cube rail cars. The clearances for all tracks in the system are known, and these auto racks should have never been assigned to that train. Somebody in the office done F'd up.
No duhhh really?
@@kishascape I saw a few comments where people were asking why the engineer didn't stop due to lack of clearance.
Yeah, but you know who's going to be walking the unemployment line? It ain't going to be anyone in the office, you can almost bet on that.
@@louisg4828 yup i fell bad for the driver the office people always get off scott free its bs
@@voltare2amstereo yup diversity hires get off pretty easy
This is the first time I've seen this cut of the video, and something stood out right from the start. Part of one of the rail car's roof is peeled back before it gets to the bridge. The only logical explanation would be that the train stopped, rolled back, and then went ahead again. Has anyone ever seen any details on how/why that happened?
just wanna bump this comment as it's something i noticed immediately and am wondering about aswell ;P
You know the dudes that don't use lube for sex but just need a extra long runway? Thats what's happening here
Maybe the driver collapsed with stress and another driver took over, not realising what was wrong
@@roy00100 same here
Why is it that, at the beginning of the video, the leftmost container is already open as if the load had already attempted, stopped, backed-up, and then tried again as we watched. Secondly, who could have been that fortunate enough to be at this remote(?) location to film this interesting event? I’d like to see an uncut take, that is how does the clip start? Thanks for anybody that knows more about this. It seems this account is for commercial licensing. I wonder what the videographer knows about this?
that's what I don't understand. the way the train takes so long to slow down seems like the engines are going and its just the roof slowing the train down. like the engineer just thinks its a slippery piece of track or something and backed up.
@@anthony10370 ... trains take super long to stop i hope you know that
how do you fake that
@@crapman1290 I don’t know. I didn’t say it was fake. Maybe there was another person on this thread that you meant to reply to?
@@headbanger1428 yes
I was driving an autorack truck, new on the job. Those trucks are always over the limit but it is calculated into the route. I asked about a specific bridge, the boss and the experienced “trucker Fucker’s” told me that it would fit. I pointed out that the underpass had gotten new asphalt on and the clearance was lesser. They said that i should go, so I did.
I crashed, and guess who let he high and dry? Yep, the boss and “colleagues”, lost my license for that and got fined, since it is driver’s responsibility.
So yeah, never ever trust anyone, do the research and don’t take anyone’s word for validation.
Drivers are always used as scape goats.
Trust, but verify
You lost it over one incident? ......
Yes u r right.I drov semis for 33 years ,up to 15 foot high trailers in UK .I had to back up from many a low bridge ( innacurate signs ) it was my responsibility.Even had to avoid a no heavy truck route once and ò had guys in my cab say why you going this way ,the other guys dont avoid the restriction.My reply its their license they risk not mine.
Parking lot?
From the dealership to the scrapyard in 60 seconds.
Never SAW the Dealership !
I guess you could say they were gone in 60 seconds?
sounds like a KIA operation factory to scrap in one easy step...
From factory to scrap! But dealerships that ordered those cars for stock or specific customers are now in a bind. They'll be scrambling to get replacements from other dealerships. And customers who special ordered a car are really screwed.
@@mark351 true enough however if they are kia cars it is not easy to believe they are not better off the local scrapyard is nicknamed the kia graveyard because 80% of the wrecks are KIA and likely half the owners were KIA(killed in auto)
That is an AMAZING catch. Right place, right time. I always carry a run-n'-gun camera for situations like this....but they never happen!
I always carry a gun!
@@randalroe1929 I would as well... would love to… But unfortunately, I live in the peoples Republic of New Jersey. You get caught with a gun here, you will do serious prison time. Well, unless you’re a hardened criminal, in that case you can usually work out a deal with the district attorney.
I guess you can call it 'Loco-in-motion'.
Pre-loved cars, low mileage with open top!
I've heard the expression 'slow motion train wreck', now thanks to youtube I get to see a real one.
They should have tried letting some air out of the tires.
I was thinking the same🤷🏿♂️
LOL!
trains have sold steel wheels
@@davek540 I did not know that!!
@@davek540 Yeah, that's the joke.
The operator probably never even felt this happening
Whoever planned that route definitely lost they're job
Naaaa middle managers will probably blame the conductor for not paying attention to the consist high load and remembering the low clearance Bridge 🙄 if I had to geuss
They decapitated the first car, backed up and said, "Screw it, we're all fired now anyway, let's see how many more cars we can decapitate."
Ahahahaha Funny !!
@Cloud Exactly. Engineers have no say in where their train goes.
Wouldn't this be the fault of whoever routed this train?
Still was fun to watch!
@@puck30
One would think,,, but if the person at fault is untouchable, then the blame will be transfered to the inocent.
( see current events )
@@deepspire something should have flagged in management or the assembly and assignment of the train that the track route had a low bridge,
Perhaps the train got detoured from its normal route and no alarms went off.
Some people probably got yelled at regardless.
Well I didn’t know there was a train version of the 11’8+8 bridge until now
@bs itis Got you covered fam: ua-cam.com/video/ROjm1W5N77g/v-deo.html
Happened couple of months ago in Rotterdam in the Netherlands
@@AboeGames OMG that was hilarious!!!!! 😅🤣🤘
Engineers probably didn't even feel it
Wait a second…….. 12’ 4” / 11’ 8” evil railroad cousin cutter bridge!!!! Rips the roof off of auto transport rail cars and turns 4 wheel cars into squished scrapped convertibles!!
Who knew that the railroads were hiring former Swift drivers.
Good one 👍
lmao. Did you know that SWIFT stands for "Sure Wish I had a Faster Truck"!
Thought this is were they "trained". "If the loud crunch sound fails to cease and there are people yelling and red flashing lights in the distance, quickly apply your foot to the middle pedal and erase your phone history."
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
@@jasonlockhartsr4415 nah man. We in the trucking industry go by "Sure Wish I Finished Training" for SWIFT drivers. Them assholes have no business being behind the wheel of anything.
The train driver was a former Penske-Truck driver.
Ex-Penske driver fell victim to 11foot8 bridge's cousin
@@stellartofu2827 you mean the evil 11' - 6" bridge :D
Or a swift driver.
@@danielmiller4492 I was gonna say that
Maybe jb hunt.
I've watched this like 6 or 7 times and still amuses. Have seen this in Chicago with containers on a low bridge and all the empty Nike shoe boxes laying there
Mr.Smith this is ABC auto dealership calling and we hope that you are excited to take delivery of your brand new convertible. We see it's on the next train in.
If it fits, it ships.
Well, it doesn’t and it don’t.
*didn't* *couldn't* *won't* *wouldn't*
😁😁😁
LMAO
I think someone just shipped there pants. That was horrible wow
🤣
There is a bridge in Milwaukee that is too low for tri level auto racks... excess height cars need to be set-out before proceeding on the route under this bridge... Many years ago we had a Chicago crew shear off the top of an loaded autorack at this bridge, the car was sent to Cudahy car shop to repair the car... after a few weeks the shop released the car to be picked up by the railroad, and the knucklehead crew picked up the car and ran it under the same bridge! Sheared the top off a second time... You cant make this shit up!
Where is this at? I know that they can't go through the Amtrak station. But excess height cars go through Milwaukee daily. They typically just go onto the bypass for CP rail. Or is this bridge on the UP? The new line typically gets excess height cars as well.
@@waycoolscootaloo Bridge is on UP Milwaukee sub at 35th st. (By Mitchell yard.)
And they still get sold as NEW.
That made the news, twice right? That's something that HAS to be documented for record keeping, lets not let that true story vanish off the internet.
@@TrafficCamWatch It did make the news the first time... i wish i still had the car number involved... but stories like this have a habit of getting swept under the rug! (Too embarrassing for the railroad if the public finds out!) Lol
I'm confused as hell because the way this was shot implies that there'd been a previous "shaving" of a few cars previously. There was a stop (perhaps for a red signal where the train rolled back a little?) and then the scraping continued for the first car we see, which already had most of its roof gone, and so on
My guess is that they were switching a yard, so moving backwards and forwards to drop off or pick up cars from different tracks. If they'd stopped at a signal, the train might have rolled back a little, but not _that_ much. At the start of the video, the train's going fast enough that it must have had at least a few car lengths of run-up.
To be fair, if the weight of the cars wasn't there, the train would've stopped much sooner, so it's effectively the cars' fault.
No, it really isn’t
He wasn’t stopping.
You might be just a little bit dumb.
@@zacharytracy3797 more than a little bit, methinks.
"Don't worry Captain we will buff out those scratches"
“Keep going, your good, your good, your good, and stop.”
A few minutes in the repair shop no problem 😆
"That'll buff right out. Oh yeah." Del Griffith
Captain? Ain't a plane or a boat boss. That's a conductor/engineer.
Car dealership be like: We have some specials on custom made convertibles.
*Spongebob to Flying Dutchman* "Keep going, you're good, you're good, you're good, you're good, you're good, aaaaand stop!
Don't worry, Captain, we'll buff out those scratches.
This made my day
“Yes, but they’re my dorks.”
Mrs puff would balloon out if she saw this. Spongebob should never drive a train.
😄😆😅🤣😂
It’s satisfying how the roof comes off
Apparently the train was diverted onto this track because normal track had trains on it. The controller who switched the tracks by remote control, from his/her office, failed to check the maps for the height of bridges. This track is normally used by oil trains, as it has an oil refinery at the end. Oil cars are low, but car carriers are 2 or 3 levels and much higher. Nobody checked. Controller didn't check, drivers didn't check. They have maps in the train cabin. Driver shoulda checked maps.
In case you thought you had a bad day, here is someone who had to explain this.
)))
Somebody probably ate the end of a pistol after this.
@@oddersisadog Some one at the end of the train ate a lot of aluminum. Or, got a nice new large hat
@John Wright actually it is Larry, Moe, Curly.and Shemp.
locomotive driver: I took a shortcut to my destination and....
Well.. it fits now.
Imagine if that train would've been one of those intermodal ones with the double stack containers.
What floors me the most is its obvious the train stopped, reversed, and then basically the engineer was like, eff it lets open a few more up for laughs
Just deliver them and act like nothing's wrong.
12" flextape😂
if they are KIAs who would notice??😂😂😂😂
Just be sure to mention what nice weather we've been having lately when they sign for the delivery.
Oh, the damage is just cosmetic. A little paint touchup will do just nicely...
The delivery agent would need the straightest of faces upon delivery to get away with it.
The railroad version of "Wolf Creek Pass" by C.W. McCall. "Right in the middle of the whole damn show was a real nice tunnel, now wouldn't ya know" "The sign said clearance to the 12 foot alignment. Chickens was stacked to thirteen nine." "Well we shot that tunnel at a hundred and ten, like gas through a funnel, and eggs through a hen." "We took that top row of chickens off slicker than scum off a Louisiana swamp."
So that would be pulled chicken and scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning, then? :D
If you don't apply some brake, real soon, they're gonna be picking us up, With a stick and a spoon. Or cars with a dust pan and broom...
At least they didn't run out of ground at the edge of town!
Well Said.
Bravo!! LOL!!
The carriage behind The carriage:HES BALD MY EYES
Bad news: Your new sedan isn't going to be delivered on time
Good news: For just an additional 500 dollars we can get you into the same car but, as a convertible !
That’s it-up sell! 😂
Whoever planned that route with those cars is grossly incompetent at their job.
welcome to PSR Railroad Management.
@@rearspeaker6364 Are they hiring? I'm willing to move.
@@khymaaren email Norfolk Southern in Atlanta, Georgia.
@@rearspeaker6364 I was being sarcastic, to be honest. My pitch would have been a promise to do less damage than the guy responsible for the accident.
Thanks for the help, nonetheless.
@@khymaaren no problem, we good!
All jokes aside, between the yardmaster letting these cars out of the yard, the dispatcher not catching this clearance issue and changing the route, to the crew, a lot of people dropped the ball on this. Also, with a bridge overpass like this, there usually is a high - load detector before a clearance issue location. Either there was no detector (?why not?) or it wasn't working properly.
This line apparently runs to a now dead refinery. No need for DD's there.
That’s what I was thinking the whole time I watched this video. How did this even happen? So many things had to go wrong...
Finally, some else on here who understands how the railroads actually work... too many "experts" on youtube who dont have a clue!
What railroad are you with?
Thank you! I worked in transportation for a decade and I'm stunned to see how many people are saying it's the driver's fault. The fact they're calling the Train's engineer a driver is your first clue. But yes, this was a failure on many many levels.
@@erict5234 Tuckerton Railroad. Also, I'm sure there's damage to the railroad bridge that these cars hit. The whole thing would have to be inspected & repaired before anything could run on it again! I'd be leery being in the same position as the filmmaker!
A lot of people are hating on the engineer for this, which is wrong. The crew doesn't decide which routes the train has to take, the dispatcher does. In this incident, the dispatcher is completely responsible for all damage done to the vehicles and autorack cars. The crew had no idea this was happening, so they probably wouldn't have been fired or charged, however, the dispatcher was probably fired and charged the entire $2,000,000+ for the damage.
So that is what a convertible train looks like. Anyway looks like it peeled off rather clean. 😆
My dad was an auto hauler in the 60-80's. He used tell us stories of things like this, where someone didn't pay attention to bridge clearance
and would rip the top off new cars or trucks.
Even better vehicles weren't secured on trains (before covered box cars) and they would fall off the train as it rounded a bend.
I would've loved to see that on video.
Imagine being a kid wanting a mercedes or something like that and you happened to live near a bend in the train tracks and a brand new car just literally fell in your backyard
Great news, your car just arrived at our dealership and we're even going to knock $7,500 off the sticker.
Off the sticker or off the top?
Keep it. 🙄
I think they knocked it off before it arrived
Just need you to finish the car off. It's a kit car!
@@kevwatson7965 lol a *Con* vertible it has a a con to it
The 11 foot 8 bridge all over again? Now Jurgen Henn needs to put a camera up here!
That’s why we don’t have auto-rack trains here in Australia.
This is one of the many things flex tape can’t fix.
"That's a lot of damage" I'm sure that'll buff right out
Gorilla Tape, maybe?
@@fatheroffab
With clear Super Glue for glass repairs. :-)
You're right. Needs Flex Glue.
Exactly. You need an ultimate set of tools.
I am by no means an expert,but something doesn’t seem quite right here.
I’m sure the youtube experts will tell you this wasn’t supposed to happen.
@@Oliver-kv2mm Well, it wasn’t. I’m not sure a caboose would’ve helped.
@@HVACSoldier Caboose not the answer.
yea, the tin can on the first car is already opened
someone built that overpass way too low...there, case closed.
IMHO, based on decades of experience with them: 99% of this is 100% the fault of the dispatcher!! If the engineer follows the directions of dispatch, the boss WILL say "You should have known better!!" But if the engineer questions dispatch they WILL get "do as you are told!!" And with the modern railroad, dispatch has Total control over what line the train goes on, but as someone MUST be blamed, & no dispatcher in the history of dispatchers has EVER been held accountable for ANYTHING, the engineer will be fired for the dispatch error!!
That's how, with a slight movement of the locomotive, the covered cars turn into an open convertible 🤣
Craigslist ads be like “lightly used almost new, minor body damage, no tire kickers please, I know what I have”
engine runs great; it's new. p.s. bring umbrella if its raining. lol
Running when parked
"Recently spend 15k rebuilding the engine. No low ballers or test pilots"
Brand new! Mint! Adult owned. Will trade for bang bangs.
It'll all buff out.
Note to self: When ordering a new car, make sure they don't put it on the top rack of the AutoRack.
You're lucky he didn't knock the bridge down, you're standing on it.
Ok, my question here is, with a truck you blame the driver because there are options to go around a low clearance. Who do you blame here? They had to know the clearances on rail passes. And it not like an engineer can turn the wheel and go around.
it was almost certainly the fault of who ever sent that train down that particular line
Engineer..."he he, lets make some convertibles!"
Lol
Calling train drivers "engineers" has always been comical.
we'll call it the Griswold Special
@@ems7623, the word is literally derived from 'engine', so an 'engineer' is an "engine operator". That an engineer also designs and builds technical stuff is a later addition.
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Somewhere, there's a folder with many documents regarding this incident. The documents probably cover many topics such as job loss, lawsuits etc etc. I'd be interested in the one with the dollar figure for the entire cost at the lower right hand corner.
Job loss? More like they gotta rebuild all the cars and rolling stock and do the whole thing over again, that's more work not less :D
I just hope they didn't try to save money on the transit insurance. This is exactly the situation it is meant.
@@TwoTreesStudio I don't think that road is gonna get the job again.
@@TwoTreesStudio He means that the people responsible for planning that route were probably fired from their jobs for this royal eff-up.
@@KimonFrousios Nope this was on a spur line it's the crews responsibility, sucks but them's the rules.
Imagine that you put your 1,000,000$ golden Ferrari on this train and that it gets crushed and damaged beyond repair
Its funny that at the start of the video the roof has been pulled off of a car further back than the bridge- implying that the train operator fucked up the train, backed up, and then pulled forward again for the video. Operating a train requires a tremendous amount of force. The work done to make this vod sure was silly.
11 foot 8': I crush trucks
This bridge: Hold my beer
🤣🤣🤣
11'8" only gets them one at a time, this bridge gets multiples.
@Aloha Akahai Need to look close, there were quite a few that were damaged. It showed one shoved through the rear doors of the railcar and a bunch with roof damage.
This bridge: Crushed it!!
@Aloha Akahai autos were all junked. Standard practice to junk even slightly damaged autos to avoid any libel or insurance issues that may crop up years later.
Dude just unboxed more than any youtuber, Give him a TV show!
LOL! XD
Who ever sent that train down that line is in trouble...
The 11 foot 8's lesser known cousin
YES!
@@ChurchOfTheHolyMho we need more like this.
Yep for trains.
😂🤣 Yup!
I was just going to say that
The train operator already on indeed looking for new gig 😂😂
This happened in Memphis September 13 2020. It is a Ford transport train consisting of Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific autorack train cars. The vehicles inside are new Ford Explorers and Lincoln Nautiluses.
Well Norfolk southern kinda explains it, iv seen a good bit of their fubars on my recent locomotive binge
I imagine the railroad and Ford's insurance companies will work things out, the damaged railcars will get repaired or replaced, and the damaged vehicles will be auctioned off through CoPart for auto parts and salvage. I bet many will end up overseas patched back together and put on the road.
How did it get published 5 days before it happened?
@@terrybreen3331 Turns out it happened on September 6. A lot of places are reporting it as the 13th.
Unfortunately I purchased one of those automobiles that was loaded on that train !!! ...freaking roof has leaked since the day I took delivery !!!!
must be a Tesla!!
Use flex tape!
@@johngrepo9976 this is this comment sections meme
If that had been a commercial truck hitting that bridge at lest twenty law enforcement officers would have come out of the blue.
Conductor: “Mr. Trainmaster, the wheel report said car was okay for route”
This video is how teachers should demonstrate what "literally" means in "literally a slow-motion train wreck."
This happened a couple of times in Locust Point yard on CSX in Baltimore. The loop through the grain terminal and Domino Sugar has a low street overpass and racks have accidentally been sent around it. The last time I know it happened was after they had discontinued the yardmaster position in the yard, so there was no one there to spot the mistake. "Damn, why is it pulling so hard all of a sudden. Better give it a couple more notches!"
@@tripplefives1402 no it would definitely have more resistance.
@@tripplefives1402 I was a CSX engineer and was relating what I heard about the one Locust Point incident, where the engineer involved actually did not pick up on what was going wrong and gave the locos more power and destroyed more racks and autos.
Isn't it amazing how they want to save a few dollars and it whines up costing them a fortune? Time and time again we see it but the powers-that-be just never seem to learn that lesson.
@@heronpage3883 yes, Wall Street seems to be more ‘penny wise and pound foolish’ than ever before, as the saying goes.
@@heronpage3883 yeah but in the long run they end up saving more money not saying it's right but between salary insurance benefits unemployment you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just by getting rid of one job
Plot twist: Patrick was driving while spongebob was looking out from the cab saying “YOUR GOOD YOUR GOOD YOUR GOOD YOUR GOOD and STOP.”
They gonna be mad when they find the train is now a convertible lmao
Plot twist:
The train driver was the one filming
Lmmfao!!
Sick Bastard!! £∆
Remote control train
Most effective way of quitting...
@@threepauleightytwo3P82 inertion 😂
This was funny. made my day
Feel bad for whoever got fired over this, but it was soo satisfying watching the way the roof crumpled up
Probably a couple of people including the person who told the automatic switch to send that train down the track w/a low bridge . trains can't stop on a dime.
They're union workers, nobody got fired. At most, maybe restricted from using the union's championship golf course for a month.
It's amazing to see how much energy is still stored at such a low speed.
I see huge concrete trains near me (because there is a factory there). They are literelly rolling 5km/h for 2-3 kilometers while slowing down in order to stop.
The train starts braking (even though it's slow to begin with) at one station and comes to a complete stop about 500m after the other station...
I'm stunned at the damage to the cars, I guess the roof ripping caused other parts of roof support to fall
He didn’t get fired. Assistant superintendent’s nephew. Slap on the wrist. Don’t think he missed a day of work.
That got really expensive in a big hurry. I wonder if someone lost their dispatcher job. Whoever lined the route for this train made a big whoops!
That bridge was trying to turn the new style enclosed auto carrier into the older open style car carrier Man says to the barber "A little off the top please," A few moments later' "What the hell, I said a little off the top, you butchered me!"
How to have a 20 car pile up with out even starting a car.
I think it was more than 20 cars. Oh, you mean railroad cars. Haha
your new gondola's have arrived
The company: What Gondola's?
The company after seeing the damage: Damnit Terry!!!
Lol
His boss be like: "YOU'RE FIRED TERRY!"
@@DarkVoidIII
In a Vince McMahon or a Donald Trump voice?
@@13BGunBunny Not sure who the former is and I don't like Trump so whatever floats your boat. :D
@@DarkVoidIII
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Worked at a rail freight terminal, trucks on one side, boxcars for unloading on the other. One day,while shunting the cars in, they had two auto racks in the string. Tore a third of the warehouse roof off…..oops
I work at a company that repairs these exact type of hightops, among other types of rail cars. It's intresting to see how the damage we fix actually happens.
"These carriages are too tall"
"Don't worry, I have an idea"
The Carriages:
so nothing?
good job, tartard
They are called CARS carriages is a term used for passenger cars but only in the UK
We made those cars and vans convertible at no extra charge!
Lol
These were already wrecked cars. Thee forces involved would have done entirely different damage to them. Pretty sure they were being sent back for inspection and scrapping elsewhere.
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@Wanuby lol
@@jameshall3371 yeah no that’s not how that works
All heavy vehicle drivers must know the height of the bridges of the roads that they travel.
Solid dude holding the camera and just lets its unfold, even as the bridge edge starts to flex at 0:47.
Train Driver: Hmm, train seems kind of sluggish today, also what's that strange crunching sound? Ah whatever, just push the lever forward a bit more I'm sure everything is fine.
Train:
Brakeman: I'm just eating some nacho's.
🤣
LOL!!!
Lol.the driver was eating a pulled beef burrito with sour cream 🥴👍
LMAO!
"Suddenly there was trouble"
"Cinders and ashes! Won't Sir Topum Hat be cross!"
"Thomas! You have caused confusion and delay!"
"Bust my buffers!"
“I just wanted to be a useful engine!”
To the scrapyard with you thomas!
Luckily, no one was hurt... but metal scraps lay everywhere!
I believe the spelling is Topham.
That’s why my car came late lol 😂
That bridge is the wig splitter 5 million.
That train just got scalped by the bridge.
The train's cars got peeled back like a sardine can.
That train just got a buzz cut.
All of that to say.... That bridge is the real MVP in this situation 🤣🤣🤣
A similar incident happened in Toledo, OH back in the mid 60's. At that time Auto Racks were open cars and they were carrying new Cadillacs!
Driver to Engineer, " Feel that?.. Sounds like a brake binding..."
Must be what happened. Then they got out and checked all the brakes, found nothing and decided to go on. That's when the video starts
Engineer is the "driver". Conductor to Engineer.
Engineman replied, "Let me give her a few more notches, pulling just a tad hard".
“Do you hear that? It’s a funny squeaky sound”
“You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant”
Or a bridge shearing the roofs of rail cars and automobiles...
It was crazy to see the inertial damage at 0:45
“If you reverse it’ll all pop back on perfectly” 👍🏼😂