The Caterpillar pipelaying machines (the bulldozers without the blade and the A frame on the side have a huge counterweight on the opposite side from the A frame. The SD 60 weighs about 368,000 lbs or 184 tons. The pipelayer's were each lifting about 46+/- tons. These guys do this all the time. The tip over angle with the weight up hill is probably well over 45 degrees. The machine was never at risk but this is why they put all the gravel in the parking lot to get the engine up nearly level first. Put in gravel on both sides of engine, lift engine, push gravel under engine and fuel tank. Set engine down. Add more gravel and repeat until engine is level with track. Notice the smooth pads on the tracks of the pipelayer. Not much traction but does not damage the track much either. So the pipelayer needs relatively level ground to be able to move the engine or tank car or anything else in the way. They have huge winches that can pull things but that can do lots of damage to the track, embankment, engine, environment (an in rip hole in fuel tank), etc. They prefer to carry the engine like they were doing in the video. (there were 2 more pipelayers on the other end of the engine that we could not see.) This is almost like an orchestra. Very complex operation with precision coordination and cooperation among the equipment operators and ground crew and the crew coordinator (conductor directing all the parts of the orchestra.) These guys that do this deserve lots of credit for doing what they do - safely and efficiently.

FANTASTIC Vid of how a Loco is rerailed. I didn't know it was so easy, when these PROFESSIONALS Demonstrate their UNIQUE PROFICIENTIES, will this Ballet of Physics. ASTOUNDING REALITY . . . Thanks for this vid, GREAT Work

Highly skilled caterpillar operators!

Fantastic Footage!! This video could have been 3 times longer...and I wouldn't have missed a minute! Thanks, excellent job in less than ideal surroundings. ✌😊

Thanks for posting this interesting video. I know many hours were put into it.

Great Video, This again show's just how Good the Rail Recovery Division's of our Railway Operations are, Team Work and plenty of it here as you have shown in this Video, I am in Australia and not in the service of Rail, Just a fan as such but I know Team Work when I see it, Well done to yourself on the Video, A Big Thumbs Up and also to the Respective Rail Recovery Team, Great Job.

I love the video. Most derailment videos ONLY show the aftermath and that is ALL. This video shows ,in excellent photography, How they actually "FIX" a derailment.

Give praise to the highly skilled tracked Caterpillar operators and the guy who guides them Thanks for a brilliant viveo Lucky in UK we dont that meny accidents and have a much smaller/mileage system We get giant crains in to do the job

Your company dose great work. You have a video, Changing a traction motor on an AC6000 that was done in Fort Montgomery NY at Mine Dock Park. I was involved in making this park from an old marina. Enjoyed watching you guys in action there.

4:13 thats a brave man to stand in that spot.

Highly skilled ! greetings from UK

It looked bad, But I am so glad no-one got hurt. The train and tracks can be rebuilt. The engineer and conductor might have lost five years. For being scared. Thanks to the team. Of workers who came and helped out

SD60M Triclops. Really good capture. Got a kick out of the sideboom tipping up.

Fantastic video 🇬🇧

Wow, 98 cars derailed, I got to give it to the rail way folks that had to deal with this, thats a lot of work. Thankfully there were no deaths or injuries, and most of all, no spills on the Earth.

If you ever get the opportunity to watch these guys in person take a couple days off. These guys are fantastic at what they do.

Nice Coverage! 👍

D8 pipe-boom is a beast of a machine :o) They are a tad heavy even without the boom and counterweight. Difficult to move by truck because all the weight is on one track. Amazing to see the pm shift a whole loco.

Out of curiosity exactly what part of the railroad in East Aurora NY was this at? I'm originally from East Aurora NY and used to watch the trains going through town.

Great video.

Cool video

Really, No injury's thats amazing.

Sir Topham hatt was crossed

every table at that closed restaurant would be filled with Train watchers

Great video thanks.🚂🚂🚂

New to this channel and wondering what caused this derailment. Very good video work AR, and I'm viewing this from Delmar, Delaware.

That has to be one of a kind footage. Awesome vid!

Pretty sure they know what they’re doing.

Well, that's what happens when a loco tries to park there, unregistered!

Luckily, all 3 engines survived and putting back in service! ''since no damage. or just lightly damage''

Very nice video!!! Greetings 🚂👍👏👋

In a derailment who pays for damage to the railcars? If the railroad, do they have insurance or are they self-insured?

East Aurora, NY seems to have a really pleasant parking policy.

👀👀🚂🚂 great video

I just got a video of these engines back running B@P units 3882 and 3892

Wounder what the cost of that recovery is.

Thank you for that...

great video, I would have watched it until they got the engine back on the tracks

Why train fall down?

I may be weird but, running one of those sidewinders looks fun.

Who did the clean up? Was it RJ Corman?

Someone's head is going to roll for not having that switch "to nowhere" removed. Looking at the drone and sat views, very lucky the cars stayed where they did.

One day at work at the coal power plant (many years ago) there was a train unloading coal. I still remember the lead engine was painted blue, the only one that I every seen painted blue. Every single other engines all were painted UP orange and yellow. A day later I watched the news and there was a story about a train derailment near work. There was a video of the train and cars laying on their side and there was the blue engine. Well the news story said they found a bunch of titty and nudie magazines in the cab. I told my boss that I bet the engineer had a titty magazine in his left hand and Mr. One Eye in his right hand.

That sure takes the fun out of your day when that happens

I operated one of those sidebooms in the 1980s hanging gas lines.

Where was this at

Nicly done!

That guy has got some balls standing in the midst of all that heavy equipment.

Holding my breath while that dozer was tipping, but no one else seemed to notice! LOL

Great vid. It is good to know that noone got injured. I saw some drone footage of the aftermach of the derailment and i can't put my finger on how the heck the trains derailed in such an interesting shape. I never thought that a switch could couse something like this.

I'm sorry, but at 2:35 did this not look like a Thunderbirds episode?

Excellent video like de Brasil

I can't imagine being a car and seeing that, I would probably floor it in reverse

This reminds me of Thomas's Stories.

Just imagine trying to lift a DDA40X. Those locomotives weight in at 545,000 to 546,000 lbs.

These six axle locomotives weigh about 420,000 lbs or 210 tons each.

heeeeyyy the triclops!!!!

We live just outside the village- watched this lift in person- hard to believe, watching in person. And talk about luck…. Had that diesel come off the track 100 feet sooner, it would have leveled a retail shop. If it had gone 100 feet further, it would have likely demolished the historic railroad station standing there…!

When are railroad companies include a clause for te investors, stating that MOW will pass before their profit margins, and that Congress will pass a law in regards to it?

Looks like it picked the switch

Those dozers with side couterwieght looks like something Leonardo DaVinci came up with 5 centuries ago..

It's a shame beautiful locomotive aren't many SD 60s still in service

I hadn't known of this incident.

Least the birds are singing.

According to a thread on trainorders.com, a B&P employee has purportedly admitted to leaving the switch open to this siding by accident.

They just bought that locomotive a few months ago...

Neat-o, Guido! Like my dad said, "Get a GRIP on it!"

Looks expensive

Henry Laid dazed and confused. Soon Sir Topham Hatt came to see henry “the signal was down sir”

Even in ancient times, builders were able to transport blocks of stone weighing over 1000 tons, far heavier than this locomtotive. And they didn't have Caterpillars to help them. The Egyptians build the Great Pyramid around 4500 years ago which used stones weighing up to 70 tons each.

Wow wow very nice video 👍 I also do content like that

Used to hang out right in that area of tracks in the 70's

Same thing happened in warren co va.

0:21 "Zero Injuries Our Goal Every Day"

That’s not one of Soo Line’s old SD60’s is it?

That's a heavy locomotive. It's causing one of those dozers to tilt off balance. That locomotive weights more than 400,000 lbs.

The engineers don't wave from the trains, not like did back in 1954!

Why don’t use a bigg crawlercrane? Guessing on size i think the loc weights around 250-300 metric tonnes. So a Demag cc2800 or a Liebherr ltr1600 could do one lift and get in on track! 2 days building the crane , one hour lifting and 1,5 day’s breaking it off! 5 days work max.!

Wow that tore up a lot of cars and track. Seems like a wave of these happening lately.

That could have been one major explosion. Could have wiped out the village! Lucky escape for everyone thankfully!

SD60M 3892

Ironic, derailing next to a restaurant called "Gandy Dancers".

Sadly they have experience..

Nice to see the little lady with her mask on. Sheep in USA also then. 🇬🇧

Triclops front window 😃

They should maintain they’re crappy tracks!

How did I not hear about this on the news???

Looks like the old plate and bolting for track joining could have played a major role and this oopsie daisy. I just wouldn't trust tracks if they were not arc welded together. And they say the track switch failed at the end of the video.

Old Tracks, nailed and wodden Sleepers a bad Kombination 😈😈 American Rail - 3.th World Rail

No RJ Corman comments? I'm surprised.

hope they clear the tankers or atleast drain them

we lost a driver last week on an unguarded transition he drove into a tipper of a tractor loaded with cement He died on the spot I know, this is costing to much $$$ And to many time But at least no son, father, brother, husband etc

buffallo train

Reckon them fellers have done that before. Nice work.

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I wonder what they plan on doing when those flat track cats are completely worn out. Kinda seems like you wouldn't want a high track dozer because you would have to mount the boom higher. Course with those old girls you can keep rebuilding them as long as you can get parts... Or make em.

Sorry, but this Procedere seems to me to be filmed in India or Bangladesh not in the US. Why did they use this sidewinders? First destroying the track, recovering the train and building a new track? Looks like third world....! Use kranes, it's easier.

I would pick up that set of wheels as a souvenir

I cringed when I saw the one pipelayer tipping starting at 4:30. And they continued until the pipelayer was ready to flop over on top of the coordinator. Real safe, guys.

Time lapse this recovery: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNV0eKRmsKjdmpc.html