CSX Q603 in Emergency at Folkston, Ga. on 6-17-10

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14 жыл бұрын

Q603 Southbound at Folkston, Ga. on June 17, 2010 at 7:40 p.m.
Train goes into emergency due to an air hose separation at the 15th car, then a knuckle rips through an air hose on the 35th -36th cars causing separation of the train near Love Street crossing and then coming to a stop, while the first 35 cars with engines continue on for another 100 feet or so.
Initially all three road crossings were blocked until the head end moved up to unblock Martin Street.
The remainder of the train, 67 cars, were still at the turnout on track 1 on the Jesup Side.
While it is a common occurrence for trains to break knuckles, not many break them near one shooting the video.
The next two hours Q603 would remove the tanker (the 35th car) and put it in the storage track at Folkston and then back up and re-couple and then get going to Lakeland, Fla. around 9:50 p.m.
Engines: SD70M's #4693, 4676
C40-8 #7553
CW40-8 #7854
Location: Folkston, Ga. on the Jacksonville Division, Nahunta and Jesup Subs
Milepost A603.0-602.2 and ANA 621.1 - 620.1
Total cars: 102

Пікірлер: 197

@distantsignal 14 жыл бұрын

Wow! I've been railfanning now for 20 years and have never seen that. Great catch and nice edit job on the video. DH Tampa

@jacobdubielak 2 ай бұрын

HI railfan Danny Harmon

@jacobdubielak 2 ай бұрын

I didn't expect to see you here

@NSHorseheadSD70 14 жыл бұрын

This is one of the more interesting train videos I've seen. It's not too often that you get to see the result of an air hose separation and broken knuckle.

@Theonewhoistointerestedi-zo1ls Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this video so much when I was young

@MessOfThings 13 жыл бұрын

Wow, great catch. Thank's to everyone for explaining all the different sounds. I wouldn't have known what each one was exactly.

@ElKabong75 14 жыл бұрын

Great job having the camera rolling and the radio hot! Very interesting video!

@cobras84robinjd 14 жыл бұрын

Lucky and amazing catch Eric!! You never know what could happen while railfanning. Glad to see nothing bad did happen. Thumbs up and a Favorite!!

@skeley1 14 жыл бұрын

Awesome catch, thanks for sharing.

@pennsyr1 12 жыл бұрын

A fascinating occurrence to catch on video. The mid-train separation was especially a surprise! Thanks for posting.

@formidable38 13 жыл бұрын

You can hear that air hose go prety near to the back of the units! What abit of filming, great stuff!

@mikephfl 14 жыл бұрын

That's what being in the right place at the right time is all about. Nice video!

@dpohunter 12 жыл бұрын

It was very considerate of the rear section to come to a stop just in front of the viewing platform! Great video, excellent town for trainwatching. Thanks for sharing this.

@ChessieStorm 10 жыл бұрын

My goodness, what did KZfaq due to my videos, looks like they stretched it and compressed it too much. ugh

@CSXBOY187 14 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!! talk about something rare to see this happend right in front of you lol lucky that the second part of the train did not ram into the frist part of the train and cause a derailment, Outstanding video Eric this is a BIG TIME FAVORITE and two thumbs up

@1traintracker 13 жыл бұрын

What a great catch. Awesome video.

@MikeHarpe 12 жыл бұрын

Excellent job shooting and narrating! Nice work including the scanner traffic!

@FloridaRailfanningHome 9 жыл бұрын

One in a million shot!

@tinindian9543 6 күн бұрын

A black tank was at the separation then they couple a white tank to the rest of the train ?

@DavidWsTrainVideos 14 жыл бұрын

wow great catch not only does the train break apart it happens right in front of you. thumbs up and faves. very rare sight to see

@TheNWClassA1218 9 жыл бұрын

Cool lashup and footage of the emergency stop!

@georgiaroadgeek 13 жыл бұрын

That was a great video, dude! Great catch! :)

@CQDX018 14 жыл бұрын

Wow! Only two hour delay? That isn't bad considering the circumstances in this situation. Like Dave said. You can hear the rear of the train roll into the front about 39 seconds. I am surprised the train stopped as quick as it did and that there wasn't as much slack from the second half of the train. I know that there was a knuckle situation on the NS Brooklyn District and it split a coal train in half. There was also a DPU incident which led to a seperation but great video! 5/5/ and a fav!

@bigr8131963 12 жыл бұрын

What a great catch, Thanks for posting

@trainmandan05 14 жыл бұрын

Ahhh sweet!! I remember when this happened in my back yard back in 2003. An ns train was racing through and the train ended up splitting apart.

@mpracing4 12 жыл бұрын

@CSX2665 Train stopped automatically. When the air hoses broke apart the train automatically goes into emergency. The engineer can't apply any more brakes to an automatic emergency application!

@ChessieStorm 6 жыл бұрын

I should upload the longer version of this and make it look presentable again since KZfaq decided to shrink this one

@bitterman112 14 жыл бұрын

WOW! I've never seen this happen when I was railfanning. Would be real scary for this to happen on its counterpart, Q604 also which I've seen which is most likely near to about 160 cars running through Lakeland! Glad they fixed the problem & got the manifest on its way! Btw, Great Catch on Q603, he had an awesome lash up too, Never thought an EMD SD70M would lead, only saw it as dead power on Q604 sometimes, Thumbs Up! This is a quality manifest I've never caught before though.

@sjtom57 11 жыл бұрын

"This ain't a good situation." Understatement of the year. Nice vid.

@crc760 14 жыл бұрын

nice job i like the comments on a video makes it more instating once in a life time catch

@railfan23 14 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! Great catch on this and I know it wasnt a good thing but I would like to have been there for this. Like and Fav.

@anb740 11 жыл бұрын

It usually takes a minimum of 60-70psi in the brake line to push the brake shoes OFF of the wheels. (they work the exact opposite of a semi-truck's brakes) That pressure is constantly maintained during operation unless the engineer makes a reduction on the pressure to apply the brakes. If the train separates, the brakes on EVERY car lose that pressure and are instantly applied back onto the wheels.

@grvolans 13 жыл бұрын

right place right time. beautiful

@Willysmb44 13 жыл бұрын

WOW. I was counting cars until 0:44 and realized I sure wasn't going to miss that.

@waterboy31602 14 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the all the comments, lucky to say the least. I hope you all pardon the obvious statements in here when it happened.

@LumityCanon4131 11 жыл бұрын

wow never exepect an Emergency in Folkston Ga awesome video :) Michael Scott

@tapemaster 14 жыл бұрын

Right place at the right time.Good stuff.

@superbulldog81 12 жыл бұрын

Back arround 2004, I heard when a brake hose busted as the train went by my parents house in SW La. I will never forget the loud ssss-wisss noise it made.!! And that train went from 55 to 0 in about 25 seconds.

@seabulls69 11 жыл бұрын

I'm jealous. You don't get to see that every day! Very nice catch.

@murjax 14 жыл бұрын

OMG!!! Talk about a rare catch. What are the odds of this happening at Folkston? Crazy. I just gotta wonder what people at the crossings thought when they saw that lol.

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

@distantsignal Thanks Danny. Like you been doing it a while and this was a first for me too. Thanks for watching. CS Spring Hill

@pwalpar 14 жыл бұрын

wow talk about being in the right spot, good catch

@_sunsor 12 жыл бұрын

This is the internet, dont forget. After the knuckle popped, the train cars started drifting apart. Soon after, the air hose (Brake line) disconnected between those two cars. When air pressure leaves the brake lines through the disconnected air hoses, the train brakes automatically apply. Look up train air brakes on Wikipedia. Your welcome for the play-by-play. Its almost easier to look stuff up yourself....

@desertfoxx1823 11 жыл бұрын

damn I've never seen that on any video..............great catch!

@firecaptain5405 14 жыл бұрын

Great catch!!! Hope you went and bought a lottery ticket after that. Certainly a one-in-a-million video catch. @CSXBOY187 In this situation, the rear end of the train stopped much faster than the head-end of the train while in emergency. You can hear the slack roll into the head end at 00:40 causing the knuckle to break. Since the rear was stopping faster than the head, the inertia carried the head end farther away from the rear. Sucks for the conductor who had to walk the train.

@csxc408 13 жыл бұрын

great catch, 5 stars on it, what i dont understand is the way it broke off.........never seen or heard something like this.........great catch though.........

@MoPacBoy 12 жыл бұрын

Wow it is cool that the cars that uncoupled were following the rest of the train

@ChessieSeaboardX 13 жыл бұрын

Dang now thats a one in a million shot!!!!!

@jaysmith1408 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks to brilliant westinghouse, when the knuckle broke, the seperation broke the air hose between the front and rear sections. As his invention applies air to release the brakes, when the hose broke, the brakes slammed onto the wheels under spring pressure, only being held off be the nonexistent air pressure from the front end.

@georgejones2909 6 жыл бұрын

jfsa380 ...no. the brakes apply from the pressure inside the pressure tank on each car controlled by the 3 way valve.

@lrichardm 12 жыл бұрын

The hose separation caused the brakes to go into emergency all by themselves. That's how train brakes work. Otherwise how would the engineer know there was a problem?

@Videoguy2129 12 жыл бұрын

I also noticed the last set of trucks on the black tanker were locked when the train started to move b4 the brakes were released..

@robertgift 7 жыл бұрын

Great catch! Stopped in the perfect spot for you!

@MikeG42 8 ай бұрын

Good video

@TheBrickGuy7939 10 жыл бұрын

AWESOME so simular to a Millenniumforce video.

@ecoRfan 14 жыл бұрын

Looks like my dreams at night! Segments of trains moving at the same speed and time, but are separated. (even though this one has different speeds between segments, and stops). I must ask, why did this have to happen?

@nrslerg1130 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing Catch!

@18RowdyGators18 11 жыл бұрын

Can't believe the braking was loose. Fav'd it.

@dashloc 13 жыл бұрын

Holly cow ! the automatic emergency brakes system at work !

@GoldenRailsMultimedia 11 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!! VERY NICE CATCH!!!!!

@drewcarr1 12 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!!!! Never seen this b4....

@trainlover1999 12 жыл бұрын

Sweet, but kind of scary catch, at least you got footage of it and the 2 lead engines were SD70M's!

@Theonewhoistointerestedi-zo1ls Жыл бұрын

Virtual railfan caught a more recent separation here.

@BNSFfan2373 11 жыл бұрын

that is awesome catch once in a life time!

@f22bjm 13 жыл бұрын

I'm from Powder Springs, GA. Do you see more CSX or Norfolk Southern trains where you are in Folkston?

@SFLRailFan 14 жыл бұрын

That's a once-in-a-lifetime catch, for sure. Awesome job getting it, Eric. Nothing I can say that hasn't been said already. An incredible fortune for you and just another day at the office for the conductor, I'm sure. Thumbs up, Five stars (if I could), definitely Fav'd and shared with all my friends. *****

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

@troy12n No, they put the car in the storage track there. They had problems with the derail at the storage and had to call a Road Foreman in to work it out. This is where most of the time was spent. CS

@NebulaTrain99 12 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is certainly the last thing a motorist at one of those level crossings would want to see: a train sever in two directly before his very eyes, and subsequently find himself stranded for a great many hours.

@CSX2665 14 жыл бұрын

I've never ever seen anything so strange like this that would totally suprise if i was recording and all of a sudden boom! the train disconnects.that's cool right there.

@CSX2665 13 жыл бұрын

did the train stop automatically or did the engineer slam the brakes?

@ChessieStorm 13 жыл бұрын

@DetroitLove4U There's a storage track just south of town along track 1, so the train crew put the tanker in the storage track for pick up later.

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

@ke4crc Thanks, it was exciting for sure when it happened.

@csxketh1 13 жыл бұрын

How busy was Folkston after Q603 got out of there?

@Brucelocomotiveman 13 жыл бұрын

This always happen my model lay yal my first time seen it in person.

@rocky19380 12 жыл бұрын

with all due respect, the engeneer did not slam on the brakes. when the air hoses part the brakes are fully applied the engeneer has no controil over it.

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

@firecaptain5405 Yea, it crashed pretty loud, the slack that is, around that time. Certainly an unusal sound. One you don't hear too often. The video didn't really pick up how loud the sound was. Fortunately for the conductor it was only 35 cars back and daylight, so he didn't have too far to walk.

@Folkstonheaven 13 жыл бұрын

All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@CSX2665 13 жыл бұрын

@ChessieStorm oooo,i thought the train stopped by itself,since the air brakes r designed to stop the train immediately if an air hose goes loose but how did he kno the train uncoupled???

@trainsruleandroll 14 жыл бұрын

DAMN!! Possibly the luckiest catch EVER!! Right place at the right time!

@DioHolyDiver83 13 жыл бұрын

Did They Ever Replace The Air Hoses......

@brakie44820 11 жыл бұрын

Sorry but,the engineer did not slam on the brakes.. When the air hose separated the brakes came on automatically and slowed the train to a safe stop..Even the bakes on the free rolling cars had their brakes applied that's how they rolled to a smooth stop instead of making a high impact coupling with the rest of the train....

@jaysmith1408 11 жыл бұрын

To add to the story, you are referring to a truck's service brakes. Due to the massive bad idea that is a tractor-less trailer bouncing down the highway without brakes, the emergency brakes are designed identically to a train's service brakes, and will apply upon the loss of air pressure.

@emperorshievpalpatine 13 жыл бұрын

Great. (not for the engineer, but for us)

@legostudiosTV100 12 жыл бұрын

Nice catch! That's worth putting on KZfaq!

@CSX500 11 жыл бұрын

how late was q603?

@Class1Railfan 10 жыл бұрын

In the daytime, there was a black tank car between the white tanker and the red boxcar. Yet in the night shot, it clearly shows the white tanker being connected to the boxcar. Was the black tank car set out because it suffered the broken knuckle?

@ChessieStorm 10 жыл бұрын

yes, they could not find a replacement knuckle for it, so they set it off in the storage track right there.

@88junor 12 жыл бұрын

The train did it automatically. The entire train went into emergency as soon as it lost air. As for CP, he's right on except for the engineer hitting the breaks to make it stop faster, once the breaks are applied, there's nothing the engineer can do to help. Trust me, my good friend was an engineer for BNSF. Hope this absolutely clarifies all confusion.

@DetroitLove4U 13 жыл бұрын

They took the tanker off and put it where?

@michigantrucker 11 жыл бұрын

nice catch.

@302derek 12 жыл бұрын

@ChessieStorm The train automatically slams on brakes. Anytime an airline comes lose the train goes into emergency.

@StupidFoamer 11 жыл бұрын

Why would you comment on something you dont understand? When an airhose seperates, the brakes come on automatically. And how does an engineer slam on the brakes? I didnt know there was a brake pedal in a locomotive cab.

@ConrailQ6759 11 жыл бұрын

Automatically stops if the airhose snapped. He's got no control over the air in that case.

@donovanjreed 14 жыл бұрын

INSANE!! PURE INSANE!! I so wish i could of been there for this lol i would have had to go change my pants! Never have i seen a train come apart on the move. It's a good thing nothing really bad happened. This just goes to show you'll never know what could happen on the tracks. Sucks KZfaq put that thumbs up crap on here, this one is for the books!! Amazing catch man!!

@lespaulguy32 14 жыл бұрын

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@danieldefenseM4 13 жыл бұрын

@CSX2665 It does stop on its own when it loses air pressure.

@THEATREofPAIN270 10 жыл бұрын

Nice catch. Awesome post. I subbed to your channel as well.

@troy12n 14 жыл бұрын

Took him 2 hours to change out a knuckle?

@moonspots01 9 жыл бұрын

Front row seat to the drama! How cool is that?

@Boots1282 14 жыл бұрын

so thats what happend was watching the web cam at folkston and was trying to figure out why he was stop for so long

@_sunsor 12 жыл бұрын

The later portion of the train stopped on its own when the air pressure was lost after the train split. The engineer also slammed on the brakes.

@brakie44820 11 жыл бұрын

Because there is a lot of walking involved as well as toting the knuckle once you return to the engine to get the knuckle and return 35 cars.Then the fun begins as you replace the coupler. I've done it in my 9 1/2 years working as a brakeman.

@GEES44DC 7 жыл бұрын

No ... the engineer drops the knuckle off and pulls the head end up to the knuckle. You only walk as the last option.

@georgejones2909 6 жыл бұрын

The black tank car had a broken knuckle so they set it out. But the track they set it out in had issues. That caused the long delay.

@ChessieStorm 14 жыл бұрын

@Boots1282 Yea, it wasn't frozen in time this time.