Norfolk Southern Train Catches Fire

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9 жыл бұрын

NS 16T loses a traction motor in the Shenandoah Valley when it catches fire. Features a meet with NS 37Q under Norfolk & Western signals in Stuarts Draft, Virginia.

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@pickleman3706 4 жыл бұрын

Props to that man running faster than the train. Great agility!

@SOU6900 4 жыл бұрын

😆

@juliuszsowacki4822 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, oh my God - so underrated comment.

@meganhazlett9185 4 жыл бұрын

@st101gaming6 4 жыл бұрын

@@meganhazlett9185 ?

@BritishRailwaysandSirens 4 жыл бұрын

Safety First r/whoosh

@prestonbarnett2204 5 жыл бұрын

Engineer : i think we are on fire Conductor: lemme check STICKS HEAD OUT WINDOW Conductor : YEP, Um you better stop

@nicoyoung16 4 жыл бұрын

Preston Barnett xd

@NashRailfan 4 жыл бұрын

They have a mirror on both sides to see the load, they can see the smoke stack to, so R/woosh

@youraveragejoe2 3 жыл бұрын

@@NashRailfan hi reddit user.

@hudsonporter6065 3 жыл бұрын

A trick : watch movies on flixzone. I've been using them for watching loads of movies these days.

@porterdaxton8871 3 жыл бұрын

@Hudson Porter Yup, been watching on flixzone for years myself :D

@chrisbeck5488 4 жыл бұрын

Stuart's Draft is actually my hometown. I remember I used to play baseball on the fields behind where the camera was set up and I used to beg to be in outfield so that when a train went by I could be as close as possible. The horn always sent a chill down my spine(in a good way). Great memories

@sourbones1380 4 жыл бұрын

Chris Beck me too! i’ve lived here since i was able to walk and fall asleep to trains every night.

@chrisbeck5488 4 жыл бұрын

@@sourbones1380 same here, I lived in a neighborhood where you couldn't see the trains but you could hear them, big part of my childhood. But now I moved next to Stuart's draft highway and can no longer hear them

@leegraves101 Жыл бұрын

The first crossing is in Vesuvius . My great granddad lived there and worked for N&W for 55 years. His house is visible in the background.

@richdiscoveries 5 жыл бұрын

You didn't even have to title it "catches fire" to get people to watch. You could have just titled it "absolutely beautiful Norfolk Southern footage" and we would have watched it!! Just playing with you buddy, great video. you definitely caught some good footage with this one, especially when you were driving along side of the locomotive. I really liked that part.. I'm going to check out some more videos on your Channel, thank you again for sharing and stay safe out there my friend

@kykrazy6050 4 жыл бұрын

LOVE the third scene of the train....in one of those small towns.

@Vladpryde 7 жыл бұрын

G.E.: Great Entertainment.

@PowerLinesBoi 5 жыл бұрын

Its also for general electric

@Legitcar117 4 жыл бұрын

TheRollingStones336 Beatles909 only sometimes

@meganhazlett9185 4 жыл бұрын

@@PowerLinesBoi hi

@meganhazlett9185 4 жыл бұрын

@@PowerLinesBoi 1

@mgr_video_productions 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Good thing you got this since now C40-8s have since been retired from the NS locomotive roster.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 7 жыл бұрын

Wow a standard cab dash-8 with SOU reporting marks, that's a rare catch, I've only ever caught standard cab SD60s with southern markings and a few geep highhoods

@SChamberlain1978 2 жыл бұрын

Love the trains and scenery. Grew up in Altoona, PA and I truly miss the green rolling hills of the Appalachian Mountains.

@d.griffa 7 жыл бұрын

Came for the fire, stayed for the trains.

@youraveragejoe2 3 жыл бұрын

@@bacilluscereus1299 horns.

@justinj1359 2 жыл бұрын

Same dude, same lol

@district2productions 2 жыл бұрын

@@youraveragejoe2 well they are made to sound like whistles so they aren’t mistaken for truck horns

@rjb5847 4 жыл бұрын

I've had a similar situation with an AC4400 but it was Trammell grease burning & by the time we saw it and got the train stopped, the axle had seized. Good catch, interesting film.

@EdWhisenantAviation 4 жыл бұрын

Really cool footage, enjoyed watching & you have a new subscriber 👍

@rearspeaker6364 8 жыл бұрын

Great Catch!!!!!

@jvailb 6 жыл бұрын

excuse me, your wheels on fire

@pokeyrailfanning 4 жыл бұрын

G.E: Gigantic Explosion

@JawTooth 6 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool! I was with my friend Millenniumforce last week in Pennsylvania and a train caught on fire there right in front of us.

@cdavid8139 5 жыл бұрын

Millenniumforce….the good railfan's nightmare. A great example of why more and more railroaders do not trust railfans or want them around.

@martihill3611 5 жыл бұрын

Jaw Tooth . Millennium force is hilarious.

@cdavid8139 5 жыл бұрын

I am not disputing whether or not he is funny. But he is a horrible representative of the railfan community.

@martihill3611 5 жыл бұрын

C David I agree, he puts the capital F in foamer. But he seems harmless. I worked 10 on the railroad and the opinions of rail fans , from railroaders, is not half as bad as you think. I worked in the Northwest where people have a good sense humor, so we got a good laugh out of people like the M-force.

@cdavid8139 5 жыл бұрын

I am a railroader with 30 plus years in the business and I have basically worked throughout North America. The opinion of railfans has deteriorated dramatically, and it is this idiot and people like him that are partially responsible. His consistent second guessing of rail professionals, simulated dangerous incidents, trespassing and comments on subjects he knows nothing about should be every railfan's nightmare.

@kc4cvh Жыл бұрын

This train is bound for glory.

@cdavid8139 7 жыл бұрын

Well shot video dude

@irelandbloke 5 жыл бұрын

Wow !, awesome catch ! 👍🏻

@DarkWolf_20 7 жыл бұрын

Very nice footage at the Stuart's Draft meet.

@chrisbeck5488 4 жыл бұрын

Its my hometown 😁

@RDC_Autosports 7 жыл бұрын

The bad side of DC, on a good note GE you can cut the one motor out, EMD you have to cut the whole truck out

@dickwelles680 6 жыл бұрын

russell379x pexto tinsmith tools

@rearspeaker6364 6 жыл бұрын

yep, never understood that.............

@martihill3611 6 жыл бұрын

Some SD40's can cut out individual motors. SD75'and 60's can as well. But EMD AC traction, yes the entire truck goes.

@martihill3611 5 жыл бұрын

Now that I think of it the majority of EMD DC traction, you can't cut out any motors - GP and SD's. If a motor goes you just get wheel slip.

@DL541 5 жыл бұрын

@@martihill3611 - Most DC EMD's you can cut out individual traction motors, true on AC's you have to cut a truck out, but DC 70/75's have individual motor cut outs. Older EMD's like GP/SD9's you had to pull a contact in the electrical cabinet out, rebuilt ones have cut outs. GP30's and newer usually had cab cut outs. I have never ran a Dash 7, but the Dash 8/9's you throw a switch, to cut out a motor but if the computer disagrees, it is still live. We've had that issue on the DSRC a few times. You have to go into mechanical or diagnostic mode to completely disable a motor. Computer controlled units will modify horsepower when a motor is cut out whereas older motors, such as Dash 2's get slippery with a motor cut out, especially GP's.

@SOU6900 4 жыл бұрын

Was expecting to see GE blow a turbo...

@TrainTrackTrav 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like 16T was HOT that day. Gotta get there!

@Crookedriverandeasternrr 5 жыл бұрын

Holy smokes! Lol. Cool video. I liked and subbed

@austinmiller3497 Жыл бұрын

Great video and catch I hope the crews got out okay and they put the fire out

@ChickennGritss 5 жыл бұрын

Great footage

@novastardom2689 8 жыл бұрын

i just love how the first town he showed was called vesuvius like that volcano from italy

@freighttrainsahpassing9790 5 жыл бұрын

beautiful shots, nice horn, but too bad about the fire though : (

@Wobuffet3 4 жыл бұрын

this is super comfy, despite the whole fire thing

@davidhupke8457 7 жыл бұрын

G...E...we bring good things to FIRE!!!!

@cdavid8139 7 жыл бұрын

Over the last few years they are making incredible equipment.

@pkranz937 7 жыл бұрын

David Hupke Since 1993, to be specific. First year of the AC44. Best locomotive I've ever run. Hardest pulling, best dyno's, probably the best replacement ever made for the equally insane Alco C636. Looking back, the AC44 easily out-performed the best EMD of the time - the SD70Mac. Sadly for EMD, their answer was the indisputably horrible SD90. Their fix was a poorly disguised SD90 called the SD70Ace, which continued the new EMD tradition of fantastically complex control systems, with no performance advantages and low reliability. GE fixed the bugs in the AC44 with the new ES series and Gevo engines, going as far as repowering a good number of the maligned 7HDL V-16's in CSX AC60 units with special V-16 Gevo diesels. The Evolution is the one that finally Did It - outselling EMD's SD40 by nearly 2 to 1.

@deadeyedickification 7 жыл бұрын

P Kranz I always saw the SD70ACe as a pretty good ES44 competitor. Would you disagree?

@ngtflyer 7 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Love seeing a post with good knowledge and experience behind it. I figured it was performance that put GE ahead and that's why they are as ubiquitous to railroading as Toyota is to cars. They're everywhere. Thanks for posting this!

@terrydiz 7 жыл бұрын

According to the Trains Magazine series of articles years ago, "The Diesel from D to L", a driveshaft-driven axle would require very true wheels on either side. An electric motor with pinion and gear can have the wheels with fairly different circumferences and still work well, but on a driveshaft locomotive, the axle needs to have two wheels of nearly exact circumference. Slipping that axle would rapidly lead to broken components. In a traction motor, there is basically the feed cable, the motor, the pinion and the gear. In a direct-drive, there would be transmissions, driveshafts, universal joints and differentials.

@undergaming5331 4 жыл бұрын

1:56 Refrenc to thoas and freinds. When james WOOD brake caught on fire...

@kenc.d8200 5 жыл бұрын

What a beast of of "Workhorse "! 👍👍👍😀😀😁😁😁😀

@nathanielbolden5053 2 жыл бұрын

GE always on 🔥

@WideWorldofTrains 6 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing footage

@RDC_Autosports 3 жыл бұрын

The cool thing about the GE is you can cut out just the one traction motor and keep going the EMD behind it you have to cut out the whole truck you lose three traction motors when one goes bad

@rickygarcia7400 6 жыл бұрын

awsome catch

@elizabethpate2740 4 жыл бұрын

That looks like an old hot box in the rear wheels of the leading engine of 16T (NS 8707).

@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions 8 жыл бұрын

LOL both of those trains pass through my town

@ramajanitra7376 4 жыл бұрын

For those of you who is wondering where is the scene.. Here you go.. 1:51

@henrys.6864 Жыл бұрын

Those defect detectors were probably going off like crazy!

@CoasterQ 3 жыл бұрын

The EMD said, "no problem, I'll push you."

@freighttrainsahpassing9790 8 жыл бұрын

hot stuff under there !!!

@jamesburnside3023 5 жыл бұрын

Cool never witnessed that before .

@captainecho764 6 жыл бұрын

400th sub!!

@lukeWiz44 4 жыл бұрын

How do you know the IDS, of the trains?

@hootkickkidkickboi552 2 жыл бұрын

Train on fire reminds of that one time when my cooking was on fire

@lesbsocal9107 3 жыл бұрын

ENGINEER: Who's the video guy meeting us at the crossings? FIREMAN: Holy s##t, I think he set us on fire.

@Hornhausen 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@princessmarlena1359 4 жыл бұрын

“What’d you do!?”

@veniciocaldas1514 3 жыл бұрын

in 1990 when 2 NS trains collided head on in NS sugar valley Geórgia

@rizkyrahmadani8261 2 жыл бұрын

the horn is very good, 👍🏻

@brucybabyy7355 5 жыл бұрын

oh man! that would STINK!!

@vuurvrrailfanner4656 2 жыл бұрын

the conductor is like: Damn we burnin

@jodypearce9515 6 жыл бұрын

Boy! That locomotive sure became "hot"property. ha ha.

@thebluehero2219 8 жыл бұрын

+typer bonser oh okay Srry about that, well I guess I'll keep it out there in case someone else comes across this conversation!

@facebook822 8 жыл бұрын

that must be burning hot

@elonmust7470 4 жыл бұрын

Lived in bedford co for years.

@haroldreardon8070 7 жыл бұрын

Thr33step sure gets upset about some lights being turned in a number board. My goodness, hope you get better and calm yourself. After all, they aren't even your lights.

@ricallen7273 3 жыл бұрын

Conductor wallks back, takes handbrake off engine, “we’re good”

@YouTubeHugh 5 ай бұрын

It was the brakes that were on fire. Not the traction motor,

@levelcrossingspotter-lcsra3368 4 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say this video is lit

@celrailfan4449 5 ай бұрын

Dash 8 trying not to catch on fire in every single run they ever make challenge impossible

@franrichardson6999 5 жыл бұрын

That's the company I work for. Great looking engines.

@TheTrainsandfirealarmdude 4 жыл бұрын

I work for bc rail,csx, CN,that,cp in canada

@Morbid_Railfan 4 жыл бұрын

Csx doesnt operate in canada.

@TheTrainsandfirealarmdude 4 жыл бұрын

@@Morbid_Railfan my dad works for,one

@TheTrainsandfirealarmdude 4 жыл бұрын

@@Morbid_Railfan excuse me really they do run in Canada I seen one

@MattsTrainArchive 4 жыл бұрын

awad roblox likes toilets and trains it’s called foreign power. When they interchange, sometime they railroad they are interchanging take the engines. CSX does not run in Canada.

@colemartin2989 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't they do anything about it?

@bill-nj6fc 4 жыл бұрын

wow , what a fire

@LocoLover 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what an intro

@thebluehero2219 8 жыл бұрын

+gosportjamie +tyler bonser not particularly referring to this video but to others, like the "CN EMD exploding at that university video" they have systems that tells them stuff isn't functioning properly or so they should anyways!!

@olentangy74 5 жыл бұрын

Nice scenery. What part of Virginia is that?

@lesbsocal9107 3 жыл бұрын

Stuarts Draft, near Cowbane

@MichaelN12 5 жыл бұрын

I thought that the cooling fans failed

@Captainstrains9882 4 жыл бұрын

8707 was sold and scrapped at LTEX

@mere619 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@GMTX-kg8ep 5 жыл бұрын

Even sadder, it’s a Dash 9-40C! With there only having nine on the active roster, Those things are not easy to get anymore

@Cherryblossom656 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you when I was growing up this and the dash 8 was my flat out all time favorite locomotives and it is sad to see that the motor has caught fire but I'm sure that it recently got repaired and by the way the C40-8s have been retired and the dash 9s have been rebuilt

@nsrailfann4life91 Жыл бұрын

That was a C40-8, not a C40-9.

@GMTX-kg8ep Жыл бұрын

@@nsrailfann4life91 oh wow.

@CJ_175 7 жыл бұрын

lol the 37q use to be my train out of enola pa

@greenriverrailfan 7 жыл бұрын

should have brought the caboose to look for smoking trucks

@khadijagwen 6 жыл бұрын

Cool animation.

@jameshardy3489 5 жыл бұрын

It's not animated. Happened in real life.

@TomPauls007 5 жыл бұрын

traction motor flame-out. Not brakes. in steam, you keep the fire hot. Diesels you MAKE the fire!

@SMTMainline 6 жыл бұрын

Smoking is for steam locomotives.

@steelmill888 2 жыл бұрын

I guess that splice in that traction motor lead didn't work out to well.

@NashRailfan 4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh crap guys I left my chicken nuggets in there too long, hold on they might be good still

@popsicle3390 6 жыл бұрын

Damn!

@kevinbarton9052 5 жыл бұрын

Thank heavens it was not disastrously rotten!

@johnburke3465 4 жыл бұрын

I hate that when it happens. I left one burning in a siding 20 years ago tried dumping water bottles on it but all the grease it was impossible. I asked the engineer what we should do as I was a new conductor and he said lave it burning the fire department is coming. So, coupled back to train with remaing power and left.lol. I've been an engineer for 16years now and I never had that happen again. I've had my dynamic brake grids blow a 5 foot flame out the side of my engine that was a funny story. I had 2 old Chessie rust buckets heading in a siding to get out of Amtrashes way middle of nowhere in Florida. I looked over at my conductor and saw what looked like police lights . I said JW what are the police doing out here in BFE? He turned around and looked back(He's a black man JW a very good friend and engineer now too) big smile JOHN!!! THE ENGINES ON FIRE!!!I said what!? JOHN THE ENGINES ON FIRE! Stopped short of siding we took fire extinguisher and the professional firefighters that we are put fire out but not before we both inhaled the fire extinguisher contents. We were coughing and feeling nauseous the rest of trip. Turns out after calling mechanical desk just lost dynamic braking and had to stretch brake or stop using the train brake. I have a lot of fun stories not so much since Hunter Harrison and his Persision railroad took over 3 years ago. I miss railroading . I just go to work now hoping I have a job tomorrow.

@dennisyoung4631 Жыл бұрын

Was it a motor?

@Bassotronics 6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t the cables that connect to the traction motor also burn and fuck up the locomotives connections?

@pootispiker2866 4 жыл бұрын

You can always rip out the fucked up stuff and throw in working stuff. 1 day job at most.

@jacksonherr1752 3 жыл бұрын

@ 1:58 NS 16T Traction Motor Fire

@jacksonherr1752 3 жыл бұрын

NS 16T With NS #8707 Leading

@randomnesscausewhynot7189 4 жыл бұрын

Driver be like this is fine

@Xetta_Mode 7 жыл бұрын

Smoky.

@mickcarson8504 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to see the little fire, skip to the end of the video at 1:51. There's your fire. 🙄

@MBTAMoreRailfan 5 жыл бұрын

scrambled GE, anyone?

@RsRj-qd2cg 2 жыл бұрын

This is why AC traction exists.

@jeanettewest 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing smells quite like an electrical fire. Mixed with the grease and dust? Blech!

@sheldonhchambliss1385 4 жыл бұрын

Train running through my back yard

@brooklynparker182 5 жыл бұрын

Did anyone notice that the train horns sound exactly the same?

@bnsfbandit9807 5 жыл бұрын

It's because there both K5LA's

@lildthomas6942 4 жыл бұрын

This is why Norfolk Southern retired their Entire C40-8 fleet.

@sahidullah 6 жыл бұрын

Norfolk southern train stops in catching fire.

@sahidullah 6 жыл бұрын

The train was Ok right now.

@angels_gaming8309 2 жыл бұрын

What causes the traction motors to over heat and catch fire?

@user-ku5wk1yy9x 4 ай бұрын

SIMPLE! WHEN YOU HAVE A LOCOMOTIVE THAT IS GEARED FOR HIGH SPEED INTERMODAL TRAINS, AND YOU PUT IT ON A LONG HEAVY TRAIN, AND YOU RUN IT AT A LOWER SPEED, THE TRACTION MOTORS WILL BURN UP BECAUSE THEY ARE TURNING TOO SLOWLY TO ABSORBE ALL THE ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY THE ENGINE/ GENERATOR SET! ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS WHEN THE ENGINEER LEAVES THE GENRATOR FIELD SWITCH IN. THIS WILL FRY THE MOTIRS QUICKLY! MOST TRACTION MOTORS ARE HAS A GEAR RATIO OF 62-15,ALLOWING FIR A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 65MPH. IF YOU SPIN THEM MUCH FASTER, YOU WILL CAUSE THEM TO BURN UP, CAUSING A TRACTION MOTOR FIRE! THIS CAN BE AVOIDED BY PUTTING LOCOMOTIVES THAT HAS THE SAME GEAR RATIO ON THEM. ALSO, MOST TRACTION MOTORS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPINNING LIKE THIS. IN ORDER TO AVOID THIS, YOU MUST ADJUST THE TONNAGE ON THE TRAIN! ANYTIME YOU HAVE A LOCOMOTIVE THAT IS GEARED FOR HIGH SPEED, IT BECOMES USELESS ON A SLOW, HEAVY TRAIN. IT IS CALLED OVERSPEEDING THE TRACTION MOTORS! THE BEST SOLUTION IS TO SHUT DOWN THE HIGH SPEED LOCOMOTIVES AND PUT THEM IN NEUTRAL,SO THAT THE WHEELS CAN ROLL FREELY, THUS PREVENTING TRACTION MOTOR FIRES. THIS APPROACH WILL SAVE NOT ONLY THE TRACTION MOTORS, IT WILL SAVE THE WHOLE LOCOMOTIVE FROM COSTLY REPAIRS. IF ALL RAILROADS Would DO THE PROPER MAINTENANCE WORK ON THEIR LOCOMOTIVES, AND KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE LOCOMOTIVES, THE PROBLEMS WITH TRACTION MOTOR FIRES WILL BE NIPPED IN THE BUD!

@Hoosirdaddy 5 жыл бұрын

that looked like the bracks were on fire

@TymphaRedbreaduwuowo 4 жыл бұрын

why is the 2nd locomotive flipped around like that?

@rigsofrodsmaster 4 жыл бұрын

Uni directional, locomotives can switch to the rear of the train and have the cab still be facing forward. They are diesel electric so they can be ran facing either way.

@simplyru 4 жыл бұрын

That train must still be in use. That NS passes our house all the time. The NS label is burned off and the gas tanks look bleached. The horn is also very scratchy compared to others.

@MattsTrainArchive 3 жыл бұрын

The engine that caught fire in this video is scrapped as of now.

@ejdsndnj 10 ай бұрын

That C40-8 was scrapped by the time you made your comment lol so idk what you talking about