How do these videos get out?
WOW! That was incredible and saddening as well. [sigh] The shock factor in this being that it’s a calm, quiet day with this train going to its destination. Everything appears perfectly normal right up until that locomotive rolls over the turnout and jerks towards the right. What a horrible feeling the crew must have felt in those few seconds.
Makes me respect locomotive crews even more for the hazards that they must face every time they’re on duty.
I wonder if crews look forward and see which way the switch is thrown. That definately would have been a holly something moment for sure.
I find it interesting that the camera survived a few seconds, and you could see the train rolling through the first car or two.
I don’t think that’s real.
oh, it’s real, alright.
http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2006/hq200679v.pdf
I mean the video.
Why would you think otherwise?
This is one of the events that prompted our “Emergency Order” that went along with our GCOR, plus we had to add “SPAF” forms. (Switch Position Awareness Form)
This is an old video from back in May or June,Its a dead horse !
The FRA form could not be from the same incident as the video. The report lists NDYX 475171 as the first car struck. In the video, the train hits an MLLX hopper.
It just has that look of a simulation, although quite convincing. Locomotives bounce all over the place as they travel. How does a locomotive-mounted camera compensate for all that bounce 100% as is shown in this video?
Locomotive in the Kimset wreck didnt bounce… And its confirmed real…
If you watch the video you can tell its real…
Steemtrayn,
Thanks for posting the report.
Glad to know that the crew came out of it alive with only minor injuries.
TonyM.
On second thought, I think it is real.
Maybe the video equipment filters out the bounce by some kind of process averaging of the frames. There is some bounce that can be seen in the Kimset video, although not as much as probably existed in the actual view. Look at the relationship between the nose grab-iron and the track rail passing into it. In a person’s view, there would be lots of side-to-side and up and down differential movement between the grab-iron and the rail. In the Kimset video, there is a little differential movement there. In this video, there is none at all. But it certainly looks real in every other way, so I conclude that it is real, and bounce has been removed, either in the camera or by post processing. Certainly there would be a good reason to intentionally clean up the video by removing the bounce.
They did, a few seconds before the locomotive goes over the switch you can hear the brakes being thrown into emergency… Whoosh!
Correct. Crews can see the switch targets, but most importantly the switch points and call them out in the cab.
Another discrepancy between the video and the report is that in the report the train continued for 500 feet before coming to a stop with the lead unit on its side. If there had been no slowing at all, that would have taken 10 seconds, much longer than the video depicts.
WOW over $2 million worth of damadge. Was the crew that left the switch open fired or reprimanded?
that video did kind of show me how easy it would be to let your mind start to drift while on on job. after almost three minutes of the view of the tracks ahead and not much else going on i kind of lost focus watching the video, next thing i know we are rolling thru a turnout towards some cars. its amazing that train crews can stay focused for so long. the early dusk light and the drone of the train seem like after working all day it would be easy to just relax and get too comfortable.