Dr. Dose Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 this difficult... http://www.realmilitaryvideos.com/wwii-allies/oss-training-film-derailment/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontlookback Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Derailments happen alot more than you think. Crazy train wrecks is probally what your thinking about isn't as common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolling nowhere Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Derailments happen alot more than you think. Crazy train wrecks is probally what your thinking about isn't as common. seriously. LOTS of trains derail. when someone hears that word they think catastrophe. but it could be 1 car went off the rail onto the ground and didnt even fall on its side. if someone was trying to derail a train it wouldnt be very hard at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcar Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I was riding a locomotive on a short line when it derailed. It was nothing, just some vibration and then we couldn't move any longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 i was painting last year and the engine rolled up so we went to the woods. then they picked up the car we'd been painting and started leaving with it we're watching, and then all the sudden they stop then they are just sitting there for fucking ever. finally we just left, it was nighttime and we had no idea wtf they were doing next day we go back to see wtf happened, train had derailed... just the rear wheel set came off the tracks. didn't even make noise. took em awhile to fix that spot :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 One time a switcher with just a couple cars dropped one car on the ground on a dinky branch through the woods. It was a spot that always pissed us off because the two ends of it (mainline connection point and customer layup) were unpaintable and the only two spots they ever left cars, yet the wooded middle portion would have been a perfect spot. Well it was, for that one night. I rocked an e2e, they fixed it the next day, never painted that spot before or since. I've seen a couple of weird 1-car derailments, two where a boxcar tilted sideways 45 degrees and was just sitting there at what looked like an impossible angle; and one time a boxcar went off and took a welded rail with it, so that for over 100 feet the rail came up from the ground and was just hanging 3 feet in the air like a guardrail with no posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dose Posted May 6, 2011 Author Share Posted May 6, 2011 im talking full derailment, and yeah, the yard in my city had about 4 minor derailments this year, i was just sharing the video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dose Posted May 6, 2011 Author Share Posted May 6, 2011 in the video, one side of the train comes off lots of times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroB97 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 We put a RR spike on A line tracks between Broad Channel and Howard Beach one day thinking it would flatten out huge. We were just kids and didn't know words like "malleability" or "ductility". Didn't derail the train, but the head car jumped up about a foot off the rail and came down with a bang that you could have heard in the BX. Anyway... Massive derailments happen when the train is moving pretty fast, one car comes off the rail and there's a chain reaction through the train. Slow speed it's usually pretty minor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 My grandfather was an engineer and a train he was driving derailed. I don't know any details except my mom said the train was carrying mail. I think she has a newspaper clipping, I should get her to scan it and email it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullCanofAmmo Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Trains weigh a crap load, you pretty much have to cause enough shock to the wheel to bump it off the grove... so I would say it's pretty hard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jib25 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 We put a RR spike on A line tracks between Broad Channel and Howard Beach one day thinking it would flatten out huge. We were just kids and didn't know words like "malleability" or "ductility". Didn't derail the train, but the head car jumped up about a foot off the rail and came down with a bang that you could have heard in the BX. lol... fuck man!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddy Mercury Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 A guy from my Railroad where i worked dumped 12 grainers before getting an ALL STOP..Engineer didnt even notice.. He Switched to hand signals and left radio in the cab. All from picking a switch that wouldnt throw completely because it was packed with snow...Fired from Rail America and CN picked him up...go figure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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