EMERGENCY! on the CSX Etowah Sub... M542 breaks a Knuckle and then coupler falls off

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Published 2022-10-28
The CSX Antics were high today as M542 with a SD70Mac leader came north, and separated on the Etowah sub. The train was then brought up to a crossing and the coupler fell off once again sending the train into emergency for the second time. The crew takes the coupler and sets it back into place.
0:00 L710 (With no cars)
1:02 Northbound Hi-railer following L710
1:28 M542 Departs Wyvern Yard
2:36 Some Cows
2:51 M542 comes thru Rydal
4:45 M542 comes thru the North End of Bolivar siding
5:23 M542 is now moving at almost 60MPH thru Fairmount
5:49 M542 goes into EMERGENCY
7:16 The train is brought up to the crossing after 2 hours
9:15 The Coupler falls off, and sends train into emergency again
10:14 The coupler is put back on
All Comments (21)
  • @horroreader410
    I was a conductor for CSX for over five years (Signal Maintainer now) and MAN things like this suck for everyone involved. I remember going a full year before a knuckle ever broke on any of my trips and I thought it would never happen to me. Sure enough, ended up having 3 broken ones back to back within a 10 day span
  • @PowerTrain611
    Another lovely byproduct of PSR. The ghost of E. Hunter Harrison remains and haunts us every day.
  • @kmagnussen1052
    Would like to have seen the whole process of the repair.
  • @johnuhelski8613
    Let's make these trains even longer , this will occur way more. The old motto of the L&N was "Why spend a dime when a nickel will do " !! And just listen to all those flat wheels , way to go csx !!
  • @-HDK-
    Ripped the End Of Cushion device out of the Center Sill. Those coil cars have some mean slack adjustment, and that's why unit coil trains are usually limited to small amount of cars, because they tend to bust knuckles more frequently, with minimal Draft Force. This car finally tapped out.
  • @edsel6818
    Yep, That coupler draw box went to hell.🤯😵😱. Gotta get that thing fixed.👍
  • @ICE6365
    Awesome footage bro. Very cool to see how they fix something like that!
  • @stretchlimo7275
    That was pretty crazy, takes a lot to rip the whole draft gear right off. Great catch, very interesting 👍🏼😁🇺🇸
  • @chuckvoss9344
    Good of the crew to let you video the event, without making a big deal of it.
  • @shawnpowell5876
    Great video even with chasing the train! To me its amazing how much these knuckles and couplers they can withstand b4 giving up. They're fortunate that this happened at an area that didn't cause danger to them or anyone else. Cheers from Laurel, Delaware and I'm a new subscriber of your channel.
  • @irvin5839
    But we dont need car inspectors or Yardmasters .
  • @ianbrown5928
    I can't believe that railcar of a train's knuckle dropped off like that im so happy that it didn't break apart i am so happy about that
  • @Billblom
    The A line here in the Carolinas had a fairly long train going into a siding here in Four Oaks. (About a 6 or 7 mile long siding)... They were about half way into the siding when they had a pair of pull aparts... One of which pulled the entire coupler pocket off a car, requiring the car shop up to the north here heading down to repair the car before they could move it. The broken knuckle was further back in the train. Don't know if was a misbehaving DPU, bad handling, or whatever. There was about a mile of train behind the DPU, and the conversations on the scanner were rather pungent. The pull apart happened around 5 pm, and the train finally got clear around 9 or 10 pm... No pictures because it was at dusk, and by the time the crew from north of here arrived, it was very dark.
  • @ianbrown5928
    I am ina and I love trains that get there cars on the other side of the track when it breaks a knuckle couple