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HEAVY Train Can't Make It Up Hill & Stalls, My Best Short Line Railroad Video Ever! Must See Video!
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Video posted to fb by Jaw Tooth on November 5, 2022. Description from youtube post.
Extra Heavy Train Stalls Out On Steep Grade & Terrible Driver Almost Gets Car Hit With Railroad Crossing Gate! Big Grain & Rock Train fights gravity on a long, steep and curvy grade in Williamsburg, Ohio on short line railroad Cincinnati Eastern Railroad CCET. This is a long and heavy train loaded with grain, railroad cross ties and rock. With business picking up dramatically over the past couple of years, the trains are getting longer and heavier. I think this is my best CCET video yet.
First we see the train in Mount Orab, Ohio coming across the High Street railroad crossing. Notice the old train station and historic buildings. We also see remnants of 2 railroad sidings. This is a perfect area for model railroad enthusiasts.
Next we see the train attacking the steep grade in Williamsburg, Ohio. It kept slowing down until it finally stopped and rolled back a little when the slack came out. It might have made it if there had not been a slow order in place on the hill. The engineer called the conductor on the radio and had him cut the train in half. The first section of the train went a short distance to Afton Yard and left the cars on a siding there. The locomotives ran lite back to the remaining section of the train that consisted of hopper cars loaded with rock. We see the train making the two trips to Afton where the train was put back together. Notice the terrible driver in the video who wasn't paying attention. The lights were flashing, bells ringing and the gates coming down before she got to the crossing. She got surprised, stopped the car next to the crossing and then backed up with the crossing gate just missing the top of her car. This is the same crossing that I filmed a school bus getting hit with a crossing gate and the bus remaining in place with the train passing.
I also filmed the train at a couple of other railroad crossings before it got to Williamsburg. They will be included in another video due to the length of this video. One of the crossings is next to a long dip in the track which is pretty cool to watch the train go down and up that section. The other crossing is one of my favourites because it has a house next to the crossing with a perfect view of the trains and there is a maintenance of way siding there that is still active.
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Location:
Peavine
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Date: 11/5/2022
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Source:
Jaw Tooth / Brian Gibson Collection
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Photo ID: 2829
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Video Link:
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Categories:
Prototype Videos |
Utilities |
West Main Street Crossing |
Tollgate Road Crossing |
Gay Street Crossing |
West Williamsburg Blocks |
Mill Street Crossing |
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