Interesting video - drone footage of a freight derailment in Iowa

[najaB]

This popped up in my YouTube feed, a railfan managed to get drone footage of the aftermath of a freight derailment in Iowa. While it's a comparatively common event Stateside it isn't often that you get this quality of footage.

Thought it might be interesting to others:

 

[XAM2175]

This popped up in my YouTube feed, a railfan managed to get drone footage of a freight derailment in Iowa. While it's a comparatively common event Stateside it isn't often that you get this quality of footage.

I have to admit, you had me expecting that the video would so the actual derailment occurring

 

[ainsworth74]

I have to admit, you had me expecting that the video would so the actual derailment occurring

Not just you

 

[najaB]

I have to admit, you had me expecting that the video would so the actual derailment occurring

Not just you

Soz. Edited the original post.

 

[the sniper]

I have to admit, you had me expecting that the video would so the actual derailment occurring

With it being the States, it wouldn't have even surprised me!

 

[XAM2175]

Soz. Edited the original post.

Thanks xD

 

[najaB]

Update video below. Say what you like about rail safety in America, but the fact that they have so many accidents at least means that they're well skilled at clean-up and repair. I can't imagine a bridge replacement in the UK taking less than a week! (I have to wonder if maybe it was already scheduled to be replaced?)

 

[AdamWW]

Update video below. Say what you like about rail safety in America, but the fact that they have so many accidents at least means that they're well skilled at clean-up and repair. I can't imagine a bridge replacement in the UK taking less than a week! (I have to wonder if maybe it was already scheduled to be replaced?)

Some years ago, just before a trip to Slovakia a bridge collapsed meaning the train to where I was staying was a replacement bus in one direction. I assumed that would be it for the whole time I was there, but no - in a day or so they'd built a temporary replacement and the trains were going again.

Admittedly it was narrow gauge, but still...

 

[the sniper]

Update video below. Say what you like about rail safety in America, but the fact that they have so many accidents at least means that they're well skilled at clean-up and repair. I can't imagine a bridge replacement in the UK taking less than a week! (I have to wonder if maybe it was already scheduled to be replaced?)

Given the precarious looking state of a lot of their small bridges and the extreme weather they regularly experience, I do wonder if they have largely standardised replacements ready to go?

 

[Ploughman]

I recall seeing an article about replacement bridging, in the US, using old wagon underframes.

 

[ac6000cw]

There's an interesting shot of a pair of side-boom bulldozers being used to lift/re-rail a boxcar at 12:57 in the first video. Those side-boom 'dozers are very commonly used in derailment clean-up work (most of which is handled by specialist contractors these days) - they have a short, heavy duty crane/derrick on one side with a counterweight on the other. So they can lift, move, push (with the front blade) and tow stuff around on rough ground, then be used to do earthmoving for the track repairs.

Given the precarious looking state of a lot of their small bridges and the extreme weather they regularly experience, I do wonder if they have largely standardised replacements ready to go?

They may have (or at least standard designs that can be fabricated quickly). Sometimes they'll build a temporary bridge out of steel and/or wood or build a temporary low-speed diversion (usually called a 'shoo-fly') around the problem while/until a permanent replacement is built.