2 Trains Go Into Emergency at Sugar Creek, MO!

11/29/13
Sugar Creek, MO
BNSF Marceline Sub
300th Video!

A very interesting scenario happened on Black Friday. I was going out to see some trains and I got to cement city road and there was a stack train sitting there blocking the crossing. BNSF never blocks the crossing there. I then began to hear all the air leaking from the cars, saw a few guys walking on the other side looking between the couplings. Then a BNSF vehicle train passed. I noticed he stopped so I drove around to the other side so if a train on main 3 went by I wouldn't be blocked. As I got closer I could see white smoke coming from the lead engine, he was in emergency. I had 2 trains in emergency side by side. I then drove all the way down cement city road to see both crews pacing both trains. (Mandatory when going in emergency) Then the vehicle train begins to move again. Sorry for the spots on the camera. I filmed in the rain and forgot to clean it off.

[jamesshanks]

One trip as a locomotive engineer we were eastbound when a westbound we were approaching went into emergency and while I wasn't ordered to I initiated a full service brake application and refused to release it when my conductor asked what I was doing. I replied just a feeling, release the brakes and let's get home, I didn't release the brakes and as we came around a left hand curve all I saw was scattered freight cars all over the place. We stopped three car lengths from the first car on our track. When I called it in the dispatcher wanted to know how bad our train was from the impact and I asked him what impact? I never said anything about an impact, we stopped just shy of the first car on our track. The trainmaster when he showed up wanted to know why I put the brakes on my train and all I could tell him was I had a feeling that I needed to stop my train. Both the conductor and I thought he was going to give us a hard time when he came back 1 hour later with the division super I thought here we go. Instead I got was thank God you had that feeling as the 4th through 19th cars were 200 proof alcohol for old Mister Boston brand in Boston. 6 hours later the contractors opened one track through and off we went.

I never worried about putting the brakes on if something didn't feel right.

[carolinarailfanning]

I once saw a Norfolk Southern intermodal stack in emergency but didn't see him stopping, I tried to record him at first but the camera didn't record, so I chased him and found him stopped blocking several crossings. THEN I go to the next crossing that is off. And an hour and a half later he hasn't budged at all, so I left, out of all it was a total fail and it wasn't my day, and I've been annoyed by missing and not seeing all of trains since then, if I don't catch the whole train on camera I get real mad, because the locomotives are the best parts, I live in the southeast where I don't get much luck, but I live a few miles from the track that I see most trains. Another time I saw 3 trains in a single day and I wasn't even legit rail fanning, it was just random phone catches, although I didn't get all of the last one, but it was still crazy.

[i_g_man]

I never heard the air go off for the autoracks when it went into emergency

[newwomyn]

That was near the Eton Junction. The River and Marceline Subs feed into that junction. The Marceline starts in Fort Madison Iowa of the Chillocothe and the Hannibal and ends near downtown Kansas City. The River Subdivision actually belongs to the Union Pacific Railroad and comes off the Jefferson City and the Sedalia Sub at Cole Junction northwest of Jefferson City Missouri near Rock Hill Road and Cole Junction and East Cole Junction Roads.

Where those two trains are is an important subdivision for Amtrak. The Southwest Chief out of Chicago runs the Marceline and the Missouri River Runner runs the River and Jefferson City Subs out of St. Louis. Where those two trains were is the beginning of the Kansas City Terminal which is connected to the BNSF Argentine and 19th Street Yards and the Union Pacific Neff, Armstrong, and 18th Street Yards.

[sillenHDsportster]

What did i see at 1:30 ? Now I have lost faith in graffiti artists !

[forrestcreek]

Maybe he had a red over red on the signal. In emergency, a train stops much faster than that one did. I saw no problems with the train. Emergency makes a train stop unusually fast, not slowly like that one did. You would also hear the brakes being applied hard. No emergency here.

[independencerailfan]

I saw the same thing earlier this year at this same spot

[CSXEMDTrainLover]

nice video and great catch of the 2 train's in your video.

[RailfanJason]

Yep... that what happens when all you get are Gonna Explodes.  Great video Chris!

BNSF... three letters: E, M, and D.

[LoneStarVortex]

The first clip I knew what happened. The engine sounded like it was down a cylinder from the engine cause it sounded like it

[ATrainVideo]

Okay, now congratulations on 300 videos!

[arthurwest]

As a conductor, conductors DO NOT have to walk the train on every emergency brake application, it's not mandatory as you put it.

[ericmoore]

What are the cars that look like they have windows

[timb]

very nice view but needs edge of stone result not so messy from tjb p.s notice the stones and train looks fine to me.

[jeffreyhueseman]

the second problably had a kicker, with well cars and autoracks

[satanxhhhx]

That had to be a long day for them, yikes.  Nice rare catch.  Enjoyed it.

[chuckufarly]

i do like the buzzing sound the train at the start of the video made when it was slowing down. as well the sound of the engines "chugging" when taking off is nice to....

[FoamersOfKC]

Not something you see that often.  Nice video.

[rogercrouch]

BNSF stack train in full-apply. "Emergency" is just an unregulated dump of the train brake.

[william.i.herman]

That's... actually kind of scary and imposing.