Goods Train Derailment (1999)

How long is this train

is this narrow gauge?

I Love Trains So Much

A typical case of sunkink

Visually it appears that wherever the derailment had occurred, was out of view. This should teach Australia as a whole NOT to copy any further the American standards of railways as they are worst on this planet! Little wonder this happened (BAD American engineering)! PLEASE look to Japan or Europe for new rail technology, and PLEASE endeavour to further ELECTRIFICATION of your railway network in Aussieland! Be so much better off and environmentally friendlier! Thank you mates!

When I saw the empty carts I knew all hell was gonna brake lose because they didn't have the weight, but the good thing is that empty carts hit the weak point

Now that is some messed up track. I wonder if the narrow gauge was part of the problem? At the beginning I was thinking that train looked awfully wide for that narrow track. One problem and gravity takes over, and the next thing you know the train is pulling the rails all over the place.

why the operator of locomotive still insist to go to via this railway?

Well, he well and truly messed that up...

The speed on that line in the US would be like 10 MPH at most. Yikes !!

Pretty embarrassing being an Aussie with such crappy tracks, not jus there but Australia wide compared to many countries.

Got any footage of the ex-NZR DC and DQ classes running around?

Hes going way to fast.

E' da pazzi far viaggiare un treno su una linea fatiscente come quella

wow...

To Me;  It looked like it was STAGED and those tracks were laid like that to see if and when it would cause a certain section of that train to de-rail itself.    And did you see those 2 Guys standing on the hill side when those Engines first passed them...?;  THEY acted like they knew that train was going to De-Rail Itself...!   IT WAS ALL STAGED TO De-RAIL....!;  from what I saw.

You guys are mental giants !
"They should fix the tracks"
No Duh !!!
"Why did they design them that way ?"
Dumb da dumb dumb !!!
"They must have been on drugs"
Dunno, but no Chief designer would have approved that design anyways.
Look at the tracks, some where out of place more than a foot, even though most were still in gauge. Train wheels would not displace the tracks that much. Truth is I don't know exactly how it works, Im sure it has something to do with the weather.

Looks like we gotta come down there and teach you boys some Gandy dancing!

Those Sherman neckties should have been replaced!

Heres a thought why don't they fix the tracks

I'm surprised the train didn't get in derailment

Looks like  a "sunkink" to me.

Looked like they just put in new ties and not enough ballest to hold the track in place plus the look like he was going a little fast.

those are some retarded shaped tracks yo

Idiots that made the rail design for the route really didn't think about how many turns are
There eh?

It might be the tracks got a zig zag curve and the train was going too fast and BOOM! Derailment!

What an exciting video (not) for you small town country bumpkins.

Ooops. I know that track, I've camped near there.

This is like the Big Dipper at Blackpool. Unbelievable.

jajaja joder que es eso....this sti exist in 2015? or no any more?

gee I wonder how that would happen?

Narrow gauge is the main problem here and shocking track alignment, the people in this state care more about forests than anything else, this is proof.

Guess them Aussies be drinkin too many Fosters...

Rail freight is known to be cheaper by at least 6 times Road Freight per Tonne/mile.
Governments for some reason, do not spend the money on rail infrastructure and maintenance that it needs.
There really is a "Road lobby" that is being quite detrimental to the country and its economy.
This is visual proof of that inequity.
Steel ties replacing timber, should be using concrete ties. ( This is circa 1999, though)
Politicians/Governments spend/waste money where it is believed to ensure their own jobs, and not necessarily, where the country benefits the most.

nice train

It looks like they bought surplus equipment from India. 

Zlaté sždc.

Those steel bars were straight before the train ran over it. Just thinking of the amount of energy necessary to turn railroad tracks into spaghetti is mind-boggling.

I thought the drink was kicking in when I looked at those rails.

They where working on that track...only the traindriver din`t know that...

Summer in Australia.  It is brutal on rail alignments.  The rail looks buckled even before it the train gets to the section of track in question. Concrete ties would help stabilise the rail.

railroad track looks like in third world :(

looks like track work was just done, someone is going to loose their job!!

Who makes tracks like that!?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......track

What shitty alignment work.