Freight train halted on main track due to air leak, Oglethorpe GA


A freight train near Montezuma and Oglethorpe stopped on the main track due to a major air leak in its braking system. Train personnel are investigating the issue, and the train cannot move until the air pressure is restored.
Audio|Source: CSX and NS Railroad in the greater Montezuma and Oglethorpe areas
02:23
Transcript:
00:00
I got 126 on the main back here.
00:04
All right, so on 76 up here.
00:07
Something's blowing out.
00:08
X,
00:09
detector, mile post, 721.1.1.
00:18
Let me walk around and take a look.
00:22
Hello X 841, what you got over?
00:25
I got a big air leak.
00:27
No air, no train, no go-go.
00:29
Alright, take it into emergency.
00:32
I understand.
00:33
No, that ain't in emergency.
00:37
Oh, just let your air out.
00:39
No, it just ain't pumping it off, it just no air, no go.
00:44
Right now I got 67 pounds of my main reservoir and I need 90 to move.
00:49
Here it is.
00:52
JDXA 41.
00:53
Go ahead, over.
00:55
All right,
00:57
you stop, I can take it back up to the south end.
00:59
Let me start running time on these signals just in case I got to run everybody around in case we don't get the same thing to get work.
01:05
Well, uh, do me a favor, leave the south end for a minute just in case something starts rolling on me.
01:12
All right, yeah, I'll leave it up.
01:14
Let me know what I can have it.
01:15
Yeah, let me walk around see if I can get closed whatever the heck is blowing air, maybe we get rolling again.
01:21
Okay, all right, let me know.
01:27
See 41, the conduct to hear anything outside over?
01:35
30.
01:41
He's got at least three sides bound in center of the motorboat.
01:50
20.
01:52
Yeah!
01:59
CFX detector mile post 721.1 no defect repeat no defect total axles 3-9 or 8 detector out
02:19
X14105 no defects clear north doing and 744 on about
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Location mentioned:
Oglethorpe, GA 31068
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