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I think Ill just park my car hauler truck on the railroad track. What could go wrong?
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Nope! Driving a Tanker full of fuel or maybe a school bus!!
He was just pouring more whiskey into his thermos and was caught off guard.
Car trailers are pretty low and get hung up pretty easy. Most of the drivers know what routes to use to avoid those places.
Sucks for the train drivers.
Sucks for the train drivers.
Awesomeness. There’s not a chance in hell I’d be that close though
Probably hooked his landing gear on the tracks, couldn't back-up and said...F it! Mac
I was living in Broward Co FL when this happened;
www.sun-sentinel.com
I would have been plowing cars!
I was there when the Value jet went down in the everglades;
That recovery lasted months, what they finally figured out, that when the jet dove down at 75° it penetrated 5' of water and 15' of muck before hitting bedrock sending the debris field out 100yds in every direction under the mud. Jet fuel, alligators, snakes and no road access to the site only made it worse. Eventually setting up a system of barges and excavating the entire site. Nasty nasty. I just learned FBI is still investigating this as a terrorist plot.
FIREBALL OF DEATH SIX MOTORISTS DIE IN BLASTS AS TRAIN SPLITS TANKER IN TWO
FORT LAUDERDALE — A Miami-bound Amtrak passenger train, three hours late and moving fast, ripped through a gasoline truck trapped on the tracks on Wednesday afternoon, igniting fireballs that…
www.sun-sentinel.com
I was there when the Value jet went down in the everglades;
That recovery lasted months, what they finally figured out, that when the jet dove down at 75° it penetrated 5' of water and 15' of muck before hitting bedrock sending the debris field out 100yds in every direction under the mud. Jet fuel, alligators, snakes and no road access to the site only made it worse. Eventually setting up a system of barges and excavating the entire site. Nasty nasty. I just learned FBI is still investigating this as a terrorist plot.
I bet the engineers had one hell of a view as it hit.
They're extremely low.
Most I've worked on were only 5-8 inches off the ground.
He should have seen that hump and known better with a car hauler. If you get stuck on the tracks, put something metal across both tracks and it warns them there is a problem with the track, or so I have been told.
I always hate seeing new vehicles and equipment destroyed. I worked too hard paying for it.
Is there an emergency # posted to call at crossings in case you get high-centered on RR tracks to warn trains?
Is there an emergency # posted to call at crossings in case you get high-centered on RR tracks to warn trains?
Happens thousands of times a year and kills hundreds, and that's just in the US. If you get stuck or disabled on the tracks, get clear and immediately call the phone number on the blue sign on the gate/crossbucks post with the DOT# of the crossing. It's faster than calling 911 or any other law enforcement because the person on the other end has a direct channel to the railroad dispatcher.
Shunting tracks only works in very specific circumstances. It's far better to get clear and call that number on the sign.
Lastly, never fully trust the lights and gates, ALWAYS look twice.
Shunting tracks only works in very specific circumstances. It's far better to get clear and call that number on the sign.
Lastly, never fully trust the lights and gates, ALWAYS look twice.
See above post. Also, it's on the case/house with the crossing control equipment if it has lights/gates for the crossing, that's a DOT requirement. Take a look next time you're going over tracks to know what to look for in a pinch.
The engineers were shitting bricks wondering if they were going to have an engine block with some steel tube sandwich
for lunch without mustard or mayo.
I bet they were looking at the floor and probably closed their eyes hoping to not be speared with some random metal pieces or being derailed and getting buried by train cars and bodies.
Kansas-bound train workers die in collision in Grant County
FEB 1, 2022 - MEDFORD — A locomotive train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities said."It blew the semi tanker apart,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said. Mike...
I was sitting at my desk when this shook my house. I actualy thought it was the refinery to the east of me that I was for at the time.
My cousin was a train engineer. Has PTSD from the f’d up shit he witnessed at the helm of those trains. They don’t stop fast, and an attentive engineer is little more than a passenger. And, when someone decides to suicide by train, the engineer is always the first on the scene…
I was living in Broward Co FL when this happened;
I would have been plowing cars!FIREBALL OF DEATH SIX MOTORISTS DIE IN BLASTS AS TRAIN SPLITS TANKER IN TWO
FORT LAUDERDALE — A Miami-bound Amtrak passenger train, three hours late and moving fast, ripped through a gasoline truck trapped on the tracks on Wednesday afternoon, igniting fireballs that…
I was there when the Value jet went down in the everglades;
That recovery lasted months, what they finally figured out, that when the jet dove down at 75° it penetrated 5' of water and 15' of muck before hitting bedrock sending the debris field out 100yds in every direction under the mud. Jet fuel, alligators, snakes and no road access to the site only made it worse. Eventually setting up a system of barges and excavating the entire site. Nasty nasty. I just learned FBI is still investigating this as a terrorist plot.
Remember that. A couple months later I had to fly from the Panhandle to Tokyo. My flight was weather canx. As I talking with the agent I watched a jumbo taxing out (small terminal). I asked the agent WTF are they going. He said, That's Value Jet. They'll take off in a hurricane.
They tell train engineers it is not if it happens it is when it happens... That truck driver should not have attempted to cross those tracks. You can see the little hump leading up to the tracks of course he would get hung up on them. I have some experience in both fields. The worst I ever saw was the aftermath of some one being hit by a train gruesome. Some type of laws of physics took over and it actually knocked the fat right out of them.
That depends. If the train is already in that block it wont do anything. Amtrak does 79 mph so even though it's lighter than a freight train by the time the Engineer saw that the truck was on the track it's too late. In 20 years from now that won't even work as the Railroads are now looking at virtual blocks and will no longer be using signals to move trains.
it's amazing to think how many people still don't know that a meeting a train at a cross road that the train will always win .
A co-worker of mine was walking to his car in the parking lot when this accident happened...he said the fireball was huge
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Virtual blocks will be in the wild much sooner than 20 years, and they still contain a rail based track circuit that can detect shunting and broken rails. It's actually actively being tested today on small scale with full test bed subs coming in a couple years, and there's also active consideration for trains monitoring crossings via PTC for positive crossing activation confirmation as well as expanding presence detection radar in the future that also communicates directly to the lead unit. If it goes well, expect the heavy trafficked transcons and other busy freight routes will get it put in quickly.
That’s pretty awesome! I didn’t know about the radar. I was thinking for all the class 1 Railrpads would have it in 20 years. I only know of the one railroad working on it now.
Well , I guess the used car market prices weren't high enough , so this guy thought he would help them climb a little higher .
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