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SubscribeNope! Driving a Tanker full of fuel or maybe a school bus!!I'm guessing that the transport driver is now unemployed!
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.
I bet the engineers had one hell of a view as it hit.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.
They're extremely low.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.
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.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?
The engineers were shitting bricks wondering if they were going to have an engine block with some steel tube sandwichI bet the engineers had one hell of a view as it hit.
I bet the engineers had one hell of a view as it hit.
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…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.
Like Southwest. If the plane still has wings, they’ll put it in the air- weather be damned.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.
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.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.
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 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.
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.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.