Pics from late last week
Could get stuck there. HMM is stuck there. Say, do I hear a train? How fast to they go around here, anyway?
Nate The Surveyor, post: 385325, member: 291 wrote: Could get stuck there. HMM is stuck there. Say, do I hear a train? How fast to they go around here, anyway?
That is a pedestrian crossing, not a vehicular one. Good thing we typically run that line at night.
Why are there so many rail plates laying loose? Did the driver claim they never saw any flashing railroad lights and crossing arms? 😀
Monte, post: 385339, member: 11913 wrote: Why are there so many rail plates laying loose? Did the driver claim they never saw any flashing railroad lights and crossing arms? 😀
The person drove across a road, up over the curb, across a pedestrian/bike trail then onto the tracks. This was not at a vehicle crossing. When they hit the rail, they rolled about 80 feet of the rail causing the tie plates and spike to come out.
That's funny right there. Wonder if any intoxicants were involved?:dizzy:
[SARCASM]Talk about parking at the front door![/SARCASM]
But, what did they tell their mom when they got home without her car that she didn't even know they had borrowed?
Dem damn Cash boys! Been on another tear I see. Won't they ever grow up?
Lee D, post: 385365, member: 7971 wrote: That's funny right there. Wonder if any intoxicants were involved?:dizzy:
Not that I am aware of. The person was very elderly. Supposedly mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal.
*ell of a way to become a locomotive hood ornament !
A number of years ago we had an uberbright survey crew working on a rail line in Ontario that thought their survey chariot could cross rails, turn around etc. on the rail bed.
The chariot became thoroughly stuck crosswise and needed serious jacking and board work to free it.
Even though we used to be turned a blind eye to by railway section crews when we worked adjacent to rail lines by working within the ROW as a practical common sense answer to the workspace environment, the above clowns did it for us all and now we are supposed to have all kinds of railway 'shepherds' at more per hour than the survey crew itself I have heard.
Fortunately, we only have one main line through our County now, although eventually, with Global Warming being recognised, we will have more again.
I cannot imagine the force by which the SUV hit the rail in order to dislodge it to the extent that tie plates and spikes are completely removed. Goodness knows that that launched the front end of the vehicle skyward to where it came to a landing where it did. I don't see where the wheels spun or that the air bag inflated so this person was very lucky. They should turn in their license and take an Uber from now on.
So my question is why is the officer standing around taking notes instead of hooking a tow strap to the car and pulling it off the tracks?
A different elderly person mistook the gas for the brake at my dentist's office the other week. Luckily, the car only bent in the wall, and didn't actually enter the room.
[USER=7183]@mkennedy[/USER] Well that would have been a jaw dropping experience.
But I guess it was probably already extended. :mask:
Those rails look a bit rusty.
When were they used last?
Apart from illegal parking ie.
Poor driver.
I've seen similar where a dear lady mounted the kerb stopping just shy of the supermarket windows.
She tried to back out but was in danger of flying forward again and through the window as she was completely disoriented.
Thankfully some young fella helped her out of the seat and returned the car to the car park.
