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.
mkennedy, post: 385540, member: 7183 wrote: 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.
That happens at 7-11's at least twice a day in Florida. Except they usually make it into the store.
That is an ancient rail line with dry weathered ties and the spikes are mostly loose.
Visible skid marks indicate high speed and failure to control vehicle.
Probable damage the insurance company will not find before settlement, needs to go to factory certified mechanic for full inspection, more than most body shops can evaluate.
Glad it is not my worry.............:bomb:
Looks like Oakmont (where I grew up)?
That actually happened to me when I was in college. I rented a car and we went to a friend's parents house in the country to party for the weekend. I was assigned along with my best friend (who died in 1998) to go for a beer run. So we drove into Oil City, and bought a case of beer at the beer distributor located in town. Being unfamiliar with the area, (before GPS), I didn't really know where I was going. I took the next right, and my friend who was trying to read a map belatedly said "turn right!", so I turned again and landed on the railroad tracks, unable to move. A train was approaching at a slow speed, horn blowing, they stopped and of course were pretty pissed, getting down off the engine and yelling at us. I believe this was (maybe not anymore) the same railroad (along the Allegheny River) as Adam's picture, although it is quite a ways upstream and on the opposite side. That was right after I opened the driver's side door into traffic and a car smashed into it. I got a ticket for opening a door into traffic. Needless to say the rental car company was NOT happy. Good thing I had the insurance (Seinfeld episode)
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John Hamilton, post: 385597, member: 640 wrote: Looks like Oakmont (where I grew up)?
That actually happened to me when I was in college. I rented a car and we went to a friend's parents house in the country to party for the weekend. I was assigned along with my best friend (who died in 1998) to go for a beer run. So we drove into Oil City, and bought a case of beer at the beer distributor located in town. Being unfamiliar with the area, (before GPS), I didn't really know where I was going. I took the next right, and my friend who was trying to read a map belatedly said "turn right!", so I turned again and landed on the railroad tracks, unable to move. A train was approaching at a slow speed, horn blowing, they stopped and of course were pretty pissed, getting down off the engine and yelling at us. I believe this was (maybe not anymore) the same railroad (along the Allegheny River) as Adam's picture, although it is quite a ways upstream and on the opposite side. That was right after I opened the driver's side door into traffic and a car smashed into it. I got a ticket for opening a door into traffic. Needless to say the rental car company was NOT happy. Good thing I had the insurance (Seinfeld episode)
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This is just south of Hulton Road in Oakmont.
Going back about 45 years...we figured out how to trigger the RR crossing lights at Hulton Road, we thought it was fun to turn on the signals (no crossing arms) and watch everybody stop. Simpler times-not near as much traffic back then.
Seriously, I know that cars and RR tracks are no joke. We had a job back in the late 90's to survey 650+ RR crossings in Ohio. That was after a school bus got hung up on the tracks and hit by a train, so we had to do profiles at each crossing, get coordinates, and directions of tracks, number of tracks, width of road, etc. I saw many stupid actions by autos at crossings during that job, people going around crossing arms, not even slowing down or looking when approaching, and a lot worse. Even saw a car get slammed by a train right in front of me. Nobody hurt in that, but the car was destroyed. Cars usually lose in an encounter with a train.
My first job as a surveyor was on a federal survey crew (USACE). We had weekly safety meetings, and one thing that was always emphasized was safety along tracks, as a lot of their projects have tracks going through them, some of them really busy and pretty high speed. As soon as a train was spotted, someone yelled "hot rail", and we had to get as far away as possible (no flagmen back then), and stop all work. It was emphasized that if one train was going by you might not see/hear another one on a parallel track.