542thruNthru
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Tattle tale!
How does this even happen? Package Car Verses Train
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Tattle tale!
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
@Wally can't hang.
Indecisi0n
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Should have beeped his horn.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Why would he be fired? This will fall on him because the Sups will say this:
It is obvious that the driver received complete and full "training"!
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Many thanks to my protégé @retiredTxfeeder, for keeping this thread on its "tracks" in my absence!
Well done!
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Will this driver have to get a job at “EX” press now?
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
With all these one liners, was this train a monorail?
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Apparently, the driver said he was having vision problem after being blinded earlier by some "extreme bright light"? Personally, I'm not buying it.
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MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Are those “platform” shoes?
oldngray
nowhere special
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
There is a double set of train tracks in the downtown area of a town I used to deliver. They had a 90° turn in them that went behind a building parallel to them and crossed east/west and north/south streets within the city block.
One day I had to wait for a fast train to clear the track. After it had gone by the arms went up and the lights went off so I proceeded across the tracks. As I cleared the tracks I heard a loud rumbling noise and as I looked back another fast moving train came from the other direction hidden behind the building blocking the tracks view, flew by behind me, no train whistle, no track lights on, arms were up, and just missed me by a few feet. That could've been devastating.
Expecting the unexpected at train tracks is what goes thru my mind to this day when I have to cross them.
One day I had to wait for a fast train to clear the track. After it had gone by the arms went up and the lights went off so I proceeded across the tracks. As I cleared the tracks I heard a loud rumbling noise and as I looked back another fast moving train came from the other direction hidden behind the building blocking the tracks view, flew by behind me, no train whistle, no track lights on, arms were up, and just missed me by a few feet. That could've been devastating.
Expecting the unexpected at train tracks is what goes thru my mind to this day when I have to cross them.
oldngray
nowhere special
a lot of rural roads don't have gates
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
Most of the rural ones in our area have stop signs affixed on both sides to hopefully stop folks to make them look both ways to see what is going to kill them if they dont proceed with caution.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
This is interesting. What kind of speed limit on the road that crosses these tracks?
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
25 mph in the corporation limit.
55 mph outside the " ".
Many people have been hit and dragged down the tracks because "there's rarely a train approaching" and trains dont always sound their audible warning at every crossroad...even at high speeds.
AttackedHawk34
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Glad your okay and what happened was a close call and some bs. This job is dangerous and you can mess around and die just to deliver a box. Thats why i really try to use every method to stay alive. I'm just glad your okay and more cautious.
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
I knew one older couple in their 70's that were known for arguing in public as their way of "communicating" with each other. For years.
One day they crossed a railroad track and got killed by a train.
The conductor of the train was quoted that he saw them encroaching the train tracks, he sounded his horn, and right before he struck and killed them he could see what appeared to him as them visibly angrily arguing with each other and they never saw the train until it was too late.
People take too much for granted at train track crossings. This was an extreme case of distraction but it was this couple's last fight.
One day they crossed a railroad track and got killed by a train.
The conductor of the train was quoted that he saw them encroaching the train tracks, he sounded his horn, and right before he struck and killed them he could see what appeared to him as them visibly angrily arguing with each other and they never saw the train until it was too late.
People take too much for granted at train track crossings. This was an extreme case of distraction but it was this couple's last fight.
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
That is possibly describing the rushed reason why the driver didnt see the train coming. Getting airs off on time.
KOG72
I’m full of it
They have added a lot of the gates down here on rural areas my way and that’s a good thing.
AttackedHawk34
Well-Known Member
Tragic indeed I just hate to hear stories like that. Railroad tracks need to be treated as intersections and then proceed with extreme caution.
