33 years as a traffic cop on US 101 south of SAN J0SE and parallel to the SP tracks (now UP). I had many interactions with the railroad and once you got their attention they jumped on the problem. I caught a trucker who drug his lowboy over the rails at a crossing. He damaged the rails enough to make them unserviceable. Pax track speed was 70mph and the next train due was Amtrak #19. Very close call but the train was stoped short of the intersection. SP closed the crossing for a month to tear up all the trackage and replace it. Must have cost the driver’s company a bunch of money.
Who else thought the semi from the left was the train? I had to take a double look when the train appeared. Lol, I've been sick so I'm not all with it.
Yet I thought the same thing, I thought the train was coming from the other way with those headlights appearing until the train itself appears from the far right of the screen.
The hotbox passes the camera with sparks flying at the 2:58 mark before it gets to the crossing, and the train hasn't appeared to be slowing down before that, so most likely a separate issue. It almost looks like a brake is stuck in the on position. Sometimes banging on the brake pad with a hammer is enough to free the brake, otherwise the car will have to be setout on a siding until a railroad service truck can fix it. Edit: I just watched the rest of the video. Sounds like they'll need to do a little bit more than "just setting out the car" in this case. Due to how close the axles are to the edge of the bottom container, and how the bottom of the intermodal car isn't solid to save weight, it's possible that the container doors were on the end of the container where the axle on fire was, and it had spread it's way into the crack between the doors and lit whatever combustible stuff inside the container was. Definitely quite the unfortunate night for that train crew.
There should be cameras at these crossings. Then these jerks that do this should have their license revoked. First offence. And yes, i am a CDL holder for 32 years. This just pisses me off. No excuse. NONE.
yes there should be cameras, and there was one!!!! But the driver had less than 50 yards to get stopped when those red lights began flashing on the crossing arms (I counted 7 seconds), and he was trying to get stopped. In the video, you can hear the brakes being applied immediately when he saw the flashing lights. There was not enough time for truck traffic to clear the tracks. That's why the crossing arm came down on the back of his trailer. If anything, this video shows the railroad at fault. The flashing light signal was either too late or the crossing arms 5 seconds too fast. The train took 40 seconds to get to the crossing. There was enough time for that gate to stay up 5 more seconds. All this was recorded on camera. I started driving trucks over 45 years ago, and the railroads need to better maintain their crossing gates. This was a clear example of that.
@@rayrussell6258 Normal yellow traffic signal duration is 5 seconds for a road like that. The difference is that if you enter a road intersection before the red light then you can continue through it. With a gated rail crossing you do not have that luxury.. This is the minimum federal standard for crossing signals. 7 flashes before the gates start to lower equates to 5 seconds. Minimum total warning time from activation to train arrival is 20 seconds, but up to 50 seconds is allowed for some crossings.
@@alwhalen3488 even if that's all true in this particular location, the "standard" you give does not correlate to the physics of this event. The truck got stopped AFTER the entire truck and trailer passed the tracks ...... about 10 seconds from the time he applied his brakes, not 5. The signal and crossing arm timing here was inadequate for reality. I do agree with you on one point ..... he should have accelerated rather than braked, just like vehicles do at red lights. He would have made it over the crossing with no damages. But it would be safer if the railroad adjust timing slightly, and give truck traffic longer to get over that crossing before the arms drop. And in this case only 40 seconds was allowed for the train to reach the crossing, according to the video clock. There is 10 seconds available that was not used of that "up to 50 seconds" warning time you mention.
That's a shame, the semi clearly ran that active crossing which is a dangerous move. Could've been much worse! Awesome camera angle at 9:37 by the way!
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33 years as a traffic cop on US 101 south of SAN J0SE and parallel to the SP tracks (now UP). I had many interactions with the railroad and once you got their attention they jumped on the problem. I caught a trucker who drug his lowboy over the rails at a crossing. He damaged the rails enough to make them unserviceable. Pax track speed was 70mph and the next train due was Amtrak #19. Very close call but the train was stoped short of the intersection. SP closed the crossing for a month to tear up all the trackage and replace it. Must have cost the driver’s company a bunch of money.
Hot wheel or dragging equipment is at 2:55. Sparks flying.
Engineer: "Keep highballing, We don't need no crossing gate, over".
This video was cool because it included the RR dispatch radio broadcast.
Who else thought the semi from the left was the train? I had to take a double look when the train appeared. Lol, I've been sick so I'm not all with it.
Yet I thought the same thing, I thought the train was coming from the other way with those headlights appearing until the train itself appears from the far right of the screen.
Wait so the burning tie is related to the crossing strike? 🤔
Yup.. sure looks that way
The hotbox passes the camera with sparks flying at the 2:58 mark before it gets to the crossing, and the train hasn't appeared to be slowing down before that, so most likely a separate issue. It almost looks like a brake is stuck in the on position. Sometimes banging on the brake pad with a hammer is enough to free the brake, otherwise the car will have to be setout on a siding until a railroad service truck can fix it.
Edit: I just watched the rest of the video. Sounds like they'll need to do a little bit more than "just setting out the car" in this case. Due to how close the axles are to the edge of the bottom container, and how the bottom of the intermodal car isn't solid to save weight, it's possible that the container doors were on the end of the container where the axle on fire was, and it had spread it's way into the crack between the doors and lit whatever combustible stuff inside the container was. Definitely quite the unfortunate night for that train crew.
There should be cameras at these crossings. Then these jerks that do this should have their license revoked. First offence. And yes, i am a CDL holder for 32 years. This just pisses me off. No excuse. NONE.
yes there should be cameras, and there was one!!!!
But the driver had less than 50 yards to get stopped when those red lights began flashing on the crossing arms (I counted 7 seconds), and he was trying to get stopped. In the video, you can hear the brakes being applied immediately when he saw the flashing lights. There was not enough time for truck traffic to clear the tracks. That's why the crossing arm came down on the back of his trailer. If anything, this video shows the railroad at fault. The flashing light signal was either too late or the crossing arms 5 seconds too fast. The train took 40 seconds to get to the crossing. There was enough time for that gate to stay up 5 more seconds. All this was recorded on camera.
I started driving trucks over 45 years ago, and the railroads need to better maintain their crossing gates. This was a clear example of that.
@@rayrussell6258 Normal yellow traffic signal duration is 5 seconds for a road like that. The difference is that if you enter a road intersection before the red light then you can continue through it. With a gated rail crossing you do not have that luxury.. This is the minimum federal standard for crossing signals. 7 flashes before the gates start to lower equates to 5 seconds. Minimum total warning time from activation to train arrival is 20 seconds, but up to 50 seconds is allowed for some crossings.
@@alwhalen3488 even if that's all true in this particular location, the "standard" you give does not correlate to the physics of this event. The truck got stopped AFTER the entire truck and trailer passed the tracks ...... about 10 seconds from the time he applied his brakes, not 5.
The signal and crossing arm timing here was inadequate for reality.
I do agree with you on one point ..... he should have accelerated rather than braked, just like vehicles do at red lights. He would have made it over the crossing with no damages.
But it would be safer if the railroad adjust timing slightly, and give truck traffic longer to get over that crossing before the arms drop. And in this case only 40 seconds was allowed for the train to reach the crossing, according to the video clock. There is 10 seconds available that was not used of that "up to 50 seconds" warning time you mention.
@@michaelschooler-f5x including the idiot cop who just sat there in his car watching…that’s the real crime.. end all police chases
That idiot had plenty of time to stop. Probably looking at his phone.
That's crazy
Wow, that's crazy
wow
Nothing like leaving the scene of a collision. Real lack of character.
That's a shame, the semi clearly ran that active crossing which is a dangerous move. Could've been much worse! Awesome camera angle at 9:37 by the way!
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2025 is off to a bad start
This was before 2025 😒🙄
Sad...
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