"Getting Off on the Right Foot" -- Railroad Safety Film circa 1972
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- GETTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT by the Union Pacific Railroad, is by far and away THE BEST railroad safety film I have ever watched . . . in my opinion. This is the film that was shown when I hired out braking for the Santa Fe in January 1976 -- the film was just a few years old then. I don't know if the Archie Bunker looking switchman (ALL IN THE FAMILY was a popular TV show about the same time) was an actual old head switchman, or a professional Hollywood stunt man, but if he was the latter, he picked up the ways and mannerisms of a real switchman fast!!!
I had great appreciation for the handling of deadly serious matters in a humorous way. This film was so effective that I swear I remembered every frame 30 years later and not only did ALL the info it conveyed stick with me, but when it came my turn to train new railroaders, this film made me realize the importance and effectiveness of using HUMOR to get the point across in training. New employees are overwhelmed with the amount of things they have to learn, so much from books and even more importantly, the tons of things they have to learn and know that doesn't appear in writing. Humor always seems to "make it stick" -- their attention is held when they are instructed, and the vivid pictures and stories stay with them for a lifetime. If you don't believe that humor is effective, just think about some of the most dimwitted people you have met in your life. They could be dumber than a stump, but they seem to recall every joke they have ever heard and can recite them all day long. Anything else they don't understand or can't seem to remember for five minutes. That is why I think this film was so effective. I sure wanted to use it when I trained others, particularly on shortlines, but I never could find it.
A few years ago I searched the Internet, thinking surely someone had posted it on RUclips or elsewhere. No such luck. Finally a friend of mine came across a VHS tape of it and had me make several copies. I decided that this film was so important, that as a public service more than anything else, that I should digitize it and make it available to working railroaders, wannabe railroaders and others who would benefit by seeing this old film, even if many of the accepted practices shown here are no longer acceptable. The hazards remain the same regardless.
I have a real disdain for referring to approved work practices as "safety rules" or even "safe work practices" when I teach them. What it is, is "RISK MANAGEMENT" -- the risk the Carriers are willing to accept to get the job done. Risk is inherent in everything we do as railroaders, so it is a matter of assessing it, then finding what seems to be an acceptable level, where even if things go wrong, the damage is at least minimized. What was considered as the "safe" way back then when this film was made is now considered UNSAFE -- so unsafe that some of the things have become "cardinal sins" and will result in immediate dismissal from service if you are caught doing them. Even though some of the things shown in this old film as the safe work practice, by 1975 when I hired out, they had become taboo. Others lived on for many more years, with seemingly the early 90s bringing about the biggest changes. Even now, some railroads will still allow getting off and on moving equipment, where others have forbidden it except in case of emergencies. Other things that WERE taboo long ago, like setting and releasing handbrakes from the ground, are now permissible -- apparently the risk assessment was made and it was decided that getting up and on the car (especially in inclement weather) to set or release the handbrake and then getting back down, with all the hand hold and footwork changes, may actually introduce MORE chance of a slip and fall, etc., than doing the same job from the ground. There are ALWAYS tradeoffs and there are dozens more examples of rules being changed to allow a former "unsafe" practice to be done as a SAFE practice. There are other rules and practices that still remain to be changed for the better. Some rules get changed and then changed back several times -- I can't tell you how many times the procedure for riding TANK CARS has been changed on just the BNSF just in the last 10 years or so!!! It gets confusing at times, and a bit frustrating as one may do something that was acceptable yesterday that will get them fired today or vice-versa.
Anyway, enjoy the old film, have a few laughs and most importantly, WORK SAFE and BE SAFE!!!
I can't imagine a modern safety production team even allowing and actor or stuntman to do some of the "examples" this guy demonstrated. OSHA inspectors would go nuts!
Yeah, some of it looked painful.
OSHA is a buncha cunts
@@caseD5150 until they keep you from dying because a company is too cheap to invest in safety equipment
But that's the problem. These examples will literally save your life. So much red tape oversight makes people overlook why it was made in the first place... To save your butt.
Elodea first of all, OSHA has nothing to do with RR operations, the FRA does.
This guy was actually in marketing but, before working for UP, he was a professional wrestler he knew how to fall.
He passed away in 2004.
I’m a retired operating instructor for UP.
“A little bit careless, that’s like being a little bit pregnant.” Best quote ever.
He stuck his hand in there. Sometime last Tuesday. Just so you know.
the good old days lol
Was anyone else concerned after he said that he said "Come on" and then there is a pause...
Is he going to attempt to impregnate the new hires?
but you CAN be a little bit pregant. You can be 1 week pregnant. That's different than being 8 months pregnant, no?
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst no.
Mr. Roper was most definitely a Union Pacific Employee. He conducted my student trips (training classes) when I hired on in 1967. Among other things, he walked the class around the entire East [Los Angeles] Yard and named every track from memory. We had to learn them all as part of our training.
Years later, after I had left the railroad, he graciously met with me at the East L.A. office (now long gone), rolled out the ink-on-linen plan of the yard, and named all the tracks again so I could take notes. I was just a railfan by then, hoping someday to build a layout based on the yard.
The man was exceptional.
No
How come you left the job if I may ask?
No? Yes! Reminds me of mother's bush!
😢😌
That was when the tracks were ok n the streets in Los Angeles? I remember they even had a train track straight into the central USPS office
I couldn't help but laugh at $3K to clean up that derailment. But this is close to 50 years ago.
Its not because of inflation. Rather it was made by company itself.
Now these day, it would be a lot more than $3,000 for a derail cleanup
$3,000 in 1972 is about $18,000 today.
Probably 3 million today.
@@JohnSmith-lw2bm that, plus a full scale investigation by the State's Department of Transportation, National Transportation Safety Board, and either County Sheriff or State Police
2:44 "Cushion?? Nah, just trow a couple blankets on the ground"
And women were too.
@@RVD2448 so that means you are not a man.
2 years ago, while returning back home at a evening, i took a nasty fall. Somebody left a wire across the road, i couldn't notice it because of darkness, and i almost broke my arm on an impact. I really wish there was at least a blanket like in the video there in front of me that day.
@@spottySTC motorbiking?
@@HappyHands. Nah, just bike :)
You couldn't make a training film like this now. When I was hired in 77 we still did everything they do in this film except ride the tops of the cars. Now, they can't get on or off moving equipment. Retired last year and glad.
I have been gone from UP for nearly 15 years now. When I left no getting on or off moving equipment. All of us old heads were retiring and they were sending the kiddies to school to learn how to run locomotive on he ground. Turned them loose just as soon as they marked up for work. There wasn’t a lot of work that got done with two new hires working the same job. The so called school did not teach them any kind of short cuts to make the work easier and faster. An most of the new hires thought they knew it all anyway, after all they just went to school for six weeks to learn how to play train.
I was a safety man and I can tell you one thing about the UP railroad, if they needed something done in a hurry you could break every one of the rules in the book if you got the job done for them and didn’t tear anything up, and no one got hurt and nothing would be said. Oh and they would come to an old head crew to get the job done in a hurry.
Congrats to you two guys on retirement, I pulled the pin in 2009 with 43 years. Started with the Santa Fe as a switchman and finished with BNSF as a conductor. I never walked the top of cars either, but I rode the footboards on engines. Years before I retired they stopped us from getting on or off moving equipment. If the company had done that sooner my back and knees might not hurt so much.
Wow, from a safety standpoint right away it stuck out to me how they would board relatively fast moving equipment.
Can’t say I’m too surprised they’ve ended that practice. I wonder how many total human lives and limbs were lost up to that point? I bet it’s in 5 or 6 digits.
Yay for you. Thanks for the 1985 National Agreement too. 👍 You guys single-handedly FUCKED everybody who'd come on after you. And people call US selfish. And for the whole "back in my day" shit, well it must have been nice with your little 4,000-foot train with a full crew to do the work! wow! and a rule book the size of a Denny's menu, how tough.
Got four years on myself. In the time I've been on the job they've gotten rid of getting on/off moving equipment, kicking unless stated as allowed in special instructions, gravity drops, and running switch moves. They've also created these... route indicating boxes for switches, which in practice makes it so we can no longer run semi autos.
At 25 years I'm an old head now. I've never gotten on moving equipment faster than 2 mph. Mad respect for this guy and all the railroaders of the past.
At CP we can do 4mph... but I often do it at 7 or 8 🤫
"Gravity with all the the horsepower of the Earth is now the engine!"
+R Johnson OH NO STOP GRAVITY STOP GRAVITY STOP OH NO MOVE GUY MOVE BOXCARS THE GRAVITY TRAIN IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R Johnson I think that part got the message across to the viewers lol
An that ain't no joke brothers!!
Don't matter if it's a consist of car's, a semi truck, or a dozer, gravity rules!!
@@kellypenrod2979 "set yourself in a sled and go down a steep hill- the power of the earth will quickly become apparent to you"- Grandpa Wayne, rest in peace.
I will give you a much scarier example Theo,
LOOSE your brakes in a semi on a 9% grade with a 125000 lbs!!
I am VERY well acquainted with the power of gravity!
And like I said, IT AIN'T NO JOKE!!
New dance move. The "I put my foot on the wrong side of the stirrup"
To get your left foot in
take your right foot out
To get your left foot in
you have to hop and bounce
Jam your left foot in
Where you took the right one out
Thats what its all about
dad humor
Gotta respect an old head like this. He knows what hes talking about
This guy is my hero. You'd think the guy they would have do this video would be like 30. Instead they get a 65 year old. Great stuff!!!
Hats off to this man for risking limb and life to teach the rookies
THIS needs to be required viewing for today's yard workers.
Wow he almost lost a leg more than once doing this
john leininger “We broke our leg so you don’t have to break yours!”
And an arm.
43 years later and it all still applies today
Eli Wilson Train Videos Not all, but most
Getting on and off moving equipment is a thing of the past sadly. Wish it wasnt.
arcnova1982 nova they still let us do it at KCS, but I think we are one of the last.
@@jrrailroad7631 damn u guys are lucky. Makes switching a whole lot faster.
Eli Wi now.
He's his own stuntman. You have to give to him to do this film. One brave railroad man.
‘A little bit careless, that’s like being a little bit pregnant.’ Iconique™️
I was taught on the Great Northern way back in 1966 to never wear 5 finger gloves. If one finger gets hung up on a burr of metal on a rail car you can lose a finger. Instead I was told to go and buy a pair of leather mittens so if you got hung up the mitten would come off all at once. It makes a lot of sense.
so true... I worked for the Chicago and northwestern... we called those leather mitts "choppers"... I wore them in lew of the 5 finger gloves... they were more spacious
When I hired on in the 90's most of the old heads wore mitts. Nobody does now.
Your reply brought back some memories. My Dad and his father were both PRR. My Dad lost 2 fingers on his left hand from a crushing injury caused by a load shift on a gondola car while he was holding onto the top of it. This was back in the early 1960s.
I remember him telling me about the early 1900s when his father started working for the railroad. It was a pretty dangerous time and a lot of men were injured or killed.
This gentleman can practically show you an example of a botch in a moving locomotive and still not get hurt even when it looks like he's actually in pain. Very professional 👍
" A little bit careless; that's like being a little bit pregnant, ya stupid meathead no-nuttin' empty-headed stifle yourself good for nuttin'...."
Actually, this guy really took one for the team when he filmed this. Very impressed.
ONE!? It looks like there were a couple of times he took one for the team!
Still have my grandpa's railroad lantern, he passed away when I was 1 year old...freight conductor on the SP.
One of the greatest railroad safety videos ever made. The sheer audacity of some of the things the actor did was shocking and awesome examples of real life applications. Getting himself hit by a switch stand sign while riding a car was amazingly bad and I don't know if he was a stuntman but he seemed to understand railroading in the way he moved.
He was a railway employee
The one that got me was the “impaired clearance” one.
Glen Roper what a legend
Brings back memories of me and the neighborhood kids in the 1950's early 1960's when we used to hop on the cars like this man was doing. At present, I am now too old to do that....LOL. Great instructional film.
This is a great film!
The body mechanics of how to do something without injury are amazing. I could see how everything he presents nearly fifty years ago applies today. I don't work in the rail Industry, and don't know what procedures are used now, but what he demonstrated made 100% sense to me.
We had an instructor (1977) that had to wear special shoes, he took his right shoe off to show us, his heel was about 1" further back than it should have been - from getting off the train when it was going a 'bit too fast' for many years he told us. Also had 3 vertebrae fused in his neck from a collision when he was riding in the engine - and he was slammed bent over into the front bulkhead! What a trooper!
Of all the railroad educational and instructional videos I've seen, this was definitely the most entertaining! You're certainly right that the elements of humor help to hold one's attention and make the subject matter stick.
Thank you for sharing this bit of railroad history with the rest of us!
Railroad work is insanely dangerous. It is what started our labor laws. A guy lost his leg on the railroad, in 1890 they would carry him home in a bloody sheet and drop him at the doorstep. That was it.
guys at the time this was shown may not admit it, but his antics prevented a lot of injuries. my compliments.
I absolutely love old instructional videos. When we used to have to watch them in school, everyone would complain and fall asleep and I was secretly watching intently from the back of the room.
Thanks for posting this video. This brought back some great memories. I wasn't an employee, but my Dad was a freight car conductor for the Milwaukee Road, in Milwaukee. He taught me about safety at a very early age. Hand signs & whatnot were taught at home & car safety was shown to me at the tiny Stowell Yard by Jones Island. Only once did I ever have to use a hand signal (stop) & that was to get the local to stop in the fog because there was a car broke down on the crossing in town, locally. The other time was to move an empty cut of ballast hoppers into the siding of the Sears scratch & dent warehouse in Wauwatosa. The engineer who dad knew, spotted us in the parking lot, motioned us over & wanted to know if I remembered anything. I did & did my best, but it's no fun juggling a Motorola hanging off of the side of a car. Dropped the radio into a puddle, but I held tight. The engineer asked if my dad handed down that tradition. Lol!
I am not a rail employee, but am glad there are radios for engine and conductor!
This is a really entertaining and excellent educational video. I wish they had shown it during my brakeman school when I hired out on the Missouri Pacific in 1979, but by then some of the safety rules were even more strict than in this video. For instance, we were taught not to ride on the stirrups on the rear of a car except for the rear car in a cut. The reason was because if you missed the stirrup on stepping up, you might fall between the cars. Also, footboards were outlawed by the time I hired on.
I believe walking on the roof walk of cars was also against the rules by the time I hired on, but I did it one time anyway, because I wanted the experience. I was tasked with releasing the handbrake on an old boxcar that still had its roofwalk with a high brake wheel. I climbed up the ladder on the non-brake-wheel end, and carefully walked the length of the roof walk.
One thing emphasized to us was never to place your foot underneath the coupler when opening a knuckle. I'm sure they had that rule when the video was made, too. If the knuckle is missing its pin, that 60-pound thing (four times the weight of a bowling ball) can fall out and crush your foot.
Of great interest was the difference in the “go away from me” signal compared to how we did the signal in south Texas. Our signal was the exact reverse of the “come to me” signal. The top part of our “go away from me” signal was moving away from the body, whereas the top part of the “come to me” signal was moving towards the body. I don't think I ever saw anybody give the signal the way it was done in the video, but if I had seen it done so by a boomer, I would have known what it meant, as the meaning was obvious.
what you said about "...your foot underneath the coupler when opening a knuckle"... I had a close call with that... stepped in to open the knuckle, pulled it open and it kept opening further and further and then came all the way out... BOOM... just missed my foot...learned something that day
@@25mfd Wow! My worst accident was stepping up onto the leading step of a locomotive coming at me and somehow my foot missed the step. My hands slid down to the bottom of the handrail, but I kept holding on like we were taught. The engineer got stopped after dragging me at least a dozen feet. I was badly bruised, but otherwise okay, but it took me ten minutes sitting in the locomotive cab to determine that.
@@DavidCurrey4 WOW!!!!! and it's a good thing you held on... natural inclination is to let go but no telling where you'll roll and tumble, your hands and feet flailing around could end up caught in a really bad place... after a few sobering incidents i learned quickly to keep my wits about me... this stuff is unforgiving
That Guy resembles Carol O Conner from all in the Family
Exactly, that's who I thought it was.
Boy the way Glen Miller played.
Gee our old lasalle ran great....
You meat head, you!
Chief Gillespie
Props to that guy for doing it for real. Those rocks probably hurt.
I admire this man’s dedication
As much as I like trains, I would have never been able to get as close to moving heave machinery like this guy without shitting my pants through and through
For a second there I thought it was Archie Bunker! LOL
Well now hode on thea Edeth, I ain't lettin' no ah, colo'ds on my car thea."
Damn this dude is hardcore, he does his own stunts!
7:56 THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! They actually did that!
I know, right? Holy crap.
4:43 conductor did this in the yard i worked at and fell off the car, was knocked out unconscious and the engineer had to come back and look for him! scary moment for sure - thankfully he was ok.
This is glen roper he retired not too long after this was filmed, and he passed away from natural causes in the 90s or early 2000s
I work as a Shunting-Specialist for the Federal Swiss Railways and i really like the similarities when it comes to safety!
Fur those wondering, a box car is loaded if you can stick your fingers in between the load springs barely up to the knuckle. If your fingers go in almost to your hand it's unloaded. And when a consist of cars is sitting alone somewhere and you want to catch out on a nice grainer, to determine which way the cars will leave or which end the locomotive will attach to is simple. The brake line has a open/close valve on each car by the coupler. The car with the air valve closed (whichever end of the line of cars) is the *end* of the consist that the loco will not hook up to. That closed air-line valve is the end of the line for the air brakes so the loco will hook up to the end with the valve in the open position.
A lot of this was terrifying to me, especially the punching bag getting smashed. Now I know why people say coupling cars is dangerous.
It’s insane work in a rail yard. Love rail but would never work for a RR.
I know right? Jeeze, the chances of being maimed or just flat out smushed.
OUTSTANDING film on railway safety. This should be mandatory viewing for every new railway employee. I particularly like the segment on how to get on and off moving cars.
Moving cars? heck I slipped off one that was standing still.
I dont work around trains but.. I feel like i and everyone else needs to see this LOL
16:13 i cant even imagine being allowed to walk on top of cars much less hop from car to car! wow
watched this very video at L&WV Rules Training a couple months ago. Mr. Roper was a great man!
Always admired and Respected these guys from the present All time and All Over.
Now on Class 1 railroads, nobody gets on or off equipment unless that equipment is _stationary;_ my dad was a conductor and my sister is an engineer.
Not true on all. NS and most shortlines still practice getting on and off moving equipment.
@@RailroadScannerMan15 It is with BNSF though...
@@notmuch_23 Yep. Cn too. I’m a conductor for CN and most of this in the video is banned.
We watched this video in my brakeman training in 2018 there is still allot of things in here that still apply today
I was a switchman at Southern Railroad starting in the late ' 70 ' s .
Preface : On the midnight shift we would sometimes get our tasks done about and hour early and a lot of times we would head the engine towards the shop ( which takes us right by the yard office ) . Sometimes we would stop there and sometimes we would ease on to the shop and then go home . However, sometimes as we were approaching the yard office and the lead to the engine shop, we would get a call on the radio from the yardmaster ... ( and of course that would mean he had another task for us to do ... )
In the early ' 80 ' s, I used a cassette tape recorder to record the yardmaster calling our conductor . One morning at about 6 AM, we were pulling some cars into the yard and I dropped off the engine so I could line the switch for the engine to pull the cars into a yard track and then line the switch back after the cars cleared the straight track . I went to my truck and got the cassette tape recorder and as the engine came back up towards the yard office, I played the tape over the radio " Southern Simpson Yard Yardmaster Sloan calling job 41 Conductor Black over " . Well, the conductor was a nervous and anxious type of person and he was already on the back of the engine anticipating being able to drop off and go ( as usual ) . He answered rapidly " This is Conductor Black over " . Then I played it again " Southern Simpson Yard Yardmaster Sloan calling job 41 Conductor Black over " . At this point the engine was near the yard office and Conductor Black bounded off the engine and was headed into the yard office . At the same time, I went into the side door of the clerk's office which adjoined the yard office and as I arrived in the presence of the yard master and Mr. Black, I played the tape for them . Pretty funny stuff .
Also, about that time was when we first started getting computer printouts for our switch lists . ( Previously EVERYTHING was hand written ) . That was the same time when I had a Radio Shack Color Computer and I learned BASIC computer language .
I then made a program that created a random switch list that looked identical to the ones we would get from the clerks or from the remote printers that were out near the tracks in little air conditioned housings .
So, one day I had my 3 fake switch lists, hidden in my overalls, and when the time came to get a new switch list, I volunteered to go get it . When I walked up to my two crewmen, I handed them the fake lists . They looked at it for a minute and were totally dumbfounded as the list looked genuine but had no correlating information that related to what we had in the yard ...
( back then all dot matrix printer output looked the same lol )
This guy was seriously scaring me with some of those stunts! Also, good rule I like to follow around trains and other equipment: Don't put your fingers where you wouldn't put your pecker!
"Oh you're all battered and brusied. Did you have an accident at work today?"
"No no, just filmed a safety movie for new the guys."
Thank You!! I started on the Canadian National Rwy in 73' and retired from Amtrak in 12'.
This is a great training film, and even if you are just starting out and thinking your trainers have got everything covered, watch this anyway. Yes the crews move at about half the speed now days than shown in this film but you should know how to do this stuff if for no other reason than to save your butt (if a car gets away and you need to get off to save yourself can you do it without spinning when you hit the ground and part of you being thrown under the wheels?).
This was when the mighty U.P. was a vigorous and busy railroad. Now they're an international holding company run by accountants and Wall St. (I spent the worst 4 years of my railroad career at 'Uncle Pete'). They have an excellent H.R. dept that does a good job of picking excellent employees and then just treats them like dirt when they get out in the field...sad
Most 'rails' have had close calls. I suppose we had more in the 70's-80's only because we worked fast (and efficient) and had a certain amount of work to get done.
Exactly what I learned when I hired out in 79 at 18 yrs old on the Burlington Northern. By the early 90's most of this became against the rules. Ive been medically retired now for 5 yrs . Spent the 1st yr on the MOW then 14 as a brkmn/cndctr and the final 17 as a locomotive engineer. Its still hard to sleep at night at times but I dont miss being on call.
qtrhors1 You should write a story or do a video interview about your experiences!
I'm 8 years in and I'm still on the extra board lol. But x board with weekends so it's not too bad. But with the push of single man crews who knows were I will be in 10 years.
55 scuba how will that do anything. If you can’t hold as a conductor you sure as hell won’t be able to hold as an engineer for a looong time if we go single man crews.
I remember watching switchmen do these things when I was a kid watching trains, like kicking cars and jumping on and setting the hand brakes. They timed it well and waited til the car was almost stopped before jumping on. They worked fast. Radios, safety vests and "Red Zones" help but you always have to pay attention to your surroundings.
I sure do love me some 50 years old railyard safety videos even though I'd probably never work at a railway
Information presented here would have prevented the July 6 2013 Lac Megantic Rail Disaster in Quebec Canada.
That was my thought too. (About setting several brakes, and setting them hard.) It begins at about 13:45.
I worked as a switchman for ATSF in Chicago Corwith Yards mid '60.. Back then training was 3 student trips (unpaid) and those guys signed your card and sent you home. They didn't want you to see them stealing, playing cards, or drinking. When I took over I knew nothing. Worked 4 years on the ground and 3 as an engineer in a defense plant. I agree with most of this video but dispute a few things he showed...This was all before radio's for the guys on the ground.
May be an old video, but these are still good things to remember if you want to work for the railroad.
Wow, back when railroads cared about their public image and kept the rolling stock looking sharp. Also back before the UP absorbed half of these railroads ...
I remember them showing us this one on campus as a literal example of everything your not allowed to do now
“I’d give it about 15 feet or 3 bantamweight fighters laid out” 😂
Thanks for your insight on railroading risk management and for sharing the video with the rest of us. Everything that you talked about, we learned as second nature on the Airdale side of the Navy. Hoping to use that experience to go from wannabe to living it.
He does everything so gracefully and perfectly. What a great man.
No helmet, no safety vest, no boots with steel toes. The good old days… He’s in the train yard in the sky by now.
That book in his pocket is the rulebook...not like the several we gotta tote around these days.
I worked for ConRail. They taught us jumping off of rolling stock is forbidden. First day in the yard I’m jumping off of rolling stock
Thank you sharing, I learned a ton about a job I didn't know existed in this capacity. I wish I could have known Mr Glen Roper, he seems awesome!
I am almost 100% sure this man was an employee. We are still shown training films from the late 40's as a comparison to safety videos now in our quarterly and railroads did go to great lengths to create films like these way back when useing employees. You don't see this now in our films lol.
Outstanding video, thank you for posting this!
"Gravity with the Horsepower of all the Earth is now the Engine." Damn this sentence is cool.
There is so much wisdom here.
This safety video almost turned into a how to video on limb loss treatment a couple times but seriously even though a lot of the rules are outdated this would have been a great video to watch 10 years ago when I started as a Carmen, you don't realize how quickly things can go sideways around moving trains but this guy almost losing his leg would have been a pretty good eye opener. The only thing it's missing from what I have heard about old school railroading is the flask in his front pocket because from what I heard if you weren't drinking back then than you weren't trusted and carrying passed out conductors onto their units to sleep it off was common place, now a days if you back a truck into something they got you peeing in a cup, my how things have changed.
cheers to the lad who actually hurt himself to show us what not to do
21:15 the music that started playing is good
And 6:59
This video really is a true test of "how many times can we knock this old man down?"
This needs the Shanke Hands With Danger soundtrack.
4:42 JESUS. Tough bastard didn't have to actually wack his arm. We got the message dude. That must have left a nasty bruise. No doubt his reflex was 100% authentic
5:02
narrator: then you have an unscheduled stop
Actor: wholly shiiiiiit!!!!!!!!
narrator: then you have an unscheduled stop
Actor: wholly shiiiiiit!!!!!!!!
He's also smoking a cigarette the whole time!
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So funny to see this. In 76 when I was 11 the Rock Island guys thought me this same thing. First I got to switch flour cars at the mill then switch cars. The good ol days.
9:20 "The car only has to move a couple of inches to giva ya a hell of a squeeze "
Reminds me of that video where the railroad worker was trying to back the train in, and got pinned between the steam engine, and car...
edit: i finally found it after hunting through my history
ruclips.net/video/Btr1wsEwTkE/видео.html
Can you give any context or keyword clues I can use in a hunt?
I was born in 78 , all the documentaries i was raised on had , real bands for music lol
No railroad personel were injured during the making of this film..
pass iton Did they actually wreck a car to shoot this PSA?
Thanks. I may have a job on the railroad and idk if this will help but did give me an idea of what I may be doing. Thank you sir
Most of the tips taught here I learned from the SD&AE crew, specifically Tom Brady, when I was a kid chasing trains between San Diego and San Ysidro. I was shown how to get on and off moving equipment. Pretty cool for a thirteen year old.
This film has an amazing soundtrack
Amazing this guy lived through the production. If only the actors in "Shake hands with danger" had seen this. They might still be alive today. If only they had gotten off on the right foot that morning, they might known better than to shake hands with danger.
7:31 that shit will scare the hell out of ya sometimes 😅
The old films tend to be the best films.
Awesome video from a legend that does his own stunts...don't see that much anymore
Love this old guy. Excellent stunt work and lucky he didn't lose a limb making the film!
I like the time we were flipping a car (Dropping) and the foreman jumps off the engine at the switch and the car is speeding at him about 12 mph. The switch is locked!!! but he unlocks it and lines it. This you are supposed to check ahead of time, also supposed to check if the switch is easy to throw. Also quite a few times , switching into multiple tracks then all the cars 3 or 4 that you already kicked in, start to roll back at the same time. You and the foreman rush to tie down the cars. Also we used to just put a little piece of wood under cars wheels to hold them from rolling back. Now they tie down everything , every time . it is tedious to switch. Many switchmen used their lanterns to stop a car from rolling back, put the handle of the lantern under the wheel, that is if there was no wood lying around.
Great comment. Yep, we used to walk around with chunks of wood in our pocket for that purpose (we referred to them as "chocks") -- five or six cars rolling at the same time in an uphill lead. If the joint didn't make you had to catch them quick! Trued to save tying hand brakes to the first car in the track and then at the end to tie down the track before leaving it. Thanks for your comments, Jeff!
7:55 This is why you must never go under or over the train connectors of a stopped train, no matter how long the train stays stopped.
He looks like Archie Bunker all in the family! Lmao!
Thanks for Video Mr. McKay my friend that dummy was Something he reminded me of O'connor Fantastic stars
Just watched this in class today, that dudes a legend!
7:29 *SNAPPP!!*
The sad music for the mistakes is awesome.
Haha holy shit, his arm blasted that switch stand. I don’t care what anyone says, that HURT
Yeah, that stunt above all others is the one that got me and I still cringe watching it. It didn't look like he had a board strapped to his arm, padding or anything to lessen the blow.