**MUST SEE** car hits Union Pacific Autorack and gets totaled
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2021
- Union Pacific’s AMICHX passes through Pleasanton at 2:58 pm. At 2:59 pm a car smashes into the autorack at st Mary’s street causing the coupler to slip and uncouple it’s self, idk if the video picked up that sound but when I was there I heard a Big Bang and then the air brakes dump. No one was hurt from the accident and the train was stopped there for about 2 hours before heading down to Roseville for a crew change
In 47 years as a Conductor, hit many cars, vans, trucks and unfortunately people. Train always wins!!!
Did u win train vs airplane
@@rnx0132 Well yes. The train would be fine whereas the plane wouldn't be able to get on to the level crossing in the first place. Well, at least not in one piece...
@@ElectroRail Train would still plough through a plane from stem to stern
@@t.p.ggaming3884 Ok but the plane wouldn't be able to land on a level crossing in the first place...
I came so close last week fortunately I got off the tracks. My car literally died and another driver helped me push it off the tracks! I can't imagine but you are in a job that canbe more dangerous to others outside your seat.
A mate of mine used to be a train driver for Sydney Trains. He said that, as part of his training, he was told that if he ever saw anyone on the tracks ahead, that he was to apply emergency brakes and pull down the shutters, because you're not going to stop in time and you're better off not witnessing the aftermath.
Aftermath...study hall?
@@trainman1209 no...the aftermath of said train hitting said person
Applying emergency brakes could cause the train to derail.
@@victorgeckle4761 I agree
@@victorgeckle4761I don't think it could it's just opening up the brake pipe to the atmosphere and causing it to rapidly apply brakes
I drove big trucks 34 years and this doesn’t even faze me; I have had drivers stare me dead in the eye...then pull out in front of me countless times. Call it insurance scam, suicide or just plain stupid, they are out there, and increasing in numbers every minute.
Same here, people love pulling out in front of and passing snowplows! At 18' wide it's just a matter of time.
I had a police dispatcher laugh when I told her I had a car, for lack of a better description, trying to commit suicide by big truck.
Fucker did it again a few days later, but stayed far enough ahead i couldn't get their plate til i passed them in town.
"Call it insurance scam, suicide or just plain stupid, they are out there, and increasing in numbers every minute."
Terrific. If we had more people like this, we'd have fewer people like this.
Exactly!
@@markdanielczyk944 What's 18' wide?
One of the common things you hear people say about trains is that "they don't stop quickly" and I guess in relation to a car they don't, but given the forces involved, I'm always amazed when I see one go into emergency braking just how fast they do pull up.
Though your not wrong, it’s just what the government says to stop people from trying to beat trains. I’m not saying it’s bad that it’s mostly false, as it has good merit.
It also depends on where its at. Inside most city limits they have a slower speed limit, even for trains. Outside of towns, they can be cruising pretty fast and will take some distance to stop, or risk derailing.
Only problem with emergency braking is that the wheels need to be checked and often replaced due to the excessive heat from emergency braking.
I believe some trains take a whole mile to stop although that mightve been the old steam ones
@@stardustkevin7322 They still take up to a mile or 2 to stop even with the modern trains
In the late 70's, there were lots of unregulated crossings on the west side of Phoenix. I saw a news report at the time of a car running into the 35th car of a freight train. The car owner's excuse was that: "I travel this route every day and the train was never there before.". This was before cell phones, so I wonder where his attention was.
His mind was on the hot sex he had the night before.😂😂
Drinkin his dinner
At night? Many drivers have been surprised by an unexpected train crossing a roadway especially when the railcars are painted in dark colors and have light-absorbing dirt making them difficulto see.
When did railroadstart placing reflectors on railcars? Voluntarily, orequired by the FRA?
@@robertgift idk man, use ears as well sometimes
@@GewelReal Hearing a train crossing is unreliable. With caradion or stereo system playing it may not be heard.
As a lifelong railfan myself, I've often read about how people tend to underestimate the speed, size, and power of trains. Something that massive can appear to be going much slower than it actually is, but even a train that's going 30 mph can cover the length of an (American) football field in a few seconds. Moreover, with that much weight moving at speed, it's often said that a train hitting a car is roughly equivalent to a car running over a soda can, in other words, no contest.
Takes a long time to stop that amount of moving weight too
@@sterlingspencer2934 Indeed. From what I've read, a fully-loaded train can take from three-quarters to a full mile to come to a complete stop once the brakes are applied.
@@Stussmeister Yep. Trains don't stop on a dime.
If you don’t see them you do not feel the hit
@@terrymanning1556 Indeed. I remember reading a railroad history book where it described the early days of locomotives and rail travel. Back then, people were unfamiliar with steam locomotives, and consequently underestimated how fast they could go. When folks were, unfortunately, struck by trains as a result of this underestimation, there oftentimes wasn't much left of them to bury.
In high school I was walking home one day and a train was coming after I already crossed the tracks. Since school got out at 2:45pm at the time there was still a handful of students walking around this area. I saved a person's life he was mere feet away from being flattened by a train I ran faster than I thought I could and grabbed him by his shirt and at the last second I grabbed him the train came barreling down. He was mad at first but after I told him he almost got creamed he thanked me. the most important detail of this little story is that it would have not happened had the person only left one earbud in his ear to listen to the noises around him instead of blasting his music with both his earbuds in.
Omg yes that's why its illegal 🚫 to drive with them in some areas. Wow!
I love listening to loud music but if I am, I check both ways over and over as I cross any road or track. It's just not worth assuming it's safe when you could easily be killed.
@@Mr.Killjoy95 I'm the same. If I'm walking with headphones on then I automatically assume that I have to be more careful since I'm missing and entire sense. Got to make up for it by using your eyes more, not making assumptions, and being conservative about risks.
He still should have looked, even with earbuds, seeing a train coming, he would have stopped. Did he have blinders on, too? Texting while blasting music?
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I got the crap scared out of me one night on the way home from work. I used to have to cross tracks on the way home, as I went over the tracks, the lights from a train were less than fifty feet from me. The train was stopped, it was a "work train" and they happened to be working in that area... It being 530 in the morning after ~12hr shift, I thought I had crossed the tracks with a train coming...the rest of the ride home was wide awake. Shortly after they cut back the trees a considerable amount so there was no mistaking if a train was coming or not. New regulations.
I've always been amazed at people trying to beat a train, your gonna lose.
Yea I have no idea why people think it’s a good idea to try to beat a train like just wait the 5 mins for the train to pass
Never race a train he is gonna win every time
@@JustarailfannerTrains l enjoy watching the train anyway.
@@sterlingspencer2934 your right about that
@@sterlingspencer2934 oh, you may win a bunch of times...it's the one you lose you'll regret.
My friend's son died being hit by a train earlier this year. His car was pushed almost a mile down the track, because a train can't stop on a dime. Never try to beat a train! Those signs that warn you to stay away are to save your life.
oof Rip, sorry that happened to your son
Bossfight 612 why are you sorry ? Also it wasn’t her son ! Don’t know why I’m writing this because obviously you can’t read ! So you won’t be able to read this. Etc etc etc
Geez! That's sad. I'm sorry for their loss.
I know an older gentleman that crossed the tracks of a slow train and got hit and pushed for several yards. Even in that low speed impact he still broke some ribs.
@@pufango4059 jeez relax man
It don’t matter how much people are warned. There will always be impatient, entitled people that thing they’re invincible and that the train and everyone else should wait for them. And get flattened as a result.
Ironic how a car is destroyed by a train full of cars
Yea
Not really.
karma
Yeah, it's like "hey, I binned your car, here, take a new one"
It's what you call job security.
I've been involved in ten fatalities and as a Conductor had to walk back and see the horror of people cut in half and worse.
Can't imagine it, don't want to imagine it. Back in schools I use to get in fights and people would describe how I'd leave the other person as "having been run over by a freight train." A heavy exaggeration, because they don't have any idea how dangerous a moving train can be. Hundreds of tons of steel, moving down rail? Can't stop that easily.
I always thought that the aircraft carrier flight deck left a lot of things in my mind that I wish I'd never seen. I can't imagine what you've been through. So sorry.
Wow! Haunting.
@@DarthDestructusTheSithLord If you left somebody that messed up you don't know when to stop.
I’ve stopped counting. It’s better for my mental health.
It's actually bafflingly common for vehicles to drive into the sides of trains already occupying a crossing. There's a reason those strips of reflective tape have been required on the sides of all railroad equipment since 2005, and yet people keep doing it anyway...
maybe at night but this is DAYLIGHT. like wtf
My Amtrak train was t-boned by an SUV at the second engine and tore off sheet metal on the first four cars. Car fled the scene but the plate was still on the bumper which was on the crossing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Go to anywhere with a lot of pedestrian traffic and be baffled when you see a jogger just run into another person. Some people are just incredibly oblivious.
@@Alxnick A few years ago I drove in some indoor kart fun event. The yellow lights turned on, so everyone had to stop. I even turned around before stopping to check if someone was behind me but the whole straight was empty. 5 seconds later I got rear ended, turned around and saw that a multiple german karting champion just hit me. The lights were flashing everywhere and he had to accelerate out of a slow corner 20 meters down the straight into my back.
I was so confused why this had happened, with the other person beeing such a great driver. Turned out that he felt very sick before driving but didn't want to let his team down. Luckily I had only some rib bruises, still lasted 4 weeks..
Made me realise that a sick person or just an overworked one with to little of sleep, can be equally as dangerous as a drunken driver
When I lived next to CSX in Loveland Ohio I was awakened one morning by a train going into emergency and braking into 3 pieces. The conductor asked me to transport a couple of pins up the tracks to fix the problem
Okay I got 2 things, 1 that’s crazy must of been pretty cool helping out the train crew
And 2 u have no idea how long I’ve been watching u. I’ve been watching u for abt 7 years now and I think the first vid I saw was that NS unit running long hood forward at the crossing.
But it must of sucked that u were woken up but it’s also really cool u helped the crew out.
@@JawTooth wow I hope one day a crew will say hello to me on the scanner
Both tubers are epic.. Aka Jaw Tooth and Just A Railfanner
@@wherespie428 awww thanks man! Yea jaw tooth is rlly epic!
braking lol
I had that happen once to me. A drunk driver ran into the side of loaded hopper car of sand in my Road Switcher cut of cars on a rainy afternoon in East LA, CA. When I got to the collision I started yelling at the driver 'LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO THE SIDE OF MY TRAIN ! ! ! His car was completely Totaled but I scared him and he drove away(sideways) with what was left of his car. I told our Trainmaster and he said don't even worry about it. In case you didn't know it's almost impossible to damage a load of sand unless it derails. This guys car resembled the wrecked car at 10:00 Thanks for the video. BNSF 37 years So Cal Conductor Retired(and with all my limbs !)
I feel like if someone drove a semi into the side of a train, it would derail but it would take some speed.
Sort of reminds me of the beginning of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", when Arthur Dent is lying down in front of the bulldozer to stop it demolishing his house. The foreman says, "Mr Dent, do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I were to let it roll straight over you?"
Arthur, curious, asks, "How much?"
The foreman smiles and replies, "None at all."
so you were more worried about the side of a train then a human life okay then
@@NickyD Yes, it is called "natural selection" according to Darwin
THIS ^^^^ is why streets and highways need to be grade separated from trains.
How the hell do you *NOT* see a train on a crossing? I can only assume that the driver was texting but even so, flashing lights, *LOUD* horn, clanging bells? They must've been totally oblivious to what's going on around them, in which case, they shouldn't be on the road. SHEESH.
I 100% agree
Agree
You know what's really bad, they want to have QUIET ZONEs, cause people are BUTT HURT about the TRAIN HORNS ironically these are the MORONS who get killed by trains
@@shaleknight62 - Weirdly, we have one of those downtown. When a train approaches the crossing, and extremely discordant and annoying horn starts blaring. It goes on and on for the whole time the train is in the block. A mile up the line, and the train can use its air horn for the crossings. A K5LA, one of the most melodious air horns ever devised. I don't get the "quiet" zones at all.
And not see the gates, hear the horn, or the lights?
What kind of blind bat drives AGAINST a running train on a railroad crossing? That person's driving license should be revoked permanently effective immediately!
I agree
Mr. Magoo.
Sadly I’ve seen quite a few car crash videos and apparently looking around isn’t a requirement to driving safely anymore.
@@SirHackaL0t. there's a reason it's not a requirement. Its a way of weeding out some of the worst drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, though at the speed of most of your trains even the slowest of walkers has an eternity to get out of the way.
@@bulwinkle So killing the stupid is something that the US stands for? Lol
I used to work long distance passenger services, a while back & this, event, where I live, isn't common, though we do have automobile drivers, who like to play "Beat the Train".
Watching these foolish people, being so inattentive, or at that time, purposely, going for it - no internet.
The service was travelling at 120 kph, with a fully laden weight of 250 tonnes - not easy to stop in a hurry, had it been nessecery.
I've also been on services, which pedestrians, decided to walk out in front of, which is real messy, & results in all wheels, being flattened.
As a passenger once, the train driver, stopped over a road crossing, to get out of the cab, go back to the automobile driver, and tell him what a freakin inconsiderate fool he was - children were travelling, with an 'adult', who thought it fun to play train games.
Services, where a vehicle gets hit, it's become standard practice, for the 'impact crew', to be relieved of duty's, asap, & a fresh driving crew brought aboard.
Thankyou.
If the posts, help stop one idiot, from makeing a fatal mistake, in an auto v train, "get together", it's worth it.
@@davidarundel6187 Were, these posts, in Shatenese (A.K.A. Shatnerspeak)? I, was just, wondering, if that was, the case.
@@53ph3ra no
And those same people are terrified of the flu.
@@MrYAMAHA32177 which people, do you refer to ?, as being scared of the flu.
Near where my grandparents used to live there was a set of Wig Wags. I used to ride my bike to see them on the old CNW tracks there. Sometimes I'd get lucky and see a train go by. One day a C40-8 was coming with a manifest, the crossing never activated and a minivan went through with seconds to spare, probably the scariest thing I've ever seen. That was in like 1998 or something and I've yet to unsee it. This video reminds me so much if it.
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Blimey! That train took 38 seconds to stop from the time the brake hose popped at 1:00. Don't argue with trains!
This video proves that human eyes/brain cannot accurately detract the speed of an approaching moving object! Plenty of drivers cause wrecks when attempting to cross in front of approaching vehicles or when not yielding on “turn right on red” controlled intersections. Turning right on red is not mandatory!! It’s optional!
Amen brother! So many idiots out there in a hurry to get their fluffy coffee.
Yea, I was watching a video of a car and it looked like it wasn't going that fast and when it hit another car they went flipping and the whole front of that car was bashed in and I was surprised
I don't quite agree, but for the average person, I would.
Hey, don't group those of us with an impeccable driving record and the ability to judge a moving objects distance / velocity, with those that can't lol.
No, it doesn't. Don't be so sensationalist and increase your threshold for what constitutes proof. At the very least increase your sample size.
I had to watch the video again to understand what happened. Time stamps below.
1:00 A loud sound and train begins to slow (idk if the sound is of the crash or of the two train cars decoupling)
1:39 Train stopped and Railfanner will move to new location
4:00 Train cars are being reattached (re-coupled?)
10:00 Scene of the accident/totaled car
10:12 Scene of cars driving through an intersection even though a (commuter) train is approaching - i.e. why cars can get hit by a massive train blowing it’s very loud horn even though loud bells are ringing to warn drivers that they should stop so they don’t get hit by the massive train
11:57 Still shots of the original train in two sections (reminder of what drivers can cause by trying to outrun a train that’s s**t-loads bigger than they are
at 0:57 you can see the car debris exiting the other side of the train before you hear the Emergency Brake dump.
The car hits at 00:51 and gets hung up on the car. You can hear it repeatedly getting struck by the autorack.
After watching at the 50 second mark, *several times*, I’m not sure I’m catching the accident. By “the other side of the train”, is that actually the other *end* of it? When I look in that area, there seems to be something dark approaching/stopping. It’s hard to see from the white glare. Is that the car? If it is, who would get any where near the intersection with a train is just about to cross?! Must be the same sort of people at the 10:12 mark.
That commuter train was stopped at a station...
Thank you for the time stamps
I work for a class 1 railroad in Topeka Kansas where we overhaul and repair wreck damage on locomotives, some have involved fatalities, listen people your eyes trick your brain into thinking something that big can’t move that fast. Think about these train crews they have to live w/the aftermath of these accidents the rest of their lives, it’s a helpless feeling for them knowing there’s only so much they can do.
A family member works works for UP in Northern California, as a conductor. He mostly works the Fresno Subdivision, in the San Joaquin Valley, which is one of the most "troubling" corridors in the US. He's had his share of "stupid" behavior. Stay safe.
Some lessons in life come at a high price. Driving into the side of a train rates right up there.
I’d say the drivers a competitor for the Darwin award
Did you think, maybe the driver was sick?...I don't think anyone in their right mind, would drive into the side of a moving train.
@@laidyeh that should include those who text while they drive.
@@mybestieischloer2401, I totally agree...
In the Case off, the Driver of the Car wasn't sick, in Germany we called this "Natürliche Auslese"- Natural Selection. We also use the phrase, level crossings are the hardest drugs in the world, one train and you're gone!
One night I was headed back to the shop. The road in the industrial park crossed a single track and I could see cars coming toward me. At the last second I saw the train stopped at the grade crossing and slammed on my brakes. There was a boxcar across the road with both doors open so I was seeing the cars THROUGH the boxcar. Talk about a wake up call!
I used to be a technician on the french high speed trains. One day during a routine check we found car parts embedded into the side of a TGV. We were puzzled since we had never heard of a car hitting a train! It's usually the opposite! Also the accident hadn't been reported, so we were not aware of the damage until we found it. Nothing impressive though, must have happened at low speed.
My father in law was a railroad engineer and mentioned many times the close calls with cars trying to beat the train at crossings.
I saw one video of a mother in a minivan. Her kids encouraged her to "beat the train" They had to race down a car park as the train came up from behind. They got to the entrance and turned across the tracks about 50 yards in front of the train. Yay! What they didn't think about was that it was a double track, and the train on the *other* track came out from the trees right then and hit knocked the minivan onto the other track and into the first train....The Mother lived, but was badly injured, as was one of the children. The other one didn't survive. Never think the lights are only for the train you can see.
In the eternal struggle between car and train; train has yet to lose.
In the eternal struggle between train and 60 ton Battle Tank, the train has yet to lose. Why can't people figure out their dinky 2 ton car is no match for a 150 ton locomotive and the 1,000s of tons that follow it?
I have seen trains derail because of a car. Not sure thats a win for the car, but it wasn't a win for the train either.
@@rcmike09 that meant part of the car most likely went under the train, probably not good for the driver.
There are tales out of SE Arkansas however that tell a tale of a D11 dozer taking out a a coal train. 2 Engines and 16 loaded hoppers to be exact. Only scuffed the dozer's paint.
Before I retired, I used to commute to and from work on an electric commuter train. One time in broad daylight, we had stopped blocking a crossing where the lights were flashing but there were no gates. I was shocked to watch through the window of the passenger train car an automobile approach and smash into the train car I was sitting in.
Once the train got going I heard numerous "flat spots" on the wheels that were likely not there prior to the emergency stop.
I did to the clunks we’re definitely because of the brake
Or previous emergency stops. When a train breaks it automatically goes into emergency.
Its impossible for flat spots to be created from this.. the only time flat spots are formed is when being switched in the yard with the hand break tied and being dragged for a long time .. empty cars only
Is your name Clerk Kent?
Haha flat spots don't happen because of this ya silly boomer
The fact that someone drove INTO a moving train instead of the train hitting the car is making me loose brain cells.
Somebody should revoke this persons drivers license, devices, and maybe life privileges
@@thomasmleahy6218 *_i t i s p r o o f_*
That's "lose", not "loose", so yeah...maybe you lost a few. 😅
Lose …
lose NOT loose ... watch your spelling
Finally! An article writer got it right! Car hits train! Usually headlines say “Train hits car or truck or person!” So incorrect! Train driver gives plenty of
notice! Horns blaring! Lights flashing! Bells clanging! And sometimes bars coming down to stop pedestrians, cars and trucks! Never the fault of the train-it’s all on the vehicle driver to stop and look both ways. Trying to beat the train doesn’t always end well.
Years ago I lived about 75 to 100 feet from a CSX/Amtrak line and after work one night(2ndshift) I took my dog for a walk. Its was winter and there was about 2 ft of snow on the ground. Of course the sidewalks were clear. We walked around the block to where the tracks were and I decided since the train already went by id take a short cut down the tracks to the other side walk. Well, about halfway I heard the horn it was dead silent, then the lights of the train. Wayyyyyyyy up the tracks but I had to walk in snow on train tracks carrying my dog. It wasn't a close call but when the train went by it was going a little slower through town. A CSX freight train. I was just walking down my driveway when it passed.
I never did that ever again.
I'm glad you learned your lesson.
Another victory for the as of yet undefeated "Team Train"!
Truly amazing footage. And thank you for staying there to show us the train getting back underway. GREAT STUFF!
Amazing footage ... Lmao where ?
As an engineer myself i have hit 10 cars in the locomotives i have drove and i have never stoped that quickly
I had my dreams, and I had my plan's I was gonna be an engineer man.
You might beat a train in a race, but you'll never beat one in a fight.
Sounds like the initial collision happens at the 54 second mark, though it is difficult to be certain. You can definitely see debris being kicked up by the train by the 57 second mark.
Youre right
I'm going to have to watch it again at the 54 second mark, thanks
@@califdad4 The engineer "dumped the air" shortly after the 54 second mark.
I don’t see anything. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong spot.
@@darcybrummett7004 you have to listen for the bump
I would ad, never cross a track until you have space beyond the right of way. We have an odd intersection in our town where the busiest track in the state bisects an 'intersection complex' (ON A CURVE on one side and from a narrow space between two rows of old buildings on the other side) that has minimal space between cross streets. Drivers stack up ON the track all the time (two cars in each direction) and it scares the hell out of me. When my wife is driving, my hand is on the emergency brake of her car. If she attempts to cross without space for the care beyond the right of way, I pull the handle. She has done this only moments after we talk about how to cross safely. She will get angry and tell me she knows how to drive; and 10 seconds later she has come to a full stop on the track. I unlock my door, crack it open and listen for a train. My wife is in the part of humanity who does not process the space around her and I know that people like her simply exist all over the planet. Case in point, the plethora of Russian dash cam vids on RUclips.
"Situational awareness" can be LEARNED and IMPROVED. This would require the ability to recognize a need and the will to set about learning.
Dang man. One day someone will get hit(hopefully not you and your wife) then people will all of a sudden stop blocking the tracks. In fact there will still be people sitting on the tracks. It’s sad that it’ll take one train vs car accident that will then make everyone stop before the track. If only people had situational awareness and could see that they have no space. You sir do the right thing by not sitting on the track.
There's a lot of people out there think they're smarter and quicker than a train is. Was working near Chicago as a contractor witnessed people doing the same thing at a double gate crossing there was trying to beat a high-speed Amtrak with the gates down.....dumb
Those Amtrak trains can *move.*
About maybe ten years ago I was stopped by a train in the Gainesville, Georgia area. I was first in line so I was right by the gate. The train went by, the gates went up so I hit the gas. Immediately after that, I hit something else. Hard. Seems that the train wasn't done and there was still one last flat car that I didn't see. I wasn't injured but I got a ticket for driving around the gates--which I didn't--and had to fight it in court.
you were lucky to be alive and fight that in court.
I've always said, you may win a race with a train, but you'll never win a fight. You'll lose every time
In all the years I drove trains the one thing you learned real quick was you can never account for arrogant ignorance, putting aside the emotional costs to the crew, when you work out the real cost of that one incident it will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars most of which will have to be absorbed by the relevant agencies and that does not take into account the delay costs to the public and there is no excuse you can ever bring to the table that absolves the driver of the car from its responsibilities in an incident like this, not sure how this works in the US but in the UK they would have been hammered for this from all directions and rightly so and is one of the reasons we fit most crossings with auto enforcement camera's, they might think they got away with it but the statutory fines go towards the costs of dealing with those that don't.
That’s an UNDERSTATEMENT if ever there was one
Any time is train time!
@@jamesedwards7241 This reminds me of a poster I saw: "When you race a train if it's a tie, you lose."
When a train that long stops it must cut half the towns crossing point off.
I worked on the construction of the CN Rail, St Clair River Tunnel 1994/5. Built to allow those car carriers to travel between the US/Canada car plants and the shipping container low loaders.
On the break through day I climbed through the TBM's cutter head along with the crew to celebrate, after the ceremony the safety officer would not let us return through the machine. So here was a Brit who entered the US by way of a tunnel, No ID or Passport. We returned to Sarnia via border bridge with the crew telling the immigration on both side I was a stowaway, I gave my name pointed out the building I lived in, that could be seen from the bridge and they waved me on through. Those were the days and I'm glad I was there then.
Unfortunately this happens way too often as trains move far quicker then they look. One thing you need to do though is you are too close to the train as it passes, if anything is dragging or sticking out your toast. You should be at least 12 feet back if not more. It’s never worth taking the risk to get that great shot if in the end your cut up or even worse loose an arm or more. Be careful out there
When I was a kid we lived a block away from the triple set of tracks in northern Colorado. One time we were playing and my brother was running parallel to the track but from my perspective he was running at the train. Very scary thing for a five year old to see. That occurred over 65 years ago but I remember it like it happened yesterday.
@@Harry-zz2oh I can imagine that was a traumatic experience. Trains are amazing but given there size need a lot more respect than most give them. Cheers
UP says 25 feet from the rail.
Some trains have catching ropes (idk what its called so i just put that in) that are dragging on the side of a car, i think thats to avoid people getting too close to trains, i never experinced it before, i have been close to trains but im only about 5 feet away, which im pretty sure isnt the range of a catching rope can get.
I commute to/from work over a railroad track.
I do not rely on the bells, lights and arm warnings, as they can fail.
I rely on my eyeballs and brain version 1.0 to make sure the crossing is safe.
Don't lose your head to save a minute. You need your head, your brains are in it.
0:55 you can see a piece of the car fly over on this side right under red autorack car.
Jeez some people rlly get mad over “**must see**” that’s crazy and pathetic
So the car arrived after the gates were already down, half the train was already through the intersection, and THEN the driver decided to go around the barricade, and crash into a moving train that was doing about 35 mph?
Why?
@@ianbaillie6378 basically yeah the driver said he thought he stopped
same here i saw pieces flying in air, had to looking at reply a couple of times
@@ianbaillie6378 Some people just get so caught up in their phones they don't see a two story moving object or much of anything else.
that dude is so d@mn lucky... never seen anything like that
I’m a class one conductor, and if I’m doing a roll by for another train moving at that speed I wouldn’t even stand as close as you are tbh if possible. Perfect example of something could go wrong.. you want the best escape route these things do not discriminate when shit goes wrong. Good you didn’t get hurt!
Well I made sure I stood behind the yellow line on the crosswalk I like to get as close as possible and sometimes in other videos you’ll see the tripod move because I feel like I’m to close.
@@JustarailfannerTrains Of course, not telling you you shouldn't! Just do keep that in mind best escape route incase. You know anything could happen!
@@benjlar1902 never thought of that but I’ll try to think abt a escape route if anything bad happens
@@JustarailfannerTrains right on man. cheers
@@benjlar1902 you too!
A good demonstration of inertia as well. You can clearly hear the air brakes dump, and I counted 14 cars crossing the shot before the train finally came to a halt. An Autorack car is 145 feet, 4 inches long between coupler faces, so that's around 2034 feet the train traveled before stopping, or over a third of a mile.
which franckly seemed short for a train
@@jimskywaker4345 Well, it wasn't moving that fast to begin with. Looked to be about 25mph, at a rough guess, when the incident occurred.
This video shows the rationale of the electronic arms at railroad crossings in addition to the very loud bell ringing of an oncoming train. Therefore, one must NEVER attempt to try to outrun an oncoming train-- for ANY reason!
Loads dont skid.
To some, those crossing guard mean nothing... At one crossing in Fairborn Ohio directly across from the air Force logistics command bldg, it was not unusual about 715am every day to watch senior civilians going around those extended guards as a train approached
If the side of a train directly in front of you isn't going to make you stop, then a set of crossing arms isn't going to make much difference.
Well, hopefully management doesn’t see this video. Conductor riding that auto and jumping off while the car is in motion is an absolute firing offense. So is not separating those cars by at least fifty feet before going “in between” to adjust the coupler and draw bar alignment. Going in between after stretching the train requires a “set and centered” from the engineer as does going in between to adjust those draw bars.
BNSF Engineer, retired…
There are old conductors and there are bold conductors but there are no old bold conductors.
Is actually a separation of 100 feet to go in between cars and red zone.
To everyone quoting rules and distances: different rules for different roads. (Retired Engineer with 7 Railroads under my belt.)
Used to work for short line RR. We were allowed to get off a moving train with trailing foot as long as the train was about 5mph. Was amazed when working at a rail yard as a contractor, that the conductors would stop the locomotives to get off, instead of letting them coast by after he got off, to throw the switch back. Seemed like a waste of fuel to throttle up 4 units. Or when some college kid would set up a flag in the middle of a track on a rainy night, to stop a steel train, then go get the flag, and leave. It would screw up the work that we had to do.
Yeah hopefully he doesn't get in trouble for that. That is an absolute no on how he did that. These class 1 railroads have eyes and ears everywhere.
Damn conductor walked between couplers withoutthe proper distance between cars. FIRED!!!!
The 25 foot rule only applies to everyone except transportation guys… Go figure!
I lived in SF and saw cars REPEATEDLY almost drive into Sunset Tunnel on the triangle side despite a bajillion markings. Heck, I almost caught a driver go into the tunnel behind Safeway early one morning. Anymore were immune to all the safety warnings that I hate saying it but reducing them may help us focus better. Without any sense of risk, we get careless and it shows.
See 11’-8”+8”.
Stopping and waiting will see you to see tomorrow. You can't mess with these huge railway machines.
I am just glad they edited the 2 hour event to what was posted. Interesting event. Glad you thought to post the video. Thanks.
I love those ACE cars. GO has had them for a long time, but it is nice to see them elsewhere in north America.
UTA in Utah has them as well as metrolink and the coaster in LA.
At the end of the video is a shot of the ACE Train lead car 3306 going past after the track is clear. I rode that ACE train for many years, car 3306 very often, even had a chance to operate the train once. Many times we had to stop and wait for long periods due to UP having issues like this in the single track areas, making a long 60mi commute even longer. Can't say I didn't enjoy it either. Thank you for the video.
Yea just 2 days ago up servers just shut down causing all train traffic to stop
In 1976, me and my father took an Amtrak train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Just outside of San Luis Obisbo, a double trailer cement truck stalled on the tracks at a train crossing, and our train hit the truck; splitting the trailers from the truck cab. I remember we came to a stop and passengers were allowed to hop off the train to observe the damage. The semi truck cab was nothing but twisted wreckege with a man trapped inside. The tongue of the truck trailers on the other side of the train had gouged several Amtrak passenger cars including our own car causing shards of aluminum molding and insulation to hang off of the passenger cars. Some men cut off some loose pieces of metal from the trains so we could continue on. After about three to four hours, we continued on to San Francisco. Don't know if the truck driver lived or died. I will never forget that day.
I could I find more info like the locomotives, consist, driver of truck and etc
At 0:55 you can see the car hit the train. A piece of what I'm going to assume is the front of the car flies through to the other side of the tracks.
you can hear it pretty good too
i was wondering where the car crash was, thanks for pointing it out! I could only find the aftermath in the video
Took so long to stop damn
Must be nerve wracking for the engineers. Hauling gas down the line with all the motor vehicles crossing up ahead. Hoping that the signals always work _and_ the drivers obey the signals. Miscreant was probably TWD (texting while driving).
I bet it is never knowing if your gonna hit someone right here
My great uncle worked for Union Pacific and said it was gut wrenching seeing a car on the tracks. All you can do is blow the horn and pray they move.
10 minutes in before we see the car that hit the train, looks totaled , not sure how they did it , there is even crossing arms. I looked up the news report , no one was hurt but the crossing was closed for 2 hours while they checked the tracks and recoupled the train
Yes, “there ARE crossing arms” but the video is evidence of “blind” drivers that are around everywhere! This blind driver syndrome is a reflection of the disconnect between the brain and the eyes! The brain says “do other things while driving: read, text, look at “smart” phone, scratch, day dream, etc. and plenty of people do exactly that. Thanks
@@Rhaman68 I bet the driver stopped and didn't put the car in park and then was doing something on the phone and rolled into the train, still not the smartest apple in the tree
@@Rhaman68 I call that dumbass syndrome
Thank you for letting me know where this was. The main reason I stopped at the video was because of the car crash issue. That way I can go straight to the 10 minute mark and look at what I came to look at.
@@exoressdelivers70 I got bumped at a red light late one night, the driver behind me got a text from her work and took her foot off the brake. When sitting waiting for a train to get by, I always put the car in park , it's the only thing I can think of with this car hitting the train
This proves that trains win! Excellent video.
let’s say each car is about the low end 30 tons (for the sake of simplicity and my argument about safety) and there are 28 cars here = 840 tons, moving at about 25 mile/hr or 11 m/s. i did the physics and math and this freight train hitting your 1-ton car has the same kinetic energy as an f-150 pick up truck hitting a 200-lb individual @ a speed of 180 km/h. with this in mind, please be careful everyone
Great catch, Wow!
Yeah not everyday you see car slam into a train!
its better the fact cameraman turns around and there's just half a train there
That engineer sure has a smooth touch.
I worked for a company that delivered new cars to dealerships, we would get train loads of a certain GM car built in California and they would be piled up in one end of the railcars. The trains would be broken down and put together in Chicago and then sent onto different railyards. The cars were unloaded and we had to put them on our trucks and deliver them to the dealers. We hated to deliver the cars as the dealers always gave the drivers a hard time as some of the cars were totaled and could not be repaired. The dealers did not want to take delivery and we could not take them back to the company yard.
I seen four rail tank cars buckle in two because the train stopped to fast, they must have been empty and in the rear / middle of a long train.
A 1966 Ford Fairlane 4-door had slammed into the moving train at the rail crossing next to where I worked.
The building was a auto seat production plant, a good sized structure.
When that train slammed it's brakes our whole building shook from the floor up, I knew it had to be a train.
The rail tank cars that buckled were a mile away towards the middle of the stack.
All the weight of the trailing train cars overwhelmed the four tank cars.
They buckled almost dead center, the rear of the tank was almost touching the front.
Looked like if you took a pop can and bent it in two.
Only way bigger of course.
They had to be cut up on site and hauled off.
The train did not derail unbelievably.
Incident happened in Romulus, Michigan.
Early to mid 1990's.
Car hit the train at the Eureka Road crossing. South bound train, east bound Fairlane.
Old lady, just did not stop, probably was doing 45 mph as that is the limit on the stretch of Eureka Road.
She sustained minor injuries.
I figure because her car was still in the crossing just facing south and up against the crossing gate that the train was not going very fast at all.
If I remember correctly she had hit one of the engines in the fuel tank on the side.
No spill of fuel or fire.
She was lucky, that is the flattest surface to hit a train and not go between or under a rail car and get dragged down rail.
Never seen anything like it before or since.
Long post but, a true story.
I really wonder how many bones can be broken and still be considered a minor injury
I went back to driver's Ed training for a day as an adult, to keep from getting a point on my record. The instructor made this observation when trying to beat a train at a crossing "Tie goes to the train". He said that his father was an engineer on long-haul freight trains for 30 years. He said that in those 30 years, his dad "tied" 4 cars.. won them all.....
such an evocative sound of the train.
I used to drive a semi truck. A friend from high school also drove semi and got hit by a train a few months ago. Train dragged the truck and the rig caught on fire. A good Samaritan got him out and he lived, but he needed a LOT of surgery and a long recovery.
And that's why I'm paranoid at railroad crossings.
That driver of that car needs to stop watching Wylie Coyote. They may not make it next time.
The driver was searching for some music & got into heavy metal. Lmao
Conductor hang up your brake pipe hose before you move that equipment!! And make a safety stop before coupling the equipment to the rest of the train!!
Hang break pipe hose?? And why make a safety stop before making a hook?? Just curious 🤔
@@lemkenation The reason you hang up the hose is so it won't snag onto something and tear up...then you will have a major problem...and a safety stop is required to control the speed of the engineer as he couples to the equipment...if you hit it too hard you can break the knuckle...again major problem...rare but it could happen so stop the engine first before coupling
Brake pipe hose is already supported with a wire to keep from dragging.. a safety stop is no longer required when making a joint we are allowed to get off moving equipment now.. good engineers set 10 lbs dynamics then feather the independent when making joints
@@lemkenation At my railroad you are only allowed to get off moving equipment in an emergency and what wire for the hose might not be there so SAFETY FIRST!! And if you work on the extra board you will run across different engineers every day so as the conductor you can't automatically trust any of them
There is a crossing two miles from my home. Have to go through it to leave the subdivision. There is also a college on my side of the tracks. Lots of traffic. There is a stop sign 19’ past the tracks. Another stop sign before the tracks. I have seen many cars stop on the tracks and have the gate come down on top of them. The car in front can’t go because of cross traffic, so the one on the tracks has to drive into a ditch to get out of the way of the train. Thank god no one has been hurt, yet.
There should not be a stop sign less than 100 feet beyond a railway track. If the road creates that situation, then the road needs to be changed.
I am always amazed at how close cars will get to a train.
The Conductor didn't do a safety stop. I am a Conductor in California for UP and He would be fired for walking in between the cars without separating them one car length.
is it worth it to become a conductor?
@@moderngrub1876 Probably not no more.
@@napili5470 what makes it so bad?
@@moderngrub1876 To many rules and regulations now. It use to be fun until You kill somebody. It always happens at night and you get freaked out trying to find a dead body or body parts. Sometimes I still have nightmares of trying to see if the guy has a pulse and he reaches out and grabs you. That's the only weird part. The rest of the job is fun just nowadays you got to be aware of all the rules the company puts on you.
Safety stop?? Why? and how for do they need to separate to get a red zone to fix a draw bar??
'Its hard to stop a train ' yup splattt
I was an Engineer on the UP (42 years, retired now) and I don't know how many times someone ran into the side of the train I was running..... You can not believe the idiots out there....Unbelievable....! Also, ran a lot of those auto rack trains and they brake poorly...! Little wheels and trucks on 86 foot cars, terrible combination...!
I am surprised KTVU or some station didn’t contact you for the video or something. They must of heard about this.
Yeah it would’ve been cool if they did
Came up on my recommended, looked familiar. Then realized this is in Pleasanton. Had to watch again knowing this and it made such a big difference. Who who’d have thought it was so close to home?
Yea I obviously don’t know anything about how Pleasanton looked like back then sense I’ve only been here for 2 years now
@@JustarailfannerTrains Been here all my life and even recognized the cop cars, that's what triggered it for me! Thanks for the video!
@@DaaYay lol glad this vid gave u some memories thanks for the support!
Stanley Blvd?! I see these big cars there all the time.
@@redditor2112 Yeah they park those there on Stanley Blvd. all the time for storage.
I live in Vermont now, but I was raised in Oakland and watched BART being built. Rode the first day of service in 1972. But although my brother, 15 years my senior, was really interested in trains and built a number of HO "layouts" until his marriage, I never got into it... in fact, other than BART, I never rode a "real" train anywhere until 2007, when I had flown from JFK to SJO, and took the CalTrain from Diridon as a leg of my journey back home to Santa Rosa. I had spent most of 30 years driving buses, my brother spent most of his working life driving nails. Now approaching 70, I just love the sound and feel of the locomotives... and feel an emotional longing for my home when I see these videos. Thank you for bringing me this, and I hope to see more. Sometimes, here in Rutland, I sit in my wheelchair as close to the tracks as possible to feel the thunder as the engines go by.
Hey no problem for bringing you memories I post trains as often as a can and sometimes 10-20 minutes montages of train that I caught in the day so I won’t stop posting trains anytime soon
I rode BART in the 80s. For 50 cents, you could ride all day.
Were you a witness? Also your content is underrated, good luck on getting to 1k subs, you are close!
I guess you can say a witness and thank you:)
Np (sorry for late reply i forgot about this comment and never knew i even made one about this.)
Man look at the power that train has to unleash on stupid drivers who would take the chance of being crushed to death rather then let that monster go past .
Darwin awards
missed the ground pounding feel of those big engines going by
The barriers in the US go down very late. Over here in the UK they go down so early it allows the train time to stop before the crossing.
Many places here don't have the barriers at all, they just trust that people will see the flashing lights.
Life is to short for people to be doing something stupid. I am from a train town so I see it all the time. Thank god as i know of only had a few train/car impacts.
I’m not a train person but is anyone else amazed that theses cars (they look like there are autos inside) are being pulled so easily by one locomotive?
I've seen some trains with two, three, maybe even four full engines on them. I've actually wondered if they were all working together, or if they were just being hauled to some other place that needed them.
@@phaneserichthoneus8895 I've seen three locomotives pulling 80 railcars full of Tesla's; at 100 ft per railcar, that's 8,000 ft. (or more than one mile...)
Conductor is a Hella cool job even brakeman to is cool 😎 👌
@@macduece2112 I wonder how much the insurance costs on the cars for a train ride like that. I know derailments are relatively rare, but can you just imagine....
For the ones saying that this is a waste of time, reread the title, it does not say "** MUST SEE** Car crashes into autorack on camera" It just says a car hit a autorack.
@@ronnieguitar99 the wrecked car was something interesting to see, and see the conductor put the train back together.
@@ronnieguitar99 but! You chose to click the video, so you wasted your time.
@@TestTubeBabySpy you're the idiot because you misunderstood the title lmao.
@@ThePeninsulaRailfan So I "**MUST SEE**" something that wasn't shown "lmao"
@@TestTubeBabySpy uh read that out loud, your wording doesn't make sense lol
The weight difference between a train and your vehicle - even a very large one like an SUV or pickup truck is like a two-ton Cadillac hitting a songbird. Always give trains the respect they deserve.
Remember when the red cross read STOP- LOOK.AND LISTEN?
If you listen at 0:58 you can just barely hear the bang, but what gives it away is the screen shake and immediate dump of the air brakes. Not from Murica and never seen a train in person, but I'm glad nobody got hurt! From all I know about them, you *never* fuck with an oncoming loco unless you have a deathwish.
The Conductor should just be glad he didn't have to walk back 150 cars to make that coupling...
They were only 26 cars long but it still would be a pain in the ass to walk to the end of the train
@@JustarailfannerTrains 26 cars ain’t a lot for a US freight.
@@privateerbouncher9622 oh no the trains that pass are usually 100-120 cars but this one was short because it was a extra train that’s why the X is in AMICH so it would be AMICHX (that’s the train ID)
That is one lucky driver.
I’d say he was also there was also a grandma in the car that didn’t get hurt at all to
Unlike the car.
Well, until the driver finds out that the auto insurance policy he holds will not pay for damages as it was against a railway which puts the driver at full liability for not driving with due care and attention. The insurance company will simply tell the driver that any damages caused (including delay of the train) is the driver's sole responsibility and they will not pay.
Not to mention that even if they were to pay, the vast majority of Americans are underinsured, and so are stuck with massive bills when they cause an accident which exceeds the policy limits (as one 19 year old driver in my state learned the hard way when medical bills and the cost of my vehicle exceeded the policy limit of $25k from her insurance. She now will be stuck paying my legal team 35% of her income until such time as she has paid off the residual $285k at 30% interest.
@@dragontoothless4351 I feel badly for them. Most anyone wouldn't have enough insurance to cover 285k. My hope is that you are okay as I can't imagine what brings medical bills to that amount. But I hope you have some empathy. Or do you just post this on all videos where someone has an accident? Any full coverage driver would likely be covered in the case portrayed in the video. Glad no one was injured. But I doubt the person who hit you is a villain who is out to intentionally ruin the lives of others. I had my car totaled by an uninsured driver last year. My insurance covered me. They lost their car, so I'm sure they learned their lesson. Everyone was okay. Cars can be replaced.
@@dragontoothless4351 that's unfortunate. A very hard lesson to learn!
The only negative thing I would say about the video is that you should not be that close to the track of a passing train. For your protection and to keep your camera from bouncing from the vibration and wind the train causes. Otherwise, good video.
My aunt, uncle and 5 year old cousin was hit and my little cousin died. She was the poster child. She had heart surgery twice then received a heart transplant and was loving life.We had her 5th birthday party the day before. They were going to Conroe Texas. There were no lights or bars came down where they crossed. It was 💯% union Pacific's fault. My aunt and uncle spent many months in the hospital and precious betty was brought back here and layed to rest in cemetery where my son,parents, brother ,sister or now all buried. The money they got couldn't replace their child and most went to medical bills because they had to see doctor's for years. It's not always the cars fault. The train didn't even have a light on the train and the horn was never sounded at 2am.
Will never be able to figure out how people can be so stupid when it comes to trains...the train always wins
They probably think "it won't happen to ME!"
Any idea how many wheels were damaged in the process, thus requiring later shop time? I could hear quite a few flat spots after the train started to roll by, although I could not tell if some of these were pre-existent. 2021/08/05. Ontario, Canada.
I couldn’t tell u how many wheels were damage but I’d say quite a few
*slaps the ass on the autorack* "Boy have I got a solution to your problem! Check out what I've got in this bad-boy right here."
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It’s unusual for a car to hit a train, it’s usually the other way around.
Eddie Griffin from the Houston rockets was drunk and hit a stopped train and killed himself in 2007 at 25 years old
As you sit watching a train go by or view them sitting in a yard, note all of the little reflective strips on the sides of the locomotives and car bodies. At grade crossings during low visibility conditions often at crossings without lights or gates, folks were just driving in to the sides of trains-- especially dark colored locos, gondolas, hoppers, and tank cars ---then the car shop personnel were instructed to mark the cars.
Trying to fix stupid.
I extricated, treated, bagged, and transported several through the years.
Check out FRA 224 sometime.
Blessings
@@bobpaulino4714 worked with a guy 20+ years ago who was an air force medic. There were tracks to cross to get to base and it was a regular occurrence to go pick up bodies.
He said it was amazing how the impact could twist you up inside the car.
Cars hitting trains is far more common than trains hitting cars. They just don't make the news for whatever reason.
Probably because most places have a basic requirement that drivers be able to see objects that are larger than many 1 story large commercial buildings. You know because having people driving into buildings and stuff all the time because they can't see massive great big objects right in front of their face gets annoying.
I was surprised at how quickly brake reservoirs refilled, even with only 26 cars.
Yea me too people say it takes a mile and a half to stop but I don’t really know about that anymore
@@JustarailfannerTrains I think its like a mile for the longer cross country trains moving at 70 MPH hauling over 70 cars
Railfanner and T-90: The braking distance certainly was impressive, but I was commenting more on the relatively short time it took to get going again. I thought an emergency application pretty much emptied the brake lines, and would deplete the reservoirs relatively quickly as well, but the train got moving again promptly. Impressive.
Likely empty cars ,short train have a lot to do with quick stopping distance
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I can remember well, watching hundreds of shiny new Detroit Made automobiles go by on open railcars, while walking to school! Long strings of bright new cars were heading east, pulled by New York Central locomotives! I crossed 6 busy sets of rails twice each day, going to and from school. In the evenings and on weekends, we played on those same busy tracks and nobody I knew, dared to "mess with" anything railroad! Everybody knew that my father was a locomotive engineer and that I wouldn't stand for any kind of mischief or vandalism! I and a few adept friends, often used those rails as a free source of long range transportation, when we could catch a slow moving freight! Only after a public housing project opened in the late 1960s, did I begin hearing of "break-ins" in the B&O yard, that my father worked out of! From WW2 till then, everybody had a "General Respect" for the railroads, as did my childhood friends and I! It's a damned shame that the railroads and our
country, have become victims of freeloaders, looters and thieves!! I truly believe that we should return to the "Old Way" of doing things.... mainly because those way "worked" and they worked well!!