A SITUATION! ENGINEER HANDLES IT WELL! La Grange, KY
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2019
- Don't be too judgmental on the driver. Imagine turning onto a city street and a train approaching? Yes, it could have been handled better, but the Engineer was on the ball and the Driver left intact.
And, it almost happens with another vehicle!
Music by The US Army Band, "The Rifle Regiment". 
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It's a small town. Everyone knows who was driving the truck. That night at the bar... "Hey Steve, heard you blocked the train today with your trailer"
With all the brothers, sisters and cousins in Town...sweet home Alabama
It wasn't steve it was his son he's grounded for taking the truck without asking.
George was in the back of the trailer
Everyone in that bar had the same face. Because you know....inbreeding.
@ so you mean your whole generation
I'm posting this to hopefully educate some people because there seems to be a lot of people posting that it was dumb to build a town around a railroad track, or that it was dumb for the town to let them build a track in the middle of the street, etc.
This is not a "town planning" problem. It's one of those problems that crop up with progress. There are many street-running train lines in small towns in the US and they are there as a legacy of the days in the early to mid twentieth century when passenger trains would stop in the middle of small towns to pick up passengers because the towns couldn't afford to build proper train stations. So the railroads would put a line smack down the middle of the town, usually main street, and put out stairs for the people to get on and off. You can see it in many movies of the period.
La Grange was founded in 1827, long before Railroads were even built in America. Oh, and here's a bonus lesson: La Grange was named in honor of Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de la Fayette. Yes the same "Lafayette" who commanded Revolutionary troops here and helped The United States of America win its independence from Britain. The city takes its name from his country estate in France, the Château de la Grange-Bléneau. La grange in French means "the barn". lol
Louisville native here. Thanks for the history, much appreciated. Before trucking, LaGrange was one of thousands of little towns with a lot more local rail traffic and single-car deliveries. And I've seen some small RR towns with street running or nearby rail that went to sprucing up their old downtown areas to bring in business from passers-through. I like that the town built an elevated platform for the public for better train watching.
I have never seen this in Germany or any other European country. Why is it only a thing in the US? Shouldn't be difficult to relocate the train tracks. I guess there is just not enough money for infrastructure because it's more important to give tax cuts to rich people and spend a lot on the military. No matter what side you're on, you cannot deny that your infrastructure is worse than in Europe despite being the richest country on Earth, and there has to be a reason for that.
@@MagoLP Your comment is dumb, the topography in this city prevents the tracks from being moved. Including it's part of it's history, they built a train watch tower so people can observe the train coming into town. Also, rich people create jobs, the comments that they don't pay taxes is ridiculous and unfounded. Besides that American small business is still the primary driver of our economy not rich people.
@@dustinryan9671 Your comment is dumb, rich people do not create jobs. People who buy things create jobs. Besides, would you rather work in an Amazon warehouse or for a small business?
Yes, rich people buy things as well but 1) they buy less in relation to their wealth than poor people and 2) they buy things no one needs like a 30 room mansion. If they paid higher taxes, those people building the mansion could fix roads instead. Or maybe they would still buy the mansion but have less money left, which means the government has more money to pay for infrastructure, schools etc.
The topography doesn't allow moving the train tracks? I cannot believe that's the case. There is always a way. Look at Switzerland, they build roads and train tracks in the Alps, a mountain range.
It is just so inefficient for the train tracks to be on a road. Look how slow the train is going. It could literally go 200 mph if it wasn't for the road.
@@MagoLP once again you missed the historical part of the train being allowed through the town. Keeping the tracks there is what attracts many people to visit. Not towns with trains coming through them anymore. Besides this video shows one incident that does not happen often. Also, if you do live in Germany the whole reason the US was created was to get away from European thinking, hint that's why we have a constitution, unlike any other country. Despite what you hear on the news many Americans don't want government in much of anything. If anything I would prefer the roads to be private or owned by the community. Your commit on public schools, its not the government's business to educate the private citizen's kids. Its the parent's responsibility to do so, the usurping of our education in this country has been a disaster. Which is the reason why we (and many others) homeschool our kids and keep them out of the public indoctrination system.
Talk about the railroad going through the middle of town.
Alfonso Dag out of this time !
Its tram
Vikas Bansal this type of train is actually called street runner train
Yeah man i lived in lagrange. It runs all the way down st
The town grew around the rail
The pickup driver was probably a retired swift driver
Yeah my dad quit after 2 weeks.
@@dsmith9964 Swift. After that he got tired of the BS and became an owner operator.
@@fierce1894 nice, I'm becoming an owner operator myself
@@chrisbeck5488 That's good, any idea of what truck you're buying?
@@fierce1894 I'm not quite sure, either a mack or a peterbilt 379/89
I like how he let the traffic through before putting the train in gear again. That was a thoughtful touch.
Look at the level crossing barriers... he had to wait for them to descend again.
The engineer does not control the gates, they are automatic. Engineer didn't let anyone through
@Andrew Williams it's not a level crossing in the states.
I love the utility truck.
"I'll just pop down this road"
*Sees train*
"Nope"
That was funny.
Everybody gangsta in their trucks till they see a TRAIN
It's tricky enough to parallel park with a trailer, but this one was coming off a right turn so it's not even flush with the road, then he has a 400,000 pound locomotive coming at him, I'm guessing his nerves took over his parking skills.
I have lived in LaGrange ky for 50 years. You would not believe some of the train incidents I’ve seen over the years.
Most are probably caught on this camera!
A firetruck was once struck by a train, killing the firefighter
That driver must have gone home and died of embarrassment!
Max Paxton - maybe change his underwear too👍
Not sure he cared that much. If he knew his truck and trailer well enough to hitch and pull, he should’ve known his first maneuver would have come up short.
Hopefully he traveled home and started addressing his alcoholism. He was going to park there?
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 as someone who pulls a trailer almost every day, I agree. I know the ins and outs of my truck/trailer and I can put it anywhere it can fit, including parallel parking downtown.
Probably
Handled like a good neighbor.
Well done, Mr Engineer.
Wow!! Everyone used courtesy, common sense, safety, and no one pulled out a gun, flipped the bird, etc!!!! I really needed to see something like this today! Thank you:) Loved the music as it reminded me of the old silent movies 😀
I was at that intersection. I was the first car, waiting for the light to change, on the street to the left of the video. I was visiting a friend nearby and had NO idea about this train coming right through town. When I saw it starting to cross the intersection, it's mind-blowing! I still find it hard to believe that a train comes right through this street in this town!
I was there too. I was the engineer
@@machinistjeff Small world! I was the third autorack.
@@machinistjeff 💪🏆I so sincerely wish I could high-five you. I hope you have a really great summer. Thank you for doing what you do. 💙
That guy was probably like,
"I was here first, you just go around me!" 😆
Wish I lived in a town where these trains travelled down the streets like this in the middle of town. An inconvenience sometimes sure but I love these things.
We had a train that went down the middle of a street one block off the downtown area. Tuesday and Friday you could set your watch by it
Now that is a patient and professional Engineer.
he had no choice but to wait for the gates and lights to cyce and reset to stop the traffic once more. I'm sure nobody in that town needs to rush anywhere however.
You say that like a regular engineer would just go ahead and jeopardise life and property on a whim
We don't know if he was patient. Maybe, if we turn off the music, we'd hear the train honking the entire time ;)
That section of track and road looks like a nightmare.
I mean it looks hard to drive there and you could get hit by a train if your not careful.
itss just like sharing the road with trolleys only they can go the wrong way and are way stronger and longer
@@chipchipperson1500 are there any special road rules that other people don't know about?
@@chipchipperson1500 ok so it sounds like you just treat it like a tram but it always has priority and it normally doesn't stop? Where I live there are many trams on the road
TritanicWolf nah it’s fine, you just an idiot.
I thought it was ashland for a second because almost every close call is from ashland 😂
La Grange, KY
@@Survivor1547 thank you 😊. I wondered where.
They actually moved most of the town away from the tracks. This is the historic district, where the buildings look like they did centuries ago. It is possible to avoid this area but still is the quickest way to get from place to place so we take a chance of getting stopped by the trains. So children count the cars as they pass and people on the street wave. The trains come into town at 10 miles an hour and use bells, whistles & horns to warn people so we have plenty of time to get out of the way. This guy's error was in not looking & listening before trying to cross the tracks, then deciding to try to pull over in a too-small spot to wait for the train to pass without realizing that his trailer wouldn't clear. He could have veered sharply to go straight. It just caught him off guard but that's what the engineers are watching for and why they pull into town slowly enough to stop. We have visitors from many states and countries who come just to see this and take photos. They eat lunch in one of the restaurants and watch the train cars pass by the windows. We love that trains go down the middle of Main Street! It's what makes La Grange, Kentucky unique and quaint! It's a beautiful sight.
It's actually a quiet zone for the train. No horns or whistle's - just the guard that comes down and he was turning before it went off. That is why there is a yellow X there for people that get surprised to have a spot to pull in to.
It's only a quiet zone at night, during certain hours. During the day there are bells, whistles and horns. And if the engineer sees any danger they blast the horns loud and long - day or night! They will definitely get your attention!
Why the music? I expected more comedy because of it. Railfans like to hear the Trains.
Probably no sound to begin with
Surveillance cameras generally do not record sound.
ddebenedictis this one does
Virtual railcam s do record sound
The train driving through the middle of a city is the comedy part
Love the flags and the music, nice touch! Can you imagine an out-of-towner turning the corner in that town and seeing a train coming at them!?!
I was just going to post that I loved the music when I saw I posted that two years ago. Well, I'm 76... guess it's expected that I can't remember such things!
Like the 4th of July celebration
I was thinking they were going to start playing the Benny Hill theme music
Wouldve been perfect
@@joshw1687 true
👍 😁
Yacketty Sax. The perfect background music for it, I agree!
LOL, exactly.
Probably cause its a 10mph zone amd the train can actually stop
Yeah.
@@Bayuweking You need more subs and viewers.
@@FireRescue80 yeah
You'd be surprised how hard it is to control a train at 10mph, keep it moving and yet still be able to stop like that. An impressive display of throttle-man-ship and air brake operations... It's a shame it's not a 30mph zone.
Anthony's Trains exactly
"Engineer handles it well" - Handles what well, exactly? He stopped because the line was blocked, he continued when the line was unblocked.
He allowed the traffic that was already stopped by the crossing gates to get through before starting to move again since they were already delayed by the train having to come to a stop and wait for the truck to clear out. A gentleman’s gesture that he didn’t have to make but did regardless.
Well, that's exactly what he was supposed to do, isn't it? If he did it the other way around, then that wouldn't be handled well.
@@briandeschene8424 He didn't "allow" the traffic to go through. A train that long and heavy can't just start and stop like a car. It takes time for it start moving again.
Are you saying he didn't handle it well?
@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping It is the equivalent of waiting at a junction because there is a car coming and after it passes you pull out and your wife tells you "You handled that well."
If you pulled out before the car passed, you crash...if the train driver didn't stop, crash.
When people say "You handled that well." It is because you successfully completed a tricky or difficult activity.
Stopping the train because the line was blocked is something 95% of humans would do, it is a no brainer.
This sounds like a president election 😂
FREIGHT TRAIN WINS!!! ANOTHER FOUR YEARS!!!
@William Slover that's cool to know
Making trains great again!
I'm serious. I thought there was a parade going on at the same time and wondered at first how that would play into things. Took me a minute to realize that it was part of the video added by VRF, lol.
With all the flags I was wondering if it was around July 4th. The fact that the video was posted on August 6th tends to support that.
Conductor (After vehicle clears): "Are you sure we are good to go now?"
Engineer (With some doubt): "No, but put a blindfold on and say we never saw anything when they ask us where the dent in the plow came from."
Yeah I’ll say getting a train to stop is no easy feat.
@@scottpool4777 Going that slow is pretty easy.
Set a minimum and let it ride!! I can stop on a dime at that speed 😂
Warped Gold
We didn’t do it nobody saw is do it can’t prove anything.
This Engineer's skills are now Legendary 👍🚂🇺🇸
A good engineer yes. Legendary because of this? No. An engineer trainee could have handled this situation. The use of the engineer's good common sense was the difference.
I love how people just start driving once the gates go up, like they didnt just sit there and watch what just happened!
"yeahhhhhh, I've Got time VROOOOOOM"
the trialer truck is just like "imma just...go..."
I suppose they have a low speed limit for trains coming through. At least the engineer could stop the train before hitting the trailer and the truck driver was able to get out of the way and go the long way around. Same thing with the second truck, the driver had a last second change in plans.
*Engineer stops the train to avoid crash while going 5mph*
The title: "A SITUATION! ENGINEER HANDLES IT WELL!"
Trains don't stop easily at any speed
@@kevinthompson7649 And? he wasn't going to take 2 miles to stop
WE HAVE A SITUATION HERE!!!!!
Think it's pretty common there to have a vehicle on the tracks. So I am pretty sure they keep an eye out there for such things to happen.
@@WinterTM Well, we have seen some examples of people operating trains who weren't paying attention and ended up causing a catastrophe. The fact that this guy was paying attention means he was doing his job.
Bravo CSX engineer, way to be on top of things
Such a patriotic area. Flags everywhere 😀
I was thinking that it may be on or near the 4th of July!
@@Maki-00 The time stamp on the video said August 6th.
Zigman 85 Oh, didn’t notice that!
A flag flown for each life lost serving our country.
@@Maki-00 I only noticed it because it's my birthday.
Town has grown up around railroad, and both must contend ...
Great video. Humor, humility & honest behavior by CSX and the driver of the white pickup with trailer in tow.
I love this town and I love the trains. Thank you train engineers. I never park on that side when I shop there or eat there.
Nice to see people being civil to each other.
That sad attempt at a park job was painful to watch.
I don't think he was trying to park, just get out of the way when he realized the train was coming. When he made the right turn, the gates weren't down, so he had every right to proceed. 30 seconds later and the gates would have been down.
Yes it was lol
No the sad attempt at reversing with the tralior is painfull to watch 🙄🙄😲
i was in pain watching him park 😳🥵
most americans drive like that even though vengeful neighbours video and post on youtube
Someone teach that person how to back a trailer PLEASE!
I hate it when full size pickup trucks + trailer pulls into a conv. store gas pump....takes up 3 spaces.
Or teach them, that you can't fit a vehicle with a trailer into a space only big enough for a small vehicle.
@@kwv4865 If he just went around the block and approached it from the bottom left, he would had no problems to park there. Surely outside the allowed area, but definitely a spot where you could quickly unload some stuff.
Teach them to drive PERIOD.
LOL! No kidding! It was painful to watch
A lesson to learn. Don't have a rail track down the middle of the main street!
I may be mistaken as I don't know American warning signs but doesn't the yellow rectangle with the cross me that you should not block that part due to cars turning into that road? as it could block or damage cars turning? so then if this is true, the truck driver was wrong all along?
@@stephenmoir7691 don't think he was planning to park there. Seems like he turned to drive down the street and saw the train and tried to stay as far right as possible. The gates for that crossing should go down before the train gets anywhere close to the downtown area
@@SolarAbyss You are right and my mistake, I can see it now. It's bad planning to have a railway on such a narrow street for one, but i guess you got to make do with what you have and yes, it should go down long before or have an early warning light just for that extra bit of planning.
The town was built around the railroad. Most towns are.
In fairness...
This is a highly incompatible zone at the best of times!
A train right down the middle of the center of a town business district... with a fairly narrow road, and parking in front of the shops. Unless you a a local, and truly know the drill, weird stuff is pretty much guaranteed to happen on a frequent basis.
We train lovers really like this stretch of track, but it’s gotta be a pain for those that live and work there! As an example of urban/town planning, it completely stinks!
I agree. This design is horrible. Situations like these are inevetible.
Haha I wonder if that's a horse-drawn trolley line from the 1800's that's still in use today?
@@theadventurebiker it was an old line from the late 1800's, early 1900s that gave the town the start it needed. Expansion/ relocation is impossible, due to conflicting property rights.
This track was here since the era of steam.
@@NightmareKato That's awesome. I think the track is a historical asset that adds an element of character and uniqueness to the town - stuff that has been all but completley lost in most American cities and towns. I wouldn't consider relocating the track and personally I think anyone there that has an issue with it running through the middle of town can just.....leave.
Not to mention the train isnt even going the same direction as traffic. Town would have been better making this a one-way road
To be fair to the truck driver , the lights and barriers weren't down when he made the right hand turn but after he turned he saw that the exit was blocked by the train and tried to park it into a space too small.
Yes thank you!
Yes, but he could at least attempted to parallel park properly
If he would've known the train was around the corner he could have probably but he was in a bad position when he saw it
The truck driver was parking illegally
@@smartyjones7459 I would too if there was a cargo train coming at me in the middle of the street.
I don’t think this guy was originally planning to park there, but rather he was trying to park there after he turned and realized the train was coming, so he pulled his truck there to try and get out of the way. It ended up not working. Fortunately the train was able to stop.
Yeah I probably would've done the same thing
You can see the panic hit right when he turns the corner. Glad it turned out as well as it did.
That is WHY it is a no parking area - for just this situation to give someone a spot to pull in to.
Richard Savage I’d say you’re probably right. Unfortunately he happened to be pulling a trailer. 😬
Kentucky Tim big trailer and big pickup = trouble lol
Nothing like train track's running right down the street in a small town.
We have a similar situation in Oakland California. However, it is a double track mainline down the middle of the street. A LOT more rail traffic. The main difference is that the trains get their own lanes, and the traffic gets a lane each way. There are signals and stop lights at each intersection. Also, there is no on street parking for cars on this section of street. Freight and commuter traffic plus Amtrak share that street. So it functions similar to a light rail down the middle of the street, I think it is cool!
Why are all these toxic people hating the driver when the driver clearly didn't see the train almost before it was too late, the driver was clearly panicking when he saw the train coming, come on guys, do u not see the driver trying to get out of the trains way?
You've answered your own question. It's not that he turned the corner, it's all the faffing about afterwards trying to get it to the side of the road.
I agree with the person above this comment I typeing. The driver of the truck was clearly trying to pull back into the same place that they did or didn't know you could not park there then running about before finalizing the way out of it all is to drive backwards then moving out of everyones way. Even the train
@@Otacatapetl a lot of people are being toxic because the guy turned while the train was coming
@@ActiveGamer3000 Maybe they are, but most of them are on about the complete pig's ear he made of simply backing up and moving to the side.
Thanks for sharing the engineer handled it very well
Obviously an old seasoned veteran at the controls of that train, I would have never thought to stop.
One gets the sense that the title of the video sets the bar a bit low expectationwise.
Who says Americans don't do sarcasm
Places like this where the you share the road with trains reminds me of when my mom would get impatient with other drivers and yell
“what, do you see a train coming??”
I would love explaining traffic issues there.
Steven Stigleman no matter what your doing no matter where you are even if your driving right, train always has the right of way.
@@budterrorofthesky Mainly because the train doesn't got the possibility to go around any vehicle I think😂😂
Smart to go through a town like this slow. Plus after the truck and trailer exited,the engineer did not move so the gates opened and let the people who waited the longest go! Whats not to like about that lol
I believe the speed limit is 10 through here
Omigosh, that driver, that train.....that MUSIC. Got me lmbo!👍
I am trying to work out why America has trains running through town like this.
I cannot speak for this specific town. In general a lot of cities and towns in the U.S. were built around rail lines because we are such a young country by European standards and this was the easiest way to establish a new industry in an area, which leads to new jobs which leads to people wanting to live in the area etc. This has led to situations like this issue you see in the video where they literally build it around the line itself. At some point enough complaints will be filed and the rail company will abandon the line and build a new one somewhere else. If you look at other longer established countries the rail lines were built around cities instead of the other way around.
history and the lack of care for American infrastructure.
super duper simple really :)
@@neko-chanwilson6250 And a lot of towns were literally land given to rail companies that were then sold off to make the rail line profitable. There's a decent chance that most land deeds in the town have a clause that they can't move the railroad.
Hold over fron a by gone era...sort of why Germany still has the Reichstag building and the autobahn!
@@sixpest this has nothing to do with lack of care for infructure.
see the 2nd truck almost turning into the train as well !! When I saw it live I knew it was of interest ;)
Train driving down the main street.... what could go wrong...
Luke Johnson , just one question, why run a train trough the Main Street? 🤪
all of it...
Someone thought that was a good idea....
@@johnnz4375 trains tracks was there first.
"Picturesque main street, charming locals, lush woodland - we've got it all! also every few hours a mile long freight train comes through but shhh"
Honey, every year at Christmas time LaGrange, Kentucky has a parade down the middle of the railroad track that's in the middle of Main Street.
for some of us , the train is going about 15 M.P.H. at the engine , but the end of the train is going around 50 by the time it makes it to town , these are 2 miles long at times .
If they still allowed engineers to gently quail an air-horn instead of automatic 200psi by just pressing the button, this probably wouldn't be a quiet zone, and the train crew wouldn't be so handicapped. How ironic...
Apparently this is definitely a quiet zone since the engineer did not even have the bell on. That would be indicated by the ditch lights flashing if I recall correctly. It's been a while since I have run CSX power.
@@alwhalen3488 yes.
@@alwhalen3488 It's a QZ through there. In other videos you always hear a bell.
A quiet zone is just for the horn it doesn't mean they can't ring the bell.
At least he was able to stop and remain calm. At least no one got hurt.
Saw a classic Betty Boop cartoon where Grampy was mayor but he'd fallen out of favor with the voters. So he made a bunch of small changes throughout town to make them love him again. One of the changes was rotating crossing gates so they came down in front of trains and allowed cars to pass. Everybody cheered for him again. Funny.
What a wacky place to have a railroad going down the middle of a street with two-way traffic and parking on both sides. I just looked at this in Google StreetView. There doesn't appear to be enough room in the East-bound direction to get out of the way of a train if there are cars parked along the side and the West-bound direction looks highly questionable. CRAZY!
The roads were built long after the tracks we installed. The town probably wasn't even there when they layed the tracks.
did you also look at the speed of the train coming through it's not like out on the main line at 30 or 40 mile-an-hour either it's barely clipping along over ten mile per hour.
so if there's objects and it's not like it goes for miles and miles it just basically comes to the little town to LaGrange for about a half a mile.
at what you're running that slow below 1 to 12 mile per hour you can bring it to a stop quite and see distractions ahead of you for the most part...
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist Yes, I did see how fast the train was going, yet that did not prevent an accident shown in a different video at the same location. It seems like an unnecessary situation that could be fixed with a few one-way signs and the removal of parking on the east-bound side of the street.
@@Normal1855 I have little doubt that's the case. However, it would seem to be a situation that could be fixed by turning the street into a one-way west-bound and removing the parking on what is currently the east-bound side of the street.
@@Ridgerunner-qi1xz it's been like that through years and never had no problemshardly at all very isolated until distracted driving people don't pay attention that's the end result.
by looking up the crossing histories you could see that it's quite safe for the most part..
the face of distracted driving more stupidity happens anywhere anytime than ever before.
You can just hear the crew at 2:08 when ANOTHER truck gets in the way . . . "Son Of A Bitc*!!
Give that engineer a dozen donuts and coffee
For what? Pulling a lever to “stop”?
@@Engineer9736 a lot more than pulling a lever to stop
The engineer hit the gate release button and let some of the traffic through. Nice guy
"Lemme just see what's around this corne- NOPE!"
Wait, a bad driver that ISN’T from Ashland? What sorcery is this?
Lol! Great comment!
You should see the drivers in the city of San Diego. I used to work the the light rail transit agency there(MTS) as a flagman and in the short time I worked that job I saw the largest number of idiot drivers I have ever seen.
Hey...,maybe the driver was Armenian? No, wait...it's not a BMW, Lexus or Mercedes.
How about ALL of Lebanon, PA? NOBODY knows what a blinker is. You'd swear you were in Florida...
We can't prove that this guy *isn't* from Ashland and is just visiting La Grange!
Nice to see someone who has some common sense, great engineer. 👍 And good reversing by the pick up driver 👌
Love this video- i used to live here and now live close to the town. I like the second truck who turns right and sees the train. I really like the music too! Awesome video. This is KENTUCKY!
What an awesome town! It's so cool that the train goes down main street. I want to visit that town....
I vote the truck driver was hoping to get into that spot just to get out of the way and it was a no-go. If he or she had a do over the truck could have made a tighter turn sooner and had a safe spot to pull back into the street after the train passed.
It was a one space spot in the first lace.
I see a lot of comments criticizing the truck driver for his/her driving. The fact is that they made the turn before the gates had come down. They made an effort to get out of the way of a TRAIN. There are a lot of arm chair drivers here that seem to have it all figured out. The person did the best they could to get out of the way and then decided they couldn't, so they want across. Go ahead a bash me for my comment. I bet the rest of you would have done a worse job.
So the whole mainstreet in this town has to come to a halt when a train comes. Yeah that makes a world of sense. Yet we have put a man on the moon golen gate bridge statue of liberty empire state building.. let me guess they do not have the money for an improvement.
Love this little town! I visited a couple of years ago.
Loved the courtesy of the crossing engineer who let the previously waiting vehicles pass by. All over a positive and surprisingly happy random video. Peace!
Thanks for adding the parade music! Very appropriate.
Let me get this straight. He came to a dead stop and did not get out to get lunch or dinner? With all those places to eat? Really?
They got a tight schedule to keep.
I thought maybe he'd hop out and move that guy's rig for him.
I'm surprised he didn't even go to the park and take a seat for lunch! 🤣
csx and amtrak train lover r/wooosh
Common sense prevailed. Well done to the engineer and truck driver.
The utility truck while trying to re-park: uhh....so how am I gonna do this
Everybody watching him: 👀
Utility truck: you know I think I’m just gonna drive away, no one saw that......
Yea, let's congratulate the train driver for doing his job
What was the 'marching band' for? Spoiled an indifferent vid clip.
The music makes it so much more funny and kinda epic, lol
Beautiful La Grange KY, nice to see that my hometowns doing fine ☺️
Yes! Give this engineer a medal!
Why? The train was barely moving to begin with and they probably run into this situation quite often in this area.
My question is what idiot every allowed a road and rail combo like this to ever be built? I have seen more than a few of this type of set up and I ask the same question every time WHY!? was this ever allowed to be a thing in the first place?
Most likely from when railroads and cars were used fairly in harmony, and car drivers respected trains.
Probably not the first time that happened LOL ! Nice work and hat's off to the RR Engineer .
Nice to hear march music in the background! Keeps interest up.
Good job engineer!
You could have recorded the sounds of the scene. I thought I was going to watch a parade. Good video, though.
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Great music, the US Army Band do some cracking tunes.
Engineer was on the ball and didn't want to have to mess with an accident report. Nice music, Sousa is always good to hear.
Ah yes. The train stopped instead of hitting them. Perfect job
You can see in the video the area is marked as no parking ! ! LOL
I know, it's like "what part of NO PARKING does this confused idiot not understand???"
I think he was going to drive down the road but then saw the train and pulled in trying to get out of the way
@@NUKE-W.E.F. i think he turned as saw tge train so he tryed to park to net get hit by the train
I'm pretty sure he turned the corner and saw the train coming straight at hio so he tried to let it go by
@@chasehavlik12 You just might be right, in which case, under the circumstances, he did a pretty good job getting out of the way.
I absolutely love when the gates go up and the one utility truck pulls out to make the righthand turn and just see's the train sitting there and nopes out. Like, if that person wasn't from around there and didn't know it was an actual train line and thought it was just a tram line or something and you just see a big CSX engine staring you down XD
I actually think the ute driver handled it well.
The first back up he did not stick his trailer out into the intersection.
Then when he realized he could not make it into the spot he backed up fully and got out of the way of the train as quickly as possible.
Whose idea was it to build a railroad smack dab in the middle of a 4-way intersection going against oncoming traffic.
Its been that way since the 30s
town was built around the railroad
Well whose idea was it to build the town around the railway!
I’m still so baffled and confused on how the rail line ended up going right through the Main Street!
More of who the idiot that thought a road sould go there in first place. Tracks were there long before the road.
@@maddogdragonwolf4323 I was going to comment the same thing.
That used to be a standard thing. A lot of towns and cities has street running freight and passenger service. Think, if you were a small business in a town like this in the 19th or 20th century, before the National highway system, you could have your goods shipped door to door without ever having to travel by road.
Thats architect
THE TRACK MIGHT HAVE BEEN THERE FIRST
2:08 Imagine the horror of the driver seeing the train in front of his truck.
I LOVE small towns like this.
a prime example of why alot of street running is done at restricted speed (stop in 1/2 the range of vision)
Good job on his/her part.
The music is soooo, Apropos! Thanks!!
without those train tracks, that town would have never existed LOL