Those last two engineers were brilliant-one jumped after throwing on all the brakes anticipating a bad crash, the other engineer-having already stopped-threw his train in full reverse to try and minimize the impact, instead preventing it altogether.
not that brilliant, the fact that they were close enough to collide means that one of them has run a red light, could be system failure but more likely driver/engineer fault, and the engineer/train driver thing dates back to stationary engines, you had to manually drive the valves to start the old newcomen engines, pulling valve levers open and closed until the piston is moving fast enough to drive a primitive cam made from a rod with pins on to push the levers,hence engine driver, this was shortened to either engineer or driver with train added to differentiate the stationary engine drivers from the mobile ones
I used to drive railroad crews to and from hotels, the trainyard, and their trains. Quite a few of them had been involved in the more common vehicle strike. All of them had stories of guys who never came back to work after an accident like these because of the PTSD associated w the accident. I have so much respect for these badasses!
Problems are mostly not well trained personal, knowledge of saftey regulations and bad maintenance. If the US would have the same supervising institution like Germany app 80 of all rr lines would be closed down due to maintenance and safety concerns
Bro what is your problem? You make no sense. He clearly stated that he has respect for hard working railroaders who are involved in wrecks. (Almost never the fault of the train crew) If you had the slightest of brain cells you’d know that.
@@TeaParty1776 There isn't. At least no direct relation. But we can solve for |v| and take the derivative and get |a|=0.5*sqrt(2/(KE*m))*d/dt(KE). By | - | I mean the amount of the vectors a, v
@@derblaue Indirect relation is a relation. And, common sensically, the faster a car hits something, the more damage. I dont understand the math and have no need to understand it. Math, even the most abstract, is based, thru a hierarchical chain of concepts, on the evidence of the senses. Math is not subjective or mystical. Its the product of the minds focus onto concrete reality, ie, objectivity. Math quantitatively relates many units to one unit. Math relates entities as units, not entities as entities. I dont know the definitions of quantity and number. Animals sense, but do not conceptualize, quantity. Thus a cat can sense, within some context of accuracy, that it can jump over a particular fence. Man can measure its height w/a yardstick. And measure the sun's distance ,tho not with a yardstick. Math may have started when man needed to keep track of their cattle and sheep. Math, as science, was discovered when Greeks noticed the relation between the length of lyre strings and the notes. Mescaline makes counting difficult.
what do you mean "excellent" you sick bastard? everyone died in these accidents and children and animals were crippled for life. spastics too, and trans whatever they think they want to be people suffered massive woke wrongs against thier cos playing rights to be cunts. can't enjoy a good old pile up these days without someone having an opinion eh, sad state of affairs.
@@jtohfails1633 wtf is wrong with u, (and with my calculations being correct, since most of the world is straight, I can assume you're straight too, with this knowledge, you talking about nude women tells me *your gender is male*)
Imagine jumping out of a moving train to avoid a head on collission, braking your bones in the process, only for the train to stop inches before impact.... lol
Yeah but a crumple zone would help really. The cars would still have alit of speed and crash anyway. Not to mention the people bear the front would actually be worse off
My dad is a retired train engineer. He was fired for a year just for accidentally going through a red signal. He didn’t hit anything, nothing was damaged, nobody got hurt. But this video shows you why they have to be strict.
Passing a red signal without permission is one of the "cardinal sins" for engineers and conductors and, by law, is an automatic decertification. So yeah, if you get by a red signal, you're going to get some time off.
At 2:30 the guy dramatically jumps off the train, executing a fairly good belly flop in the process. Then stands there & watches the trains not collide.
Well, humans have been driving trains well over a century now. That will certainly give you some footage, sadly, though. "The first known electric locomotive was built in 1837..." and also "Early experimentation with railway electrification was undertaken by the Ukrainian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky. In 1875, he had electrically-powered railway cars", "In 1906, Rudolf Diesel, Adolf Klose and Gebrüder Sulzer founded Diesel-Sulzer-Klose GmbH to manufacture diesel-powered locomotives..." You're welcome!
Why can’t they just pull the emergency brakes though? It’s like, the conductor clearly sees them headed right for a collision and they just think to themselves “this is perfect 😊”
@@jasonvargas7564 all these footages show slower trains approaching with their emergency breaks completely deployed. Had the brakes not been applied, then the collisions would be devastating and the recording device likely never found in the massive wreckage.......😨
@@jasonvargas7564 It can take each train a mile to stop from full speed. Each one might see the other within a mile ahead, but by then they need two miles to stop before hitting! Best they can hope for is to brake hard and hope it slows down enough to stay intact during the impact.
As a train enthusiast, the level of impact is very strong. The possibilities of destruction are endless. Depending on the speed, it can be deadly and cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in damage.
0:42 "Ok, that crash wasn't nearly as bad as it could've been" 0:45 _*train cars in the background doing backflips_ 0:47 "Ooooooh. Forget what I said."
You mean the CP engines that caused a potential head on with the pssgr. train?.....i could see how he was motivated. This way he was just fired, not fired and jailed.
@@sommebuddy I don't Think this is the CP engines fault (It could be if i he missed a signal) , I think this would be the train railway company that operates this track that made a mistake. But Just from this footage i cant really see what happend.
@@Bas_1874 I was working when this happened. This is what happens when you do not understand your limits within a work block. No fault of the dispatching.
A 2002 movie called THE SUM OF ALL FEARS portrayed a group of men trying to create WWIII between Russia & the U.S. ( a movie I like & have watched multiple times, based on a Tom Clancy thriller)... your observation reminded me of a scene where CIA officials were visiting a Russian plant where nuclear weapons were being decommissioned- one of the techs wore a t-shirt with a phrase in Russian on the back; when one of the CIA officials asked what it said, he was told 'I am a bomb technician- if you see me running, try to catch up'... LOL!
Having been an engineer & conductor for nearly a decade, those crashes are actually incredibly dangerous. For context, when I was a conductor my engineer accidentally coupled into some parked railcars going only 7mph and the impact threw me out of my seat and through a closed door and I woke up face first on the walking platform of the locomotive. Just a single loaded railcar we handled weighed 260,000 pounds.
Being a train conductor sounds like the easiest job ever. Just sit there, watch a cow explode every now and then. If you crash it’s not even your fault.
Ret Engineer UP, CP and Amtrak, this was a recurring nightmare I would have, seeing the lights of another train right in front of me. Thank God I was able to do 14 safe years. A train man's worst nightmare
Brace for impact. My brother was on the train that collided and derailed with another train at Y shaped junction in England the weekend, his back is hurting but he is fine, glad it wasn't any worse or going faster.
Yes, so scary. I had nightmares for years after watching this frightening clip. I can’t even close my eyes without seeing that engineer do a rolling dive outta the train. I showed my friend this video and now he pisses the bed. In fact this clip went viral in my town and now we have a PTSD epidemic going on ☹️
2:28 that poor guy. I’m sure his coworkers never let him forget the day he jumped off a train for no reason😂 --side note, I’d have done the same thing.
I did this for 42 years and just watching this brought back scary memories, even though it never happened to me... Probably the biggest fear I had as an Engineer on that "Hi Iron" was a head on...! Your eyes would be glued on those points when you came up on a facing switch...! Scary at times and glad I'm retired...
"Your eyes would be glued on those points when you came up on a facing switch". I am so amazed that can happen when there are systems in place in other countries to prevent a switch being left like that.
I was out there way to long. Many nightmares with semis , school buses and cars. Hit a truck years ago and shoved it down the rail. Killed the driver . Knocked his 8 inch workboots off his feet and they were still tied. Man didn't have a chance. It still bothers me.
My dad worked on the railroad 39 years, he came home and told me they hit a car head on, the car was parked on the track a quarter of a mile from the nearest crossing. They got out searching for bodies no bodies or anything. The police ran the tag and found the guy 3 miles away drunk and passed out on his couch 😞
I worked as a guard/conductor on the railways and 18 years ago we had a fatality at 04.40 when we were doing 75 mph. It's like nothing you have ever seen in your life.
The reason so many collisions happen is because a fully loaded freight train moving at full speed would take over a mile to stop with emergency brakes. They just have too much momentum out behind them Edit: I meant all kinds of collisions. Not just train-on-train collisions, but also collisions with trucks and other vehicles. Quite a lot of those happen
@@praetorian982 Human error because the dispatch put them on the wrong line, or they didn’t switch on time. Of course, the driver might also weigh down the pedal that is meant as a safety so that they don’t have to hold it down the entire time. However, they still happen because by the time the driver realizes the mistake, it’s far too late to stop in time
@@falcondragonslayer if dispatcher put them on the wrong line it's also human error. And you can clearly see some trains going over switches that are positioned the wrong way for that train (sorry if i'm hard to understand, my english is not the best), so they clearly passed the signal (that's how we call the railway post with lights that protects important places on the railroad like switches etc.. here where i'm from) that was supposed to stop them. Yes, you can weight the pedal or even switch off the entire device that keeps you awake (don' t know what it's called in english, sorry) or an autostop device, and that is also human error. Yes, freight trains are long and heavy and it takes a mile to stop them but if you follow the correct procedurs at signal lights you will stop on time. Cheers from a locomotive engineer 🙋♂️
@@praetorian982 I never said it wasn’t human error. I’m just saying that the trains have too much momentum to stop on time once the person realizes there was an error
He anticipated a crash and he had applied the emergency brakes on his train. there's nothing else he could have done. Except maybe stay inside and get absolutely smashed had there been a collision.
@@hipsu555 It absolutely would have, every cart behind the front cart would at the same time push against the cart infront, the front most cart would receive an astronomical amount of force against it, even if it moves slowly.
@@vladoshka9014 most of the time its not the actual engineers fault. They don't control what track they are on, where the switches are lined, etc. For example at 1:00 a track crew or that train crew that left that train in the siding left the switch aligned for that side track. So the poor man chuggin along just went right off his track into theirs.
There was a low speed (25 mph) collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Jack London Square in Oakland, CA, USA over 10 years ago. I lived in a basement appt about a mile away. When the collision happened, it felt like and sounded like, an earthquake. I shudder to think what these would have been like.
Being an engineer myself this is kinda scary to watch. Once again I'm glad we have that thing called PZB here in Germany so the only way this can happen is when a lot of people do an awful lot of things the very wrong way.
@@aaronprimus1300 In North America the system is called PTC (Positive Train Control). It was mandated for all main lines that carry passengers, hazmats of a certain class and volume, and high tonnage. The Obama administration came down with the directive, but it took years to get it into place. The system can automatically stop or slow down trains if the computers on board sense the proximity of other vehicles occupying the track or switches lined against you. In the case of the head on collision that starts this video PTC theoretically would have stopped the train without the camera 1 - 2 miles down the track.
I don't know what's worst: crashing 2 planes together having all that sky, or crashing two trains together when you have kilometers of anticipated rail.
I'd say the trains. You're trusting the people who cleared you for that track are paying attention to the traffic on it and communicating with everyone down the line. If an ATC screws up, the planes have a limited amount of time, but a decent amount of room to evade. All a train can do is cut power and hit the brakes and hope it all works out.
This is terrifying to me. I was in a bad wreck in a truck a few years ago and the power and violence was pretty extreme. I couldn't imagine in a locomotive.
Force equals mass times acceleration. Definitely one of those equations that lives in my mind when I think of things we humans drive around. Chemistry and physics really changed how I see things in college
this kismet collision did basically that both traims were going about 35mph when they met combind speed of 70mph look up kismet collision 13 years later tells te whole story funniest part is the engimer was high on crack;) thats why it happend
Every crash means a star is born, stars are formed by cars. When a crash occures, a car collides and shapes the whole universe. Do you want to shape the whole universe with your car?- yes you can't!! 🌍
its maybe spain by the trains that are there, i think he was scared cause in 2004 were a terro.rist attack in simultaneous trains along the city just in 1 min exploded 5 bombs
Worst head on collision was a few days ago here in Greece. There is a video from security camera from the crash. Rest in peace 🕊️ about 113 people, mostly young students, that lost their life from the crash and the following fire. Very 😭 sad days...
I am from greece and i was in this train in Larissa 39 young students he dies on kitchen of train and 18 out of the kitchen, this is sad for familles bte i am 19
Yeah about 30 years ago there's also tragedy in my country, it's called "bintaro tragedy" still one of the most bloodied crash with almost 200 death and 500+ injured, i swear train crashes almost irreventable
The very last one is wow ! Both loco pilots are quite attentive & one is more responsible ( didn't leave the Loco even at stationary position ) and drove it backward direction .. 👌👌
The one who jumped had already thrown all the brakes, the train is going to stop at a certain point and there's nothing else he can do so he jumps. The other can't leave because he's putting the train into full reverse, if he jumped that would leave the train under power and uncontrolled.
And from what ive heard about that clip from other RUclips channels showing train crashes, the freighter had been stopped but ignored his red light and decided to go anyway.
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Those last two engineers were brilliant-one jumped after throwing on all the brakes anticipating a bad crash, the other engineer-having already stopped-threw his train in full reverse to try and minimize the impact, instead preventing it altogether.
They are locopilot not engineer
They are also called engineers
@@tiger63015 only in India.....learn some facts before speaking dear bhakt
not that brilliant, the fact that they were close enough to collide means that one of them has run a red light, could be system failure but more likely driver/engineer fault,
and the engineer/train driver thing dates back to stationary engines, you had to manually drive the valves to start the old newcomen engines, pulling valve levers open and closed until the piston is moving fast enough to drive a primitive cam made from a rod with pins on to push the levers,hence engine driver,
this was shortened to either engineer or driver with train added to differentiate the stationary engine drivers from the mobile ones
The freight train was very lucky, takes a fair amount of time to release all the brakes on the wagons
The fact that there are enough of these to make a compilation is troubling.
I used to drive railroad crews to and from hotels, the trainyard, and their trains. Quite a few of them had been involved in the more common vehicle strike. All of them had stories of guys who never came back to work after an accident like these because of the PTSD associated w the accident. I have so much respect for these badasses!
But trains are as safe as planes
Problems are mostly not well trained personal, knowledge of saftey regulations and bad maintenance. If the US would have the same supervising institution like Germany app 80 of all rr lines would be closed down due to maintenance and safety concerns
@@My_Fair_Lady no, I have respect for the men and women who operate trains. I have zero respect for trolls... Like you...
Bro what is your problem? You make no sense. He clearly stated that he has respect for hard working railroaders who are involved in wrecks. (Almost never the fault of the train crew) If you had the slightest of brain cells you’d know that.
"Get out of my way"
"No, you"
- trains, probably.
😂
XD
"I am UNSTOPPABLE FORCE!"
"I am IMMOVABLE OBJECT!"
"Fight!"
No u
Hahahaha😂
The amount of kinetic energy stored in even a very slow-moving train is incredible
F=ma. Tremble, worm, before Ed, the God Of Physics!
@@TeaParty1776 KE= (mv^2)/2
@@Akileshg1 Whats the relation between acceleration and kinetic energy? In words, not math.
@@TeaParty1776 There isn't. At least no direct relation. But we can solve for |v| and take the derivative and get |a|=0.5*sqrt(2/(KE*m))*d/dt(KE). By | - | I mean the amount of the vectors a, v
@@derblaue Indirect relation is a relation. And, common sensically, the faster a car hits something, the more damage. I dont understand the math and have no need to understand it. Math, even the most abstract, is based, thru a hierarchical chain of concepts, on the evidence of the senses.
Math is not subjective or mystical. Its the product of the minds focus onto concrete reality, ie, objectivity. Math quantitatively relates many units to one unit. Math relates entities as units, not entities as entities. I dont know the definitions of quantity and number. Animals sense, but do not conceptualize, quantity. Thus a cat can sense, within some context of accuracy, that it can jump over a particular fence. Man can measure its height w/a yardstick.
And measure the sun's distance ,tho not with a yardstick. Math may have started when man needed to keep track of their cattle and sheep. Math, as science, was discovered when Greeks noticed the relation between the length of lyre strings and the notes. Mescaline makes counting difficult.
No clickbait. No annoying intros and outros. No whining about liking and subscribing. Excellent.
what do you mean "excellent" you sick bastard? everyone died in these accidents and children and animals were crippled for life. spastics too, and trans whatever they think they want to be people suffered massive woke wrongs against thier cos playing rights to be cunts. can't enjoy a good old pile up these days without someone having an opinion eh, sad state of affairs.
pure chaos is what you meant
"0% nude women
0% bragging about money
0% producer tag
100% train collision" aah comment
I saw no collision on the last clip. definite clickbait
@@jtohfails1633 wtf is wrong with u, (and with my calculations being correct, since most of the world is straight, I can assume you're straight too, with this knowledge, you talking about nude women tells me *your gender is male*)
Imagine jumping out of a moving train to avoid a head on collission, braking your bones in the process, only for the train to stop inches before impact.... lol
I don't think he broke anything.
@@OutragedPufferfish he doesn't survive 😭
@@DoodleStein If you're talking about the man in the last clip, he totally survived, and wasn't injured.
Good thing it didn't or it may have derailed and ran him over
LOL! Imagine not knowing the difference between _braking_ and _breaking_ 🙄
The fact that trains have no crumple zone is very scary, the force of every crash is on the whole train.
Design, something better! You be rich. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota
@@johndemeen5575 well, I can’t, thats the problem. I don’t have the recourses and the money to do so. I could experiment if I had the space and money.
@@ro-chan9519 and
Yeah but a crumple zone would help really. The cars would still have alit of speed and crash anyway. Not to mention the people bear the front would actually be worse off
Modern locomotives DO have crumple zones
My dad is a retired train engineer. He was fired for a year just for accidentally going through a red signal. He didn’t hit anything, nothing was damaged, nobody got hurt. But this video shows you why they have to be strict.
thats not true he wasnt fired
Passing a red signal without permission is one of the "cardinal sins" for engineers and conductors and, by law, is an automatic decertification. So yeah, if you get by a red signal, you're going to get some time off.
@@karlhungus8946 its not
@@chriscs9080- I do this shit for a living. I assure you, passing a red signal is a big deal.
@@karlhungus8946 no
Well done that driver at the end. His quick thinking may have saved many injuries and possibly lives. Give that man a rise.
💙 Agneta 💙
Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. I don't know how his quick thinking helped but there also wasn't a crash.
Called a Deadman switch when it is released it cuts all power to engine and applies the breaks
Very well done. Excellent engineering.
@@amazingfireboy1848 you don't know how his quick thinking helped? He reversed his train thus avoiding a major mishap, how is that not helping?
At 2:30 the guy dramatically jumps off the train, executing a fairly good belly flop in the process. Then stands there & watches the trains not collide.
Hahaha
@Billy Mack, Texas Detective You’re welcome.
It didn't collide because he reduced the mass of the train by jumping off
It would’ve been worse if it crashed and he’s outside, the train could tip over on
him after derailing
I would've did it if i had a feeling they were going to crash
In this case, the light at the end of the tunnel is MOST DEFINITELY the headlamp of an approaching train.
😂😂 sometimes one can only hope
💀💀
"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
Is just a freight train coming your way"
-Metallica (no leaf clover) 😉
Dang
Bruhhh 💀☠️
00:45 - The freight car flying up in the background is insane.
i once fly
@@damiendutch420 was it red bull?
@@mikenewtonninja9379 No it wasn't
@mikenewtonninja9379 it's a grain car
@@damiendutch420 ca
I'd hate for that to happen to bullet trains. Dear lord
Everyone would just die👌
nah, more like maglev
Or any passenger train in general
It happened in 2011. Wenzhou train collision.
@@FelineRaptor-gv4te yes maglev tarins it is powerful
I can't believe there's actually a compilation for it
Remember, humans drive trains.
You can find even last seconds about a French guy that a horrific motorcycle accident just before his death 💀
Well, humans have been driving trains well over a century now. That will certainly give you some footage, sadly, though.
"The first known electric locomotive was built in 1837..." and also "Early experimentation with railway electrification was undertaken by the Ukrainian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky. In 1875, he had electrically-powered railway cars", "In 1906, Rudolf Diesel, Adolf Klose and Gebrüder Sulzer founded Diesel-Sulzer-Klose GmbH to manufacture diesel-powered locomotives..." You're welcome!
I can't believe their dumb enough to run 2 trains on 1 track.
@@miksterr not much driving
As a retired freight train conductor, I can tell you this is nightmare footage.
as in theyre not real?
@@sakmadik69420 yeah there all fake like a nightmare
Why can’t they just pull the emergency brakes though? It’s like, the conductor clearly sees them headed right for a collision and they just think to themselves “this is perfect 😊”
@@jasonvargas7564 all these footages show slower trains approaching with their emergency breaks completely deployed. Had the brakes not been applied, then the collisions would be devastating and the recording device likely never found in the massive wreckage.......😨
@@jasonvargas7564 It can take each train a mile to stop from full speed. Each one might see the other within a mile ahead, but by then they need two miles to stop before hitting! Best they can hope for is to brake hard and hope it slows down enough to stay intact during the impact.
2:11 This dude was way too enthusiastic about a train crash😂
Can't imagine the power level of impact ...crazy
As a train enthusiast, the level of impact is very strong. The possibilities of destruction are endless. Depending on the speed, it can be deadly and cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in damage.
The the kinetic energy is high
Trains have huge mass... Hence inertia is high
Just insert a bone there and it turns pulp
It's say it's roughly 9001 joules.
The last guy was like "I'm not getting paid enough for this shit" then yeets out of the train
Yeah he really isnt paid enough to possibly die
He did do his best to stop the train
The last guy was sent to federal prison for wreckless endangerment and felony battery
@@Paulmazuk He succeeded aswell
@@tfs.max247 VIA Rail locomotive engineers make 130K a year.
0:42 "Ok, that crash wasn't nearly as bad as it could've been"
0:45 _*train cars in the background doing backflips_
0:47 "Ooooooh. Forget what I said."
👍🍂👍🍂👍🍂👍🍂
Same 🤣
Example of Newton's Pendulum 😂
WAIT WHAT I DIDNT SEE THAT
@@yeah949 every action has an equal and opposite insurance claim.
RIP the 50 dead in Greece by head on collision 1/3/23🕊
57
Rest in peace!
Rest in peace 🕊️
Really?!! 😬😮
Haha
1:32 this guy though 😂
0:00 this dead channel though 😂
पक्का वो भारतीय होगा 😂😂
@@lol-wut 🤡
Boy did the Spider-Man pose
It was his stop
1:27 that man kept his balance very well
Spiderman
A man in motion tends to stay in motion, except this man
bro started panicking
I was half expecting another train to come along and wipe out all the people running across the tracks.
there was no kinetic energy in the train at that moment that's why
The way that last train was able to back up to avoid the collision...THAT was damn impressive.
Even more impressive cuz there’s snow and possibly ice
He went full power
You mean the CP engines that caused a potential head on with the pssgr. train?.....i could see how he was motivated. This way he was just fired, not fired and jailed.
@@sommebuddy I don't Think this is the CP engines fault (It could be if i he missed a signal) , I think this would be the train railway company that operates this track that made a mistake. But Just from this footage i cant really see what happend.
@@Bas_1874 I was working when this happened. This is what happens when you do not understand your limits within a work block. No fault of the dispatching.
Thanks RUclips for recommending me this after the deadly train crash here in Greece. 😢
Μαλακά αν είναι δυνατόν αυτό το ΥΤ...
Very welcome, hope you enjoyed the show
@@VladimirBlarp 60 people died, they still looking for tiny pieces of remains to identify them. And you find that funny. You fkin moron.
Lol
@@VladimirBlarpBRUUHH 😅😂
It's probably not a good sign when you look out the window of your train and see the engineer stumbling to the ground.
Hahahaha
A 2002 movie called THE SUM OF ALL FEARS portrayed a group of men trying to create WWIII between Russia & the U.S. ( a movie I like & have watched multiple times, based on a Tom Clancy thriller)... your observation reminded me of a scene where CIA officials were visiting a Russian plant where nuclear weapons were being decommissioned- one of the techs wore a t-shirt with a phrase in Russian on the back; when one of the CIA officials asked what it said, he was told 'I am a bomb technician- if you see me running, try to catch up'... LOL!
@@redcaddiedaddie hahaha
"Yeet! I'm outta here! See ya!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🍂👍🍂👍🍂👍🍂👍
You know those two engineers at the end got out of their trains and high fived like nobody’s ever high fived.
Having been an engineer & conductor for nearly a decade, those crashes are actually incredibly dangerous. For context, when I was a conductor my engineer accidentally coupled into some parked railcars going only 7mph and the impact threw me out of my seat and through a closed door and I woke up face first on the walking platform of the locomotive. Just a single loaded railcar we handled weighed 260,000 pounds.
C'mon really? A single railcar weighs 260,000 lbs? That's the equivalent to 65 full-sized F-150 pick-up trucks.
@@alienlatino2945 Yes they do. The average weight of a loaded rail car is 286,000 lbs and can weigh as much as 315,000 lbs
Like what some engineer is said: 5 is ok, 6 is crash
What you say about the crush in Greece one week ago?
do engineers actually use pounds instead of actual metric system?
Man that has to be the most terrifying scene to see another train heading right for you 😭
Apart from when people stand in front to commit suicide.
@@oddities-whatnot that's just so sad 😢 if I was a train conductor I wouldn't know how to process that...
When I was new on the railroad, it made me nervous even when just approaching stopped trains that were on siding tracks!
@@oddities-whatnotpeople who stand in front of moving vehicles putting the burden on other people are super selfish.
You might say the conductors in these collisions lost their train of thought.
Apparently they were well-trained.
Being a train conductor sounds like the easiest job ever. Just sit there, watch a cow explode every now and then. If you crash it’s not even your fault.
@@Mypenisissmallbut watch a fucking cow explode 😂😂😂 shit got me dying
Hmmmm
Thank you for this
Imagine train drivers getting down after a crash and screaming at each other for the damages 😂😂
Lol. "Didn't you see my signal?!"
If they make it out alive lmao
Rail road rage
Train collisions usually happen not because of engineers but traffic control fault.
All they can do is hit the brakes and run deeper into the wagon.
Swapping insurance details
The cameraman never dies.
He's one lucky guy.
@@GuyMcPherson69 Yes.
😂
Except for 0:19
Tell that Halyna Hutchins (RIP)
At least trains will never t-bone each other.
Yep because rail lines will never cross, and especially never perpendicular
Always above, below, or parallel
Ret Engineer UP, CP and Amtrak, this was a recurring nightmare I would have, seeing the lights of another train right in front of me. Thank God I was able to do 14 safe years. A train man's worst nightmare
I hope you will retire healthy and happy. Thank you for your service, sir.
Coming around a curve at 100+ and not being able to tell exactly what track something is on, is more than a bit disconcerting
@@jamesb120 been there done that, on more than one occasion
@@applejack2911 same. But at least you were driving. I was just sitting in the brakeman's seat. Head end rides for PC qualifying
@@jamesb120 Running the Locomotive
Whoever was supposed to control the switch at 1:18 probably got a huge demotion that day
If he would be alive
No, he got promoted to customer
Yep switched that train from open track to one occupied by another train'/!!! BOOM💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
@@laymalopez8074 nice one
If he where in politics he would be president by now.
Brace for impact.
My brother was on the train that collided and derailed with another train at Y shaped junction in England the weekend, his back is hurting but he is fine, glad it wasn't any worse or going faster.
your brother is unlucky hopes he gets up really soon!
He was lucky enough to not have severe injuries or being paralyzed. With these mass of the trains a severe injury on an accident isn't special.
Did you guys sue or something?
@@julesking8355 yeah he is getting compensation but it will probably take up to a year, maybe more.
@@janzumstein8241 I'm gay
1:31 bro was outta there 😂😂
Kudos to the freight train driver at the end who reversed out of harm's way.
This is scarier than any horror movie I've ever seen
I swear it’s fax 📠
That’s cuz it rlly happened
I know right?
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Yes, so scary. I had nightmares for years after watching this frightening clip. I can’t even close my eyes without seeing that engineer do a rolling dive outta the train. I showed my friend this video and now he pisses the bed. In fact this clip went viral in my town and now we have a PTSD epidemic going on ☹️
2:28 that poor guy. I’m sure his coworkers never let him forget the day he jumped off a train for no reason😂 --side note, I’d have done the same thing.
Why is it funny?...
@@jupiterrrz why is it not?
@@daenite2480 because he could of had serious damage to himself?
@@jupiterrrz which is hilarious?
@@browhat4008 bruh wdym which is hilarious
RUclips couldn't have chosen a worse time to recommend this💀
I did this for 42 years and just watching this brought back scary memories, even though it never happened to me... Probably the biggest fear I had as an Engineer on that "Hi Iron" was a head on...! Your eyes would be glued on those points when you came up on a facing switch...! Scary at times and glad I'm retired...
"Your eyes would be glued on those points when you came up on a facing switch". I am so amazed that can happen when there are systems in place in other countries to prevent a switch being left like that.
I was out there way to long. Many nightmares with semis , school buses and cars. Hit a truck years ago and shoved it down the rail. Killed the driver . Knocked his 8 inch workboots off his feet and they were still tied. Man didn't have a chance. It still bothers me.
@@smedleyfarnsworth263 'Murica Moment
You crashed trains for 42 years?!
My dad worked on the railroad 39 years, he came home and told me they hit a car head on, the car was parked on the track a quarter of a mile from the nearest crossing. They got out searching for bodies no bodies or anything. The police ran the tag and found the guy 3 miles away drunk and passed out on his couch 😞
I worked as a guard/conductor on the railways and 18 years ago we had a fatality at 04.40 when we were doing 75 mph. It's like nothing you have ever seen in your life.
@Peter Evans No, I think the OP was referring to the fact that the man was sleeping on his own couch, not the OP's father's couch.
@@matthewgasparin7000 Karl was obviously being funny.
2:30 wow that guy must’ve had good visibility to manage to not hit the back of that train!!😱 Those things don’t stop in a hurry
2nd train is running in reverse so that the impact is less...
I am travelling in a train right now and youtube is giving me this
When the phrase "what an absolute trainwreck" actually applies...
1:33 imagine he survived a train crash but sadly died after jumping from bridge
😂
@@iIndia_2014 what is funny ?
@@AirshipsAviation11 U need brain to understand 😊
@@AirshipsAviation11 he said imagine it 🙄
@@joyantaroy542 that doesn't answer what makes it funny..
The reason so many collisions happen is because a fully loaded freight train moving at full speed would take over a mile to stop with emergency brakes. They just have too much momentum out behind them
Edit: I meant all kinds of collisions. Not just train-on-train collisions, but also collisions with trucks and other vehicles. Quite a lot of those happen
It's human error every time actually.
@@praetorian982 Human error because the dispatch put them on the wrong line, or they didn’t switch on time. Of course, the driver might also weigh down the pedal that is meant as a safety so that they don’t have to hold it down the entire time. However, they still happen because by the time the driver realizes the mistake, it’s far too late to stop in time
@@falcondragonslayer if dispatcher put them on the wrong line it's also human error. And you can clearly see some trains going over switches that are positioned the wrong way for that train (sorry if i'm hard to understand, my english is not the best), so they clearly passed the signal (that's how we call the railway post with lights that protects important places on the railroad like switches etc.. here where i'm from) that was supposed to stop them. Yes, you can weight the pedal or even switch off the entire device that keeps you awake (don' t know what it's called in english, sorry) or an autostop device, and that is also human error. Yes, freight trains are long and heavy and it takes a mile to stop them but if you follow the correct procedurs at signal lights you will stop on time. Cheers from a locomotive engineer 🙋♂️
@@praetorian982 I never said it wasn’t human error. I’m just saying that the trains have too much momentum to stop on time once the person realizes there was an error
@@falcondragonslayer yes, just read your comment slower, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Looks like there's a compilation for everything on RUclips!
The possibility of being inside a steel box flipped into the air is much worse then not abandoning ship.
they have more weight than you think,but yes you still get squeezed
Now go home and get your fuckin Steel Box...
2:30 me leaving problematic situations in the middle of chaos...💀
F*ck this sh!t I'm out
He anticipated a crash and he had applied the emergency brakes on his train. there's nothing else he could have done. Except maybe stay inside and get absolutely smashed had there been a collision.
@@officerahmo He was slow enough at this point when he jumped out, not much would have happend even if he did hit the other train
@@hipsu555 Idk man, trains weigh a lot
@@hipsu555 It absolutely would have, every cart behind the front cart would at the same time push against the cart infront, the front most cart would receive an astronomical amount of force against it, even if it moves slowly.
I really didn't know that there were such thing as trains crashing head-on, until this video
Exactly, how stupid should people be to allow this?
@@vladoshka9014 most of the time its not the actual engineers fault. They don't control what track they are on, where the switches are lined, etc. For example at 1:00 a track crew or that train crew that left that train in the siding left the switch aligned for that side track. So the poor man chuggin along just went right off his track into theirs.
@@Ryan-cw3ce Of course engineers don't have anything to do with it. This is the fault of dispatchers, who control where and when trains go.
@@vladoshka9014 glad we are on the same page. Some people out there think trains have steering wheels and shit so I just had to comment what I did 😂😂😂
@@Ryan-cw3ce ahah, even if they had steering wheels, stopping a train would still be a problem
Who is here after Odisha's train accident incident?
Me.
But this isn't as bad as the one we saw its kinda terrifying about what happened.
Me 😭
2:23 THIS DRIVER IS SO CLUTCH! JUST BAILS
Engineer*
@@LakeStateRailfan thanks
@@LakeStateRailfan Driver in the UK, and we invented railways!
@@LakeStateRailfan Driver in UK, Locopilot in India, funny thing not everyone uses the US name for things
YT Algorithms: Recommend him anything, he'll watch it
0:19 If you listen closely, you can hear him say, "shit".
"You had ONE job...and ONE track!"
There was a low speed (25 mph) collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Jack London Square in Oakland, CA, USA over 10 years ago. I lived in a basement appt about a mile away. When the collision happened, it felt like and sounded like, an earthquake. I shudder to think what these would have been like.
Imagine sleeping peacefully in the train then this happens
Imagine tho..
Botted
Yeeted while asleep
I'll die if it happens 😱😱
Wake up dead
Being an engineer myself this is kinda scary to watch. Once again I'm glad we have that thing called PZB here in Germany so the only way this can happen is when a lot of people do an awful lot of things the very wrong way.
We have similar system here in saudi arabia its called ERTMS.
Most mainline railroads in North America (US/CA/MX) have similar systems now.
Happened in Germany too not too long ago (Bad Aibling).
What are these fails safe systems y'all are talking about?
@@aaronprimus1300 In North America the system is called PTC (Positive Train Control). It was mandated for all main lines that carry passengers, hazmats of a certain class and volume, and high tonnage. The Obama administration came down with the directive, but it took years to get it into place. The system can automatically stop or slow down trains if the computers on board sense the proximity of other vehicles occupying the track or switches lined against you. In the case of the head on collision that starts this video PTC theoretically would have stopped the train without the camera 1 - 2 miles down the track.
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I love the music choice at the end brings back memories playing zelda
Damn, look at the force that launch one of the train cars at 0:44 incredible, and the speed isn’t that high.
2:12 is the most positive narration imaginable. "Here she comes, right at us! Watch 'em come together! There it is! Look out! WOW! SOME SMASH!" 🤠
I think this is a staged train crash. They were all the rage at one time.
🇺🇸🤠
Afaik smashing decommissioned trains together was a sport in the 1800s
I could be remembering wrong tho
The number of comments here that use "breaks" instead of brakes is amazing
Standing ovation🙌
For that LEGEND
Who collects these videos and merged in one 🎞️🎥
I don't know what's worst: crashing 2 planes together having all that sky, or crashing two trains together when you have kilometers of anticipated rail.
I'd say the trains. You're trusting the people who cleared you for that track are paying attention to the traffic on it and communicating with everyone down the line. If an ATC screws up, the planes have a limited amount of time, but a decent amount of room to evade. All a train can do is cut power and hit the brakes and hope it all works out.
На земле безопаснее в любом случае 😏
This is terrifying to me. I was in a bad wreck in a truck a few years ago and the power and violence was pretty extreme. I couldn't imagine in a locomotive.
Force equals mass times acceleration. Definitely one of those equations that lives in my mind when I think of things we humans drive around. Chemistry and physics really changed how I see things in college
0:20
hold on... that train looks like end of the line train from tf2
0:37 too
2:27 that one too wth
1:12 You know you've screwed up or been screwed when you can read the text on the hopper infront of you
Takes the riddle 'two trains are travelling towards each other....' to a whole new level
I Can't imagine if they go "head to head" in Maximum Speed.. Damn, so Creepy!!!
Try to search bintaro tragedy ;-; thats a train crash head to head fast speed
this kismet collision did basically that both traims were going about 35mph when they met combind speed of 70mph look up kismet collision 13 years later tells te whole story funniest part is the engimer was high on crack;) thats why it happend
If they both are goings the same speed at each other, the net impact would be zero. Fact
Happened in norway too
@@danrook5757 wow , just found an Einstein on the internet
RUclips suggesting this video while I'm onboard a train 🚆🚂 . Good job calming my anxiety RUclips.
Good brakes on that last one. My Toyota Tundra hasn't got brakes that good! Nice save.
1:32 that guy be like ,, let's goooooo 😭as much I can ...god gives me another life
0:41 i am scared a lot by seeing that whole compartment getting lifted by the force of impact
Shit I did not even notice that. That’s terrifying
That was defo another carriage getting thrown in the air right?
love waking up to train crash videos playing
Head-on train crashes must surely be the ultimate in communication breakdown.
So much weight an power behind these beast of machines which makes them cause so much damage, mind blowing.
2:37 he jump without any reason 😁
😂😂
😂😂
He jumped so that if the train did crash he wouldn't be hurt.
He already applied the brakes at that point.
@@stupidpros Really? Wow it’s like we we didn’t know already!! Idiot..
@@Spyrobeamer comment OP said he has no reason to jump
I rate this video a solid 14 yr old vid out of 15 yr old vid
2:07 anybody noticed that guy running towards crashing trains 😂
Eventually this comment, along with the cute lonely anime girl, will be lost in the thousands of comments on this video
No it won’t.
can confirm, no it won't.
It won’t
nope
"cute lonely anime girl"
🤨📸
02:23 everybody loves a bit of dramatic effect 😂
Every crash means a star is born, stars are formed by cars. When a crash occures, a car collides and shapes the whole universe.
Do you want to shape the whole universe with your car?- yes you can't!! 🌍
:47 the force to lift that train car vertical is incredible
Thanks Joe you always know just what I need
i pray all passengers on the trains were safe
Fuck em
@@gxlorp wow
Pray to who?
@@thatguyoverthere8355 look out guys, it’s an edgy atheist waiting for a religion argument
@@4477superman Yes. They deserve to be wiped off from the face of Earth.
1:33 this dude would rather jump from the bridge than going back to that train xD
1:30, this guy was preparing his whole life for this moment.
its maybe spain by the trains that are there, i think he was scared cause in 2004 were a terro.rist attack in simultaneous trains along the city just in 1 min exploded 5 bombs
@@UjjUBhai699 so.............?
@@kuakercomunista6979 it's probably mumbai, but you may be right. Because there's been terrorist attack in mumbai's trains too.
@@carpediem8533 no this happened near kacheguda junction in Hyderabad
But the dude runs aways and proceds to do a 3 point Spiderman crouch on the wall with a 5m drop behind him!
0:44 Now that's what I call a French kiss.
LMFAOOO
The Flying Kipper Episode Be Like: 1:12
Also Henry is a Chad
The guy jumping out at the end is hilarious. Bet he just got up and thought 'Fuuuuck - well this is anticlimatic'.
It was a prime opportunity to practice his belly flop, tho. He aced it.
It's like watching a train wreck, I can't turn my head away.
Props to the camera man he survived all of these
Not a camera man only camera
@@lathishkumar6678 you clearly don’t get the joke.
@@a_life_of_aviation what joke bro
@@lathishkumar6678 it’s a JOKE
@@a_life_of_aviation
No it's not
I get it but still cringe
Worst head on collision was a few days ago here in Greece. There is a video from security camera from the crash. Rest in peace 🕊️ about 113 people, mostly young students, that lost their life from the crash and the following fire. Very 😭 sad days...
Such a shame.
I am from greece and i was in this train in Larissa 39 young students he dies on kitchen of train and 18 out of the kitchen, this is sad for familles bte i am 19
yea, and with todays technology everything should be automated, so automation + human, there error should almost impossible.
Yeah about 30 years ago there's also tragedy in my country, it's called "bintaro tragedy" still one of the most bloodied crash with almost 200 death and 500+ injured, i swear train crashes almost irreventable
Here 12 days back in Odisha, India, one of the worst train accidents happened leaving 289 people dead and 1000 injured.
Imagine the passengers who jumped out of that train were run over by another train coming from the other direction.
you are a saddist :/
Y 6 y yýcyy y 6
Yes Sadism at its height !
Wait... Liam Neeson will find you.
Yeah that's true but he has eyes nose and ears he can identify the train will come or not, or the train will horn like nuclear bomb😂
Would've been a much better video
The very last one is wow !
Both loco pilots are quite attentive & one is more responsible ( didn't leave the Loco even at stationary position ) and drove it backward direction .. 👌👌
The one who jumped had already thrown all the brakes, the train is going to stop at a certain point and there's nothing else he can do so he jumps. The other can't leave because he's putting the train into full reverse, if he jumped that would leave the train under power and uncontrolled.
And from what ive heard about that clip from other RUclips channels showing train crashes, the freighter had been stopped but ignored his red light and decided to go anyway.
That last save was epic!
1:30 this video clip is a accident in front of my house , its a accident near howarh junction , west bengal , india 😢
1. I hope nobody got hurt.
2. Someone didn't finish their "training."