CSX ENGINEER DOES OUTSTANDING JOB! SKILL, PATIENCE & COURTESY! LA GRANGE, KY
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2020
- CSX Engineer handled this situation perfectly! Even though the drivers were in the wrong, the Engineer did not go overboard with the horn, evaluated the situation and proceed on. Well done!
"Standoff!" was tongue in cheek! 
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Everybody gangsta till the train turns on the turn signal and goes right
Mother of God.....
Just like that one GTA mod
Lol this comment reminded me of that scene from the movie Wrongfully Accused. If you haven't seen it just search for Wrongfully Accused train scene.
Lol
@fx 1988 It's not a BMW.
As someone who does not live in the United States, I find a massive freight train going down a local street with parked cars extremely unusual in itself.
It's not overly common but it is common enough to not be odd. A lot of the cause of it has to do with simple geography, where the track has to be to both serve the town and maintain a less than 3 percent grade. There are also other reasons, some going back to the 1800s when the older tracks were built.
We have an odd habit of building towns around railroad tracks. Then the town gets large and all the newcomers complain about the RR crossing.
@@snorman1911 And then it brings to mind the news items about people who buy a house under the flight path of an international airport that's been operating for three-quarters of a century and complain about the noisy airplanes with a "But we didn't know ..."
@@scottfw7169 haha that's a good one too.
I am from the United States and I find a freight train going down a local road with cars parked on either side very unusual.
Trains have been running this stop sign for years. Glad to see they are finally obeying the law.
You so silly lol.
I know right! Those train drivers gotta get their act together!
Strange, came down here to the comment section to post the exact same thing ... "great minds think alike" ...
The engineer must have gotten a ticket recently
It needs a right turn only sign there.
“This road ain’t big enough for the two of us.”
“No, seriously, get out of the way.”
lol.
Just start running through at 25 mph. They’ll learn to stay clear pretty fast.
Driver of the red car: “I don’t know why that train honked at me, I was at the stop sign first!”
@Raider19er -- the Red Car was Slightly OVER THE WHITE LINE, and therefore could have possibly been involved in an accident if the Engine has proceeded ahead,,, the Train had the "right-of-way" and could have just kept going,, but would have eventually had to stop and wait for a long period of time since an ACCIDENT would have OCCURRED
the White Vehicle behind the Red Car was a lot more OVER THE WHITE LINE and that would have been a secondary crash,,,
so the ENGINEER WAS WISE to stop and wait for them both to clear the tracks, before proceeding
Raider19er • Whooosh
try explaining that one to Geico.
@@Bl4ckw0lf1 LOL they could add it to their list
@@brucemoose9587 Both idiots!
I’m a 35 year old woman who has never really thought about trains and recently I’ve become so fascinated by them. They are awesome 👏
EA J cool story bro
Business Goose I’m just trying to figure out why I have a latent appreciation for trains. But thanks 🤷🏽♀️
@@eaj7319 They are fascinating machines! Have you looked at any steam locomotive videos? They are amazing too. Then there's airplanes and jet engines and space ships. Lots of good stuff to be fascinated by.
Join the club. No seriously look for a model railroad club, or railfan club in your area, you’ll learn so much from them.
Welcome to the addiction.... I mean...there could be a worse addictions to get...Right?!?!
To be fair, the entire design of this street is like a traffic engineer's fever dream. I'm sure the tracks existed first, but the town that came later said, if I fits I sits.
The design has it's origins as one of those 'old wild west/frontier' towns (like what you see in old movies), where the town and railroad were built alongside each other and because it was small there wouldn't be a station built. Instead the steam train would just pass through and/or stop in what would be the middle of the settlement (aka the 'main street') if anyone wanted on or off. There weren't any giant cars/trucks/vans etc back then either, just horses and carriages so alot more room on either side of the tracks.
@@Ryukai-san It may have been practical back then, but doesn't logic and sense dictate that when the town grew in size and economically, the tracks should have been relocated, the whole thing should have been redesigned with the train not going through a street. The train going through street is not convenient for either the train or the cars on the street. Its a lose-lose situation right now. As you might already know a train cannot be instantly stopped in case some vehicle or person comes in the way, if it were attempted it might be fatal as the train may get derailed.
Even in this video, while the train was stopped and was starting to move again, it took at least a min, for which traffic on either side of the road was held up, and god knows how many more were held up at other crossings since the train is mile long. All those waiting traffic is simply burning fuels adding to the carbon emissions. Not redesigning the tracks/street is a big fail on the town government
Most towns that still tracks on there main streets are very small, the town in this video has approximately 8000 people there for its not financially viable to move the tracks .
Give that engineer a raise !!!
at this point, I see that 162 people commented on this video, but of that number only 2 seemed to understand the true reason the train stopped, it was not because of the stop sign, it was because both the red vehicle and the suv were extended over the white line, had the train proceeded, it definitely would have struck the car and quite possibly the suv as well, and might I add Ahhhh, love La Grange drivers, they never disappointe!!!
You should see the recent la Grange grab bags lol
@@jeffgarrett2114 omg, I missed it, gotta look it up, thanks for the heads up
It took a moment to recharge the train air pipe. Some people don’t know what to do with a train in the middle of the road.
Get the h*** out of the way is the smart thing
I was wondering about that and why it took him so long to get going again.
Professionalism at it's finest!
Where i come from, seeing a train drive down the street, would normally indicate that somebody has put something in your drink
1:39 did a multi-ton mile+ long train just yield to a soda can? It definitely stopped at that stop sign tho!
Better than crushing the soda cans and killing the drivers...
What soda can?
Cars bro..
As if a train can just go ram everything because it’s only heavier 🤦🏻♂️
@@Engineer9736 it can lol, tell me how 2 cars can stop a mile long train that wights hundreds of tons
“This town aint big enough for the two of us”
“Cause youre a big locomotive”
The city should pay to relocate those businesses
The used to have this craziness in Albany, Troy and Waterford NY.
They got rid of the businesses and the train tracks got moved in some cases
It was quaint in the 40s and 50s, but now there really isn't any room for this nonsense
@@ocsrc Or make them only accessible by sidewalk.
I’d be out the train window yelling MOVE!
I think some guy on the right hand pavement yelled or waved at the red car driver to move.
@@treadingtheboards2875 yeah i think ur right . he did something of that nature
I would get out of my car, give you a nice finger and stay there for a while. You can continue screaming out of your window.
*locomotive
Here in the UK we have several cities with trams that share the streets with cars. Nothing beats the excitement of casually driving down a road with a tram behind you. There's a split second thought of "did I just make a major mistake at that junction back there? No wait, I see other cars, I'm good."
My father tells a story of when he was driving down a particular stretch of highway that *just* aligned with the air force base's runway. Look in the mirror, see car, car, car, C-5.
Ive never seen a train stop at a stop sign lol
You never stop at the stop sign on your bicycle
@@douglascorley6630 No,no I don't :/
@@douglascorley6630 Well there's a difference since the train is on the road and is driving alongside the cars.
I have. There are at least two crossings in Edmonton, Canada where the train has a stop sign as it crosses a busy road. Movements are done with flag people.
I know when trains were still street-running in Lafayette Ind, the traffic lites would automatically change to green for the train. It was illegal, but people would closely follow the train to get thru w/o stopping!
1:24 a train giving a car the ROW!? Now that is somethin' you don't see everyday!
Probably because he can’t go down that street with cars next to him without the cars going “squish”
It's easier to give way, than to do the collision paperwork.
It's more the GTFOW
at least one person knew what to do... kinda. the dark suv at the far end
But why'd they pull back out a second time? Lol "Oh he's still there -- I thought he turned."
@@lcmark It's Kentucky, what do you expect?
1. Can we appreciate how shiny the CSX locomotives looked
2. The train always has the right of way. The driver of the red car should've waited for the train to pass before thinking on turning
The prob was the white SUV , he was over the line and into the RoW , if the train had pressed on whitie would have lost his whole drivers side.
@@mikemalo47 The red car was over too!
@NickWilde -- yes, the Engines looked superb, and yes, the Train has the "right-of-way" but you must not always insist upon it,,, even in a car,,, esp when a CRASH might occur,,, so the Engineer was SMART to stop and wait,,, since the Red Car was slightly over the white line, and the White SUV behind was a lot over the White Line,,, so a Crash would have ensued if Engineer pressed on according to "his rights"
Well at that point the train slowed to stop because the cars were leaving the parking space and all ended up at the lines. At that point cars go now because I'm slow. Even if they weren't over the line, why make cars wait 1 foot away from the conga line. This is where real drivers, of all vehicles, can see and read eachother and just make the move.
The engineer should have blocked the intersection and given the red car four short blasts to get out of the way, forcing the red and white cars to turn right and yield ROW to the train
Nothing is quite as surprising as seeing your own town show up in a RUclips recommended video
CSX: Don’t judge my looks. Im a ordinary vehicle I obey laws and stop at the stop sign.
But do you use a turn signal? lol
@@TheRealScooterGuy The turn signal is on the track.
He stoped for the allway stop sign! LOL
He totally missed his turn. He was supposed to make a right at the stop sign, follow for a mile and then make a hard left. Rookie engineer.
This video is awsome! Why? Not only show us a 5 star engineer , and besides that it´s so funny!! When the engineer honks the
horn at the stop sign and then the red car obey like a puppy! Just a great vid. I never catch this things live on VRF cams. Thanks
Virtual Railfan
Just to clarify things, that track was there long before the pavement showed up. It was most likely there before that part of the town was built. The railroad right of way has probably existed since the later half of the 19th century. Any roads near the tracks would have been dirt, and used by horses. Even when the automobile showed up they tended to be smaller than today's cars, and there were very very few of them compared with today, so space was not a problem.
As the area grew more crowded, it became necessary to resort to what is there now, but because traffic was probably nowhere near what it sees now, and people seemed to display more common sense, it worked. Since then...
The paving required the railroad's approval, as state and local authorities have no jurisdiction or legal authority over railroads or their property. Railroads fall under the control of the Federal Railroad Administration. The railroad could make them remove any paving on the right of way. BTW, that right of way could be 100 feet wide or more. A 50 foot right of way is common on short lines. It is quite possible the railroad owns the whole street and made an agreement to let the town use it.
The railroad has superior rights, and cannot be forced to move. So either the people pay more attention, or the town can close the street.
You can hear air setting over the 1st Xing and the Eng. stretching the train to a stop. A smart move anytime you are in populated areas like that so one can pull a pin. Clean landing for a vehicle train too, hats off.
👏👍Nicely done CSX.👍👏
I know the train was moving slow but still amazing to see that kind of smooth braking control on something that big. Skills!!!
Apparently some people do not realize a train extends more than two feet on both sides from the rails.
Nothing tells an engineer he has to yield to a car! He chose to do so to avoid the headache of involving the police, the NTSB, and his dispatch. Not to mention he would be blocking that crossing and all the crossings the train would be blocking for hours.
@ Dennis B, I read through all of the comments hoping that at least one person realized at the outset that the car was over the white line, therefore, had the train proceeded on the car would have been struck. You sir was the only one who picked up on that fact. I was a bit shocked at that, it was glaringly obvious why the train actually stopped.
Not only would the train have struck both idiots who were over the white line but probably muliple cars parked next to them would have been struck as well. In reality both the red car and white truck should have been given tickets for their poor judgement. But honestly, there isn't enough room to safely clear the diagonally parked cars on that side of the street. The solution would be to narrow the sidewalk and give the parked cars more room. The point is whoever designed that street is an idiot.
I like how the trained stopped for the stop sign!
I'll never understand people! 🙄
Its honestly kinda hilarious to see a train stop at a stop sign like a ordinary car
The amount of stupidity that the automobile drivers exhibit at that stretch is mind boggling. I give kudos to CSX for making sure that they have experienced Engineers and Conductors for that area. Living near there and observing the blatantly moronic attitude auto drivers have using the roads there, it is amazing that there are very very few incidents involving Train vs. Car there. The locals usually know better, but there is a large amount of non-local traffic that passes through there.
That'd be a long wait at that crossing gate
Indeed.
Tnx to those two idiots.
Wow a GE and an SD40 in a lash up. Never thought I’d see that outside of TSW 😅
Oh how the tides have turned
Trains waiting for cars now
@@AmmyWulf What you see here is called "street-running" Trains are usually limited to 10 mph through these sections due to the obvious danger of hitting a car. If it is a regular crossing, trains will go over them at whatever track speed is.
Sometimes the speed limit is reduced if the train is passing through a residential area with many crossings.
I don't understand why a town would put parking spaces on both sides of the rail tracks there ... Kudos for the engineer for his patience .👍
In all my life I've never seen a train stop at a stop sign
I'm sure it's in their timetable to be at restricted speed through this area. You have to be able to stop within half the range of vision. He did what was required.
Train has ROW. Should have stopped on the other side of the intersection and given that car four short blasts until it cleared the ROW
@@woodalexander If the train stopped on the other side, it looks like he would clip the vehicles. Both vehicles seem to be in the foul zone. It's a bad situation for all concerned.
That's not true whatsoever. Trains run on clear signals through here.
@@essartee76 It might be a clear signal, but the timetable speed might still be very low for that area. since I don't have that timetable, I really don't know what the restrictions are. I don't watch these vids very much, but every one I've seen, the train is moving pretty slowly.
It's 10 mph until the leading end covers all crossings, then 20 mph until the train clears town. When running on clears and approches, there is no requirement to stop within half the range of vision.
Nothing out of the ordinary here, he was just obeying the rules of the road.
Great job by the engineer.
He had the rest of the road, why couldn't the train move over a fraction? 🤔🤣
I hate it when trains double park like this!
Because might makes right!
I don't know how some people manage to even put socks and shoes on each day.
Pretty good lashup! A shiny CSX YN3b AC4400CW and YN3 SD40-2!
Awesome! You wouldn't want to be in a hurry waiting for the train to pass. Would be a fun scenario in Train Sim world :)
Interesting and inconvenient design. I am glad the conductor is so patient.
Now, that's what I call a bona fide full stop at a stop sign!
Fantastic job on engineers part! Needs to be honored and praised! Hopefully CSX took note!!👏👏
Anyone else find it cool that a freight train runs down Main Street occasionally, just y’know because it can
It's a lot more than occasionally - it's at least a couple of times a day.
👍 Nice Catch - a friendly train driver
I seem to be blocking a train. I guess I'm gona wait here for him to move!
Were either of the car drivers named Karen? "Let me speak to the manager of this train!".
I assume the train line was there before the town?
Probably not. In older east-coast cities, towns existed before there were railroads, and they just figured out a path for the trains when the railroad was built. You can be sure that the line has been there since the 1800s though -- today, the "NIMBYs" would never allow a railroad through a town like that.
Engineer really didn't feel like filling out paper work that day. Other days, not a problem. 🤣
How nice of the train crew
of chessie seaboard /csx to let the red car pass 👍
This is how I drive and everybody gets annoyed because they think I'm too slow
Car: "It's an all way stop!"
You would be completely flabbergasted when the engineer parked the first unit between the cars at the street side and walked into a shop.
If only people were like that: All the power and still observing and respecting everyone else around them.
Loco drivers have very little power and an enormous amount of responsibility. If he hit any non railroad traffic he would probably lose his job. That is why he was so patient. Every move being watched by rail traffic controllers so he has to be very careful.
Wow, that engineer definitely had patience, but I'll also guess that seems to be the norm in places like La Grange and Ashland. Ashland, please dont infect any other train towns? Please?
@@LegendaryRadioJock Were they not from there either? Which would make it even more funny
So when there’s no train in the area, can cars drive straddling the tracks like it’s another traffic lane?
I was more impressed by the cross traffic after the two oncoming vehicles completed their right turn. The engineer sat there for so long that it could have been confusing for the cross traffic. Possibly thinking that either he was waiting for them to go or that for some reason he was not going to proceed. Kudos to the cross traffic for waiting!
They couldn't go, the gates were down on both sides of the cross traffic.
If it wouldn't have been for the cross arms being down, I'm sure cars would've started to go regardless how close the train was to crossing the street. As impatient as people are anymore combined with the lack of common sense, the train might've been forced to sit there longer waiting for traffic to go EVEN THOUGH the train always has the right of way. The way people drive anymore they figure "If I can beat "it" or "them" then I'll go for it." For the train's sake, Thank God for cross arms being there to hold the people back or else the situation could've went from a simple 2 minute stop to a 2 or more HOUR stop simply from an impatient driver getting clipped trying to beat the train.
I’m not gunna lie, if I was the engineer, I would have just kept creeping forward. They are either going to move real quick, or I’m going to move them real quick.
Yes, I’d be a horrible engineer, but people crowding the rails drives me crazy.
You'd probably has lost your job. No matter how tempting such things are, physically pushing them out of the way is unlawful.
the bad drivers are thinking: "i have the right of way, i knew it."
The moral of the story is never challenge anything bigger than you
the honk of "hey. move. for real"
That engineer stopped that train better than some folks with small cars.
what a wonderful video,and thats a really cool engineer and csx should be dam proud of his actions which were wonderful. plus neatest thing ever regardles was seeing a train stopping at a stop sign letting the cars go. gotta be a wild experience because your talking about king of the rail (road) the train this is a machine that demands our attention in alll ways especially paying attention and deserves all your respect. lord knows i do, i love trains but also i respect them as well as respect the driver of it. remember engineer's aren't robots and when something happens and it causes fatality think about what the poor train engineer is going through i watched several engineer videos concerning this issue and its heart breaking due to the toll it takes on him or her
Not sure how YT recommended this video to me now, but I live just a few miles from here.
I see this as kinda BS cause we are told our WHOLE lives that TRAINS have the right of way and this and that.
You start messing around, changing the rules "to be nice" things can go awry. Am I wrong for seeing it that way?
There are patterns, methods and a "flow" to traffic and varying that seems dangerous to me, IMO.
I agree engineer should have crept forward blasting four short blasts for the red car to make a right turn and yield ROW
No, but this train goes on the road, so it isn’t like a grade crossing. Engineer did a great job and these situations are common.
You are WRONG. You a hole.
Whilst the train would have the right of way in this crossing, it has to let those two cars go first as they have crossed the white line in the middle. The two solid white lines are the clearance for the locomotives and wagons. It is a helpful tool for both road users and engineer.
@@bobdabuilder4989 it's been proven time and again that bending traffic rules to be nice causes more accidents than just following them to the letter. Ever seen what happens at a four way stop when all four cars want to be nice and let the other guy go first? It's chaos.
Trains are doing a great job keeping on the lookout for cars and pedestrians.
After he honks at the red car, over in background you see SUV backing out of space. SUV sees train...”Nope.”
Lord God, give me this patience of the conductor of this train
Honestly I've never seen such a intersection before. It's easy to understand the 2 cars could have been initially unclear .
Kudos to the engineer for reading the situation for what it was.
Train must be waiting for the stop sign to turn green.
that is impressive to see .. thanks
Someone give that guy a medal
It's amazing the driver is even on left side in the car (the train's side), yet they're completely clueless that there's a giant train that might hit them.
That is the cleanest train I have ever seen. In winter even. Impressive.
What I find very interesting is the fact that there's a huge train sharing the streets with road traffic. In the UK we have next to no railways that pass through a street or along a public highway also used by road traffic. Very few are still in active use and any ones still in use are very short in length before the train leaves the road again
Anyone want to play a game of Chicken? I wonder who's going to win?
Obviously not the morons. Easy money bet there.
Way back in the 60s, we had a train go through town on a regular basis, & then they converted all the rails to trails :(
I've had a train do that one time, it was approaching slowly at a crossing, and I came to a stop at the line, and he waved me through..
Always pay attention to that..
And always check the second track.
I don't know why, but I love seeing trains running down the middle of a paved small town road. The only one I have seen close to me was a spur track that served a zinc mine down the street from my in-laws house in Jefferson City, TN. They abandoned the line and took up the tracks over 20 years ago. I wish NS would have left the rails in place for the few blocks it served in the middle of a paved street.
If you squint, it kinda looks like a really big, long, and loud semi truck. Kidding, but it's funny to see a train of all things act like other road traffic.
So this is how a train stops at a 4-way stop sign intersection
What camera setup do you use for these shots?
It’s a live camera. The cameras look like security cameras.
Cool to randomly get a recommendation for this video about some local tracks.
I Hate It, when Non Drivers do that! Train coming GET OUTTA THE WAY!!!
@krvnjrcbs After the train had to come to a complete STOP!!! You DUMB A!
The engineer was also waiting on that SUV to park way down the street.
Makes me question the driving ability of the citizens of LaGrange.
I think the driving in la grange in appaling.
Now I'm new to seeing trains one roads like this, did the train have to go by the stop sign?
So weird seeing a bloody massive train running down a main street with uncontrolled traffic.
Don't see any mention of it, but you did a brilliant job capturing the lovely sounds of that diesel!
BTW If I was the mayor of La Grange KY, I'd be looking for a way to build CSX at city expense a bypass around La Grange. Then the street trackage through La Grange could be converted to a heritage trolley featuring historic streetcars from all over the world. In time, the street trackage could be doubled in places and form part of a Louisville - La Grange light rail line.
I like how everyone is all about the stop sight. That wasn't the issue at all. It was that those cars had plenty of time to make their turn before the train got there. If anything the issue was the person stop, waited, made sure the train was going to let them though. Those engineers probably have to deal with that all the time lol
Very Professional and neighborly.
And his ability to drive in a straight line is grade A! ;) Love these city train lines...
The train obeys traffic sign. He yields to on coming traffic. They proceeds. Give him/her an award for best scene.