"AND... AGAIN!" ANOTHER CAR ENDS UP ON THE TRACKS IN ASHLAND, VA! PLUS AN OUTSTANDING GRAB BAG!
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2022
- Yes, drivers can't resist seeing if their cars are Railroad worthy! And it happened (no surprise) in Ashland, VA....Again! PLUS, this Grab Bag has some really great clips, watch it all, we promise you a great clip around every curve! Thank You and turn on notifications to catch all the Railroad action in the Good Ol' USA!!! Stay Safe to all our Railfans!
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Jeesh, this is like the new 11 Foot 8 bridge 🤣
😅 so true
Agree
But a semi-skilled driver can undo the deed here :)
Are they mistaking the tracks for the actual road?
🙄😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't remember learning to drive on the RR tracks as part of my driver's training or test. Maybe it's a local requirement for Ashland VA
It's Ashland, VA.
@@MetraEverythingProductions 😂
This could happen to you, it could happen to anyone. We all make mistakes, but in the search for profit Railcorp makes these kinds of mistakes a potential death penalty.
Did you learn 'reverse'?
@@QuadMochaMatti Oh Good God, chill out! Obviously the town doesn't want to ban auto traffic from the major downtown street for a reason. There are likely legal as well as financial or physical reasons why the railroad won't move. There are enough warning and safety measures in place. We spend wayyy to much to protect morons from themselves. Besides, it contributes to the local economy. Fines, towing/retrieval fees...
The very reason VRF puts these up is that they know us VRF members enjoy watching these goofs. And one presumes the clicks are part of the VRF revenue stream.
And if you don't like the subject, don't click.
There's gotta be some sorta promo that says "Come to Ashland VA... home to Rick's Recovery from Rails Towing Service"
I’m an addicted rail fan. Sorry, Jawtooth, but this is the best railfan channel on RUclips, by far!
Had to stop video and go make popcorn for this one.
I wonder what the reaction would've been if a triple of 44ACs came thundering down the main . Loved the subtle sound effects as the car bounced off the road onto the tracks . Another good video , both interesting and entertaining . Well done . Make more !!
YAY my boings are back to make me smile 😁😁😁
What a great GRAB-BAG. I especially liked the vehicle "stuck" on the tracks. And all the people who showed up, but didn't really help at all lol! You have a wonderful channel and I sincerely thank you for sharing!
Ok o
It's amazing how far people continue to drive once their front tires drop a foot down, and then railroad ties bouncing over and over.... does that feel like normal road conditions where their from?
About like roads around home 😁
Ya think maybe that driver has been enjoying a few cold ones with his buddies that night? Imagine driving a train and getting a report of A CAR on the tracks up ahead.
I wonder if the tow truck owner in Ashland, VA has started painting little Toyotas and Nissans on the side of his truck for each rescue the truck has affected. Gotta be a lengthy tally by now.
Great idea! Like WWii fighters.
This happens so often, especially at this location, that it seems like some kind of in-ground warning lights along the road edge, or equivalent, might be worth trying. One factor may be that, in most places I know with a track down the middle of the street in town, it's not double tracked with the kind of width there is in Ashland. Especially at night, it probably just seems to quite a few drivers who aren't familiar with that configuration that the road must just be there somewhere rather than all that space across the intersection still being the railroad's. The odd thing is how many of them keep going once it is clear that they are on the tracks, not the road.
I dont think any kind of warning system will keep drivers of the tracks. These drivers are complete morons, they will drive right over or through those warning systems anyways (and keep on going after they hit the tracks) ... if they can not tell the difference between railroad tracks and automobile roadways, they have no business driving any vehicle...best they stick to bicycles or walking
@@jsarkozy I suspect that they can tell the difference, but then think that they can just escape the track environment somewhere ahead somehow. It would be interesting to hear from local police regarding the interviews they have undoubtedly had with so many drivers in that circumstance.
No. I’d say the population is thick as two shty sticks. No where else in the world has this issue as much with level crossings
@@andyrob3259 Yep. I'm watching this from Europe, and I find this level of idiocy unimaginable. That guy should have his driver's license taken away on the spot and be forced to walk home.
Ashland car on the tracks... It never gets old! I gotta give him props, he got further down the tracks than most of them, and with a little help, he got out on his own. I gotta wonder if the Ashland cops have a pool going.. How many days until....?
Ashland driver’s never cease to amaze me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Town of Ashland had the chance to have the tracks removed and the town bypassed as part of a Amtrak higher speed development. However, it seems, they would rather keep the live entertainment, and the towing business going
It adds to the quaintness of the downtown. I want to go there and the other train-down-the main street, and Thurmond, WV. Sounds like a good Tesla trip!
@@T_Hoog Yeah... They wanted to have their own version of the "Can Opener Bridge" ... I wonder how expensive may be insuring a car over there!
With all of these instances I've heard about in the last couple weeks alone I swear the drive-you-car-onto-the-train-tracks-vertically challenge has officially superseded the tide pod challenge.
You need to find an "un-boing" sound effect for when they back up off the ROW and onto the street (or maybe just play the "boing" sound bite in reverse.)
Silly minivan, tracks are for trains!!!😆🤣😆
Another great grab bag! Keep up the good work.
Nice catch on the Alco
Give that guy a certificate of achievement.
I want to have my friend watch this and he's not going to believe it
The Spongebobs, GP40-3, GP38-3 and GP40-2 were a real treat on J758 La Grange local, thanks for putting in the grab bag
I'll bet the Ashland PD has CSX dispatch on speed dial or maybe a radio so they can call dispatch if the phone line is busy. If they don't they need to.
0:14 BNSF GEVO rescuing an Amtrak Midwest train
0:44 NS 615 looks to be a slugged geep. It's not heavily modified like those flat-top slugs, but has its diesel engine removed
1:22 two BNSF 25th Anniversary units and a 13-car OCS! (seen again at 17:47) It would've been cooler if steam locomotive 2926 or 3751 was pulling it!
3:16 BNSF, CP (putting out some smoke), and FXE triple-heading
3:40 two large GE locomotives to pull one FRA brown inspection car (with the ALCO passing it.)
5:06 SP gray leader
5:20 10-unit light power move
5:44 CSX doubleheader on BNSF tracks
6:24 this person continued quite a ways after leaving the concrete panels
19:10 Soo Line hopper as a barrier car between the tanker and CP SD70ACu as DPU with a FRED
22:32 not the best weather to leave a tank car lid open
23:04 CP, CN, and CSX triple-heading
23:44 five FEC ES44C4s and two fuel tenders lashed-up together
25:29 four trains at once at Santa Fe Junction! With enough room for four more!
Ashland cam really needs that counter for "X" days since last car on tracks.
Finally, some common sense...not like that last one where the tow did more damage than the tracks!
even towtruckdrivers live and learn....as opposed to "some" drivers of "motor vehicles".....only in america.....:-)
It's so cool watching older Burlington Northern and Santa Fe diesels run together with their merger counterparts.
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Love those little slugs..
Great editing....
I got a stuck on tracks before. Cops pulled my off with a strap. An Opps moment. Nice people are helping.
@6:25 what a stew nod.
Did my eyes just open wide after seeing the GG1 🤨, I was thinking about run my GG1 until I saw the GG1 on here 😂, beautiful locomotive
That's so funny, because my IMMEDIATE reaction to the car was to just back up. But how long did it take well over a dozen people to make the same conclusion?
According to the video it took 56 minutes for someone to think “why don’t we get it out the same way it got in.”
9:00 Duh, let's push this car forward instead of backwards. Real smart.
Yeah, defiantly not taking so much time! Not like they’re gonna get by a train or something!
Oh, is what these 2 steel things are for 🤣?
CALLED RAILROAD TRACKS!!!
REMOVE TINTED WINDOWS!
I love the "boing-boing" sounds you inserted! VERRRY funny.
geez Ashland once again ya steal the limelight 😆
My dad always drove through here to get to grandma's in beaverdam. I've never seen anyone turn onto these train tracks for thirty years.
Ok, as soon as you make that turn, doesn't a little voice say " this doesn't look right?" Always entertaining though.
Good thing all those people came out to laugh- help
Are we back to Cars On The Tracks season again
Looks like a small town. Imagine living in this town and being the one to do this. You would never hear the end of it!
i hope so.....:-)
I’m not surprised that it was someone in a Ford “Escape” who was trying to make an “Escape” on the train tracks
Lololol
That CSX loco a long way from home
Probably wondering how the heck did I get here?
I still think they need to paint a 1-2m white stripe marking the sides of the road way. That driver was looking at an approaching car's headlights, straight in their eyes, and was probably light-blinded as they drove off the road, onto the track. Why oh why aren't they backing up, though? "I didn't get a Reverse Gear on this car." Maybe that's it. Oh - they FINALLY thought of that - "Gee, is that what Reverse means? Never knew that before!!" du-uh
Maybe a row of those red reflecting turtles near the edge of the pavement.
Is it just a coincidence that all of the incidents in Ashland occur after sunset?
Probably after happy hour.
4:28 nice loco in the background!
21:00 I thought the locomotive caught fire
1:00 Gold BNSF!!! paint scheme H2!
Don't know why i find the H2 and H3 schemes so pleasant to look at
They should put better lighting at that spot
I can't figure out is why they keep driving forward till they can't go any further and don't stop and back up as soon as they drive onto the tracks
All they need to do is place Delineator Posts between the tracks on both sides, problem solved. We have this similar setup in Bartlett Illinois but because of the posts, we don;t have the problem the problem.
I was there when it happened
Ashland, Va. needs to put arrows showing straight ahead & then left turn arrows where the left turn actually is. Maybe this will stop some of the boings.
We see this on Toronto streetcar tracks some times, but they eventually fall below grade to an underground station about a mile away. And that’s about where they sometimes find them, the drivers just keep going forward for some reason. And the warning signage is VERY LARGE and over the top, yet it keeps happening.
Lol totally awesome this gets so interesting
I took a photo of the CSX 1189 MP15 at Moncrief yard in Jacksonville Florida on Jan 16th 2022.
Roads are for cars,tracks for trains,so simple to understand
How do they do it? I would love to just one time, sit down and have a calm conversation with one these folks, to learn what they were thinking, how this can happen continuously.
I looked at the street on Google Maps street view and it becomes clear the way they have that particular lane marked, "Left Turn Only", even though the LEFT TURN is actually past the tracks, farther down the street. Makes sense now.
Just taking their SatNav far too literally rather than engaging a brain.
Alcohol?
@@donnaswan347 Even if the sign said that, can't they see the tracks? It's not like it's all that dark. It's well lit. If I saw the "Left Turn Only" sign, I know enough not to turn onto the tracks.
Every time I see one of these videos, I think to myself "What? Are you blind? You can't see those well lit tracks?"
@@georgeberry3832 Absolutely...they must not be watching what's in front of their headlights. Strange people....strange drivers.
They put up concrete barriers and a fence to keep cars off that side street, but there are still drivers bound and determined they want to go that way even if it means driving on the tracks 😋
Ok, thats someone clearly fallowing their GPS/NAV whatever blindly.
"Can I turn left here? Is this a road? Ballast, rails. Yes, this is a road all right. A real bumpy one too."
One of them that newfangled corduroy roads. Look it up...
Hey, this is better than half the roads back home.... think I'll use it. Hahahaha
They should put crossing gates blocking the tracks and when a train comes they go up when the street ones go down, and then back again.
Sometimes I wonder if these car-on-tracks incidents are DUIs.
These drivers never learn
When this keeps happening at the same place the fault lies with the Railcorp for not installing preventive measures. It's shareholder value value first, public safety last. The glories of capitalism.
@@andywomack3414 I'd say it's the town's problem. What should the RR do?
These folks have a different idea of the tracks that I have, but in Kentucky they seem to think the train is just moving traffic and can pull over.
8:20 - Maybe he was headed for the "Trains and Toys" store there in the background.
Came for the trains, stayed for the cars on the tracks...
I notice that when the cops arrived, the 'help' disappeared.
I don't understand why he couldn't just back up the way he came. Eventually he did but it took so long.
All that time and fuss just to back up. Honestly.
The only way that you would show me on these cams I would have to go to Ashland, VA, and get my car stuck on the tracks.
I went out of my way to go to Cordele GA and waved my hands off several times and never saw it.
🇺🇸🔰 That flatbed driver can make an honest living just pulling cars off the tracks 😂
Look ing at that car turn on to tracks, then carry on. Then watching all the action. Looks like Google maps navigation strikes again.
I wonder if Ashland PD has a special 10 code for cars on the tracks
I think it's 10-911
Think it's ID 10 T hahaha
Thank goodness they just backed the car up this time instead of damaging it horrible like that one time. 😶 They still need to change the traffic pattern there. Don't keep the two lanes over the tracks. That is part of the old traffic pattern. Make it one lane and then open the left turn only lane after the tracks.
Would suggest they construct 'fake grass' barriers across the edges of the roads crossing the tracks at Ashland (and other towns). Up to the height of mature corn but can flex under a passing train and obviously not on the actual rails. And possibly shorter between the rails. (Traction motors get hot and so do wheel brakes.) Could be plastic or sprung metal rods. Colour to suit local preferences.
Maybe a little bit of extra asphalt to make a ramp so driver's could back out without spilling their coffee! 🤔
it took them that long to figure out just to back the car up.....durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Looks like Ashland needs to make the crossing arms rotate to block the tracks instead of the usual raise and lower scheme. Of course it wouldn't be as entertaining.
Yea! Reading heritage unit!
Another one got stuck on there yesterday too.
Towing company in Ashland...Stonks!
I have an idea. Every time a car ends up on the tracks, the operator is fined some huge fine, like $500 or $1K, in addition to whatever else is meted for DUI, or Failure to Not Be An Idiot, Felonious Mopery, or just Loitering With Intent To Mope. Then use the proceeds to install gates like the ones across the roadway, only these would go across the tracks. They go up and down quickly, and wouldn't adversely affect the railroad.
my thoughts exactly!
I live about an hour from Ashland, one of these days I'm going to drive up there and cross these tracks at night just to see how much the lighting and signage helps or hinders drivers, for science! 😎
I bet many of the people in Ashland have the railroad dispatch number saved on their phones for speed dial by now given how frequent this seems to be for their comunity.
Why don't they just make a "sloped" edge down to the RR bed? Or have something there that can be temporarily put in place to get these vehicles out?
Heh ... bad enough the level of stress can be on a driver driving in an unfamiliar town. But how much more stress it must be to suddenly find you've made a mistake like this and inadvertently provided the local townsfolk their entertainment for the evening! There was another VRF video where they cheered on another driver who got caught in the same way, but figured out how to reverse and get back on the road. * HUZZAH! *
16:05 a Staley hopper way out west
I only visit this site just to see how many cars drove on the tracks today !!!
3:15 How about that? A NAFTA Trifecta!
CSX Must have a continuing "slow order" for Ashland every day, and night.
Seriously? Those drivers can't see that there's NOTHING in front of them except for railroad ballast, NOT PAVEMENT????
Awesome grab bag
some one should take the Town of Ashland to court ... very dangerous intersection .....
Ashland City needs ramps from the road to the railbed in order to let unlucky drivers back off the railbed again.
At least oncoming helpers would have an easier job helping the driver out on the road again.
My son, there's no way to fit a circle inside a triangle in this toy!
Whenever someone waxes enthusiastic about how near we are to a flying car in every garage, point them to Ashland, VA.
Ohhh boy... you said a mounthful!
You are so right.
we all will be seeing "flying pigs" long before that happening....:-)
19:33 where have those kcs ace’s been at
Ashland must be one of the few places in the US that a drivers licence is not required !!!
What, it took almost five minutes for someone to call the police! I would have thought, that would have been the first thing to do.
The first thing to do is to call the train dispatch emergency number located on the little blue sign at the crossing and give them the crossing ID number on the sign along with the info that a car is on the tracks. Calling the police would be the 2nd thing to do.
That car almost got crossed by a csx
7:07 That one moment you wish you bought the AWD model.
How about block off any left turn lane at Ashland and put up no left turn signs?
I’ve seen were they come from the other directions and make right hand turns too so it’s not just left turns unfortunately.
They need physical barriers.
@@medicbabe2ID they need brains.