"Uhhh...we have stupid people here!" | SRY 128 at Bowen Road
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Date: July 7th, 2024
Locomotives:
SRY 128 - EMD GP9u (Ex CP 1583/8671)
SRY 108 - EMD GP9u (Ex JCLX 1627, Ex CP 1627/8813)
Carrier: Southern Railway of Vancouver Island, Island Corridor Foundation
Subdivision: Victoria
Milepost: 76.7
Track classification: Main track
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"A lot of people shouldn't be driving" and I actually agree with that
In North America we usually don't give people any alternative options to driving.
Or voting
It would help if there was public transport
@@veramae4098 I get the feeling freight rail companies resist public transit because it would muck up their networks with passenger trains.
Driving? Some these folks shouldn't be walking.
Guess some people have not figured out that you NEVER stop on railroad tracks. Thankful that this train was moving very slowly.
I wish it was traveling much faster
@@gm9162 if we didn't have a permanent 10 mph slow order, there would've been a pretty bad incident I'd think.
Not only that. You need to give 4-5 feet from the track as well.
Rule of Thumb, Never start across railroad tracks if there's not adequate room for your vehicle on the other side. Or is that Rule of Wrist?
I do it all the time!
Just proves some can never out grow stupid.
Pro-tip, folks: You don't wait until the crossing arms come down to stop, you stop when the red lights start flashing!
That's what flashing red lights, at an intersection OR a railroad crossing mean: STOP!
once had a malfunction crossing where the crossing arms went down seconds before the lights turned yellow and red
And school busses!!! 👍
That’s got to be embarrassing to get honked at by a train.
Nice video with nice perspectives. Thanks for leaving the camera on until the entire train passed. Very nice!
Thanks! Yeah, I'm horrible at panning so I don't even bother.
It's just how the lady said ,"You can't fix stupid " 😅
Their drivers license if they have one should be revoked at least for some period of time. Suppose this had been 180 car Freight with 30 cars of hazmat and the train couldn’t stop short of the crossing? There could’ve been another East Palestine situation so revoke their licenses for a period of time and after they have studied the drivers rules and ability to properly handle a vehicle
Also make them ho back through drivers ed,start to finish with plenty of class room,and have a minimum passing grade of 75%.
Being stupid is not a mistake
100% agree!
Ignorance is one thing, stupidity is willful ignorance
it's a choice, a bad choice, and every bad choice is a mistake.
It's hereditary.
And there’s no cure.
Surprising the old guy is still around. He didn’t just get that stupid. 🤷🏻♂️
Wasn't the old guys fault, he was blocked in where he was by two BIGGER idiots in front of his vehicle!
@@xheralt The old guy parked on the tracks. WTF do you mean it wasn't his fault? LOL learn to drive!
So what is likely the most life experienced driver in the Subi also manages to be the most inept.
I like the Griswold/RACO pedestal crossing gate signal.
I assume they are talking about the guy in the white Subaru running around. Broke the gate. What a moron.
Yep! Nanaimo drivers at they're finest right here...haha
For a noob (a.k.a. me): what did he break and when?
@@pjotrtje0NL a car backed up into one of the gates and when it went up before the train started moving again it broke off. It was the gate that isn't in view.
This video at 2:20 shows the gate going up and breaking off:
ruclips.net/video/k_4061Ozj6Y/видео.htmlsi=YL-BUcYlxuSEPBcm
The old guy in the white Subaru was blocked in by the black pickup and grey sedan ahead of him (left turn lane?) he got out to encourage the idiots ahead of him to move so he could move, which is halfway sensible since be probably couldn't back up with the gates down!
@@xheralt the idiots ahead of him? How about himself not stopping on the tracks, wouldn't that be a great idea? Can't blame vehicles up front for idiot moves someone behind them does
Quick stop with no derailment, that's good.
@@erbewayne6868 these guys are restricted to 10 mph, no derailments gonna happen despite how bad the track condition is.
Thanks for sharing 👍you really can’t fix stupid lol.
So true...
Wow that's awesome
Cool to see the old Griswold em signals still being used and not scrapped.
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist it'll all be scrapped soon, Southern Railway of Vancouver Island just refuses to upgrade anything. But once we have a new owner and operator everything will be replaced.
The caption is actually correct.
Candidates for a Darwin Award?
1:35 "We have stupid people here"
That made me chuckle. Lol.
I had no idea trains still ran on that line. Hadn't seen one in almost a decade, and used to go through that stupidly designed intersection fairly regularly.
Awesome video and yes those people were very stupid, great catches and awesome spot😮
@@MattTheUPRailfan2006 haha thanks! Yes, these are Nanaimo drivers in a nut shell.
You see tracks...stop, look and listen. I dont care if those tracks are over grown with weeds and are rusted..stop look and listen.
Great little video ya have here. I've subscribed. Cheers from Southern Ontario 😊
Thanks!
There's 2 types of Subaru drivers:
BOOBARU: Those who drive Foresters, Outbacks and base Imprezas. They usually are driving 10 mph below the limit, never use a turn signal and are always there to do something dumb on the road.
DOUCHEBARU: WRX and BRZ drivers who speed, tailgate, and drive to endanger. If they're not doing that, they're disturbing the peace with their exhaust or music at 3am. Either way, Subaru drivers are among the WORST!
I've heard a survey that Subaru's are most hated brand due in fact to the two reasons you state above!
Nice to see traffic on the island.
Yes, unfortunately this is the last operation outside Wellcox. But I make the most of it, gotta get creative with such a small operation.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial I was looking to see if there are any reasonably regular operations, we are going to be out there in a few weeks.
@@meriachee the Nanaim Switcher (this train) runs a couple times a week. It's hit or miss, there's no set schedule right now. Usually it's Wednesday and Friday. However it's been really weird lately. Just rely on your scanner if you have one.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial thanks. I do have a scanner, what is their normal frequency? ( I’ll program it before we leave, then I don’t need to drag the laptop)
@@meriachee frequencies:
Victoria Sub: 160.185
Wellcox Yard 160.200
They'll make their first call out at the north switch at Stockett wye. If you have any other questions send me a text on instagram, my account link is in the description of my channel.
It’s as if people suffer from the fear of missing out on the victory getting past the gate. Short-lived victory, though.
Could you imagine if that would have been a fast moving freight or even passenger?
That would've been terrifying, car parts probably would've came flying at me.
Notch 8, dont be late!
What can you expect? This line was built over 100 years ago, and the roads and level crossings wre wholly inadequate for modern traffic conditions.
Southern Rail replaced all the crossings and safety technology in Victoria, where trains don't run. But nothing up here has been replaced and modernized where trains still train. 3 of the road crossings don't even work properly, they have to stop at them before proceeding through. Talk about a safety violation.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial I was under the impression that Southern Rail no longer owned the line on Vancouver Island.
@@heronimousbrapson863 Southern Rail never owned it to begin with. Canadian Pacific and Rail America signed an asset donation agreement with the ICF in 2003, the ICF has owned it since then. Once Rail America's contract was up, Southern Rail signed a contract with the ICF to operate the railway. But both the ICF and Southern Rail are incompetent, hense why the railway is where it is.
I will get back to Nanaimo from blighty one day. I assumed all rail traffic had ceased due to track deterioration. I tried to ride the train out of Victoria but that had ceased last time I got over to the west coast.
I think a lot of people on Vancouver Island forget Nanaimo still has a stretch of active E&N trackage, since so much rail service on the island has been shut down for so long.
Some people I know assumed that when service to Duncan ended in 2014 that meant the whole line closed.
In their defence even the Nanaimo stretch goes completely unused for probably like 29 days out of the month, everyone's kinda just silently waiting until the last customer switches to trucks... We've long since given up serious hope that the E&N will serve the island itself ever again. At least, I have.
@@trainknut what do you mean the Nanaimo stretch probably is unused 29 days out of the month? This train runs weekly, 1-3 times a week. Also, there's a future for the line and a bright and busy one. But it doesn't involve Southern Rail and the Island Corridor Foundation. They've proven time and time again they're clueless and don't know anything about running a railway properly.
Look at islandrailcorp.com, those guys know what they're doing and will be the ones who restore the railway. The Island Corridor Foundation has no hope in doing that.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial I said probably, I don't live in Nanaimo, thankfully, I'm not that desperate yet.
That's honestly an impressive amount of traffic, I've only ever seen the GP9s out of the yard twice since 2014, I just assumed this meant traffic was limited, since no one ever talks about it.
@@trainknut you'd be surprised how much is gets talked about in some Facebook groups. And yea, some people are still shocked about how often the train runs here. It'll be nice to see multiple trains a day pass through in the future.
When BC Hydro was built most of the urban greater Vancouver sprawl didn't exist. 10-4 on stupid people.
It seems to me that so many people just read the state handbook enough to pass the written test to get their driver’s license! Unfortunately, there is no test for stupidity or many drivers would loose their license. Yes, we all can make a small mistake, but some people make them all the time, continuously! Like turn signals!!!
Stupid is as stupid does.
Chingon el sonido de las 2 maquinas 😮😮😮😅😅😅ánimo que se oiga mi maquinista 👍👌🚂🚂🚂🚂
That driver looks pretty old, so it's too late. He's probably already produced offspring.
I see the Canada flag...
I read that in the USA, the only vehicles with actual right-of-way is a train. Police, Fire, Ambulance, do not have right of way to a train. :)
I won't stop my car between the cross guards if I can avoid it at nearly any cost. If that was me in that white SUV, I'd have been going somewhere.
NEVER EVER stop on tracks or within several feet of them.
This was different. Usually it’s a truck stuck on the tracks and a big mess afterwards.
@@Rob94hawk yep. We have a never ending 10 mph slow order on the tracks here so the train was able to stop quickly without people dying. The train crew just got annoyed. Lol.
Of course it’s a Subaru!
“Stupid drivers …it what makes a Subaru, a Subaru.” Lol jk. Toyota Camry drivers are still the most incompetent. Nothing is unseating their throne. 😅
Nope. For Toyota, PRIUS drivers are the worst. 2nd are curry scented Corolla or Sienna drivers.
Went by there one day and the gate was randomly going up and down. No train.
Yes plane to see here.
No, that was a train
It's not like you don't know where the train is going to be
Yup. Stupid. Quite clearly there is a stop bar before the tracks. They came to the red light and crossed over the stop bar and sat on the tracks. Then there’s a train coming. And the gates come down. Now what??
Curious as to why the train came that far north. The propane fuel siding is a kilometer south from Bowen. Would anyone know?
There is a double track further up where they change direction, I think
i cross one set of tracks on my way to and return from seeing my mom. and it is a main line for the bnsf. mostly containers.
but people keep pulling ip and blocking the line.
even on the branch line of the up. couple side rd’s cross it and people block it. but it only sees a couple trains if maybe only one train a week. ( a canned food corp, 4 waffle cars each time) sad only one customer left on this end of line.
in my life time used to be four or five here. before my time it was a main line for a short line rr.
NO connection between the two railroads here. even thor they are sorta side by side as one is a straight line and the other is curved at this point.
The fuddy duddy in the Coors Light Subaru, all he had to do was back up and hang a U-turn or go over to the very far right lane. I guess common sense was not home that day.
Nanaimo drivers are just dumb in general, this happens a lot when emergency vehicles and the train meet at the same intersection.
All of them shall have driver's license revoke and sent back to a driving school to learn what to do, when to do it and understand the why all if this confirms, or not, with an exam
@@dhache1195 agreed! I had this one guy comment on here saying it wasn't the drivers faults and the engineer was being a “hot head”. I 100% agree with you, there may be a day where fast trains get rolling through here again. What's gonna happen if this happens and the trains going much faster than 10 mph? Well, all hell will break lose. People need to learn how to drive. Nanaimo drivers are the absolute worst.
And not a single bystander took initiative to tell the pickup truck to edge up. Come on folks. Pitch in a little.
Yep, which made the old guy in the Subaru have to do it.
wow, Canadian train speed!
@@PeterNGloor trains in the rest of the country go pretty damn fast. The tracks are so bad here that can't exceed 10-15 mph.
Always LOOK to make sure you are not the one stopped behind traffic on the track! You know about don't block the grid, same thing.
That gentleman was way up there in age..they lose depth perception and hearing by 80..crazy
Nice video.
It would have been nice if you had included the firetrucks responding.
Thanks! Yea, I had my tripod a certain way so I wasn't able to, it would've been a cool little thing to add into the video for sure!
Is there no track clearance faze for the traffic signals there?
There is, but 2 fire engines passed as the gates were doing down and it caused for a lot of confusion and idiocy. The lights for the highway turned green before the guys blocking the crossing could move.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial Ah, so unfortunate timing of the fire trucks caused them all to miss the track clearance green. Lucky for them that the train was traveling slowly enough to stop.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial So the initiating circumstance is the lack of signal coordination between emergency vehicles, local traffic signals, and the crossing safety equipment? I'm not excusing the drivers (esp the Subaru driver), but it seems like this is set up to fail those caught in the signaling confusion.
@@raygunsforronnie847 yea, that's correct.
4:04 SLAM!
Wherer were they taking the propane? Superior Propane is before this location.
They were heading to Wellington Siding where they'd switch ends, there's no siding track where they can switch ends at Superior. They swap out loaded tanks for empties, head to Wellington, switch ends and go back to Wellcox.
This entire video covers the Superior job, at 17:04 shows them switching ends at Wellington.
ruclips.net/video/qDRXt9NvC88/видео.html
What camera do you use?
Sony Handycam CX-405.
For sure,not a lot in the Brain Department 😩
@@frankirvine316 very true. I could tell the crew, especially the engineer who was the only one in the cab at the time wasn't too thrilled. But hey, it made for a good video.
UNBELIEVEABLE ! ! ! Stupid doesn't quite cover this.......
Did the booms go up again based on time or did somebody intentionally open them back up to try and clear the traffic?
If the train doesn't go over the other end of the circuit in a certain amount of time, the gate arms will go up. And that's what happened in this case, if the train crew deactivated the crossing there would've been a code punched in on the radio along with an automated voice over the radio.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial That seems incredibly dangerous... here in europe most crossings have a detection plate before and after the crossing to engage and disengage it. Running it on a timer leeds to exactly these problems: a slower running train running onto a crossing with open booms...
@@QemeH no, it just means if the train stops in front of the crossing, the crossing will time out and will deactivate after a certain period of time. However, the gates will go back down once the train starts moving again, as displayed in this video.
The signals won't time out if the trains in the middle of the crossing. Once the train is in the middle of the crossing, the gates aren't going up and deactivating unless there's some sort of malfunction.
Sorry, I didn't explain it right.
@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial Ah, I understand. So whenever the train is moving onto the crossing, the booms are down. Gotcha! I almost thought it was one of those "MURICA" type things... :D
Stupid is is Stupid does Mrs Blue I guess sooo 🎉
I bet they have drivers liscences
Yea. Like the conductor said "some people really shouldn't be driving.
See it alot here
Why do people stop on railroad tracks?Y?Y
What DMV was stupid enough to give an old geezer, who is so old he has no clue how to drive a car and does not know what warnings there are for an oncoming train and is not smart enough to get out a his car right away which is parked on a train track with a train heading towards him?? This dangerous driver's lack of comprehension, unaware of what traffic warnings are, inability to understand obvious dangers like sitting in a car while a massive train is heading towards him and having a legal driver's license is mindblowing and will become a nightmare when and if he kills himself or others because, although he is obviously not fit to drive, is allowed to by the state!!! If anyone says I am saying these things only because he is old, let me say this, younger driver's who are stupid enough to make the same mistake do so by choice, this man did it because he had no clue about anything.
If the gate is coming down, what the hell is the rush? Maybe the rule ought to be, if your crossing while the lights are flashing, and you cannot clear the tracks, then the train has the right to plow your vehicle off the right of way! Just kidding. A few people are just stupid, lazy, inconsiderate and selfless.
This is a problem of stupid intersection design and a lack of regular rail traffic.
It's really just a fact of stupid intersection design, the train runs pretty regularly here.
My late father did one better than this guy. Before I was born he attended an event and parked on the railway tracks as he thought the line was abandoned. When he came out he knew the line was still in service as his car had been pushed off the tracks. Thankfully the line was only occasionally used for less than carload freight and has since been torn up.
😂😂😂I, first timers to see train coming ?
@@tessietesoro7407 haha, probably. Most people think this lines abandoned.
From this the RR police or RCMP should give that idiot a ticket
We don't have railway police here and no one got the guys license plate so the reporting him to the RCMP would've been totally pointless.
The idiocy here in America is multiplying.
I hate to admit this , but it wasn't in America. This happened in Nanaimo BC. Canada. This rail line is only used once or twice a week and the signage is complicated, there are 2 sets of stopping lines, first set will fit 2 cars between the rails and the stop line. then there is an arm with another stop line. so if you are not used to this set up it is easy to get caught.
@@ronerskine2173 Thank you for making me aware of this..
We have plenty of level crossing idiots in the UK too. Some of them ar n't even in cars.
Great video - Like me!
Someone said, "Wish i got out and got that old guys licsense plate". If thats the Train driver(Engineer) maybe he needs a course in "ANGER MANAGEMENT"? My point is people make "BAD CHOICES" all the time, and its up to the people in charge of Heavy Equipment to GUIDE people making bad choices from getting injured or killed...i do however get the Engineers frustration, but that doesn't help the issue at hand, as theres CLEARLY a broken crossing arm(as they mentioned?) 2 wrongs dont make a right.
People driving cares are equally as responsible for making sure they don't get killed, and the gate arm broke off after someone backed into it when it was down, when it went up after the train stopped it fell on a guys truck.
That whole crossing needs to be Ripped up and Re-designed entirely, its a Hazard waiting to KILL someone! This crossing would be a GREAT ENGINEERING PROJECT for the students a UBC to study and find a better way. Gotta be better than the Railway Engineer that designed this crossing(musta got his/her engineering license in the proverbial 'Cracker Jack Box of Candy'? BTW... are you SERIOUS about people driving responsibly nowadays?(not likely) Its up to the Pro's to get everyone home safely, the driving public has NO idea how to drive safely i figure.(sigh) BTW, Im a retired BC Trucker with NO accidents over 25+ years.
@@Streamer687 yea, it's ridiculous. All these old crossings will never be redone as long as Southern Railway of Vancouver Island is in control. Hell, there's 3 crossings in Southern Nanaimo that don't work, they have to come to a complete stop before crossing them, Technical Safety BC comes through anually and signs off on all the crap SVI is doing. By not replacing the crossings that don't work they're imposing a public safety risk and should be ordered to replace them or be forced to shut down. However, if and when this new rail company takes over, everything will be redesigned and replaced.
My country is failing. Fast
It's not falling apart. It's falling in place, ready for the lord
@@dannyjohnson3335 yeah, however you’d like…
Flip side, and dang I lost the phone I recorded it with. In Durham NC. Engine is assembling a consist. EMS comes up the road. Engineer sees the paramedics and guns the engine so he blocks the tracks. He could have waited 10 seconds. There was no reason he couldn't back that up 20". You $45 per hour union pukes get no sympathy from me.
I NEVER MET MY GOD. MOTHER. PATTI
SHE WAS NEWLY MARRIED AND ON HER WAY TO WORK AND GOT HIT BY A TRAIN / I THINK SHE WAS 28
🎉🎉🎉
Yeah, some old MRL
These ones aren't ex MRL, they're ex CP Rail. SRY Rail Link was originally going to aquire the MRL 128 and 108, but those were dead and would cost too much to get running, so they got these two and numbered them 128 and 108. All the other SRY GP9's are ex MRL however, just not these ones.
You just can't fix stupid,
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unbelievable. Kindalike Russia
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And ... the online vigilantism begins. Sometimes humans make errors. Ease people - eeeease. ✌🏼
You never, never, never, stop on the tracks. Assume that all railroad crossing active. Bill from California
Errors? Accidents are caused when one doesn't have control of the events that causes Accidents. One corrects a error when it's made. Stopping on RR tracks is not an error. It's a lack of judgement, or in other words, STUPIDITY!
The engineer was one of those stupid people, the old guy did everything humanly possible to clear the (semi abandoned) right of way but that wasn't good enough for the hothead engineer who was acting like he was on the transcontinental mainline , if you want to blame someone blame the idiot in the work truck who was probably texting or blame ottawa who can't seem to decide whether to open or close this rail line!!!😢
The design engineers of today are out of sight stupid.
Who put their name to that conjunction? Oh my lordy added to that the car drivers.
Oh I know deis the lot of them.
Booooooooring! A waste of 4 minutes 32 seconds.
Oh...you really hurt my ego by saying my video was boring. It was your choice to click on the video and it seems like you think that I care what you (some nobody) thinks.
That spot is terrible. A barely used rail line along the most congested part of the city occasionally introduced a train during rush hour.
This was at noon, so it wasn't rush hour traffic and the train runs 3 times a week so it's used pretty often. But yea, it's a horrible spot.