[SFS] Locomotives that HIT STUFF...

[@WMRRFIREBALL]

One more thing, in addition to "be safe, be smart, please promote finding the blue sign with the phone number and crossing code. The FIRST thing to do if an incident of some sort is blocking the tracks. There is a always a train coming and dispatch can tell the train crew to stop the train which can make the incident not get a whole lot worse. None of my friends were aware of the signs.

[@Hyce777]

Excellent point.

[@SimonBauer7]

To all the German viewers, please call the authorities, either tell them where its located, or the number (usually on the hut next to the crossing with BÜ). call 112.

[@toymachine2328]

I finally googled this to see exactly what the signs look like and where they're located, I keep meaning to check out some local crossings for the signs to familiarize myself with them outside of an emergency situation.

[@randombird-e8i]

In australia, look for yellow signs, they work the same way but are yellow.

[@nielsleenknegt5839]

This is a strange coincidence. The day before this was uploaded, in Belgium, a line bus mostly carried middle and high schoolers to school when it suddenly broke down on a level crossing. The driver first did a thing to get get his bus restarted and get out of there and onwards or at least off the rails. Then evacuated the bus. 57 seconds after evacuation a train made contact. Bus was empty and only a couple of people got injured on the train. I heard on the news the spokesman for the railway basicaly telling the driver off for not calling the dessicated number to get trains stopped. Now important to note, the bus was stopped for 2min 57sec when contact happend. The timeing of evacuation was taken from a kid who basically started filming when he got off. Now imagine you are that driver and your bus suddenly stops. You try to restart the thing, perhaps twice, then you have to think, crap this ain't moving, get up and make sure all passengers get off safely. By the time that is happend you have got to know what to do. I don't know details as I wasn't on the bus but I think sometimes there is wrong place wrong time. Also, bus was 19 years old, had over 600 000 miles on the clock. The main operating body uses crap like that, it had an inspection (like all motorised vehicles need ro have here) and was cleared for another year, but contractors who drive around 50% of the milage of lines and do so in name of the main company so to speak, get forced to either run even older stuff because hey, timetables changing in 3 weeks time and you get 4 more shifts you need to run or force them to constantly modify because a 15 year old bendy bus with only 150 000 miles on it (cus it only ran at peak hours) was to poor for their standards. In 5 and a half years the only thing I ever saw wrong with it was a speedo thar wasn't working, for some reason that was mounted via a hinge and a key and some guy had opend that door breaking contact, and the rear doors that weren't working for a couple of days. I rode that beast nearly daily and I'm sad it didn't get preserved. Oh well, at least her younger sisters at the same depot got longer lives (due to bus shortages at the main company, they lone in the old crap of the contracters.) Sorry for the tangent.

[@sambrown6426]

14:14 I have a sign on my bedroom door that says "Caution, trains have no brain, please use your own", and I absolutely love it

[@haraldhechler3557]

America has shown recently very impressively that brain is not mandatory.

[@rus0004]

"What should I do with the carcass?" "How good are you at barbecue?"

[@KR4FTW3RK]

That picture of the SW1500 on its side could be straight out of Derail Valley... surreal. That's 115 tons of locomotive standing up on its side.

[@pootispiker2866]

Sleepy

[@OutbackCatgirl]

oh so eepy, just a sleebgy lil guy

[@adalbertbuchaniec1199]

7:39-9:21 As my dad phrased it well, “You can’t win an argument with a train, the train will win every time.”

[@0ptera]

"Don't mess around at level crossings" certainly is good advice. The train will win every time.

[@Spudstered]

The train doesnt win, nobody does, the train just loses less

[@SheepInACart]

Sadly it does not win every time, and when a high speed passenger service derails and rolls over, we loose a lot more lives than just the one driver who tried to run the barriers.

[@PennsyPappas]

Those front end collisions were definitely FENDER BENDERS! Thank you for sharing your these phots and stories.

[@itsjustaviper]

LIMES

[@PennsyPappas]

@itsjustaviper My comment has been deemed "worthy" of LIMES, such an honor

[@Spudstered]

"That's a fender bender!" - Lionel Train-Town

[@PennsyPappas]

@Spudstered I still have those discs at home.

[@InkblotHyena]

Remember: A fully-loaded train can take upwards of a mile to stop. We've had a few people at the Valley Railroad attempt to 'beat the train', which was scary, and downright stupid. Sure, we're going slow, but at the same time, this is hundreds of tons that won't stop on a dime. The fastest we've stopped an engine at the speeds we run took 165 feet, and that was at a very slow speed due to poor conditions. "Use your head, don't end up dead." ~ Norman, the old-timer that I spoke to at Strasburg back in 2019.

[@peregrina7701]

The poor switch choochoo clean up off its wheels was nuts. Thank you for sharing, these sidelights on the industry are always fun. Also much appreciate the PSA, be safe out there everyone :)

[@TransTaey]

i distinctly remember seeing semi trucks with trailer liveries promoting train safety, because they all had a picture of a diesel loco with text along the lines of "trains will not stop for you" or something close to it

[@DJRAILWAY]

Some of the stuff that I have heard of train vs are Ship (ship lost) A plane that was still in the air (steam train goes BOOM) A hot air balloon (the balloon was the one that hit the train) Two tanks ( the tanks were scrapped afterwards) And a helicopter (helicopter did a emergency landing on the track when there was no train, train come in later)

[@itsjustaviper]

Imma need the stories for those first two... 😂

[@royreynolds108]

@@itsjustaviper The one about the plane and train goes BOOM happened a lot in WWII from planes strafing trains with machine-gun fire and/or bombs during the war.

[@kingofthepod5169]

Ah yes a history in the dark viewer.

[@loficampingguy9664]

Can we add train vs submarine? More accurately train vs submarine's scuttling charges, but still a very fun story where this train also went boom

[@allancroskery1811]

@@loficampingguy9664USS Barb, the only Sub credited with sinking a train as I remember

[@sylvisterling8782]

"What train do when kill animal? What do with animal?".... BARBECUE, BABY!!!!!!!

[@johndavid8815]

That’s a free Texas BBQ😂

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

"Covered in grass", oh young and unwise Hyce back then. If only it was grass.

[@BiggHoss]

I used to be a body-man, I dealt with more deer hits than I can count. As soon as you said hit a herd of cattle I just snapped back to power washing deer bits off of cars. Fun times lol.

[@CDROM-lq9iz]

Hoo boy do I have some stories about this stuff too lol. I only have three years at the railroad, but I've seen the aftermath from a couple train vs. car situations, two train vs. truck scenarios, a number of tree strikes, two or three deer/cows that got whacked, three smashed out draft gear pockets, one that got sideswiped, and even one that hit a grain silo. (and a partridge in a pear tree) One of the ones that sticks out was a straight body tanker truck loaded with water that hit a locomotive at a crossing. (Yes, the truck hit the locomotive) The crew was coming down a grade with an empty stone train and saw the truck coming. They blew for the crossing and everything, but when the engineer thought the truck wouldn't be able to stop, he dumped the train and the crew hunkered down in the cab. They said it looked like a Hollywood explosion out the engineer's side window. Just a fireball taller than the locomotive. The truck hit the side of the front truck on the lead locomotive hard enough to derail the locomotive. The momentum from the rest of the train managed to derail the second truck on that locomotive as well as the first truck on the next locomotive and the second truck on that locomotive had both wheelsets with their flanges up on the rail head. The lead locomotive got far enough off the track that the front pilot was buried up to the running boards. After the dust settled a bit, the crew got out and found the driver on fire running into a nearby creek and rolling around trying to put himself out. The driver ended up getting life flighted to a hospital and his truck sat at the crossing and burned up the side of the third locomotive in the consist. If I recall correctly, they found that the truck hit the lead engine going over 45mph, I'm honestly amazed that the driver survived. We also had one that hit a truck stuck on a grade crossing because the driver took the wrong road over the tracks and the front coupler hit the fuel tank on the side of the truck which popped like a balloon a covered the front half of the locomotive in diesel fuel. That driver ended up getting into a heap of trouble for reasons I won't get into here. One of the scarier ones was actually a tree strike. It was an SD40-2 that hit a large tree that had been blown down in a storm and one of the limbs managed to smash the window on the front door out and managed to make it all the way through the cab a left a 2in deep dent in the electrical cabinet door about a foot from where the conductor's head would have been if he was sitting. For those that don't know, front facing windows on a locomotive have to be able to withstand a 24lb (~11kg) cinder block at about 30mph (~50kph) so that was one heck of a tree limb to just smash right through. So yeah, I've seen some good ones too lol.

[@murphsmodels8853]

This reminds me of a few stories. Many moons ago, I worked for a company called Renzenberger that was contracted by the railroads to transport their crews to and from their trains. Any time a crew went dead, a Renzenberger van took out a new crew and picked up the old crew. I was stationed at BNSF's MOBEST yard in Phoenix as the Yard Driver. As crews came in and went off duty, I'd drive them to the hotel, or pick up crews at the hotel coming on duty. One day, I got called to pick up a crew that had been in a collision. They had been coming in to town, doing 15mph, and hit a car that ran a red light trying to beat the train. (Obligatory PSA: Running a red light to beat a train is doubly stupid, don't do it). There was the usual damage to the loco, plus a car with a caved in side and coupler shaped hole in the door, but no driver. The driver had gotten out and run away. The police were standing around looking puzzled, until one saw a trail of blood. Last I saw, the officers were walking off following the trail. Another story is when, at a container loading/unloading facility, a container car had been ever so slightly derailed by a crane, but nobody noticed until it got pulled out of the facility, and went fully derailed and ripped up a quarter mile of track.

[@hannahranga]

Containers are great when they go out of gauge, we had one take out a few signals.

[@Sigil_Firebrand]

I was just about to get some sleep, working on that 3 railroads in a trench coat parody kept my adhd me up late, but aw heck sleep can wait a bit! Its SFS time!

[@ixenvire]

"Its a train, its not gonna come get you" isn't something I've really thought about before

[@anthonyvancampen6729]

LOL! I spent a couple of years of my military career doing physical security. The place I worked at leased a lot of the property to local ranchers who ran herds of cattle on some of the ground. One night one of my coworkers hit a cow as it stepped up out of a ditch onto the road. By the time I got there, Frank was at the back of his car spitting and coughing trying to clean out his mouth. Apparently, the cow had been spun by the collision, broken the passenger window, and sprayed the inside of the car.

[@QuorkQTar]

3:40 - That's not what I expected. Here, the fire fighters will hose the train down (after the police and, where applicable, the undertaker are done doing their thing). Then it'll get to the special cleaning track (corpse pit is what we call it, I don't even remember the official term) where specialised cleaners do their very thorough job from all sides including the underside and only then will the shop accept the vehicle anywhere indoors. The train driver (or their reliever) will check if the train can run on site. If they're unsure, a technician will be sent to go take a look. Fun fact; crows and other corvids being the especially intelligent animals they are have learnt long ago what the pressure cleaners at the cleaning site mean. You can go for days without seeing one of those birds in the whole vicinity, but once the pressure cleaner is out, there's a flock sitting around the corpse pit, patiently waiting for the train to come. 4:35 - "What do you want me to do with the carcass?" Don't you guys have a staff cantina on site? 🤪 6:05 - Ouch. Gets even nastier with crash buffers we have on some vehicles. When you see a deformation on those, you don't go anywhere that is, in the broadest possible sense, in front of them. You don't. It's a loaded, live cannon and you don't know where on the fuse it is. There's a very massive steel frame shop workers will put around it to secure it before anything else can be done. I mean - it stores a very substantial part of the impact energy and it can release it very instantaneously. It won't be enough for reaching low earth orbit probably, but it will certainly be enough for reaching whatever variety of afterlife one might believe in or not. 12:10 - Funny you need special permits from authorities to move a defective vehicle. Here it's within the scope of the company's mandate as a safety certified railway company to do such things safely. If the brake system isn't working, well, then you tow it without brakes, shrug. You put a braking vehicle behind, do your brake percentage calculation and carry on. 13:20 - That's something many foamers don't understand. Railway operations and railway preservation are two completely separate worlds. Railway operations is there for operating a railway (duh): Providing economical, ecological, safe transport of people and goods from A to B. Of course the companies have a responsibility for their own history (which they don't always respect as they should), but if a vehicle is not a good solution for the current needs, then it just isn't and should go away from day to day operations. Yes I'm glad we still have historical locomotives running in preservation, steam and other, but I absolutely am not interested in having them as my day to day workplace. I do love my ergonomy, modern crash safety and energy economy of modern vehicles, thank you VERY much. Thank you for showing this, and also for the serious note at the end. I've had to relieve a colleague after a fatal accident and - yeah you just don't want to be there. Yet it happens to most of us. On average slightly above twice per career here in Germany. Way more often in some other countries, even.

[@Hyce777]

Yeah I don't know what the average is here but I'd bet it's more than twice for a career.

[@QuorkQTar]

@Hyce777 it's also very unevenly distributed, both among types of trains (local vs long distance, passenger vs cargo) and geographically. There's a specific psychiatric hospital in southwestern Germany that's … yeah let's just say its connections to the national rail network are significantly better than its reputation. It shows. Significantly.

[@FabiaLp]

You can keep you modern locos, I will stick to my 50+year old horses as long as we can operate them on the network. Yes, you are literally first at the accident scene, but I love the simplicity and ease of maintenance with every problem being physical and a "can't be fixed, it's a software issue" isn't an answer

[@ravenamiir9340]

As someone who does a lot of driving for my job. Something i have actually started doing is no matter what the circumstances are. i will always turn on my hazards, slow down, and treat every crossing as a road intersection so i can verify myself that it is all clear

[@MinorLG]

hell, I just drive a normal car and still, at rr crossing, Approach, look, look the other way, look back, go across. exception being on more major thoroughfares where it's a completely flat level crossing, And like a 40 something mile per hour speeds at minimum.

[@VirtualRailfanProductions]

I don't think this one is gonna get Monetized LOL

[@Hyce777]

We shall see... Lol

[@mmi16]

No displayed gore or human death.

[@pubbarian]

Great video as always and excellent timing for the reminder to check in on other. This is the worst time of year for those things.

[@mmi16]

Working at Locust Point yard in Baltimore (Export/Import as well as local heavy industry). A imported piece of electrical equipment loaded on a heavy duty depressed center flat car had to be weighed for revenue purposes. Crew spotted it on the scale and wound on the handbrake - the brake didn't hold and the load began a trip from the scale over the road crossing in front of the Yard Office and on down to the United Fruit Pier, where yard engines that weren't actively being used were parked opposite the Crew Room. The heavy load hit the front end of a SW-1 and snapped the 'front porch' in two (the cast steel frame of the engine was about 8 inches thick at the location where it broke - and there was no evidence of rust indicating any prior existing crack. Fortunately no one was on the engine. The electrical equipment was returned to its manufacturer. Man failure incidents happen.

[@Surkai25]

Never take a heavy piece if machinery or equipment for granted

[@TheSoutheastTexasRailfan]

Literally every Class 1 railroad except CN

[@GP30_Foamer]

I remember my dad told me a while ago about an incident he saw while he lived in Texas. While he was driving to work, he saw a train hit a cow, I’ll hide the details down further for those who don’t wish to hear what happened. The train hit the cow, and my dad told me that it literally exploded in a cloud of green and covered the front end of the locomotive. He also told me he’s seen a train hit a semi a couple of times, and when he was a kid working on a ranch, a train hit something (I don’t remember what it was) and derailed right in his back yard.

[@Franklin-jj4jz]

There are videos on YT of Indian express trains hitting cows and it's amazing the cloud of green that results.

[@Spanderson99]

Similar to Kenosha, most railroaders who bin it hard enough get stuck with a location named after them. We had “Caesar’s Scrapyard”, “Cory’s Corner”, and a spot called “The BBQ Pit”, where a very keen manager tried to take a cut of ‘splodey tank cars down a 1% grade with no air cut in. No-one was hurt too bad.

[@sudriansignalman9387]

Was only on mechanical shortly on a shortline but spent two years on a class one as a conductor. Saw one of our engines drug back in after hitting a water truck. Basically everything on the outside of the engine was destroyed. Brake cylinders, handrails, pilot steps, etc were just destroyed. It ripped the fuel cap off the tank. That was a good day for our crew. They were not injured thankfully

[@MainlyHuman]

Once saw a Pendolino come into London Euston. Largely undamaged but the whole front was smeared in bits of deer. I guess they kinda just go poof when you hit them at a hundred miles per hour, but I had no envy for whoever had to clean that up.

[@cadetkohr5508]

Fastest I've ever been to a Hyce video, and it's an SFS! Love the content mate, happy Thanksgiving!

[@ItsMoonheart2]

great vid as always Hyce, its always cool to be to see such big things get twisted in the most strange ways imaginable

[@FlyJunior172]

There’s a reason I always stop at grade crossings (aside from when I’m required to). This also illustrates why I treat any part of my bus getting hung up over tracks as an emergency (I have a red light in my city that can easily cause that).

[@SteamfanScott]

Woo, a SFS episode! Am always astounded how many cars I see stopping in the crossing waiting on a red light or stop sign, pinned in by the car in front and behind. Or the crossing runners who put 5 minutes waiting on a train over their life (I actually like being stopped and watching the train go by, lol). I did see a car hauler trailer high centered on the track, but luckily no trains came by. Happy Thanksgiving all and stay safe!

[@patricksheary2219]

Hi Mark, those pictures you shared were OMG, but also very interesting. I was absolutely amazed at how 3/4” thick steel snapped like glass and the immense force it took to make that happen. I have to admit I got a giggle at the cow episode (poor cows), like you said shocking once you realized…. I sympathize with you, Mark about the miss-matched AC unit, that so hurt my eyes! 🤣 Your message about railway safety was well said. Professor, another excellent SFS episode with great, detailed photos and beautiful storytelling. Mark, many thanks for this video and sharing your experiences, and as always cheers to you.

[@akaBoG]

Polar was a bit rough this week - but we got it done! Enjoy your holiday buddy!

[@thehouseofhorsepowerautobo4506]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your past experiences with us! Super cool! I sure wish we would have more freight train activity in southern Oregon!

[@FineApe]

Remember folks, regardless of how big and jacked up of a vehicle you drive its an empty pop can compared to even a short train.

[@Zebrails]

Here in BC, Canada, they have at pedestrian crossings on the pavement, a few feet from the rails: Locomotive silhouette, "LOOK LISTEN LIVE"... the shame that people (usually young) have their focus on their phones playing games or texting... the railways hoping, while these same people are looking down, will see this bright yellow/orange sign on the pavement. John

[@NathanielStauber]

With regard to the carcass, I noticed my local landfill has a passage in their Q&A asking customers to call ahead so they can dig a hole for disposal of any larger ex-animals in an effort to discourage scavengers. There may be a way to have it picked up by one's usual waste hauler, but I suspect local laws may require a more specialized service.

[@SheepInACart]

You say that trains aren't going out of their way to get you... but I've seen houses and even ships fall victim. The train hungers for blood, its just normally the engineer can keep it leashed.

[@Rsenior1981]

A Hyce video in the background while playing Railroader. A good time! :)

[@DanielleWhite]

The herd of cows story: my girlfriend told me about that one earlier and I could both visualize and smell it, having been a dairy farm kid who was forced to help whenever the veterinarian was called out plus had the displeasure of being around cannulated cows on occasion (dad had to as part of his degree so he was going to make sure I did as well even though I wasn't getting credit hours out of it )

[@rexhorner1895]

idk hyce is looking a bit like qui gon jinn lol XD love hearing these stories man, cant wait to hear more in the future :)

[@jordyboy62]

Seriously Hyce, you should look up some of the UK's rail safety PSA's from 80's/90's especially the ones around the danger of overhead live wires. I personally know of an incident in my hometown in Nottinghamshire, UK where teen boys thought it funny to remove the wooden bottom of a railway bridge quite frequently. This carried on until an early morning jogger went missing and was found miles away dead inside a hopper car having fallen from the bridge into the car.

[@yellingintothewind]

There are often charities that accept road kill and make it into stew for their down-and-out clients. They would _probably_ have accepted a train-killed elk, depending on ambient temperature and how long prior the elk got hit. Impact-killed meat isn't exactly _great_ , tends to be on the gamey side, but for the people who need it, it's quite a boon.

[@emilpersson8250]

This far I’ve only hit a total of two deers as an engineer. But statistically I’ll hit at least two people in my career. Luckily hitting cars is very uncommon here in Sweden.

[@leechowning2712]

One every 90 to 120 minutes... on one of the most avaidable accidents on Earth. As you said, the train is not going to go out of its way to hit you normally. I remember the Royal Gorge death, the famous one where the person jumped from the bridge into a train passing below, but any time a human and a train meet it is very upsetting, and almost universally unneccessary.

[@Hyce777]

Well said.

[@murphsmodels8853]

This reminds me of a story I was told. Many moons ago, I was at BNSF's MOBEST yard in Phoenix, and was talking to one of the engineers. He told a story of one time he hit a car on the tracks. The driver of the car tried to blame the train, saying it "swerved and hit her". The engineer told the police officer to climb into the cab of the engine, and if he found a steering wheel, the engineer would take the blame for the crash.

[@Voucher765]

Hey Hyce happy Thanksgiving and to all my fellow railfans

[@SD10s4ever]

I doubt it’s the one, but almost looks like BNSF 2868 in the background at 7:07. It was involved in a crossing collision with a semi near Sudan, TX, along with BNSF 2899 (ex-BN GP.) Last I heard it’s in Topeka at the shop awaiting disposition, as they sustained heavy damage to both locomotives.

[@sterlinggarcia9859]

your reaization that that "Grass" was sooooooooo funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@matthewmiller6068]

Also VERY important - keep off the tracks! Modern trains are MUCH quieter than you think! I've taken friends railfanning at a local park with tracks passing by it and even knowing about when something was coming, hearing the radio call, and knowing how long between the milepost callout and where we stood anyone I have taken is shocked at just how FAST the trains come around and whiz by without much if any noise until its right in front of you. If you'd been standing on the track it would be running you over by the time you heard it and looked up.

[@TheGrover1968]

There have been aircraft prop strikes from deer on a runway. The props hub and blades usually have to be scrapped and engine overhauled for inspection purposes.

[@ChrisSpringer-d1r]

Watching this on an Amtrak train with a gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean Yay!!!

[@splitgalaxygaming8509]

I'm glad I'm not the one fixing these messes. I'd rather do my job and build them new. I'm a welder at the Wabtec/Formerly GE plant in Texas and I build the trucks doing basically everything except for paint.

[@blackhawks81H]

I know train v car, the train always wins. But I wonder how railroads survived the 1960s.. How many locomotives were completely destroyed by crashing into 1965 Chrysler Imperials? 😂

[@carllee9571]

Did you see the Amtrak train that hit the fallen tree on the tracks near Stanwood, WA last week? The crew in the Cab got real lucky.

[@kellys.6047]

Very interesting, thanks for posting, I hate to see a crashed locomotive.🚂❤❤

[@maghost_rider5698]

Trains hitting things is always.....not great. In my time on the railways I have only seen the aftermath of one coming to together...kinda..... Our carriage care team were shunting one morning and managed to push 5 Mk.1 coaches past one that was ever so slightly out of gauge as it hadn't been pushing into the loop it was in far enough. Expensive morning with 6 coaches out of use due to bodywork damage, torn off door handles and hand grabs plus broken windows....

[@Hyce777]

Yikes. Yes, always not great.

[@ericgruber_guitarded]

I used to run the GN 3613 (aka bnsf) SW1000 at Willbridge yard in Portland, Or. great switcher and now it was restored and is owned by the ORHF (aka 4449, SPS 700 etc). So I can officially say I have now ran a “historic” locomotive 😂. Good to see they kept a switcher. We used to have the 3610 and another SW switcher. They are great for yard work. Lots of windows and great loading/braking.

[@RT-qd8yl]

I couldn't do your job. As much as I love trains, I love animals too. I wouldn't be able to be around that kind of thing for my own mental health, I'd break down over a cow 😢

[@ChrisOnnink]

That incident was the end of my beloved 3444…. I dunno how many times I used that engine to get around the terminal for various hostling tasks. Even used it to ping the Z power down a few times. But, wreck or not, the era of SW’s was already facing its final curtain call.

[@forbiddenknowledge2847]

Better late than never I'm going to think of that when I have my railroad open...

[@bear470]

A hyce video on thanksgiving? Oh its a great day! I hope you and yours have a fantastic thanksgiving!

[@royreynolds108]

While I was living in Jefferson, TX, a deaf man was walking along the UP track away from a crossing when a train came from behind. The curve was a 10-degree so it had a 30 mph speed limit. The engineer blew the horn for the crossing and then kept blowing it at the man who couldn't hear it. Just as the train got to the man, he stepped onto the track in front of the train. Needless to say, the engineer put the train into emergency but the man did not have a chance just feet in front of the train even at 30 mph. I remember a news broadcast in the 1950s, where the cameraman was at a train station to cover an important person arriving and was taking a film of the train arriving. Just as the train got to some people, one of them jumped in front of the train committing suicide. A very bad day for all.

[@420satin666]

What’s up Hyce love the channel and the video. I’m a welder for Wabtec/GE in Ft Worth. I do “out of scope” and deal with damage like this every day. I’ve seen some CRAZY things and would love to share some pictures and stories if you have the time/opportunity! Thank you and God bless.

[@420satin666]

Aight whatever bro I’ll see if anyone else is interested

[@bor3549]

The only thing I have ever seen bloody a locomotive's nose (besides another loco) was a HUGE bulldozer (Cat d11?? im not an expert) I dunno who got what memo wrong, but it was unloaded right on the siding/cut and got hit in the rear. Even then, the dozer still looked worse than the loco.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

My favourite part is when the train hit stuff

[@malice6081]

14:12 bending heavy gaige like its nothing. Ive moved some meaty stuff with some spreaders its amazing to see heavy duty metal move likr its a tin can

[@solarflare623]

Scrap mechanic taught me cows exploded into confetti. Apparently they explode into grass

[@Ronald.Golleher]

Grass is just dark green confetti, no?

[@BSRC318]

I got a train on an Abe Lincoln class 1 once, the power was turned somewhere inroute due to a crossing accident. By the time I got it, the train has made over 700 miles since the accident. I went to inspect the power and the 3rd motor, the one involved in the crossing accident, had the front steps and supporting steel pushed all the way into the lead truck! I called mechanical to come out and look and they said hell no, that thing doesn't need to move another inch!

[@Cammed_okie]

I wish I could post pictures of the train wrecks that we’ve had here at the shop/yard😂

[@gavinlikestrains9314]

5:14 no the meat cooking on the grill in the parking lot with the gamey taste answers all your questions

[@TRAINLORD_TF]

Every Locomotive Shop has a pile of (damaged) Steps in some Corner. At least ours do, and I've involuntary contributed to the Pile lol. Being on the Locomotive in even a small crash isn't fun.

[@Timerman765]

To be honest have i walked on railroad track. Yes im not going to deny it at all. I was smart about it by seeing if any trains were coming though

[@Hyce777]

The challenging thing to remember is that in some settings trains can be surprisingly quiet - please keep that in mind. :)

[@Timerman765]

@Hyce777 mark...to be honest can you help me understand this?

[@SimonBauer7]

​@@Timerman765especially if its winter and the train is just rolling, snow dampens the Sound a lot (but also in the summer sometimes). even worse an electric train, modern ones you dont hear at all, i regulary take the electric commuter train here in germany, and sometimes you dont hear it till its right at the Platform.

[@Timerman765]

@@SimonBauer7 thanks man

[@MainlyHuman]

​@Timerman765 also if you're dealing with high speed rail, the train may be travelling at a non-trivial fraction of the speed of sound. Even 75 mph is about 1/10th of the speed and will reduce the time you have to react.

[@doggerbendrailway6002]

I heard of a train hitting a emu all the crew saw was feathers everywhere

[@SimonBauer7]

10:01 this exact thing happened to two regional trains in germany a while back, if i recall correctly, was carrying passengers, thankfully no one got severely injured afaik.

[@kd1841]

Great video Mark!!❤

[@nicholmansgarage3501]

The picture of the SW that whacked the hoppers reminds me of a photo ive seen from the Pittsburg and Shawmut railroad in Brookville, PA. It was one of the P&S's earlier, smaller mikados, and the entire engineer's side of the cab was just gone, almost like a cutaway. A line of hoppers had broken loose and the engine was fouling a switch. The cars tore through the cab, i believe completely mashed the tender, and sadly the engineer was killed in the incident. Crazy stuff.

[@Hyce777]

Crazy indeed.... Never fun when a fatality is involved.

[@RichardKroboth]

The only incident I’ve seen was when some drunk driver was going to fast and came across the local L&NE crew drilling cars at the old Nazareth Steel Fabrication Plant. The car skidded into the Alco RS3, don’t remember the number without looking up my notes. The RS had a nick in the brake cylinder piston that required a mechanical person to inspect before the loco was cleared to continue. I watched the test and the engine was given the okay. I don’t remember what the car looked like but it was probably undriveable.

[@terranengineer8877]

Surprised bnsf doesn't have incinerators for road kill. We have them at some of our DoTs maintenance sheds

[@AlexTrain5249]

9:18 I am so glad I’m not the only one who’s really bugged by that mismatching A/C unit. It irritates me to no end lol.

[@MrDgwphotos]

The official thing you do with a wild animal carcass is to call the State Department of Fish and Wildlife. They keep track of that sort of thing.

[@chattphotos]

Perfect opportunity for a pun - when it wrecks vehicles, there are different kinds of carcasses to haul off

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

Imagine being the CSX shop crew that had to repair the locomotives from the Paintsville UFO incident. The TLDR is CSX coal train in Kentucky hits a flying saucer, and wrecks the locomotives also causes damage to the supposed UFO.

[@fetzie23]

Reminds me a bit of the old Top Gear PSA on running the lights at level crossings.

[@toymachine2328]

@@fetzie23 Always wear your hi-viz safety vest

[@kopakaskoolkompanion]

BNSF 3444 is a 1500, could immediately tell from the thumbnail. Biggest tell from that angle is the lights above the door being horizontal (stacked vertical on 1200) and the taper on the not-sure-what-that-section-is-called (on the body? either side of the door) (flat on 1200)

[@Hyce777]

Ah, cool! I never really worked with them enough to learn the differences.

[@Portuguese-linguica]

I live by a active rail yard and Amtrak on the other side of my street. Ive seen people play chicken with these trains and they loose every time . There is a accident there every two to three days and that's including death by train. It's a sad thing to witness and makes it even sadder is when they or loved by many people in the town. Into the people they keep putting graffiti on these trains. Please stop it is awful.

[@Joeybagofdonuts76]

When a friend of mine was a running a delivery office for DHL when they did local delivery. He had a van driver hit an engine.

[@gamerplayz-6394]

I believe that picture of the hopper car crash with the loco is at the north end of delta yard in Everett. That looks like the Riverside road bridge in the background

[@Initial_Gopnik]

11:13 Thats interesting, i didnt think a train would have self sealing fuel tanks, considering any accident they would get into where the fuel tank would be damaged would be like that one, and not small punctures like those from bullet holes, i wonder if that locomotive had moved some special stuff for the uncle sam at one point and had those fitted?

[@andysim232]

If it's supposed to move and doesn't, WD40, if it moves and isn't supposed to, duck tape

[@akaBoG]

Alright, worst animal story I have is the time a deer tried to jump over the spikey, parking lot fence (the historic one donated to CRRM by Union Station). I got a call from the HO Club President who was on-site for a meeting. In addition being impaled on the fence the poor animal had broken it's leg in multiple places. I actually cover the story (and several other horrible CRRM animal stories) in a video on my channel (I've had to personally help "remove" a few pests in my 20+ years) - kzbin.infoHEunjNY9Pfo

[@akaBoG]

And don't fib Mark, I know you have seen the photo of the Shop Rat that Dusty ran over with Pee Wee while Eric Roche was directing him (also covered in the above video). How the heck do you run a rat over with a switch-diesel?

[@Hyce777]

Yiiiiikes. That's not a fun one. I've always heard the story that 4 was pulling 491 out, and the rat was sitting on the rail with its tail towards the engine. Eric didn't see it until it felt its tail being pinched and it tried to run away before it exploded...

[@akaBoG]

@@Hyce777 accurate....the picture is ridiculous - I have it but you can't share that around publicly. I only heard the story after Eric said something along the lines of "did you see the Shop-Rat photo? You can see the liver."

[@RexAnger.]

@@Hyce777 Reminds me of a very flat mouse I once saw on the railhead while loading intermodal containers at Forrestfield. I wondered at what this weird brown thing on the railhead was. Then clocked the shape and the tail. And the red 'jelly' next to it. Turns out, 45 flat wagons of import shipping containers grossing some 1800 or so tonnes and small rodents do not play at all well together. Especially when your intermodal pad lives right next door to a big grain silo.... 😐 (On a happier note, the ducks show far more train sense. Even if they are slow to move)

[@Skyisnotalimit]

A friend hit a moose with he’s car, a Subaru station wagon. The moose ripped the roof of the car backwards, looking like when you open a metal can of fish rolling the lid off with a screw!? The car didn’t contain any fish though, but a big moose in the back, cut open and with guts all over everything plus what it had eaten. The smell could be felt a long way as the car was still outside on a tow vehicle. The driver was bruised in face and pretty beaten up, but the passenger was in a coma for three weeks. Never to be fully recovered. So this was one moose. I can’t imagine the mess done by a train.

[@noblemagi]

Trainacides, my ex-wife grow up in Springfield Colorado, and the 2 mile long trains would do about 70 to 75 mph through there, and a guy got back from desert storm and lost everything, so he put every rose has it thorn on repeat feeding his depression and drank more of a handle of Jim bean and stood on the tracks when the train came around the bind. he saluted the engineer as he vaporized. by the time the engineer could get back to talk to the emergency people the mortician already bagged the body. they think it's easy, but it is a selfish way to go. you effect other people, some very nice people. If you lose everything, it sucks, but tomorrow is a chance to find something better, tomorrow you can change your environment, prove to yourself, you are you, better then yesterday. I am my happiest starting over. I always need change. what do you need?

[@Lord_Vampy]

kinda a random question. my town lost power a while back, and do rail crossing get power from local grid or do they have there own lines / power. its a commuter line in NJ. last time we lost power i stopped and looked both ways since idk if the gate would work since the traffic light 200 feet away / all the houses around it had not power.

[@Studiosodor1]

Google says every three hours someone gets hit by a train

[@SoCalRailfan4729]

I've seen tons of H2s with warbonnett AC units. (That said, I do live in sight of the bnsf San Bernardino sub)

[@jeffkramer7550]

as a heavy highway operator i know exactly what you mean by the story's that you don't want to talk about and why you try to make people think good job

[@vexaurorax]

Thank you, to whoever gifted me a membership!

[@Stant123]

10:10 Ah, real life ES&DT in railroader. Someone didn't get their packing peanuts that day.