Look, Listen, LIVE!!!!

Ride on? Oh... Hmmm, Well, I'll Tell You a Real Experience, 3 weeks ago, Riding Up in the Cab with Earl In CMRR 401, We come around the curve down grade through the tunnel, radio crackles that theres someone down in the tunnel on the tracks so Earl Starts Laying On the S5T before he's even done talking on the radio, I don't know what the crew on the caboose were doing But i can guess blowing the A-100 and Yelling at him, Thankfully he got up and ran out the other end of the tunnel, and climbed up one side of the ditch, We were doing a Good 16/18 miles and hour. I was Scared Out of my mind Cause enough stuff had happened on this curve in the years since this section opened, Like the first winter the caboose derailed, But, No one was hurt, So, alls good, But it was one hell of an experience.

But seriously, 12? Kids these days... Gah... Btw what gauge are you running on?
 
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kids stupidty

I think in public we need more operation lifesaver speakers in schools. This kid was obivoulsy not thinking or paying attenion.
 
That does sound scary, Klinger! Was the person hit? What kind of train were you driving? Was it a heavy freight train or an amusement passenger train? What kind of locomotive was it?
If your'e that stupid to drive around lowered level crossing gates, you shouldn't be driving at all.
I think that the problem is that the kids in school may have seen a train before, but don't believe its strength. It really erks me that there are so many train-person collisions in Nova Scotia, even though there are so few trains. If the collision rate in Germany was as high as that in Canada, thousands of people would die every year on the tracks.
Must be that the Germans are more used to trains.
 
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TorenHynes said:
That does sound scary, Klinger! Was the person hit? What kind of train were you driving? Was it a heavy freight train or an amusement passenger train? What kind of locomotive was it?
If your'e that stupid to drive around lowered level crossing gates, you shouldn't be driving at all.
I think that the problem is that the kids in school may have seen a train before, but don't believe its strength. It really erks me that there are so many train-person collisions in Nova Scotia, even though there are so few trains. If the collision rate in Germany was as high as that in Canada, thousands of people would die every year on the tracks.
Must be that the Germans are more used to trains.
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If you look back over the thread you can find the answers to all your questions about Klinger's expirence.:wave:
 
I live in the Philadelphia area, and usually we don't hear about train accidents on a daily basis. However, in the past two months, I have read at least 8 reports of people in or near Philly being hit by trains. I don't know what it is, maybe it's this incredible heat. Some say the only way to get the message across is to show an intense PSA on television, such as this one sponsored by the MTA/LIRR which aired to NY residents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBkZgWNXyls

As I understand, part of training to become an engineer or emergency official is to understand the impact of a train vs a car/person. Some have even shown the infamous August 26, 1991 video of Ms. Mary Wojtyla being hit by a BN E9. That video has even been shown, to my knowledge, to high school students? Anyway, some say it's the only way to get the message fully across: Never test the power of a train.
 
Was the person hit? What kind of train were you driving? Was it a heavy freight train or an amusement passenger train? What kind of locomotive was it?
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If I understand correctly the person was not hit, he was operating a toy train that you sit on, apparently it weighs 30,000 pounds.
 
evan123 said:
If I understand correctly the person was not hit, he was operating a toy train that you sit on, apparently it weighs 30,000 pounds.
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I find that quite insulting, its not a "toy". A toy train are those little wood things we play with when we where kids. Model trains are of course, HO scale and so. This amusement park train weighs 30,000 pounds, the engine alone is 3 tons (6,000 pounds) and had I hit him at full speed, he would have been severly injured if not killed. No train that operates, be it 7" gauge, 15" gauge, 22" gauge, or bigger is a toy. If you have trouble believe that, there was a kid about 15 years ago that was running beside the train, the steam train, which only weighs 600 pounds per car, engines are about 2,000 pounds. He fell, and got his legs caught under the car, and lost both of them. It is by no means a toy. If you can't understand that, don't post here.

Oh, and it has a cab that you sit in, you don't sit on any of our trains except 17 (which is 107 years old). 18 also has a covered cab, and all the cars are covered. Get out of my thread

400 was in fact the very first minature gauge diesel ever built, styled after the stainless steel California Zephyr. It was built in 1955, predating many minature gauge trains. 17 and 18 were built by the Cagney Brothers in 1903 for the St. Louis Worlds Fair in 1904 (they were the only 22" gauge trains at the fair). They are 2 out of 10 built, and only 2 of 3 surviving. They were originally styled after NYC 999 (now in Chicago). 18 was modified around the 1960's to feature covered cab, a larger frame, and backdated to resemble an 1870's era locomotive, while 17 remains styled after 999
 
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Klinger, would you happen to have a pic of said loco? only reason why is because I have never heard of this RR before. I agree with ya though, anything bigger than a model needs to be treated like a real train, and observe the same safety you would their full size counterparts.
 
A Tragedy/Life Saving Moment I Had On The Santa Fe

This reminds me of a encounter I had on the Santa Fe. It was July 2, 1978 and I was traveling to Los Angeles, California with a Santa Fe crew on a freight train from Dallas. It was 9:05 a.m. CST (Central Standard Time) and we were approaching a busy four lane road that semi trucks use to hit some warehouses a few miles down the road when a driver in a 1976 Chevrolet darts in front of the train. The Santa Fe F-units (among the last of their breed) are going at 65 miles per hour and the engineer (Dave) was blasting the air horn and as we got ready to hit the crossing the 1976 Chevrolet darts around a 1975 Mack semi and just as we hit the midway point in the crossing, we hit the Chevrolet and we push it for almost a mile and a half before we get it loose and it slides down an embankment that Santa Fe put in (I forget what purpose it served). The car caught on fire and we had stopped. I climbed down from the F-7 A unit and I hear what sounds like a child screaming. Being brave, I rushed down the embankment and saved a little girl. The engineer saved the driver. Sadly, the driver was the girl's father and died of his burns, but the little girl lived. It just goes to show you, that trains can kill.
 
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RE: Look Listen Live...

OK, NOW it's my turn to put in my two cents.

1st -On the instant reverse shift from forward. "AS A MECHANIC WITH EXPERIENCE IN DOING IT" No, the trans would not nescessarily disentigrate...but it would most assuredly be hurt.

2nd -The more important! I work as a spray-tech for DeAngelo Brothers, Inc. which means I clear those crossings, so we can all see to cross safely. So when one of my crossings has an accident on it, I am usually brought in to see it, or atleast the aftermath, as we take pictures.
It's NOT a pretty sight

- STOP - LOOK - LISTEN - LIVE -

...it should be more than a slogan, as one man in a white Chevy pickup found out last Sunday in Groesbeck, TX. His truck was nearly unrecognizable, as a pickup. ODDLY ENOUGH...HE WALKED AWAY, and I have NO CLUE HOW, except by the graceful hand of GOD himself. This man had a scratch on is forehead, where his head went through his door window, and got cut open on the pilot of a UP C45AC-CTE Locomotive.

!!! DID I SAY, HE WALKED AWAY FROM THIS!!!

Most cases don't end, with the automobile driver, LIVING to tell his tale! PLEASE, keep that in mind, the next time you want to race the train...is it worth your life?
 
K4driver said:
Klinger, would you happen to have a pic of said loco? only reason why is because I have never heard of this RR before. I agree with ya though, anything bigger than a model needs to be treated like a real train, and observe the same safety you would their full size counterparts.
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Here is a shot of 18 back in 2004

http://www.joe-daddy.com/1-mrr/images/amuse/LakesideDenver20043_8.JPG

Here is Diesel 400 (ironically, that is probably a day I was working, since I was the one that was working on the coach behind 400)

one-of-the-trains-that.jpg
 
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