Mexican Railroads are Dangerous!
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heh, look at the one who flipped when i said 'hell'...
well, what ever.
Regarding the Collision video, the engineer of the other train, who had jumped, was later tested positive for Cocaine.
I know he was fired immetidately, especially for piling up two separate trains!
Cheers mates,
Sean
well, what ever.
Regarding the Collision video, the engineer of the other train, who had jumped, was later tested positive for Cocaine.
I know he was fired immetidately, especially for piling up two separate trains!
Cheers mates,
Sean
Damn, there no grade crossing that not safey that very dangerous make risk but Mexico can order new grade crossing but not but Mexico is connceting with USA of American, huh? So that it weird
WileeCoyote
Eatibus Almost Anythingus
There is also the case in which the railroad does not have the time or money to implement a grade crossing, in Germany there are still lots of ungaurded level crossings (some with only the German equivelant of the "Rail road Crossing X) like that though nowadays mostly for farm or tractor roads.
WileeCoyote
WileeCoyote
What? He blew the horn.
It's perfectly safe if the cars don't decide to try and shove the locomotive off the tracks.
In America we have lots of crossing gates, and plenty of people going around the gates. You can't force people to be smart.
Dozing off and running through the siding probably isn't the best way to keep your job, though.
Claude
It's perfectly safe if the cars don't decide to try and shove the locomotive off the tracks.
In America we have lots of crossing gates, and plenty of people going around the gates. You can't force people to be smart.
Dozing off and running through the siding probably isn't the best way to keep your job, though.
Claudethat made me jump out of my skin thinking that ether the car transporter or the container truck would have gone bang.
I am just glad that the trucks where alright.
This is what would have happened in Top Gear when they did a test about level crossings.
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You are right but...
Check this video from a good friend mine. This video was very discussed in mexican railfan community. When the train is approaching to cross a person says: ¡Botale el aire! ¡Botale el aire! (Release the air).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AeWLIbi20
In Mexico, as you commented before, there are several railway crosses that don’t have any signal but the majority of them have one signal or warning at least, I can confirm this. Obviously we can’t compare Mexican track with another countries like USA. We think that the main problem here is the poor car driver education. In Mexico is very common listen people say: ¡Le quizo ganar al tren! (It wanted to win to the train) when some accident occurs. Maybe is a lucky thing but there isn’t many accidents and majority of accidents are related to car driver imprudence.
Regards…
P.D. My english is poor apologies in advance
Check this video from a good friend mine. This video was very discussed in mexican railfan community. When the train is approaching to cross a person says: ¡Botale el aire! ¡Botale el aire! (Release the air).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AeWLIbi20
In Mexico, as you commented before, there are several railway crosses that don’t have any signal but the majority of them have one signal or warning at least, I can confirm this. Obviously we can’t compare Mexican track with another countries like USA. We think that the main problem here is the poor car driver education. In Mexico is very common listen people say: ¡Le quizo ganar al tren! (It wanted to win to the train) when some accident occurs. Maybe is a lucky thing but there isn’t many accidents and majority of accidents are related to car driver imprudence.
Regards…
P.D. My english is poor apologies in advance
Michael_Evans
thread killer
I don't think that barriers would make a difference, I've seen videos of a truck cab going around the gates, two cars went around the gates sencond almost getting hit by an NS train, a school bus that's right a school bus going around the gates sadly it got hit, and a lady once tried to beat the acela just to get her kids to the bus station on time she lost.
Around here a car in front of me was waiting for a red light and instead of waiting behind the tracks they stopped on them when a heavy freight train was coming, lucky for them the light changed green and the train had to stop for the local industys.
Around here a car in front of me was waiting for a red light and instead of waiting behind the tracks they stopped on them when a heavy freight train was coming, lucky for them the light changed green and the train had to stop for the local industys.
Michael_Evans
thread killer
I don't know why... Lots of times people stop on tracks because their stuck in traffic, and this was at a weird intersection where you can turn right on one side of the tracks and left on another, they turned left after the light turned green and a few trucks went by, but I was checking to see if it was a student driver.
wholikestobepirate12
Network Rail Engineer
Also they are dangerous because some Mexicans want to go to the USA on train. Going on roof. Sleeping in a hopper room, this one is totally dangerous. They can get locked in the hopper so thats why the Mexicans put a log on the door to not close it. However there are less US Border Patrols or Mexican Army Border Patrols. But they the Mexicans do same like in India to get into USA illegally.
cascaderailroad
New member
A 7 1/2 year bump for this ???
No Mexican's, nor illegal aliens, sneak into the US by riding atop trains, or by stowing away inside railcars ... every train is checked for seals (and walrus's) ... And border cameras are everywhere.
There was one incident where 36 illegal alien's paid a human trafficker money to get them all across the border, by sealing them inside a sealed boxcar ... it sat on a siding for 3 weeks in the 105F Texas sun, there were claw marks inside the pitch black boxcar from their fingernails, and only 1 or 2 survived.
No Mexican's, nor illegal aliens, sneak into the US by riding atop trains, or by stowing away inside railcars ... every train is checked for seals (and walrus's) ... And border cameras are everywhere.
There was one incident where 36 illegal alien's paid a human trafficker money to get them all across the border, by sealing them inside a sealed boxcar ... it sat on a siding for 3 weeks in the 105F Texas sun, there were claw marks inside the pitch black boxcar from their fingernails, and only 1 or 2 survived.
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