When those lights come on that train is seconds away from that track, people forever trying to beat trains and lose the battle because you never know how fast that train is moving. It may look slow but its deceptive....people do this all the time where I live I've also seen many people die behind not being able to wait a few minutes for the lights to stop flashing and the gates to go back up.
0:37 just be glad the train was going slow! 1:13 "the mail must come through at a high priority!" 3:05 this is already more crossing idiots than I've seen in person! 3:46 at least that red truck stopped! 7:02 that's cool that the street is named L&N drive! 7:40 this crossing does need some attention! 8:26 I've never seen those little things go over a (American) railroad crossing before! 9:08 i can see some cars crossing another crossing in the background, but I don't know if that crossing started yet! 9:17 that crossing pole is shaking a lot! 9:58 at least the crossing was single tracked! 10:18 I've never seen a safetran or general signals e bell not work before! 11:40 this crossing needs attention too! 13:36 that guy coud've been killed by running back! 14:02 I didn't know this was on the Tennessee Valley Railroad until I heard the whistle!
I knew of a guy who was a self employed carpenter, who put too much pressure on himself by taking too many jobs. He raced from one job to another. He killed someone with his pickup truck by trying to pass a vehicle that was slowing down to turn off. He got a suspended sentence and some cushy fine, and a license revocation. He was a habitual aggressive driver, and drove illegally while his license was revoked. but two years later, his real punishment came when he lost a game of "Beat The Train". He tried to race a freight train through a crossing and the train was coming at 65 miles an hour.
I kinda doubt it. People blow through traffic lights just like they blow through crossing signals, plus then you get the issues with crossings being located next to or between intersections that have signals, along with what should be done when a crossing is known to be malfunctioning with the traffic light stuck on red. Some lines, mostly spur lines or light rail lines, do use traffic lights to control their crossings though, so it might be worth comparing the accident rates and compliance rates of them with other crossings.
One time we were going to my grandparents in Athens AL for some holiday and we went through Pratt Ave, A train was coming but my dad did not care and crossed the tracks when the train was at Cleveland Ave heading north. We were running late to Athens but I don’t care. My dad is one of those several examples of Crossing idiots…
years ago, I saw 2 cars and a John Deere tractor race a train to a RR crossing. The train was 3 locomotives lashed together. No freight cars, just the locomotives. The engineer hit the brakes to keep from hitting the JD tractor. Then the 3 locos cleared the crossing afterwards in about 15 seconds. Just nutty.
14:59 first time I've seen a stop sign hung from the wires! 15:31 nice catch of the N&S heritage loco! 16:56 is this crossing on an industrial spur? If so, it can be hard to improve! 17:59 at least they didn't get stuck ON the tracks! 18:55 is this an industrial spur too? 19:32 first time I've seen a crossing bell mounted on the power box! so what are those things on top of the crossing poles used for? 20:21 the bell also must be mounted on the box here! it sounds really fast! 23:28 I thought the truck with the loud music was going to cross too! 26:20 that white car could've been hit! 27:30 the bell isn't working! 29:37 I've never seen the do not stop on tracks sing mounted on the crossing itself! 32:44 there could've been another train coming!
16:56 isn't an industrial spur, but it is on a short line. 18:55 is the same as above. 20:21 it is. 27:30 has started working again by itself. 32:44 is actually on a passing siding.
Here is a message to ALL drivers who come across railroad tracks when the lights are flashing: Please, do NOT go across the railroad tracks when the lights are flashing, or gates are coming down. Wait for the train until it’s all done. I would suggest to NOT do this. Think of your car getting hit by a train when your on the tracks, you might die! Even if the crossing is just a cross buck (which is a railroad crossing with NO flashing red lights, NO bell, and NO railroad crossing gates), PLEASE stop if you hear a train coming. Even if the crossings don’t activate and there is a train coming, PLEASE don’t cross the tracks! Even if your a semi truck driver, DO NOT DO THIS! If the train is going super fast, too fast and it hits your semi, it might come off the tracks! Then you’ll have to pay more money to get the engines repaired! If your a car driver, semi truck driver, or any other vehicle driver that watched this video, PLEASE read all of this comment! If you don’t, your vehicle might get hit by a train, and you might die, too! #OperationLifesaver
Piloting a train has got to be a stressful job with all these Einsteins trying to run the crossing lights/bells. Even ambulances! People driving large vehicles seem to be the worst.
I caught a lot of idiots before. The most recent one was on Baker Station Rd where a car had to cross the tracks while the crossings were active. I've seen like 20 of those.
Same but once where I lived i saw on the news a car that hit a train already passing Or skipping the railroad and it was already down. Either the car got crashed by the train Or the train was hit by car then the train almost fell
What real Idiots would try to beat a train/train crossing gates?!?! As a driver of Wisconsin I always come to a stop when I hear the railroad crossing bells ringing and see the crossing lights flashing red, but there are sometimes I begin to cross and they activate scaring me half to death and somewhat not knowing what to do, because I don’t know if they are just testing the signals or a train is coming my way. Like it happened to me once I was halfway across the railroad crossing and they started to activate, does that make me an idiot??
Actually, as per Alabama law (at least), a flashing red light in any case means stop and proceed when clear. It's why you can proceed through a malfunctioning gateless crossing if you stop and make sure that there isn't a train coming first. This kind of confusion is why people don't know how to properly proceed at HAWK signals.
A flashing red traffic light is single and means stop and then proceed if clear. Railroad crossings are a different ball game; with them, you have PAIRS of flashing red lights that alternate in illumination. As long as those lights are flashing, drivers are to remain stopped behind that white line.
Here in Alabama, and many other places here in the US, you have flashing red beacons with two lights that alternate, such as this one: ua-cam.com/video/s8lbIcz_SEg/v-deo.html And then you also have HAWK signals, which feature two alternating red lights that are horizontally positioned (rather than vertically positioned) that alternate to let drivers know to stop and proceed when clear during the pedestrian clearance phase: ua-cam.com/video/COXVA9vCpro/v-deo.html So a flashing red light being in a pair that alternates doesn't really mean anything different, as I was told by the head of the City of Huntsville Traffic Engineering Department. Though as a flashing red light (or alternating pair of red lights) means "stop and proceed when clear/safe to do so", it's still pretty dumb (and downright dangerous) to proceed through an active crossing when a train is approaching, IMHO.
This happens in every country that has Railroad Crossings, if you check out the crossings in Mexico, any driver can outrun the red crossing lights, or even get stuck under the gate and snap it off. And also Railroad Crossing signals made in the U.S. and later installed in Mexico don't even last a decade in service, they eventually get vandalized.
My cousin used to drive a school bus. One time at the train station in his town, he saw the back end of the train and went across the tracks. The train was backing up. Luckily, there were no kids on the bus when the back end of the bus was hit at low speed.
The deadliest combination - railroad crossing without crossing bars and traffic lights... They're waiting for green lights and then there comes a train...
When there is an intersection parallel to the rail crossing, the traffic lights should have a red light for right-turning traffic. In some clips, it appeared that cars had a green light in conflict with the flashing crossing lights. Some of those crossings clearly need gates!
If someone is so dumb they think a green light means it's okay to try to beat a train through a crossing, while the red lights at the crossing are flashing, they're beyond help.
@@jilljones3664 When a traffic light turns green, many people just go. They don't check to see if the cross traffic has stopped or to look for pedestrians or bicyclists - or trains. They just go.
@@Bobrogers99 Translation: When a light turns green YOU just start driving without paying any attention to what's going on around you. And if you happen to be sitting at a railroad crossing where the red lights are flashing you don't see any reason to look for a train or even acknowledge the flashing lights. Most people have enough sense NOT to do that, Bob. I'm thinking even a German Shepherd would have more sense than that.
If there was an award for "Worst Videography" and non-close calls, this would be an award contender. Otherwise, it's just the usual dopes driving, when the crossing lights and bell came on ; usually long before a train crawled by. I agree with other comments about dopes seeing green lights ahead, just past the tracks ; conflicting signals, or what ?
On gates, the light closest to the end of the gate is always solid red. So, passing a closed crossing gate is running two or more red lights (one per gate). Many crossings also have signs saying "do not pass closed gates" so thats failure to obey a sign as well. Add on reckless driving, and its clear that there are measures making these idiots break as many laws as possible.
Why do people think it’s okay to disobey warning signs for an oncoming train? They don’t realize they are putting not just themselves in danger, but also others at the crossing.
In the first 5 seconds after lights come on I don't think they are idiots for going through, it's better than locking up your brakes because you risk sliding right to the middle of the track and then you have to keep going anyway and could stall your engine. Obviously the people going after the gates came down are idiots though that is not arguable, as they obviously had time to stop. It's the same thing with yellow traffic lights.
Bad laws produce bad drivers. I read the disclaimer at the beginning. Permitting people to cross against the red invites people to take a risk. In the same way the "right turn on red" has caused me quite a few dangerous incidents in my visits to the US where cars are turning with the red and then when it goes green they don't want to stop for pedestrians. You can blame drivers all you please but if people don't have clear rules then it is hard to make them obey any.
@@carollewis3912 at least we don't do stupid stuff around railroad tracks like that. Going around a crossing arm is stupid not to mention going through when the arms are going down. We Yankees ( as you call us) knows that the trains are going faster than it appears. Those stupid southerners thinks that the trains should stop for them.
Liam Bushrod there are plenty of crossings without lights in the U.K. I live in U.K. I have seen loads it’s just as bad here as it is in the USA saying that makes all Brits sound ignorant.
@@Chirpingcherub yeah but the ones without lights are user worked crossings and aren't on busy highways like these are. I know a fair amount about level crossings here in the UK and safety standards are objectively higher than in the US
Hey Liam, Alabama ain't the whole United States. Quite frankly those signals and a lot of them in this video are antiquated and shouldn't be even still be in service. Most of the country has what you see at 9:21. 12 inch lights instead of 8 inch, some are LED, gates and electronic bells. Crossing signal activation is controlled with integrated circuits allowing signals to activate in accordance with train speed. Obviously, railroad crossing safety is a low priority in Alabama but, for most of the US you're not going to find better grade crossing protection anywhere else in the world.
It's not a matter of right or wrong, the argument is moot. A red signal whether in a traffic signal, an alternating set of red flashers on a railroad crossing or even the red color of a standard stop sign means STOP. Racing a train is dangerous no matter how you phrase it but there are idiots in this world with something to prove and proving it right or wrong usually leads to injuries or death. Stop means Stop!
+Douglas Harrislane Maybe at some quiet zine crossing, where they have wayside horns mounted opolws near the crossing, but I assure you that all of the train hrons you here in this come from the trains themselves.
I'm aware, but that doesn't change the fact that going through an active crossing that you had plenty of time to stop for is still very dangerous. However, it is part of the reason why I like that the signals in the UK and Ireland feature yellow lights that come on prior to the red lights coming on when a crossings activate.
freebrickproductions Seneca is REALLY BAD, about people blowing through the crossing, but, if you've only had 1 accident in the past 40 years, than these signals will stay for a while
This is why we have white lights in Belgium to show you when it's ok to cross and red when it's not ok. Red alone is not enough, it doesn't stand out, and the black background is too small here.
Most of these clips showed gates coming down way sooner than they needed to. And then when the train finally approaches you cut to the next clip. Who's the real idiot?
The FRA requires only a minimum of 20 seconds of activation time before a train reaches a crossing with the gates having lowered about 5 seconds before the train reaches the crossing, though most railroads aim for 25-30 seconds. And just because my editing in this video wasn't the best doesn't mean that the people who carelessly ignored the signals weren't idiots themselves.
+Charles Vanhoose The fading you see in the video is only seen on the video, due to the LEDs messing with the camera's frame rate. They don't do it in real life.
NO ok so LED lights fad on camera What if a crossing light would show LIKE DURING THE DAY AT DRAKE DRIVE AND BOB WALLACE AVENUE the lights are barely seen in the day than the night ALL crossings should have LED lights that Don’t fad on camera
This, this is why America cannot have high speed rail. If we actually had trains traveling 100 mph throughout most of the US, we'd have a lot more tragedies because someone couldn't wait at most 10 minutes.
Not nearly a russian level of driving. Though for idiots in Russia we have automatic barrier obstavles, deployed from under the pavment in addition to usual barriers.
In Germany, most americans would be dead on the videos. The trains here do not slow down at the railroad crossing. The horns also not. Here trains run at 120-140 km / h over the railroad crossing. But hardly anyone makes such a fool about us.
I always counted the Seconds from the time the person crosses the downed Gates until the train arrives at the crossing just to see how many seconds that person cheated death
A kit of those crossings needs some serious upgrades, with gates and traffic lites. They definitely should had them at the airport road crossing. A cantilever can only b stretched so far. They should install red light cameras, at some of these crossings.
wheres the bell on the second crossing? at 3:42 how does that cantilever support itself and the lights? at 5:49 I could of swarn that the bell was on the relay case the last time you visited. at 11:33 the only way to tell if the crossing was active was the bell. the lights were hardly visible, even with so many lights! at 12:25 why was there one LED signal and one halogen signal? at 13:40 that was a real $$$$$$$$$!!! at 17:09 why don't they put gates on? at 21:31 is that the light on the ground there? at 24:06 why is one light on for a shorter time than the other? at 25:09 I have never seen a gate mechanism mounted directly onto a cantilever mast before. at 27:10 were those traffic signals active when the crossing was? at 29:10 that crossing is massive for only 2 tracks. at 32:04 why were both signals on the same side of the road? at 34:37 strange crossing setup. at 36:57 are those real fading LED's?[LED's that behave like halogens]
The bell on the second crossing is on the signal on the far right (facing the side street), but it was dead at the time. It has since been replaced with a General Signals electronic bell. The cantilever at 3:42 probably has a really good foundation. You're probably thinking of a different crossing to the one at 5:49, as that bell and the ones before that bell have always been on that signal there. The lenses and/or reflectors at 11:33 really need a good cleaning, though if you look closely, you can see the 8 inch lights light up better than the 12 inch ones. There used to be two incandescent signals with all Modern Industries equipment at 12:25, but the one on the right got knocked down by a car and wasn't salvageable, so the HMCR had to replace it. 17:09 - Because the HMCR doesn't get too many daily trains. The light at 21:31 fell off of the signal, likely due to some storms rolling through a few days-ish before I shot the video. The light that fell was damaged by construction equipment a few months prior. 24:06 - Something with the flasher relay. 25:09 - They ain't too common to see mounted that way. The traffic lights at 27:10 have the top and bottom lights light up when the crossing is active to let the crews know the signals are functional. The crossing at 29:10 is on a 4-way intersection and there's a branch line that breaks away from the crossing there. There's a side street just off to the left at the crossing at 32:04 that prevents the far signal from being installed on the other side of the road. I agree with ya about how the install at 34:37 is strange. Yep! The LEDs at 36:57 are fading LEDs made by Harmon. Other fading LEDs (from both GE and Harmon) can be found on other crossings in this video. The ones from GE don't fade as much though.
***** 32:04 they could move it further away from the crossing and add a simple signal on the side road. and what does HMCR stand for - Humorous Massive Country Railroad?
HMCR is the reporting mark of the Huntsville & Madison County Railroad. However, since that name is quite the mouthful, everyone just calls it "the HMCR".
Instead of red light cameras, they should have cameras at ungated crossings. Tons of money to be made in fines. People would rather risk their lives than be inconvenienced for a few minutes.
Hours counter. Seconds from the time the person crosses the downed Gates until the train arrives at the crossing just to see how many seconds that person cheated death
No. It’s not even legal. The red light at a grade crossing is ansolute. And the train ALWAYS has the right of way. And will take it. I did grade crossing accident investigation and getting “coupled up” has to be a horrible way to die.
I'm saying if there isn't a train coming, but the crossing is active (i.e. a malfunction), and the crossing doesn't have gates. I still think driving through an active crossing if a train is approaching is still an idiotic thing to do.
Hey idiot that's not how that works it's illegal to cross the tracks against the flashing red lights trains take over a mile to stop even if it hits something along the way you can't judge the speed of a moving train you if you can't learn to stop crossing the tracks against the flashing red lights then you shouldn't be driving.
If you see the lights and the barriers coming down you have to stop and these idiots are running through them are risking their own lives and one will get hit
Driver : Crosses train tracks after warning
Grim Reaper : Allow me to introduce myself.
When those lights come on that train is seconds away from that track, people forever trying to beat trains and lose the battle because you never know how fast that train is moving. It may look slow but its deceptive....people do this all the time where I live I've also seen many people die behind not being able to wait a few minutes for the lights to stop flashing and the gates to go back up.
Its selfish impatience
1)the gates are down
2)Lights are flashing
3)Train is coming
4)People still don't stop
I've seen a few close calls one I did get on video I've seen em go around Gates and I have em on video on my channel its crazy
like 30 to 15 15 is the shortest the gate has to be down AT LEAST 15 seconds before
0:37 just be glad the train was going slow!
1:13 "the mail must come through at a high priority!"
3:05 this is already more crossing idiots than I've seen in person!
3:46 at least that red truck stopped!
7:02 that's cool that the street is named L&N drive!
7:40 this crossing does need some attention!
8:26 I've never seen those little things go over a (American) railroad crossing before!
9:08 i can see some cars crossing another crossing in the background, but I don't know if that crossing started yet!
9:17 that crossing pole is shaking a lot!
9:58 at least the crossing was single tracked!
10:18 I've never seen a safetran or general signals e bell not work before!
11:40 this crossing needs attention too!
13:36 that guy coud've been killed by running back!
14:02 I didn't know this was on the Tennessee Valley Railroad until I heard the whistle!
14:02 is actually on the Chattanooga & Chickamauga Railroad line, which the TVRM operates over.
14:02 it’s a horn not a whistle
@@strasburglover2001 it is actually a steam whistle.
8:26 its called a westward interceptor typically used for parking enforcement. I love them!
I knew of a guy who was a self employed carpenter, who put too much pressure on himself by taking too many jobs. He raced from one job to another. He killed someone with his pickup truck by trying to pass a vehicle that was slowing down to turn off. He got a suspended sentence and some cushy fine, and a license revocation. He was a habitual aggressive driver, and drove illegally while his license was revoked. but two years later, his real punishment came when he lost a game of "Beat The Train". He tried to race a freight train through a crossing and the train was coming at 65 miles an hour.
Alabama needs to get operation lifesaver over there!!
We already have a branch of Operation Lifesaver.
Nah, let The Darwin Awards write themselves.
10:19-10:20 I feel like that should be on a remix or something lol
ME too
When a railroad crossing raps in front of the entire class
14:04 sounds like a steam whistle, which was definitely a pleasant surprise
It is.
Maybe replacing flashing lights with a stoplight will solve this
I kinda doubt it. People blow through traffic lights just like they blow through crossing signals, plus then you get the issues with crossings being located next to or between intersections that have signals, along with what should be done when a crossing is known to be malfunctioning with the traffic light stuck on red. Some lines, mostly spur lines or light rail lines, do use traffic lights to control their crossings though, so it might be worth comparing the accident rates and compliance rates of them with other crossings.
Imp 50 Almost All Railroad Crossings In Me Names Puerto Rico Has A One Like You Said Approximately %70
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Imp What will solve this problem is for people to stop for the flashing red lights that's not hard to to or don't drive.
All of the crossing that have two crossing gates they need to replace them with quad gates,and add gates for the pedestrian to
I do like how you can tell from the length of the train horns how frustrated the driver is, lol. I wonder if it's the same driver every time ;)
One time we were going to my grandparents in Athens AL for some holiday and we went through Pratt Ave, A train was coming but my dad did not care and crossed the tracks when the train was at Cleveland Ave heading north. We were running late to Athens but I don’t care. My dad is one of those several examples of Crossing idiots…
years ago, I saw 2 cars and a John Deere tractor race a train to a RR crossing. The train was 3 locomotives lashed together. No freight cars, just the locomotives. The engineer hit the brakes to keep from hitting the JD tractor. Then the 3 locos cleared the crossing afterwards in about 15 seconds. Just nutty.
+Raoul Cruz They probably thought that they would literally die if they waited at a crossing for any length of time...
14:59 first time I've seen a stop sign hung from the wires!
15:31 nice catch of the N&S heritage loco!
16:56 is this crossing on an industrial spur? If so, it can be hard to improve!
17:59 at least they didn't get stuck ON the tracks!
18:55 is this an industrial spur too?
19:32 first time I've seen a crossing bell mounted on the power box! so what are those things on top of the crossing poles used for?
20:21 the bell also must be mounted on the box here! it sounds really fast!
23:28 I thought the truck with the loud music was going to cross too!
26:20 that white car could've been hit!
27:30 the bell isn't working!
29:37 I've never seen the do not stop on tracks sing mounted on the crossing itself!
32:44 there could've been another train coming!
16:56 isn't an industrial spur, but it is on a short line.
18:55 is the same as above.
20:21 it is.
27:30 has started working again by itself.
32:44 is actually on a passing siding.
Here is a message to ALL drivers who come across railroad tracks when the lights are flashing:
Please, do NOT go across the railroad tracks when the lights are flashing, or gates are coming down. Wait for the train until it’s all done. I would suggest to NOT do this. Think of your car getting hit by a train when your on the tracks, you might die!
Even if the crossing is just a cross buck (which is a railroad crossing with NO flashing red lights, NO bell, and NO railroad crossing gates), PLEASE stop if you hear a train coming. Even if the crossings don’t activate and there is a train coming, PLEASE don’t cross the tracks!
Even if your a semi truck driver, DO NOT DO THIS! If the train is going super fast, too fast and it hits your semi, it might come off the tracks! Then you’ll have to pay more money to get the engines repaired!
If your a car driver, semi truck driver, or any other vehicle driver that watched this video, PLEASE read all of this comment! If you don’t, your vehicle might get hit by a train, and you might die, too!
#OperationLifesaver
Piloting a train has got to be a stressful job with all these Einsteins trying to run the crossing lights/bells. Even ambulances! People driving large vehicles seem to be the worst.
You have very aptly named the video.
Patience is a long lost virtue.
I caught a lot of idiots before. The most recent one was on Baker Station Rd where a car had to cross the tracks while the crossings were active. I've seen like 20 of those.
Same but once where I lived i saw on the news a car that hit a train already passing
Or skipping the railroad and it was already down.
Either the car got crashed by the train
Or the train was hit by car then the train almost fell
What real Idiots would try to beat a train/train crossing gates?!?!
As a driver of Wisconsin I always come to a stop when I hear the railroad crossing bells ringing and see the crossing lights flashing red, but there are sometimes I begin to cross and they activate scaring me half to death and somewhat not knowing what to do, because I don’t know if they are just testing the signals or a train is coming my way.
Like it happened to me once I was halfway across the railroad crossing and they started to activate, does that make me an idiot??
ONE flashing light means, "stop and proceed." TWO flashing lights on a pole with a crossbuck means "stop."
Actually, as per Alabama law (at least), a flashing red light in any case means stop and proceed when clear. It's why you can proceed through a malfunctioning gateless crossing if you stop and make sure that there isn't a train coming first. This kind of confusion is why people don't know how to properly proceed at HAWK signals.
A flashing red traffic light is single and means stop and then proceed if clear. Railroad crossings are a different ball game; with them, you have PAIRS of flashing red lights that alternate in illumination. As long as those lights are flashing, drivers are to remain stopped behind that white line.
Here in Alabama, and many other places here in the US, you have flashing red beacons with two lights that alternate, such as this one:
ua-cam.com/video/s8lbIcz_SEg/v-deo.html
And then you also have HAWK signals, which feature two alternating red lights that are horizontally positioned (rather than vertically positioned) that alternate to let drivers know to stop and proceed when clear during the pedestrian clearance phase:
ua-cam.com/video/COXVA9vCpro/v-deo.html
So a flashing red light being in a pair that alternates doesn't really mean anything different, as I was told by the head of the City of Huntsville Traffic Engineering Department. Though as a flashing red light (or alternating pair of red lights) means "stop and proceed when clear/safe to do so", it's still pretty dumb (and downright dangerous) to proceed through an active crossing when a train is approaching, IMHO.
This happens in every country that has Railroad Crossings, if you check out the crossings in Mexico, any driver can outrun the red crossing lights, or even get stuck under the gate and snap it off. And also Railroad Crossing signals made in the U.S. and later installed in Mexico don't even last a decade in service, they eventually get vandalized.
My cousin used to drive a school bus. One time at the train station in his town, he saw the back end of the train and went across the tracks. The train was backing up. Luckily, there were no kids on the bus when the back end of the bus was hit at low speed.
Wow! I'm guessing everyone made it out alright, though I'm also guessing he didn't drive a school bus for much longer after that!
these railroad crossing should have cameras at them to take picture of licence plates of drivers ignoring signals
The deadliest combination - railroad crossing without crossing bars and traffic lights... They're waiting for green lights and then there comes a train...
SAFETY FIRST NEVER IGNORE CROSSINGS
Once the gates were down and I saw a pedestrian walk around the gates. Right after that, a train whips through the crossing at maybe 60mph.
When there is an intersection parallel to the rail crossing, the traffic lights should have a red light for right-turning traffic. In some clips, it appeared that cars had a green light in conflict with the flashing crossing lights. Some of those crossings clearly need gates!
If someone is so dumb they think a green light means it's okay to try to beat a train through a crossing, while the red lights at the crossing are flashing, they're beyond help.
@@jilljones3664 When a traffic light turns green, many people just go. They don't check to see if the cross traffic has stopped or to look for pedestrians or bicyclists - or trains. They just go.
@@Bobrogers99 Translation: When a light turns green YOU just start driving without paying any attention to what's going on around you. And if you happen to be sitting at a railroad crossing where the red lights are flashing you don't see any reason to look for a train or even acknowledge the flashing lights. Most people have enough sense NOT to do that, Bob. I'm thinking even a German Shepherd would have more sense than that.
@@jilljones3664 I guess there must be a lot of German Shepherds driving, because this does happen.
At 10:00 the kid was safe when he did that since it was a single track
If there was an award for "Worst Videography" and non-close calls, this would be an award contender. Otherwise, it's just the usual dopes driving, when the crossing lights and bell came on ; usually long before a train crawled by. I agree with other comments about dopes seeing green lights ahead, just past the tracks ; conflicting signals, or what ?
On gates, the light closest to the end of the gate is always solid red. So, passing a closed crossing gate is running two or more red lights (one per gate). Many crossings also have signs saying "do not pass closed gates" so thats failure to obey a sign as well. Add on reckless driving, and its clear that there are measures making these idiots break as many laws as possible.
Why do people think it’s okay to disobey warning signs for an oncoming train? They don’t realize they are putting not just themselves in danger, but also others at the crossing.
city: *makes Flagg road*
people: *ignores the flag(g)*
city: »:(
As a train driver this so absolutely, incredible stupid to cross railways when a train approaching
In the first 5 seconds after lights come on I don't think they are idiots for going through, it's better than locking up your brakes because you risk sliding right to the middle of the track and then you have to keep going anyway and could stall your engine. Obviously the people going after the gates came down are idiots though that is not arguable, as they obviously had time to stop. It's the same thing with yellow traffic lights.
kdmq if you go the speed limit you wouldn’t have to worry about locking up your brakes or stopping short
Bad laws produce bad drivers. I read the disclaimer at the beginning. Permitting people to cross against the red invites people to take a risk. In the same way the "right turn on red" has caused me quite a few dangerous incidents in my visits to the US where cars are turning with the red and then when it goes green they don't want to stop for pedestrians.
You can blame drivers all you please but if people don't have clear rules then it is hard to make them obey any.
Dang. That first crossings, them arms went down like a boss
Back in 2015, I saw a school bus run an ACTIVE, GATED railroad crossing. And a train was coming.
Okay.
The great state of Alabama makes a very proud showing in these videos.
And shows how stupid they are too.
I do know the casket makers love those idiots. They are making a lot of money from those idiots families.
I'm sure yankee states do the same. Too bad they weren't signaled out.
@@Kathrynyoder-x2j The northern states do plenty of stupid stuff. Including racism.
@@carollewis3912 at least we don't do stupid stuff around railroad tracks like that. Going around a crossing arm is stupid not to mention going through when the arms are going down. We Yankees ( as you call us) knows that the trains are going faster than it appears. Those stupid southerners thinks that the trains should stop for them.
7:58 the state of that crossing, you can't even see the lights! So glad I don't live in the US, that would not be acceptable here in the UK lol 😅
Liam Bushrod there are plenty of crossings without lights in the U.K. I live in U.K. I have seen loads it’s just as bad here as it is in the USA saying that makes all Brits sound ignorant.
@@Chirpingcherub yeah but the ones without lights are user worked crossings and aren't on busy highways like these are. I know a fair amount about level crossings here in the UK and safety standards are objectively higher than in the US
Liam Bushrod that’s true I suppose the ones with no lights are usually in Scotland where the laws are completely different and on country roads
Hey Liam, Alabama ain't the whole United States. Quite frankly those signals and a lot of them in this video are antiquated and shouldn't be even still be in service. Most of the country has what you see at 9:21. 12 inch lights instead of 8 inch, some are LED, gates and electronic bells. Crossing signal activation is controlled with integrated circuits allowing signals to activate in accordance with train speed.
Obviously, railroad crossing safety is a low priority in Alabama but, for most of the US you're not going to find better grade crossing protection anywhere else in the world.
I'm probably WAAAAAYYY late, but once the lights start, it is illegal to cross regardless if there are gates or not.
Wow. And I thought we had lots of misuse here in the UK!
Yea, people tend to ignore signals, pretty much anywhere, it seems.
That really grinds my gears
It's not a matter of right or wrong, the argument is moot. A red signal whether in a traffic signal, an alternating set of red flashers on a railroad crossing or even the red color of a standard stop sign means STOP. Racing a train is dangerous no matter how you phrase it but there are idiots in this world with something to prove and proving it right or wrong usually leads to injuries or death. Stop means Stop!
It baffles me that Pratt Ave does not have gates
@29:45 toyata beeps at driver for stopping!!!
At least in the Netherlands, if you go over a railroad crossing when the lights are red, you can get a hefty fine.
No offense, but those drivers should receive doctorates in railroad safety disregard. They just aren't safety conscious.
there is no train coming The sound of the train whistle is a recording coming from a speaker under the flashing red lights
+Douglas Harrislane Maybe at some quiet zine crossing, where they have wayside horns mounted opolws near the crossing, but I assure you that all of the train hrons you here in this come from the trains themselves.
the train horns come from the trains not a speaker you know nothing about trains.
The bell of the crossing comes from a speaker because most of the bells are not mechanical.
The gateless signals, a car would stop when the train is here
Not everyone is going to slam on their brakes as soon as the lights flash.
I'm aware, but that doesn't change the fact that going through an active crossing that you had plenty of time to stop for is still very dangerous. However, it is part of the reason why I like that the signals in the UK and Ireland feature yellow lights that come on prior to the red lights coming on when a crossings activate.
But for many , green=go, red=stop, yellow= go faster.
They should put up Cameras, like they have for catching people that go through Red Lights
Us mail got no time for damm train crossings
At 19 minutes 56 seconds sounds like WRRS mini mechanical bell great video I hear a Wch ebell further in great compilation
Main street in Leighton is basically Seneca Drive in Trinity, but Main St. has newer equipment
Yep. And also with different bases and minus a pair of lights.
***** right.
freebrickproductions Seneca is REALLY BAD, about people blowing through the crossing, but, if you've only had 1 accident in the past 40 years, than these signals will stay for a while
I will never understand why some of my fellow humans have to be so sodding stupid. And that ambulance driver - I'm speechless.
This is why we have white lights in Belgium to show you when it's ok to cross and red when it's not ok. Red alone is not enough, it doesn't stand out, and the black background is too small here.
This is definitely the Louisville and Nashville. Note the L&N station and the road named L&N.
Actually, it's a mixture of SOU and L&N, with a few others thrown in, IIRC.
Collect all driving licenses immediately and do not return! Red means STOP 🛑! All over the world!
It's first grade 🙄
Most of these clips showed gates coming down way sooner than they needed to. And then when the train finally approaches you cut to the next clip. Who's the real idiot?
The FRA requires only a minimum of 20 seconds of activation time before a train reaches a crossing with the gates having lowered about 5 seconds before the train reaches the crossing, though most railroads aim for 25-30 seconds. And just because my editing in this video wasn't the best doesn't mean that the people who carelessly ignored the signals weren't idiots themselves.
DO that in the UK and it';s a £60 fine and 3 points on your licence.
Britain is sooo more safety oriented and organized!
i know exactly what that first song is, it is a default beat on a piano
At 12:18 to 12:30 how can people tell when the crossing lights r on if they keep on fading like that
+Charles Vanhoose The fading you see in the video is only seen on the video, due to the LEDs messing with the camera's frame rate. They don't do it in real life.
NO ok so LED lights fad on camera What if a crossing light would show LIKE DURING THE DAY AT DRAKE DRIVE AND BOB WALLACE AVENUE the lights are barely seen in the day than the night ALL crossings should have LED lights that Don’t fad on camera
have you ever climbed on to a cantilever and walked to the end? and is it on your bucket list?
No.
@@freebrickproductions do you hope to someday? like with permission of course.
This, this is why America cannot have high speed rail. If we actually had trains traveling 100 mph throughout most of the US, we'd have a lot more tragedies because someone couldn't wait at most 10 minutes.
IIRC, high speed rail tends to involve upgrading crossings to quad-gates, when the crossings aren't being closed, anyways.
The people that's driving must be blind and death cause I know y'all hear the bells and see. Them flashing lights
Not nearly a russian level of driving.
Though for idiots in Russia we have automatic barrier obstavles, deployed from under the pavment in addition to usual barriers.
we need these here in Murica.
I know alot about trains cause I watched alot of youtube videos about them I would just stop cause I ain't getting killed by no train
In Germany, most americans would be dead on the videos. The trains here do not slow down at the railroad crossing.
The horns also not. Here trains run at 120-140 km / h over the railroad crossing. But hardly anyone makes such a fool about us.
Also, y'all tend to have the signals active for a lot longer than we do, from my observations.
OKAY FOLKS LET'S SEE WHAT THE RAILROAD CROSSING CROSS BUCK GANGS ARE UP TO TODAY
I always counted the Seconds from the time the person crosses the downed Gates until the train arrives at the crossing just to see how many seconds that person cheated death
A kit of those crossings needs some serious upgrades, with gates and traffic lites. They definitely should had them at the airport road crossing. A cantilever can only b stretched so far. They should install red light cameras, at some of these crossings.
wheres the bell on the second crossing?
at 3:42 how does that cantilever support itself and the lights?
at 5:49 I could of swarn that the bell was on the relay case the last time you visited.
at 11:33 the only way to tell if the crossing was active was the bell. the lights were hardly visible, even with so many lights!
at 12:25 why was there one LED signal and one halogen signal?
at 13:40 that was a real $$$$$$$$$!!!
at 17:09 why don't they put gates on?
at 21:31 is that the light on the ground there?
at 24:06 why is one light on for a shorter time than the other?
at 25:09 I have never seen a gate mechanism mounted directly onto a cantilever mast before.
at 27:10 were those traffic signals active when the crossing was?
at 29:10 that crossing is massive for only 2 tracks.
at 32:04 why were both signals on the same side of the road?
at 34:37 strange crossing setup.
at 36:57 are those real fading LED's?[LED's that behave like halogens]
The bell on the second crossing is on the signal on the far right (facing the side street), but it was dead at the time. It has since been replaced with a General Signals electronic bell.
The cantilever at 3:42 probably has a really good foundation.
You're probably thinking of a different crossing to the one at 5:49, as that bell and the ones before that bell have always been on that signal there.
The lenses and/or reflectors at 11:33 really need a good cleaning, though if you look closely, you can see the 8 inch lights light up better than the 12 inch ones.
There used to be two incandescent signals with all Modern Industries equipment at 12:25, but the one on the right got knocked down by a car and wasn't salvageable, so the HMCR had to replace it.
17:09 - Because the HMCR doesn't get too many daily trains.
The light at 21:31 fell off of the signal, likely due to some storms rolling through a few days-ish before I shot the video. The light that fell was damaged by construction equipment a few months prior.
24:06 - Something with the flasher relay.
25:09 - They ain't too common to see mounted that way.
The traffic lights at 27:10 have the top and bottom lights light up when the crossing is active to let the crews know the signals are functional.
The crossing at 29:10 is on a 4-way intersection and there's a branch line that breaks away from the crossing there.
There's a side street just off to the left at the crossing at 32:04 that prevents the far signal from being installed on the other side of the road.
I agree with ya about how the install at 34:37 is strange.
Yep! The LEDs at 36:57 are fading LEDs made by Harmon. Other fading LEDs (from both GE and Harmon) can be found on other crossings in this video. The ones from GE don't fade as much though.
***** 32:04 they could move it further away from the crossing and add a simple signal on the side road.
and what does HMCR stand for - Humorous Massive Country Railroad?
HMCR is the reporting mark of the Huntsville & Madison County Railroad. However, since that name is quite the mouthful, everyone just calls it "the HMCR".
***** it is quite a mouthful [of jalapenos]!
so funny at 4:15 when the cars rushed while the traffic lights are green when the signal went off
19:34 it looks like a funnel cloud
The sad thing is that those people are still allowed to vote.
Instead of red light cameras, they should have cameras at ungated crossings. Tons of money to be made in fines. People would rather risk their lives than be inconvenienced for a few minutes.
You cut the film too short,, I want to see time & distance..
I've always wondered how people think they can beat the train
wow theirs are the worst drivers like they don't care if the trains coming
Hours counter. Seconds from the time the person crosses the downed Gates until the train arrives at the crossing just to see how many seconds that person cheated death
No. It’s not even legal. The red light at a grade crossing is ansolute. And the train ALWAYS has the right of way. And will take it.
I did grade crossing accident investigation and getting “coupled up” has to be a horrible way to die.
I'm saying if there isn't a train coming, but the crossing is active (i.e. a malfunction), and the crossing doesn't have gates. I still think driving through an active crossing if a train is approaching is still an idiotic thing to do.
Some people gonna learn yet that trains no matter how fast or slow they are traveling are nothing to play with
So the procedure now is... if the lights are flashing, you look for the train and if you think you can beat it you go through? what the fuck!!!
Hey idiot that's not how that works it's illegal to cross the tracks against the flashing red lights trains take over a mile to stop even if it hits something along the way you can't judge the speed of a moving train you if you can't learn to stop crossing the tracks against the flashing red lights then you shouldn't be driving.
Remove the gates and you get rid of the idiot's in the world that have no common sense.
With most trains at kid-on-a-bike speed and sounding very far away it looks safe to cross. Illegal maybe, but safe.
+TarzanAndConz Many of these trains are traveling anywhere between 30 to 60 MPH.
Sad thing most people seem to think anymore no gates no waits🙄😕
or no cops no stops
I hope they will get end up getting a citation
Wow. 40 minutes of cars coming nowhere close to a train.
+Nonov Yerbusiness Never claimed these were close-calls.
Using the broad paintbrush, why are most of them pickups?
Because this is the south and people drive pickup trucks because they think it makes them look "cool".
My guy at 26:20 what is you doing almost got hit my guy
i see with your friend, he said he allows to use the music on anything (videos, etc....)
This is why we have a mute button and a down thumb.
Okay.
did they ever fixed the Lilly flag road signal
I have yet to see if the replacement has been installed. I do not believe so though.
Railroad crossings need to have 4 barriers
+Adam Maher Would be way to expensive for the railroads though.
I had Americans for a nation respecting set rules, but I see that I was wrong.
+Marek Charvat Depends on thenrules, really.
We normally are, and yes, this is absolutely disgraceful.
All of these are in the southern United states (mostly Alabama). Because of course they are.....
Well, I do live in Alabama and mostly railfan here...
I liked this, but would have preferred three twelve minute clips.
If you see the lights and the barriers coming down you have to stop and these idiots are running through them are risking their own lives and one will get hit
1:31 That was the same Railraod idiot that i was talking about on Railraod Crossings 16
At 25:30, a truck ran the gates on front of a cop!!!!
Why so many in AL
Because I live there and railfan there the most.