With the few wonder if the engineer had laid on the horn to get owners to move their transit cargo van when with the ice on a street had those wonder if the train was running on pavement when those hope with weight of the locomotive and a box car had crushed the ice to reveal tracks embedded in the road.
I didn’t even see any tracks until after the train went through! I thought, did someone by that train and add thick wheels just to make it into their own transportation?! Because people will by the craziest things to turn it into a car or a monster truck! Lol. That was very cool to see, that’s the best way to wake up the kids for school! The last time I was in temperatures of bellow 10 degrees F., is when me and my hubby were visiting Park City, Utah two years ago... we’re from central California in the valley, no snow here in the valley, just in our mountains but we wanted to drive all the way (a long long drive, but of course we stayed in Vegas first!), to Utah! But it was all worth it! 😁
There's really a whole train just chilling in the middle of a residential street... Telling a parked van to move. A van, made to be on paved road. Parked alongside a house, just doing it's deliveries, and it's somehow in the way of this one random freight train. Which seems to look as though it's casually waiting at a red light like an everyday car. This is one vehicle (if you're operating it) that you never need to worry about your safety if ever it gets into a collision with traffic. Even a truck would step out of its way. I love how it just drives off into the distance like it's not a big ass train on the streets with other vehicles.
Nah that van belonged to that chick who lived in that house, it wasn't doing a delivery. You see her run out there in her sandals with socks to move the van.
You see; this is what happens when people stop believing in Santa Claus: they have to lease the "Polar Express" tracks to local freight companies, lol = - D
I was driving on this street years ago and my youngest son was in the back asking if they ever drive trains down this road. That minute a train came down the street and my son was so thrilled because I rolled down the window and he got to wave to the engineer. This rail spurs goes go the Utica Brewery. We never want to slow this train down. 🇺🇸😎
Was always a " fun " time on Schuyler Street in the winter especially when we were heading south to Binghamton on the NE 97 at 1 or 2 in the morning , pissed of a lot of sleeping people looking for the owner to move it , more than once we scraped the side of a vehicle because no owner could be found .
This has to be about as close to heaven a New Yorker can get. A highly paid union job where you practically cannot be fired and on top of it you get to be the biggest and most obnoxious asshole to strangers at 1 in the morning. Then if they don't come out and move you get to destroy their stuff and say stuff like "That ain't ma job to move that car". The guys in my union were this way for free, but I guess a smart man knows if you are good at something, never do it for free.
Me and my friends and my 2 daughters during the lockdown and quarantine: *HELP US ALL, PASSENGERS!!!!!!!* *MANY SCREAMS OF DISTRESS AND MANY MORE EMOTIONS FELT BY BUSES, TROLLEYS, TRACKLESS TROLLEYS AND TRAINS*
Flaming Gear Technic Worshop i dont know it has a good animation and the world is really good but the protagonist is an ass and it could have been a movie without that the cars are living
It's weird, but it's just the slush of mud and the general road being covered. The tracks have been just covered in the slush, by the snow plows. It must really be the first run in the morning, or at least after a plow came through.
I'm gonna be honest. That situation cleared up faster than I expected. Usually I would expect it to take a while for the van's driver to realize what was going on. But she popped out quiccker.
I love these videos of Schuyler Street! There aren't many places remaining in the US where trains run right down the middle of a street.It looks even more ominous because the tracks are hidden by snow, making it seem like a rogue locomotive.
@@kishascape medical transport for people in a wheelchair. Required to park in the safest place possible to unload occupant(s) in wheelchairs. Road was probably the safest spot. Get mad at her all you want but she was probably helping getting a wheelchair bound person into a home.
I know I shouldn’t say it, but... “Only in America” haha. We’ve only got two towns in Australia where there’s street running, but at least they’ve got no parking signs everywhere :)
@@D-M-J It means australia isn't dumb enough to keep placing neighborhoods and cities dead center of a train track (or a train track added to a city / neighborhood)
You have to keep in mind that many old towns and cities in America where built along and around railroad tracks. That's why you see tracks in the middle of many cities in the U.S..
I've seen footage of airport that has active railroad tracks running across the runways. All air service has to be suspended until the train clears the area 🚂🚦✈ I think it's either somewhere in the Middle East or possibly South America 🌎🌍
The van driver to her son: _Don't worry honey the train without rails doesn't exist, it can't hurt you_ The train without rails: *HAHA HORN GOES TOOOOT*
Hey man, you mind moving that van? I gotta bring it on through here and you're sort of blocking the way. Lol. It's beautiful because it's 1) Utica in winter 2) It's the NYS&W, 3) I LOVE street running! 4) Short Lines rock!
Sometimes, I am able to view this video over and over again, like, at least four times. Its just so unique to be able to see a train stalled because of a parked motor vehicle!
Engineer forgot to blow the horn again at just the right time..like right when they turned away from the train.....to hopefully scare the cr.ap out of them. You'd think that the could hear the train from 1/2 mile away and be out there before the train got there.
What a GREAT vid - didn't realize they still went thru neighborhoods like this. Especially interesting since the rail tracks are iced over and appears to be none at all there. THANKS for the vid!!
He says. “Honey welcome to the house of your dreams!” She says “Why is it so cheap?” He says “I’m just a great negotiator”. Next morning she says “what happened to our car?” He says...😳
О, и здесь русские!:) Меня ещё порадовало, какую колею он прокатал. Понятное дело, что под укатанным снегом - рельсы, но сначала картина: тепловоз едет по заснеженной дороге))))
Это какие-нибудь подъездные пути, по которым может раз в неделю пару вагонов таскают, а то и реже, но у нас точно невозможно - все наши правила и нормы нарушает.
This brings back a lot of sad memories for me. What this is called is a close clearance where a vehicle is blocking or might be clocking part of the right of way. 21 years ago my wife was the brakeman on the Sacramento Southern Tourist Railroad (California State Rail Road Museum in Sacramento) She was working her usual shift as the front brakeman. That day along the rails was a children festival going on and a parent had let he kid park the van too close to the tracks. The owner of the van could not be located by the police and instead of police towing the van (I was told it would be bad PR for Sacramento) and in order to keep the train moving slow orders were given. Which means the front brakeman leaves the train and watches to see how much room there is for passing and then will step up into he last car and continue on. All went well until the last car was coming (I should mention that this was a steam train pulling 4 1940 vintage restored Pullman cars) the clearance allowed for 6 inches so the train passed and as Patti went to step up into the last car it was too late for what happened. You see no one had informed the rear brakeman to leave the door open (there had been a change of shift just 10 minutes before. So Daryl did his usual routine and closed the door that was open. Long story short since the door are recessed on the Pullman cars you can not see if they are open or closed. Patti watched for her footing since the train was moving and took aim at the lower step as taught. Upon swinging up to the doorway she came smack flat against the closed door and was crushed between the illegally parked van and the train crushing her. That was 21 years ago. The State of CA never took responsibility, The owner of the van was not sited since it was a rental used to carry foster children (by the state) the driver of the van was not cited since he was a minor and a foster child, And the Union Pacific Railroad attorney we hired was new to the practice and had no knowledge of how to take action against the parties and allowed the time to run out (Patti was a full para legal and knew the steps and told the attorneys office over and over what needed to be done before time run our) Bottom line NO ONE was ever held at fault, or paid a cent in damages. Patti killed herself on December 24, 2019 because of the PTSD from the accident so many years ago. PLEASE NEVER - NEVER- NEVER block the rails or go through the crossing "because you know better and it is safe" It is never safe and someone will have to pay the price - I know because I lost a wife of 20 years and our children lost a mother
- That house is perfect and so cheap! When can we visit? - We only do visits during snowy afternoons, when the tracks are covered. - What tracks?? - Never mind...
Imagine sitting in your house eating lunch, and you hear a train horn right outside your window. And then to realise if you don't get out there in 10 secs, he's gonna plow your van over. I've had neighbors complain about parking, but a train??
i want a train to go down the middle of my subdivision too, it would clear up all the parked cars. what are garages even for? these people refuse to park their cars in them
To be fair, if there wasn't a no-parking sign, it would be hard to tell there were train tracks in that street. But imagine how cool it would be to share the road with these behemoths! I would just follow behind and admire the sounds!
New Bern, NC, has a very similar street, where an active railway track shares a municipal street, which runs through commercial and residential areas of the city.
We used to have trains in Weymouth in the U.K. that would run along the road quay side to take passengers to a ferry at the pier. There used to be a group of rail workers walking in front to bump parked cars out of the way to clear the road. There are quite a few videos on UA-cam. It is unique to see.
As a European and train driver, I find these kind of street railways truly unbelievable and scary. Never seen anything like that over here. We do have tramways but it's not the same. I assume these tracks must have very little traffic, but even then... It's just crazy!
street railways still exist in some European cities e.g. Zurich. Mostly in formerly industrial areas undergoing gentrification where there is still some industry.
I'm sure it's perfectly safe. The train is going walking pace and is loud as hell so no one is going to be taken by surprise. I'm more scared of the drunk and the distracted drivers.
Parts of the Soulard neighborhood in St. Louis east of Broadway used to be like this. I left a bar down there at 2 AM and turned down a street and imagine my surprise to find myself in the path of an oncoming locomotive, albeit a very slow moving one.
Never seen a train pass through a residential area the way this train did. This is very unique.
I know I hope those houses are fucking cheap I would hate to live in that neighborhood, also love how he just laid down the horn to get them to move.
Also after the train passed the road, i knew there was a railway.
Nathan Varas I would enjoy it.
@Barry Johnson what about the Polar Express?
@@nathanv7320 I would love
That horn was epic! That would've woken the dead.
Litterally saying: "Make way or I'll shove your truck into your front yard!" :-D
It won't wake the overdosed, which there are plenty of everywhere these days.
Do drink too much that you fall asleep on the train track's
That shot looks like it’s in the morning too😂
Mopac 82 Finally, an alarm that would wake me up.
You literally can't see the track in the road. It really looks as if the train is running on the pavement, hilarious.
Am I being programmed, is it a dream?
With the few wonder if the engineer had laid on the horn to get owners to move their transit cargo van when with the ice on a street had those wonder if the train was running on pavement when those hope with weight of the locomotive and a box car had crushed the ice to reveal tracks embedded in the road.
I didn’t even see any tracks until after the train went through! I thought, did someone by that train and add thick wheels just to make it into their own transportation?! Because people will by the craziest things to turn it into a car or a monster truck! Lol. That was very cool to see, that’s the best way to wake up the kids for school! The last time I was in temperatures of bellow 10 degrees F., is when me and my hubby were visiting Park City, Utah two years ago... we’re from central California in the valley, no snow here in the valley, just in our mountains but we wanted to drive all the way (a long long drive, but of course we stayed in Vegas first!), to Utah! But it was all worth it! 😁
@@JMarieCAlove i did to lol
Same here
This must be where they've filmed the beginning of the Polar Express.
underrated comment
You know it was cgi right? smh
Jk lol
nah, the polar express used a stupid steam locomotive.
@@therosijedha woah calm down ok
@@therosijedha but I would have been if they used a diesel (DUMDASS LG PHONE)
There's really a whole train just chilling in the middle of a residential street... Telling a parked van to move. A van, made to be on paved road. Parked alongside a house, just doing it's deliveries, and it's somehow in the way of this one random freight train. Which seems to look as though it's casually waiting at a red light like an everyday car.
This is one vehicle (if you're operating it) that you never need to worry about your safety if ever it gets into a collision with traffic. Even a truck would step out of its way.
I love how it just drives off into the distance like it's not a big ass train on the streets with other vehicles.
Nah that van belonged to that chick who lived in that house, it wasn't doing a delivery. You see her run out there in her sandals with socks to move the van.
Patiently waits for the van to move, then blows through the stop sign as if the rules of the road don't apply to him.
@@BlackEpyon I'm fairly confident the rules of the road *dont* apply to heavy rail.
Imagine if you were new in town and weren’t aware there was a track down your street!!! Welcome to the Polar Express!
I slowed it down. It was a paramedic transport van.
CAR: you mad?
train: *aggresive honking*
You mad bro😂🤘
CAR: *I want to apologize*
Drivers lucky that wasnt a gtaV train
imagine, telling someone, "hang on, got to go move my van so a train can continue down the street"
Train : runs over car
Car: ** tense crunch noise**
That's the most hidden track I've ever seen/not seen from the front angle.
Until the train has crossed over it
Packed snow covering it
Okay... Because the idea of that monster just ambling down the street was a little terrifying.
@@modelcitizen72 he was tiptoeing through
" If the shit fits, wear it! " Donald 'Duck' Dunn: The Blues Brothers.
You see; this is what happens when people stop believing in Santa Claus: they have to lease the "Polar Express" tracks to local freight companies, lol = - D
Polar Express real life
Thats one of my favourite movies and im glad someone said that
Ha!
Finally someone said it
Yeah, also remembered this film ))
Van driver: “Why doesn’t he just go around?”
"I gave him a lot of room; sheesh. When I get me an 18 wheeler, *You* move over pal!"
😂😂😂😂😂
Even a Karen can't argue with a train.
@@billtomson5791 No, but you know Karens gonna Karen and try! Lol
they want to talk rhe the trains manager. asap! @@arwenevenstar0761
That is one of the weirdest things I've seen, a train had to stop so a van could move LOL
Must agree with you here! Really!
And obviously a woman driver.
I see it with trolleys all the time
@@montyi8 cheap mentality
@@InformationandTechnologysk Cheap driver. There's always a woman
I was driving on this street years ago and my youngest son was in the back asking if they ever drive trains down this road. That minute a train came down the street and my son was so thrilled because I rolled down the window and he got to wave to the engineer. This rail spurs goes go the Utica Brewery. We never want to slow this train down. 🇺🇸😎
Jdsb-3, Thank you for the information about the railroad's customer!
Thank you for that info
что за город?
Was always a " fun " time on Schuyler Street in the winter especially when we were heading south to Binghamton on the NE 97 at 1 or 2 in the morning , pissed of a lot of sleeping people looking for the owner to move it , more than once we scraped the side of a vehicle because no owner could be found .
Wait so this is a recurring thing?
This has to be about as close to heaven a New Yorker can get. A highly paid union job where you practically cannot be fired and on top of it you get to be the biggest and most obnoxious asshole to strangers at 1 in the morning. Then if they don't come out and move you get to destroy their stuff and say stuff like "That ain't ma job to move that car". The guys in my union were this way for free, but I guess a smart man knows if you are good at something, never do it for free.
@@jasonhunt19201 The real assholes are the ones blocking the train.
@@bftjoe looks like we found a union guy
2020: stay at home and work at home
Train engineers:
TRAIN SIMULATOR *T H E U L T I M A T E P A C K*
Me and my friends and my 2 daughters during the lockdown and quarantine: *HELP US ALL, PASSENGERS!!!!!!!* *MANY SCREAMS OF DISTRESS AND MANY MORE EMOTIONS FELT BY BUSES, TROLLEYS, TRACKLESS TROLLEYS AND TRAINS*
@El Enfermo Sexual Reborn seriously? *you had encountered motherly train very randomly and it is confusion to you and your brain malfunctions.*
@El Enfermo Sexual Reborn um. You alright???
😇true
The train never stopped at the stop sign. Where’s the police locomotive to catch him?
Apparently the police loco was having problems that day due to the cold and didn't want to get up.
Liberals defunded him
*you mean locomotive police!😁😃
@@fiddlyphuk6414 Bwahahaha!
You mean the PopoLoco?
*Therapist:* “It’s okay, residential train doesn’t exist, it cant hurt you”
*Residential Train:*
löl dark but löl
Residential train: Hold my beer!
Here we see a wild train sneak up on its prey AND VIOLENTLY SCREECH AT IT"
😂
Like that scene in cars (hate that movie) where lighning and mater honk on the cow Traktor
I read that in a Australian Accent.
Lalosrelbok why you hate it?
Flaming Gear Technic Worshop i dont know it has a good animation and the world is really good but the protagonist is an ass and it could have been a movie without that the cars are living
Everyone: the truck moving
Me: Where is the goddamn track?
It's weird, but it's just the slush of mud and the general road being covered. The tracks have been just covered in the slush, by the snow plows. It must really be the first run in the morning, or at least after a plow came through.
@@The_Stumbler so the track is there?
3:25
yeah, you're different from the rest
@@spyrothepurpledragon1828 its like a trolly track its built into the road like train crossings except it follows the road instead of crossing it
I love the way she thought by folding the mirror in on the van maybe the train would have gone by, guess that was an epic fail!
Imagine parking that outside your house when you finish for the day
1:15 can we appreciate how BEAUTIFUL that horn sounds?
At 1:16 your alarm clock just went off 😆
I might do that thank you 😆
That lasted for like 15 seconds lmao
Have to be honest, I wanted to see the van moved by the train
"With extreme prejudice"
@@apurugganan someone’s been watching to much apocalypse now in the last days
@@rolux4853 And rather than wait for *them* to comment, I decided to make a preemptive strike =)
Me too
He was probably almost considering if it was worth the paperwork
They're lucky he didn't move that van for them 😅
Let him. And the owner of that vehicle will get a new one courtesy of the RR.
It would be a huge delay if they hit that van. It’s much faster to wait for them to move.
@TrucksNTracks because technically the railroad owns 25 feet on each side and not only that but the train hangs over 3 feet on each side
Everything on or around the track is on railroad property. Move it or lose it.
Fsilone You better move it before it gets destroyed
I'm gonna be honest. That situation cleared up faster than I expected. Usually I would expect it to take a while for the van's driver to realize what was going on. But she popped out quiccker.
Lived in Utica NY from '90 to '94 and never saw a train running through.
Thanks for sharing
Ciao from Little Italy 🇮🇹 Montréal
Woo Hooo Winter street running, cutting through the ice!! Thanks for going out and getting these shots!
I love these videos of Schuyler Street! There aren't many places remaining in the US where trains run right down the middle of a street.It looks even more ominous because the tracks are hidden by snow, making it seem like a rogue locomotive.
Because its dumb
That chick: chilling
Train: *HORNS* waking even dead
Neighbors: OMFG Karen parked on the street again FFS 😡
@Kilo Byte 😂 definitely
Commercial vehicle, you could easily bust her lardass if you wanted to.
@@kishascape medical transport for people in a wheelchair. Required to park in the safest place possible to unload occupant(s) in wheelchairs. Road was probably the safest spot. Get mad at her all you want but she was probably helping getting a wheelchair bound person into a home.
On the rail*
@@cringecasserole who cares shuuuud up karen
"GPS signal lost. Rerouting."
I wish there were still lines like this in UK, the last one to be ripped up a few years ago was in Weymouth
I know I shouldn’t say it, but... “Only in America” haha. We’ve only got two towns in Australia where there’s street running, but at least they’ve got no parking signs everywhere :)
..............ok so what does that mean?
@@D-M-J It means australia isn't dumb enough to keep placing neighborhoods and cities dead center of a train track (or a train track added to a city / neighborhood)
And what about "sidewalk running"? Hahahaha!!! In Olavarría, Argentina
ua-cam.com/video/v5XzH_9R04s/v-deo.html
You have to keep in mind that many old towns and cities in America where built along and around railroad tracks. That's why you see tracks in the middle of many cities in the U.S..
I've seen footage of airport that has active railroad tracks running across the runways. All air service has to be suspended until the train clears the area 🚂🚦✈
I think it's either somewhere in the Middle East or possibly South America 🌎🌍
Mom, is that a train?
Mom: sounds like it
Train:*lays on horn*
Mom: oops, gotta move the van 😂😂😂😂
The van driver to her son: _Don't worry honey the train without rails doesn't exist, it can't hurt you_
The train without rails: *HAHA HORN GOES TOOOOT*
@@mihan2d that kid twenty years later,
"Oh no. I always fly."
@@modelcitizen72 is that a reference to something?
Hey man, you mind moving that van? I gotta bring it on through here and you're sort of blocking the way. Lol. It's beautiful because it's 1) Utica in winter 2) It's the NYS&W, 3) I LOVE street running! 4) Short Lines rock!
Me manda
They dont rock because theyre shortlines
Sometimes, I am able to view this video over and over again, like, at least four times. Its just so unique to be able to see a train stalled because of a parked motor vehicle!
Woman’s boyfriend: “Hey, don’t park there. A freight train comes through here.”
Woman: “Yeah, right.”
Lmao probably. He probably didn't get laid that night either because he was right.
*GOVERNMENT:* Due to the pandemic, everyone is required to work from home
*TRAIN OPERATOR:*
Bruh the tables have turned
*finally my Amazon premium package arrived*
Edit: thank you for all the likes, hope you are well and healthy
😂😂😂
Lol
A now the van driver might need to call a tow truck
Yay!
getting a house from amazon be like:
Train: You can't see the tracks?
I'LL SHOW YOU THE TRACKS
Where we're going, we don't NEED tracks!
Love it, boyhood dream having a train running down the road. Just waiting to see if the van would brake check the train🤣🤣
That is too cool. Train just driving down a residential road. I love it! Especially since I don’t have to live on that road haha!
I like how the crew just lays on the horn if there is something in the way. It's pretty funny. Not much else they can do I guess!
The whole neighborhood would be pissed at whomever parked the van there and made them do it. Peer pressure works.
That is one heck of a horn! 14 second blast: Effective though...
@@Fsilone Democracy in action. That's why I'm a supporter of the Republic. Mob mentality scares me.
Engineer forgot to blow the horn again at just the right time..like right when they turned away from the train.....to hopefully scare the cr.ap out of them. You'd think that the could hear the train from 1/2 mile away and be out there before the train got there.
@@Fsilone Doesn't look like its illegal to park there, and there was parked cars further up the road.
Why can’t the train just go around the van, ugh so annoying
😁😁😁😁😁😁
Or through it
Or under it
Lol
Wait is this a joke
Tracks looked invincible. Train shares the road like a wide load truck but taller.
What a GREAT vid - didn't realize they still went thru neighborhoods like this. Especially interesting since the rail tracks are iced over and appears to be none at all there. THANKS for the vid!!
Cop: "Do you know why I pulled you over sir? You just blew a stop sign."
Engineer: "Aw, just try to fuckin' stop me!"
lol😂 hahahaha
Having a train drive down your street everyday is the coolest thing ever
Until you hear that horn every day in the morning
@@Jucamech im sure they have regulations on the horn blowing like at least certain hours of the day
Near my gouse we have a bridge where rhere are cars going through and also a train track and the train is always super long
Best fucking alarm clock!
Bruh, your house will shake everyday when that train is rolling by. It will get old, fast.
*when u ordered a premium package and it arrives at ur doorstep*
*engineer picks up van* “that should do it. Clear!”
I just love towns that trains are on the streets.
So great video. Thumb up! Thanks for sharing this video. GreetingsCan't believe there are people waiting to see trains go by like me.
Looks so strange seeing a train move with cars lined up behind it, and having track like that in a town. Great.
He says. “Honey welcome to the house of your dreams!” She says “Why is it so cheap?” He says “I’m just a great negotiator”. Next morning she says “what happened to our car?” He says...😳
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME TO SEEING A TRAIN ON THE ROAD AWSOME!
I have never seen a train going through town like a tram does, with cars and people everywhere. That’s hilarious 😂😂👍🏻
Love the sound of the spooling turbo.
Random guy: (sleeping in on his day off)
Train: i'm about to ruin this guys whole day.
Ж/Д пути и автодорога в одном флаконе, ВЫ СЕРЬЁЗНО???????😵😵😵😵😵
НУ ВЫ БЛИН ДАЁТЕ!!!!!
О, и здесь русские!:) Меня ещё порадовало, какую колею он прокатал. Понятное дело, что под укатанным снегом - рельсы, но сначала картина: тепловоз едет по заснеженной дороге))))
Ну вообще в таким местах , они быстро не едут
А пешеходов пропускает?
Ummmm hes drunk?
Это какие-нибудь подъездные пути, по которым может раз в неделю пару вагонов таскают, а то и реже, но у нас точно невозможно - все наши правила и нормы нарушает.
This brings back a lot of sad memories for me. What this is called is a close clearance where a vehicle is blocking or might be clocking part of the right of way. 21 years ago my wife was the brakeman on the Sacramento Southern Tourist Railroad (California State Rail Road Museum in Sacramento) She was working her usual shift as the front brakeman. That day along the rails was a children festival going on and a parent had let he kid park the van too close to the tracks. The owner of the van could not be located by the police and instead of police towing the van (I was told it would be bad PR for Sacramento) and in order to keep the train moving slow orders were given. Which means the front brakeman leaves the train and watches to see how much room there is for passing and then will step up into he last car and continue on. All went well until the last car was coming (I should mention that this was a steam train pulling 4 1940 vintage restored Pullman cars) the clearance allowed for 6 inches so the train passed and as Patti went to step up into the last car it was too late for what happened. You see no one had informed the rear brakeman to leave the door open (there had been a change of shift just 10 minutes before. So Daryl did his usual routine and closed the door that was open. Long story short since the door are recessed on the Pullman cars you can not see if they are open or closed. Patti watched for her footing since the train was moving and took aim at the lower step as taught. Upon swinging up to the doorway she came smack flat against the closed door and was crushed between the illegally parked van and the train crushing her.
That was 21 years ago. The State of CA never took responsibility, The owner of the van was not sited since it was a rental used to carry foster children (by the state) the driver of the van was not cited since he was a minor and a foster child, And the Union Pacific Railroad attorney we hired was new to the practice and had no knowledge of how to take action against the parties and allowed the time to run out (Patti was a full para legal and knew the steps and told the attorneys office over and over what needed to be done before time run our) Bottom line NO ONE was ever held at fault, or paid a cent in damages. Patti killed herself on December 24, 2019 because of the PTSD from the accident so many years ago.
PLEASE NEVER - NEVER- NEVER block the rails or go through the crossing "because you know better and it is safe" It is never safe and someone will have to pay the price - I know because I lost a wife of 20 years and our children lost a mother
oh my gosh i'm so sorry
"What a crazy train!"
"Yeah, it's a loco loco."
Nice. I like these roadtrains
Imagine if your house was on this road and you were able to build a track in your driveway so you could casually park your engine with your car
Can you imagine being in a "deep coma" like sleep, and then hearing that horn go off?😱😱😱
Something tells me that this was how the Polar Express picked up the Children before the Christmas while on the road....
Such a cool sight to see street trains! Nice catch!
This is so cool!! I love trains. Wish I could have been there 🥰
What was built first, the public road or the RR tracks? Nice street running vid.
Probably the rr
The railroad.
🤦🏻♂️
Back in the day railroads were built then the towns literally followed the railroad and built on or next to the train tracks
Railroads brought commerce, and cities followed.
first time I've ever seen a freight train travel down a city street.
the car : why do i hear a BOSS music ??
Growing up on that street was always cool to see the train come thru kinda miss Utica sometimes
- That house is perfect and so cheap! When can we visit?
- We only do visits during snowy afternoons, when the tracks are covered.
- What tracks??
- Never mind...
Imagine sitting in your house eating lunch, and you hear a train horn right outside your window. And then to realise if you don't get out there in 10 secs, he's gonna plow your van over.
I've had neighbors complain about parking, but a train??
i want a train to go down the middle of my subdivision too, it would clear up all the parked cars.
what are garages even for? these people refuse to park their cars in them
Главное, чтобы при продаже дома поезд не проехал мимо, когда покупатели осматривают дом ))
I know what you mean 😂
So much for sleeping in on the weekend lol
To be fair, if there wasn't a no-parking sign, it would be hard to tell there were train tracks in that street. But imagine how cool it would be to share the road with these behemoths! I would just follow behind and admire the sounds!
New Bern, NC, has a very similar street, where an active railway track shares a municipal street, which runs through commercial and residential areas of the city.
"What is we share a two lane residential road with a freight train to save some money?"
And THIS is why zoning came about...
Engineer: Let's put the tracks on the street!
Boss: You're fired.
more like let's put the train tracks through house lined streets "excellent ideal".wakeup call fog horn loud train.move it or lose it.lol
I drove trucks for a long time. It always felt weird driving a large truck down main street in a small town. But this... Mind blown!
We used to have trains in Weymouth in the U.K. that would run along the road quay side to take passengers to a ferry at the pier. There used to be a group of rail workers walking in front to bump parked cars out of the way to clear the road. There are quite a few videos on UA-cam. It is unique to see.
The rail is covered with snow and dust, i just thought the train is running on the road
As a European and train driver, I find these kind of street railways truly unbelievable and scary. Never seen anything like that over here. We do have tramways but it's not the same. I assume these tracks must have very little traffic, but even then... It's just crazy!
street railways still exist in some European cities e.g. Zurich. Mostly in formerly industrial areas undergoing gentrification where there is still some industry.
This would certainly not be legal in any European country.
@@phillipbanes5484 so what? America is not a country either and they all call themselves Americans
@@phillipbanes5484 ok then by that logic I can call myself European too.
I'm sure it's perfectly safe. The train is going walking pace and is loud as hell so no one is going to be taken by surprise. I'm more scared of the drunk and the distracted drivers.
I'm still searching for the tracks
It's not like the train can go around the van great video
Parts of the Soulard neighborhood in St. Louis east of Broadway used to be like this. I left a bar down there at 2 AM and turned down a street and imagine my surprise to find myself in the path of an oncoming locomotive, albeit a very slow moving one.
Pretty sure that’s the road the Polar Express takes but mkay.
Now the train has left its kind. It’s now part of the cars.
Used to see a lot of them in new jersey
First part of the video: where are the rails?🤔 Second part of the video: 😂
It absolutely amazes me that railroads like this still exist in the US.
This is a weird set up. Love it
Imagine backing out of your driveway and hitting a train.
How do you explain that to the insurance company ?
lmao imagine explaining that to your insurance company and not having people look at you like you've gone mad.
Imagine being that stupid.
@@travelling_stephen , yeah , I'm sure that will be the look the driver gets from their insurance agent ( and police )
*"All the time you have to leave a space"*
Fernando Alonso
"Excuse me? I'm transporting more cargo than your net worth. Move your van, Karen"
"Move your van the easy way or I'll do it the hard way"
You do realize that that car is there for transporting people in a wheelchair, right?
@@ferrari2k That doesn't mean you can block trains with your van.
JD_Kreeper dude, people in wheelchairs are either injured, disabled, or are amputees, even a street-running train can take a hot second for that.
@@jd_kreeper It was carrying a single container and got held up maybe 30 seconds.
Never seen someone run out to move their vehicle for a train!! Awesome 😅
I thought it was a USPS truck at first. Thats awesome that the driver was wearing flip flops too.
everybody gangsta until the train starts honking
Hey the Ford van folded his mirror in.....it's gonna be fine !
That thumbnail was something you just have to click on btw 👍
It looked like we're running from the train in the thumbnail
Have you heard anything about if/when the NYSW line from Sherburne to Chenango Forks will reopen?
No, nary a word.
They ought to just rip it up and make a Chenango Forks - Sherburne bike trail out of it, it's been idle so long
En pleine ville !!! Wow c'est capoté !!! 🤔🤪🤩
That's some great city planning that is!