It's immensely frustrating that nobody in the US seems to know every railroad crossing has a big blue sign near it with a toll-free number to call and the crossing's ID number, so the dispatcher can stop trains. These collisions don't need to happen!
True and the road crossings need to have longer rise/run with areas level across the tracks the span of two piggyback rigs. The slopes on either side should be about the same distance to ensure rigs won't get stuck at any point in the crossing. Adding early warning signals before rigs begin going up the slopes toward the crossings and increasing the visibility of those signs might also improve safety.
Not just the conductor (who doesn’t drive the train) but the engineer or motorman, who is the person behind the throttle. I have a friend, who was a conductor on SEPTA (Philadelphia’s commuter line). He was the person who had to get off the train to check if they hit the person or object that was on the tracks. Too many times if it was a person, it was because they chose to end their life in an extremely selfish way.
They also can be put on full pension after a certain number of incidents, irrespective of service. Footplate union is very strong on this, by me that number is 5, after that you are put on mandatory pension, and every incident they offer full counseling as well for the crew. Not many drivers get through their entire career with zero incidents, generally they are on no 2 to 4 when they retire at 60. Some went on pension with up to 50, they took out a bus, and every case the bus driver was to blame.
The train blown over by the tornado was neither a collision or mistake. It was simply a matter of bad luck and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
@@AlanWolf-d7l Better weather forecasts are always good but they are not able to say a tornado will hit this exact spot and act this exact way. There are simply too many variables to get that precise.
There’s a blue sign at each crossing for a reason. Video n. 9: the train is a CSX train, not CN. Four of the 10 videos are due to low ground clearance issue. Police officers should also be trained about the ENS sign. Those four accidents were avoidable.
The “writer” of this video is most likely not American and is probably AI. In the US we don’t refer to our freight cars as “cargo cars”, nor do we call the train’s engineer the “driver” or say “ILL-inois”. And the “1970s” Mercedes looks more like ‘80s or ‘90s.
With few exceptions there is a blue sign at every crossing with the direct line of contact to the railroad for these situations. People simply don’t know about them.
Railroad conductors do noT "DRIVE" the train. The train (ENGINE) is operated (driven_ by the ENGINEER in the UNited States. In the UK and perhaps elsewhere the operator is called the "driver". The Conductor is responsible for the paperwork, clearances, and operational details of a train, but the ENGINEER is the operaor who mans the brakes, throttle, speed, and other operational details. The Conductor can advise the Engineer that it is safe to depart, but the Engineer will not move the train unless he is satisfied that the train is ready in all respects .
That's why, when participating in traffic, we must always stay focused and observe carefully. Relying entirely on others or automated systems is never safe enough.
My big question with some of these car carriers is that they seem to have a great deal of time before any train arrives at the crossing. Why not unload what can be unloaded before a train reaches the point of being visible to the crossing? At least then some people's properties will survive the disaster.
Most of those crossings are very old, and are appropriate for regular cars and trucks at the design time, probably around 1950, and fitted them. The problem comes with longer trucks with reduced ground clearance, which causes them to self centre, and also lowered cars, which do the same. There is likely a warning there about the hump height, and the truck driver is totally to blame, because you can see on arriving at the crossing that the roadway is raised both sides, and thus that his low ground clearance vehicle is not going to fit. There likely are lots of other crossings along that road, and they likely also are recorded in the truck GPS as to both ground clearance and height for the rail crossing, so even a Swift driver driving where the voice tells them should not get centered there, providing they actually entered both length, height and ground clearance of the truck and trailers. Yes the level crossing could be redesigned, but doing that is either going to require relaying 10 miles of railway track either side to get the grade down, or destroying houses to get the extra length to move the roads either side, to get the section far enough away that you can have an approach and departure that will fit road grade limits, and make a crossing that is level to the rails, with an approach and departure that can fit a fully legal semi truck each side. So either the city or town pays out a few million per intersection, or the railway pays a hundred million for the line, or you put up a sign telling dumb people to not use it if the vehicle has low ground clearance, or if it is over 15 feet long between axles, and that no vehicles over 10 tons are permitted. You can bet the town will go with option 3, and let insurers fight over the claims, and for the railway insurance to win every time, as they have right of way, even if the signals do not work, as the rules of the road say that you must stop at every rail crossing, look for approaching trains both ways, and only cross if there are no trains approaching, and only to cross after the train has cleared, and there are no other trains using any other rails.
As a rail fan, I'd like to point out to everyone that trains DO NOT stop like cars. Even if a train goes into emergency stop, it can sometimes take a minute or longer to stop it. While you can call the number on a sign next to the tracks to reach a dispatcher, you might be better off to call 911 (US) and let the cops call about oncoming trains. They often have numbers you won't.
If insurance companies refused to pay out on people who drive stupidly, there would be fewer stupid drivers on the road. If you are a low loader driver, you should check ahead of time if the route is suitable for the height of the low-loader.
not poor crossings, drivers too unaware as to the ground clearance of the truck, hitting a grade crossing that was approved 70 years plus ago for cars and light trucks, not semi trailers and low clearance buses.
@@SeanBZA No, it is poor crossings, in that 70 years there was plenty of time and opportunity to upgrade the crossings to suit modern conditions. But they were not upgraded, so they are now poor crossings. The video attests to that fact.
@@neoaliphant By me most crossings are unguarded, but with signs saying trains have right of way, and that you must stop and ensure there is no traffic on the line before crossing. There are a few with guards, but they are also the site of accidents where people drive past the barrier. The railways always win.
@@scatterhawk47 The term 'driver' is used by many throughout the world to represent the individual who operates the locomotive. Other acceptable terms I have heard in my travels include operator, motorman, handler , shunter and for locomotive movements...hostler.
In the USA, a person or vehicle is hit by a train on average every five to six hours. But the rise in traffic has lowered that number to three hours. That's 8,760 hits per year! Yikes.
"Canadian National" train???? CSX is the abbreviation for Chessie Systems, which is still in existence. This RR trades on the NYSE as CSXT, Chessie Systems Transport.
call the number posted in the sign next to the railroad crossing if you or somebody else got stuck. These accidents especially the ones with officers involved were avoidable
All these high centered trailers suggests several problems. One tractor trailers are too long with a too low center. Second the roads crossing the rails are NOT level on either side forcing the rails to be higher than the surrounding roads making high centered trailers a fact of life. Why not raise the road level near the rails to prevent this. It only needs to be near the level for approximately one tractor trailer length. Oh well. If this doesn't change we will continue to see trailers stuck crossing a rail and getting destroyed by trains.
You can see what happens many times. A truck with a load will be sent with a fairly low trailer bed that has to cross a railroad track where the road is lowered on both sides, lower than what the bed of the trailer rides. It many times is not the driver's fault; he was just following the instructions he had been given; but the person who sent him on that journey, the truck dispatcher does not know that the track is higher than the bed of the trailer and so it happens again and again.
The one with the faulty rail crossing, the Forman in charge could have put up a form B for that crossing and alerted the dispatcher to put a box 2 for the crossing.
Yes, we do. We also teach them to not run red lights, get out and look before backing, don’t tailgate, don’t speed, shut down when there is ice, and many other things. Not everybody listens. When worried about RR clearance, get out and look and measure if necessary. If you probably can’t make it, FIND ANOTHER ROUTE! Not all crossings are possible for every trailer. -- long haul driver trainer
that garbage truck diver is lucky, there's a crossing near my dad's old job like this; an road that turns into the crossing and no lights. One of the truck driver that worked for that company died just like this. THEN they lit the crossing.
Sorry - can't. They are automatic. The contacts a certain distance away are closed by the train, AND the ones at the crossing too. It needs human intervention.
Most car haulers the trailers are heavy and if they are not high enough for ground clearance, they will get stuck. Another factor is that if the rails are too high that too can stop a tractor trailer. If the tractor trailer is carrying a heavy load that is also a possibility, either way cars were damaged. If the rails are not maintained properly there you have it. I know for a fact someone out there will call me on it.
Lots of good suggestions to call the rail company to report the blockage, but as good as that may be, the delays with rail controllers and police dispatchers would seem to doom those efforts. Does it actually work?
If your trailer is stuck on the track and the train is in sight, at least pull the lever so the kingpin comes loose and the tractor is not dragged with it.
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You several times referred to the driver of the train as the conductor. This is an error. The driver of a train is called an engineer. On freight trains there is a conductor but he is not the driver. On passenger trains the conductor is the person in charge of the passengers.🙂🙂
It's absolutely absurd that after all these years, and all the destruction, the environmental costs, the loss of life, injury and the countless millions of dollars these rail crossing have caused because of tractor trailers bottoming out, that the road and rail levels have not been equalled over a greater distance to stop this from happening.
To do that may cost the community millions of dollars. And all at taxpayer expense. A community has to weigh the cost of where could the money better be spent vs putting the responsibility on the trucking industry to hire and train its drivers
@@cdavid8139 But that's my point, these accidents have cost many lives and hundreds of millions of dollars and will continue to repeat the cycle, how many deaths, how many environmental incidents, how much cost, how much disruption? If you use the cost of these accidents to pay for the modifications there is no contest.
@@stevemchadd Unfortunately the communities (taxpayers) who have to pay for the upgrades generally don't have the money or they would have already done it. And in general the taxpayer in a community would be funding an upgrade where the chances of a trucker going over that particular crossing and getting stuck at the exact moment a train comes through is tiny. Communities do the math and for the most part they decide the massive costs of upgrading each crossing in town where there might be a problem could be better spend improving roads and traffic signals or feeding homeless.
Any low loader truck driver & owner must make an appointment / approval with railroad company, they will supervise on site, any problem encounter train operator will be notified earlier to stop train in advance, these requirement must be made mandatory especially where rail crossing higher than road level (like road hump).
Every one complains about "call the blue sign", "Calling the cops is better", "lower the hangover". I got a simpler solution: If you are unsure you wont make it, DON'T CROSS. All truck drivers should know how high their trailers can travel over a hump. If the hump looks bigger than what the trailer is allowed, DO NOT CROSS.
No offence, but you REALLY don't have to note the population of a particular city you are discussing. Who cares? Most or all of the time it has nothing to do with the subject matter.
About the incident in El Paso, TX ... Everyone was fine. So many places, including driveways, are very poorly done and trailers get stuck all the time. There was a gas station driveway where my car scraped the bottom hard. Not a lowered car, just a really bad entrance / exit.
As a truck driver i got heck for crossing a rail crossing "too quickly" yeh NO once i decided to cross the track i did NOT waste time. Yeh appears like FedX should have got his foot into the throttle . Cant tell if the other back end of the truck made it across or not.
i noted an historical inaccuracy in the narration. In 1908, the railroad that became part of the Seaboard Coast Line was known as the Seaboard Air Line. The Seaboard Coast Line came into existence on July 1, 1967 as a result of the merger with the Atlantic Coast Line.
It is the TRUCK DRIVER’S RESPONSIBILITY to be sure no train is coming and that he/she can get across a track without getting stuck. That can even mean getting out and measuring clearances. The truck drivers were at fault each time. Even faulty equipment does not excuse the truck drivers.
If these trucks keep getting stuck by "bottoming" out on railway crossings, I would've thought that some enterprising trailer manufacturer would've designed a trailer rear axle suspension system much like the suspension on low rider cars. That way the driver could just lift the rear axle & drive clear.
@@dward8146 But a train can take up to a mile to stop (all depending on speed and its length), going 55 mph. And in question is the visibility if the train has not received communication. Lots of variables, but time is of the essence
Why are "level" crossings not at road level in US ? It seems that regular maintenance of rails keeps raising the rails until the crossing must be abandoned (blocked) ?
Most of them are decades old, and trailers and buses used to have higher axle to axle clearance. Unfortunately, many routes that these trucks have to take getting from point A to point B have to go over raised crossings like this because there aren’t other routes. One would think that as this became a problem, the railroads and highway/transportation departments would have done planned leveling to remove these humps, but the problem just gets “kicked down the road”, so to speak. Either the roads need to be regraded to reduce the severity of the “humps” or the tracks need to be dropped to road level with no mound. Neither is cheap, especially since many rail beds were created by adding material to the existing ground level and then building track on top rather than digging a rail bed in which to put base material, ties and rail track.
In many instances, the roads were put in/improved long after the tracks. Why didn't they grade the road up to the crossing to make it level. It would be much easier to regrade the road, than the tracks.
As a railroader I can tell you that we often try to work with communities to shut down those crossings. I've traded off crossing improvements on crossing "A" if we could shut down crossing "B"
@@cdavid8139, how often are you and your colleagues listened to? I’d consider those of you actually riding the rails to be the frontline experts, but I wonder if egos and money win out over common sense.
It's immensely frustrating that nobody in the US seems to know every railroad crossing has a big blue sign near it with a toll-free number to call and the crossing's ID number, so the dispatcher can stop trains. These collisions don't need to happen!
I’ve lived near train tracks for literally years and never knew this. Kinda wish it was more easily noticeable tbh
Call the sign! Everyone else is filming, there is going to be footage. Even the police don't know to call.
True and the road crossings need to have longer rise/run with areas level across the tracks the span of two piggyback rigs. The slopes on either side should be about the same distance to ensure rigs won't get stuck at any point in the crossing. Adding early warning signals before rigs begin going up the slopes toward the crossings and increasing the visibility of those signs might also improve safety.
@@JosiahGould they don't put the number up there for there self
You would think that they would look at it. But then, maybe that there wasn't time to call to stop the train.
Good reminder: Trains rarely make mistakes. They are literally the easiest land based vehicle to avoid
Biggest alpha predators on land. Respect them the way u would lions, from far away.
Driver's must be aware every time a locomotive hits a vehicle the conductor's go through so much trauma thinking they have taken a life
Not just the conductor (who doesn’t drive the train) but the engineer or motorman, who is the person behind the throttle. I have a friend, who was a conductor on SEPTA (Philadelphia’s commuter line). He was the person who had to get off the train to check if they hit the person or object that was on the tracks. Too many times if it was a person, it was because they chose to end their life in an extremely selfish way.
I have always wondered about this actually :(
12:28 that train smacked the car aside like it was a mosquito lol
They also can be put on full pension after a certain number of incidents, irrespective of service. Footplate union is very strong on this, by me that number is 5, after that you are put on mandatory pension, and every incident they offer full counseling as well for the crew. Not many drivers get through their entire career with zero incidents, generally they are on no 2 to 4 when they retire at 60. Some went on pension with up to 50, they took out a bus, and every case the bus driver was to blame.
Even in a foreign language,
You just know they are cursing...
Conductors don't "drive" trains. Engineers "run" trains.
The conductor is the person in charge though (if there is one).
Oh thank you oh mighty know it Alll😮😅😂
The train blown over by the tornado was neither a collision or mistake. It was simply a matter of bad luck and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Toronda ok but dont say nothing could or should gave been diff . Better weather reporting.
@@AlanWolf-d7l Better weather forecasts are always good but they are not able to say a tornado will hit this exact spot and act this exact way. There are simply too many variables to get that precise.
*Thankfully, most of these situations are rare, but it shows how critical safety measures are in railways*
Never race a train. If it's a tie, you lose.
If you think trains will stop for you, you’re right. They do! BUT, about a mile AFTER they hit you.
When the gate arms fall, stop. Trains can’t.
There’s a blue sign at each crossing for a reason. Video n. 9: the train is a CSX train, not CN.
Four of the 10 videos are due to low ground clearance issue. Police officers should also be trained about the ENS sign. Those four accidents were avoidable.
Correct, csx and cn are two different train lines and CN is not even in the US.
Many of these clips are older than these blue signs.
Did you see this blue sign in the videos?
@ yes, in some of the videos post 2015 the blue sign is visible.
How do you get Canadian National out of CSX? It's Headquarters are in Jacksonville.
The “writer” of this video is most likely not American and is probably AI. In the US we don’t refer to our freight cars as “cargo cars”, nor do we call the train’s engineer the “driver” or say “ILL-inois”. And the “1970s” Mercedes looks more like ‘80s or ‘90s.
"Speeding train" implies illegality. "Fast moving train" is more illustrative.
why didnt the policw get in contact with the train operators when they've been there a while, surely theres a system
Had the same question 🤔
With few exceptions there is a blue sign at every crossing with the direct line of contact to the railroad for these situations. People simply don’t know about them.
@@CDKAZ0688
Then = NO
Now = Yes!
Did you see this blue sign in the videos?
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Until recently this could not happen.
Railroad conductors do noT "DRIVE" the train. The train (ENGINE) is operated (driven_ by the ENGINEER in the UNited States. In the UK and perhaps elsewhere the operator is called the "driver". The Conductor is responsible for the paperwork, clearances, and operational details of a train, but the ENGINEER is the operaor who mans the brakes, throttle, speed, and other operational details. The Conductor can advise the Engineer that it is safe to depart, but the Engineer will not move the train unless he is satisfied that the train is ready in all respects .
This is for all drivers crossing railroad tracks. Train do not come with anti-lock brakes.
In The United States There's An 800 Number You Can If There's Problems at a Railroad Crossing..
This is NOW!!!
Some of these clips are older than the "800" number.
Did you see this blue sign in the videos?
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Canada, too. My parents told me this in the early 80s because we had train tracks out our backyard.
That's why, when participating in traffic, we must always stay focused and observe carefully. Relying entirely on others or automated systems is never safe enough.
who you talking to....??
Americans have an attention span of 30 secs!
most would never get a drivers license in Europe!
@@Arltratlo It truly is a sad reality.
canadian national and csx are two diffrent company
Please stop referring to the train conductor as the person driving the train. They don't.
It's different in different countries so chill out.
In the England for example the driver and conductor are 2 different roles
Does no one think to check the crossing gates, call the toll free number and give the number of the crossing to the dispatcher?
My big question with some of these car carriers is that they seem to have a great deal of time before any train arrives at the crossing. Why not unload what can be unloaded before a train reaches the point of being visible to the crossing? At least then some people's properties will survive the disaster.
Train collision ❌
Train drifting ✅
The ‘truck stuck on crossing’ ones just confirm that there is poor design of the crossing, with the approach and hump being too high.
Poor design of the roads that go beside the tracks as well. Aka, poor city planning.
Most of those crossings are very old, and are appropriate for regular cars and trucks at the design time, probably around 1950, and fitted them. The problem comes with longer trucks with reduced ground clearance, which causes them to self centre, and also lowered cars, which do the same. There is likely a warning there about the hump height, and the truck driver is totally to blame, because you can see on arriving at the crossing that the roadway is raised both sides, and thus that his low ground clearance vehicle is not going to fit. There likely are lots of other crossings along that road, and they likely also are recorded in the truck GPS as to both ground clearance and height for the rail crossing, so even a Swift driver driving where the voice tells them should not get centered there, providing they actually entered both length, height and ground clearance of the truck and trailers.
Yes the level crossing could be redesigned, but doing that is either going to require relaying 10 miles of railway track either side to get the grade down, or destroying houses to get the extra length to move the roads either side, to get the section far enough away that you can have an approach and departure that will fit road grade limits, and make a crossing that is level to the rails, with an approach and departure that can fit a fully legal semi truck each side.
So either the city or town pays out a few million per intersection, or the railway pays a hundred million for the line, or you put up a sign telling dumb people to not use it if the vehicle has low ground clearance, or if it is over 15 feet long between axles, and that no vehicles over 10 tons are permitted. You can bet the town will go with option 3, and let insurers fight over the claims, and for the railway insurance to win every time, as they have right of way, even if the signals do not work, as the rules of the road say that you must stop at every rail crossing, look for approaching trains both ways, and only cross if there are no trains approaching, and only to cross after the train has cleared, and there are no other trains using any other rails.
Trucks are usually banned at those types of crossings, but drivers go on them anyway.
@@SeanBZA Makes sense. Thanks
Then the truck drivers were at needs to find another route!
As a rail fan, I'd like to point out to everyone that trains DO NOT stop like cars. Even if a train goes into emergency stop, it can sometimes take a minute or longer to stop it. While you can call the number on a sign next to the tracks to reach a dispatcher, you might be better off to call 911 (US) and let the cops call about oncoming trains. They often have numbers you won't.
Wrong suggestion! Call the number on the BLUE sign. It connects to the dispatcher of the respective rail line at that location.
I'd definitely call 911 in these dangerous situations!!
@@bengone3349 .
Now = Yes!
Then = NO.
-- good luck with that ---
PS: Did you see this blue sign in the videos?
I pray for those people😢🙏
At 15:45 that's not a Canadian National train, it's obviously a CSX train
Call the number on the crossing sign and stop the trains. This is ridiculous.
Yes, call. But sometimes they can’t be stopped in time
The way cars seem to defy physics in crashes is both terrifying and mesmerizing.
Momentum, baby! A million tons with steel wheels on steel tracks!
This hit different, loved every second of it!
Setting up heavy truck recovery near railway crossings might be a good business idea after all. I'd be going "Quickly pay me or else..." 😜
If insurance companies refused to pay out on people who drive stupidly, there would be fewer stupid drivers on the road. If you are a low loader driver, you should check ahead of time if the route is suitable for the height of the low-loader.
The common theme, poorly designed grade crossings that hang up trucks.
not poor crossings, drivers too unaware as to the ground clearance of the truck, hitting a grade crossing that was approved 70 years plus ago for cars and light trucks, not semi trailers and low clearance buses.
@@SeanBZA No, it is poor crossings, in that 70 years there was plenty of time and opportunity to upgrade the crossings to suit modern conditions. But they were not upgraded, so they are now poor crossings. The video attests to that fact.
And 50 bystanders not smart enough to report the situation to the railroad ! Brilliant!!
not just the grades, the lack of crossing barriers, thats a very american thing
@@neoaliphant By me most crossings are unguarded, but with signs saying trains have right of way, and that you must stop and ensure there is no traffic on the line before crossing. There are a few with guards, but they are also the site of accidents where people drive past the barrier. The railways always win.
1:58 LOL. Using the locomotive to tow the car chassis back to the road.
Being a train driver must take some serious guts
LIke a pilot...it's boring most of the time
Train are operated by Engineers.
Cars are driven.
@@scatterhawk47 The term 'driver' is used by many throughout the world to represent the individual who operates the locomotive. Other acceptable terms I have heard in my travels include operator, motorman, handler , shunter and for locomotive movements...hostler.
My Dad was a locomotive engineer for 40 years and for the most part he loved it.
6:17 The derailment happened as soon as the train crossed over Lawrence Creek north of Oak Street in Lawrence, IL
In the USA, a person or vehicle is hit by a train on average every five to six hours. But the rise in traffic has lowered that number to three hours. That's 8,760 hits per year! Yikes.
For something massive, very loud that moves on a predetermined path I find that unacceptable, but people gonna be stupid.
@@sc0tte1-416 Agreed. There will always be people out there that will test fate.
“Look away” 😂😂 1:54 dude, that car was a piece of 💩 when it was brand new!😂
Loved this! Always inspiring to watch your videos.
"Canadian National" train????
CSX is the abbreviation for Chessie Systems, which is still in existence.
This RR trades on the NYSE as CSXT, Chessie Systems Transport.
call the number posted in the sign next to the railroad crossing if you or somebody else got stuck. These accidents especially the ones with officers involved were avoidable
Truck breaking down over train tracks while a train is close by is not just bad luck. It's a damn curse!
You can’t kill a Chevy Nova 😊😊😊!
That gave me such anxiety! "No no no no.. not the Nova!" 😭
They are steadfast cars
@ that’s interesting 🤔.
All these high centered trailers suggests several problems. One tractor trailers are too long with a too low center. Second the roads crossing the rails are NOT level on either side forcing the rails to be higher than the surrounding roads making high centered trailers a fact of life. Why not raise the road level near the rails to prevent this. It only needs to be near the level for approximately one tractor trailer length. Oh well. If this doesn't change we will continue to see trailers stuck crossing a rail and getting destroyed by trains.
The driver needs to FIND ANOTHER ROUTE.
3:08 WHY THE SD70M AND NOT AN ACE
sweet, man it feels weird being this early to the party
Welcome to earth
Same here!
For real bro
🍭🍭🍭🍭😁
You can see what happens many times. A truck with a load will be sent with a fairly low trailer bed that has to cross a railroad track where the road is lowered on both sides, lower than what the bed of the trailer rides. It many times is not the driver's fault; he was just following the instructions he had been given; but the person who sent him on that journey, the truck dispatcher does not know that the track is higher than the bed of the trailer and so it happens again and again.
It is ALWAYS THE DRIVERS FAULT. Check the track. Measure if necessary. Find another route! I’ve done that many times.
chicago northwestern railroad
*in 2008?*
did you mean union pacific
The one with the faulty rail crossing, the Forman in charge could have put up a form B for that crossing and alerted the dispatcher to put a box 2 for the crossing.
The engineers drive the trains not the conductors.😊
check out the Pecos TX train derailment when you get the chance. I say it beats all of these
I saw that. It was crazy!
Don't they teach truck drivers how not to cross tracks when you have a low clearing trailor.
Yes, we do. We also teach them to not run red lights, get out and look before backing, don’t tailgate, don’t speed, shut down when there is ice, and many other things. Not everybody listens. When worried about RR clearance, get out and look and measure if necessary. If you probably can’t make it, FIND ANOTHER ROUTE! Not all crossings are possible for every trailer. -- long haul driver trainer
What about the owners of the cars that had probably spent ages restoring.
When the train hit the bus at 13:51; the camera man bailed so wildly that I was under the assumption that he was hit as well.
"Holy Moly!!!" 😂😂
4:27 I'm from Illinois and I've heard about it
Don't apply human force on a crossing sign if it mechanical or computer controlled. Apparently the technology is sensitive.
It's Ill-i-NOIS ... not ILL-i-nois.
Trucks ground out on the tracks because tracks are commonly elevated above the road.
Here's one for you. Potterville Michigan USA 2002 train derailmet.
Thats why my package did not arrived 7:55
The car in "decent shape" in the first clip was indeed a Chevy...it was a Nova.
Your narration is so much better than other train crash videos
Really?????
that garbage truck diver is lucky, there's a crossing near my dad's old job like this; an road that turns into the crossing and no lights. One of the truck driver that worked for that company died just like this. THEN they lit the crossing.
3:40 Youve stopped, the collision is over, you can turn off the bell.
Sorry - can't.
They are automatic. The contacts a certain distance away are closed by the train, AND the ones at the crossing too. It needs human intervention.
@@scatterhawk47 I mean the bell on the loco, not the gate.
Most car haulers the trailers are heavy and if they are not high enough for ground clearance, they will get stuck. Another factor is that if the rails are too high that too can stop a tractor trailer. If the tractor trailer is carrying a heavy load that is also a possibility, either way cars were damaged. If the rails are not maintained properly there you have it. I know for a fact someone out there will call me on it.
Drivers need to fine an alternative route.
还是美国的机车安全性高
15:23 THATS NOT CANADIAN NATIONAL THATS CSX YOU JUST OFFENDED ME 👿😠😠😠
Lived by train tracks for 50 yrs till they tore out the line 4 fatal 30+ close calls peoples always thought they’d dip through
You've done a bang up job on this video! 😂❤
Oh mann.. that old Chevy Nova in the back, it was a four door too. I could fit the band in the back.
YEARS 2010 TO 2099 ARE PRONOUNCED AS "TWENTY (FINAL TWO DIGITS"
Every time I cross a railway or tramway crossing being equipped with barriers or lights it's only COMMON SENSE to look both ways
Lots of good suggestions to call the rail company to report the blockage, but as good as that may be, the delays with rail controllers and police dispatchers would seem to doom those efforts. Does it actually work?
no
Not the vintage Chevy Nova!
Underworld, Please do not put your watermark on the videos, geez.
If your trailer is stuck on the track and the train is in sight, at least pull the lever so the kingpin comes loose and the tractor is not dragged with it.
Not always possible. Good advice when it is
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You several times referred to the driver of the train as the conductor. This is an error. The driver of a train is called an engineer. On freight trains there is a conductor but he is not the driver. On passenger trains the conductor is the person in charge of the passengers.🙂🙂
2:02 basically the old cars that were on there was obviously Mercedes, but the Chevy was a Chevy nova
Don't cross the rail only after running the train👍
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It's absolutely absurd that after all these years, and all the destruction, the environmental costs, the loss of life, injury and the countless millions of dollars these rail crossing have caused because of tractor trailers bottoming out, that the road and rail levels have not been equalled over a greater distance to stop this from happening.
To do that may cost the community millions of dollars. And all at taxpayer expense. A community has to weigh the cost of where could the money better be spent vs putting the responsibility on the trucking industry to hire and train its drivers
@@cdavid8139 But that's my point, these accidents have cost many lives and hundreds of millions of dollars and will continue to repeat the cycle, how many deaths, how many environmental incidents, how much cost, how much disruption?
If you use the cost of these accidents to pay for the modifications there is no contest.
@@stevemchadd Unfortunately the communities (taxpayers) who have to pay for the upgrades generally don't have the money or they would have already done it. And in general the taxpayer in a community would be funding an upgrade where the chances of a trucker going over that particular crossing and getting stuck at the exact moment a train comes through is tiny. Communities do the math and for the most part they decide the massive costs of upgrading each crossing in town where there might be a problem could be better spend improving roads and traffic signals or feeding homeless.
Not Always Possible !!!
Any low loader truck driver & owner must make an appointment / approval with railroad company, they will supervise on site, any problem encounter train operator will be notified earlier to stop train in advance, these requirement must be made mandatory especially where rail crossing higher than road level (like road hump).
Every one complains about "call the blue sign", "Calling the cops is better", "lower the hangover". I got a simpler solution: If you are unsure you wont make it, DON'T CROSS. All truck drivers should know how high their trailers can travel over a hump. If the hump looks bigger than what the trailer is allowed, DO NOT CROSS.
It is just NOT that easy.
Good luck convincing those who know - EVEN more.
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No offence, but you REALLY don't have to note the population of a particular city you are discussing. Who cares? Most or all of the time it has nothing to do with the subject matter.
About the incident in El Paso, TX ... Everyone was fine. So many places, including driveways, are very poorly done and trailers get stuck all the time. There was a gas station driveway where my car scraped the bottom hard. Not a lowered car, just a really bad entrance / exit.
As a truck driver i got heck for crossing a rail crossing "too quickly" yeh NO once i decided to cross the track i did NOT waste time. Yeh appears like FedX should have got his foot into the throttle . Cant tell if the other back end of the truck made it across or not.
i noted an historical inaccuracy in the narration. In 1908, the railroad that became part of the Seaboard Coast Line was known as the Seaboard Air Line. The Seaboard Coast Line came into existence on July 1, 1967 as a result of the merger with the Atlantic Coast Line.
Ngl these types of vids are one of the most american thing ever
It is the TRUCK DRIVER’S RESPONSIBILITY to be sure no train is coming and that he/she can get across a track without getting stuck. That can even mean getting out and measuring clearances. The truck drivers were at fault each time. Even faulty equipment does not excuse the truck drivers.
I’m amazed at the commenters by so many people with magical solutions who know nothing about railroads or 18-wheelers.
If these trucks keep getting stuck by "bottoming" out on railway crossings, I would've thought that some enterprising trailer manufacturer would've designed a trailer rear axle suspension system much like the suspension on low rider cars. That way the driver could just lift the rear axle & drive clear.
Why couldn't they hire a tow truck, really quickly, to get a truck off that track?
Simple. That's cheating
Easier to stop the train.
@@dward8146
But a train can take up to a mile to stop (all depending on speed and its length), going 55 mph.
And in question is the visibility if the train has not received communication.
Lots of variables, but time is of the essence
Just filling in the paperwork would take much longer than they have.
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Do you realize how long it takes to get a tow truck? lol
Why are "level" crossings not at road level in US ?
It seems that regular maintenance of rails keeps raising the rails until the crossing must be abandoned (blocked) ?
Most of them are decades old, and trailers and buses used to have higher axle to axle clearance. Unfortunately, many routes that these trucks have to take getting from point A to point B have to go over raised crossings like this because there aren’t other routes. One would think that as this became a problem, the railroads and highway/transportation departments would have done planned leveling to remove these humps, but the problem just gets “kicked down the road”, so to speak.
Either the roads need to be regraded to reduce the severity of the “humps” or the tracks need to be dropped to road level with no mound. Neither is cheap, especially since many rail beds were created by adding material to the existing ground level and then building track on top rather than digging a rail bed in which to put base material, ties and rail track.
In many instances, the roads were put in/improved long after the tracks. Why didn't they grade the road up to the crossing to make it level. It would be much easier to regrade the road, than the tracks.
As a railroader I can tell you that we often try to work with communities to shut down those crossings. I've traded off crossing improvements on crossing "A" if we could shut down crossing "B"
@@frankrosenbaum3471 Principally the roads were put in when truck lengths were much much shorter on average so they didn't bottom out
@@cdavid8139, how often are you and your colleagues listened to? I’d consider those of you actually riding the rails to be the frontline experts, but I wonder if egos and money win out over common sense.
im more suprised theres a volvo vnl 780 in russia
inherence these day can cheat you or out right drop you
We lost a Prius 😂😂😂
At :39---Blunt leaf hat.😮
I don’t know anything about car carriers but why can’t the cars be removed from the trailer when it gets stuck?
You have no idea how long that takes.
Ya gotta love the narrator....aka Captain Obvious. "The trailer appears to have been stuck while crossing the tracks." Duh.
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