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C.M. Kruger posted:As I recall, in the full video you see a supervisor run over and switch places with the driver after the gif ends, because the driver wasn't licensed to drive on airport property. Making himself look like a loving retard behind the wheel instead was somehow better in his mind, how? Not to mention it was all on camera anyway. Hooray for panic reactions!
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Last Transmission posted:Making himself look like a loving retard behind the wheel instead was somehow better in his mind, how? Not to mention it was all on camera anyway. Duh...
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Last Transmission posted:Making himself look like a loving retard behind the wheel instead was somehow better in his mind, how? Not to mention it was all on camera anyway. Might be throwing himself on his sword. He's fired either way, but if he got the driver away quickly enough, driver might have kept his job. Except for the camera.
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C.M. Kruger posted:As I recall, in the full video you see a supervisor run over and switch places with the driver after the gif ends, because the driver wasn't licensed to drive on airport property. I know it's not actually the case but I like the idea of someone needing training and a license to know not to ram trucks into the airplanes
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We're doing something monumentally stupid! We almost died, but we didn't! Hooray! A shame the train didn't speed up.  How long does it take for any appreciable increase in speed to happen when the conductor "puts his foot down" as it were?
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At least if his foot got caught on the rail he wouldn't be stuck for long
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Vanagoon posted:We're doing something monumentally stupid! We almost died, but we didn't! Hooray! I didn't find a good answer in 3 minutes of googling, but I'm going to assume "a really goddamn long time". reading train articles on wikipedia is always weird, because you can always tell the type of person who wrote them was probably really into it
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Train people are really loving weird. They know the schedules of trains and just randomly show up to watch it go by, or take video that only other train weirdos would ever find interesting. A Venn diagram between train weirdos, transition lens wearers, and dangerous perverts would just simply be a circle.
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Are they dangerous perverts in the conventional sense, or in the sense that they're dangerous perverted at train conventions?
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`Nemesis posted:Train people are really loving weird. They know the schedules of trains and just randomly show up to watch it go by, or take video that only other train weirdos would ever find interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM
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`Nemesis posted:Train people are really loving weird. They know the schedules of trains and just randomly show up to watch it go by, or take video that only other train weirdos would ever find interesting. AI had a Train thread and the thread title was from this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lutNECOZFw I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR MONTHS AND IT'S FINALLY HERE. quote:Ok. Ahh! I've been waiting for this moment for MONTHS and it's finally here! I'm FINALLY gonna get a heritage uni- unit on camera YEAAAHH! Alright! Look at that... at 1953 EA — Woooooohooooooo aaaahh yeahhh, listen to that bell! Yeah, listen to that bell... awww take a look at that. OOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMAAAAIIIIIIIIIGAWWD! WOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!! LISTEN TO THAT HHHOOORRNNN! OOOOOOOOOOOO MMAAAAIII GGGAWWD Aaa—She's Beautiful! SHE IS BEAUTIFUL YEAAHH!!! ALRIGHT! OOOH MYY—OOOOO-ooo-OOOHH!!! OOHH NO it's a BL2 too!!!! Ah....ohhh!!! the SNC 52 OOOOHHH MAAAIII GAWWDDD!!! Oooo-we-we're gonna watch this. Oohhh—this is ssspecial. THIS IS SPECIAL! OOOHHH!!! Oh-that horn gives me the chills! O-and the chills have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with how cold it is here today OOHHH ohhh but that doesnt stop a foamer, oh specially when it comes to heritage equipment — Ohhh this is FANtastic Ohhh Ohhh my goodness, look at that — blue and grey. Oohhh coupled to the... Oohhhh IOWA Pacific... number... 5...18 wOOOOhh Hooooo!! horn AAAHHHHaaa wwoooaaahhh - listen to that horn oh that's fanstastic. Aaahmygosh look at that. Alright oh... Oh yeah, I wonder who TC Durant is? Oh well. Ohhh This is just awesome, I've been waiting for this for months — Look at that! Illinois central delivery.......right here in North Creek! Aaaaah That. Is. Awesome. Aaahhhh! Wooooohhh!!! AAAHH YEAH!! Cant believe I got this! Awwww yeahhh. Aaahh!! WWAahhh!! Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Safety-themed railfan video for the OSHA thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kCRTFJr04 (that's not even a high speed train like the video says, just a regular one  )Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwO-IWorGv4 Stick Insect fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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I narrowly avoided being a train-spotter, I think, by not having enough free time and not being especially near train tracks/stations as a kid. Train is still my favorite way to travel, but I don't obsess over them A google search came up nil, so I think I have the name wrong, but: When I was in high school, Amtrak extended their line to a new station the next town over from us, and the rails were fairly close to school grounds, through some woods. So, of course, we had to gather into the auditorium to watch a safety video. I think it was called "Trails of Thunder 2", but google seems to indicate I've got that wrong. Anyway, it was all about how you should STAY THE gently caress OFF THE TRACKS OR DIE. It was done in the format of like a series of cautionary tales skits, including one where a mom stops the car right on top of the railroad crossing to scream at her kids, and stays there until the train blows a car full of mannequins to smithereens.
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We had one at my elementary school called ANY TIME IS TRAIN TIME and there were no tail tracks within 50km.
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I went to some half rear end christian fundamentalist grade school that was literally right next to the railroad tracks. I mean they could have put up a fence or something but instead they just warned us not to play on the tracks because we'd trip and fall and break our leg or something. Oh and there was a wetlands behind the building. That place was a loving death trap.
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That's the one  Quality educational programming.
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`Nemesis posted:A Venn diagram between train weirdos, transition lens wearers, and dangerous perverts would just simply be a circle. I wear transitions lenses and love them. How much longer before I'm spotting trains and creeping on children? tia
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Yeah trainspergs are weird. This is the best trainspotting video. I can sort of understand these people at least because it's an old train that probably sees very little use, like an old car or traditional horse carriage or whatever, but still. From description: "Hundreds of train enthusiasts drive for miles to whitness the new steam loco come through brookwood Station" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBK2hjcPuA Foxhound fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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The Orlando metro area has recently gotten SunRail as a new commuter train system. It's early on, but we've got more train traffic than ever before. Cars being hit by trains has become downright regular now. People keep trying over and over to drive around barriers when they get impatient and get stuck between them.
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chitoryu12 posted:The Orlando metro area has recently gotten SunRail as a new commuter train system. It's early on, but we've got more train traffic than ever before. Tourists on I-4, Fireworks, Train versus Automobile accidents, Orlando is a pretty exciting place. Like some kind of wealthy Russia.
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One of the most vivid memories I have from my earlier days was two friends of mine suspended in midair as a train cuts through the space they were just occupying before they jumped away. But yanno, they were in high school and very drunk, not clearly grown-rear end adults. Wasn't off a bridge when I saw it, though.
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I grew up in a town where the trains switch tracks, so the fastest you ever see a train going is maybe 40 mph when they're hauling rear end out of town. Most of the time they're just the source of cursing as half of the ways across town are cut off for long periods of time due to stopped trains. This made train safety videos/talks extra hilarious to us. "Look out, in 20 minutes that train might gently tap you."
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When I was in college I did a semester overseas. My friend's dad, who was a big railfan, had been there previously. He said he wanted to show me a photo album of the city I'd be living in. The entire things was pictures of streetcars and freight trains.
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This is fantastic! Classic OSHA. I skipped through it, and the re-enactments get bigger-budget as you go along - at about 3:00 there's the mom-and-kids stuck on the track, which doesn't actually show the train hitting their car but does have the dramatic white-text-on-black names of the dead. At around 7:30 a girl gets squished by some rolling stock at a yard, and while you don't see the hit you do see the fun make-up job they did to make her look crushed to death. Then at 12:30 there's the big show-stopper: a group of teenagers bolt past the back of train number 1 going right-to-left only to get smucked by train number 2 going left-to-right. You see the hit, and there's a nice pile of pyrotechnics in the car. I love the presenter, he keeps insisting that the people aren't stupid, they just didn't think. What's the definition of stupid? And he has great glasses. A++ would watch re-enactments of idiots dying again. Fortunately, there's a whole series of these "Operation Lifesaver" videos.
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Reminds me of this classic: https://youtu.be/BqpayZ2JqlU Almost all the "safe" alternatives would be postworthy today.
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2 kids in my high school died after getting hit by a train doing that exact thing. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19970623&id=iGBGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_-cMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4286,5646954&hl=en
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VelociBacon posted:We had one at my elementary school called ANY TIME IS TRAIN TIME and there were no tail tracks within 50km. My middle school had tracks running right next to the school. We didn't get any movies about safety - they were fenced off and I guess they figured anyone dumb enough to climb the fence onto the tracks deserved to get hit. But once a year we did have an evacuation drill, in case a train with something nasty in it derailed near the school. We'd basically walk out of school to a random spot a few blocks away, make sure everyone was there, then walk back.
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Freight trains are bullshit. The private company hauling its trash grains from nowhere to nowhere gets 100% traffic priority over everyone driving, walking, biking, and taking the bus. Either turn every train crossing into a bridge or a tunnel. Want me to wait fifteen minutes for a freight train? Tell me who to invoice for my time.
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:Freight trains are bullshit. The private company hauling its trash grains from nowhere to nowhere gets 100% traffic priority over everyone driving, walking, biking, and taking the bus. Either turn every train crossing into a bridge or a tunnel. Check your train privilege.
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:Freight trains are bullshit. The private company hauling its trash grains from nowhere to nowhere gets 100% traffic priority over everyone driving, walking, biking, and taking the bus. Either turn every train crossing into a bridge or a tunnel. Can we invoice you for the $8-figure sum of turning each crossing into a bridge or tunnel instead? There are a few thousand of them...
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Rabble posted:I wear transitions lenses and love them. How much longer before I'm spotting trains and creeping on children? tia You got a driftwood chain and a GLOMP ME shirt?
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:Freight trains are bullshit. The private company hauling its trash grains from nowhere to nowhere gets 100% traffic priority over everyone driving, walking, biking, and taking the bus. Either turn every train crossing into a bridge or a tunnel. There really isn't much reason in this day and age for trains and roads to have any interaction at all. But, you know, it would be expensive to change. Combining two SA favourites - train chat plus elderly driver chat. There was a story 4 or 5 years ago here in the south of England about an elderly driver that turned onto the train line rather than the road parallel to it.
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Orlando has actually restricted freight travel to the off hours (late night and early morning) specifically because SunRail runs on the same tracks and they want to keep the commuter rail operating without stopping up the roads.
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FIRST TIME posted:I went to some half rear end christian fundamentalist grade school that was literally right next to the railroad tracks. I mean they could have put up a fence or something but instead they just warned us not to play on the tracks because we'd trip and fall and break our leg or something. Oh and there was a wetlands behind the building. That place was a loving death trap. Stop being such a sissy. Everyone's grandparents had to get through childhood without any candy-rear end safety fences, and they all turned out fine. (Because all the kids who died aren't anyone's grandparents.)
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Angela Christine posted:Stop being such a sissy. Everyone's grandparents had to get through childhood without any candy-rear end safety fences, and they all turned out fine. (Because all the kids who died aren't anyone's grandparents.) If you want to create a race of supermen, take the warning labels off everything.
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Here's an absolutely bizarre trend found throughout the Canadian province of Newfoundland: The Mother in Law Door Elsewhere a 2nd floor door without a deck is OSHA. In my home province, it's a way of life. Also has an awesome name too. Here's a taste of the wonders found inside my link:   
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Just last night there was a news clip on 10pm news warning about people being hit by trains. They ended the message with something simple like "just don't ever walk across tracks." What should we do instead? Go around?
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