jagdtiger00 posted:

Trains are pretty drat awesome. Although I do remember seeing somewhere that if you become a conductor or engineer you're basically guaranteed to "experience" ~2-3 suicide by trains while behind the controls during a career. (No idea if it's true).

Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:

An incident with a production gang...two fatalities.

B4Ctom1 posted:

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1606941

InterceptorV8 posted:

Wanna guess how many cars and pick-ups I've seen hit trucks tough guy?

B4Ctom1 posted:

Train hits water truck in Utah
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e9_1351905068

Fire Storm posted:

I know that's the case where I live. There's a level crossing at the end of my street and they blow their horn no matter what time of the day or night it is. I'd rather they did that than have someone die because they didn't realize the train was coming.

Untagged posted:

Figure you all might appreciate these. From Baltimore this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKyuaGbAYFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hkO2XD7dQ

dubzee posted:

So apparently Elon Musk (Tesla Motors, SpaceX) is not a big fan of California's proposed high speed rail. His solution? Hyperloop Alpha; 700+ MPH trains in low pressure tubes riding on a cushion of air. Tony Stark would be proud.

Here's a massive PDF with all the

NoWake posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI6urtS9Oxc&t=20s

Tex Avery posted:

Dude, what a buzz kill. Those railfans were out just having fun and had to watch two people die due to the driver's impatience

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Also if the loving toilets worked so the drat things don't smell like piss half the time. Though this is obviously fixed by doing some maintenance, but Virgin aren't going to do that so we all get to suck it until 2017.

E: train hungry

JuffoWup posted:

So this came up in my youtube recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjraY7L9Jig

I don't remember seeing this linked before. How to make points and switches. Vintage steam era film.

Gorilla Salad posted:

There are stupider ways to cut through something.


From the OHSA thread:

atomicthumbs posted:

Computer viking posted:

... is that -39° F/C I see?

Wilford Cutlery posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4

B4Ctom1 posted:

Two guys barely survive pedestrian/bullet train incident.. maybe
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e10_1457703919

B4Ctom1 posted:

https://www.facebook.com/bbonenine/videos/683662235106055/

This is my nightmare. They couldn't even see this train coming, they were waiting for the other to go by to cross, sun in their eyes. If you think there is even a tiny chance they survived, I will tell you now.. they didn't. Four dead kids, Five wrecked lives. Stay the gently caress away from the tracks people.

B4Ctom1 posted:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/148631/

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

2 csx trains had a head on collision in philly. no fatalaties.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/10/28/2-freight-trains-collide-in-delco-reports-of-multiple-injuries/

nm posted:

Seattle Times says 30

quote:

Those tracks were originally built by the Louisa railroad, later renamed the Virginia Central. The civil war did a number on it, so they merged with the Covington and Ohio to become the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Later, through other corporate mergers this became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (note difference) which is what most people think of when you say "The C&O". Later, the C&O merged with other railways into CSX Transportation.

Now, why does this matter? The C&O, and CSX, for decades, have run loaded coal from West Virginia down the James River Branch (nice, easy grade) to Newport News to load on ships. The empties would travel west along this Piedmont subdivison in effect creating a loop between Richmond and Clifton Forge. The grades were worse, but for the empties it didn't matter, and the efficiencies of one way traffic won.

But, CSX management was greedy. The line needed lots of expensive maintenance, and CSX did not want to pay. The State of Virginia didn't want to pay either, since hey, CSX is a big company with a lot of money. In other locations CSX has simply sold the rails to a short line and then had them maintain it, but no one wanted to buy. So they tried a novel arrangement.

CSX leased the land to the Buckingham Branch for 20 years, but retained ownership. As part of the lease agreement CSX still gets to run all of their trains across it. But the Buckingham Branch then got to apply for Virginia funds to rehabilitate the railroad. After letting it deteriorate until Amtrak was moving at 20 MPH and the Amtrak route over it had the highest percentage of late arrivals in the Amtrak system the state finally stepped in and gave Buckingham Branch a grant of millions of dollars (I think over 2-3 years) for tie and rail replacement.

Mind you, CSX runs 8-10 trains a day over this route. Buckingham Branch themselves, 1 train 3 days a week. Amtrak, 1 train 3 days a week. But CSX managed to dump their maintenance costs on the taxpayers of Virginia rather than the corporate bottom line.

So when you read that the Buckingham Branch didn't maintain their signals, it was set up that way by CSX. They wanted it to be a corporate entity not them, and wanted it to get so bad that the taxpayers of Virginia would fix it. And, at the end of 20 years it all just reverts to fully CSX owned and operated.