Anybody know the story on this one (I apologize if this has been posted before)? That appears to be a signal maintainer’s truck there at the crossing with the workers and equipment. It also looks as if they didn’t blow the horn at the crossing prior.
http://www.break.com/index/train-clips-excavator-at-full-speed.html
To me, it looks like a phony video created with a Train Simulator program. The track does not look real, and neither does all of the scenery.
A train traveling as fast as this one appears to be could not stop in the short distance this video shows, even on full emergency.
Also, did you notice how the locomotive jumps up when it hits the front end loader? Given the bulk and weight of a locomotive, it would not jump up like that. If it did jump up, it would have derailed.
I think it’s real because you know how heavy trains are. It can stay on the rails. When you see a train hit a semi or big object it stays on the rails. I’ve seen a video of an Illinoise Central SD38 on the internet that hit a Semi on the tracks and still stayed on the rails. Here’s that video below.
I think the train that hit the bludozer was real. After you seen this video don’t you agree. Also the train that hit the bludozer was a passenger train. You can tell by the horn and speed. They can stop in short distances.
That looks pretty realy to me, including the reflection of the engineer in the window.
I assumed it was a passenger train since it is appearantly a P42, or similar type of locomotive. Maybe putting Amtrak in the title was a bit rash, but I am not sure what other railroads operate that type a locomotive.
There was railroad personnell at the crossing, so either the dispatcher, signal maintainer, or train crew dropped the ball (or a combination of the three).
Not to knock anybody, but if that is a sim, I sure would like to get my hands on it!!
…I watched the video just once, and from that it appears to be authentic to me…including what I think the reaction in the Loco should look like. And the stopping distance also appears ok to me…Amtrak passenger trains seem to have pretty good stopping ability.
Oh, I think its real. The reactions when he realizes he’d seen that board, he didn’t blow the whistle for the crossing becuase he’d suddenly had this glimpse of a red board and I can imagine what he thought. Blowing the whistle was completely gone from his mind. What he didn’t do was go to full service, in some vain hope he could avoid catastrophe. As far as the engine jumping, can’t imagine what you’re thinking, I’m guessing you’ve never been out there.
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Someone forgot to read their track bulletins and track warrants…
Looked pretty real to me, right down to the stopping distance.
As for the bounce - locomotives may be big and tough, but one of our engineers once told me he felt me step up onto our GP9 - and even at 250, I don’t think of myself as that big… He also commented that he’d never noticed it on the RS-3.
I am sure its real…The train DID IN FACT sound its horn prior to the crossing in question…
Cause? More then likely no watchman with radio to warn of on coming trains.Negligence on the end loader operator for fouling the track while stop.Those are the things I notice while viewing the video.
I was emailed the same video that is a little larger, plays a little smoother and can be stopped and advanced frame by frame. The fella that sent it to me mentioned that this was on CPR’s Cascade Sub in British Columbia and it was a West Coast Express commuter train. At the first crossing just after the red flag, there appears to be a flagman wearing a yellow or green vest standing on the right, beside the gate arm. At the crossing where the incident occurred, notice what may be the Signal Maintainers truck with a gate arm on the box. Notice that the gate on the other track is up.
I was talking about the crossing prior to the one where the accident occured. As suggested in another post above, he may not have blown because he was distracted by the red board.
It appears there was in fact railroad employees there with the signal maintainer’s truck being on the job site. There was equipment on both sides of the crossing, so I am guessing they may have been doing some sort of maintainence related to the railroad?
That crossing prior - it looks like there was MOW there, and the gates weren’t even down. So the crossing was probably out of service. And if he somehow missed the bulletins and approach boards - if he saw that red board, I’d think he would have dumped the train right there - and not when he saw the loader. We’re all just guessing here, but my guess is that the front end loader fouled the track when he shouldn’t have.
Did you notice that at least the first two units on this IC freight were “Operation Lifesaver” units…how ironic!
Owwww-Whoops!
Someone screwed the pooch there! Gonna be a whole lotta people taking Safety Training again…[(-D]
All these replies and no one has mentioned that it wasn’t a locomotive that was leading. It was a cab car.
I posted previously that I thought it may be a P42 or something similar, but I suppose it may be a cab car. I searched around a bit and couldn’t find any more info about this.
Interesting video, I am guessing its real. I suppose the driver of the front end loader had a talking to.
This is one of the comments that was posted on Break in regards to the video:
“Vancouver’s WestCoastExpress commuter train between Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. I was on it. No one was injured. The excavator (or whatever it is) was trashed, obviously.”