I too got the impression that he was airborne before he reached the first tracks.
Some guy has a livestream of this place set up: http://www.failroadtracks.com/
Not only can we watch 5-locomotive intermodals zip by, we can watch people wreck their suspensions. 
Oh boy! Another railcam to watch! And a really good image too!
But so far it seems that not only does the road surface need some help, but in the last 10 minutes or so the crossing bell has come on for about a minute, then quit, then came on again and the gates went down and right back up, then down again and stayed down with the lights sometimes flashing and sometimes not. Then the gates went back up. The bell is sounding again as i type this but the gates are still not dropping and the lights are not blinking. Bell is off now.
Yeppers, in need of some loving touch by the MOW crew.
Oops… wait a second… Maybe there was a train working at an area just off camera to the left, as now there is a U.P. train has come from the left and stopped in the crossing (2 ehgines and triple bottom hoppers) And I hear aother engine’s bell and motor, but cannot see it.
Where is this crossing located?
Listening to the audio on that feed, I hear what sounds like MOW working on the ballast in the area. Maybe the purpose of the camera will go away if it really is maintenance on the track and they might redo the crossing.
The YouTube comments say Salt Lake City, but I cannot find it (yet). I am looking on Google Earth.
FOUND IT!
The intersection of N 800 W St, (the N/S divided street from lower right to upper left) and W South Temple (the E/W street from the lower left to the right).
Street View shows the grade crossing all blocked off and all of the street surface removed. I assume that Street View is relatively recent (within the last 2 to 5 years, maybe) so that means the horrible grade crossing is not that old.
I believe this is the cameras geo-location:
40°46’10.44" N 111°54’48.85" W
(Run Google Earth, copy and paste that Lat/Lon in the Search box and click on the magnifying glass. you then will need to zoom in a bit using the mouse scroll wheel.)
Knew someone would get a kick out of another one. XD
No wonder I did not recognize it; I do not drive near there often (then I’m on North Temple), but I have been on the track that is about half-way between South Temple and First (100) South several times, riding the California Zephyr.
The track with the rough public crossing is essentially the UP’s line from North Yard to both the Western Pacific line and the LA&SL line. The lines are directional between CP C782 and Smelter, with EB on the SL line, and WB on the WP (and this crossing is on the Salt Lake line).
Looking at a map again, this is at 800 West, not 700 West, and the track runs between the EB and WB lanes of South Temple.
I guess he learned to slow down at crossings… doesn’t matter what the posted speed limit is…he was obviously going too fast for conditions. [(-D]
I watched several of those videos, looks like all the cars are going at least 10 to 20 mph over what is probably a 30mph zone. If I see the road dip precipitusly, I slow down, just common sense driving, of course that is highly discouraged as you’d have to put the phone down and stop texting to do it.
Wandering around in Google Earth Street View, I finally found a speed limit sign on the divided N/S street, several blocks north. It reads 25MPH, and I would assume, given the looks of that area in compareson to the area around the tracks that the speed limit is the same near the tracks.
Now I am going to try to figure out the actual speed of some of the cars by measuring distances on Google Earth’s images and time the car movements across the measured distances… If I think I am getting close to valid answers I’ll post back what I find.
Some of you won’t like this. [;)]
To find the camera location on Google Earth’s images, I drew a line from the western most crossing gate next to the street, over the corner post of the chainlink fence on the near corner. Then I drew a line from the corner of the white building (left of the red building), through the crossing gate/lights on the south east of the grade crossing and extended it until it crossed the 1st line. That puts the camera on the S side of the building on the NE corner of the street intersection. The camera location being about 1/3 of the way across the S side from the SW corner…
I then drew a line from where that 2nd line crosses the middle of the street, to the 2nd track from the south (3rd track from the north) or where the car LANDS after the 1st ski jump.
That distance is about 65.3 ft. Sorry for the “exact” looking measurement (that “.3”) but that is what the measurement is, but I have to say “about” because I have no surety that I got the end points of the lines at any sort of actual precision for the view from the camera.
I then used my QSpeeder program to time how long it took the ‘Mega Fail’ car to traverse from where the front of the car is obscured by the crossing gate, until where the car goes crunch the 1st time hitting the up-hill side to the 2nd track (from the south).
Throw into all this my inexact clicking of my mouse to start the timer in my program and the same for stopping it. BUT, I measure anywhere from 2.128 to 2.003 seconds and that translates to a speed of from 20.9 to 22.2 MPH.
Draw yer own conclusions, but I don’t think the driver of the car was “speeding” per the posted speed limit, although it can obviously be argued he/she was driving too fast for the road/grade-crossing condition.
Whoops, I thought this system didn’t allow duplicate posts… sorry…
(Maybe what I had to say was so important the system decided to post it twice for me! ??? [8-|]
No?! Oh, okay. [%-)] )
My son and I think the driver should have been going faster. The car went up one hill and came down on the up-side of the next hill. If it was going a bit faster it would have cleared the valley between them completely and come down on the down-side of the 2nd hill. Then up the up-side of the 3rd hill,clear the 3rd valley and land on the down-side of the 4th hill… ain’t that how they do it in Motocross?
Doesn’t matter…he was going too fast. If you don’t think so watch the video again and ask yourself if a car is supposed jump through the air like that going over a crossing. BTW…you can get a speeding ticket for going 40 mph or even 20 mph in an 80 mph zone. The posted speed limited is the maximum speed under IDEAL conditions (which usually refers to weather but can include other factors such as children playing in the street or roads that are in bad repair).
This video is cool though… looks like something right out of the Dukes of Hazard. [(-D]
Maybe they should pay more attention to that “Dukes of Hazzard” technic, if they up the speed 20 MPH they would hit the first ramp and sail clean over the crossing! Yeeeeee hhaaaaaaaah![(-D]
I’ve hit dips like this at +/-20 mph, but I’ve NEVER gotten airborne though [;)]