How do I get a job doing that?[}:)] Do you think the parents in the car/passenger train crash are sending the wrong message to their kids pointing out how neat it was to see a train cream a car? They’ll be the ones sueing the RR’s when their kid loses a game of chicken with a train.
Do you think there was actually someone in the cabs in some of those videos? Especially the one were the engine ran broadside into the log train. It looked like it took out the cab. Maybe they were controlled a different way. I also thought the rerailer video was interesting.
More than likely it was pushed down the tracks with another locomotive. They don’t want to hurt an engineer. I can be propelled also by remote control. But, no, there is no engineer in the cab of the locomotive. There might be a camera though.
Hey, your right, there is a spark right under the step of the locomotive. That must be the cut off for the radio control… I think… Don’t know for sure. Maybe someone on the forums has an idea?
I think you guys are right about it being a camera. In the pic, the flash comes from that small thing that is standing not far from the tracks (I circled it in red).
All the locos will be remote controlled purely because the outcome is unpredictable, it could derail or a log or piece of metal could pierce the cab where the driver would be.
The two British videos were both conducted by the railway itself. The one with german commentary is a test of a nuclear fuel container conducted in the 1980’s to prove to the public that in a 100mph crash the flask was safe. This one was on national tv and was very big news.
The second British video is an excerpt from the last series of Top Gear (filmed in 2006) which is the top motoring show over here. Jeremy Clarkson is the one mucking about presenting it. They were invited by Network Rail, who own all the track in the UK while trains are run by different companies, to help in the campaign to stop drivers ignoring lights and half barriers at level crossings. There is some debate as to how effective Jeremys presentation was! The class 31 diesel in the clip was pushed by a second 31 to 60mph and then left to roll over the crossing with the brakes applied by a stake in the track which knocked open the airbrake line.
