I was going to put this in the ‘humor’ thread, but I thought by starting a new thread, more folks would see it. It is a 2.5 minute long video of dumb stuff, with the railroad part of it at the very end. Amazing! (unless you’re the engineer).
http://www.lemonzoo.com/funny_videos/1077/some_peoplewhat_are_they_like.html#mtop
lol…funny stuff!
I think they finally stopped doing that in Milwaukee since the 6th st. viaduct has been changed. Seems once a year some smart guy would try testing the clearances…
Randy
That goes to show just how stupid Railroads rearly are.
That is a good one to see,particularly the last;reminds
me of a viaduct here in Louisville that gets it about once
a week from a semi.(city won’t lower the roadway,and NS won’t
raise it.)(and yet they keep putting up "Low Clearance signs !!))
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! wow… sad…
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James
oooh… that engineer is going to be called “Shorty” before long.
Ive tested a few clearences in my time but nothing like what that trucker did.
Reminds me of the Bill Engvall story about coming upon a trucker who had caught his load under an overpass. A highway patrolman came on the scene, got out, walked up to the trucker and asked, “Did you get your truck stuck?”
The trucker calmly looked him in the eye and answered, “No. I was delivering this overpass and I ran out of gas.”
It’s not railroaders who are the only dumb ones…when I lived in the Philadelphia area there was an underpass on Germantown Ave. that (for many years) was a “trap” for high trucks and was infamous for this. That didn’t stop about one or two truckers A WEEK from getting their rigs stuck under this bridge!
The city of Louisville must get a huge price break on those low clearance signs.>>>
eolafan, what a small world we live in I didn’t know that you used to live in Philadelphia, well I hate to say it but you had the right idea to move to Illinois. hehehehe Were on Germantown Ave is this underpass, it is towards the Chestnut Hill area of Philly or is it more towards Germantown and Wister area??
Anyway, I worry about that engineer… That must of been soooooooooooooo embarassing. [banghead][banghead][censored][(-D]
I’d be more inclined to blame whatever DS sent the train down the wrong track rather than the poor engineer who can’t steer or anything.
The last footage was CN 154 trying to fit underneath Merriton bridge in St.Catharines, Ontario. Dispatch routed him on the wrong track.
I betcha That was one of those “I wish I was On Vaction Moments”[8][banghead][oops]
As I recall the underpass I referred to was (is) closer to the city than to Chestnut Hill. I used to have a customer called Germantown Plumbing Supply that was about a mile from the underpass. Actually I lived in Chalfont (near Doylestown) but my sales territory was all of the city and much of South Jersey as well.
I always wondered what it looked like when 50 containers got flattened against a bridge…
at first i thought only the first car got damaged, not like the first 10-15 sets…
Philadelphia had two others worth noting when I lived there as a kid. One was where the subway surface cars (tolleys) went underground alongside the subway in West Philadelphia. Once a year or so on a foggy night somebody would decide to follow the streetcar since it wouldn’t veer off course and follow it right down the tunnel and get stuck. The other was on Delaware Ave. where the PRR had street running to switch the docks. There were a number of bars and regularly a drunk would decide that the guy on the motorcycle had a headlight that was too glary and would attempt to run him off the road. I don’t think they ever even derailed an engine…