News Wire -- teens manage to survive in East Galesburg

[trainfan1221]

I never did anything that dumb when I was a kid, though there would have been opportunities. We did stop a train once, though, by putting an old fan on the tracks to be crushed. The engineer thought better of it, and since the train was just leaving a station it was easy enough to stop in time. I knew it was a bad idea, (though it wasn't mine anyway!)

[Anonymous]

The suction from a passing train can be disasterous. Many years ago a pipeline was being laid along the Southern Pacific ROW near San Francisco. A commuter train came by at track speed and all of the workers stepped safely back. The problem was a joint of pipe was being held by a catepillar side beam crane. The suction pulled the pipe into the train and killed a couple passengers. Now thr rule is to lay the pipe down on the ground when a train passes and the trains slow down through areas with construction.

[Junctionfan]

Great job guys, you may have sucessfully reinvented the world retard. Actually that is not particullarly fair for those who are mentally retarded so for them I apologie but to the teens I say they need to put some tooth paste in their shampoo cause they may be getting a cavatee in their brain.[banghead][banghead]

[locomutt]

Back in the 1960's while I was in High School, the town we lived in did't
have any grade crossings,but all overhead bridges.I 'caught' a couple of
kids throwing rocks at the passing C&O trains. I told them they better quit,
or I would call the police. Day or two later at school they asked my Mom
(she was a substitute teacher) If I would have them arrested,and she said:
YOU BET!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AlcoRS11Nut

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF SD70MAC

There kids what do you exspect.
BNSFrailfan.

Hey!!! I'm a kid I wouldn't do anything that retarded!!!![:(!]

Good for you, now help your friends know better so they won't get hurt.

About your sic line, I agree, light bulbs and toasters, but not locos.

[Anonymous]

Many years ago (1950's?) a teenager named Edward Everett Knowles from Boston, I think, lost an arm from trying to catch a train on the way home from school. The surgeons successfully reattached the arm. What ever became of him and did the reattachment take in the long run?

[AlcoRS11Nut]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF SD70MAC

There kids what do you exspect.
BNSFrailfan.

Hey!!! I'm a kid I wouldn't do anything that retarded!!!![:(!]

[Anonymous]

There kids what do you exspect.
BNSFrailfan.

[AlcoRS11Nut]

Lock them up in a stall with paded walls and throw away the key, I guess Charles Darwin is wrong when he says natural selection always ensures the best jeans are past on.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, when I was a kid, it happened to me. I was watching a Conrail train near Superior Ave. in downtown Cleveland. A train of auto carriers was passing at high speed, this was on an elevated line running north to the lake front. I was with my younger brother and two younger friends, and I don't remember how, but little by little we got closer crossing over several tracks until we were standing next to the train. We had been standing there for what seemed a while, when we heard rumbling of locomotives. The others were going to run, and I told them to stay. It was pretty scary, the wind was strong and there is a vertigo effect. There is also a signal bridge in the same place that we would climb and watch from above.

I lived in Solon, Ohio and the local peddler freight to Chagrin Falls passed my yard daily for the at that time Norfolk & Western, the tracks were originaly W&LE. And I did a lot of stupid things. I would jump on the train, if I could catch it. I think they tried to speed up if they saw me waiting, but that stretch of track was a very steep grade. I only did that a couple of times though, usually I would just wave. There was also a girder bridge and trestle over a nearby creek where we would swim in the summer, and a couple of times I sat just below the ties on the bridge or hung over the side by my hands while the train passed.

I now know just how increadibly stupid it was.

My dad grew up in a small town in rural Hungary, and he told me once he and some freinds tied a cable between two trees across a cut and knocked off the tall smoke stack of a steam locomotive, this was in the late thirties.

[Train Guy 3]

Can you get " I was stupid " engraved on your tombstone.... cause I would have payed for it to be on thiers. But it looks like the lucked up and survied this time.

[Anonymous]

Easiest way to avoid injury from a moving train is to STAY BACK...and once you're back, back up a bit more just to make sure.

LC

[ChuckCobleigh]

Probably 45 years ago or so, an ESPEE brakeman was telling me a little about railroading, including that it was dangerous, dirty work. Then he made a special point of telling me that if I even got too close to a moving train to flatten myself on the ground. I suspect that was one of the earliest training things that they did with the new hires and (I guess because he knew kids were too stupid to keep out of harm's way always) he made sure to pass it on to me.

Several years ago, a cop here in Southern California got too close to a freight moving at mainline speeds while trying to spot a suspect and got pulled into the train and killed by the natural suction (can you say Bernoulli) that is associated with a solid body moving quickly through air. Reading that news story and this latest story reminded me of that brakeman from many decades ago. Fortunately, I have never gotten in a position where I had to bear-hug the ground and I don't really plan to.

I get enough thrills as it is.

[wcfan4ever]

I don't work for the railroad, but this has happened to me. After getting a cabride, my father and I were dropped off before the yard where it is three tracks wide. Well, we had the train we just got off of and another of the third track over doing about 40mph. The train we just got off of was gaining speed quickly and was doing about 20mph. We were stuck in the middle track and that was enough right there. I knew there was room to spare but I didn' t even want to breathe. It is a tight spot and something I don't want to happen to me again...unless of course I'm working for the railroad, but at least I'll know what to expect and know what to do in that type of situation.

[Anonymous]

[#ditto]

[UPTRAIN]

Like a forum member said before, they musta been passin that doobie around!

[BaltACD]

How high can stupidity take you?

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

They must have been really high on something, or just plain STUPID!

[#ditto]

Don't know about the being high on something,but they were very LUCKY!!!!!!

[JoeKoh]

Amen Brian.
stay safe
Joe

[louisnash]

Espee
I doubt they are wearing t-shirts that say "I'm with stupid"

I would think that they have a shirt that reads "I am stupid"

Brian (KY)

[espeefoamer]

Now, I suppose, all of thier friends are wearing T shirts that say [#wstupid]

[Noah Hofrichter]

Just read the news wire article, and boy were they ever stupid! (as has been stated) I would never try something like this and I'm younger than them, shows you how much some people know nowdays.

Noah

[Anonymous]

There is a reason they teach you at trainman's class to avoid walking between two moving trains as there is a vertigo effect. We were even told that if this happened in a yard and we felt disoriented to lie down in the clear between tracks. I have never tried that but I have been between moving cuts many times in yards...

LC

[BaltACD]

Well beyond stupidity!

[tree68]

Proving once again that teens are, indeed, indestructible, just as many of them believe.

[mudchicken]

Couldn't find a tornado to stand in the way of (they hit over by Peoria) so this is the next best thing?[V][V][V]

[Anonymous]

They were very lucky!

[eolafan]

They must have been really high on something, or just plain STUPID!

[route_rock]

Luck of the draw maybe?Or the Darwin wing of heaven is full right now(Come on you cant expect them to be put in general population after getting a pair of wings!!! It would be pandolerium!)I have been down that neck of the woods alot and can only say wow.Lucky lucky them.