zardozWhile all of the FRN's in this video are candidates for an award, the imbicile shown at the 0:25 mark wins.
A fellow Train Order Operator on my Seniority list created a situation analogus to the first incident shown. She wasn't so lucky. She had to hand up Train Orders to the train on the far track from the office, she did not Hold the train on the near track to the office until she had completed handing up to both ends of the train on the far track, she got rolled between the trains passing in opposite directions.
She was the daughter of the Road Foreman of Engines on the division.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I won't make any "Darwin Award" remarks, but I will say my "Sympathy Reservoir" is just about drained dry for foolishess like this.
I glad no-one was killed, but more for the sake of the head-end crews and the families of those fools.
While all of the FRN's in this video are candidates for an award, the imbicile shown at the 0:25 mark wins.
It never ends. I saw a similar event at the 2009 event in Owosso. Fellow just had to be at the end of the photo line. He was actually outside the kill zone, but just barely, and ignored the repeated (and increasingly urgent) toots, and the admonitions of the fans near him.
Some people simply have no clue.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
IbanezGuinessI'm worried idiots like this are going to ruin steam programs for the rest of us that truly enjoy them and stay back at a safe distance.
Such individuals may overwhelm the Darwin nominations.
I'm worried idiots like this are going to ruin steam programs for the rest of us that truly enjoy them and stay back at a safe distance.
Also, very few non-railroad people know the significance of a series of short blasts--GET BACK FROM THE TRACK!!!
Johnny
Oh brother.
First off, people need to realize that thing's coming at 'em a LOT faster than they think it is.
Second, they need to watch out for that "disconnect" that can happen when they're looking at a display screen or viewfinder of a camera. WW2 combat cameramen noticed it. Nearly all have said that filming the action looking through the viewfinder got them into a mind-set that they weren't really there, and the dangers of the battlefield wouldn't touch them. Sadly that wasn't true, and lot of them died due to that "disconnect."
That person was lucky beyond belief.
One not so smart and very lucky photographer:
https://www.facebook.com/scott.shields.31/videos/3169084723118102/
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
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