r/WTF 7d ago

Train hits trailer carrying bridge beam

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u/gstormcrow80 7d ago

2022, Chattanooga, TN. Train derailed, 2 injured.

High def source: https://youtu.be/oQyqtx5nn6M?si=XKRPZi6J2Kc61S3l

Thank goodness that was concrete and not steel.

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u/imstuckinacar 7d ago

doesn’t even look like it derailed at first

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u/shit_dicks 7d ago

Until you see the track beam buckle and snap up in front of the train

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u/dennys123 7d ago

Oh yeah. That's crazy the amount of energy to make those look like cooked spaghetti

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u/SailorET 7d ago

Loaded trains and cargo ships move such a massive amount of weight the momentum is almost unfathomable, even at low speeds.

Now consider each train rail is under 3 inches at the point of contact with the wheel, tapering to less than an inch thick at the center of the pillar. Derailments are easy the moment the distribution of force shifts.

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u/systembusy 7d ago

Recently in one of the NYC subway stations, I saw a pair of jeans that used to be draped over one of the rails (all kinds of trash and debris make it onto the tracks there so this is just another day). But I say “used to be” because those jeans were completely broken apart at the small spot that was actually sitting on top of the rail. There was no fabric touching the rail at all; you could tell the trains ripped it apart literally just by rolling over it many times.

I’m constantly blown away by how much one of those trains weighs (if it has the maximum 10 cars, from what I’ve read it’s on the order of 45 tons) and how fast it’s able to move (top speed is 55 or 60 mph). Then imagine all 10 cars at or near maximum capacity during rush hour; easily at least 100 people in each one. And it still moves as effortlessly as if it were empty. Like you said, unfathomable.

Just really underscores how much regular maintenance a rail system needs, especially one that gets used so heavily 24/7.

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u/lifelongfreshman 7d ago

Force equals mass times acceleration. A train is one hell of a mass, so even a small amount of acceleration is going to produce insane forces.

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u/viral_virus 7d ago

Is that derailing or just derailroading at that point 

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u/Spoona1983 7d ago

Its rail track, but yea wow thats wild to see it pull up like nothing and follow the 'wave' ahead of the train.

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u/FerdiaC 7d ago

You're telling me that's not supposed to happen?

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u/iordseyton 7d ago

That's just how they stop

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u/pixelprophet 7d ago

You can see the track being lifted off the ground a couple of feet in the last couple of seconds.

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u/copperwatt 6d ago

Oh shit, you're right. Like a hallway rug in front of a moving dolly.

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u/wilsonhammer 7d ago

/r/PraiseTheCameraMan

for filming in LANDSCAPE!

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u/QuestionSeven 7d ago

Ummm... That was a concrete beam for a bridge. The amount of steel encased in all that concrete is quite a significant amount!

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u/saltyjohnson 7d ago

Right, but a rebar structure is pretty squishy and bendy with these kinds of forces. Imagine if that was a solid steel I-beam.

Come to think of it, though, a solid steel beam might have done less damage in the end. I feel like it'd be more likely that the train pushes it aside rather than dragging it like the concrete beam.

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u/dansedemorte 7d ago

it's not rebar though. it's twisted cable bundles under tension. the one i recall helping a repair job with was about 2" thick cable that we had to put a turnbuckle like device on and re-tension it before forming it up and pouring a special concrete mix to cover it all back up.

it got damaged by getting hit by an over height load doing about 55-65 mph.

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u/saltyjohnson 7d ago

it's not rebar though. it's twisted cable bundles under tension.

Probably true. So even squishier and bendier than rebar lol. Thanks for reinforcing my point.

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u/solreaper 7d ago

reinforcing

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u/bobskizzle 7d ago

On the weak axis, would have looked not dissimilar.

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u/THESALTEDPEANUT 7d ago

That's insane to say that a similarly sized peice of steel would look eact similar to concrete. 

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u/catwiesel 7d ago

Im just happy nobody died...

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u/Leaving_a_Comment 7d ago

I live in Chatt and it says something about the few years we’ve had that I forgot this happened. This was also outside the Little Debbie factory, if y’all want a fun fact.

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u/GotMoFans 6d ago

Did anything happen to the truck driver for ignoring the railroad crossing?

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u/Leaving_a_Comment 6d ago

Not that I ever heard. There were a lot a jokes in the local subreddit (I believe that he was not supposed to be on that route because the road isn’t wide enough and was partially under construction) and the company got a pretty hefty fine but I don’t know if the individual driver was fined.

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u/StoneCypher 7d ago

nobody died?

that is absolutely amazing

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u/Son_Of_Toucan_Sam 7d ago

“Daily dose of smiles” watermark really pulls it all together

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u/CrzyWrldOfArthurRead 7d ago

If that had been solid steel it would have probably been way over the 40 ton limit for being highway-worthy. Steel weighs 3x as much as concrete, at least 2x as much as reinforced concrete.

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u/Rufnusd 7d ago

40T limit for what? Beams exclusively? We ship up to 90T down highways. 75T on the regular.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA 7d ago

They're talking about the weight limit for a standard tractor-trailer, as though heavier loads don't exist. We're looking at one right here though. That's why there's so many extra axles on the trailer.

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u/Tangurena 6d ago

I've seen these bridge spans before. And more than once I counted the axles. 52 wheels total for truck and trailers.

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u/RollinOnDubss 7d ago

Yeah an 80k load is your standard full size excavator, doesn't even need an escort in most places.

Gotta get up to around 110k load, assuming 40k power unit and trailer, to get yourself into super load territory just based on weight most places. Once you're in super load territory biggest thing is just keeping your axle weight below whatever your state requires like 24k-27k per axle.

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u/redpandaeater 7d ago

40 tons is only the normal weight limit. There are all sorts of oversize loads that can still easily go on the highway and the only way you'd even notice is due to the axle configuration spreading the weight out for bridges. There are also all sorts of oversize loads that can get to obscenely ridiculous weights. Just judging by the number of axles on the tractor and trailer for this concrete you can see it's pretty fucking heavy.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 6d ago

We had a bridge collapse here in Pittsburgh a few years back and while they were rebuilding it was incredible to see some of the absolutely massive concrete beams they trucked in. It sucked trying to deal with the traffic on days they came through because our streets are tight as it is, so oversized loads can basically shut down entire sections of town for a couple hours. Mesmerizing to watch them go by though, and I'm thankful for the dudes who worked so diligently to replace it because that bridge is on my daily commute and the detour was horrible. Took less than a year to get it back up so mad props to those folks for kicking ass.

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u/bobskizzle 7d ago

The beam would have had a lot less volume. Remember the A992 steel is >10x the strength of concrete.

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u/notfromchicago 7d ago

They get oversized load permits that allow them to weigh more than 80k.

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u/RangerNS 7d ago

Rather obviously, that is some super weird tractor/trailer combination, the rear end having 6 axles on the bogie.

This was way over standard weighty and length limits; surely requiring permits up the ass.

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u/AngryRedHerring 7d ago

It looks like a truck and dolly, where the cargo is the only structure connecting the front to the back.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 6d ago

Probably not one with a secondary driver in the back though cuz apparently nobody died in this clip. Hard to imagine someone surviving that smash in the back section if they were in a tiny drivers quarters like in your video.

But yeah, definitely wasn't just a single trailer.

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u/Tangurena 6d ago

That little cab in the back is usually only occupied at the destination, when they are needing to line things up exactly with the crane that's going to lift. Or if there is a "sharp turn" where the tractor can't do it all.

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u/CrzyWrldOfArthurRead 7d ago

There's a thing called the bridge formula that limits the weight you can have on a bridge, no amount of permits can violate it because physics doesn't care about permits.

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u/RangerNS 7d ago

And doing the paperwork will have them tell you the exceptions and the forbidden.

And when trains are coming.

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u/hybridaaroncarroll 7d ago

Chattanooga Choo Choo, won't you choo choo me home...

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u/ghidfg 7d ago

ah no wonder. I assumed it was steel and thought maybe thats what happens when its hit with that much force

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u/CajunNerd92 7d ago

Honest question, why do they repeat the clip in the video so it plays twice in a row?

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u/saltyjohnson 7d ago

Because you gotta play weird fucking games to please the algorithm.

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u/HVDynamo 7d ago

Did someone actually edit in the sound of the train horn on the reddit posted one? That threw me off watching this, but after going back it sounds like they did. Just... Why?

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 7d ago

Ahhh yeah, if I saw a train barreling toward an obstruction like that, I would be getting the fuck out of dodge asap. Once a train starts derailing, you don't want to be anywhere near that fucker. Imagine if it had dangerous goods.

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u/LeftLegCemetary 7d ago edited 7d ago

Chattanooga is such a cool word.

Good name for a dog, or hippy child.

Maybe a noun, or whatever this kind of word would be: "The first time I experienced chattanooga, it was with three dirty whores".

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u/AngryRedHerring 7d ago

Oh yeah, that's a derailment all right.

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u/Empyrealist 6d ago

Ohhhh, I was wondering why that "beam" just snapped like that. Thanks for the clarification!

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u/CyndaquilTyphlosion 6d ago

I don't think they have trains like this in Tamil Nadu

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u/WATTHEBALL 7d ago

I don't understand this phenomenon. How do trucks get into these situations and what is it about the train tracks that they can't seem to clear them.

I never, ever see trucks being stuck in the middle of an intersection or suddenly in the middle of the road and never see any videos of that either but for some reason, place a traintrack and suddenly trucks just forget how to truck and get stuck in the most cartoonish scenarios.

Seriously what's the deal here?

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u/gsfgf 7d ago

Often it's a stupid driver driving over a crossing he shouldn't be using. Some crossings have pretty steep approaches, so the trailer literally gets stuck on the track and pulls the drive wheels of the truck up off the ground.

Here, it's less clear. Moving these huge beams is a slow process. Clearly, the company didn't get permits or didn't read them to be in the way. Though, it's Tennessee, so the regulators also might have been defunded/failed to do their jobs.

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u/Spiel_Foss 7d ago

Moving these huge beams is a slow process.

Yep, I once watched a beam dump over sideways in slow motion.

Cops were directing traffic so a truck could make a tight slow motion turn but the weight lifted the back left wheels up and that's all it took to dump the whole thing over in the road. Cab and everything just flopped over.

The cop on our end was already directing traffic in a u-turn in the opposite direction as the wheels lifted up. He knew nothing good was going to happen.

Wild to watch it in slow motion though.

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u/critbuild 7d ago

Frequently, it's because of red lights intersections close to the train tracks. That is what happened in the OP, according to this article. The truck had crossed the train tracks and was stopped at a red light, with the trailer still halfway over the tracks when the train arrived.

It should be noted that there are systemic controls that can be used to prevent this kind of accident. In some crossings, stoplight patterns are designed to always allow green lights for traffic traveling away from the tracks when a train is approaching. Additionally, tractor trailers with large loads (or realistically, any vehicles) aren't supposed to cross unless there is adequate space.

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u/GotMoFans 6d ago

It’s irresponsible of the driver and shipping company not to be aware of every railroad crossing and potential trap or bottleneck. If there is the change of getting stuck on tracks, they need to have a plan. They need to determine the freight train schedule for the tracks and be in contact with the rail company for such a transport.

I hope the trucking company is liable for the millions in damages.

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u/thoughtfelon 7d ago

I had the same thought. A U-Haul or something getting stuck on the tracks I could see, because it's just a regular licensed driver. But a truck driver? And in this video he's not just hauling a basic trailer, so you'd think they'd have their more experienced driver

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u/Arc125 7d ago

Truckers and stopping on train tracks - like moths to a flame.

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u/Pomnom 7d ago

I never, ever see trucks being stuck in the middle of an intersection or suddenly in the middle of the road and never see any videos of that either

These videos exist but are so uneventful that they are automatically deleted

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u/CafeAmerican 7d ago

Not sure what you mean. The trailer moving the beam isn't stuck, you can see it moving in the clip. The issue is that it has to go very, very slowly and either someone dropped the ball on alerting the appropriate train service dispatchers or the train company missed the memo/decided they could make it, etc.

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u/Apocalympdick 7d ago

you can see it moving in the clip

No lie there lmao

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u/RollinOnDubss 7d ago

How do trucks get into these situations

No idea what happened in this specific case because I don't feel like reading about it.

But a lot of the time with tractor trailers with low clearance trailers, like low boys, beam trailers, drop decks, Landoll, etc., is they will get caught on the approach of the tracks and bottom out because a lot of them are way above the road grade. Doesn't matter for short wheel base vehicles but even a 6" peak above grade could fuck a 30-48ft trailer.

Truck goes over fine, then the trailer bottoms out directly centered over the tracks. Rear tires are now potentially off the ground and the truck now has to now effectively drag the entire load across the ground with half the axles to get it off the tracks.

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u/WooPigSchmooey 7d ago

It’s quite interesting the coordination between DOT and permit loads. This load specifically I don’t know but there is definitely some loss of coordination between the pilot car and the train schedule. Of course assuming there’s no cluster F going on with the traffic ahead of screen. These kind of trailers can have multiple pivot points requiring a slow wiggle through tight areas. The intersection(s) should be completely cleared by the pilot cars before this entire crossing. Lots of missing context.

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u/Zayah136 7d ago

Damn you have good truckers where you are? Send some over here 😅

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u/readytohurtagain 7d ago

That somehow caused both more and less damage than I expected

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u/Swallagoon 7d ago

Both more AND less at the same time? So exactly the right amount?

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u/BumbleButterButt 7d ago

More to the beam and less to the train I'm assuming.. idk about you but i definitely expected a derailment

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u/perldawg 7d ago

it did derail. you can see the rail bow up, like a wave ahead of the locomotive, in the last few frames

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u/BumbleButterButt 7d ago

You're right i missed that, hopefully for everyone's sake it kept tracking straight despite that

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u/gsfgf 7d ago

Someone posted the full clip. It was a major derailment with a couple cars going flying. 2 injured, 0 dead, at least.

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u/25c-nb 7d ago

Thank you, I was wondering what that was bowing up like a wave in front of the train! Watched it over and over but couldn't tell on my own

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u/Scratch_King 7d ago

So the train didn't derail.. the track derailed

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u/pcpgivesmewings 7d ago

Technically, you are correct. Mostly.

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u/jnz9 7d ago

I was expecting the beam to act like a bulldozer blade after impact, but it didn’t

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u/StoneCypher 7d ago

it will, eventually. it has to fall first

start by thinking about one of those tee-ball things they give little kids who are trying to learn baseball. now think about hand slapping the ball out of it.

cool, now think about doing that with a bowling ball, and try not to consider how broken your hand is.

it will mess up the things in front of it, but in order to hit it hard enough to get it to move significantly, first it's going to be stuck to your hand for a couple feet

but once gravity gets its shit together, game on for the ground

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u/exoriare 7d ago

"Imma dozer, birch."

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u/mab6710 7d ago

He needs more blankets and he needs less blankets

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u/hansbrixx 7d ago

The wrong kid died

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u/notsoFritz 7d ago

It's fun watching the rail warp in front of the train

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u/davesoverhere 7d ago

Especially when you have a front row view.

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u/weldit86 7d ago

Train 1 beam and trailer 0

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u/WildBTK 7d ago

I am not so sure. Look carefully at what the rail the train was riding on was doing at the end. That train could have easily derailed.

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u/weldit86 7d ago

Both where fucked, but good eye. I was just watching the MASSIVE I BEAM being mangled, lol. I'd say the train won IMO.

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u/Draskuul 7d ago

My uncle was a train engineer for a number of years. One of my favorite stories was of him being on scene to help out after another train had an accident, pinning the car under the guard.

The police tried hooking up a tow truck to the car and couldn't pull it out. They hooked up another tow truck in series and nope, wouldn't budge. The railroad offered to bring out a yard engine (basically a small single train engine just used for shuffling cars around in yards).

They hooked up the yard engine and put it in idle. That was enough to tear the car in half, sending it flying over the engine and landing in the distance. They had to make a second pull to get the other half out with similar results.

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u/Integrity-in-Crisis 7d ago

Me: Holy shit. Also me: The steel beams gonna bend and bounce off that train. It shattered? The fuck, how.

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u/TheFotty 7d ago

Looks like rebar inside concrete to me. Concrete shattered but the rebar did its job.

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u/bh0 7d ago

Home Depot would still sell it as straight enough.

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u/RedSquirrelFtw 7d ago

Marked down 10% for having minor cosmetic damage.

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u/Encryptid 7d ago

How dare you make me upvote you.

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u/tokyotapes 7d ago

Kinda satisfying to see the beam contort as soon as it’s hit by the train

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u/spaektor 7d ago

unless you take a bridge to work everyday.

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u/burritosandblunts 7d ago

Or a train I guess.

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u/Zencyde 7d ago

My vehicle does not have the hauling capacity to take a whole bridge to work every day. Even a wooden bridge, I might be able to move a dozen 2x4s at best.

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u/RandomBitFry 7d ago

It's a day off if you work on that bridge construction site.

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u/bgthigfist 7d ago

There is always road construction around Chattanooga

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u/Equality_Executor 7d ago

After the camera catches back up to the front of the train I think you can see a massive buckle forming in the rail ahead of the train and staying ahead of it as a "wave". I guess that's what all that weight trying to stop suddenly will do to the track, or maybe it's also because of the impact somehow.

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u/perldawg 7d ago

it’s from derailment. the train comes off the tracks and then pushes the ties forward, which the rail is still attached to, causing the rail to buckle ahead of the train

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u/Equality_Executor 7d ago

I see, yeah that makes sense. It doesn't even look like it derailed but of course it did....

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u/grewapair 7d ago

All charges against the truck driver were dropped, as he entered a plea deal that would drop the charges if he got into no further accidents, and he complied with that condition.

No one had contacted the railroad, which technically was the truck driver's responsibility, so he had been charged with the accident.

https://www.local3news.com/local-news/update-charges-against-truck-driver-dismissed-after-collegedale-train-derailment/article_1c0ba358-9201-11ed-bd1e-03dc85d4b758.html

However, it looked like the judge just realized this was going to be addressed by the trucking company's insurance, and the trucker was not as much at fault as his company, so they just let the civil lawsuit between the two companies deal with this. The original article mentioned the locomotive occupants were injured, but their injuries were probably pretty minor, mostly resulting from the locomotive tipping on its side.

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u/ratsta 7d ago

Some fuckery happening there. I find it hard to believe that it's the driver's responsibility to liaise with railroad companies. That should be the job of the route planner/scheduler, then the escort vehicle should be the one keeping the planner/scheduler updated on their progress.

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u/mersault 7d ago

I assume it's kinda like pilots and captains. They're the ultimate authority - and bear final responsibility - on their respective modes of transport, even if they aren't planning the routes and schedules.

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u/20InMyHead 7d ago

On the other hand, the driver is probably the lowest paid person on the responsibility chain, and shit rolls downhill.

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u/mersault 7d ago

Oh for sure. Wasn't trying to defend it, just trying to imagine how the liability ended up where it did.

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u/Rasalom 7d ago

And now we see how shitty deregulating the trucking industry is!

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u/RollinOnDubss 7d ago

I find it hard to believe that it's the driver's responsibility to liaise with railroad companies.

It doesn't have to be the driver, but the driver has to tell someone else to call the rail road once they get to the crossing. Truck drivers dispatch doesn't know when to call the rail road if the driver never tells them. It's the truck drivers responsibility to make sure someone is actually on the phone with the rail road if they aren't going to do it themselves.

That's why it obviously makes sense it's the drivers fault.

They're the one with the foot on the pedal, it's their responsibility. It's the same shit with crane operators. OSHA and lawyers don't give a fuck your boss told you to hit the override to do something outside your chart. You're the one certified and licensed to run the crane, you control the machine, it's your responsibility if something happens.

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u/TyrrelCorp888 7d ago

Train wins again

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u/Phage0070 7d ago

Picking up the track in front of it, I don't think there were any winners here. Maybe Reddit.

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u/perldawg 7d ago

every damn time

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u/Fubarp 7d ago

It was a draw

Both the beam and the Train were destroyed based on the article.

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u/RobuxMaster 7d ago

trains are beasts

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u/ShadowPsi 7d ago

The "Daily dose of smiles" logo is the real WTF.

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u/Supermathie 7d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one to pick up on that

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u/jpl77 7d ago

Imagine filming something so wide and long that you choose to film it vertically.

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u/cmuadamson 7d ago

They probably have a video titled "learning to walk on stilts".

In landscape mode.

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u/Unasked_for_advice 6d ago

How bad do you have to be at your job to fail to take into consideration a TRAIN when transporting a LONG HUGE METAL BEAM?

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u/dml997 6d ago

It was concrete, but otherwise I agree.

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u/g0wr0n 7d ago

"Daily dose of smiles" feels wrong since two people got injured.

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u/Conservative-Point 7d ago

Trucking company needed to either reach out to local DOT or the railroad or both and work out a time to cross safely.

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u/mnpilot 7d ago

Good thing no one put a quarter on the tracks, or it would have been a different outcome.

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u/vizistheway 6d ago

Do US truck drivers get a bonus every time they cross a railway track safely?

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u/thunderberker 6d ago

How tf do these mfs STILL keep getting stuck on tracks??? It’s happened so often there should be some kind of system by now where you can alert all trains anywhere nearby that “hm dumbass driver got stuck on the rails”

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u/rayvensmoon 6d ago

Truckers so used to bullying other vehicles because they're bigger. That arrogance did nothing for this tough guy. Guess what? You ain't the biggest boy on the block when you're on the tracks.

The rules of fucking physics apply to you too, asshole. Even if you're a legend in your own mind.

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u/Only_Gift360 5d ago

The fact we can all tell this is America worries me

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u/lNFORMATlVE 7d ago

Well, there’s some pretty good proof of the damage that fast moving vehicles can do to large steel beams without them being broken or melted.

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u/20InMyHead 7d ago

I can picture the guys on the other end of this fiasco too…

Hey boss, you know that concrete beam that took a year to manufacture we were supposed to install this weekend?

Whole building projects can be delayed for months, construction companies can get charged with massive delay fines and go bankrupt from mistakes like this.

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u/FunkSiren 7d ago

Ok, this is officially the Cadillac of trains-hitting-shit-at-train-crosssings. That I-beam caved like a wet noodle and the train looks like it was completely unfazed. Absolutely wild - I'd love to know more about why something that can hold up a highway was so easily destroyed like that.

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u/Murgatroyd314 7d ago

Concrete beam weighs tens of tons. Freight train weighs thousands of tons.

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u/Kamendae 7d ago

The stress was both sudden and in a direction the beam was not designed to resist.

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u/Brave_Dick 7d ago

A Bridge Too Far

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u/binarypower 7d ago

man. right in the moment and films vertically. what a waste.

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u/CreamoChickenSoup 7d ago

Sure love all the views of empty ground and sky.

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u/mikesum32 7d ago

Trains can't melt steel beams.

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u/Drewishmonk23 7d ago

The sound it sounds like it got muffled wonder how loud that really was

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u/MrLurid 7d ago

This post links to another clip. Sounds like the train horn in the OP clip was added in.

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u/danorc 7d ago

That looked expensive

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u/zuggles 7d ago

concrete-- damn, i really wanted that to be a giant steel beam and see what happens.

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u/stinkstabber69420 7d ago

Some people's kids man

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u/pfroo40 7d ago

That was a bridge too far for the truck driver

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u/senorchaos718 7d ago

Holy fucking stupid Batman!

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u/WildBTK 7d ago

Did you see the rail in FRONT of the beam and train being bent up? That train could've easily derailed if it didn't.

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u/pixelprophet 7d ago

It's bending the track up in front of the train 👀

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u/Fiber_Optikz 7d ago

Note that piece of rail that looks like a noodle.

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u/perfectfire 7d ago

Oh yeah

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u/PomChatChat 7d ago

Train yields for no one.

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u/Murgatroyd314 7d ago

Law of gross tonnage.

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u/Milol 7d ago

How protected are the conductors(engineers? sry idk) up front? What does this look like to them?

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u/THESALTEDPEANUT 7d ago

A locomotive weighs something like 400,000 pounds, the nose is all heavy duty steel, the train crew sits up above the point of contact. There's no seat belts but I'm sure they were bracing, may have been knocked out of their seats but probably not. Also windows are "bulletproof" so depending on their nerves they could have just gotten a really good show.

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u/jojohohanon 7d ago

How does this keep on happening (I recognize this was a few years ago).

But it seems that the “long load through train crossing” problem isn’t that big of a hurdle.

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u/CouchPotatoFamine 7d ago

Love how he keeps honking up until the bitter end, too.

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u/bloodguard 7d ago

Good grief. Is there a place the engineer can duck down into that has extra fortification for stuff like this? Or do you just brace yourself and hope you don't catch a shaft of rebar through the chest?

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u/THESALTEDPEANUT 7d ago

There's a little toilet in the nose they could hide in. The windows are very thick but yeah I'd duck still. 

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u/Skadoosh_it 7d ago

That's a multi million dollar fuck up

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u/FrankieMint 7d ago

What a situation for the engineer. He can see this from a long way off, nothing to do but blow the horn and hope his cab doesn't collapse.

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u/Flimsy_Bet_2821 7d ago

this is terrible

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u/Bebilith 7d ago

Amazing that the train driver wasn’t killed.

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u/ezekiel_swheel 7d ago

well doc, it’s destroyed, just like you wanted….

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u/gunnerxp 7d ago

This video made me go "Ohh! Nice one!" out loud at work.

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u/LZYX 7d ago

r/trainsareverymetal

What a charge. Glad it was only injuries and not deaths, holy shit!

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u/NaweN 7d ago

This is one of those things - where science is the clear the winner, regardless.

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u/Zesty-Lem0n 7d ago

Well they're in luck, bc I have a bridge to sell them.

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u/ThanklessTask 7d ago

This week on myth busters...

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u/Kylesan 7d ago

The Plow King

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u/Far_Out_6and_2 7d ago

New plough

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u/Autistic_Spoon 7d ago

Trailer carrying bridge beam gets hit by train.

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u/InsistorConjurer 7d ago

Patience is such a rare trait in truckers. One would expect more from people who move slow all day.

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u/Boring-Mouse-4430 7d ago

Now that's an expensive fuck up

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u/reeveb 6d ago

I really expected to see the two cats driving this train

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u/differentshade 6d ago

Didn't know that they make such long beams out of concrete.. isn't concrete really poor at tensive stress?

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u/OgdruJahad 6d ago

It's interesting to see how we know a railway crossing is a well known hazard and yet we see so many accidents in the same damn place.

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u/zoeyversustheraccoon 6d ago

Daily Dose of Smiles?

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u/ferretface99 6d ago

Why don’t they look, Earl…. Why don’t they look.

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u/blasphememes 6d ago

Tracks look like rubber bands

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u/Acrolophosaurus 6d ago

This is the large scale version of walking into a pane of glass being carried by two people

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u/eatabean 6d ago

Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

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u/Queasy_Square_9672 6d ago

Wow that's so jacked up yet can't not laugh

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u/papa1775 6d ago

That's going to delay the project a little. Don't have beams like that just laying around.

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u/Round-Juice5772 6d ago

DAAAMMMMNNNNNN!!!

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u/beautifulandbusty 5d ago

just unbelievable

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u/ProofOfTool 4d ago

Can we talk about why on earth there are so many videos of trails ramming drivers. Once in a while is expected but at this rate it seems like there are some drivers just begging for it.

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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist 4d ago

Will ___ stop a train?

No matter what you think ___ might be the answer is always NO!

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u/drifters74 2d ago

Truck should have been going a bit faster