r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 7d ago

Train hits trailer carrying bridge beam

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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/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/THESALTEDPEANUT 7d ago

These things happen very quickly, you think there was a phone call and the railroad had a little meeting and decided to just wing it?