maybe I should post the same clip again? lol.
just remember arguing online is like competing in the special Olympics....
.......................its stressful for you but fun for the rest of us to watch.
make note of spideys reply above. your another troll of AS...that's what trooools are,,gobs of ...............what are your other aliases??? pffft..you must attend political every day for your dose of BS........are golughis...casssssey tree, del, or what alias are you...........Ah, spring has sprung on AS. @Whitespider does something that turns out poorly for him, documents it, describes it, and seemingly accepts what are, after all, the consequences of his own actions. Five pages of comments liberally salted with the evidently unmedicated gobshitery of @olyman later, the story has now subtly changed: instead of scuffling his toe and saying he's sorry, now The Man is keeping the Spider down. As the forum turns...
arrogance.....Naw... you're speaking out'a turn and out'a ignorance.
My rich uncle paid the fine for me... didn't cost me a nickle.
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with some of the tracks out there,,its a wonder it dont happen more often.....I have never hit a train but once almost was hit by a train as i sat and waited for it to pass. It ended up derailing in front of me, it was a train of pulpwood going to the mill in brunswick GA. 7 cars of wood on their side before it stopped.
If you only knew half the truth about the track structure today versus just a few short years ago, you would mess your pants.with some of the tracks out there,,its a wonder it dont happen more often.....
As WS's has pointed out , don't be complacent at these unmarked crossings .
freaking moly!!!!al-k mentioned a train derailing right in front of him. The railroad still uses camp cars to house the workers. These camp cars are parked in a siding somewhere right next to the main track. a few years ago, in Fargo Ga, a thru train coming out of Jacksonville fl. derailed right beside the camp cars full of men. Part of the derailed cars actually landed on the company trucks parked outside the camp cars. While there is no mistaking the dangers of crossing the tracks at a hyway crossing, but try living in a trailer parked 6 or 8 foot from the actual track with trains passing at track speed.
freaking moly!!!!
about 4 yrs ago,,the CN had a SLIGHT wreck, 900 feet from me.....my shop is 300 feet to the north,,and the tracks are 80 ft further north....I was walking into the shop, train going by to the east,,and I heard a damn squealing..LOUD. ??????? I stepped into the shop,,with the doors CLOSED. and heard a sound like dyn going off!!! wonder????? looked down the tracks,,train was stopped!! hmmmmmmm. walked down there,,holy moly!!! seems the one enguuunear..was supposed to check the certain three cars,,as one had tripped the temp sensor for the axles, at ia falls..30 miles back!!! wellllllll, the idiot didn't check correct,,and the bearing seized,,and the axle broke loose just west of town,,and was being dragged over the tracks!!!! popping bolts on the tie bars for a mile!!! one hit my bldg., missing door glass by about I inch from the dent location...the car in que, then caught the axle just right,,and that car jumped the tracks,eating tracks as it was moving,,,and the FULL grain cars,,started to stack one right against the other,,till 30 some were stacked together,,and broke open!!!! and when it tore the tracks,,the bed got ripped 10 foot deep in one spot!!! and that,,in a VERY wet area!! that track was down for a week till it got all blt back up,,and the tracks put in...........I talked to a lineman about 3 months later,,that idiot got fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there were rail dogs there about 1 hr later,,and there were asses..........About ten years ago, there was a massive derailment on a main line high speed freight track near Sweetwater, TN. Since my grandson was so fascinated by trains, we went to view the wreck site some months later. I was rather astonished to see how mangled all the remaining cars still were scattered all around the site. It took a heck of a lot of energy to create such destruction. I've taken rides on some of the very high speed express trains they run in Europe, at around 140+ mph. Image having one of those hit you!
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about 4 yrs ago,,the CN had a SLIGHT wreck, 900 feet from me.....my shop is 300 feet to the north,,and the tracks are 80 ft further north....I was walking into the shop, train going by to the east,,and I heard a damn squealing..LOUD. ??????? I stepped into the shop,,with the doors CLOSED. and heard a sound like dyn going off!!! wonder????? looked down the tracks,,train was stopped!! hmmmmmmm. walked down there,,holy moly!!! seems the one enguuunear..was supposed to check the certain three cars,,as one had tripped the temp sensor for the axles, at ia falls..30 miles back!!! wellllllll, the idiot didn't check correct,,and the bearing seized,,and the axle broke loose just west of town,,and was being dragged over the tracks!!!! popping bolts on the tie bars for a mile!!! one hit my bldg., missing door glass by about I inch from the dent location...the car in que, then caught the axle just right,,and that car jumped the tracks,eating tracks as it was moving,,,and the FULL grain cars,,started to stack one right against the other,,till 30 some were stacked together,,and broke open!!!! and when it tore the tracks,,the bed got ripped 10 foot deep in one spot!!! and that,,in a VERY wet area!! that track was down for a week till it got all blt back up,,and the tracks put in...........I talked to a lineman about 3 months later,,that idiot got fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there were rail dogs there about 1 hr later,,and there were asses..........
where I retired from..they used that gas,,to set the cores in the foundry...the stuff on the sand,,bonded when hit with it...soooooooo. one guy that did it in the old foundry,,got a cleaner and better job doing it in the new foundry..all of a sudden one day,,he don't show at work??????? never missed, less planned???????????? hmmmmmm. brother work in sand lab at the time..and he kissed many salarieds anal cavitys...............he found out,,that the guy had been doing this for years on the mold setting machine,,with no mask!!!!!!!!!!! guess what?? his whole nervous system failed on him...I/e,,he could control NO bodily functions.........they retired him with a gross amount of money,,which I bet the union got a cut,,as it was all kept hush, hush......they send him to az..where he wouldn't be found..along with his family....underhanded as all get out...management......and union..my bro,,didn't kiss so much after that incident.......thats the rotten fish smell you get driving by a foundry.............We had an incident happen here in my town about a year or two ago. I woke up one morning, checked my facebook, and saw in the top news story that parts of my town were being ordered to evacuate. WTF? A car carrying isocyanate, I believe it was, caught on fire, and one of the combustion products is hydrogen cyanide gas, the stuff they used to use in gas chamber executions. A big bunch of the first emergency responders had to be hospitalized, and the emergency crews quickly had to wear gas masks and hazmat suits. It happened in the middle of the night and cops were going up and down the streets getting everybody up and out of bed. What happened was wheel bearing failures, a couple chemical cars derailing, and one catching on fire. We dodged a bullet cause there were a lot of propane cars also in that train and more isocyanate cars. The whole thing could have gone up in a big fireball and gassed everybody. What probably saved the situation is that the train wasn't traveling very fast at the time it happened.
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