Someone is not getting their Ranger......

[9zero1790]

Don’t forget to add the stalled semi on the tracks and their insurance company to the mix

i was just joking about that part but these days things are crazy so i would not doubt the possibility lol.

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[FunInTheSun]

Dang what's up with all these derailments this year?

Tough to say. In the automaker business loop, cost savings is achieved by deleting parts, laying off personnel, and "pausing" R&D projects.

In the railway space, cost savings is likely to take the form of "deferring" maintenance tasks. Labor disputes that are not resolved in favor of unions have historically resulted in a "de-motivated" workforce. Either of these things make "accidents" more likely to occur. And that's without even airing any "conspiracy theories" involving the CCP and clandestine warfare.

 

[12Bravo20]

in some cases sure. i cases like this id bet that ford, the rail road, and insurance company are all making some round about bucks on this. i did commercial insurance for a while years ago. its illegal to profit from insurance etc. but big companies do it all the time. they just have creative ways to make it "legit".

It's almost a guarantee that people on the derailment crews are salvaging and selling what they can (as long as they don't get caught). Though that is still illegal for them to do.

My neighbor use to work on derailment crews for BNSF RR for years and can tell some stories. For a while they would just dig a big hole and push everything into it, to include rail cars. And then bury everything. I don't know if they are still allowed to do that anymore.

When I worked on railroads, it was while I was in the Army and Uncle Sam owned everything so we had to account for every little piece and part.

 

[Radioman]

I would not live next to any railroad tracks the way things are going. The town I live in has the largest rail yard on the West Coast. In the early 70's a boxcar loaded with bombs headed to Vietnam caught fire and most of the bombs exploded. Fun times....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Roseville_Yard_Disaster

 

[9zero1790]

I would not live next to any railroad tracks the way things are going. The town I live in has the largest rail yard on the West Coast. In the early 70's a boxcar loaded with bombs headed to Vietnam caught fire and most of the bombs exploded. Fun times....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Roseville_Yard_Disaster

wow thats rough! I bet a lot of folks in town thought it was end of everything!
im close to the rails too. got so used to the sounds of it i barely notice anymore. few years back some company bought up land right up next to the RR right away land and built ridiculous amount of apartments. shortly after people were having a fit that the train horn, crossing bells, were bothering them... so now the trains not allowed to honk.

 

[Hot Pepper Red Zeppelin]

Another example of the terrible state of journalism in this country. The reporter states that there were "no hazardous materials on the train" immediately after telling us there were Chevys on the train.

 

[AzScorpion]

Another example of the terrible state of journalism in this country. The reporter states that there were "no hazardous materials on the train" immediately after telling us there were Chevys on the train.

Good thing those box cars weren't full of Tacomas. It'd be tough cleaning up all that ?? smell.

 

[9zero1790]

plus all the autos surely had oil, fuel, plastics, and so on. all can be hazmat...

 

[12Bravo20]

I won't pull up close to a rail road crossing either. I have seen cargo and even boxcar doors come off the trains.

Two places that have the most derailments are turnouts (switches) and road crossings. Road crossings are bad since the track will flex on both sides of the crossing while the track in the crossing will not. Plus a lot of debris falls into the crossings which can also cause derailments.

One of the reasons I dislike turtles and armadillos so much is that they would get stuck inside the frogs of turnouts and cause derailments.

 

[Hot Pepper Red Zeppelin]

Okay Tito, you’re on notice, no hangin out near rr tracks.

 

[9zero1790]

he is too smart for that.

 

[paval3]

Did he ?

Guess the reporter in the video was wrong!

 

[12Bravo20]

wow thats rough! I bet a lot of folks in town thought it was end of everything!
im close to the rails too. got so used to the sounds of it i barely notice anymore. few years back some company bought up land right up next to the RR right away land and built ridiculous amount of apartments. shortly after people were having a fit that the train horn, crossing bells, were bothering them... so now the trains not allowed to honk.

I like to know how they stopped the trains from sounding their horns at each and every rail crossing since that is pretty much mandatory per federal regulations.

 

[9zero1790]

I like to know how they stopped the trains from sounding their horns at each and every rail crossing since that is pretty much mandatory per federal regulations.

Fra and dot call them quiet zones. Sadly the list of places with the restriction spots is getting long. I dont know the ins and outs of it rule wise but certain hours certain spots no horns unless some event makes it necessary. The train horns are a safety communications device. Noise is gor good reasons. When people rent apartments close to the tracks and crossings they should expect to hear the trains lol. Hence my calling them stupid for expecting no rail road noise.

https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/quiet-zone-locations-city-and-state

 

[12Bravo20]

Fra and dot call them quiet zones. Sadly the list of places with the restriction spots is getting long. I dont know the ins and outs of it rule wise but certain hours certain spots no horns unless some event makes it necessary. The train horns are a safety communications device. Noise is gor good reasons. When people rent apartments close to the tracks and crossings they should expect to hear the trains lol. Hence my calling them stupid for expecting no rail road noise.

https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/quiet-zone-locations-city-and-state

I looked up the regulations after I made my last reply and you are correct. Though I think that these "quite zones" are one of the most stupidest things ever. As yo said, the horns are to warn the idiotic morons that a train is coming.

And these rockets scientist should know better when they move close to train tracks that there WILL be noise. I've seen the same thing happen with race tracks all too often. Race tracks are built out in the country then some dumb developer buys the land around the track to build subdivisions. And the new home owners know the race track is there but buy the homes anyways and then complain about the noise until the track gets shut down.

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