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Post by JCON on Dec 6, 2017 17:05:51 GMT -6
Oh my!!! 
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Post by BUCKY on Dec 6, 2017 17:15:33 GMT -6
Proof that there's one born every minute!!! (Maybe more than one, in this case!!)
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Post by JCON on Dec 6, 2017 17:18:17 GMT -6
I wouldn't want to be around when the train gets there...  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Dec 7, 2017 10:52:38 GMT -6
LOL! That's hilarious! It reminds me of a story a friend told me:
He was investigating an incident where a train tapped the rear of a lady's car that had been hanging over the tracks, pushing her a little out of the way. The lady was unharmed but after making a statement, she walked over to the engineer and told him: "If you had just swerved the train, this wouldn't have happened!"
Yep, there's one born every minute!
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Post by JCON on Dec 7, 2017 11:58:17 GMT -6
Lol Mark!!!
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Post by Beekster on Dec 7, 2017 12:06:41 GMT -6
This is a case where training kicks in and thinking does not. When hoses are routed across a street, the ramps keep vehicles from crushing them. So, these guys are trained (no pun intended) to put the ramps out whenever there's a chance of cross traffic damaging the hose...even if the cross traffic is a train. And let's be honest, they are more concerned with fighting the fire than with thinking about what a locomotive would do to their hose. I suppose that if a Captain or Battalion Chief is around, they might radio dispatch to contact the railroad to advise them of the activity at that intersection to warn any approaching train. But yes, this looks like a recipe for disaster if an Amtrak train is tooling along at 70mph through there. I see derailments...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 13:33:41 GMT -6
Funny thing is, I have seen this very same thing down here in my town. We have major rail lines that come through here, like 20 times a day.
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Post by Dukemaddog on Dec 8, 2017 11:34:26 GMT -6
This is a case where training kicks in and thinking does not. When hoses are routed across a street, the ramps keep vehicles from crushing them. So, these guys are trained (no pun intended) to put the ramps out whenever there's a chance of cross traffic damaging the hose...even if the cross traffic is a train. And let's be honest, they are more concerned with fighting the fire than with thinking about what a locomotive would do to their hose. I suppose that if a Captain or Battalion Chief is around, they might radio dispatch to contact the railroad to advise them of the activity at that intersection to warn any approaching train. But yes, this looks like a recipe for disaster if an Amtrak train is tooling along at 70mph through there. I see derailments... Yeah, that makes sense. I would have figured someone would have notified the train dispatch too. |
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