I was a locomotive engineer for nearly 30 years with the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific when they took the SP over. The truth is grade crossing protection isn’t fail-safe. There is battery back up for a power failure and in very remote areas where there are no electric lines and battery power is the main source, recharged by solar panels. The important thing is crossing protection DOES fail for a number of different reasons which I’ll not go into, lest some idiot tries to defeat one intentionally. It is a fairly rare occasion but twice in my own career I operated over grade crossings that had failed clipping along at 40mph. No one got hit because they put into practice the oldest safety advice. And that is before crossing ANY tracks, protected or not, you must Look and Listen. Not a glance. A real look. Glances can make you dead. Mute the music for a couple of seconds so you can hear an approaching train. You’ve heard that song dozens of times anyway. Still, don’t count on hearing the whistle. In snowy conditions, the throat of the horn can get clogged with snow, emitting a pitiful squeak if working at all. That is why Look is part of the equation. Keep in mind crossing protection is nothing more than an electromechanical device, just like the toaster in your kitchen. Would you bet your life it won’t fail at breakfast tomorrow? Me either. Deaths at grade crossings are second in number only to drunk driving fatalities. And they are usually 99.99% preventable. Odds are someone got clobbered while you’ve been reading this. And there is nothing the engineer can do about it. Most road freight trains weigh in at between 10,000 and 13,000 tons these days, and on roller bearings with very little friction between the wheels and rail. That is why trains are so efficient. And on average, depending on speed and grade it takes more than a mile to stop even in full emergency braking. What that means is by the time the engineer sees you, it is already too late to stop for you. Even at 10mph it takes a few hundred feet to stop. Another tip I’ll pass on is if you are stopping at a grade crossing stop well before nearing the crossing. 50 feet at a minimum. More is better if you can. The reason why is a train can derail at any time, at any speed and at any place. One idiot in Oregon got as close as he could to the lowered gates. A switch engine crew was crossing the road at walking speed. A car loaded with lumber derailed and just laid over on its side. No drama. But the idiot in the car wound up with 50 tons of timber in his lap. Squashed like a bug and just as dead. Don’t assume everyone knows these things, but I can assure you they don’t, so pass the word along to the people you love. You just might save a life some day…
Thank you for your advices! In Italy we still have many rail crossing on secondary railways. Most of them finally closed some years ago, too dangerous!
@@marpass8763 couldn't happen here though, way too many grade crossings. There was a figure from the 50's of the cost to convert every existing crossing to an over/underpass and it was like 3X our GDP, today it's an even higher cost.
In the second clip, the school van stops at the RR crossing as required by law. The driver pulled up to the tracks so as to see if a train might be coming. Then just as ready to proceed, the crossing bells start clanging and the gates come down. The driver was backing up, but by the time the pickup truck behind moved back, the gates hit the roof. The pickup pulled right behind the school van at a railroad crossing while the van had its hazard flashers on. That's not the right thing to do.
@@Planetrainguy bro he was using it for people to stop because they are stuped and maniacs and need something to yell at them as loud as possible to listen
To be fair, I encountered that once. Driving in a built up area, no signals, crossing the tracks and *OH SHIT A LOCOMOTIVE IS RIGHT THERE!*. It wasn't going, IDK whether it was broken down or what, conductors were walking around, but you can not notice a train without signals, and they can be right up to the crossing and not about to cross.
My dad, who was an AT&SF engineer for 45 years, drilled into me as a young driver to NEVER trust crossing signals. Ever. He'd hit too many cars and seen too many malfunctions.
Good advice, but I have never seen a crossing gate not come down where I live. Why weren't the crossing gates in these videos repaired? Don't they care about a multi-million dollar lawsuit? 🤔
My Dad was a new york central, penn central, conrail signal maintainer for 44 years. He taught us to treat railroad crossings as a stop sign to look to double check for trains. If I had a dollar for everytime he was called out in his career. I would be a very rich woman.
People who disobey crossing gates have no common sense! Don't they understand that they have no chance against the train? Even a tank would get fucked up by a train
James Christensen No, you are now a mushy smear that got cut in half then occasionally bumped and crushed further by an axle as the train passes over you.
Depends on the city trains are only allowed to go a certain speed within city limits. I live by one that is less than a mile from the city limits...I can tell when those suckers hits the country because they are hauling ass at that point
@@carafrancis533 We're going to see more deaths here in Florida when they finally get that High Speed train from OIA to Miami going. It will have a speed limit of 120MPH, fastest train in Florida. And since most Passenger and Freights never top more than 90MPH around here and in the city it's 25MPH for them, so drivers and pedestrians are going top get slaughtered by the new High Speed Train. Why? Because this train will run at 120MPH, even through the city! So I foresee a lot of Darwin Awards coming in Florida when this train starts rolling here. Because we sadly have some of the most idiotic and stupidest drivers here, all the idiot drivers seem to migrate to Florida too.
12:28 that is relatable for me. I once went trainspotting with my mom and we came across a railroad crossing and the train was coming and the gates literally went UP. I was confused when that happened and the train was inches away from entering the crossing. We just sat there in confusion and waited for the train to pass cuz we were not taking chances.
In a village near where I live there is a station and directly after it is a railroad crossing. On basically a daily basis this happens: Train-west comes. Gates go down. Train-east comes. Gates go up when Train-west starts moving, only to close again soon after. It's an accident waiting to happen 10-22 times each day.
At 4:58 you see a phone number on the crossing pole. It's there to call the yard office to inform them of a malfunction, vehicle stuck on the tracks etc. It takes a few minutes, but that heads up may save a life.
Good response! And after being reported the train dispatcher/operator will put a crossing malfunction order that will make train crews protect their movement over the crossing until its repaired.
You might laugh but I thought the same thing. What's really strange is this video was over and when I just tried to write this it started playing at the exact part of the video where the crossings were shaking. I jumped.
Usually the crossing guards are set up where there is a sensor on the rails and gates possibly the gates crossing guard was tripped multiple times by something maybe caught on it and blowing in and out of the main sensor on the gate
Talk about dark train crossing at night, there's one in my area that wasn't guarded by flashers or gates, despite being on a paved rural highway without street lights and with a speed limit of 50 -- which of course in the country means as fast as you can go per driving conditions. Most people take it at 50 or 55, and prudently slowed down before the tracks just in case there was a train ON the crossing, because trains are often delayed on those tracks late at night as they come to the switches a few miles ahead. But one high school boy who hadn't had his license very long did not slow down, and sadly drove into the train at probably 50-60mph. His car caught on fire and he was trapped inside. The young man went to school with my children, but a couple grades ahead. It was awful. His best friend lived at the last house before the tracks and was on his porch when it happened. I don't know if he even knew there was a stopped train. This was long before cell phones, and train cars didn't have reflectors. I remember the times I approached that crossing slowly, which I learned to do when I was still on a permit and had to be with a licensed passenger. My aunt and uncle lived out that way, so they taught me (stick shift standard transmission!). I can remember being shocked at how dark the train was -- there's no way I could've seen it in time to stop if I'd been driving the speed limit. I didn't see it until I was almost on it. There was no noise whatsoever, no whistle because it was stopped. When I came up to those tracks with a train moving across, the only way I knew there was a train was by the flashing of headlights of the cars stopped on the other side of the tracks, which of course was from the train cars blocking the lights and then the lights appearing between the cars. But it the train wasn't moving you couldn't tell anything was there. Finally, a few years ago they added lights and a gate. It had been at least 25 years since that young man was killed. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it. I do know his best friend still has nightmares over it. He had become friends with my son through mutual school friends, and they've kept in touch in the 20 years since my son finished school. He's gone on to be successful in the trades, and has a good head on his shoulders, with a wonderful family that has supported him. Otherwise he might have fallen into drugs and alcohol over it. Thank God his life wasn't destroyed along with the life that was taken, but he'll never be the same, and neither will the victim's parents and brothers and sisters, and everyone who loves him. May he rest in peace, and may his loved ones be comforted by the hope of eternity. He shouldn't have been killed that way. There's just too simple a prevention that isn't all that elaborate or expensive. Such a shame there weren't flashers or gates until now.
To be fair, as a school vehicle even minivans have to stop at level crossings. They buy behind the van sorta boxed them in, another no-no. The pickup is just as at fault. Though the vehicle should have stopped at the line, not past it.
Federico Borluzzi you think that's the only place they get stuck? Well your wrong about that. Sometimes it gets stuck I between a semi cab and the trailer
Weird how you're always there when the gates malfunction, makes me think you're sticking a giant magnet next to the controller box and recording the results 😂
always listen to a conductor. they are the people who save your life and tell you to stop at broken crossings. STOP AT THE CROSSINGS. THEY ARE THERE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.
1: A conductor cant legally tell traffic to stop if they do not have to qualifications for it, their is more to controlling traffic than waving your hands. 2: A driver has to slow down at crossings to make sure it is safe, dont get complacent just cause it has a boomgate.
IIGrayfoxII lolnyouve clearly not worked for the railroad. We are trained in stopping traffic at malfunctioning gates as well as operating a train at safe speed limits, normally restricted, when operating on and over them and 2 we are in charge of the train, from The time I get on, until the time I check off on the EC-1 THAT TRAIN IS FUCKING MINE! Not the engineers
@@DrRichtoffen1 I'm not going to disagree with you because I'm actually curious, but does each railroad company have their own rules or how they do things?
My guess would be that something is jammed in it. If you look... It's not completely stowed away... Not completely upright. The. Motor is trying to lift it up, but can't
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I love the internets explanation for searching if trains have the right of way: “trains always have right of way over road vehicles at railway crossings- there are no exceptions. As a motorist, you must yield the right of way or risk paying for the violation with your life.” Really sounds like some dark souls shit lmao
This right here is a prime example of why so many American citizens are killed by trains each year...stupid driving choices and malfunctioning equipment. Really entertaining video as always Mr. Jaw Tooth :)
But...but...I thought if we only spent a billion dollars and installed crossing guards on every single grade crossing in the country, it'd save all of our problems and prevent anyone from ever being killed or injured. You mean to tell me that accidents are actually caused by idiots, regardless of whether there are flashing lights? And that even when there are lights, they can break down (and even worse, because people assume the lights WILL be working, they don't even bother checking when they cross if they don't see flashing lights. We'd almost be better off having lights that always flash UNTIL a train comes....
i've been taught to not only obey crossing signals but use common sense and look for the train, even if they are messing up and going up and not coming down, etc still look for a train. could save your life.
I live in a city that gets a lot of passenger trains coming through all day, and I live right against the station. Malfunctioning arms are my biggest fear living less than a football field away from a crossing, though I’ve been fortunate enough to not have anything like that happen in my three years living here.
For the folks commenting about the van caught by the crossing gate arm, that vehicle had a "school transportation" sign on top. It had to stop at the crossing even though the lights were NOT flashing. When the lights started flashing, it tried to back up but the truck had pulled up to close. Once the truck backed up the van could not because by that time the crossing gate arm was touching the roof. If it had continued to back up the sign would likely been damaged.
So? Better wreck the sign than risk your life. I saw a video of a 8X8 heavy duty trasport with an excavator on the back destroyed because the idiot got caught under the guards...he could have driven out of there by idling forwards, but he didn't. Stupid. Signs aren't that expensive. EDIT Though now I watched it, in this case the driver did the right thing. He/she was clearly in no danger provided the train remained on the track. No sense in scratching your paint and damaging your own sign as well as the railroad's when you can just safely wait for the arm to raise again.
"Though now I watched it, in this case the driver did the right thing." No, the right thing would be to stop at the white line. Then the vehicle wouldn't get hit by the barrier.
I saw this happen once when I was working at the gas station next to the RR crossing, the arms came down but never went back up so people would go around the arms. I called the police and they came and directed traffic until the RR guys could come and fix it. This is why I will not go across without looking both ways first I don't care what other folks are doing. Better to be safe then sorry.
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments about the school van driver (2:34) getting caught by the gate. The driver of this vehicle did the absolute correct thing. The driver pulled up and stopped safely short of the track, as required by law, to look for oncoming trains. It looks as though the view from the stop line was [partially] obstructed, requiring the driver to stop in the location they did. Lo and behold....a train! Instead of trying to "go for it", the driver attempted to reverse, only to be blocked by the #$*@!% in the pick-up truck trying to climb up the van's tailpipe. So it looks like the van driver made a quick assessment, realized the van and occupants were well clear of the track, and simply waited it out. Big thumbs up to the school van driver! And a thumbs up for a good video.
the school van driver did it Wrong! you do not pull up short of the track. you pull up short of the signaling equipment. that is why it is installed WHERE it is, to keep you safe.
They were understandably wary because the crossing was just activated. Due to the train's slow speed, they could have safely proceeded. The crossing still had adequate warning time.
In California if you drive around a lowered RR signal & an Officer observe you, Not only will he pull you over & give you a ticket, BUT, according to state law He will confiscate your operators license ON THE SPOT. !
Arizona, as well. And they're likely to confiscate the CAR too. Of course in Arizona we have lots of California drivers, and we had to enact the "stupid motorist" law, which says that you are responsible for costs of any rescue and recovery, plus fines and court fees, for driving through a normally dry wash (creek) when water is running across the road, and your car washes downstream, or you are trapped.
Good vid! I've seen the crossing gates malfunctioning countless times. I guess overall, they are generally reliable, but with today's technology, wouldn't you think they could devise a more fool-proof, reliable system? And the drivers amaze me - either one extreme or the other, Some want to get past correctly functioning lowering gates, and other people are IN the intersection when they get activated, and are too scared to CLEAR the intersection as soon as they activate - either 'freezing' in place, or trying to back up, haha. Knock on wood, I've never seen any accidents, and hopefully I never will.
ive honestly never seen one malfunction here in australia, they all have triple redundancy, so if they do fail they shut just in case. idiots here still go thru them as well.
I've seen it happen, but it is rare. I'm in Gippsland. Level crossing faults on the line here caused trains to be replaced by buses for 9 months apparently due to rust on the rails. Took that long for them to source a suitable rail grinder.
They could be more fool-proof and reliable IF the railroads considered crossings as anything more than a nuisance they'd rather not have to spend any money on. They could also implement telemetry to the crossing equipment so they could get notification of malfunctions. I suppose the problem with this is (1) it costs money and (2) there would be an electronic record that a problem was detected and left uncorrected, something a railroad definitely does not want since it could be used against them in court if the problem resulted in an accident.
9:25 I believe the camera's recording settings were the reason the lights appear to go off, then back on (the effects do not apply in-person). In fact, here's a video explaining why that happens. th-cam.com/video/wSXqX55R1Gc/w-d-xo.html
It’s amazing how many malfunctioning crossing gates you encounter. You should be a roving troubleshooter for the railroad! Gates typically have an 800 number you can call to let the railroad know if one isn’t working. I’m not sure about smaller roads but the Class 1s like CSX and NS certainly do.
@@kaseyaldrich4746 Railroad's encourage you to report railroad crossing malfunctions, hence the 800 phone numbers. You don't need to trouble shoot for them. Just let them know what is happening. They will send out a Signal Maintainer to trouble shoot and repair. I know because I used to be a Communications Coordinator for a major railroad and called out Signal Maintainer's.
Fantazier1 if you go back and read what I said, I was simply saying that just because someone can video a crossing (as the person who posted this did) does NOT make a you a “troubleshooter”. So I don’t exactly understand where your comment is coming from. HOWEVER, I know exactly how it works, since I myself am a maintainer, so I’m well aware of what happens, as well as well aware of what happens when people think they’re maintainers because they can record a crossing.
@@kaseyaldrich4746 I guess I don't understand what you were trying to convey. I do not see him as a "Troubleshooter". I see him as a person discovering malfunctions that should be reported to the railroads in question. That is all I was trying to convey.
Fantazier1 as I said, take a second and read the post from the gentleman that I was responding to. He himself said “ you should be a roving troubleshooter for the railroads” in which he was referring to the gentleman that posted said video. which is what I was referring to, simply starting that just because he can record a video and make a call (if he did) doesn’t mean he’s troubleshooting or that he’s capable of doing such.
You really have these kind of people in the USA? Here in Poland the trains pass by the gates at like 100KMH+ (60MPH+) and the drivers barely ever even think about such stupid ideas.
This is a video about malfunctioning railroad crossings, when they are going slow they may have just left a train lot thing (I don’t know, just guessing, correct me if I’m wrong please).
20-years ago, I worked for a Class 1 Railroad, & I routinely saw all sorts of vehicles, which went around 'downed' gates, with an approaching train. Even school buses did, & the local police did nothing. Scary stuff.
I've actually seen that third clip happen in real life before. Scary thing about it was that it was on the BNSF Speedway in Hinsdale, so we ended up finding somewhere else to cross in case something was dangerously wrong with it. Thing is, it wasn't just shaking. It was moving from straight up to around 10 degrees out and back again repeatedly.
VestedUTuber usually means there’s a problem in the gate mech. BUT as soon as someone calls in and reports a problem at the crossing, a crossing protection order is placed on the crossing and train crews are prepared to stop and protect the crossing as well as running at a restricted speed
It's called "impatience". There is one gate crossing that was notorious for breaking down - VA-55 in Marshall (yes - it broke back before I-66 was built through that area).
"Stop, stop, stop" went the traffic, "Ding, ding, ding" went the bell, "Chug, chug, chug" went the engine; When the bus came, the crossing gate fell...
White Van: *going across tracks* wow it’s a very beautiful day tod- OMG THERES A TRAIN! BACK UP BACK UP! Signal 1: wakes up* wha- huh!? What do you mean there’s a tr- OMG THERES A TRAIN! BROTHER WAKE UP WE NEED TO DO THE THING. Signal 2: *Slowly Waking* uggh do we have too? Signal 1: YEEEEESSSSS (Signal Bells Go Off) White Van: HEY TRUCK BACK UP Truck: OMG OK (Backing up) Signal 1: MY ARM WONT GO DOWN! School Bus: OMG WHAT HAPPENING OVER THERE (Signal arms go down) Truck: OMG UR GONNA GET HIT (Arm hits white van) White Van: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFF School bus: Lol Train: hey sup guys how’s it go- OMG WHAT HAPPEN Signal 2: Long story White van: AHHH MY HEAD Train: Signal 1 I blame This on u. Signal 1: OMG MY ARM WONY GO UP white van: AHHHHH signal 1: nvm there it goes Everyone breaths a sigh of a relief Signal 1: sorry for the commotion everyone. White Van: Aaaaannndddd? Signal 1: and sorry for hitting ur head. White van: that’s better
This actually happened to me in a tiny Honda convertible (in Japan), it was surrealistic, I was like, my car didn't just died on the track with a train coming! I stayed with it for a couple of seconds, and it miraculously started... just in time.
Thank you for sharing. Watching trains crossing roads in the US is so much more exciting than here in Northern Europe. Not in my entire life will I have witnessed as many of these episodes in real life as you showed us here. So boring, but so much safer here.
How are you defining safety? Total numbers of injuries? Crossing reliability? Sound of crossing alarm? A more useful percentage of population, possibly including number of crossings per injury?
@@AndrooUK Only few crossings, almost no busy crossings, because the busy crossings are the first ones to be replaced by bridges or viaducts. So if you are a busy driver in northern Europe, driving on main routes, you will almost never have to cross rail tracks.
@@AndrooUK As a result of this European passenger trains can go faster and don't have to sound horns and bells all the time. That is nice for people living close to rail tracks, especially at electrified routes, and for people sleeping in night trains.
I have seen lightning hit the tracks and set the crossing lights off. Happened in Loveland many years ago while I was sitting in my car at a red light facing the tracks during a thunderstorm.
Wow, I never heard of that happening before. That's pretty cool. A few weeks ago after a big storm, the crossing was messing up at Macon and another near Milford. Hope your having fun in Pennsylvania!
This reminds me of a game they used to have on a local radio station: Can you beat the [name of local transport] train? It was something like you call in and choose if you want to try beating the train, you got something like $50 if you said you would wait, and $100 if you successfully beat the train. They said before and after every game “You can never beat the train!” and you never would. The whole point was to raise awareness about not trying to cross the tracks when a train was coming. I think it started after a few people got hit doing it. People still tried it all the time though. So reminder: “You can NEVER beat the train!”
If a conductor tells traffic to halt then he's got a damn good reason, I've seen too many stories of people or cars getting destroyed cause they either lack common sense at the railway crossing or just being plain knuckleheads!
A driver might just see some weird guy in a high-vis jacket telling him to stop, and not seeing what's happening. Is it so unreasonable for a driver to just carry on with concern that it might be a highjacking or somesuch, or just some douchey truck doing a turn or reverse? It's not like there's a national or international clothing standard for conductors...
@@AndrooUK There's also a train standing half on the crossing which obviously failed, but yes, a hijacking would be much more likely than an employee trying to stop you from hitting or being hit by a train.
The shaking one - My guess is there's probably a mechanism in there that locks it in the 'up' position, and a switch that senses when it is not in the 'up' position. One or both of these were malfunctioning.
Boggy you see the trees in the background shaking as well, from the wind. I was gonna be a smart ass, but just decided for the obvious answer and to be nice. There's enough hate on here without me adding fuel to the fire. It's swaying in the wind the same as the trees. The other gate isn't in the wind and blocked from it. You can kinda hear the wind in the microphone.
Atleast with the ones I've worked on theres a solenoid that holds the boom up when the motors disengaged, if the solenoid isn't engaging for what ever reason you get this shaking as the boom goes high enough to turn the motor off then falls back down to where the motor turns on and lifts it again. It happens fast enough you get that shuddering.
I would say the pickup coil in the hold clear mechanism is bad. When the xing clears, the motor is energized and starts the gate up. At the same time the pickup coil on the hold clear mechanism is energized and sucks ( I'll call it a flapper) a flapper in to both the pickup and hold coils. The flapper has a part on it called a barrel (its barrel shaped) or a small metal block on it, depends on the model of the gate mech or manufacturer. On one end of the motor there's a ratchet gear and the barrel or block will lock between to teeth on it. When the gate reaches vertical the hold coil is energized and the pickup coil deenergized. The hold coil stays energized keeping the flapper in and the barrel or block against the ratchet wheel not allowing the gate to fall. If the hold coil is bad the gate will fall until the drive up contact closes , only a few degrees. Then the gate drives back up and repeats until the maintainer changes the hold clear out or moves one wire allowing the pickup coil to hold the gate up but that is just a temp fix until he can locate a new hold clear mechanism.
You are correct, Boggy. Inside, there is a device called a "hold clear". It is a ratchet-pawl type of device that when energized, engages to hold the crossing gate up. When the little teeth get worn, you see the pumping action of the gate as the ratchet-pawl keeps slipping. It's not an uncommon problem on older generation gate mechs. Newer generation gate mechs have an electromagnetic brake type mechanism that holds the gate up while no trains are present.
Conductor flagging the traffic to stop might do better if he had a bright red or fluorescent flag in his hand. All he had was black gloves. He must've forgot to bring a flag.
Pepsi Man, you think a cop sits at the mechanic shop the whole time his car being worked on, what you think they police don't have anything better to do? At any rate invade you were wondering, they don't.
also did u know where i live, one of the cities next to it, has banned the train horn when crossing? yeah. Because people are complaining about how loud it is at all hours of the night. I think its stupid, really. Trains sound their horn to let people know they're coming thru.
Actually if you need to here the train horn through the crossing u shouldn't be driving. You are blind not to see this huge train crossing in front of you.
Mike Jones. We had a truck driver who killed quite a few and injured perhaps 100. His defence was successful. "I didn't see the 1500 W of flashing red lights. I didn't hear the bells ringing. I didn't notice the other vehicles that were stopped waiting for the train. I didn't see the 1000 Tonne train approaching and I didn't hear the horn being sounded by a panicked train driver." "That's OK then... NOT GUILTY... Next case".
9:25 Dammm that was dangerous, I bet some people would have went through it thinking it malfunctioned, and that train wouldn't stop in time it was going so fast :O
4:44 I’m pretty sure the reason it’s shaking is because it’s not all the way up and in the catcher thing, which I think is the metal part next to the first “A” in “Railroad” on the sign, so since it’s not secured it’s being blown around and shaken by the wind
It never ceases to amaze me just how careless American drivers can be when it comes to railway crossings. I don't think I'd have the nerves to drive around a lowered crossing gate..
NS crew: just blast the horn and that idiot in the van will back up. *Blasts horn loudly* Van driver: I'm gonna be deaf from those jerks.. *gets caught under the crossing arm* NS crew: That'll show you for sticking your bumper where it shouldn't be. Van driver: *looks back at all the traffic behind* Well this is embarrassing...
People better stop disregarding them stop signals and gates! This is just plain stupidity! Good way to get them selves killed! Anyway this was a really good one Jaw Tooth! It definitely was funny when one of them conducts yelled at the people in the car. Looks like you have a lot of fun doing these videos Jaw Tooth! This is a little different, but that makes it very interesting and unique to watch! Every video you do is outstanding Jaw Tooth! That should make more people want to watch! One more thing is the railroad maintenance crew needs to keep them signals and lights working at all TIMES! Don't need lawsuits against them or lives taken either
It’s pretty scary when profit overrides human life. Thankfully these trains stop to make sure roads are clear. I enjoy your videos and will be subscribing. Thanks for the great videos.
Now that I have to get around on a power chair, I often have to use crosswalks. I’ve always thought it’s pretty easy to understand that you’re (driver) supposed to stop at the solid white line before the crosswalk, not right over the crosswalk, but a lot of people don’t.
Hi there! Just wanted to say my 3yr old son and I watch your videos all the time. We came across this one today, the first thing he said was "long hair"! Lol! He noticed your shaggy look right away. I definitely had a little laugh because sometimes we have your videos playing all day long in background as our day goes by. Thanks for doing what you do! We really appreciate it! 💙
here in belgium, if you pass a railroad crossing while it's flashing/ringing, even by foot, you automatically lose your driving licence(s) and risk several fines
I am old enough to remember when the automatic crossing gates were first installed. Before that, all gates were lowered manually by someone stationed at them full time. There were also roads and some city streets that crossed busy railroads that had no gates and you had to look for a train coming in either direction . Now drivers want others to do their diving and thinking for them. The dumb down of society continues .
Several years ago, I came up to a crossing where the gates were down and the lights were flashing. I waited and waited and waited and no train ever showed up. Finally, while looking in both directions, I just drove around the gates. Never did see a train.
I've seen that one railroad signal that's shaking mentioned on a paranormal show and the crossing is alleged to be haunted. In spite of no wind or seismic activity in the area and a full inspection of the signal no explanation for the shaking was found, it's said that the shaking signal had malfunctioned and resulted in a fatal accident involving a vehicle being struck by the train and the impacted vehicle came to rest up against the signal. Of course it's an interesting legend behind the cause of the shaking as though the ghost of a driver is angry and venting frustration at the signal.
Roy Cathcart Jr ha ha. Haunted barrier. Some folk will dream up anything, I think it’s just fxxked and they can’t find the fault with the motors or controllers lol. Maybe they should change it lol? I’ve seen twitching barriers here in the uk and they’re not haunted. Just bust lol
As an old cockney halfwit tube driver I just love the sound of the horns and bells of the United states railways....I cant imagine anything that signifies USA more accurately..all the best from uk...
I live in Germany and here it almost never happens that people go over the tracks when the lights are on. Might be because the trains keep their speed and usually we have fully closing gates.
Also, Germany has much fewer crossings, and the trains are never as long, and Germans are programmed robots when it comes to laws and just doing what they're told by the Government, even if it totally sucks?
@@AndrooUK Oh yes, the Land of the Free where red lights and gates that are there to prevent you from a tragic accident are considered a mere suggestion because freedom. Generally, it seems that many people there are lacking a fair bit of common sense when it comes to the prevention of potentially life-threatening situations because you have the freedom to have yourself killed in an unnecessary way.
Blimey, seems like US train drivers are too soft at railroad crossings slowing down for idiots who can't obey simple rules. You need to have a look at European crossings... once the lights & klaxons come on and the gates go down, that's it, no second chances - the train's coming through at FULL speed!!! Probably no need to point out a train at 60-90mph vs a car/pedestrian isn't going to be a pretty sight..... :-(
Please don't lump Europe as one single entity. Its made up of many different countries with their own railways and their own rules and regulations. In the UK, if a crossing is faulty then trains are cautioned. We do not send trains through at full speed if barriers or lights are not working or half barrier crossings that have been lowered too long.
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I love how the conductor yelled at the car
That is one of my favorite all time clips. You can hear him yelling " fricken moron". Lol
Millenniumforce i love your vids
Jaw Tooth yea
Millenniumforce hi millemiun I like your vid
Millenniumforce train
4:31 its just the poor guys first day on the job, hes just nervous.
BlackBladeFX LLAAMMOO
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LOL LOL XD XD LOL LOL XD XD
also there is railfans going to film his work too,
you should try Erie PA! I think they think gate running is an Olympic sport!
If you get hit by a train it's because you have no respect for it.
I agree there are lots of idiots all around the world that have no respect for anything
I agree too
^^^@rubbiebubbie .. And freaking Stupid .. .
@@TruthSeekr2662 .. And if they Die, Well Tough Shit cuz if they Had of Learned or Had Respect in the 1st Place then they Wouldn't Be Died Lol .. .
@Finnegan That too.
I was a locomotive engineer for nearly 30 years with the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific when they took the SP over.
The truth is grade crossing protection isn’t fail-safe. There is battery back up for a power failure and in very remote areas where there are no electric lines and battery power is the main source, recharged by solar panels. The important thing is crossing protection DOES fail for a number of different reasons which I’ll not go into, lest some idiot tries to defeat one intentionally.
It is a fairly rare occasion but twice in my own career I operated over grade crossings that had failed clipping along at 40mph. No one got hit because they put into practice the oldest safety advice. And that is before crossing ANY tracks, protected or not, you must Look and Listen. Not a glance. A real look. Glances can make you dead. Mute the music for a couple of seconds so you can hear an approaching train. You’ve heard that song dozens of times anyway.
Still, don’t count on hearing the whistle. In snowy conditions, the throat of the horn can get clogged with snow, emitting a pitiful squeak if working at all. That is why Look is part of the equation.
Keep in mind crossing protection is nothing more than an electromechanical device, just like the toaster in your kitchen. Would you bet your life it won’t fail at breakfast tomorrow?
Me either.
Deaths at grade crossings are second in number only to drunk driving fatalities. And they are usually 99.99% preventable. Odds are someone got clobbered while you’ve been reading this. And there is nothing the engineer can do about it. Most road freight trains weigh in at between 10,000 and 13,000 tons these days, and on roller bearings with very little friction between the wheels and rail. That is why trains are so efficient. And on average, depending on speed and grade it takes more than a mile to stop even in full emergency braking. What that means is by the time the engineer sees you, it is already too late to stop for you. Even at 10mph it takes a few hundred feet to stop.
Another tip I’ll pass on is if you are stopping at a grade crossing stop well before nearing the crossing. 50 feet at a minimum. More is better if you can. The reason why is a train can derail at any time, at any speed and at any place. One idiot in Oregon got as close as he could to the lowered gates. A switch engine crew was crossing the road at walking speed. A car loaded with lumber derailed and just laid over on its side. No drama. But the idiot in the car wound up with 50 tons of timber in his lap. Squashed like a bug and just as dead.
Don’t assume everyone knows these things, but I can assure you they don’t, so pass the word along to the people you love. You just might save a life some day…
The standard distance from the wide white stop line and the near rail is fifteen feet.
Bruv I don’t care XD
Well spoken sir.
Thank you for your advices! In Italy we still have many rail crossing on secondary railways. Most of them finally closed some years ago, too dangerous!
@@marpass8763 couldn't happen here though, way too many grade crossings. There was a figure from the 50's of the cost to convert every existing crossing to an over/underpass and it was like 3X our GDP, today it's an even higher cost.
In the second clip, the school van stops at the RR crossing as required by law. The driver pulled up to the tracks so as to see if a train might be coming. Then just as ready to proceed, the crossing bells start clanging and the gates come down. The driver was backing up, but by the time the pickup truck behind moved back, the gates hit the roof. The pickup pulled right behind the school van at a railroad crossing while the van had its hazard flashers on. That's not the right thing to do.
The law is the law and we can't change it.
@@SebastianMammoth Right so throw the driver of the pickup in jail for 90 days with a fine
@@guineapiglady2841 no the van closer to the camera
@@guineapiglady2841 there is a van on the right that has SCHOOL on top
@@saurus12 maybe it is, maybe it isn't. whatever.
Bad driver though.
10:53 now that's what i call an engineer that knows how to use a horn
He still got to do the 3 long and 1 short horn before crossing...
damn i got likes for this?
More doesn’t know how to not use a horn
@@Planetrainguy bro he was using it for people to stop because they are stuped and maniacs and need something to yell at them as loud as possible to listen
@@Luchator89 he was just doing the normal American horn pattern for a crossing 2 long 1 short 1 long
The gate that was shaking at 4:30, it was its first day on the job (it was nervous) and it didn’t wanna mess up! 😉
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When the gate is shaking, it's called gate pumping.
Oh hey there's a train right there. bUT tHe GaTEs ARnt DOwn sO i caN STilL cROsS *rIGht???*
Oh, the gates are down too? ThEN JUSt gO ArOunD THeM!!!!!11+1+
Oh you can’t go around them? jUsT dRiVe RiGhT tHrOuGh ThEm !!!!1!!
@@holly3570 oH yOu saID sToP? I wIlL kEeP gOing tHEn!
To be fair, I encountered that once. Driving in a built up area, no signals, crossing the tracks and *OH SHIT A LOCOMOTIVE IS RIGHT THERE!*. It wasn't going, IDK whether it was broken down or what, conductors were walking around, but you can not notice a train without signals, and they can be right up to the crossing and not about to cross.
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My dad, who was an AT&SF engineer for 45 years, drilled into me as a young driver to NEVER trust crossing signals. Ever. He'd hit too many cars and seen too many malfunctions.
this is important advice ..
Good advice, but I have never seen a crossing gate not come down where I live. Why weren't the crossing gates in these videos repaired? Don't they care about a multi-million dollar lawsuit? 🤔
Carol Hutchinson well they we're fixed but not in this video
it is simple, slow down before crossing check both sides and only after it move across, at least hot russian and finnish road rules learn to do
My Dad was a new york central, penn central, conrail signal maintainer for 44 years. He taught us to treat railroad crossings as a stop sign to look to double check for trains. If I had a dollar for everytime he was called out in his career. I would be a very rich woman.
People who disobey crossing gates have no common sense! Don't they understand that they have no chance against the train? Even a tank would get fucked up by a train
"I'm not half the man I used to be 5 seconds ago..."
James Christensen No, you are now a mushy smear that got cut in half then occasionally bumped and crushed further by an axle as the train passes over you.
vinnykster that's because there liberals 😂😂
Good one!
Christopher Gonzales - I pray for trains to kill all the liberals.
No nudity, no violence, no politics. Just good, wholesome crossing gate malfunctions. ❤️ 👌🏼
Why would there be any of those things?
If the trains went faster through crossings seems like the problem of cars going around the gates would solve itself. /s
I think they have to go slow bc of pedestrians in a built up area with a speed limit
Depends on the city trains are only allowed to go a certain speed within city limits. I live by one that is less than a mile from the city limits...I can tell when those suckers hits the country because they are hauling ass at that point
@@carafrancis533 We're going to see more deaths here in Florida when they finally get that High Speed train from OIA to Miami going.
It will have a speed limit of 120MPH, fastest train in Florida.
And since most Passenger and Freights never top more than 90MPH around here and in the city it's 25MPH for them, so drivers and pedestrians are going top get slaughtered by the new High Speed Train.
Why?
Because this train will run at 120MPH, even through the city!
So I foresee a lot of Darwin Awards coming in Florida when this train starts rolling here.
Because we sadly have some of the most idiotic and stupidest drivers here, all the idiot drivers seem to migrate to Florida too.
@@HolidayDecorator "we sadly have some of the most idiotic and stupid drivers here" are you challenging Texas?
@@HolidayDecorator well look at it this way, the roads will be clear in a week after it's up and running
What a friggin legend this man is. Seriosuly. Man saved a life while watching trains and traveling the country
IT'S A GREAT FEELING...to save a life !
This looks like an addictive hobby.
Vintage Everyday it’s really fun, I just started filming on my channel and I love getting out there and seeing what I can get
@@k.b.5079 Same here!
DifferentFilms cool! I subscribed to your channel for support
@@k.b.5079 Oh Thanks!
It is, however, waiting long periods of time in between trains is the worst part unless you’re with some friends.
12:28 that is relatable for me. I once went trainspotting with my mom and we came across a railroad crossing and the train was coming and the gates literally went UP. I was confused when that happened and the train was inches away from entering the crossing. We just sat there in confusion and waited for the train to pass cuz we were not taking chances.
In a village near where I live there is a station and directly after it is a railroad crossing. On basically a daily basis this happens:
Train-west comes. Gates go down. Train-east comes. Gates go up when Train-west starts moving, only to close again soon after.
It's an accident waiting to happen 10-22 times each day.
Very wise of you 👌
At 4:58 you see a phone number on the crossing pole. It's there to call the yard office to inform them of a malfunction, vehicle stuck on the tracks etc. It takes a few minutes, but that heads up may save a life.
Good response! And after being reported the train dispatcher/operator will put a crossing malfunction order that will make train crews protect their movement over the crossing until its repaired.
4:50 It's shaking because a GHOST TRAIN is passing thru 😆🤣
You might laugh but I thought the same thing. What's really strange is this video was over and when I just tried to write this it started playing at the exact part of the video where the crossings were shaking. I jumped.
Maybe the arm is shaking b ecause it's really windy?
Usually the crossing guards are set up where there is a sensor on the rails and gates possibly the gates crossing guard was tripped multiple times by something maybe caught on it and blowing in and out of the main sensor on the gate
Andrew King the one off Thomas and friends Timothy
Yeah i think it is a evil 😈 spirit shaking the rail road crossing gates !😱😂🤣💀👹👻🚊🚉🚂🚞®️®️⚠️🛤
Talk about dark train crossing at night, there's one in my area that wasn't guarded by flashers or gates, despite being on a paved rural highway without street lights and with a speed limit of 50 -- which of course in the country means as fast as you can go per driving conditions. Most people take it at 50 or 55, and prudently slowed down before the tracks just in case there was a train ON the crossing, because trains are often delayed on those tracks late at night as they come to the switches a few miles ahead. But one high school boy who hadn't had his license very long did not slow down, and sadly drove into the train at probably 50-60mph. His car caught on fire and he was trapped inside. The young man went to school with my children, but a couple grades ahead. It was awful. His best friend lived at the last house before the tracks and was on his porch when it happened. I don't know if he even knew there was a stopped train. This was long before cell phones, and train cars didn't have reflectors. I remember the times I approached that crossing slowly, which I learned to do when I was still on a permit and had to be with a licensed passenger. My aunt and uncle lived out that way, so they taught me (stick shift standard transmission!). I can remember being shocked at how dark the train was -- there's no way I could've seen it in time to stop if I'd been driving the speed limit. I didn't see it until I was almost on it. There was no noise whatsoever, no whistle because it was stopped. When I came up to those tracks with a train moving across, the only way I knew there was a train was by the flashing of headlights of the cars stopped on the other side of the tracks, which of course was from the train cars blocking the lights and then the lights appearing between the cars. But it the train wasn't moving you couldn't tell anything was there. Finally, a few years ago they added lights and a gate. It had been at least 25 years since that young man was killed. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it. I do know his best friend still has nightmares over it. He had become friends with my son through mutual school friends, and they've kept in touch in the 20 years since my son finished school. He's gone on to be successful in the trades, and has a good head on his shoulders, with a wonderful family that has supported him. Otherwise he might have fallen into drugs and alcohol over it. Thank God his life wasn't destroyed along with the life that was taken, but he'll never be the same, and neither will the victim's parents and brothers and sisters, and everyone who loves him. May he rest in peace, and may his loved ones be comforted by the hope of eternity. He shouldn't have been killed that way. There's just too simple a prevention that isn't all that elaborate or expensive. Such a shame there weren't flashers or gates until now.
...why intelligent drivers LOOK both ways BEFORE crossing a RR track, when the gates and/or lights are NOT in operation!
This is by far my favourite video of your channel
Wow, thanks!
11:36 I’ve never seen that minion before.
Look like minion got a cameo on this video
Broooo🤣
DEAR LORD
Starts play ing dooo dooo dooo dooo dooooooooo dooo
A crossing gate on a car's roof... That's something I've never seen before!
Every barrier arm I see, that's the joke I make about it. Now, that I've seen it actually happen... it makes the joke even more hilarious.
That wasn't a car. That was a bus....
@margalus and a van aka a car lol
To be fair, as a school vehicle even minivans have to stop at level crossings. They buy behind the van sorta boxed them in, another no-no. The pickup is just as at fault. Though the vehicle should have stopped at the line, not past it.
Federico Borluzzi you think that's the only place they get stuck? Well your wrong about that. Sometimes it gets stuck I between a semi cab and the trailer
When a RR crossing works or malfunctions, no matter what a Wild Idiot will magically appear. Its crazy!
Ho/N scale Railfanning hahahah
Weird how you're always there when the gates malfunction, makes me think you're sticking a giant magnet next to the controller box and recording the results 😂
Just like going to the race track expecting a fiery crash
That may be mass murder
Train goes sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh 😂
Instead of hooooooooooooooooooooooonk ! 😖
4:50 thats called gate pumping, where the gate keeps slipping and the motor has to keep pulling it back up
Nah, it's just a nervous gate on it's very first day at a railroad crossing.
Yea I also think it's nervous. Like come on everyone is nervous at their first job. xD
No, that's the wind
always listen to a conductor. they are the people who save your life and tell you to stop at broken crossings. STOP AT THE CROSSINGS. THEY ARE THERE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.
Zinedine Begic fRiCkiN mOrOn
1: A conductor cant legally tell traffic to stop if they do not have to qualifications for it, their is more to controlling traffic than waving your hands.
2: A driver has to slow down at crossings to make sure it is safe, dont get complacent just cause it has a boomgate.
IIGrayfoxII lolnyouve clearly not worked for the railroad. We are trained in stopping traffic at malfunctioning gates as well as operating a train at safe speed limits, normally restricted, when operating on and over them and 2 we are in charge of the train, from
The time I get on, until the time I check off on the EC-1 THAT TRAIN IS FUCKING MINE! Not the engineers
@@DrRichtoffen1 I'm not going to disagree with you because I'm actually curious, but does each railroad company have their own rules or how they do things?
1:37 Train conductor - YOU FRICKEN MORN
ON
Kyza Beazley XDDDDD
Well Puckett. (The name of the lube shop.)
I'm not that nice..
@@midmichiganrr24gp9 More like the cop car was at that repair shop..
If you do not train yourself to drive, you will be "trained" eventually.
Cool pun
Bu dum tsh
Oh god why.
Nice one
5:16 A railroad gate that is anxious for a train to come.
Lol
nah, its got parkinson's
My guess would be that something is jammed in it. If you look... It's not completely stowed away... Not completely upright. The. Motor is trying to lift it up, but can't
@@cfisupply I was gunna r/woosh you but I read the full thing and your fine bud.
Yes
“Thomas, you have caused confusion and delay.”
Boomed the fat controller.
“🚂🚊yes sir,I know sir.”
Said Thomas.
"Luckily no one was hurt"
They're two they're four they're six and eight
Shunting trucks and hauling freight
red and green and brown and blue
they're the really useful crew
All with different roles to play
Round Tidmouth sheds or far away,
Down the hills and round the bends
Thomas and his friends ≣ : ¬ ℩
Everyone needs to read the DMV book again smh
I will never be so much in a hurry that I would “speed” through a train track warning, while a train is coming! Wtf O_o
I love the internets explanation for searching if trains have the right of way:
“trains always have right of way over road vehicles at railway crossings- there are no exceptions. As a motorist, you must yield the right of way or risk paying for the violation with your life.”
Really sounds like some dark souls shit lmao
Hence the reason the tracks are called the right of way... trains ALWAYS have the right of way.
Shark X they’re not wrong 😂😂
I live in Scranton Pennsylvnia, and l get to see diesel trains working at least once a day.
@@MrChopsticktech I would love to see the paper unloading at Dunder Mifflin.
@@Moose803 l don't understand your comment.
1:35 car whizzes past conductor
1:45 Yo cop, didnt u see that.
2:11 ohhhhhh cops getting a tire and lube job
This right here is a prime example of why so many American citizens are killed by trains each year...stupid driving choices and malfunctioning equipment. Really entertaining video as always Mr. Jaw Tooth :)
Thank you!
Canadian Plane Spotter i saw one of yours comments on VASAviation video
Canadian Plane Spotter Because America is the worst place in the world
But...but...I thought if we only spent a billion dollars and installed crossing guards on every single grade crossing in the country, it'd save all of our problems and prevent anyone from ever being killed or injured. You mean to tell me that accidents are actually caused by idiots, regardless of whether there are flashing lights? And that even when there are lights, they can break down (and even worse, because people assume the lights WILL be working, they don't even bother checking when they cross if they don't see flashing lights. We'd almost be better off having lights that always flash UNTIL a train comes....
Canadian Plane Spotter Yeah this shit only happens in America...
Digging that bright shirt in the opening scene! Thank you JT for all the content you provide.
The guy 8:12 : Did you get that?
The guy holding the camera: 👍🏼
i've been taught to not only obey crossing signals but use common sense and look for the train, even if they are messing up and going up and not coming down, etc still look for a train. could save your life.
7:43 Like dude didn't you see the train was coming
At 1mph!
Rightttt
Ikr? Like, that defeats the purpose of the crossing gate
Put like a taser on the crossing so if the car tries to pass the gate it shocks the car and stalls it
I live in a city that gets a lot of passenger trains coming through all day, and I live right against the station. Malfunctioning arms are my biggest fear living less than a football field away from a crossing, though I’ve been fortunate enough to not have anything like that happen in my three years living here.
Stop look and listen
1:39 STOP,you have violated the law. Im sorry i just had to say that. Hahaha
It's been a long time since I've had a good bra (?)
Edit: perhaps it's brawl
For the folks commenting about the van caught by the crossing gate arm, that vehicle had a "school transportation" sign on top. It had to stop at the crossing even though the lights were NOT flashing. When the lights started flashing, it tried to back up but the truck had pulled up to close. Once the truck backed up the van could not because by that time the crossing gate arm was touching the roof. If it had continued to back up the sign would likely been damaged.
Old Ohio Angler did nobody notice the crossing arm on the hood of the bus across the street?
So? Better wreck the sign than risk your life. I saw a video of a 8X8 heavy duty trasport with an excavator on the back destroyed because the idiot got caught under the guards...he could have driven out of there by idling forwards, but he didn't. Stupid. Signs aren't that expensive.
EDIT Though now I watched it, in this case the driver did the right thing. He/she was clearly in no danger provided the train remained on the track. No sense in scratching your paint and damaging your own sign as well as the railroad's when you can just safely wait for the arm to raise again.
"Though now I watched it, in this case the driver did the right thing."
No, the right thing would be to stop at the white line. Then the vehicle wouldn't get hit by the barrier.
I never cease to amazed by people. Excellent video Brian.
I saw this happen once when I was working at the gas station next to the RR crossing, the arms came down but never went back up so people would go around the arms. I called the police and they came and directed traffic until the RR guys could come and fix it. This is why I will not go across without looking both ways first I don't care what other folks are doing. Better to be safe then sorry.
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments about the school van driver (2:34) getting caught by the gate. The driver of this vehicle did the absolute correct thing. The driver pulled up and stopped safely short of the track, as required by law, to look for oncoming trains. It looks as though the view from the stop line was [partially] obstructed, requiring the driver to stop in the location they did. Lo and behold....a train! Instead of trying to "go for it", the driver attempted to reverse, only to be blocked by the #$*@!% in the pick-up truck trying to climb up the van's tailpipe. So it looks like the van driver made a quick assessment, realized the van and occupants were well clear of the track, and simply waited it out. Big thumbs up to the school van driver! And a thumbs up for a good video.
the school van driver did it Wrong! you do not pull up short of the track. you pull up short of the signaling equipment. that is why it is installed WHERE it is, to keep you safe.
They were understandably wary because the crossing was just activated. Due to the train's slow speed, they could have safely proceeded. The crossing still had adequate warning time.
In California if you drive around a lowered RR signal & an Officer observe you,
Not only will he pull you over & give you a ticket, BUT, according to state law
He will confiscate your operators license ON THE SPOT.
!
Arizona, as well. And they're likely to confiscate the CAR too. Of course in Arizona we have lots of California drivers, and we had to enact the "stupid motorist" law, which says that you are responsible for costs of any rescue and recovery, plus fines and court fees, for driving through a normally dry wash (creek) when water is running across the road, and your car washes downstream, or you are trapped.
OURv in CA some drivers are so stupid they put gates all across all lanes when they can, so there's no way to go around.
THAT'S what Wisconsin f***ing needs! There's so many reckless drivers on the roads up here that the whole licensing thing is ONE BIG-ASS JOKE!.
that should happen in all 49 states
GOOD!!!
Good vid! I've seen the crossing gates malfunctioning countless times. I guess overall, they are generally reliable, but with today's technology, wouldn't you think they could devise a more fool-proof, reliable system? And the drivers amaze me - either one extreme or the other, Some want to get past correctly functioning lowering gates, and other people are IN the intersection when they get activated, and are too scared to CLEAR the intersection as soon as they activate - either 'freezing' in place, or trying to back up, haha.
Knock on wood, I've never seen any accidents, and hopefully I never will.
Hi, I love ur vids
ive honestly never seen one malfunction here in australia, they all have triple redundancy, so if they do fail they shut just in case. idiots here still go thru them as well.
I've seen it happen, but it is rare. I'm in Gippsland. Level crossing faults on the line here caused trains to be replaced by buses for 9 months apparently due to rust on the rails. Took that long for them to source a suitable rail grinder.
They could be more fool-proof and reliable IF the railroads considered crossings as anything more than a nuisance they'd rather not have to spend any money on. They could also implement telemetry to the crossing equipment so they could get notification of malfunctions. I suppose the problem with this is (1) it costs money and (2) there would be an electronic record that a problem was detected and left uncorrected, something a railroad definitely does not want since it could be used against them in court if the problem resulted in an accident.
BaltimoreAndOhioRR Hey Dave! (right?)
9:25 I believe the camera's recording settings were the reason the lights appear to go off, then back on (the effects do not apply in-person). In fact, here's a video explaining why that happens. th-cam.com/video/wSXqX55R1Gc/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, I learned that after i made the video. I can actually see it on my camera now when I film
That's why it's best to slow down and yield at every railroad crossing even when the lights are not flashing. Because anything man make will break.
The one near says stop if lien for red get to it
It’s amazing how many malfunctioning crossing gates you encounter. You should be a roving troubleshooter for the railroad! Gates typically have an 800 number you can call to let the railroad know if one isn’t working. I’m not sure about smaller roads but the Class 1s like CSX and NS certainly do.
daf827 a troubleshooter? Just because you can video a crossing “malfunctioning”
Doesn’t mean you know why or how to fix it.
@@kaseyaldrich4746 Railroad's encourage you to report railroad crossing malfunctions, hence the 800 phone numbers. You don't need to trouble shoot for them. Just let them know what is happening. They will send out a Signal Maintainer to trouble shoot and repair. I know because I used to be a Communications Coordinator for a major railroad and called out Signal Maintainer's.
Fantazier1 if you go back and read what I said, I was simply saying that just because someone can video a crossing (as the person who posted this did) does NOT make a you a “troubleshooter”. So I don’t exactly understand where your comment is coming from.
HOWEVER, I know exactly how it works, since I myself am a maintainer, so I’m well aware of what happens, as well as well aware of what happens when people think they’re maintainers because they can record a crossing.
@@kaseyaldrich4746 I guess I don't understand what you were trying to convey. I do not see him as a "Troubleshooter". I see him as a person discovering malfunctions that should be reported to the railroads in question. That is all I was trying to convey.
Fantazier1 as I said, take a second and read the post from the gentleman that I was responding to. He himself said “ you should be a roving troubleshooter for the railroads” in which he was referring to the gentleman that posted said video. which is what I was referring to, simply starting that just because he can record a video and make a call (if he did) doesn’t mean he’s troubleshooting or that he’s capable of doing such.
You really have these kind of people in the USA? Here in Poland the trains pass by the gates at like 100KMH+ (60MPH+) and the drivers barely ever even think about such stupid ideas.
David Szumski same in the Netherlands
Tak
This is a video about malfunctioning railroad crossings, when they are going slow they may have just left a train lot thing (I don’t know, just guessing, correct me if I’m wrong please).
David Szumski hello fellow Roblox player
In some places in America (like where I live) trains don't go fast. We get trains daily because of the neighbor city with a busy port.
20-years ago, I worked for a Class 1 Railroad, & I routinely saw all sorts of vehicles, which went around 'downed' gates, with an approaching train. Even school buses did, & the local police did nothing. Scary stuff.
Yeah bro I ain't sitting at the crossing for 20 minutes when your train is standing still 50 feet away.
@@OGTH-camEnjoyer you deserve anything bad that happens
Which railroad might I ask.
@@CheeseMiser Oh yeah that train that is 50 feet away that isn't moving is totally going to get me 🤣🤣lmao dumb ass kids.
Why don't the gates cover the entire width of the road on each side of the track?
4:56 imagine it started lowering and hit his head **OOF**
I've actually seen that third clip happen in real life before. Scary thing about it was that it was on the BNSF Speedway in Hinsdale, so we ended up finding somewhere else to cross in case something was dangerously wrong with it.
Thing is, it wasn't just shaking. It was moving from straight up to around 10 degrees out and back again repeatedly.
VestedUTuber usually means there’s a problem in the gate mech. BUT as soon as someone calls in and reports a problem at the crossing, a crossing protection order is placed on the crossing and train crews are prepared to stop and protect the crossing as well as running at a restricted speed
4:44 It’s his first day on the job and he’s nervous. Don’t get mad at him
What is wrong with these people. What if you have kids in the car. No where is that important you get there when you get there.
It's called "impatience". There is one gate crossing that was notorious for breaking down - VA-55 in Marshall (yes - it broke back before I-66 was built through that area).
True but something like an emergency vehicle, I can understand them wanting to rush through. Otherwise there is no exscuse
Impatient, immature, selfish people do that.
"Stop, stop, stop" went the traffic,
"Ding, ding, ding" went the bell,
"Chug, chug, chug" went the engine;
When the bus came, the crossing gate fell...
White Van: *going across tracks* wow it’s a very beautiful day tod- OMG THERES A TRAIN! BACK UP BACK UP!
Signal 1: wakes up* wha- huh!? What do you mean there’s a tr- OMG THERES A TRAIN! BROTHER WAKE UP WE NEED TO DO THE THING.
Signal 2: *Slowly Waking* uggh do we have too?
Signal 1: YEEEEESSSSS
(Signal Bells Go Off)
White Van: HEY TRUCK BACK UP
Truck: OMG OK
(Backing up)
Signal 1: MY ARM WONT GO DOWN!
School Bus: OMG WHAT HAPPENING OVER THERE
(Signal arms go down)
Truck: OMG UR GONNA GET HIT
(Arm hits white van)
White Van: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFF
School bus: Lol
Train: hey sup guys how’s it go- OMG WHAT HAPPEN
Signal 2: Long story
White van: AHHH MY HEAD
Train: Signal 1 I blame This on u.
Signal 1: OMG MY ARM WONY GO UP
white van: AHHHHH
signal 1: nvm there it goes
Everyone breaths a sigh of a relief
Signal 1: sorry for the commotion everyone.
White Van: Aaaaannndddd?
Signal 1: and sorry for hitting ur head.
White van: that’s better
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This actually happened to me in a tiny Honda convertible (in Japan), it was surrealistic, I was like, my car didn't just died on the track with a train coming! I stayed with it for a couple of seconds, and it miraculously started... just in time.
Thank you for sharing. Watching trains crossing roads in the US is so much more exciting than here in Northern Europe. Not in my entire life will I have witnessed as many of these episodes in real life as you showed us here. So boring, but so much safer here.
How are you defining safety? Total numbers of injuries? Crossing reliability? Sound of crossing alarm? A more useful percentage of population, possibly including number of crossings per injury?
@@AndrooUK Number of crossings in general. Most of our crossings have been replaced by bridges or viaducts.
@@AndrooUK Only few crossings, almost no busy crossings, because the busy crossings are the first ones to be replaced by bridges or viaducts. So if you are a busy driver in northern Europe, driving on main routes, you will almost never have to cross rail tracks.
@@AndrooUK As a result of this European passenger trains can go faster and don't have to sound horns and bells all the time. That is nice for people living close to rail tracks, especially at electrified routes, and for people sleeping in night trains.
I just wanted to yell at them "STOP GOING AROUND THE GATE! IT'S THERE TO PROTECT YOU!!"
I have seen lightning hit the tracks and set the crossing lights off. Happened in Loveland many years ago while I was sitting in my car at a red light facing the tracks during a thunderstorm.
Wow, I never heard of that happening before. That's pretty cool. A few weeks ago after a big storm, the crossing was messing up at Macon and another near Milford. Hope your having fun in Pennsylvania!
This reminds me of a game they used to have on a local radio station: Can you beat the [name of local transport] train? It was something like you call in and choose if you want to try beating the train, you got something like $50 if you said you would wait, and $100 if you successfully beat the train. They said before and after every game “You can never beat the train!” and you never would. The whole point was to raise awareness about not trying to cross the tracks when a train was coming. I think it started after a few people got hit doing it. People still tried it all the time though. So reminder: “You can NEVER beat the train!”
If a conductor tells traffic to halt then he's got a damn good reason, I've seen too many stories of people or cars getting destroyed cause they either lack common sense at the railway crossing or just being plain knuckleheads!
A driver might just see some weird guy in a high-vis jacket telling him to stop, and not seeing what's happening.
Is it so unreasonable for a driver to just carry on with concern that it might be a highjacking or somesuch, or just some douchey truck doing a turn or reverse?
It's not like there's a national or international clothing standard for conductors...
@@AndrooUK There's also a train standing half on the crossing which obviously failed, but yes, a hijacking would be much more likely than an employee trying to stop you from hitting or being hit by a train.
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The shaking one - My guess is there's probably a mechanism in there that locks it in the 'up' position, and a switch that senses when it is not in the 'up' position. One or both of these were malfunctioning.
Boggy you see the trees in the background shaking as well, from the wind. I was gonna be a smart ass, but just decided for the obvious answer and to be nice. There's enough hate on here without me adding fuel to the fire. It's swaying in the wind the same as the trees. The other gate isn't in the wind and blocked from it. You can kinda hear the wind in the microphone.
Yo Spaz, you have no clue. It's just a limit switch in need of adjustment.
Atleast with the ones I've worked on theres a solenoid that holds the boom up when the motors disengaged, if the solenoid isn't engaging for what ever reason you get this shaking as the boom goes high enough to turn the motor off then falls back down to where the motor turns on and lifts it again. It happens fast enough you get that shuddering.
I would say the pickup coil in the hold clear mechanism is bad. When the xing clears, the motor is energized and starts the gate up. At the same time the pickup coil on the hold clear mechanism is energized and sucks ( I'll call it a flapper) a flapper in to both the pickup and hold coils. The flapper has a part on it called a barrel (its barrel shaped) or a small metal block on it, depends on the model of the gate mech or manufacturer. On one end of the motor there's a ratchet gear and the barrel or block will lock between to teeth on it. When the gate reaches vertical the hold coil is energized and the pickup coil deenergized. The hold coil stays energized keeping the flapper in and the barrel or block against the ratchet wheel not allowing the gate to fall. If the hold coil is bad the gate will fall until the drive up contact closes , only a few degrees. Then the gate drives back up and repeats until the maintainer changes the hold clear out or moves one wire allowing the pickup coil to hold the gate up but that is just a temp fix until he can locate a new hold clear mechanism.
You are correct, Boggy. Inside, there is a device called a "hold clear". It is a ratchet-pawl type of device that when energized, engages to hold the crossing gate up. When the little teeth get worn, you see the pumping action of the gate as the ratchet-pawl keeps slipping. It's not an uncommon problem on older generation gate mechs. Newer generation gate mechs have an electromagnetic brake type mechanism that holds the gate up while no trains are present.
I like your videos it brings awareness to people driving especially about the trains I love that
Thank you very much! I like your last name since I share the same last name. lol
Conductor flagging the traffic to stop might do better if he had a bright red or fluorescent flag in his hand. All he had was black gloves. He must've forgot to bring a flag.
Not required in Canada.
Or maybe that cop could have gotten and stopped traffic.
The cop car was at that mechanic shop to be serviced. There was probably no cop there.
@Allen A pretty sure a cop would need to be present for a cop car being serviced I mean they could put a bomb in it for all they know.
Pepsi Man, you think a cop sits at the mechanic shop the whole time his car being worked on, what you think they police don't have anything better to do? At any rate invade you were wondering, they don't.
also did u know where i live, one of the cities next to it, has banned the train horn when crossing? yeah. Because people are complaining about how loud it is at all hours of the night. I think its stupid, really. Trains sound their horn to let people know they're coming thru.
The same by me, rails were there 100 years before those condos
Where I live is next to court house and it's really funny in the court room. Books fall , horn blasting, building shakes , funny to say the least
Actually if you need to here the train horn through the crossing u shouldn't be driving. You are blind not to see this huge train crossing in front of you.
Christopher Ryan exactly same with me I hate it
Mike Jones. We had a truck driver who killed quite a few and injured perhaps 100. His defence was successful. "I didn't see the 1500 W of flashing red lights. I didn't hear the bells ringing. I didn't notice the other vehicles that were stopped waiting for the train. I didn't see the 1000 Tonne train approaching and I didn't hear the horn being sounded by a panicked train driver." "That's OK then... NOT GUILTY... Next case".
9:25 Dammm that was dangerous, I bet some people would have went through it thinking it malfunctioned, and that train wouldn't stop in time it was going so fast :O
I don't know if its where I live, but these trains are going really slow
thats not true, that crossing "Malfunction" happened because of the cameras frame rate
That's a mode on the lights, some eco thing I forgot, I think to save energy
nope
Okin Productions hope, it’s the cameras frame rate, in real life they work
4:44 I’m pretty sure the reason it’s shaking is because it’s not all the way up and in the catcher thing, which I think is the metal part next to the first “A” in “Railroad” on the sign, so since it’s not secured it’s being blown around and shaken by the wind
When I was in Germany there were two lane barriers and below there was a fence. They also pass at 60-70km/h in suburban areas.
It never ceases to amaze me just how careless American drivers can be when it comes to railway crossings. I don't think I'd have the nerves to drive around a lowered crossing gate..
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SouthWestNS Productions ok not all Americans do this it about a 20%-30% of people that do this and most of the time there drunk.
No one should drive around a lowered crossing gate at all. You could get killed.
It's not just America. It happens here in New Zealand too. Take a look at this: th-cam.com/video/PrE-GUcLYeQ/w-d-xo.html
Happens in all countries. Quit picking on Americans.
NS crew: just blast the horn and that idiot in the van will back up.
*Blasts horn loudly*
Van driver: I'm gonna be deaf from those jerks.. *gets caught under the crossing arm*
NS crew: That'll show you for sticking your bumper where it shouldn't be.
Van driver: *looks back at all the traffic behind* Well this is embarrassing...
People better stop disregarding them stop signals and gates! This is just plain stupidity! Good way to get them selves killed! Anyway this was a really good one Jaw Tooth! It definitely was funny when one of them conducts yelled at the people in the car. Looks like you have a lot of fun doing these videos Jaw Tooth! This is a little different, but that makes it very interesting and unique to watch! Every video you do is outstanding Jaw Tooth! That should make more people want to watch! One more thing is the railroad maintenance crew needs to keep them signals and lights working at all TIMES! Don't need lawsuits against them or lives taken either
How many of you have noticed Millenniumforce?
He is a close friend of mine. We railfan all over the place together. He is in a ton of my videos since my mom lives near him
What? That he's kind of a tool?
omg tht from cedar point lol
It’s pretty scary when profit overrides human life. Thankfully these trains stop to make sure roads are clear. I enjoy your videos and will be subscribing. Thanks for the great videos.
Just stand there and keep holding that poll up for us, we'll have a guy down there in about a week or so
This video never gets old 😂😂😂
This was the first video I’ve ever watched on your channel
Another great video 👍👍👍
Now that I have to get around on a power chair, I often have to use crosswalks. I’ve always thought it’s pretty easy to understand that you’re (driver) supposed to stop at the solid white line before the crosswalk, not right over the crosswalk, but a lot of people don’t.
Train horn heard, train comes - at walking pace and it’s one engine only. Seems overly dramatic lol
Yeah until someone gets ran over by it
That was a great westbound shot Brian and a very professionally shot episode ....as usual. Were there two engineers involved .
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Looks like a Driver Education Video. "Cool"
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Thank you Gary!
Great video, well done!
Thank you!
here in belgium, if you pass a railroad crossing while it's flashing/ringing, even by foot, you automatically lose your driving licence(s) and risk several fines
I've never seen a train track that runs right down the middle of a street.... much less right in the downtown of the little town. Weird.
And that's why you always check left and right just in case.
7:27 "no defects" Well, aside from the brains of those drivers.
Train:*horns* subtitles: *[laughter]*
Bro which part
i love your videos they are so cool keep up the good work!!!
Thank you so much!
I am old enough to remember when the automatic crossing gates were first installed.
Before that, all gates were lowered manually by someone stationed at them full time. There were also roads and some city streets that crossed busy railroads that had no gates and you had to look for a train coming in either direction . Now drivers want others to do their diving and thinking for them. The dumb down of society continues .
Several years ago, I came up to a crossing where the gates were down and the lights were flashing. I waited and waited and waited and no train ever showed up. Finally, while looking in both directions, I just drove around the gates. Never did see a train.
Red 13 google maps did that once for the same reason
I think that one crossing gate on the third clip developed a nervous twitch from dealing with too many close calls with drivers.
I've seen that one railroad signal that's shaking mentioned on a paranormal show and the crossing is alleged to be haunted.
In spite of no wind or seismic activity in the area and a full inspection of the signal no explanation for the shaking was found, it's said that the shaking signal had malfunctioned and resulted in a fatal accident involving a vehicle being struck by the train and the impacted vehicle came to rest up against the signal.
Of course it's an interesting legend behind the cause of the shaking as though the ghost of a driver is angry and venting frustration at the signal.
Roy Cathcart Jr ha ha. Haunted barrier. Some folk will dream up anything, I think it’s just fxxked and they can’t find the fault with the motors or controllers lol. Maybe they should change it lol? I’ve seen twitching barriers here in the uk and they’re not haunted. Just bust lol
As an old cockney halfwit tube driver I just love the sound of the horns and bells of the United states railways....I cant imagine anything that signifies USA more accurately..all the best from uk...
I live in Germany and here it almost never happens that people go over the tracks when the lights are on. Might be because the trains keep their speed and usually we have fully closing gates.
Also, Germany has much fewer crossings, and the trains are never as long, and Germans are programmed robots when it comes to laws and just doing what they're told by the Government, even if it totally sucks?
@@AndrooUK Oh yes, the Land of the Free where red lights and gates that are there to prevent you from a tragic accident are considered a mere suggestion because freedom.
Generally, it seems that many people there are lacking a fair bit of common sense when it comes to the prevention of potentially life-threatening situations because you have the freedom to have yourself killed in an unnecessary way.
Hopefully you got a clear video of the license plate of those terrible drivers
Blimey, seems like US train drivers are too soft at railroad crossings slowing down for idiots who can't obey simple rules.
You need to have a look at European crossings... once the lights & klaxons come on and the gates go down, that's it, no second chances - the train's coming through at FULL speed!!!
Probably no need to point out a train at 60-90mph vs a car/pedestrian isn't going to be a pretty sight..... :-(
Most areas in the states it is like that here too. But these have all been in areas where the speed limits are low
Please don't lump Europe as one single entity. Its made up of many different countries with their own railways and their own rules and regulations. In the UK, if a crossing is faulty then trains are cautioned. We do not send trains through at full speed if barriers or lights are not working or half barrier crossings that have been lowered too long.
@@worldwide8553 Very well said !!
Hilarious opening, Jaw Tooth! Great video.
Thank you! 😁
No wonder they don't work, most of that crossing equipment looks like it hasn't been serviced since 1951.
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