Oh Boy! Here Comes the NYC Heritage Unit! oh......, oh no................
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- February 7th, 2024 10:32am
Versailles, Ohio
State Route 47 ( West Crossing )
Everyone is okay, driver of the semi, Aswell as passenger both made it out in time before the impact, The Crew of M331-05 are shaken up, but they are also okay, definitely a scary incident, that honestly could've been avoided, stay safe out on the rails, and always watch out for events like this, I ended the video before an Eastbound i008 made it to the scene too, if possible, be on the same side of the crossing as the train so that way you wont be in the debris field like I was. Nothing struck me and I am okay, as I took cover behind my car, but you cant ever expect these things to happen, always stay aware of your surrounds, and stay safe out there my fellow foamers.
CSX 5267 Leading
CSX 1853 Trailing
CSX 3425 Trailing
Did he really think its a better idea to let a train ruin that truck over just backing out and damaging the breakaway signal? This guy is a genius
The damage to the grab irons on the locomotive is probably more expensive to repair than a breakaway crossing gate.
@@Lockbox45 Kill? Come on, backing two meters and he'd be OK - at this distance he might indeed crush a stubborn car, not reacting to white lights going on on the trailer, but hardly to a degree of killing anyone. Besides, there are heavy slabs at the height of car bumper back there, aren't they? So the cabin would be safe, crush zone would work.
@@pawepluta4883what white lights? They’re all red.
It’s a Freightliner, already ruined. Looks better now.
@@relic2279 I got an even more pro tip for semi drivers: Obey the fucking signals! Just because the other semi-idiot ignored the flashing lights and bells and got away with it, it doesnt mean you should do the same.
Only about 30 minutes from my house.
It baffles me that when this happens, they always seem to think the breakaway signal arms are more important than a freaking semi and train. Just back the truck up.
Agreed the government has enough money to fix the signal
@@Thatfarmkid4840 Theyll probably make him pay for it, but its still going to be WAAAAY cheaper than a new tractor and paying for the damage to the trailer and locomotive. And the government wouldnt pay for it anyway, the railroad would.
Most people don't know the barriers are plastic and breakaway. That knowledge is basically limited to railroaders and railfans. The average Joe thinks the gates are magical immovable objects.
In reality they're a warning, NOT a barrier.
Actually they’re most likely aluminum as plastics often get brittle and weathered due to exposure, but still, point taken. Genius should have backed out while he had a chance but he didn’t. Oh well.
Common sense says BACK UP !! So what if you do a little front end damage to the car that's behind you !!
It's better than this outcome. Jesus !!
Locomotive engineer here. It's best to not cross once the signals have been activated. But I understand sometimes trucks get into tight situations through no particular fault of the driver. If that happens, don't worry about breaking the gate arm, IF you are already in motion and can finish crossing in time. Otherwise, just get clear. The gate arm will either break off, or it will pivot perpendicular to the track, and I will finish the job when I get there. I much prefer hitting gate arms than vehicles.
Would you like to explain why this train never even slowed down…even after striking the truck? My guess is that having had such a dull career for so long, he decided to teach truck drivers a lesson!
@@christopherp.hitchens3902Long train, long train air line. It takes a while for the air reduction to propagate all the way down the 2 miles of train cars
There's a shit load of mass and not much friction. A semi's cabin is one of the heaviest things on the road at about 5 tons. A train engine alone (the front most cabin before any linkages) is going to be *at least* 200 tons, plus thousands and thousands of more when you start adding up the freight it's hauling. All that mass is hard to accelerate and decelerate, and while you can theoretically just keep making a bigger and bigger engine, there aren't many ways to stop a 6,000 ton train at any good rate without having a catastrophic failure.
@@christopherp.hitchens3902 you really did not think your comment through, do you have any idea how heavy trains are, those things make main battle tanks look light and they travel at highway speeds, you do not just hit the brakes, that thing will take literally miles of travel gradually slowing down in order to halt.
@@TS-jm7jm - You are hoping to share more of your knowledge than to inquire about any of mine. OF
COURSE a heavily laden cargo train can’t stop on a dime anymore than a cargo ship. Still, one gets the feeling this train is still out there somewhere, traveling at the same speed, having never bothered to even to try to slow down. If there had been fatalities he would’ve needed to be questioned…even if it was not his fault.
0:41 "It was, at that moment, that Earl realized he was unemployed." /Morgan Freeman voice
"And that he just bought half a semi"
"Unemployed" would be the least of his problems if I owned the truck. I would be suing him for every penny, railroad company too for the damage to the signals. I'm guessing there would have been little if any damage to the train.
Thank you so much x3
Earl?! You mean Sanchez
@@MoneyRussian Exactly
My brother in law is a train engineer. He hit a car that was on the tracks with nobody inside once. He said it's like kicking a can. There was little to no impact felt in the cab.
I'm glad no one was in the car.
probably same with hitting the semi the engineer and conductor likely felt nothing in the cab
Probably the only time you would feel it is if the train derails. That's my biggest fear when it comes to car versus train. It's happened before, and sometimes they can be a major tragedy, such as Metrolink #100 in 2005 within Glendale, CA.
they might not have felt it but they definetly heard it.
I agree with your brother-in-law. It's like hitting a raccoon with your car. You feel a bump and hear the impact.
I drove semi's for 17 years and this happened to me on my second year. The Arm came down in between the truck and trailer. I backed up and broke the arm off and then called the number on the crossing light. Police and CSX came out and I told them what happened. CSX put a new rail up before I even got done talking to the police.
And you my friend have the now seemingly rare ability to prioritize potential outcomes and select the one of least consequence unlike the fool responsible for that truck.
@@GoatsAndChickens123 It's called common sense. If you sit on train tracks a train will come, lol.
You know that when the dingy dingy sound and the flashing lights start up, the arms come down shortly after, and you need to stop, right?
I would not admit this…..
That’s because you passed the basic IQ test. The driver in this video did not.😢
For a moment I was worried that guy wasn't going to actually get away from that tractor in time. He tried to go through the crossing even with the warning lights on...definitely a bad decision.
Indeed. But I'll admit the fact that the driver did not hesitate to leave the truck was an obviously smart call!!!
The gate came down betw the tractor and trailer. He should've backed up anyway and worried about a busted crossing gate later than total the semi!
@@b3j8 think im smelling some insurance fraud...
tho im not sure how that would work out
It’s a truck not a tractor?
@@caderamsey8878It's called a tractor-trailer; the truck part is the tractor.
The guy in the cement truck started backing up at 0:34. I'm glad he didn't get hit. Also, I heard somewhere to crack a window at a crossing just to be sure you hear.
Thats why school busses stop before the track even when the gates not coming down. Safety first
That is a good idea, but even that doesn't always work. A friend of mine's cousin (truck driver) was killed by a train in 1982. Witnesses saw him stop the truck short of the crossing, and open the truck door to listen for a train. Apparently he did not hear the train coming, because he pulled forward, and was killed. (The train was invisible to him because of a big snow drift.) Even when you are careful you can still get unlucky.
The truck that was hit was a rental. The cement truck was --probably a professional's own rig.-- presumably driven by a professional with a CDL.
And school buses open the door for a few seconds to listen.
Stop listen and look at train crossings anywhere. No reason to get smeared across the ground.
What a generous truck driver. To try and save the barrier rather than the truck itself. What a hero!
I have a feeling the barrier got broken also before it was all over.
Why is everybody obsessed with the idea that he didn't want to damage the crossing gate? More likely, he didn't want to reverse into the car behind him...
@@beeble2003 there was no vehicles behind according to some sources. Also video shows driver more worried about the gate arm then they are of looking for cars in the rear.
the gate got destroyed when the semi got yeeted by the locomotive anyway
@@wolf2179 And if it does, the risk of seriously injuring someone in the car behind it is relatively low, as it only backs up slowly and by a few feets.
When breaking a $900 gate arm is completely out of the question, but destroying a $280,000 rig is okay. A real Einstein.
Might have been a car behind the truck.
A very smashable car.
Don't worry, that is NOT a $280K rig lol....just another throw away line truck, and the guy will lose his license and his job but prolly did the company a favor.
Didn’t even have to risk breaking the gate arm if he was paying attention to what was going on further than 3 feet in front of him. That’s what the lights are for
That truck was in actuality probably worth about 70k at most
Love the truck driver just casually getting out of the cab and peeking between the truck and trailer like he has all the time in the world... until he realized, "Oh, right... train coming!"
He saw the air line for the trailer brakes had been knocked off by the gate arm, with no air to the trailer brakes, it cant be moved.
Yeah, it was amazing. I was trying to decide first time through if it was cgi or staged or something. He was very casual, standing by his cab, the debris conveniently splashed over an empty section of parking lot, no other people in the way, camera in the perfect spot, and no sign of brakes before, during, or after. It took a replay for me to listen past the vocal commentary to hear the increasingly frantic train horn before the collision.
@@paulsmith5398 He sure took his time though.
@@PowerTrain611 yep, when he saw the air line was knocked off, he knew the tractor was S O L. Some years ago, i was a school bus monitor, on a take-home route we pulled up to a RR Xing, and did the required stop. As the driver started to cross the track, the crossing signals activated, and the arm got caught in a mirror on the front of the bus. Within seconds, here came Amtrak around a curve heading north, and picking up speed. I had a bright orange jacket on and wanted to try flagging the train to stop, but it was coming too fast. There were 6 or 7 kids on the bus, and fortunately all were in the back. What saved us from getting hit was the bus was a flat nosed one, but it was still too close for my comfort, maybe 12-18 inches. After Amtrak got out of the Xing and the gates started back up, the driver nudged the bus backwards, the gate popped free of the mirror, and we took those kids home no worse for wear. We were supposed to fill out an incident report, but the driver didnt want to get his @$$ in trouble, and that was that. Since it was close to the end of the school year, he retired, and moved to Texas when school was out.
@@paulsmith5398 Thank you for this comment. Are you sure? Would be the best explanation why he didn't back up.
I think he saw his fellow rig getting a free pass in the other direction and felt emboldened to “beat” the gate like a traffic light. It’s funny how quickly you see him regret the impulse lol
Crazy this is, he would have made it through if he'd just kept going forwards and sacrificed the gate. Though reversing would obviously be the smarter option
The other lorry was (albeit just) on the crossing when the warning bells sounded. Whereas the other truck hadn't even entered the frame.
Pay attention people. I was an engineer on the railway before I retired. That train was in emergency. Which is the strongest break that train can apply. And that's how long it takes to slow down. I don't think people realize it takes a loaded Coal train, with 112 cars 7,000 ft. Long, going 50 mph... A mile and a half to stop...
Well said. Maybe people have been exposed to too many old movies where the steam train driver sees the tree dumped on the line by the bad guys and manages to stop the train with the cowcatcher just inches from the obstruction. Wouldn't happen even then and certainly not now...
they can't even comprehend stopping a truck let alone a train, they think everything can just dead stop like the bike they had as a child.
So how did Spider-Man stop the train with his webs?
@@blackspiderman1887 - Don't believe all that hype about Spiderman. They say he does whatever a spider can, but he can't even fit inside the wing mirror on my car - pretty basic spider stuff if you ask me.
@@blackspiderman1887 lol. 🤔 Well.. you got me there.
Man, those things aren't cheap. Completely destroyed that perfectly good railroad crossing signal barrier.
A human life is way more valuable. You don't want the train engineers to die or get hurt, do you? My god, some people are so fn stupid...
Edit: sorry, didn't realize this was sarcasm
I know it's sarcasm but I'll reiterate it every time: those barriers are designed to pop off in case stuff like this happens. You can in fact break off a train barrier with your hands very easily.
If you're stuck between a barrier, never hesitate to break it and GTFO. Saves your car, the train, and life.
@@thefalselemon579I can't tell if you can't see the sarcasm, or if you are pulling next level sarcasm yourself...
@@doubleddrames8336 Okay yeah this one's on me, sorry. Did not realize it was sarcasm.
Sarcasm is my second language, and I literally laughed out loud! 😂
The horn from the train sounds like it's virtually pleading with him to get out of the way!
I love how the driver keeps blowing the horn after the collision, as if to say, "You stupid bastard!"
@@gunproofgrandad4381 More like "This is me blowing the horn see? I'm complying with the rules, you can't find me at fault!"
@@gunproofgrandad4381😂
Stupidity is eternal...😆.
@michlo3393 With everybody suing everyone and their mother nowadays it makes sense😂
I'm new to being a truck driver, but first thought I had was maybe the crossing gate messed with the air supply to the trailer, however that,s not true since you can hear him dump the air right before he bails out. Just to cover that if anyone is wondering, since that was the first thing that came to mind, but that's not the case.
What does dumping the air do, and why is there an air supply to begin with?
I was also wondering if he was unable to back up for some reason.
@@ssnowstarr4985 Air brakes on commercial trucks are locked as their default. Big springs keep the brakes applied. When you want to move, you push in a valve on the dash to supply air pressure to the brakes. That air fills a chamber, compresses the springs an releases the brakes. If the line gets cut, or you pull out that valve, the air gets dumped an the brakes lock back up. Works the same on trains. Its a safety feature.
@@RebelCowboysRVsthis isn't true
@@Adam-hp5hj LoL. This should be good. Care to explain how airbrakes work for us.
What boggles my mind is that I thought it was going to be the first truck that got stuck, and that driver just barely made it off before the gate came down on the trailer. So to drive through when the gate was already lowering, let alone the whole bit about the cost of a gate vs. a truck, just baffles me.
Follow the leader syndrome. Yesterday I watched about a dozen old guys on Harleys make a grand, sweeping left off the highway into a truckstop. There was oncoming traffic traveling at 70 that had to stop, like it was a traffic light, and WAIT for this grand parade of oblivious old farts heading for their biscuits and gravy.
Reminds me a bit of when I speed up to make a yellow light and think, whew that was close! Only to realize two damn cars came through behind me lol
He probably did it because the other truck also did. But then again, the train bells did not begin ringing while the first guy was entering. So, the first guy was innocent (when he was entering, there were no signs of a train coming).
A part of the problem is twofold. First, this is probably not the first time these truckers have done something like that. Second, many people have a false sense of complacency, they think these types of things only happen to other people.
Everyone has a cell phone... They usually explain the unexplainable accidents.
This is a perfect example of why to run in the direction the train is coming from. That debris is crazy.
Unless it derails…
@Monitor_95687
Do you *not* have an escape plan for any and every possible (even if improbable) disaster? Is that what it's like to *not* have anxiety??
@Monitor_95687 it's like a shotgun blast once it collides. It's best to run in the direction the train is approaching from, to prevent getting shredded by shrapnel
"This is a perfect example of why to run in the direction the train is coming from" so should I run towards the train or what?
@MystiC71038 basically. Like if you're nearby and see an imminent collision, run in the direction the train is coming from. Not literally run on the tracks directly toward the train
This perfect. No screaming, no moving the camera. Very professional. Good work!
Yeah, usually these videos have a rainbow of colorful words and look like they were filmed inside a washing machine
This guy was set for a clean shot on his tripod, whereas many of those videos where someone catches a truck getting hit by a train were filmed with a phone. The odds of this happening in front of a person filming the crossing are kind of insane.
@@joneau261 Yeah...only way I can see that staying still is on a tripod. If I saw that happening I'd be GTFO running away for fear of being hit by the debris.
Must've been Screaming Womans day off.
Did manage the typical American repetition of "Oh my god." though.
I can't believe such an unbelievable crash was captured on video.
I thought the truck driver was stuck for a second, but noticed the rail came down on his truck, it's easy to back out and break the rail as opposed to having a train demolish his truck, with that said, I guess the driver didn't think of doing so at the time.
Thank God, no one was injured or hurt.
I love how the cement truck driver on the other side of the road once he sees the truck driver get out of the cab starts backing away slowly, bro was like "I wasn't here"
He knew there'd be shrapnel and wanted no part of it.
Dude was like, "i just gotta get this cement to the job site before it sets."
@@DESTRUCT0NAT0R This. "I don't want to be anywhere near what's about to happen"
Good drivers don't put themselves or their vehicles in harms way!
Same the semi driver didn't have half the observational skills.
What do they say? Hard to fix stupid. Those lights were flashing before those gates came down.
@@SatoshiARseriously? he was either talking to the passenger (read the description) or he was trying to gauge if he had time to unhook and save his rig. he made a bad choice but do you just think he has no brain cells at all?
@@mattyice2889 i said nothing of the sort, maybe you shouldn't assume
You can't fix stupid.
Yeah, and actually it was two semis breaking the law, the one coming the other direction ignored the bells and lights too!
@@MrEricmoparRewind and watch the video again. That first semi was already _on_ the tracks by the time the lights and bell started going. The camera could hear the train’s whistle from outside with a direct line of sight to it but that doesn’t mean the driver of the first semi could. He didn’t break any laws other than it’s sensible to stop and check the tracks before crossing them when you’re hauling a load.
Watch across the street. The cement truck driver sees what’s coming, and nopes-the-fuck out!
OMG I saw that hahaha
At least that driver has common sense
Lol
Dude in the cement truck was like, nah, I have expensive concrete to pour.
If the driver of the concrete mixer seen the train as the flashing lights and gate arm came down when they hope there wasn't traffic before backing up when the other trucker had to abandon the rig partly blocking the crossing when as the NYC heritage unit was trailing when only the tractor was hit.
The lights and bells had been going for 10 seconds before the fool rolled onto the crossing, utterly inexcusable stupidity
Maybe he was on his phone?
Apparently the train engineer didn't apply the emergency brakes. (Yes, I know that wouldn't have avoided the collision, but anyways, if he had applied the brakes the train should have stopped not long after hitting the truck)
@@User-jr7vf so what would have the emergency breaks helped then? 😅
Wow. This guy's problem solving skills are off the charts.
Let's just thank our lucky stars, that this dude didn't become a defense analyst lmao
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...in the wrong direction, but definitely off the charts.
@@quinn-tessential3232
CEO: "Wow! That's an impressive performance!"
Aide: "Sir, you have got the graph upside down"
CEO: oh...
I mean, I think most people would’ve panicked just as badly if not more with a train barreling towards them, so nobody would be thinking clearly and most would probably make stupid decisions. That being said, I’d also LIKE to think most people wouldn’t have wound up in that spot to begin with.
Well this is the best grand showing of any Heritage Unit on youtube
That's how you make an entrance! Set the bar high on beating that intro no doubt.
My father worked for the railroad. He told me to ALWAYS look both ways before crossing a railroad track. He knew that sometimes the crossing gates don't activate and sometimes there aren't any.
Look both ways then look both ways again.
In most cases they work and sometimes there are only stupid truck-drivers who want to go through although the red lights are flashing and the barriers come down!
Buses is my area have a sign on the back of them that reads, "This vehicle stops at all unprotected railway crossings."
But, the buses stop at all railway crossings.
So, who was in charge of putting the signs on the buses?
@@n085fs -- The signs reflect the law, someplace. The drivers do what they train in monthly bus driver safety classes. Those classes are based on international standards, which are informed (in part) by all the laws and not just the laws in that jurisdiction. In most places, buses must stop for all non-exempt crossings. So that's what drivers do.
(And for anyone reading this, an "exempt" crossing is one that does not require buses and hazmat loads to stop. There are signs posted that say "exempt" at such crossings. Generally, those crossings are either abandoned lines, or so infrequently used that they might as well be abandoned.)
@@TheRealScooterGuy Monthly bus driver safety classes?
dayum. Drivers got no time to get kids to school in that area.
Like a hot knife through butter. Train momentum is no joke.
stop saying that cringy expression. no it was not like that
@@joegreen-p3w Nothing brings me more joy than making you cringe.
I see this often. As the truck was not hung up on the crossing, all the driver had to do was just back up. Of course, he never should have gotten tangle in the lowered gate as the light were flashing and the gate was down before he got there
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Agreed, but I thought they were made out of material that are easy to break in case of situations like these?
@@KingBLUCK Fiber glass, that truck should easily be able to break a piece of fiber glass
Actually, the gate landed between the cab and the trailer on the truck, so may not have been easy to break when backing up. Driver did approach thatcrossing way too fast, tho.
@jmtpubs these are designed to break away.
Cant back up with cars behind you
the breakaway arms are built that way for a reason. I was trapped in a parking garage once during a power failure. Finally got up the nerve - just a minor scratch on my hood and a bad scratch on my side mirror. Worth it.
I got stuck at RDU airport extended parking lot. The flight was delayed, and no attendants were at the booth at 3am. Me and one other guy were stuck, so we removed the bolts on the swing arm, left all the parts there, and finally I got home. At least i didnt have to pay for the parking.
I know someone who ended up driving a large passenger van into a parking garage since someone removed the clearance sign and the garbage's height narrowed as you went in.
They drove through the the entrance breakaway bars to get out. Not much damage to the vehicle because of the arms, but the vehicle roof was all messed up and the hospital ended up paying to get that repaired.
Was thumbing through a drivers manual the other day. The section on trains and railroad crossings was like:
“TRAINS ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY!”
I really don’t think there’s any other option lol
Indeed. The laws of physics care little for the laws of man.
Cross traffic DOES NOT STOP
Exactly, Trains ALWAYS have the right of way, even when they dont.
I've seen it referred to as the right-of-weigh
I went to a class on train safety and a couple of things were interesting they told us.
The slack between cars is minimal but added up to the whole length of the train, the front can be stopped or moving and the back can move a car length or be stopped at the same time.
A train with its brakes fully applied takes as long to stop as a car going 55mph to roll to a stop once you let off the gas.
That's crazy. I knew it took a long time for a train to stop but the car coasting to a stop from 55, thats a hell of a long time
Got to admit. That's one spectacular way to show a heritage unit 😂
It's like the sports team tearing through the banner to enter the stadium.
@@kishascapewhat would the walkout song be
@@isaiahvandyRock N Roll Train - AC/DC 😂
0:42 Well... at least the name is accurate, at that point.
@@kishascape First Quarter: CSX 1, Idiot in Truck 0.😁
I paused a few times along 0:43 and took a good look at 5267. I could only see a slightly bent handrail. Amazing.
That’s a relief! Thanks.
@@JoeOvercoat😂😅I'll tell you this for free, railroad crossing accidents happen far too often!
Yep I noticed that too
Yeah, trains are built to withstand the things *they have to encounter* if they are sent on certain missions.... trucks rarely *have to* collide with trains or sustain great impact....
Therefore, the trains are built better than Ford-tuff and road vehicles are break apart, relatively easy.... that trucker tried to "gun it" but seized up- he actually would have (unnecessarily) made it through if he wasn't so goofy- he would've had 'nuff momentum to not get stuck and would've been gone several seconds before the train touched the intersection!!!!
Trains beat trucks. Proven fact.
Truckers are so used to pulling out in front of people because they know they are bigger. He forgot it was a train this time.
“There’s always a bigger -fish- vehicle.”
He brought a semi to a train fight
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"F- -k truckers." - Freight Train
Got off work down the street at 6am. Went to my apartment 3 blocks away from this and prepared to go to sleep around 10am as I usually do. While laying in bed about to drift off I hear and feel a very loud THUD that shook my apartment. Got me to get up and go investigate as several others did. Looked down the street and saw the huge pile up and new what happened. Didn't think anyone got it on camera though nice! I clicked on the video randomly and went "Huh that crossing looks really familiar and so do those semi's"
That breakaway signal getting perfectly in between the cargo and driving section was like placing a head on the chopping block lmfao
Some drivers think that the flashing red lights are just for decoration!
Think? that's mighty bold to assume thing think.
Unlike solid red, flashing red means go faster to some.
Or they think it means go faster
They see it as a challenge lol
My dad is a truck driver and during his training they specifically taught him if a situation like this happens to just do whatever to get off the tracks even if it breaks the barrier. Insurance is far more likely to cover the damage done to both truck and barrier getting out of such a situation than to replace/repair a truck and/or trailer *and* a train engine because you didn't even try to get out of the way...
How about training them to use their eyes and ears and not proceed if there's a train coming? That would be the sensible option, no?
@nickmaclachlan5178 depending on where the crossing is it sometimes is impossible to see or hear a train coming before the gates come down, say with trains from amtrak or other express lines that go extremely fast. A lot of times in those situations too the gates are on a timer and actually come down well before there are any signs of a train because by the time the normal sensors hit there isn't enough time for the gates to come down before the train gets there without dropping very fast. A lot of gates can also give very little warning before dropping, especially if either the lights and/or audio warnings are malfunctioning which, while not that common, does occasionally happen. Traffic can also cause accidental blockage of the tracks that a driver might not be able to see, especially if someone stops unexpectedly or just blocks traffic for fun (which I have seen idiots do). Even with the most careful drivers there can be situations where it can happen and is unavoidable. Basically my point is that he is trained that *if* he gets in that situation that is what he is supposed to do, the training also does teach how to avoid being in that situation in the first place mainly just by following common sense.
@@nickmaclachlan5178It's called a contingency plan.
You're telling a first aid instructor "I would simply not get injured!" here.
@@ToastyMozart Fair comment, but First Aid, much the same as Personal Protective Equipment is used as a last resort when all other methods of accident avoidance have failed. The first line of defence in any safety situation is not to be in that situation in the first place, and that can only be managed by correct training/actions and not employing morons.......
Also, flying parts of truck engines tend to hit things, including people.
Preventing the train from hitting anything is the most important thing here.
That's the skill set of our new Canadian and USA truck drivers for you.
I deal with a lot of drivers and have a CDL myself. I'm lucky if any of the OTR guys even understand what I'm saying when I tell them "hello" let alone what state they are even in. They just stare at you and smile and nod. Some of them just Say "yes" a lot. Then they get cranky because they don't understand english.... 😂
some of them are about to go home...@@brob-zy8zi
So...the guy gets out of the truck then stands next to it until the train just about hits it?? Good thinking.
took him a while to think about where the truck would go after the collision huh
there is a brick wall and trees that parallel the track and make it very difficult to see, so maybe he was just trying to see if it stopped already somehow, not knowing that it’s a high speed line
You don’t have to finish high school to drive a truck.
@@csxns Problem is, in their country, school is an option.
Probably didn't know english.
Love how the train horn builds up and layers and harmonizes with itself right up until it makes contact with the truck, and then because of the doppler effect it gets dissonant...
thats what i thought too, it harmonized so well
0:36 it even resolved itself
the engineer was using a pattern that says i’m
approaching a crossing , oh shit someone’s there , move , then I’m
going to hit it .
thats not what harmony/dissonance mean. if the frequencies in the horn sounded harmonious before passing, they were also harmonious during and after passing. lower pitch, but with the exact same ratios.
Gathering that this is a heavy manifest, and heavily loaded up front, its wiser to bring it to a gradual stop. As an engineer to these monster trains, dumping it is not always the best choice. A good engineer will know how their train will respond to an emergency brake application. The truck driver should have never moved up.
Dumping the air (emergency) on this with these size trains is asking for a major problem. Unfortunately, the equipment has not stayed up to the size of the trains being run in regard to braking capability.
train looks so unaffacted while the semi is obliterated
The lead engine sustained a fair amount of damage. The front steps were bent, the coupler cut lever was destroyed, railings on the front were heavily damaged, ditch lights aka bottom headlights busted out, front sanding hose and front cables and brake hose looked severed. they were probably disabled or limped along once it started moving again
Pro tip: the gates have some give. And if something should get broken, the gate is far less easier and cheaper to replace than your truck.
@Plaza_and_Mote Those gates are held in place by shear bolts that easily break when struck with a modest amount of force. I was in the railroad industry for 37 years (now retired) and witnessed the aftermath plenty of times where the railroad signal crews had the gates quickly back in operation after being broken usually by a vehicle colliding or backing away (little to no damage to the vehicle as well).
I think you mean the gates are far easier and cheaper to replace than the truck
So you're telling me the gates aren't made of adamantium, able to stop nigh an unstoppable force?
@@WAL_DC-6B
Yeah well. He's not too bright clearly
Or maybe he couldn’t move? If the gate damaged or disconnected his brake lines, the trailer brakes would be locked hard. And it would explain why he stopped to look there before clearing out.
For those who are insisting the train should have been thrown into emergency please cite a rule that says this. My understanding of the rule is the train crew must safely bring the train to a stop following a grade crossing incident. The key term here is safely. It is the judgment of the train crew that would be used to determine if the train could safely be put into emergency or not. One of the key factors investigators and lawyers, jury and judges will look at is if an emergency application could have prevented the incident from happening. In this incident, an emergency application of the brakes would not have prevented the incident from happening. The train was simply going to fast for an emegrancy application to stop the train before the locomotive hit the semi.
Also, a lawsuit would most certainly include this video, as would any investigation from the FRA / NTSB / Railroad. I don't think any investigative body would determine the train crew acted inappropriately in any way.
Slowly down can lessen the impact but since nobody seems to have gotten hurt it's not much difference
Yeah that's all well and good except a full minute later there is still no evidence of the train slowing. Zero brake application, no slack run in from the dynamic.
@@user-jm4nj7nz6t umm...no? The screeching of the brakes could clearly be heard, as well as the decreasing tempo of the trucks going over the tracks. I could visually see it slowing, too. Not much. But I could see it. It takes a LONG time to slow/stop a train, especially one going this fast, with this many loaded cars.
The train was slowing before the impact and after. Most people can't tell. What can you do?
Unless the vehicle is being dragged by the train, there is not much of a reason to stop after the hit, lol!
My son-in-law is an engineer for a major railroad, 3 weeks after he started, a guy went around the gates, it was at night, and the train was doing 55. He said all he could do was lean on the horn, dump the air, and brace for impact.........the car driver never knew what hit him 😕☹😔😨😱❗
I am sorry for your son-in-law's experience. The train has the right of way at all times because it is on private property. People do not understand that.
@@daveluttinen2547 after the accident investigation was done, it was determined that the driver didnt realize how fast the train was going, and thought he could go around the gates in plenty of time............
@paulsmith5398 Yeah I think that's the problem they're having on the Brightline in Florida....folks trying to beat the train
@@rovertaw22 yeah, those brightline trains really get up & move right along, Amtrak goes around 90 mph through where i live, and theres quad gates at most crossings on the route.
Why brace for impact. They literally hardly feel it
this must be a terrifying moment for the train driver who hasn't see the truck driver leave his cabin and move away from the tracks
I used to shuttle for a truck rental company in the last couple years before retiring. Whenever I came up to a gate crossing, I would totally stop and look both ways. Especially if I knew it was an Amtrak used road. Nobody ever honked or got mad at me (that I know of) It helped me a lot because I was a mechanic for forty four years and didn’t have the practice in judgment that a lot of full time truckers had.
Bus mechanic here, if you’re driving a bus you have to stop at all track crossings anyway. I think it’s the same for hazardous material haulers as well (I only have a class B CDL). So most people have experience with commercial vehicles stopping, you’re good.
To all the people criticizing the train crew for not stopping here’s a quote from The Daily Standard, a local news source. “Police units found the semitractor-trailer perpendicular to the tracks with heavy front end damage and a large debris field, the release states. The train continued west down the tracks before coming to a stop just east of the Conover Road crossing. All occupants were accounted for and uninjured.” According to google maps the Conover Road crossing is 1.4 miles down the tracks.
Anyone criticizing the train for not stopping needs to go back to primary school.
Do you have any idea how long it takes a million pounds to stop from a speed of 60 mph?
You can hear the brakes deploy instantly. That doesn’t mean it’s going to stop anytime soon
Yep. My husband got hit by a train. Was driving a one ton truck with 40 ft trailer.
Uncontrolled crossing, icy road, basically he had to get up speed to get up an icy hill and no way to know if a train was coming until he was actually on the track. No time to step on the brake even.
Walked away with a bruised face and whiplash. Truck didn’t do so well.
Took the train at least a mile to stop. All the while the engineer was walking back to the crossing he had no idea if he’d find my husband dead or alive.
Did you see a comment criticizing the train crew?
I was wondering that too, @@williamwilson6499
I'm glad this comment was posted though because I was curious as to why the train went all "Back to the Future III", seeming to not even attempt to break stride.
Very interesting.
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@@Cinerary double grain loads that pass by here are in excess of 70 million pounds. 250 cars at 286,000 pounds each plus 400,000 lbs for each locomotive
The amount of mass moving through....
It made that truck look like it was origami paper
I was thinking the same thing. The mass and ballistic energy of a train never dissapoints. I just watched one where a lowboy got stuck. The train took the whole truck with it like it was a plastic bag floating around on the highway and getting stuck on your grill.
Back in the mid seventies I had a 1963 VW van. I worked the night shift and it was after midnight when I was on my way home when it stalled on a railroad crossing. This was a freight line and only had flashing lights as a warning. Well wouldn’t you know as I was trying to get the van started the lights began flashing. Fortunately the trains moved pretty slow on this track. Still it was scary seeing the lights coming towards me and the van still not starting. As a last ditch effort I shifted into first gear and used the starter motor to limp off the track. I had the door open ready to bail out if needed. 😅
At least the truck customer's furniture was unscathed.
You're sooooo funny.
I was honestly surprised by that.
Well, considering everyone made it out okay, I'd have to say this is a very awesome piece of footage you have here!
some truck driver just lost his CDL for 6 months the Question is will any trucking Company ever hire that fool
Unlikely. Also not likely that a railroad will hire him either!
He almost lost his life too. He was seconds away from getting crushed by his truck because he stood there like an idiot. I sure wouldn't hire him if I ran a trucking business.
Should be permanently revoked. All he had to do was backup, it's just a flimsy detachable crossing arm.
The office: no no nod god no! Nooooo
There's a serious shortage of truck drivers. He just got hired by Amazon.
I work at an intermodal facility and I see truck drivers parking on train tracks every day.
They get out of their trucks and look around for units, or they sit there eating their lunch, all while they are sitting on live tracks.
when you drive a car and there is a semi next to you and you be like damn thats big
but then the train be like "semi? what semi?"
"I call that semi-small"
-train
@@engineerskalinera the train, knowing that semi literally means "half":
"it will be semi when i am done with it"
Glad the NYC heritage unit didn't get hurt, either!
"Super Easy... Barely an inconvenience." -- Ryan George
That's pretty spectacular nonetheless. My dad was a mechanical supervisor for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He often reminded me how long it would take to stop a train.
For those wondering, these particular crossing barriers are indestructible. Once it goes down, it stays down.
His refusal to back up and break the signal gate is incredible. The only possible explanation I can think of is that there was another vehicle right behind him, so he couldn’t back up and didn’t have time to tell them to back up.
Even if there is a vehicle behind he needed to back up. Much better chance of survival if you back up and push another vehicle back than get hit by a train at 50 plus mph.
They wont back up. Too stupid to do so
No. That doesn't explain his body language. The only explanation that makes sense to me is microdosing and/or he's listening to his favorite podcast.
Brilliant. That does actually make sense. It would of been a tough call what to do and little time to make any decision... Still he's a f---tard
There’s gotta be a car behind him. There’s no way he’s worried about the gate.
In my 30 tears of driving, I took out 2 drop gates. I was told after the 1st one that it was part of operating the railroad. Sometimes, the timing just gets you, so don't worry about it. Clear the tracks & call it in. No worries.
In this case, wouldnt it be smarter to just stop when the red lights are flashing and the bells are ringing, instead of thinking "I can make it, the other fool made it too!"?
@@Ganiscolyeah that driver was just an idiot trying to beat the train. Lights flashing for 5 seconds before the gate moves. Gate halfway down when the truck crosses its path.
This guy had 30 tears while driving woe
The other truck was already on the tracks when the lights started flashing.
@@Ganiscol Except "the other fool" was no fool at all. He was already engaged on the track before the signal started. So he just did what he was supposed to and moved on to clear the track. And whatever another trucker does on an active railroad crossing should not interfere with your duty to obey a damn flashing red light. On that point the driver of the red concrete truck actually had the right reaction. Seeing the catastrophe that was coming he decided to step back out of the danger zone. THAT was the smart move. When you see trouble coming, keep a safe distance from it.
A trucker yet again thinks he's bigger and badder than the train.
And try again!🤣
They're so used to be the winners of the game of Gross Tonnage that they forget there's always someone bigger.
No the trucker thinks that trains don’t haul freight anymore truckers say that they haul 100% of the freight in the USA.
I don't get it. Was he stuck? I don't see how because that other truck crossed just fine. I don't see why he didn't back up. That trucker is a dumb@ss.
No...the trucker didn't think at all!
Not capable of any degree of critical thinking.
I never even imagined that someone could be this stupid.
When a cement truck cautiously backs up, you know something big is about to go down.
He blew his chance to be Employee Of The Month.
Not at Amazon or Walmart.
I work for a trucking company, this guy probably got promoted to the safety department.
What happened to his lunch box and sandwich 🥪?
Doesn't he care about that?
I bet the drink is spilt all over the cabin.
Trains should have a RAMMING carriage at the front end which is a solid block of iron that's designed to smash into anything deliberately or not, parked on the tracks, and it smashes to f ing pieces, no matter what.
They've made it too easy for thoughtless people to get into a truck and turn a key 🔑.
You can CLEARLY SEE there ARE Train Tracks.
There's NO excuses in 2024 to be on Train tracks with ANYTHING.
He blew his chance of keeping his job I reckon. Panic sucks but damn did he make a lot of bad choices here.
He didn't even run when it was obvious he should be running. Jesus this guy is slow, bless him.
Darn, you're right. I am going to be thinking about that now. I bet that he had one of those juice boxes with the bendy straw. When I was a kid, we used to blow air into empty juice boxes and stomp on them. They made a loud "pop" sound.@@Gma7788
From a conventional to Cab over in a few seconds.
Cab.
Over there's the engine.
Conventional cab to parts in split seconds
Cab in the vicinity of is more like it
If the rig had been a cab over it probably would have survived. The train would have narrowly missed the front end by a few meters.
@@Intrepid_Crusader1096 yup, and if driver was aware entire truck would have survived
Gotta admit - Locomotive took it like a champ.
200+ tons for the lead unit alone plus moving 50-60 mph I'd say it was like driving through tinfoil maybe some scratched paint😀
They probably didn't even feel it in the cab.
The several hundred tons train ALWAYS have right of way, and takes a mile to get to a full stop. Why do people think their truck will magically squeeze by?
0:05 I had this bizarre moment of logic.. having a CDL means that you know what to do when faced with this situation, with the rail crossing lights flashing red. 10 seconds later, when the gate crossings are closing, this driver still fails to see what is in front of them, and stops on the tracks....? Was something lost in the translation.... with the red flashing lights, and rail crossing barriers coming down?
And the horn blasting away!
Well, the average person is actually pretty damn stupid. It's said best with a classic George Carlin quote:
"Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize half of them are stupider than that."
And generally, when you see something like this happen, it's rarely a legitimate accident, a stroke of bad luck/timing, etc. People that get caught in these kinds of situations have been doing this kind of crap for a LONG time and have gotten away with it. They never think the situation will go badly until it actually does.
@@Enigma1788 Yeah I think getting startled is what kills you in these situations. It's just a regular day at the office until it's not and you didn't expect it.
I had no idea that the cabs of semis were loaded with so much shrapnel.
Iron engine block plus 2000 ton train is basically a big frag grenade
Accessories on the engine like the steering gearbox is about 100 lbs😂. The alternator and a/c compressor are about 25-30 lbs apiece. I think I saw the engine block itself... mine was 2,500 lbs and it's on the lighter side for a semi engine.
I wonder if the driver got hit by shrapnel
Not at that angle, but the cameraman was lucky it didn't reach him.@@kdpowers
Modern tractors are mostly made of plastic, to bring their weight down and to attenuate energy in a crash, just like cars.
the little bob in the suspension on the locos after impact is mesmerizing.
I drove buses at Disney for a while. On the public road behind Magic Kingdom is a rarely-used railroad crossing with a closed, locked gate blocking the track on one side. You best believe every bus still comes to a complete stop before crossing.
Was there a vehicle behind the truck that prevented him from reversing out of the crossing? The camera doesn't pan to the right to see.
only the crossing gate was down between the cab and trailer, IDK, maybe he didn't want to brake it? lol what a fool tho..
It doesn’t matter if there were cars behind him or not. The gates went down and he had plenty of time to see them and not stop halfway in the tracks
@@rencleavus5213 He should have reversed it whether there was someone behind him or not. Cheaper for the insurance company to fix a couple of cars than the damage to the train and crossing.
@@pclayton5063You're asking a guy that used to ride goats to do math on the fly... no chance of that happeneing.
@@kleetus92used to ride goats?
You could see and hear the train slowing down after the collision... It's just that it can take _THAT_ long for everything to come to a complete stop, depending upon speed, load, and length of the train...
Spectacular catch!! Your timing is as impressive as the impact!! 😲
What people don't realize now a days, is a manual transmission can stall on Train tracks.
what most likely happened was as he tried to pop it into reverse it failed to do so.
I worked as a conductor for many years. BNSF out of Hobart Yard. This could have been a lot worse. It’s common to derail when hitting something that size on the rail and at that speed with that load, the camera man would have been a tragedy.
I hope the locomotive is okay, and that that guy never gets behind the wheel again.
Had me on the first half ngl, wasn't expecting the 2nd truck to sneak in like that
He made the right decision. I work in a place that makes those breakaway signals and they are far more expensive than a truck or damaged locomotive. Smart man.
This is so weirdly satisfying to watch… I’ve thought about it and it’s multiple elements:
1. Biggest thing on the road gets crushed by Even Bigger thing.
2. Nobody got hurt (from the looks of it)
3. Heritage but still hits hard
4. Someone with a CDL should know better than to try to run a rail crossing, had ample warning, suffered the consequences.
5. It’s a train
6. Nice clear stable video showing everything
sub points to 1 and 4 - any driver has encountered a supposedly “professional” commercial driver in a semi doing dumb things like this but usually there are no consequences, and the average car driver has to compensate to save their own life. This feels like clean guilt-free revenge.
I hate size abusers in roads
The cement mixer saw what was coming and didn't want any part of it. He was backing up.
I will never understand why people decide to get hit by trains because they are stuck between a couple flimsy sticks on a hinge. Damn I think I this gate may scratch my whip if I go forward or backward, that train will stop, no way the engineer would dare hit my Sentra with these auto zone hood vents. Respect!!
I think they are afraid of scratching the paint on their vehicle... Stupid is as stupid does... It is what it is...
It's like the truck driver has never heard a train whisle or connected the concept of that whistle with an oncoming train before....
The only thing I can figure as to why he didn't just back up and break the gate, which you'd think would be no problem for a massive truck, is he might've been worried about backing up onto another vehicle. I wonder if he got boxed in or just couldn't see what was directly behind him. Surely tractor-trailers these days have sophisticated reverse camera systems for both truck and trailer, but maybe they're not industry standard yet.
they absolutely don't, and it's absurd that something like that isn't like, state mandatory given the danger and how cheap those things are now.
@@OwenOrsini Since 2018 its been a federal law for normal vehicles to have backup cams, yet nothing whatsoever for commercial trucks. Just seems kinda silly to not have at least something for them
The raw power and momentum of at least 3 locomotives ladies and gentlemen
Don't judge. We've all been like "What is that? Is that a railroad crossing? Why are those lights flashing? Why are those arms coming down? Is that a train horn? Let me stop on the tracks and take a look... Is that a TRAIN???" Happens to the best of us...
YES. I am genuinely laughing out loud hahaha
Yes but now this guy has a mark on his record and probably won't be able to drive a truck again.
@@ryanlevis7532 He could always drive a train...
i’ve never been in that situation lol
Uh, no. Maybe YOU have been, but don't speak for everyone else
crazy how the blueshift on the spamming horn gives it an ethereal effect, echoing within itself.
To all of the people who are wondering why the train didn’t stop in this clip: There’s tanker cars at 1:14 that were most likely filled. If the engineer applied the emergency brakes right away, it would cause something like East Palestine 2.0. Smart move from the engineer. Even if he did apply the emergency brakes, it would still take about 1-2 miles to fully come to a stop.
NS engineer for almost 12 years now, I'd have gone full service, not emergency. I didn't hear 1 brake applying at all! But yeah, dumping it is NEVER an option!
Most railways train their personnel to put the train into emergency only when contact has been made.
0:19 Good thing he did not damage that gate arm. 👍
Yes, a tragedy was avoided
The gate arm was ultimately still destroyed despite his best efforts ha
@ The final irony to a twisted story.
It’s important to note that those signals are meant to bend, however if they get stuck like in this and can’t bend enough, you should still break it before you let a train hit your vehicle
Train was going so fast, the engineer will have to get a flight back from the next city to check it out.
I was told the NYC unit only suffered minor damages after it got hit with a semi
Can’t say the same for the truck drivers career
@@DavidWsTrainVideos Yea..
How very foamer of you to be worried about the heritage unit
@@RaisedLetter It appears to be the only thing of value in this video presentation.
@@roland985 I'm sure any possible injuries to the crew aren't important at all
They do make breakaway gates for a reason. He could've reversed with minimal damage to his truck and bent the gate out of the way. This is something that isn't taught in any kind of driver classes, and I wish it was. Glad everyone was okay, and I'm glad I found the original video so that I could support the person who filmed it!
Yeah, I am completely confounded by this drivers decision making. He's on a crossing with an oncoming train. He stops, sets the brakes, and climbs out to look at the tiny crossing gate that lowered in between the can and trailer.
He was worried about the little things and not the life threatening things.
"He could've reversed with minimal damage to his truck"
And possibly fatal damage to a car behind him.
@@beeble2003 There was a car behind him? Can't tell in the video.
If he had continued moving forward he still would've been able to clear
@@DieselElevators I don't know if there was a car behind him. That's why I said "a car", rather than "the car". But, come on. Isn't it more likely that the driver didn't want to reverse into another vehicle, rather than being worried about the gate?
@@beeble2003 That's not the way that works. The worst that could have happened from him hitting someone behind him is totaling the car and maybe setting off the air bags, this outcome is highly improbable. The more probable outcome is a crushed front end. There is a lot mass in a truck vs a car but from a stop in reverse there is no speed/acceleration.
Remember E=mc^2
Take a look at the debris field from the train hitting the truck. We are very lucky that no one seems to have been hurt. Add the possibility of causing a derailment and the negatives go up exponentially. A very high mass train moving a decent speed is deadly.
Some people just shouldn't have licenses to drive.
Don't think we have to worry about that guy driving truck again
@@juliogonzo2718well, not THAT particular truck, at any rate!
Do hope the loco's handrail straightened out OK.
@@juliogonzo2718he can go back to his home country
Happened to me this year! I let the first train pass, gate lifted but bells were still ringing, I pulled through. Maybe I should have waited for bells to quit too? Anyway second train came and the gate dropped again and hit my truck! I knew I was safe-ish so I just sat there, gate lifted and no harm done. Tense moment though!
Best way to film this. Thank you for not screaming or moving the camera. Subscribing.
Honestly way better than I would have done. I don't think I could have kept my cool -- BACK UP! -- this guy was pro.
With all these comments about how the gates break very easily and that he should have backed up, or how others are saying that perhaps he couldn't have backed up due to vehicles behind him (or, quite likely, he couldn't even see whether or not there might be one or a few cars immediately behind the trailer), consider this. There was a full 24 seconds between the time when he came to a full stop and when the train hit. That's 24 seconds during which he could have cleared the crossing by driving FORWARD. Also, from the moment when the gates were well on their way down, he would have had a full half of a minute to clear the crossing by continuing forward if he hadn't panicked and slammed on the brakes. In either case, there's no question there would have been ample time to get out of the way. Hindsight is 20/20, though, and this guy wasn't thinking clearly once he realized his mistake.
For what it's worth, intentionally driving onto the tracks of an imminent incoming train is just not the first thought that is natural in this situation. He also may have misjudged the amount of time he had, the sight of the oncoming train is probably pretty terrifying and overwhelming.
No getting around not stopping sooner though, he should have been more vigilant.
A most observant and most accurate comment on here in my experience most truck drivers drive on through swings the gate out in front of the Train the train runs over it then they call the maintainer out
I love it.The Train just kept going !😂
No, it just takes a train going that fast along time to stop
It has to stop. It takes MILES.
Not quite the Aerosmith song, but close enough.
@@medicbabe2IDthere is no law that a train should stop after it has hit a truck they can keep going
ya the people in the locomotive already had full emergency break on 10 seconds before the collision!! They can't just say ok come to full stop right now train!
One time, a busy crossing for an event had the gate down with no trains visible for a good mile (I assume it was stopped just within the trigger are, no train came through for 45 minutes of awareness). Hundreds of cars were stuck or turning around for an underpass 15 minutes away. When it was my turn I just... pulled to the side and lifted the arm (and kept a constant watch). I hope a lot of people learned that day how light the arms are. Crossing barriers aren't expensive (relatively) and they aren't magic.