How oftenndo derailments happen? I'm genuinely curiousbif they're a weekly thing or a yearly thing for a given company.
>>2023988DailyHowever 99% of them happen in yards or industry tracks where speeds are low so they're nothing like your pic, just a matter of re-railing them and sending them to the rip track to be inspected and repaired.
>>2024001>Foamer thinks he's a railroader because he uses words like rip track.lmao
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>>2024161>Sole railroading experience is volunteering at a museum.lmao
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>>2024204Just how?
>>2024209They're investigating since it happened less than a week ago. Plus there's dangerous cargo on-board that's leaking
>>2023988>for a given companyAnd here we have the reason hidden in a few words. Privately owned, built for cargo tracks means maintenance and upgrades happens only to the minimally necessary amount.In Europe where tracks are straight up publicly owned or the company is publicly owned regularly scheduled track maintenance and continuously welded rail means it basically doesn't happen.
>>2024222>Euroshits thinking they know anything about railroading.Mainline derailments are very rare. Most derailments are at slow speeds, in yards, and due to switching mistakes. Nearly every bit of mainline is CWR and even yard tracks are starting to be welded.
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>>2024237It's only going to get more common.
>>2024285That's been the standard for a long time. A 60 car train should take roughly 1 hour to walk for inspection. You're just buying lazy gold bricking union bullshit if you actually think it's unsafe. Have you ever actually walk a train before?
>>2024301post paystubs
>>2024332you have no jet time
https://youtu.be/l64pOpZ8YuIWhat a clusterfuck. Allegedly the trailer sat there for 45 minutes before the collision happened. You see the police were already on the scene.
>>2028460>You see the police were already on the scene.That's not a cop car, it's an escort vehicle. Still should have reported the incident right away though. I've heard it was there for an hour, now 45 minutes, I find it hard to believe it would be there that long without law enforcement noticing
>>2028461Cops are dumb too and don't realize to call the emergency number at the crossing.
>>2028462>Cops are dumb too and don't realize to call the emergency number at the crossing.Railroads are constantly working with local governments to increase awareness of problems like this and increase preparedness. It's virtually certain the local PD and FD have the number to the dispatcher on file. They can call the number posted on the crossing too.
>>2028460lol at the motorcycle cop doing nothing but driving away
>>2028463I worked as a yardmaster and got calls all the time from the local PDs for crossings on the mainline 45 miles away. They shouldn't have been calling me, but the numbers on the crossing. They kept doing it even after I told them dozens of times to call the emergency number first. It added an extra step when minutes might matter. Shit, I might not even be at the phone if I was taking a poop break.So yes, PDs are dumb and don't call the numbers.
>>2028465>So yes, PDs are dumb and don't call the numbers.Your fault too for not escalating the problem to management. And don't pretend that you don't have the number to the dispatcher as well.
>>2028466I did call the dispatcher, but they shouldn't be calling me in the first place. They should be calling the emergency number that is constantly monitored and had an even more direct connection to the dispatcher than me.>Escalating to managementlmao, what are they going to do? Order the PD to stop calling me? You're stupid.
>>2028467Perhaps even more embarrassing was when they'd call me for a DIFFERENT railroad's crossing and I did the work for them.
>>2028467>I did call the dispatcher, but they shouldn't be calling me in the first place.Hence why you should have escalated the problem>They should be calling the emergency number that is constantly monitored and had an even more direct connection to the dispatcher than me.It's not any more direct than yours>lmao, what are they going to do? >Order the PD to stop calling me? You're stupid.Railroads have enormous safety departments, so it would eventually fall in their hands. If you weren't so stupid you'd know that already
>>2028469>It's not any more direct than yoursIt is. They can get directly in touch with anyone in that room and get over to the desk if the one I needed was away for a poop break.>Hence why you should have escalated the problemNothing would happen, pal. They'd been calling that number before my time, and I guarantee they're calling it now after mine.>Railroads have enormous safety departmentsNot as big as you think. In the end, it's all resolved by just calling the number that's on the fucking crossing and using the associated DOT number so there is ZERO chance for mistakes to be made.
>>2028471>by just calling the number that's on the fucking crossing and using the associated DOT numberDo all crossings have a telephone number on them? I swear I've seen crossbucks out in the sticks that had no other signage.
>>2028531Literally the first image in an image search for railroad crossing. From the wiki.
>>2028471>They can get directly in touch with anyone in that roomThe emergency number on the crossing goes to a special agent or railroad cop, you go straight to the dispatcher. It's a wash>Nothing would happen, pal.A railroader that doesn't want to work? Color me surprised>Not as big as you think.Yes they are, in fact you probably have at least one local safety committee you can raise the issue with, but that would involve you actually having to do something yourself
>>2028531Every public crossing should have this or an equivalent on them. That number on the crossing(153041C) points to a specific crossing that can be looked up. In this case, a crossing at W. State St in O Fallon, IL at MP 320.74 on the Louisville division.If you want to look up ones in your area, use this site:https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Crossing-Inventory-Listing/ejv6-cpdh/>>2028533>The emergency number on the crossing goes to a special agent or railroad cop, you go straight to the dispatcher.>you go straight to the dispatcher.Not always. And the emergency number is always attended, recorded, and they have more resources. The yardmaster number wasn't. I told all of them to use the number on the crossing, gave it to them, and they still called me. My bosses knew they called me instead of the emergency number. At that point, it's out of my hands.The whole point of this conversation is to show that police and truckers are stupid and don't follow the simple instructions on a sign which is why this accident happened.>I know everything about your job and how you worked!Blow me.
>>2028541>Not always. Between you, the planner, and the trainmaster someone will pick up and you've all got direct access to the dispatcher.>At that point, it's out of my hands.That's why you escalate the problem. If they don't do anything you go to the next step up. But again, you're a railroader so I'm not surprised nothing got done.>Blow me.No.
>>2028543It was often just me in the office alone. Again, you don't know how my job worked, or how my railroad worked. Blow me.
>>2028546>Again, you don't know how my job worked, or how my railroad worked.Yes I do. You're just one of many lazy railroaders who like to complain but don't like to do anything about the problem.>Blow me.No.
>>2028547Blow me.
>>2028548>Blow me.No.
>>2028549Still smacking those lips. Still not seeing any blowing.BLOW MELOWME
>>2028550No.
Guys stop derailing my thread prithee
