They painted a three foot wide yellow stripe a few weeks after this video hit the Tube

@nyccrcsx

4 жыл бұрын

Doug Obert why didn’t have it already done in the first place

@spikespa5208

4 жыл бұрын

@@nyccrcsx It's hard to stay ahead of some folk's foolishness. Just be glad it didn't take a fatality to do it.

@Hbosstowing

4 жыл бұрын

Do we need to put flashing lights also? What happend to common sense? Yellow lines are for liberal snowflakes without a brain!

@markbrown9838

4 жыл бұрын

Was wondering where the yellow line was. Probably wouldn't have made a difference anyway, some people just don't have any common sense. Hard to protect people from themselves.

@philipthomas6808

4 жыл бұрын

It's for everybody's sake, surely you don't expect young children to have common sense, do ya?

I was 3 years old when my father imprinted on me to , " look both ways or die " .

@movie0007

4 жыл бұрын

A guy I met during high school back in 1991, well we're still best friends. Long story short, once in a while I take an hour drive down to his state and we hang out for a couple of days. He is always saying things like, "hold on", "slow down will ya", "okay... make sure all ways are clear" So we went to his local walmart the one day, he is all about taking your time, making absolute sure everything is clear before crossing roads, etc. So we walk down the parking lot toward the front entrance. We get to the crosswalk. I see a Jeep coming up on my left, he was standing to my left, I look to my right, it's clear. So I started waiting for the Jeep, I guess my friend never looked left, and started crossing. BEEEEEEEPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!! That Jeep stopped, and was literally inches away, and I could sense the level of fear coming from him, without having to see his face. So after a while of walking in walmart he started mentioning it, but I didn't dwell on talking about it, because something like that for me is embarrassing and I figured he might have been at that point of embarrassment. I just can't believe that all of his "words of wisdom" about slowing down, taking your time etc., literally went out the window at that moment. It scared me too because I thought the Jeep had hit him, and I was thinking okay, time to call an ambulance, but I seen him standing there and thought, sheeesshhhhh. That was waaaaayyyyy too close. Still I was shocked by the whole incident. Next time if he and I go out, I guess I'll have to be the one to be looking out and slowing him down. My friend here imprinted the whole, slow it down, and take time crossing roads thing onto me, but I'm not sure what happened at walmart.

@1allanbmw

4 жыл бұрын

@@movie0007 Just keeping it real. Everybody has to have an, "Oh shit!" moment every now & then or else all the true-isms and slogans don't mean much. Take 'er easy! ;-)

@safeamer1313

4 жыл бұрын

@@movie0007 A guy I knew got hit by car at speed of 200 km. they took him to the hospital. but He passed away After he reached the hospital in few minutes.

@Victorseafog

4 ай бұрын

Wow 3 years old, why so late? Most babies are taught this by 18 months.

@bigbob1699

4 ай бұрын

@@Victorseafog Better late than dead.

I work for CSX. Sometimes you can't get through to people to stay off the tracks. Especially ones jogging wearing headphones in the middle of the track. You tell them over and over and it's like you're speaking another language.

@jcbbb

7 жыл бұрын

Let it roll buddy... You can only do so much

@ryansullivan369

6 жыл бұрын

CN is where it's at

@CusterFlux

5 жыл бұрын

People just assume that trains are as loud in front as they are by the side - when the reality is - it's not even close: trains are DANGEROUSLY quiet right in front! If she's doing track speed, and your back is turned, and it's quiet, you'll get maybe a three second warning from the rumbling to jump out of the way - if you're talking to somebody, that goes down to about two seconds, and if you're wearing headphones, you're dead.

@modtwentyeight

5 жыл бұрын

@@CusterFlux Absolutely dead quiet in the snow...

@catlady8324

4 жыл бұрын

No way, train accidents only happen to other people.

He just sits back down like "that never happened"

@Monsuuri

6 жыл бұрын

Wright County Railfan the speed of train is like 30 km/h

@samiraliyev472

4 жыл бұрын

Especially in between legs.)))))))))))))

@Monsuuri

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig F. Thompson I admit you are right! But I still believe he would have survived from the collision

@Monsuuri

4 жыл бұрын

@blue heeler What is the speed of the train in your opinion?

@Monsuuri

4 жыл бұрын

@blue heeler The speed affects the power of collision. When speed is doubled the kinetic energy is multiplied by four. In addition, the collision area is small. He would have survived the collision.

Lucky - he could have seriously damaged the loco with a bone head like that.

@46bovine

4 жыл бұрын

Crap, he could have damaged the lead locomotive if it hit him in the head!

@Cenentury0941

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, we might've finally got the answer to what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object 😂

@froztytrainfilms9148

4 жыл бұрын

Gribbo9999 maybe could’ve even had an influence on schedule... ah, it’s strange thinking that while railroad safety is easy to follow, people somehow don’t know the rules

@acidsunrise

4 жыл бұрын

Gribbo9999 .😂😂

@paulmccormack5524

4 жыл бұрын

😂 this comment deserves so much more likes lol

He was probably hoping the train would swerve first.

@Ukraine2011

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't even look like he was paying attention

@Corkedwolf43771

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ukraine2011 till last .8th of a second

@ddebenedictis

4 жыл бұрын

Playing chicken with the train. 😆

@deltaray3

3 жыл бұрын

Groundhog day ref.

That man probably thought that honking was coming from the train he was watching

@sunsetrailfan2004

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah like DPUs

@WarriorMike20

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunsetrailfan2004 DPU locomotives don't blow their horns. So not an option. He's dumb as fuck. That's the option. 🙄

As the late (but great Don Adams ) said: "Missed him by that much".

@Carbivore67

4 жыл бұрын

By how much?

@ntibbs100

3 жыл бұрын

must have been using the portable cone of silence

I worked for the SP and UP over 38 years and now retired. Think about what the Engineer saw and felt in those split seconds ! The impact on operating crew members at rail accidents is always forgotten. Always be alert and safe !

@sanddabz5635

4 жыл бұрын

Well said.....no one really considers that.

@bunkytony

3 күн бұрын

That's so correct! I've been train spotting for over twenty years. Walking along with my three 35mm cameras around my neck and harness and a tripod. I also carry a radio scanner and listen to all traffic from the track inspectors, dispatchers engineers conductors etc, you get the idea. I always watch ALL WAYS on railroad right of way especially with multi track locations. It is that train that the person NEVER SAW that caused the incident! And Yes think of the crew on board and what they go through. I most of the time got a friendly wave from the engineers and conductors as trains passed. Once in a while I would hear a track inspector that saw me, as he went into a siding say" Smile when you get to that junction that guys out there taking pictures!"

So very close to winning a Darwin Award.

@HughMartell

10 жыл бұрын

Evolution? more like de-volution.

@rbrucerye

7 жыл бұрын

Unless he had kids in which case I don't think he could win

@mhobson2009

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he was somebody's Grandad. You only get a Darwin Award for stupidity that prevents you from reproducing.

@gregoryclark2692

4 жыл бұрын

he didn't even pull the woman away lol

@flyswatter45

4 жыл бұрын

A posthumous Darwin yes

Just . . . why would you stand that close to an active rail line looking the other way with a curve behind you?

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

ChachaChapati Because he's a fool!

@ChachaChapati

9 жыл бұрын

Richard Gerlach I lived right next to the old Southern Pacific line when I was a kid; even way back when, I used common sense when crossing or near the tracks. Some people...

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

ChachaChapati Thinning the herd. Dang. Missed.

@po9318

4 жыл бұрын

Because he's STUPID!!!

@dcolb121

4 жыл бұрын

Inexperienced. They learned something.

And you know he's the type of guy to go on and on about how "young people don't pay enough attention"....

How many times have you seen a foamer concentrating on getting a video of one train and nearly getting hit by another? The Operating Rule Book states, "expect trains on any track, in any direction, at any time." Everyone who gets near the tracks should memorize that rule and FOLLOW it.

he was paying attention, just to the wrong train :)

Love the way he runs to the bench and sits down, "what it wasn't me" whistles that tune you whistle when your trying to act all nonchalant.

The guy should go out and buy a lottery ticket after that.

@spikespa5208

4 жыл бұрын

Probably not much luck left in the tank.

@Milesco

4 жыл бұрын

@@spikespa5208 : Yeah, I was thinking he's used up all of his luck for the day!

@spikespa5208

4 жыл бұрын

@@Milesco For quite a while.

And I'm sure being right on top of the tracks improved the view of the first train immeasurably! I used to be a firefighter/paramedic before retirement. We called fools like that "job security on the hoof"!

@YouTubeDeletesComments

7 жыл бұрын

True, look up the video "Midnight Moment: Counting Sheep" on Times Square NYC's Channel

In the words of Ron White "Ya can't fix stupid."

@ChadDanforth1426

4 жыл бұрын

Jr Straight your not wrong

i like how no one sitting there tells them

@hunterriley9904

4 жыл бұрын

Ant that the truth lol id went up and jerked em back

@stepvanjoe3469

4 жыл бұрын

I am sure someone thought about it and decided not to get involved

@amascia8327

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the semi-conscicius state is like that.

@RoadCone411

4 жыл бұрын

It looked like nobody was watching that direction. Maybe the guys way down the end of the platform but they couldn’t exactly run and tell the guy who wasn’t looking. What a dumbass. He almost paid for his ignorance with a very serious, perhaps fatal, injury.

@deltagames3864

4 жыл бұрын

No because everyone has their heard buried in there phone

Look how he doesn't even pull his daughter back. Train Spotters almost became train Splatters.

@112Ishaan

4 жыл бұрын

PRESSUREWORKS I don’t get It

@dsmvmdsmsdmsd23

4 жыл бұрын

His daughter was far away enough. So she wouldn't have got hit

@BenjaminEsposti

4 жыл бұрын

That's sexist, she can do it herself :P

@sannytizer7772

4 жыл бұрын

He shouted to her, that's why she turned so quick.

@pressureworks

4 жыл бұрын

sanny terry He didn't shout nor did he even make any attempt to pull her with him. She'll remember that when making the decision to pull the plug.

Reminds me of years ago (1960s) when I lived on the west side of Baltimore not far from the PRR four track mainline. I used to train watch at the former Knecht Ave. crossing. One time a guy foolishly started walking across the tracks south of the crossing where the track curved. He didn't notice that the crossing signal and gates had already actuated. He was too far away to hear me and got as far as the second track before doing a leaping dive backwards as a speeding Metroliner came flying around the curve on that second track, heading north for Baltimore. He no doubt had some bruises from hitting the rock ballast, but fortunately survived the close encounter.

There's nothing like standing on the tracks, watching the trains go by.

that was like a holy sh&t moment.

You can't fix stupid, but sometimes you can whack it with a choo choo.

As loud as these trains are they can sneak up on ya

Wow - now thats close! Lucky people, observant crew.

@shamrock767

10 жыл бұрын

That was too close, unfortunately I've seen so called professionals getting caught likr that.

@MetroVick

10 жыл бұрын

so easly could have been fatal.

That guy had to fill his shorts to capacity after that one!

The younger lady wasn't texting, it appears she was making a video. But, holy cow, what a close call.

@N0l4nH I explained in the "full" description about just that. I am amazed folks comment on stuff without reading the "full" description. The best is when someone asks "where is this" ---when the location is in the title!--lol. Anyway, I at first let out a yell and could hardly hear myself, because it was so loud. I was about 50 60 feet away too. I frantically waved my arms and saw his gaze shift to me and I pointed repeatly----it was very, very close for sure. Yellow lines are there now. Doug

@yakarotsennin3115

3 жыл бұрын

Congrats, you saved his life, but was getting closer to him to move him not an option?

Interesting combo reaction, using the oppurtunity of being running for their lives, to sit down on that bench at the same time :-)

This is the reason why emergency vehicles responding to an incident will use different sirens - to let people know that there is more than one of them. Because the trains' horns are very loud and identical, the man couldn't identify that there was more than one train.

This is probably the most purest title with video about close calls I've seen in awhile.

Very nice Doug. Glad to see a Railfan save a life.

They took off running like they seen a cop turn around and come after them!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

and the darwin award goes too!

@1articoli

7 жыл бұрын

That could have happened to anyone. Are you 100% attentive 100% of the time?

@randomrazr

7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Smith stfu

@spacecookie5730

7 жыл бұрын

@Stan Schurman: Yes! Most people are so ******* stupid! Moron..

"Shit that train almost hit me, i must sit down"

@Milesco

4 жыл бұрын

Was probably a bit weak in the legs after that.

@Cenentury0941

4 жыл бұрын

@@Milesco or he wanted to make it look like it was on purpose.

@rohitlanjekar2010

4 жыл бұрын

There always chances of heart attack...time just stop tikking in that second..ur body just loose up... happened with me on electric train...

That guy looked like Harrison Ford in the Fugitive when the train was chasing him into the ditch.

When Ross Rowland was running 614 on the Erie Limited fan trips in the late 1990's he often opened the cylinder cocks when passing crowded station platforms at speed. It was surprisingly effective in moving crowds away from the platform edge. He did have the advantage in that most all were looking at the oncoming train unlike the man in this video. It's good you were able to get his attention and that they thanked you for it.

@allegheny48

9 жыл бұрын

***** I would be happy to. Steam locomotives have their cylinders in the front underneath the smokebox. On the bottom of each cylinder are 2 cock valves controlled by the engineer. When steam locomotives first start moving these cocks are opened to allow condensation to be drained from the cylinders. This condensation can actually damage the pistons if not drained out. This process is accomplished by high pressure live steam which can shoot out up to 20 feet in some cases depending on how fast the engine is going. Check out the You Tube video C&O 614, Hoboken NJ to Port Jervis NY, October 1996 for an example of this. It happens briefly 20 seconds into the video and again around 5:00. In my opinion this is steam at its finest.

@YouTubeDeletesComments

7 жыл бұрын

I've been thanked more for holding a door open for someone

@raritania7581

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig F. Thompson Yes. The actual Erie Limited was gone by 1976.

Wow! I think he owes you a big one! Great video!

Superb catch, and that really is one lucky, lucky guy !

"...and I turned around, and I mean it was RIGHT friggin' there!"

It's amazing. Nobody else on the platform gives them any warning ( besides the cameraman ) as everyone is spacing out. We have become so accustomed to noise.

Holy Cow!!! That was way too close! Great catch!

OMGee! Thank God for your quick actions! That station needs a bright RED "do not stand here" box the entire length of the platform! Whew!

The driver probably thought he was s goner as he was out of view when he eventually decided to move..

@langer24106

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. If I was the engineer, I’d assume he was hit.

Now that was close!

Excellent video and good work. Nice to see that pretty lady come to thank you for the heads up. 😊👍

That's at Harper's Ferry West Virginia on the CSX Cumberland Subdivision. The next sub over, a CSX derailed on the Shenandoah Sub that merges into the Cumberland in the tunnel. Lucky guy he was. That's a busy sub.

I'd bet good money that this guy likes to stand in cross walks in heavy traffic without bothering to notice the car that is about to kill him.

@tomcatt1824

4 жыл бұрын

I C it all de time @ Walmart,, people just walk rite out in front of cars,,, i asked 1 woman who did that, U sure hv a lotta faith in yer fellow man,,, her reply= pedestrian has de rite of way,,, my reply = hope they put dat on yer tombstone, here lays stupid, she had the right of way........

@visionist7

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomcatt1824 fuckin' savage hahaha

Like most people I’m sure they had no idea what the signal lights mean.

love backgrond looks so nice the mountains

The grim reaper was like "DAMN... ALMOST GOT ME A PAIR!!!!!"

Except for the crew that would have to live with it, his being hit would have reduced the number of idiots roaming free in America.

@deppurple700

4 жыл бұрын

Absoluty

@im1who84u

4 жыл бұрын

Let natural selection sort them out. Then they won't be able to reproduce other morons.

@jdmforever5583

4 жыл бұрын

True... But people do get caught up in the moment and make mistakes... and no matter how smart or intelligent you think you are... things or accidents still could happen to you!!!

@mallymally2106

4 жыл бұрын

Only another 200 million or so to go then.

@tomcatt1824

4 жыл бұрын

@@im1who84u 😃😃👍😃😃

"hmm, thats cool... OH SH*T!"

A-MA-ZING!!! Thanks for this video :)

I admire the way you shouted "away from there ! " instead of shooting indifferent to him just to save your precious video

@bertbert14

3 жыл бұрын

A very special example of stupid...

1:17 To be continued

Notice he turn away from her and ran. He never bothers to pull her away from the track.

When you almost get absolutely smacked by a CSX train

I was on the platform of San Juan Capistrano in CA. Some kids were actually sitting on the edge of the platform. Fortunately they had moved before the Ringling Brothers Circus train came through. Must have been half a mile long.

He no doubt had to visit the men's room to clean out his pants after that!!

Here's a question. Why wasn't the person shooting this trying to warn that guy??

7 жыл бұрын

why didn't those women sitting on the bench try to warn that guy?

@GreyWolf-Lone

7 жыл бұрын

*cough* Description *couch* "A CSX WB mixed freight heads toward the station that has some folks waiting for the Capitol Limited to Chicago from Wash. DC.. I swing the camera around and--- OMG, he can't see or hear the EB coal drag bearing down on him. Too much noise to yell, I frantically wave left arm back&forth and jab point with right arm at the oncoming train. Wow--!!!!So Very Very Close!!!!"

@devyoctavia451

7 жыл бұрын

why didn't he stand in the middle of the track?? :)))

Darwin snaps his fingers in disappointment. Next time old friend,next time......

beautiful shot at the beginning

Wow, that was close! Good thing they have a yellow line there now!

@JawTooth

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Dohn That was close. Today they have a yellow line that you aren't suppose to cross to prevent this. He could have been killed.

@JawTooth

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Dohn Thats a good idea. I bet they prevent ppl from getting hit. I dont get to see very many Amtrak trains.

@JawTooth

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Dohn Man, I wish I lived in Florida. I go there every winter to visit my mom. I went there in Feb and March this year. I hate the ice and cold up here in Ohio. Tri Rail has been on my list for a while. You guys are lucky not to have ice and snow. I go to Plant City and Tampa. When FEC opens their passenger trains you guys will have it made. I want to see those trains also.

@JawTooth

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Dohn I remember when I first saw FEC. I was near Titusville and it was the first time I ever saw a concrete tie. I hope you get that job soon bc they would be a great job with benefits and great pay. Ice is one thing I could do without. I live on a one lane road in a farming area and they dont use salt or remove the ice. It has to melt and can take a month or more to melt. People wreck here all the time in the winter.

@JawTooth

8 жыл бұрын

Joe Dohn Its a great job especially since you will be outside and get to see all kinds of trains. Salt is used in Ohio on all the main roads but our township cant afford it so they never use it. If we get heavy snow, they started plowing the road I live on a few years ago so the school bus doesnt get stuck. I have seen a lot of cars in my ditch

I think we all have done something like that. After all, trains are hypnotic and cause us to act like kids when we see them up close. I know I do. Nice video👍👍👍👍. Thanks for taking the time to post.

@jilljones3664

3 жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself. No, "we" haven't all done something like that.

@grumpyg9350

3 жыл бұрын

Jill Jones , I stand corrected. Jill has never done anything like this, and to all who are like her, I'm sorry that my opinion offended you.👍✌️

My old man was a loco driver, I spend me childhood in the cab.., man I still get a tight arse just driving over a level crossing in built up areas where ya can’t see far down those fn tracks

Im a retired locomotive engineer.But I remember I almost hit a kid walking down in the middle of the tracks with a headset on. I kept blowing and blowing,finally he turned around at the last second jumped out of the way..

@jshepard152

4 жыл бұрын

That's the dumbest thing I can imagine.

Hearing the second train, while another train is passing, is harder than you might imagine!

@sanddabz5635

4 жыл бұрын

No kidding....that's why common sense tells ya to stay back~

If this train station or stop station, where are the safety or stand back yellow line?

@phonyplatonist3393

7 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Smith Your quite the grammar nazi.

@phonyplatonist3393

7 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Smith *you're

@paulgoudfrooij6561

4 жыл бұрын

Don't you think people should have some common sense as well?

@paulgoudfrooij6561

4 жыл бұрын

Alley Cat OK, and you think ticket prices should then be increased in order to pay for the paint and labor involved, at all stations?

@jimdomoradzki483

4 жыл бұрын

Yellow lines mighht be a liability showing it is safe behind the line and someone leans forward or is wearing a backpack.

now he knows what a deer in the headlights is thinking

This is the ORIGINAL version I was looking for. Most other clips with this footage only include the near miss bit

I'm surprised nobody's foaming over the fact there's a female railfan

@JMRabil675

4 жыл бұрын

Why? Is being a railway fan a dude thing? Guess that makes sense

@candlestyx8517

4 жыл бұрын

You can find females pursuing any interest under the sun. Same reason the are men that are into female dominated hobbies

@gabes14

4 жыл бұрын

@King SP ikr

@Salmagundiii

3 жыл бұрын

probably not a "real" railfan, either of them This town is very popular with tourists and history buffs because it looks much the way it did in Civil War times. On a busy fall day in the early 2000s, an idiot parked his BMV on the tracks (there used to be an overflow lot very close to them) because he thought they were 'a prop'. No kidding. His car made it half way across the Potomac plastered to the front of a locomotive. You could hear the scraping sound of the wheels as the emergency brakes were applied. Too bad this was before phones had cameras and my film camera was out of film.

@thesierrastandard7281

3 жыл бұрын

@@Salmagundiii Probably right. Damn I forgot I even left this comment and people got mad over it lol

Well, I'm sure he needed a change of underwear after that lol

@sannytizer7772

4 жыл бұрын

The toilet is where the girl went next, her mother ran for the key.

One of the first things I was taught when railfanning was always expect a train on the other track! Always watch both ways, your camera picks up the way you aren’t watching!

Thank you for your explanations.

To Mark, ABMP4D3,& billy, etal....why didn't you read the intro description?...DOH!

@satanxhhhx

10 жыл бұрын

Yep, people need to learn to RTFD.

@lthomas428

8 жыл бұрын

+Doug Obert Doug, I would like to ask permission to use this video in training - can you reply to lthomas@findlay.edu?

#1 rule of fanning. Safety first guys :)

love how the guy in the red shirt just wants a selfie with the old guy about to get squashed... LOL

When you hear the train horn coming, run and get out of the way!

The guy with the camera needs a knee replacement - Instead of dropping the camera and rush to warn the idiot, What was he/she doing still shooting?

@bertbert14

4 жыл бұрын

No time...Too Loud...Read the intro! Doh!

@deppurple700

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck that idiot

@vickiseebacher7152

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, the guy with the camera should have yelled or done something.

@henthust9784

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised the guy with the camera upsets you for failing to warn people from meters away, but you say nothing about the man who turns and runs to take the sit without warning a woman centimetres away from himself.... Anyway....

Gosh, I wish James Stobie had the same luck ! RIP

@terx1

4 жыл бұрын

Miss him..

@dougthegreat1808

4 жыл бұрын

@@princessofthecape2078 something is very wrong with you! Try getting laid even if it is by another woman!

Nice catch Doug!

Years ago, we had an Amtrack hit a car while doing 90 mph. This was a double track. Even at night, folks came out of the woodwork to observe. One idiot parked his car right on the tracks, to get a good view, and got hit by a freight train.

Wow. The guy should have been more alert. Still, would a nice, clear yellow stripe near the platform's edge be asking too much?

@paulkennedy8701

9 жыл бұрын

Tomiata It's America. They don't even have platforms.

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Kennedy Yes we do. That's what we call them here whether they're high level or ground level. This one (obviously) is ground level.

@paulkennedy8701

9 жыл бұрын

Richard Gerlach Yes, I understand that. I was just having a go. Seriously, though, for a country where freight railways are so extensive and well managed, the passenger rail system is very backward. I remember rail journals being proud of the new Albany-Rensellaer station, but in fact it felt like a very minor station, located on the opposite side of the river because the freight companies wouldn't let Amtrak trains into Albany itself. Chicago Union station has a fantastic ticket hall, but it's no longer used by travellers, who instead have to wait in cramped, glass-box waiting rooms. They then reach the (enormouse, double-deck) trains from the end of very narrow, very-low 'platforms'. There's a station on the Boston--New York line (the premier route!) where passengers have to arrive 10 minutes early, to be bused to the opposite platform, because the station doesn't have a bridge or underpass. (Perhaps this has now been fixed; my visit was years ago.)

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Kennedy What can I say. We Americans are married to our automobiles! We tore down the grandest terminal of them all in 1966. The old Pennsylvania RR station in NYC. Now it is just the basement of the new (now relatively old) Madison Square Garden arena. We never want to spend any Federal funds on passenger infrastructure. Amtrak is really only strong on the Northeast corridor (Boston-Washington, D.C.) and even there they have to fight for every last Federal penny! Long distance train travel here is usually more fun for the person taking video from the side of the track than the actual rider. You often have to wait in sidings for priority freights to pass. There are frequent grade crossing accidents which tie up the line. If you travel all the way across country here (by train) you'll probably be happy if your return trip is by plane! And planes are nothing more than flying cattle cars today as well! This is progress in our "Brave New World"! LOL!

@paulkennedy8701

9 жыл бұрын

Richard Gerlach You say that the country doesn't want to spend to federal funds on passenger infrastructure. I know you mean on the railways, but it's ironic that huge amounts of public money (incl federal) have been spent on infrastructure for passengers on the roads and in the air. The interstate highway system, the airports, air traffic control, highway patrols, airport security, etc, are mainly publicly-funded and have cost vastly more than what has been paid for railways.

At 1:12 the person on the left in red just turned around and looked away instead of warning the people. What the heck?

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

The Loki Looks like he/she is taking a "selfie" too! Person in faded blue jeans does nothing too! Is Harper's Ferry full of zombies?

@edwin3928ohd

6 жыл бұрын

looks like he didnt notice how they were in actual danger. maybe he saw they were there. but he was focusing on a selfie

I wonder about what would have happened if you hadn't been there! I shudder at the thought!

Thanks for sharing this video with us, very good. Bernard Babin Quebec city - Canada

wow that was a close call! watch from 1:09 seconds

gotta go change m' gramper

I missed the Harpers Ferry name on the tunnel exit. I thought the area looked familiar. When the camera swung around, I knew it was the Harper's Ferry station. I started working in Washington D C in January of 2007 and took the Marc train into DC every day. It was dark when I boarded the EB Marc. The trip home was in the dark too. It was not until longer daylight in the spring that I got to see the surroundings. I guess my point is that I recognized the station surroundings and thought it was Harper's Ferry. One weekend I stayed there. I took the Amtrak to BWI to meet my wife who came in for a family party. While waiting for the train at Harper's Ferry, I encountered an older fellow who was there just to watch the trains. That is when I learned the B&O ran on that line many years before. My Grandfather was a Conductor on the B&O and he probably went through that station. Really a small world. Anyhow, that is enough of my rambling. The close call guy was standing close to where I stood waiting for the Marc; however, not as close to the tracks. The west bound Marc ran on the other track and we unloaded toward that small shelter on the far side of the tracks. Usually waited for the Marc to clear out before crossing back over to the parking lot, but sometimes many of us would walk west for a short distance then make a direct track crossing to the parking lot. Really done now. Thanks for listening.

This is some good quality for 9 years ago

The hero turns and runs the heck with the girl, he should of grabbed her arm and pulled.

@aussiefirie

7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Smith if you can't handle people not using the English language, you would be a complete mess here in Australia.

@MrAIRSHOWFAN100

5 жыл бұрын

She wouldn't have been hit. She was far enough away from the tracks

@jshepard152

4 жыл бұрын

He never thought about her. It was all instinct.

He think that first train push horn

@richardgerlach5156

9 жыл бұрын

-HUSARZ - Probably.

In Scotland station platforms are r are raised up from track level so passengers are not this close to the rails. There is still the danger of someone standing too close to the platform edge and getting swept off by turbulence of trains passing through the station at high speed. So there is a yellow line painted on the platforms that passengers are advised to stand behind.

Omg i live in charles town and i literally go to harpers ferry like every week and watch the trains in that very exact spot

Old fart can move.

Many more like that and they'll be selling calvin Klein in the Station

@neetujain6451

4 жыл бұрын

😂🤭🤭

@railfanpat1719

3 жыл бұрын

He most definitely shit his pants

In Dallas the Dart has yellow clearance area. Plus a loud lady comes on the PA system if you get near that line expect a brutal yelling to get the hell away from the yellow area. 😂😂😂

I'm still baffled that they didn't notice sooner.