This dude legit put his life on the line to make this video

@benjaminmarks8765

3 жыл бұрын

He put his life on the line every day

@ridgec5670

3 жыл бұрын

I know! How many times in the video when we was showing the wrong way did he almost get his feet under the wheels.

@2H80vids

3 жыл бұрын

Must have been black and blue when they finished filming.😁

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

3 жыл бұрын

@Isaacstuff I was curious how old he was. RIP

@Tbolt881

3 жыл бұрын

This dude is my hero.

“A little bit careless, that’s like being a little bit pregnant.” Best quote ever.

@dickJohnsonpeter

4 жыл бұрын

He stuck his hand in there. Sometime last Tuesday. Just so you know.

@ActionNewsNetwork

4 жыл бұрын

the good old days lol

@1978garfield

4 жыл бұрын

Was anyone else concerned after he said that he said "Come on" and then there is a pause... Is he going to attempt to impregnate the new hires?

@telesniper2

4 жыл бұрын

but you CAN be a little bit pregant. You can be 1 week pregnant. That's different than being 8 months pregnant, no?

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

@@telesniper2 no.

I can't imagine a modern safety production team even allowing and actor or stuntman to do some of the "examples" this guy demonstrated. OSHA inspectors would go nuts!

@eugenetswong

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, some of it looked painful.

@caseD5150

4 жыл бұрын

OSHA is a buncha cunts

@frank6842

4 жыл бұрын

@@caseD5150 until they keep you from dying because a company is too cheap to invest in safety equipment

@ryansaunders65

4 жыл бұрын

But that's the problem. These examples will literally save your life. So much red tape oversight makes people overlook why it was made in the first place... To save your butt.

@joeybickley4877

4 жыл бұрын

Elodea first of all, OSHA has nothing to do with RR operations, the FRA does. This guy was actually in marketing but, before working for UP, he was a professional wrestler he knew how to fall. He passed away in 2004. I’m a retired operating instructor for UP.

This old man giving me a heart attacks just watching this video.

@spiffster05

4 жыл бұрын

OMG I totally agree, the suspense has me constantly on edge. I honestly don't know if I can watch the whole thing!

@scottprendergast2680

4 жыл бұрын

Static R old man? OLD MAN?! TAKE CARE WITH YOUR WORDS AS He can probably Out Walk, Out run as well as Out fight You- take note: he’s built Like A bear, deceptively fast and probably healthy as An ox- take note : This “Old Man” did all his O W N S T U N T S....

@thelasthallow

4 жыл бұрын

he had probably been doing this job for like 40 years, he was probably the best man the company had on staff and thats how he got on this safety video.

@briankoski2532

4 жыл бұрын

Badass El Camino at 20:00. Yeah, this dude's a badass too!

@andeoo

4 жыл бұрын

I couldnt say exactly how scary it was to watch his foot get that close to the wheels

The man in this film Is Mr. Glen Roper. He worked on the Union Pacific railroad in many capacities over the years. He had done some stunt work in movies (I don't know which ones) and had also on occasion performed as a professional wrestler as the "Masked Marvel". I met Mr. Roper in Los Angeles when I went to inquire about employment on the U.P. and he was in the personnel office at that time (Oct.1973) and I hired out as a laborer in Maintenance of Way. In 1974 I went into engine service and Mr. Roper was giving the rules classes to us. He had worked in train service for many years. He was very knowledgeable of many aspects of railroading. Those old heads from that generation were a bunch of tough , hard working people. They were an interesting bunch and I was glad to have had the opportunity to learn from them.

@littletrainguy

7 жыл бұрын

good job I did not know that

@BossSpringsteen69

7 жыл бұрын

If six of the managers where i work saw some of the no longer allowed work processes that this guy is performing, they would crap their pants, trip over each other, and get a case of the shakes just trying to write this guy up.

@sdkfz2512

5 жыл бұрын

James Krause Wow, my dad was born in 1972. Lol

@blueringedoctopus4778

5 жыл бұрын

James Krause it was in the credits

@flipflopsguy8868

4 жыл бұрын

Wow great information, I was happy when I recognized old downtown Los Ageless in the background and was trying to figure out if the gentleman was an actual railroad training man or a stuntman when realized it was the rail yard along the Los Angeles river and not somewhere in middle America. Now with your great information I know who he was and where it was and I add I was born in Los Angeles and my grandfather was a big fan of wrestling and roller derby and went every chance he could to The Olympic Auditorium and he would take me along sometimes but I was a tv kid and watched mostly at home on our ten inch black and white, 72 was twelve years old. 😊

I couldn't help but laugh at $3K to clean up that derailment. But this is close to 50 years ago.

@David-cy5zu

4 жыл бұрын

Its not because of inflation. Rather it was made by company itself.

@DKrueger1994

4 жыл бұрын

Now these day, it would be a lot more than $3,000 for a derail cleanup

@CosbyTheCaterpillar

3 жыл бұрын

$3,000 in 1972 is about $18,000 today.

@JohnSmith-lw2bm

3 жыл бұрын

Probably 3 million today.

@DKrueger1994

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-lw2bm that, plus a full scale investigation by the State's Department of Transportation, National Transportation Safety Board, and either County Sheriff or State Police

You have two arms, two legs, two eyes, etc. You only have one back, one brain...be mindful of the the things you only have one of! Goddamn the oldschool guys were tough, but insane, SOB's.

@mha53

4 жыл бұрын

peter fleming oh .. I understood pack instead of back hahahah

@TheNemosdaddy

2 жыл бұрын

they weren't tough, they were stupid. A lot of them got killed and derailments were through the roof. If you ever looked at the statistics from the 1950's-1980 you'd been blown away at how bad things really were.

@thetransportationguy7930

2 жыл бұрын

Back then when you lost a finger the doctor would say, “it’ll grow back.”

@verdun7390

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNemosdaddy people still get killed because of complacency. I see you have coined the 1950's-1980 whereas that's when the trucking industry took over the market share. Now those fatalities hit the interstates. I wonder what the statistics of moving freight by truck has on people being killed.

@justforever96

2 жыл бұрын

Personally I dont know that I value either of my legs or arms any the less just because I have two of them. Better to lose one of those than my back, certainly, but I would rather be careful of all of them.

I hope they gave him a helluva bonus for making this.

@teresapyeatt3698

2 жыл бұрын

He worked for the railroad and worked as a stunt man on the side. So, right up his alley.

@uuuultra

Ай бұрын

probably didn't

2:44 "Cushion?? Nah, just trow a couple blankets on the ground"

@SDCustoms

4 жыл бұрын

And women were too.

@skiney

3 жыл бұрын

@@RVD2448 so that means you are not a man.

@spottySTC

2 жыл бұрын

2 years ago, while returning back home at a evening, i took a nasty fall. Somebody left a wire across the road, i couldn't notice it because of darkness, and i almost broke my arm on an impact. I really wish there was at least a blanket like in the video there in front of me that day.

@HappyHands.

2 жыл бұрын

@@spottySTC motorbiking?

@spottySTC

2 жыл бұрын

@@HappyHands. Nah, just bike :)

I love these old productions

@canadianpacificstudios5835

3 жыл бұрын

Heyyyy jawtooth big fan!

@user-dh9oz9um2w

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@aperfectspongebobpopsicle2221

3 жыл бұрын

@Joaquin Spragley wth

@timothyxv171mmmpertinentgamer

3 жыл бұрын

My friend love this Video how Awesome

@metro-northrailroadproduct5043

3 жыл бұрын

I'ma big Jaw Tooth fan Jaw Tooth

Mr. Roper was most definitely a Union Pacific Employee. He conducted my student trips (training classes) when I hired on in 1967. Among other things, he walked the class around the entire East [Los Angeles] Yard and named every track from memory. We had to learn them all as part of our training. Years later, after I had left the railroad, he graciously met with me at the East L.A. office (now long gone), rolled out the ink-on-linen plan of the yard, and named all the tracks again so I could take notes. I was just a railfan by then, hoping someday to build a layout based on the yard. The man was exceptional.

@chrisaceglav6579

5 жыл бұрын

No

@redrock717

5 жыл бұрын

How come you left the job if I may ask?

@adksherm

4 жыл бұрын

No? Yes! Reminds me of mother's bush!

@yellowpole9651

4 жыл бұрын

😢😌

@sab0nes

3 жыл бұрын

That was when the tracks were ok n the streets in Los Angeles? I remember they even had a train track straight into the central USPS office

You couldn't make a training film like this now. When I was hired in 77 we still did everything they do in this film except ride the tops of the cars. Now, they can't get on or off moving equipment. Retired last year and glad.

@Don-et3yp

4 жыл бұрын

I have been gone from UP for nearly 15 years now. When I left no getting on or off moving equipment. All of us old heads were retiring and they were sending the kiddies to school to learn how to run locomotive on he ground. Turned them loose just as soon as they marked up for work. There wasn’t a lot of work that got done with two new hires working the same job. The so called school did not teach them any kind of short cuts to make the work easier and faster. An most of the new hires thought they knew it all anyway, after all they just went to school for six weeks to learn how to play train. I was a safety man and I can tell you one thing about the UP railroad, if they needed something done in a hurry you could break every one of the rules in the book if you got the job done for them and didn’t tear anything up, and no one got hurt and nothing would be said. Oh and they would come to an old head crew to get the job done in a hurry.

@Bohica-tq3ps

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats to you two guys on retirement, I pulled the pin in 2009 with 43 years. Started with the Santa Fe as a switchman and finished with BNSF as a conductor. I never walked the top of cars either, but I rode the footboards on engines. Years before I retired they stopped us from getting on or off moving equipment. If the company had done that sooner my back and knees might not hurt so much.

@Syclone0044

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, from a safety standpoint right away it stuck out to me how they would board relatively fast moving equipment. Can’t say I’m too surprised they’ve ended that practice. I wonder how many total human lives and limbs were lost up to that point? I bet it’s in 5 or 6 digits.

@michlo3393

2 жыл бұрын

Yay for you. Thanks for the 1985 National Agreement too. 👍 You guys single-handedly FUCKED everybody who'd come on after you. And people call US selfish. And for the whole "back in my day" shit, well it must have been nice with your little 4,000-foot train with a full crew to do the work! wow! and a rule book the size of a Denny's menu, how tough.

@jsccs1

2 жыл бұрын

Got four years on myself. In the time I've been on the job they've gotten rid of getting on/off moving equipment, kicking unless stated as allowed in special instructions, gravity drops, and running switch moves. They've also created these... route indicating boxes for switches, which in practice makes it so we can no longer run semi autos.

"Gravity with all the the horsepower of the Earth is now the engine!"

@SouthernRailPhotography

8 жыл бұрын

+R Johnson OH NO STOP GRAVITY STOP GRAVITY STOP OH NO MOVE GUY MOVE BOXCARS THE GRAVITY TRAIN IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@eliotvideos2009

6 жыл бұрын

R Johnson I think that part got the message across to the viewers lol

@kellypenrod2979

4 жыл бұрын

An that ain't no joke brothers!! Don't matter if it's a consist of car's, a semi truck, or a dozer, gravity rules!!

@AFriendlyTheo

4 жыл бұрын

​@@kellypenrod2979 "set yourself in a sled and go down a steep hill- the power of the earth will quickly become apparent to you"- Grandpa Wayne, rest in peace.

@kellypenrod2979

4 жыл бұрын

I will give you a much scarier example Theo, LOOSE your brakes in a semi on a 9% grade with a 125000 lbs!! I am VERY well acquainted with the power of gravity! And like I said, IT AIN'T NO JOKE!!

OMG, he really hit that switch stand. That really hurt. He must have been black and blue for week

@jonmacdonald5345

4 жыл бұрын

Actually they had to replace the switch stand after being hit by his enormous Balls!

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont

2 жыл бұрын

That is where "acting" comes into play. He knew "how" to hit it so it looked violent but without risk of injury. While it is true stuntmen can be injured, they know how to minimize the risks. Otherwise, no one would take the job.

I have said this before, and it still applies here too. This was back when men, were men. And at this point, at least someone cared enough to make a film to (hopefully) step safety up. I remember seeing this film back in the 1990s, as on an actual film projector. I can not for the life of me remember where or why, but I was hooked and it is still great to watch all these years later.

At 25 years I'm an old head now. I've never gotten on moving equipment faster than 2 mph. Mad respect for this guy and all the railroaders of the past.

@Komodofq8

Жыл бұрын

At CP we can do 4mph... but I often do it at 7 or 8 🤫

Anyone else now binge watching old safety videos that popped up in your recommended after you watched shake hands with danger

@Rena152

2 жыл бұрын

* guitar riff *

@uuuultra

Ай бұрын

🇺🇸

New dance move. The "I put my foot on the wrong side of the stirrup"

@maxr.mamint8580

4 жыл бұрын

To get your left foot in take your right foot out To get your left foot in you have to hop and bounce Jam your left foot in Where you took the right one out Thats what its all about

@uuuultra

Ай бұрын

dad humor

one of my favorite railroad sayings : there are old trainmen and there are bold trainmen - but there are no old bold trainmen

Who knew Archie Bunker was so knowledgeable about train safety?

Wow he almost lost a leg more than once doing this

@antoy384

4 жыл бұрын

john leininger “We broke our leg so you don’t have to break yours!”

@anniebellemiller2986

4 жыл бұрын

And an arm.

when his foot slipped though the step and started rubbing the axle i nearly doodoo’d myself

@lokomac8

4 жыл бұрын

I had that exact thing happen to me ONCE early in my career in the yard at Winslow, Arizona. It further emphasized the importance of having a GOOD HAND HOLD ON THE GRAB IRONS!

@aaprcob

4 жыл бұрын

R.J. McKay it’s almost happened to me on a flatcar. We were doing a switch testing run and they took off.

dang! hats off to the guy doing the demonstration of getting on and off moving equipment! he took some CRAZY risks and hard hits especially at the 05:50 mark.so many modern rules broken! lol

@bored.in.california2111

8 жыл бұрын

+Gus Mc People back then knew how to take hits and punches. You wouldn't mess with an old guy in those days.

@tommytruth7595

8 жыл бұрын

+Gus Mc Not really. That guy was a Hollywood stunt man.

@gusmc2220

8 жыл бұрын

well seeing as how a guy I personally know and have worked with multiple times who has nearly 30 years of experience broke his ankle not that long ago getting off a car, and another gal who works not 100 miles from me was balled up and killed when she was pinned between two cars, I still think he was taking some crazy risks.

@lokomac8

8 жыл бұрын

+Tommy Truth -- actually, he WAS a switchman. I think someone posted here earlier that knew him.

@eliotvideos2009

6 жыл бұрын

Gus Mc and the switch thing looked painful

"A car only has to move a couple inches to give you a hell of a squeeze." Remember folks, don't stick your fingie where you wouldn't stick your dinkie

THIS needs to be required viewing for today's yard workers.

‘A little bit careless, that’s like being a little bit pregnant.’ Iconique™️

Gotta respect an old head like this. He knows what hes talking about

My Grandpa hopped on and off steam locomotives back in the 50s. He even fired the 844.

@Surfliner450

4 жыл бұрын

That’s amazing!

43 years later and it all still applies today

@priority6885

6 жыл бұрын

Eli Wilson Train Videos Not all, but most

@arcnova1982

5 жыл бұрын

Getting on and off moving equipment is a thing of the past sadly. Wish it wasnt.

@jrrailroad7631

5 жыл бұрын

arcnova1982 nova they still let us do it at KCS, but I think we are one of the last.

@arcnova1982

5 жыл бұрын

@@jrrailroad7631 damn u guys are lucky. Makes switching a whole lot faster.

@robertjennings397

4 жыл бұрын

Eli Wi now.

This guy is my hero. You'd think the guy they would have do this video would be like 30. Instead they get a 65 year old. Great stuff!!!

I watched this film when I was in brakeman's school for the CNW at Proviso in May 1974 shortly after I hired out. I spent 40 years on the RR. CNW from 1974 to 1995 and the UPRR from 1995 to 2013. It was a great job and wish I was still working. I've been retired for nearly 6 years now....:-(

@HazeGreyAndUnderway

4 жыл бұрын

Can you provide any advice for someone looking to get into a rr these days? I don't necessarily have any specific schooling that I think would directly apply, but I have manual labor experience and a history of intensive safety training already.

@TheChoochooboy99

4 жыл бұрын

I used to run a transfer train out of the NS Ashland Ave yard to Proviso. It was always a crap shoot as to which yard I would end up in. Usually it was either Yard Two or Yard Nine. I always loved that run. I was always guaranteed the twelve and then at least two hours waiting for PTI to grab us and take us back to Ashland. I kinda miss doing that but don’t at the same time.

@thejmc4074

4 жыл бұрын

Aldo Raine don't. That's the advice. You'll get laid ofd

@thejmc4074

4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your retirement

I hired on in the mid 90's & this was one of the first things we learned during our yard training. Seems pretty simple to most, it would be banned as the company began hiring what I'd call 'less than qualified' individuals en masse which couldn't grasp the concept. What comes around, goes around as they say...the method was recently re-introduced as being acceptable as pressures from Precision Scheduled Railroading prevailed! When the big wigs rolled out PSR, we tried to explain to them that their own rule book & dimwitted 'managers' were going to be like oil & water as compared to blending PSR concepts. They laughed it off, initially....but what do you know! Gobs of rules were cast away in an effort to move trains!

@verdun7390

2 жыл бұрын

Not being able to get on and off moving equipment is asinine. Waiting until the slack runs out and equipment not moving doesn't apply to tank cars. No one ever said you "Have to do anything" Riding cars is an option. I am a huge proponent of off and on. Its definitely not for everyone. Most Switchman know their limitations. The savings in fuel alone could save jobs if allocated correctly.

Hats off to this man for risking limb and life to teach the rookies

He's his own stuntman. You have to give to him to do this film. One brave railroad man.

No horror movie has ever given me this many jumpscares.

Hired on the Penn Central in 1969. Didn't get all this training if I remember right. Lots of others hazards to watch out for too. Materials hanging off gondola cars, kids throwing rocks at the way car and engine, snow and ice etc.. Working the hump yard at night was probably the most dangerous. Never knew when those cars would move while you were hooking up air lines. I was actually on a train that got robbed. Taking a drag from one yard to another, they dumped the air and set the brakes. Then cut the seal on a car full of new tires. Tires rolled out into the ghetto and disappeared. I grabbed a brake handle and started out of the engine when the engineer grabbed me and sat me down. He said " kid those aren't our tires, you stay put and let the railroad cops handle it". That went on for years until they finally caught the inside man. It was a car checker that marked the hit car.Back in the day before air brakes, thousands of brakemen were killed yearly. Sometimes they wouldn't bother retrieving the body. I didn't stay on but about a year. Had other fish to fry I guess. Good memories of my time on the rails.

@Leland45028

4 жыл бұрын

Let me guess ? uncle sam sent you a letter.

1971 I started on the Indiana harbor belt railroad there were no films they just handed me a lantern and it was like good luck and you watched everyone else and taught yourself

I was taught on the Great Northern way back in 1966 to never wear 5 finger gloves. If one finger gets hung up on a burr of metal on a rail car you can lose a finger. Instead I was told to go and buy a pair of leather mittens so if you got hung up the mitten would come off all at once. It makes a lot of sense.

@25mfd

4 жыл бұрын

so true... I worked for the Chicago and northwestern... we called those leather mitts "choppers"... I wore them in lew of the 5 finger gloves... they were more spacious

@seththomas9105

4 жыл бұрын

When I hired on in the 90's most of the old heads wore mitts. Nobody does now.

@Marauder92V

Жыл бұрын

Your reply brought back some memories. My Dad and his father were both PRR. My Dad lost 2 fingers on his left hand from a crushing injury caused by a load shift on a gondola car while he was holding onto the top of it. This was back in the early 1960s. I remember him telling me about the early 1900s when his father started working for the railroad. It was a pretty dangerous time and a lot of men were injured or killed.

One of the greatest railroad safety videos ever made. The sheer audacity of some of the things the actor did was shocking and awesome examples of real life applications. Getting himself hit by a switch stand sign while riding a car was amazingly bad and I don't know if he was a stuntman but he seemed to understand railroading in the way he moved.

@calcutt4

Жыл бұрын

He was a railway employee

@evanforst7272

9 ай бұрын

The one that got me was the “impaired clearance” one.

@contextspecific

8 ай бұрын

Glen Roper what a legend

He looks like he is about 65. He is in great shape!!

4:40 damn, that looks painful! This fella is tougher than woodpecker lips!

as someone who has been through more training programs then I can keep count ( oilfeild, railroad, and trucking) I would give my left nut to be trained by an old hand like mr glen then anyone with a sheepskin and a open book you will learn way more about the actual inner workings of anything you are studding for and it will actually stick with you over cram study a paper test and get shoved into a fire.

@royreynolds108

4 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct.

As much as I like trains, I would have never been able to get as close to moving heave machinery like this guy without shitting my pants through and through

That Guy resembles Carol O Conner from all in the Family

@christianbeard7001

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, that's who I thought it was.

@rrbone

4 жыл бұрын

Boy the way Glen Miller played.

@paulramsey8187

4 жыл бұрын

Gee our old lasalle ran great....

@catlady8324

4 жыл бұрын

You meat head, you!

@johncholmes643

4 жыл бұрын

Chief Gillespie

3:40 the tension of watching this guy doing his own stunts is only tempered by his delightful arm wave as he gets off the right way

i can't believe that this old guy didn't give himself back pain

" A little bit careless; that's like being a little bit pregnant, ya stupid meathead no-nuttin' empty-headed stifle yourself good for nuttin'...." Actually, this guy really took one for the team when he filmed this. Very impressed.

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

ONE!? It looks like there were a couple of times he took one for the team!

Damn this dude is hardcore, he does his own stunts!

7:56 THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! They actually did that!

@Tomh821

2 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Holy crap.

Many years ago, I was a technician with CN Telecommunications, the telecom arm of CN Rail. Back in the mid 70's, when I worked in Northern Ontario, I often rode freights, in either the engine or caboose (van as they called it). Because the engineers didn't like stopping if they didn't have to, this meant I often had to hop on or off a moving train. Incidentally, that section on properly setting the brakes reminded me of a disaster that happened in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, back in 2013. To save money, the railway was running trains with only one crew member. When he left the train, he hadn't set enough brakes. During the night, the locomotive providing air for the brakes caught fire and was shut down. As a result, with inadequate brakes, the train rolled into town and derailed, with it's load of oil exploding and destroying much of the town and killing 47 people!

Railroad work is insanely dangerous. It is what started our labor laws. A guy lost his leg on the railroad, in 1890 they would carry him home in a bloody sheet and drop him at the doorstep. That was it.

I never realized how huge railroad equipment is...

This gentleman can practically show you an example of a botch in a moving locomotive and still not get hurt even when it looks like he's actually in pain. Very professional 👍

Growing up next to some train tracks as a kid back in the 70s-80s we were always playing around the tracks. Jumping on and off of moving trains. INSANE. Thinking back on it scares the Hell out of me now.

Information presented here would have prevented the July 6 2013 Lac Megantic Rail Disaster in Quebec Canada.

@rogerknights857

4 жыл бұрын

That was my thought too. (About setting several brakes, and setting them hard.) It begins at about 13:45.

He does everything so gracefully and perfectly. What a great man.

Still have my grandpa's railroad lantern, he passed away when I was 1 year old...freight conductor on the SP.

Archie Bunker at the switchyard

@leehuff2330

6 жыл бұрын

A couple places I could just hear Archie Bunker, especially the "ah, Jeez"! 😆

@flipflopsguy8868

4 жыл бұрын

Probably because Television City where they were filming All in the family was down the tracks on La Brea in Hollywood.

@evanfinch4987

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

i had to watch this video and whoever got hired at this shortline railroad we worked for and we all called it the Archie Bunker video!

This is a proper safety video, no bullshit and correctness, pure life.

My favorite memory of Union Pacific is the French toast. Yes, I said the French toast. Back then they hold passenger Cars too. Every winter my family took a ski vacation, and we always took the Union Pacific Railroad. This may not have anything to do with mr. Roper however, but I still remember the Union Pacific as being the best damn French toast I've ever eaten in my life. Back when they had dining cars with actual waiters in white service coats and you had a menu that you could write down what you wanted. I miss those days

@jackshittle

2 жыл бұрын

Where was the ski destination and where would you depart from?

Memories with Southern Pacific in Dalhart Texas in 1995. This guy is incredible. I can believe he was a stuntman and railroad employee. They were tough old heads back then. At present OSHA would faint at this video. I do miss the rail and a high ball 🚆 Train

this guy is a badass...

This is a great film! The body mechanics of how to do something without injury are amazing. I could see how everything he presents nearly fifty years ago applies today. I don't work in the rail Industry, and don't know what procedures are used now, but what he demonstrated made 100% sense to me.

@acehandler1530

2 жыл бұрын

We had an instructor (1977) that had to wear special shoes, he took his right shoe off to show us, his heel was about 1" further back than it should have been - from getting off the train when it was going a 'bit too fast' for many years he told us. Also had 3 vertebrae fused in his neck from a collision when he was riding in the engine - and he was slammed bent over into the front bulkhead! What a trooper!

Of all the railroad educational and instructional videos I've seen, this was definitely the most entertaining! You're certainly right that the elements of humor help to hold one's attention and make the subject matter stick. Thank you for sharing this bit of railroad history with the rest of us!

Now on Class 1 railroads, nobody gets on or off equipment unless that equipment is _stationary;_ my dad was a conductor and my sister is an engineer.

@RailroadScannerMan15

Жыл бұрын

Not true on all. NS and most shortlines still practice getting on and off moving equipment.

@notmuch_23

Жыл бұрын

@@RailroadScannerMan15 It is with BNSF though...

@RailroadScannerMan15

Жыл бұрын

@@notmuch_23 Yep. Cn too. I’m a conductor for CN and most of this in the video is banned.

Brings back memories of me and the neighborhood kids in the 1950's early 1960's when we used to hop on the cars like this man was doing. At present, I am now too old to do that....LOL. Great instructional film.

I absolutely love old instructional videos. When we used to have to watch them in school, everyone would complain and fall asleep and I was secretly watching intently from the back of the room.

Anyone get this suddenly recommended to them in Dec 2019?

@erikgag

4 жыл бұрын

Me

@bryceforsyth8521

4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@briankoski2532

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it.. What's up?

@handfuloftrains4781

4 жыл бұрын

I did. Don't know why, but it's fascinating.

@briankoski2532

4 жыл бұрын

@@handfuloftrains4781 What I mean, is this something work related? 'Required' viewing for your job?? Safety 1st !

For a second there I thought it was Archie Bunker! LOL

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

Well now hode on thea Edeth, I ain't lettin' no ah, colo'ds on my car thea."

Man my grandad's like this old dude super sarcastic lol but mega serious

“I’d give it about 15 feet or 3 bantamweight fighters laid out” 😂

I dont work around trains but.. I feel like i and everyone else needs to see this LOL

guys at the time this was shown may not admit it, but his antics prevented a lot of injuries. my compliments.

damgerious as hell to film

16:13 i cant even imagine being allowed to walk on top of cars much less hop from car to car! wow

"That untamed appetite cost $3,000 just to pick them up and fix them up." That's a hell of a bargain by today's standards.

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont

2 жыл бұрын

It probably costs that much just to make the arrangements with Corman or Hulcher over the telephone!

I really appreciate the effort this guy went through without a stunt man.

I am not a rail employee, but am glad there are radios for engine and conductor!

This reminds me of those "Shake hands with danger" videos.

4:43 conductor did this in the yard i worked at and fell off the car, was knocked out unconscious and the engineer had to come back and look for him! scary moment for sure - thankfully he was ok.

Even when I hired on the C&O under the Chessie banner we still use hand signals instead of our radios due to the chatter from other crews..

Poor old Mr. Roper opens this film like a legend, with the stigmata wave lookin' like his wife just died. Lead the way and Rest Easy, Sir

Fur those wondering, a box car is loaded if you can stick your fingers in between the load springs barely up to the knuckle. If your fingers go in almost to your hand it's unloaded. And when a consist of cars is sitting alone somewhere and you want to catch out on a nice grainer, to determine which way the cars will leave or which end the locomotive will attach to is simple. The brake line has a open/close valve on each car by the coupler. The car with the air valve closed (whichever end of the line of cars) is the *end* of the consist that the loco will not hook up to. That closed air-line valve is the end of the line for the air brakes so the loco will hook up to the end with the valve in the open position.

A lot of this was terrifying to me, especially the punching bag getting smashed. Now I know why people say coupling cars is dangerous.

@Tomh821

2 жыл бұрын

It’s insane work in a rail yard. Love rail but would never work for a RR.

@Tomh821

2 жыл бұрын

I know right? Jeeze, the chances of being maimed or just flat out smushed.

OUTSTANDING film on railway safety. This should be mandatory viewing for every new railway employee. I particularly like the segment on how to get on and off moving cars.

@royreynolds108

4 жыл бұрын

Moving cars? heck I slipped off one that was standing still.

This guy just gets off the trains in the beginning like a hero in the movie’s turning and walking away from explosions, what a badass.

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DAD HE WORKED ON THE RAILROAD FOR 11 YEARS

This is a really entertaining and excellent educational video. I wish they had shown it during my brakeman school when I hired out on the Missouri Pacific in 1979, but by then some of the safety rules were even more strict than in this video. For instance, we were taught not to ride on the stirrups on the rear of a car except for the rear car in a cut. The reason was because if you missed the stirrup on stepping up, you might fall between the cars. Also, footboards were outlawed by the time I hired on. I believe walking on the roof walk of cars was also against the rules by the time I hired on, but I did it one time anyway, because I wanted the experience. I was tasked with releasing the handbrake on an old boxcar that still had its roofwalk with a high brake wheel. I climbed up the ladder on the non-brake-wheel end, and carefully walked the length of the roof walk. One thing emphasized to us was never to place your foot underneath the coupler when opening a knuckle. I'm sure they had that rule when the video was made, too. If the knuckle is missing its pin, that 60-pound thing (four times the weight of a bowling ball) can fall out and crush your foot. Of great interest was the difference in the “go away from me” signal compared to how we did the signal in south Texas. Our signal was the exact reverse of the “come to me” signal. The top part of our “go away from me” signal was moving away from the body, whereas the top part of the “come to me” signal was moving towards the body. I don't think I ever saw anybody give the signal the way it was done in the video, but if I had seen it done so by a boomer, I would have known what it meant, as the meaning was obvious.

@25mfd

4 жыл бұрын

what you said about "...your foot underneath the coupler when opening a knuckle"... I had a close call with that... stepped in to open the knuckle, pulled it open and it kept opening further and further and then came all the way out... BOOM... just missed my foot...learned something that day

@DavidCurrey4

3 жыл бұрын

@@25mfd Wow! My worst accident was stepping up onto the leading step of a locomotive coming at me and somehow my foot missed the step. My hands slid down to the bottom of the handrail, but I kept holding on like we were taught. The engineer got stopped after dragging me at least a dozen feet. I was badly bruised, but otherwise okay, but it took me ten minutes sitting in the locomotive cab to determine that.

@25mfd

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidCurrey4 WOW!!!!! and it's a good thing you held on... natural inclination is to let go but no telling where you'll roll and tumble, your hands and feet flailing around could end up caught in a really bad place... after a few sobering incidents i learned quickly to keep my wits about me... this stuff is unforgiving

Ill never get tired of those old safety videos They are the best

@Mark-wrecken

Жыл бұрын

Infinitely more informative than any newer videos that just push false company values

This is glen roper he retired not too long after this was filmed, and he passed away from natural causes in the 90s or early 2000s

We saw this when I hired out in 97. Still good. To bad we cant railroad anymore, maybe someday again.

When I was in Boy Scouts, we went to a place where they were restoring some old stretches of railroad and fixing up some rail cars. They had a museum type thing there too. I remember this is the video they showed us to learn the ropes of being safe around the trains that sometimes moved by where we were working. It was in Baldwin, KS if anyone cares. Funny I still remember this almost 20 years later. They also told us not to jump on the train even though they had shown us this video teaching us how.

I love the greatest generation..... I wish we could turn back time. Things were better then....

@beckigreen

4 жыл бұрын

Tone. That’s so original! How did you ever think of such a clever comment?

@danktime216

3 жыл бұрын

Without the massive racism and other social ills of the time, yes it'd be great

I remember that film well during my training course.What an Athlete that man is!

That book in his pocket is the rulebook...not like the several we gotta tote around these days.

This guy was seriously scaring me with some of those stunts! Also, good rule I like to follow around trains and other equipment: Don't put your fingers where you wouldn't put your pecker!

I have honestly used this training video for about 12 years already. It's truly fantastic and the old guys love it as the style brings back memories. While the new kids think it's unreal what they were allowed to do.

@Tomh821

2 жыл бұрын

What is different today operating in railroad yards? I always thought it was extremely dangerous, imagine pouring rain and snow?

Dang Mr Roper "Shook hands with danger" often in this safety video.

Fun fact Mr. Roper was 40 in this video...😂 this is a great video and many men to his jr would have been injured during filming.