I worked two summers in a CB&Q car shop. One rule in the yellow book was along the lines of "Use a drift pin, not your fingers, to align metal plates." I could imagine someone saying, "Not close enough, hit it again" and having a finger guillotined off." One saying was "Every rule is the result of a fool" and another was "The rules are written in blood."

Nothing like a safety video that was actually dangerous to film. What a gem.

@Allurade

4 жыл бұрын

Only the strong survived the 40s and 50s.

@Ithinkiwill66

4 жыл бұрын

Yes....and those employees were walking over the rail lines, no path for them, no safety whatsoever...if they tripped, good God...😳

@justforever96

2 жыл бұрын

It isnt really dangerous if you are prepared and expect what is about to happen. If it is dangerous, they use stunt men. Danger is part of their job.

@Catcrumbs

2 жыл бұрын

This is actually incredibly tame compared to _Getting Off on the Right Foot_ , also available on KZread.

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

@@Allurade and no safety vests !

I love the way the line is delivered about the employees returning from lunch not being in a hurry lol. 80 years ago and some things don’t change :)

@mattskey1

9 ай бұрын

Old habits die hard

I worked on a railroad. It's easy to get injured, or worse, when you lose your fear of the right of way and the trains. It happens.

@w.keithmcdonald8461

3 жыл бұрын

me too

@Metromechanic

3 жыл бұрын

Randy Bingham it’s called a NORM, you get comfortable and then loose your head about things “that’s the way we always do it”

@alvinmorris5404

2 жыл бұрын

It's best to remember it this way, everything about railroading is hard, heavy, an made of unforgiving metal. you are not. It's amazing how a being with two eyes, two ears, and a brain (?) can allow themselves to become so careless around such a dangerous occupation but we see it happen everyday, sometimes it is the smartest one of the crew that makes the stupidest mistake and it isn't always them that pays the price.

@gbb1419

2 жыл бұрын

Rail road made of steel; we made of flesh and bone.

@charlesbosse9669

Жыл бұрын

Looks like it can be very dangerous if you disobey the rules. I'll bet there are many more safety rules in place today.

Watching these safety films is a lot more entertaining than today's movies.

@arandomyoutubechannel2940

Жыл бұрын

Facts

What's interesting is the way many examples of doing things the 'safe' way are themselves now banned. Locomotives no longer have footboards, Walkways on the roofs of cars were removed in the late 1960s. They do call out stepping on the railhead sometimes but let it slide at other times. That's one thing we were constantly cautioned about at CN. Good to see this here my old VHS copy is no longer playable.

"You, young man, are surely carrying signals for the ambulance!" "It's all wrong and bad practice!" words to live by

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

cue the guitar riff from "Shake Hands with Danger"

@mattskey1

Жыл бұрын

These narrators were pretty sassy

Brakeman's job was alot more dangerous back then

@teresapyeatt3698

3 жыл бұрын

At least they weren't the only one on the ground like now.

Wow no spray paint on the box cars! Love the video's.

15 feet beyond the car, not only so you have warning if it starts to move, but so you also have a safety margin to stop and check and make sure the _second_ track is also clear. that way you have time to stop and look, and even if there IS a train coming AND the car you were walking around starts to move, you have time to go back. Otherwise you either need to jump out of the way of the first car, possibly into the path of a second, or you stop to avoid the second just as the first starts to move. I am not a huge fan of obsessive safety, but I also believe in a healthy respect for danger, and I cannot picture getting complacent around a rail line, or any heavy equipment.

Boxcar handbrakes were some scary shit

@saxongreen78

Жыл бұрын

Especially those earlier types...the spindly shafts flexed as they were in use, to use them you needed to be in a dangerous position and they required additional leverage from a bar to effect braking - a nightmare.

In 1994 I worked for ConRail. I worked in transportation as a brakeman/conductor. There are so many ways to die or get maimed. I had several close calls.

Those veteran railroaders had a ball making this film. How often do you get to goof off on the job with the Company's blessing!

@ericfrancis9129

4 жыл бұрын

b3j8

@SD40Fan_Jason

4 жыл бұрын

Okay, you can show off, but you better not get hurt or we will have the film to prove why you got hurt!

@austen9973

3 жыл бұрын

Like all the time just don't get caught

@michlo3393

2 жыл бұрын

Let's be fair, they were all drunk anyway.

“The law of gravity needs no courts to enforce it!” (13:55)

@aestheticcruise8807

5 жыл бұрын

That statement sounds so cheeky but lives up to it!

@clayz1

4 жыл бұрын

Gravity never lets you down.

@tacticalfall4505

4 жыл бұрын

69th like, wether or not anyone cares

@harrisonofcolorado8886

4 жыл бұрын

Gravity doesn't exist in Cartoons, India or Russia.

My great grandparents were involved in a collision with their car and the westbound CN train in 1934. It was raining, it was early evening and the Railroad Crossing sign was hidden by a cord of wood somebody stacked by the side of the road. They didn’t die on impact but several hours after. My grandfather and his brother sued the Railroad and when the day arrived for the hearing CN had about six lawyers in total. All my grandfather and my great uncle asked for was for a warning sign be installed at every crossing in the Lower Mainland. They got their request. RIP Great Grandpa Charles and Great Grandma Ellie Darough.

@terry_willis

2 жыл бұрын

6 lawyers. Sounds about right. Big companies employ lots of lawyers just for these occasions. Check out the Bhopal India Union Carbide (not Pacific) disaster from 1984 (chemical spill killed 20,000, injured 500,000 - now THAT'S a "train wreck").

@unconventionalideas5683

Жыл бұрын

@@terry_willis Crazy thing is that that company was majority owned by the Indian Government at the time.

"Hey Henry, we need to violate every safety rule we have for the purpose of making a training film. You might get injured but more than likely, as in real life, you won't." Henry: "Sign me up."

My great grandfather was an engineer in the steam days on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Asbestos killed him as surely as if he had stepped in front of a train.

@Uftonwood2

2 жыл бұрын

Our dad was an engine driver. He told me when the engines were getting near shopping the plates would get loose and puffs of asbestos lagging would come out into the cab. He died aged 96.

The old films are the best. They are well written, concise, easy to understand and the narrators speak well. I'd love to go back in time again when there weren't so many laws and didn't need them.

@zhardoum

5 жыл бұрын

newstart49 I wish life was so simple.. there were rules back then, written and unwritten.. yes agreed the narration is all cuddlesome but truth is back then there were more rules than you can imagine.. sadly the health & safety side of things was to put it mildly .. ‘bloody awful’ .. Unions have a huge part to play in the reforming of safety rules for the better but please do not think for one second its all hotdogs and mustard in those days.. the part they don’t say is.. as long as the fireman is white, and male, and has a wife a 2 kids.. don’t you know? But since white men doing dangerous jobs that gets them killed or maimed or suicidal we had best not talk about that bit.. gender equality and all that silly stuff that the little women fuss over.. (Hmm, yes, re-read it, you either get it or you don’t)

@jschmid

5 жыл бұрын

@@zhardoum shut the fuck up with your pc white male bullshit.

@ITILII

4 жыл бұрын

And people weren't "shamed" and "offended" by everything !

@billdougan4022

2 жыл бұрын

With 16 hour days back then, railroaders were too tire to be offended.

@billpugh58

Жыл бұрын

@@billdougan4022 Well they should have worked 20 hours a day like I have! What snowflakes they were! Pussies!

Now I understand why so many retired railroaders are nicknamed, Gimpy, Limpy or Stumpy. !!! Great video.

For anyone wondering, the shot of Minneapolis at 1:18 is the Stone Arch Bridge with the downtown skyline in the background. The train came from the Great Northern Depot in downtown. The bridge is now used by pedestrians and bikers, and the Great Northern Depot was demolished in 1985. The Federal Reserve Building now sits where the depot was. The skyline looks very different back then. Its nice that the Empire Builder serves Union Depot in St. Paul again, now if the trains could just run on time.

@gravelydon7072

8 жыл бұрын

+airminnesota Ride the AutoTrain. It has a very good chance of getting in early. But it is also known to run late when there is bad weather in the SE.

When I found this I began watching to learn "why". A girl I had a crush on in 5th grade had lost her dad 2 years before in a 1943 yard accident..He was a brakeman and with wartime hustle to move military supplies,, I think I have seen the cause at about 1635. He fell off of a moving car during switching ops. Sharon survived pretty well but her older brother never got over losing his dad. Thankx for putting this up.

Ahhhh, this reminds me of Durand Michigan a very large terminal for good old steam engines and trains. A small town , but with a very big train yard. My dad was the Grand Trunk doctor and seen many of these railroad injuries ...Boy, did this bring back great memories...

This is a great film. In today's context, what these railroad men did as a matter of course; as a 'normal' daily task (even when performed safely) is so astonishingly risky. Can you imagine, being the "pin puller"? Or riding atop a rolling box car set? Or doing any number of routine but very dangerous tasks around the rail yard? Interesting what people considered "safe" and "dangerous" in the 1940s....

@Ithinkiwill66

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe now I also know why many companies, such as warehouses, don't want trains delivering their goods...well, all because of cost too, but trucks now do lots....HOWEVER, trains STILL deliver to many places....where it is too expensive for trucking.....so God bless these men....the ones that STILL risk their lives on the line.

@emperorofwar1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ithinkiwill66 I never thought about it that way as far as companies not using trains due to safety. I thought trucks are more comminly used due to financial struggles with railroad companies and also the fact that trucks are more accesible

@ 31:45 into the video you can definitely tell the train is a model railroad layout. The when the crash takes place, there's no doubt in your mind, lol. I love these old railroad safety flicks. I think I have just about every one ever made? My only complaint is many of them are too short in my opinion, lol.

@LunarControl

4 жыл бұрын

You should upload them. Love to watch these!

@heatherrussell8255

Жыл бұрын

Yup, could tell by the telegraph poles, lol

Why risk your life? A film from an era when the brakemen still ran across the top of the cars while the train was moving.

@25mfd

4 жыл бұрын

yes the title is kinda rich considering the risks they took that were NOT considered unsafe

Most of these safety measures for employees are no longer applied, because no one is permitted to get off or on moving equipment. I was taught by my dad and the switchmen on the Soo Line how to do this safely--as a kid in the 50s. When I worked on the Great Northern back in the late 60s, even then getting off and on moving equipment was frowned upon.

@JustAGamerA

8 ай бұрын

depends on the railroad. a decent amount still allow it. on csx its under 4mph

@danbukstein6853

5 ай бұрын

Where did you work on the SOO?

I was a conductor recently for NS - people still making the same dumb decisions and getting hurt or killed doing the same things as in the 40s. NEVER break the blood rules and always keep your head on a swivel. Often times you are the only one out there looking out for yourself and anything can go wrong at any time.

@grootsyt

3 жыл бұрын

NS like Nederlandse Spoorwegen?

@billpugh58

Жыл бұрын

Dont be a snowflake! US freedom types worked 20-36 hours and be damned with no goddamn socialist commie Democrat gay anti second amendment safety practices! They just cost our corporations profit! Trump was right to deregulate everything!! Long Live god and savior trump!

How many lives were lost in the making of this film?

being born and raised in West Virginia--I always loved trains and been around them all my life and loved when mom and dad took my sister and I to the train station in Charleston West Virginia to watch the trains....more kids need to experience this before its lost and gone.

@itsjustnopinionok

7 жыл бұрын

i use to drive through/around Nitro,WV as an OTR trucker a few yrs ago. saw many trains full of coal in that area. the views in that area were pretty.

Great film. They stopped riding on top of cars just before I went to work on the AT&SF. The 060 switchers looked great. Footboards on the front and back of an engine were long gone.

I love this film, it teaches you how to operate vintage railroading equipment xD!

@dedubh8016

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao!!

Crossovers were very dangerous especially underground where walls and columns can obscure a approaching train. Also, Work trains being pushed that had a man on the first car connected via intercom with the pusher. At times I saw the watchman sleeping. The sounds of other trains in the area can give false sense of safety you may not hear trains approaching on your track. Keep your head on a swivel to see what's coming toward you. Stay safe and collect that pension !

Amazing how easy those switches are to throw!

The one dislike is probably the person who got stuck between 2 train cars buckling.

Safety first is the rule people, Don’t forget to stop 🛑 look 👀 and listen 👂. Very important especially when working on the railroad 🛤.

This might be an ideal safety film for MOW crews from BNSF.

@basicallyarobloxian4533

2 жыл бұрын

They get injured often, huh?

Anybody with a particular interest in the GN should also look up the Scenic Depot films (search on You Tube), which are GN in the early 60's. I look at this film and what strikes me is that we're still fighting the same safety issues, 80 years on. The problems have root in human nature, and people haven't changed much. Of course the other thing that strikes me is a wave of sadness at the loss of the GN. It was a great company with a great group of people.

"Power handbrake with vertical Wheel" this is the most safe to use -is unprotected and unsecured on a moving multi ton object that slices you in half if you fall infront of it -Is instructed to use a wooden bar to operate the break -Most safe to use

Awesome Railroad History! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video with us..

Thank you for showing us the safety on trains the whole idea was to show your workers because someone saved this video we got to see the safety on your train mint for your men that work there thank you 👍🇺🇸

Thanks for preserving this this film!

The only fatality I ever witnessed on the railway was a railway employee: he had just dropped off his colleague and drove his car into the path of the suburban electric train on which I was riding. Quite horrible - the noise was terrific and the train shook...saw parts of the car's tail lamps flying through the air and knew there had been a death.

I love these old films, and I love railways. What's not to like?

@Gfysimpletons

6 жыл бұрын

Sven thanks for the eye opener, SVEN......

i love these old fashioned safety films

Thanks for posting! Great video for those of us of the Steam Era Freight Car persuasion!

Look at the size of that rulebook, I bet it fit in a trainman's pocket! Now we need a forklift to carry the rules with us. The main difference is that the little rulebook was clearly written in blood as explained in this video. Our mountain of books was written in bureaucracy citing liability and efficiency. sometimes it's almost too dangerous to be safe. The rest of the time, you can't turn a wheel without breaking the rules.

@rapman5363

3 жыл бұрын

It’s all about limiting liability in court. It really has nothing to do with safety. It’s minimizing payout and being able to stop insurance payments and increases in profits.

Because a train yard is a dangerous place to not pay attention my great great grandfather worked for the Pennsylvania railroad he first started out as a brakeman and for those of you who were freightmen probably remember this practice turning a vertical brake wheel on a freight car with a peg and you all probably got used to it then came the day the wheel was put on the side of the car where the peg wasn't needed but for those of you who were used to using the peg would probably use it on this brake wheel by accident my great great grandfather was on a train walking from the caboose to the engine because it was his job to turn those brake wheels he was walking on the catwalks and he slipped and fell between two of the cars he broke his foot and was caused by the fall

Extraordinary! I like this! I learned a lot. Never knew it was so dangerous to work the yard. I always heard that in Chicago around the turn of the century (20'th) on average one man died a day in the yards! A tough living.

OH MAN! So scary what those people did! I was on The London Underground, UK. The stories I could tell you...INCLUDING....GHOSTS!!!!!

@sharong8511

3 жыл бұрын

Do tell, Mr Aspen? There’s a good video out there on that subject, with interviews with Underground employees. I’m always happy to hear more about them, though!

@daveaspen6775

3 жыл бұрын

HOW LONG YOU GOT????? I was born just after the 2nd WW. My dad left my mum when I was 6 months old, so, mum moved back with my grand parents. Grandad was a porter on The Underground at the start of the war, too important to go to war, as he was going to work the train signals. He was Senior Signalmen at Hammersmith Broadway signal box by then. He used to set the signals up for me to work at the age of, about 5/6, and the passenger displays. I had a box bedroom at the back of the house, overlooking the District |Line. I used to watch the track repairs in the early hours, sometimes, steam trains passed by on the line. I have to send this, as the computer deletes long mails, part 2 in a mo!

@daveaspen6775

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharong8511 Part 2! I won't bore you with my life in The Royal Navy and Met. Police London. After this I became a bus driver for London Trasnsport, then I went onto The London Underground, as an engineer, trained by BT, I learned to drive a train. In WW2, a Doodlebug, went down an air shaft, killing hundreds, I was told by a driver, that if you went down there, you could hear the murmerings. Part 3!

@daveaspen6775

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharong8511 Part 3! We had a driver who had "ONE UNDER" He was asked to take the train back to the depot. On the way back, he had another one, he ended up in a mental institution, I know these people have problems, BUT! THE POOR DRIVER....One Friday night, when I was driving my bus, passing Ealing Broadway Station, a guy ran in front of my bus, fell over, I slammed my brakes on, passengers on the floor, I jumped out of my cab, thinking I had killed him, such a terrible state, "ONE UNDER" on my bus, he ran off laughing! For LOADS of videos, visit Geoff Marshall, The Londonist. Also, a web site, The History Of The London Underground. ENJOY! BIG TIME! I have more memories, but, I think you have enough for now....NIGHT!

Very interesting learned a lot thanks for sharing.

I saw one video where the engineer was sick and passed out--and the train hit a boxcar up ahead. A railroad worker standing atop the boxcar saw the engine coming and yelled "AAHHHH!!!" as the loco hit his boxcar. The man was flung off. ( He died hours later ).

The most important message from the film is: Remember employees, if you get hurt it is YOUR FAULT.

@25mfd

7 жыл бұрын

And that is STILL the message today. LOL.

@gravelydon7072

6 жыл бұрын

That's because they aren't employees. They were employes. See the film at :32 in. :-)

@bobpaulino4714

6 жыл бұрын

And if you're late, do whatever you had to do to make up time-- but if something happens, it's on you. And passengers were more important than imported garbage from across the pond. Not anymore! Put 'em in the hole for that express intermodal!! The dollar rules!!

So the moral of the story is do things the "right and safe way!"

@Uftonwood2

2 жыл бұрын

Except even the safe way is loaded with dangers that are ignored in the film, working at height being just one.

@divergingapproachproductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@Uftonwood2 Well in the 40s, if you worked on a railroad, you we expected to not be a bumbling moron.

Awesome vidio, thank you for posting this great piece of history:)

I particularly enjoy the "flying switch" demonstration...

OK OK SAFETY FILM'S OVER, NOW GET BACK TO WORK!

Your careful introductory note made me a subscriber.

Note at 4:50 the employee is demonstrating the "right way" to stop to line a switch by stopping in the foul of the switch. Today, at most railroads like the one I retired from (Soo Line), this would be a violation of the rules. Always stop in the clear of the switch and walk up to line the switch.

@lokomac8

5 жыл бұрын

True. To put it in historical perspective though, some railroads' rule books had their rules clearly state Main Track switches were not to be fouled before lining for movement. Other than main track movements, such as in the yard, did not fall under that. Interestingly, a book of rule INTERPRETATIONS put out by the ICG in the early 1970s, which oddly enough was as large as the rule book itself, made the difference clearer between fouling a Main Track switch and a yard switch, going so far to say that if an incident occurred as a result, the way the target or switch points were lined conveyed who had the right-of-way, whether the switch be lined normal or reversed. Of course, one should never foul another track without making sure what they are about to foul is clear and with no closely approaching movement. Congrats on your retirement. I retired almost two years ago from the BNSF after 42 years of service.

@WAL_DC-6B

5 жыл бұрын

@@lokomac8 When I first started in train service as a brakeman at the Soo's former Milwaukee Road yard at Bensenville, fouling switches so the brakeman didn't have to walk that far was common practice even though the Soo Line's rules forbid this. This continued even after I was promoted to locomotive engineer. It wasn't until a change at the top that fouling switches on the Soo came to a stop (in the clear!). I retired last year, March 2018, after 37.5 years of employment with the Soo and C&NW. Congrats on your retirement too!

@lokomac8

5 жыл бұрын

@@WAL_DC-6B, it was some years, after the GCOR became the book of the day, I think, before "Main Track" was removed from the rule I worked under on the Santa Fe and it could generally be applied to ALL switches, which of course, is the safer course, particularly as the number of crew members, heads on a swivel and eyes were reduced, thereby reducing AWARENESS as to surroundings. Oddly enough, it was some time before I even noticed the subtle change in wording that made the rule all-encompassing, lol. Not surprising though, as most of what we did from when I hired on in 1975 THAT WAS CONSIDERED PERFECTLY SAFE, is now considered UNSAFE! Of course, I had always considered "Safety Rules" and "Safe Work Practices" to be a misnomer and misleading in and of itself -- it is all about RISK MANAGEMENT -- the risk that is willing to be incurred to achieve a certain task. Making something SAFER does not actually equate to making it SAFE!

@WAL_DC-6B

5 жыл бұрын

@@lokomac8 I started back in 1980, as a yard clerk for a short stint before promoted to the C&NW's engineering dept. (maintenance of way) as a ultra-sound test car operator and consequently was involved with railroad operating department rules such as the GCOR. I was unaware of a time when in yard service it was accepted practice to be able to foul a switch. None of the "old heads" ever told me it was legal in the past. Thanks for the little history lesson!

@lokomac8

5 жыл бұрын

@@WAL_DC-6B, I think it depended on the rule book that one was working under, and except for roads working under say, the Uniform Code of Operating Rules, most back in the day had their own books. Almost all books were loosely based on the old Standard Code. In my case, the Santa Fe rulebook I hired out under was dated Jan'y 5th, 1975. As long as it was determined safe to do so and no movement was closely approaching it seemed we were okay to pull close to the switch, even fouling another track, to hand line it or to run through spring switches, flopovers or variable point switches. Note the wording of the rule: "122 (F). Except at spring switches, a train or engine must not foul a MAIN TRACK until switches connected with the movement are properly lined." {emphasis mine}. Many arguments had taken place about fouling other tracks in yards before lining the switch, however, by either being overlooked or purposely excluded, the rule did not seem to specify as it was written. (Almost all blown away in modern times where they started specifying stopping back at least 50 feet from switches to be lined in these more modern times, of course. That was primarily to keep the switch from being in a bind when operating it, but you wouldn't be able to get much closer to the fouling point anwyay if you were a good fifty feet back.) Now, that being said above, note what is found in the book, RIGHT OF TRAINS by Peter Josserand (1957) that used the latest addition of the Standard Code (1953) as the basis of it's discussions of the rules. The Standard Code said this: "104 (5). A train or engine must not foul a MAIN TRACK OR OTHER TRACK until switches connected with the movement are properly lined." Now this was always a bone of contention and we would occasionally be called down by an official for doing it . . . until we asked them WHERE they got the info from and they would find the Santa Fe rule above and we would be somewhat vindicated, whether we were actually right or not. Someone smarter than me and all the switchmen I worked with back in the day could still say we were wrong, but too late, I'm retired now, lol.

Ah yes, the thrilling days of yester year, how many newbies have never seen how things were done back then....✌😊

this was very engaging and informative

This can certainly set a positive standard for any occupation yet today. Very well done video. Thanks for posting.

Jeez, no wonder so many railroaders died back then!

Safety first always.

I love these films

"We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the many employes [sic] who cooperated in the production of this motion picture." One "employe" they should have hired was a proofreader.

@jrkorman

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently that spelling is not necessarily incorrect, old usage! Look it up!

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont

3 жыл бұрын

You will see "employe" frequently in older railroad publications. When taking a 9th grade spelling test, consult the dictionary and NOT your grandfather's timetable. Uh, not that I would know about that...

@ebnertra0004

Жыл бұрын

The weird spelling of 'employes' seems to have been common back then. The Consolidated Code of Operating Rules, which GN used, was littered with it. I'm not sure where it came from, but it seems to have been widespread. I think it lasted until the early- to mid-70s (I know for sure it's still found in the 1967 Code)

Really good enjoyed it... My times have thankfully changed

My grandfather worked for rock island line pretty much his whole life until it closed down. Guessing he probably watched this

Interesting, how much emphasis is put on the worker taking responsibility for themselves. I wonder how much of that goes on, today? (I am told, by a former rail worker, that even today, the railway is a very dangerous environment in which to work.) Thanks for this interesting upload.

@XxAdminChllaxX

9 жыл бұрын

i can tell ya one thing: there arent such videos today that put much emphasis on the worker. videos today just explain the rules, but theres no "heart" in the vids you know

@PalpatineExOrder66

9 жыл бұрын

XxAdminChllaxX that's all they want now and days 100% rules compliance.

@XxAdminChllaxX

9 жыл бұрын

StangThang07 do you know any "today" safety vids? couldnt find much

@PalpatineExOrder66

9 жыл бұрын

No I don't. I've seen EEO videos here but that's just about it. The rule book is about the size of a dictionary.

@pilsudski36

8 жыл бұрын

+Offshoreorganbuilder The former rail worker - which I also am - told you the truth! Railroad work calls for vigilance 24/7!

Great film, thanks

They don't let us do have of these things anymore for safety reasons although we still use many of these practices today things are done much safer. Railroading is only as safe as WE make it.

awesome vid. I'm from Butte and it is great to see vids. of how great she once was.

A Classic gem & good info too

Oh mercy!!! Any FRA or OSHA rail inspector today would just have a fit if you tried ANY of the *SAFE ACTIONS* in train handling shown here! I dont even think they let switchmen get on and off moving cars anymore, do they?

@lokomac8

3 жыл бұрын

Some railroads, particularly shortlines still do. Just keep in mind, they are not actually "safety" rules or even "safe" work practices, but a form of "risk management." The safest thing to do is to do nothing, from that step on to doing something, more risks are incurred. When risks, for whatever motivation or purpose become "unacceptable," THEN measures are put into place to reduce the risk to an acceptable level or eliminate the risk. The end result is from behavior, basically.

@3ftsteamrwy12

3 жыл бұрын

@@lokomac8 So true. I havent been active in years, but when I first worked on our local operating railroad museum, we still used the (trailing end only) footboards on our center cab diesels when we switched our storage yard...we stopped around 1984, when the FRA outlawed that practice for good. Still got on and off moving equipment though, and its HARD to train volunteer operating crews on the safest way to mount/dismount a moving freight car.

An odd choice of music from 1:00 - it's the march past of the Royal Air Force!

I like how they used model trains on the signal one

The scenarios starting at 31:42 were made on a model railroad set.

@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Looked pretty good until the actual collision. And I’m thinking no cameraman would be actually set up to film an accident about to happen without foreknowledge of same.

They haven't got what the old railroaders had. Old heads on the PRR showed me how to swing off and on cars with ease,how to ride a roof walk and relay hand signals,how to grab hooped up train orders.In sort how to be a brakeman.

Rules to Live by. Interesting video of times gone by.

I like how they show the examples of doing the job the wrong way and the right way how many railroaders do you think had to die for them to make this a important issue

@macmedic892

5 жыл бұрын

Apparently the examples they showed were common enough that they warranted special attention. Safety rules are written in blood.

@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043

4 жыл бұрын

macmedic892 • Agreed. Railroading, Aviation, Shipping, Automobiles. Most conceivable risk mitigation strategies have been absolutely written in blood from experience.

Love those old kero switch lamps. But those gems wouldn't last long in most places today sadly.

very informative …excellent

First, thanks for the video. 😊 Rail passenger service seemed like it was better before government involvement. When private non government competition improves service.

The "Age of Steam" here in America was a wonderful time to be alive...unless you injured yourself.

Good film! hoping for a job w/ the RR-most of the safety info equally true today!

It's never a good idea to show the unsafe way to do something by doing it. Best to stage it to make it look like it's being done but the guys doing it unsafe could just as easily be hurt. BTW, loved the fedoras all the new engineers at 32:42 are wearing :)

Ahh, a brake club is what the bulls use to thump on HOBO's.

Even in the 60's it was considered dangerous to ride on the footboard of a locomotive, and to get off a loco too close to the switch.

@25mfd

8 жыл бұрын

YLW Pyro Yeah, trainmen rode the footboard of steam locos as there weren't provisions for riding forward of the engr any place else...early diesel locos like the GP7 had footboards but the practice was discouraged because diesel locos had side steps...and getting off next to a switch will get you knocked out

@gravelydon7072

8 жыл бұрын

+25mfd By the 80s, footboards on Diesels were a thing of the past. Getting on and off of moving cars and locos was still allowed. In the early 90s, that started to change. Santa Fe banned it in 1993.

@generalelectricmotor9084

3 жыл бұрын

Even the hand throw switches are dangerous The iron weight at the end of the lever is easily able to smash a foot

I remember reading a railroad safety book from the late 1800's. One of the rules was that you had to be wearing shoes while working for the railroad.

@MrStabby19812

5 жыл бұрын

Traveling Tom low wages and shoes were expensive I guess

It seems strange how even the steps on a rolling boiler full of fire and steaming hot water can freeze up.

Nice video

Great full width diaphragm shot at 24:25. And I'd like to know more about the models used for the simulated engine/caboose crash at 36:30.

Great video, brought back memories of my grandfather, I remember him wearing those railroad caps and overalls

Remember that these workers had to work up to 16 hour days...

Wow, I cant believe they actually wrecked a whole train to film this video! O.O

What I learned was to carefully observe RULE 99!

Yes "Offshore…", 'responsibility', hell 'awareness' of surroundings seems to be a lost art these days. Great fun informative video ! Thanks R.J.McKay! Good common sense stuff. How different it was back then, when our society's 'madness' was younger and Earth was still a veritable cornucopia . As a sometime vagabond I've been around old trains, truck stops, moving big equipment - I can relate a little and like trying to imagine what that world was like. Seems to me things made more sense then - but our relentless greed and lack of appreciation for what we had and the heavy price we were paying to achieve it has done us in. You know, evolution is evolution, and we never learned from our mistakes so sad. . . . . . .

@douglasskaalrud6865

6 жыл бұрын

I like your term "relentless greed".

Back when people would actually do dangerous stuff in safety videos

Does anyone else notice at the 0:24 mark, they misspelled "employees"?

@lokomac8

Жыл бұрын

In that day, it WAS an accepted spelling. When it fell completely out of favor I do not know.

5:30 "The right way, the safe way"...to powered-drop cars, which has been banned for decades because it's so easy to mess up spectacularly

2:00 - "There goes-the-goes the gnome whistle!" Was recording expensive back then, and that's why they left in the line flub?