Was that the train with all the military equipment on it?
I've had a couple of train vs pedestrian calls, that shuts the tracks down for hours, my bet would be this
Every train vs pedestrian call I had was suicide.
You know what is up when you leave the Barn 'person vs Train' call / Rolled on one off of San Fernando Rd / Strays were fighting over a femur
Wow! Can't even imagine what the engineer will carry with him forever. Sad deal, for sure.
My last was even worse because the guy was alive and under the "cow catcher" problem is that our air bags didn't have the lift force to get us the room we needed. BNSF had a crew come out and plasma cut the mounting brackets and even then the bags on heavy rescue were struggling to get that up
… San Fernando Rd….and what???…
So no Karen’s are complaining the train should have done more to avoid the collision, like swerve?
Hey what about us conductor’s lol. It’s not fun, i have one that will never be unseen, and pray not to ever get another. Mental illness is a big thing in today’s world.
I would do it this way, but truck won't fit in the garage.
That's why it happens, people subscribe to that misconception. These things can be whisper quiet. Folks walk down the tracks thinking they'll feel/hear it coming from a long way away, and that isn't always the case. In conductor training, they brought us out to a mockup of a coupler to take turns changing out the knuckle. The instructor was giving us the rundown while our backs were to the flyover behind the mockup. (flyover = train overpass) Anyway, along comes a metro at speed (like 30ish) and startled all of us. Turns out the real lesson that fucker was teaching was how quiet trains can be. I've been working a track where cars were being rolled into an adjacent track and had one brush up against me because I was standing just a little too far from where I should have been. Woke me the fuck up. I also had a buddy with years of experience forget that rule just once and got ran over by a cut of free rolling cars. Lived, didn't get mangled, but won't work for the RR ever again. Up in NorCal, we hit folks walking down the tracks all the time. They aren't trying to get hit (usually), they just think they're safe and will hear it coming; until they don't.
Robin Williams famously said suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
It sucks but they let you know it’s part of the job when you get hired
Nobody told me shit and to this day I’ve never seen anything in writing saying the conductor has to go back and check on the trespasser that was hit. And that’s all I’ll say on the subject.
True story... Kid walking on the tracks through the hood with he beats on. Didn't here the gravel train rolling north right behind him. He gets hit by the scoop on the front and sucked under losing both legs just beneath the knee's. Couple of my partners are rolling by seconds after and get flagged down. Luckily for the kid both had tourniquets and applied them within the first minute. Fire showed up and put on two more for good measure. Kid lived, but no legs left. Had those cops not been there right at that moment he more than likely would have been a goner. He said he didn't hear anything prior to getting hit.
I believe my dad handled five or six of these suicide cases by train in Goleta, and at least one of them was a guy that passed out on drugs and alcohol on the tracks in which his head got severed.
Alongside wishing you'd helped a friend, or trying to be the stability for someone in "that place". You can't feel what, or how another person thinks.
Every single person I’ve “known” or been affiliated with needed to live.
We both run crews and we need to keep them alive. J/K the paperwork takes days
Being a parent surely changes your perspective.
The only thing I’d add….
I took a call one night where a guy jumped out in front of a slow moving train. Knocked him down and ran him down the track and across the ties like cheese across a cheese grater. Then one day a lady that knows what I do told me of the incident, it was a nephew that she basically raised. Small world. I guess the take away from that story is, yes, it's a shitty way to go.
That is on par with my last train call...
Wait until you find out that in America we don't drive trains, we run trains.I'm not as concerned about getting hit by a train as I am to learn that the folks driving the trains are now Conductors, not Engineers.
Medic, rail employee...or do you do pressure washing?!
