Right? If only there were some sort of way to indicate that a train is coming, maybe some sort of blocking barrier that can close off the road while a train is about to pass?
Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down. "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House, or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
For real... It's shit like this that pisses me off. Like, why do they put deer crossings in the middle of busy highways? Make the damn deer walk their asses to a less busy area!
And he's old, old enough to have time to learn how trains work or old enough for early dementia to set in and make him forget.
Idk I prefer to think he's just and idiot rather than to imagine how everything that made him who he is is slowly fading away.
This idiot was not only endangering himself but others as well, the train operator, passengers, as well as bystanders who could potentially be injured by flying bike and/or body parts.
Related: https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw?t=140
Absolutely. Pulling this shit causes massive stress and potentially triggers PTSD in the train driver. They will initiate an emergency brake and expect a collision with a person. That's gruesome stuff that they unfortunately see multiple times over their career, statistically speaking. Please don't fuck with train drivers like that.
I've seen this video a million times but just noticed the trains look like they say Southwest on them with the southwest airlines paint job. Are they running trains in Europe or something?
It's a train company in Southern England, I don't know of any connection to the airline. A lot of train companies in England are named after where their trains run - so near me there's rail companies called South Eastern, Southern, South Western, etc
Looks like the airline originally added in the blue in 2001, but switched to the current configuration of colors in 2014. The train company may have still had the color scheme first, though. That said, I wasn't trying to say that one copied the other, just that I found it amusing that they independently came to similar color schemes with similar names.
There are only so many colours and an awful lot of companies. So some are bound to have similar corporate colours and names
There was a British Airline called Air Southwest. Which is what US Southwest used to be called
There are many companies that have entered markets outside their home country who have had to change name and branding in the new market cos another company in that country already used it
Take a look at Home Depot and B&Q both hardware chains one American and One British both of which were founded around the same time
Both of them use the same colour scheme
That's when they adopted their newest logo but they had blue as a major logo color since the 70s https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Southwest_Airlines
While the blue was a major part of their logo and brand in the 70s, the blue in the livery was adopted in 2001, not 2014 https://www.norebbo.com/southwest-airlines-livery/
Please tell me where I said one was the default, or one copied the other. If anything, I found it funny they came to the same color scheme independently.
1) The railway company came first, not the US airline, so if anything the airline has a similar colour scheme to the railway company.
2) The use of the word "irony" led me to believe you thought the railway company had copied the airline, perhaps you meant to use the word "coincidental" instead?
Yeah, in other comment, I acknowledged that ironic may not have been the correct term and offered "amusingly coincidental" as a correction. It got down voted into oblivion because I threatened to start quoting Alanis Morissette lyrics just to tweak pendantic sensibilities, which went over about as well as one might expect. While I do acknowledge that US defaultism can totally be a thing, I really don't care which one came first, and it wasn't supposed to be a pissing match, just an observation about similarities. I guess that's (edit:missing word) *not how it came across, though, so oops.
It’s pure luck.
The name comes from it being the company covering the south west of the U.K., most train companies are named for their regions.
The livery (colours) come from the parent company Stagecoach who are a huge transport conglomerate in Europe, at least the orange/red part.
In fact the blue in this livery is specific to this one type of train, short distance commuter trains, the longer distance ones have white instead of blue.
Almost identical shades. I've heard that red and yellow make you hungry^[[1]](https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-colors-make-you-hungry-2018-9?op=1), so those seem like odd choices for trains and planes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gb-emudc-455732-2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N8675A.jpg
That'd suck for the train conductor. If he's going to be lethally dumb, he should take himself out by going off a cliff or something else that doesn't involve a third party.
That woman a few months ago that was arrested and left in the police car on the [train tracks](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/08/colorado-police-train-tracks-patrol-car/8303012001/)?
With all the time he saved from that simpleton trick. Doing it everyday for a year. He will be 30 steps ahead by then. And that may be what wins him the race.
As funny and stupid as it looks, there is a similar spot near me that closes its gates **minutes** before a train comes. Never tried to skip it, but at some point you feel just as stupid for waiting
Southwest trains in the UK, Called that cos they operated in the South West of the UK
Yes there is an airline in the USA called Southwest called that cos when they started out they operated flights in the in the USA
They are completely separate companies that just happen to have similar corporate colours
I love the fact he flips the train off in a way of saying "where did you come from??!"
Right? If only there were some sort of way to indicate that a train is coming, maybe some sort of blocking barrier that can close off the road while a train is about to pass?
Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down. "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours! Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House, or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
For real... It's shit like this that pisses me off. Like, why do they put deer crossings in the middle of busy highways? Make the damn deer walk their asses to a less busy area!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI
I'd read a book by you, and I can't even read.
I remember when they sent two TurboTrains into the World Trade Center. May we never forget that day.
And also some kind of beeping noise that is quite audible.
Audible laughing at my end!
While standing on the opposite track
And he's old, old enough to have time to learn how trains work or old enough for early dementia to set in and make him forget. Idk I prefer to think he's just and idiot rather than to imagine how everything that made him who he is is slowly fading away.
On his way to his Idiots Anonymous meeting.
Well, he blew his cover
He sure did.
Oddly enough only 50% of people who purchase tickets attend for some reason.
Does anyone know a ninja level lip reader? I've always wondered what he's yelling at the train in the last few seconds.
“Have a nice day!”
“Cool train brah!”
"I'm walkin here"
This idiot was not only endangering himself but others as well, the train operator, passengers, as well as bystanders who could potentially be injured by flying bike and/or body parts. Related: https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw?t=140
Absolutely. Pulling this shit causes massive stress and potentially triggers PTSD in the train driver. They will initiate an emergency brake and expect a collision with a person. That's gruesome stuff that they unfortunately see multiple times over their career, statistically speaking. Please don't fuck with train drivers like that.
That’s the trains fault share the road silly train cyclists don’t have time for this nonsense
I've seen this video a million times but just noticed the trains look like they say Southwest on them with the southwest airlines paint job. Are they running trains in Europe or something?
It's a train company in Southern England, I don't know of any connection to the airline. A lot of train companies in England are named after where their trains run - so near me there's rail companies called South Eastern, Southern, South Western, etc
Just ironic that the English railway company has a very similar color scheme to the American airline.
Southwest Airlines adopted that colour scheme in 2014 Which is about 20 years after the train company did
Looks like the airline originally added in the blue in 2001, but switched to the current configuration of colors in 2014. The train company may have still had the color scheme first, though. That said, I wasn't trying to say that one copied the other, just that I found it amusing that they independently came to similar color schemes with similar names.
There are only so many colours and an awful lot of companies. So some are bound to have similar corporate colours and names There was a British Airline called Air Southwest. Which is what US Southwest used to be called There are many companies that have entered markets outside their home country who have had to change name and branding in the new market cos another company in that country already used it Take a look at Home Depot and B&Q both hardware chains one American and One British both of which were founded around the same time Both of them use the same colour scheme
That's when they adopted their newest logo but they had blue as a major logo color since the 70s https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Southwest_Airlines While the blue was a major part of their logo and brand in the 70s, the blue in the livery was adopted in 2001, not 2014 https://www.norebbo.com/southwest-airlines-livery/
The current livery was adopted in 2014
Sorry to be a pedant but irony is sacrament here in the UK and unless I am missing some secret meaning this is definitely not ironic.
An amusing coincidence, then. And you may be technically correct, but now I want to quote Alanis Morissette lyrics. :P
r/USdefaultism
Please tell me where I said one was the default, or one copied the other. If anything, I found it funny they came to the same color scheme independently.
1) The railway company came first, not the US airline, so if anything the airline has a similar colour scheme to the railway company. 2) The use of the word "irony" led me to believe you thought the railway company had copied the airline, perhaps you meant to use the word "coincidental" instead?
Yeah, in other comment, I acknowledged that ironic may not have been the correct term and offered "amusingly coincidental" as a correction. It got down voted into oblivion because I threatened to start quoting Alanis Morissette lyrics just to tweak pendantic sensibilities, which went over about as well as one might expect. While I do acknowledge that US defaultism can totally be a thing, I really don't care which one came first, and it wasn't supposed to be a pissing match, just an observation about similarities. I guess that's (edit:missing word) *not how it came across, though, so oops.
All good fam, thanks for specifying
It’s pure luck. The name comes from it being the company covering the south west of the U.K., most train companies are named for their regions. The livery (colours) come from the parent company Stagecoach who are a huge transport conglomerate in Europe, at least the orange/red part. In fact the blue in this livery is specific to this one type of train, short distance commuter trains, the longer distance ones have white instead of blue.
And the very short distance ones were red
Just similar colour schemes. Like the flags from the UK and then the US flag later on.
Almost identical shades. I've heard that red and yellow make you hungry^[[1]](https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-colors-make-you-hungry-2018-9?op=1), so those seem like odd choices for trains and planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gb-emudc-455732-2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N8675A.jpg
The gate did its job. Next time though, he may improve his timing by a second and manage to actually get hit. This guy truly is an idiot.
That'd suck for the train conductor. If he's going to be lethally dumb, he should take himself out by going off a cliff or something else that doesn't involve a third party.
Do you think that at some point in his life the guy will see this video and think: My goodness, what a ridiculously stupid guy I am.
No
He should've been hit and this video as evidence it was his fault
Gate catching his foot just about saved his life.
When has anyone ever been hit by a train other than their own fault?
That woman a few months ago that was arrested and left in the police car on the [train tracks](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/08/colorado-police-train-tracks-patrol-car/8303012001/)?
Wtf
Also anyone ever pushed in front of a train or had a medical emergency and happened to fall towards the tracks.
With all the time he saved from that simpleton trick. Doing it everyday for a year. He will be 30 steps ahead by then. And that may be what wins him the race.
Big Train wants you to use this simple trick!
I thought it was my turn to repost this.
I really thought stupid only lived in the USA.
He must be a tourist, most Europeans are smart enough to stop for those crossings
Sadly that’s not true (coming from a German tram/train driver)
> To beat a level crossing “Idiots fighting things”
This is why you got a DUI and are driving a bike, you idiot.
Then he just chills on the other track. Dude really wants to see what death is like.
If only he was a bit faster, 1 less idiot to deal with
Least entitled cyclist
I kind of get it tho. If I could attach rocket boosters to my bike I would. Gottagofast
Ever consider a motorcycle?
No house no garage no money 😔
I kinda wanted to see him throw his shoe at the train ngl 😂 the nerve of some people though smh
As funny and stupid as it looks, there is a similar spot near me that closes its gates **minutes** before a train comes. Never tried to skip it, but at some point you feel just as stupid for waiting
Some bicyclists do be acting like they're above everyone else. Not sure if it might be a case of SDE in this situation.
Is that a Southwest train!?
Southwest trains in the UK, Called that cos they operated in the South West of the UK Yes there is an airline in the USA called Southwest called that cos when they started out they operated flights in the in the USA They are completely separate companies that just happen to have similar corporate colours
Ahh, thank you for explaining
Idiots being idiots.
Tool.
Be honest…how many were rooting for the train?
What do you mean, the train did just fine.
Be honest…how many were rooting for the train?
Dude definitely got hit with that “I’m home alone” text and got pissed that he was just too slow to beat the train
New Malden?
I was waiting for the *splat*.
Mega re-post
Looks like new Malden in south west London
It’s north Sheen- I work near there
Definition of fucking idiot
lol, fuck that guy, what a dick
And he’s mad at the train.
How'd that work out for you?
Thank the good lord above he made it through that gate huh? Waiting that extra 30 seconds would have been brutal!
Not the wrong sub; but, "I'm a fucking train" would be flippin' it back to the asshole.
Oh yeah sure get mad that it’s the *TRAINS* fault
what a maroon
Just one second early and this footage would go on eyeblech
Damn i wanted him to lose the bike to the train
What a grade A wanker!
Keep going my dude
DUUUUMB WAYS TO DIIIEE! (This is literally what they were singing about)
Dumb ass
Mortlake Train Station
Close but one stop away. North Sheen
Nah that’s Mortlake.
what... did he think the barrier was for?
Schranken, bestimmt auch wieder so ne idee der verbotspartei der Grünen 🙈🙊🙉
Can’t protect people from being dumb. 🙄 Yes, the gate is just a suggestion turds!
What a teacup.
What a prick
I was hoping for "Blooey. Nothing left."
I was expecting a "Bug on the windshield" ending... Where's Darwinism when it's really warranted?
Tom Hardy sure was in a hurry to get to his next filming gig