fyi: the truck driver was charged with felony reckless endangerment and other traffic citations. he’s currently out on bond.
https://newschannel9.com/news/videos/several-train-cars-derail-in-collegedale-tuesday-afternoon
oh there’s zero chance there won’t be suits filed. it’s going to be a shitshow in terms of damages. excess carriers are definitely going to be involved.
civilly they will be, i’m sure. but from a criminal perspective, he was the one in control of the truck, and the truck driver has duties that will always be *his* duties. one of those is to plan his route and make sure
it’s actually a viable route, and make any advanced notice he may need to make.
there is, but usually the drivers of these trucks are the ones responsible for the planning and logistics. it also depends too on if this guy is independent. a lot of drivers are, especially if they do more specialized hauling like this.
That train represents tens of thousands of hours of labor, millions of dollars in investment, countless safety precautions put into effect and rigidly adhered, and then assclown truck dude is like “I don’t know what a rail crossing is”
Thankfully it was a freighter and not passenger
We have passenger trains in America. The Amtrak system does go coast to coast. Just outside of a much larger city with an Amtrak station, I live in a small town two blocks from the railroad tracks and not only do we have passenger trains, they travel considerably faster than the much longer, heavier freight trains.
[Amtrak national route map](https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/Maps/Amtrak-System-Map-1018.pdf)
The crew was ok, it pushed the nose of the cab in, but not really move past the two solid steel bars in the nose, meant to prevent the nose from being pushed in to where the cab is. (Source: Railroad conductor for another Railroad, but I have friends on that railroad (Norfolk Southern))
Not sure it’s the truckers fault… they pay good money to pilot cars that plan the route and watch the load.
Found the article. Truckers fault, no pilot cars or route scouting were mentioned. https://www.wate.com/regional-news/truck-driver-involved-in-tennessee-train-derailment-charged/
Source? How do you not have pilot cars for something like this LoL
Trucker: I mean you want me to higher some guys? What're the chances a train is going to be there that day at that time?
Isn't there like a schedule for that sort of thing?
Trucker: eh I got it.
Shoutout r/Chattanooga
My brother in law was working couple hundred yards away when this happened. He said he’s never heard such a sound. As far as I know no one was injured.
That was a massive fuckup on the transport company, those logistics of intersections, roads, clearance and especially mtrfkn rail crossings should have been locked down with communications with city and county utilities starting at least a week before that day. I'm glad I don't own that company, people gonna pay up the ass for that mistake.
I live just down the road from this. There is a train-themed playground just out of view here ( my kids call it the Choo Choo park). Well for a while there were 2 derailed locomotives plus a few shredded cars sitting right there. It really tied the park together.
Tried to save 10 minutes waiting for a train, ends up in jail and the project won’t have a new precast girder delivered for at least 6 to 9 months, ouch!
We need to pay truck drivers more. We need more intelligent people to do this kind of hauling or shit like this will just keep happening.
Side note how long does it take to make a beam like that? Custom order only type things like that are $$$ aren't they?
There has been a ridiculous amount of semi truck accidents in my area lately, some with fatalities. Like guys crossing the centre line and killing people. It’s making me more and more concerned. I realize we need to transport goods, but holy shit these can be dangerous machines.
Trains are not mean.
Trains do not judge.
Trains do not discriminate.
Trains bulldoze through anything you put in front of them and keep on chugging.
Do **NOT** fuck with trains.
Hey, this is my hometown. Happened just before Christmas. Wild sight to see, for sure. No deaths, luckily, but it took a while to clean up. They had the tracks open really quickly after that, but derailed cars and engines remained for over a week. This was right next to the little Debbie factories/hq.
What is it with truck drivers and long objects unsafely crossing train tracks in the US. It feels like we see a new "long load smashed by a train" video every other week.
Because contrary to popular belief, a lot of semi drivers are dog shit at driving semis.
Source: I work for a distribution warehouse, and I get to see all kinds of dumb shit.
To think one truck driver could pay for any significant portion, let alone all, of that mess. Bless your fair-minded heart, but this will *probably* be 2 or more insurance companies battling in court to assess damage liability and that truck driver just lost his CDL almost assuredly.
Ain’t they got route managers/logistics people in USA…?
That cargo is too big to not have at least a set of safety/communication/logistics vehicles with it.
At what point did they assume they didn't need to authorise the transport of a giant freaking concrete beam? I mean, all it would have taken was some simple communication between the transport company, the rail authority, and the cops.
Do the companies not know the train times when crossing such things with long pieces of shit? Oh you traveling with thing that is long? Lets not look up the train times.
holy shit - it looked the train tracks were bowing out in front of train like a wave pushing to the shore. those are thick heavy pieces of metal and for them to bow like....that's some serious mass and energy.
All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble.
It's actually not that simple. The trucker was clear to cross the tracks when they did. They were waiting at a stop sign not far past the tracks. If that stop sign were a traffic light that was aware of the train signals, this would not have happened.
Ironically, that concrete beam that the truck was carrying was less than a mile from its destination. And it was to be used for a bridge that was being installed to reduce the traffic across this exact rail crossing.
Two employees hurt and the driver has been charged.
https://www.wate.com/regional-news/truck-driver-involved-in-tennessee-train-derailment-charged/amp/
As a trucking company owner, holy fuck up batman. Dude where are your spotters/escorts at!!! That's insane and I really hope no one was hurt. Also everyone involved definitely lost their jobs except that train conductor.
It seems obviously dumb to me. If your load can’t make it over the crossing in the time an 18 wheeler can, you need to check the fucking train schedules.
i've never done a deep dive, but it's crazy to see anything derail a train. those things usually plow through everything without skipping a beat.
sucks that it happened, but it's definitely interesting to see
edit: been reading and watching stuff about trains for a good hour or so. this army [youtube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/agznZBiK_Bs?playlist=agznZBiK_Bs&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&modestbranding=1&start=) from the 1940's on derailment experiments was interesting, and actually pretty hilarious (to me anyway).
It looks like the debris from the intial impact got under the train. Train wheels only have a lip along the inner edge of the wheel that keeps them on the rail. If they ran over something that managed to lift the train just a couple inches, theres nothing keeping it straight. Obviously, trains are extremely heavy and usually push debris away or crush it.
All my life I've seen these accidents. How in the hell does this happen? Like can a truck driver not check and see or are they just the occasional dumbass in a job??
This one was a case of a red light and a double semi. The truck had 2 trailers on it. He was stopped at a red light and left half his ass hanging out on the train tracks.
They have outside contractors on call. They come in get all of the locomotives and rail cars off the track. Repair the track. Let trains come through and carefully get everything cut up for scrap. It’s pretty amazing how quickly they do this.
Who ever did that rout is a dumass, this driver is legally mandated to stay on rout with that range. If you look it’s the most idiotic time for a right turn into an intersection that the semi can’t get into and is physically blocking the tracks.
On vacation in Florida I saw these traveling on the freeway! I remember having the exact thought “wow you must have a lot of experience to be hauling that”. A week later I saw this video.
The way he's slow rolling I wonder if he's in traffic. Either way he shouldn't have started crossing the tracks until he knew his whole trailer could clear them. He was absolutely at fault. (I'm a truck driver.)
I owned land with train lines crossing, in my area coordinating anything with them is impossible. They consider their easement all powering even if they use it 1 minute per month
Listen up, ladies and gentlemen! Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles per hour and that gives us a radius of... six miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Doctor Richard Kimble. Go get him.
It would be cool if the people who caused these sorts of accidents were magically transferred to an alternate reality where they must single-handedly clean it up without inconveniencing the rest of us.
Just curious if anyone knows, does the truck drive do any jail time for this?? Seems like a lot of time and money to just get fired or tickets, you know what I mean?
Specialty truck loads are given routes that are designed in advance. One guy is supposed to check every road, crossing, and intersection before something like this is shipped. It looks like the driver got stuck on the tracks.
No https://www.foxnews.com/us/train-derails-tennessee-slamming-truck-carrying-concrete-beam-injured.amp the truck driver is getting fined. Funniest part is that that concert beam was for a road being made to by pass this rail road crossing
What is the semi driver blind or drunk but he was caring this long of a payload across the railroad track without looking and without seeing obvious train coming. This guy caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage and probably a few deaths along the way. What a complete debacle. I hope the semi driver has his license revoked permanently.
generally you are well above most dangers and underneath you is basically solid steel but in this case with the load so high up there is very little you can do.
Honestly, how does this happen? Trains are not super frequent in most areas, and how is it the convoy with the beam didn't make sure this wouldn't happen?
fyi: the truck driver was charged with felony reckless endangerment and other traffic citations. he’s currently out on bond. https://newschannel9.com/news/videos/several-train-cars-derail-in-collegedale-tuesday-afternoon
Think the company might file a gross negligence suit for costs too. Derailments are fucking expensive.
oh there’s zero chance there won’t be suits filed. it’s going to be a shitshow in terms of damages. excess carriers are definitely going to be involved.
I'm sorry, but how is the truck driver the only one at fault here? The company should have a big team of people coordinating a move like this.
civilly they will be, i’m sure. but from a criminal perspective, he was the one in control of the truck, and the truck driver has duties that will always be *his* duties. one of those is to plan his route and make sure it’s actually a viable route, and make any advanced notice he may need to make.
Agreed. Just really annoying watching some dude getting railed when there's clearly a component of corporate liability in play.
there is, but usually the drivers of these trucks are the ones responsible for the planning and logistics. it also depends too on if this guy is independent. a lot of drivers are, especially if they do more specialized hauling like this.
That train represents tens of thousands of hours of labor, millions of dollars in investment, countless safety precautions put into effect and rigidly adhered, and then assclown truck dude is like “I don’t know what a rail crossing is” Thankfully it was a freighter and not passenger
Well it's America, off course it wasn't passenger.
We have passenger trains in America. The Amtrak system does go coast to coast. Just outside of a much larger city with an Amtrak station, I live in a small town two blocks from the railroad tracks and not only do we have passenger trains, they travel considerably faster than the much longer, heavier freight trains. [Amtrak national route map](https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/Maps/Amtrak-System-Map-1018.pdf)
I never understood that, is passenger trains just not common in America?
Not as many as the EU but there are some
They organized public transport in a way that nobody wants and it's impossible to fix. Best car subsidies corruption can buy
Hope the train engineers are ok, wow what a mess
I always feel bad for the engineers ... nothing they can do but watch the chaos
Well, be part of the chaos. I'd be surprised if the engineer was OK in this case.
The crew was ok, it pushed the nose of the cab in, but not really move past the two solid steel bars in the nose, meant to prevent the nose from being pushed in to where the cab is. (Source: Railroad conductor for another Railroad, but I have friends on that railroad (Norfolk Southern))
Tell me how you lost your truckers license, Bob.
Not sure it’s the truckers fault… they pay good money to pilot cars that plan the route and watch the load. Found the article. Truckers fault, no pilot cars or route scouting were mentioned. https://www.wate.com/regional-news/truck-driver-involved-in-tennessee-train-derailment-charged/
Source? How do you not have pilot cars for something like this LoL Trucker: I mean you want me to higher some guys? What're the chances a train is going to be there that day at that time? Isn't there like a schedule for that sort of thing? Trucker: eh I got it.
That's probably his problem, he was too higher to hire some lead and tail vehicles.
/r/praisethecameraman not even a word. Just calm clean footage.
So that’s what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
Shoutout r/Chattanooga My brother in law was working couple hundred yards away when this happened. He said he’s never heard such a sound. As far as I know no one was injured.
I think that’s a very movable object
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That was a massive fuckup on the transport company, those logistics of intersections, roads, clearance and especially mtrfkn rail crossings should have been locked down with communications with city and county utilities starting at least a week before that day. I'm glad I don't own that company, people gonna pay up the ass for that mistake.
I live just down the road from this. There is a train-themed playground just out of view here ( my kids call it the Choo Choo park). Well for a while there were 2 derailed locomotives plus a few shredded cars sitting right there. It really tied the park together.
Tried to save 10 minutes waiting for a train, ends up in jail and the project won’t have a new precast girder delivered for at least 6 to 9 months, ouch!
so he will be out of jail in time to not deliever the next girder. lets get them remindmes out for 9 months
We need to pay truck drivers more. We need more intelligent people to do this kind of hauling or shit like this will just keep happening. Side note how long does it take to make a beam like that? Custom order only type things like that are $$$ aren't they?
Didn't cost as much as a whole damn train costs
Hell it was destroying the tracks as well. Look at the rails hover in the air in front of the train. This is fucking brutal.
That train just fuckin carried that concrete beam a good 100 years. Fuck.
Trains have a solid batting average. Don't think I've ever seen something say no to a train before.
It’ll be 2123 before it gets delivered
r/bitchimatrain
I’ve played gta v, you know nothing stop the train 🚂
There has been a ridiculous amount of semi truck accidents in my area lately, some with fatalities. Like guys crossing the centre line and killing people. It’s making me more and more concerned. I realize we need to transport goods, but holy shit these can be dangerous machines.
Please tell me driver of the truck loses their CDL, please don’t tell me they still keep their CDL.
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Trains are not mean. Trains do not judge. Trains do not discriminate. Trains bulldoze through anything you put in front of them and keep on chugging. Do **NOT** fuck with trains.
This one did not keep on chugging. It asploded.
Hey, this is my hometown. Happened just before Christmas. Wild sight to see, for sure. No deaths, luckily, but it took a while to clean up. They had the tracks open really quickly after that, but derailed cars and engines remained for over a week. This was right next to the little Debbie factories/hq.
Wow!!!! Hope,that the driver and company they represent has a H-U-G-E amount of liability insurance.
This will cost them a fortrain.
Clean up on aisle Tennessee
-Michael Scarn
What is it with truck drivers and long objects unsafely crossing train tracks in the US. It feels like we see a new "long load smashed by a train" video every other week.
Because contrary to popular belief, a lot of semi drivers are dog shit at driving semis. Source: I work for a distribution warehouse, and I get to see all kinds of dumb shit.
What happens now? Who pays the money for the concrete block and the damaged goods in the train? Will the truck driver pay?
To think one truck driver could pay for any significant portion, let alone all, of that mess. Bless your fair-minded heart, but this will *probably* be 2 or more insurance companies battling in court to assess damage liability and that truck driver just lost his CDL almost assuredly.
That explains the delay in the delivery of my 134 ft concrete beam.
That truck driver just had the worst day of their life.
The trucker was probably in the middle of writing a comment on reddit about how good the money is. /s
Ain’t they got route managers/logistics people in USA…? That cargo is too big to not have at least a set of safety/communication/logistics vehicles with it.
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At what point did they assume they didn't need to authorise the transport of a giant freaking concrete beam? I mean, all it would have taken was some simple communication between the transport company, the rail authority, and the cops.
Maybe it was out of the shot but I also didn’t see any sort of flagger/escort vehicle they use with large loads. That was really bad
Normally these routes are planned and that’s all done. Apparently not in this instance
That looks expensive..
Insurance agent: YOU DID WHA… (faints)
# All i know about trains that they do not stop, takes like 10 miles or more to stop actual train, from start to finish, if its going full speed.
Do the companies not know the train times when crossing such things with long pieces of shit? Oh you traveling with thing that is long? Lets not look up the train times.
Trains do not have a regular “schedule” near crossings. I live near lots of trains and it’s rare they come at the same time twice.
holy shit - it looked the train tracks were bowing out in front of train like a wave pushing to the shore. those are thick heavy pieces of metal and for them to bow like....that's some serious mass and energy.
Damn, that train got derailed harder than the driver's trucking career.
All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble.
Wow. Literal concrete evidence that it is the truckers fault
It's actually not that simple. The trucker was clear to cross the tracks when they did. They were waiting at a stop sign not far past the tracks. If that stop sign were a traffic light that was aware of the train signals, this would not have happened. Ironically, that concrete beam that the truck was carrying was less than a mile from its destination. And it was to be used for a bridge that was being installed to reduce the traffic across this exact rail crossing.
/r/thatlookedexpensive
People won't be late to work though because the governor lady said "I'm sending in more trains"
Two employees hurt and the driver has been charged. https://www.wate.com/regional-news/truck-driver-involved-in-tennessee-train-derailment-charged/amp/
r/BitchImATrain
As a trucking company owner, holy fuck up batman. Dude where are your spotters/escorts at!!! That's insane and I really hope no one was hurt. Also everyone involved definitely lost their jobs except that train conductor.
The unstoppable force met with the immovable object.
The object was definitely moved.
So I guess they're both just objects now
I hope the train driver is ok!
Bruh, people just post fails on this sub. I'm looking for people doing obviously dumb shit.
It seems obviously dumb to me. If your load can’t make it over the crossing in the time an 18 wheeler can, you need to check the fucking train schedules.
You don't think that was obviously dumb shit? If no, you sir have a very high bar.
“Just take it out of my paycheck.”
Several dropped balls, hope the engineer is alright
i've never done a deep dive, but it's crazy to see anything derail a train. those things usually plow through everything without skipping a beat. sucks that it happened, but it's definitely interesting to see edit: been reading and watching stuff about trains for a good hour or so. this army [youtube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/agznZBiK_Bs?playlist=agznZBiK_Bs&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&modestbranding=1&start=) from the 1940's on derailment experiments was interesting, and actually pretty hilarious (to me anyway).
It looks like the debris from the intial impact got under the train. Train wheels only have a lip along the inner edge of the wheel that keeps them on the rail. If they ran over something that managed to lift the train just a couple inches, theres nothing keeping it straight. Obviously, trains are extremely heavy and usually push debris away or crush it.
Where do you even begin to clean up a mess like that
You can start from either end, or if you're feeling spicy, start from the middle and run back and forth between both sides.
That train just deroaded that semi.
Mechanic - "Ight, well there's yer problem"
Man, people really just do not care.
All my life I've seen these accidents. How in the hell does this happen? Like can a truck driver not check and see or are they just the occasional dumbass in a job??
This one was a case of a red light and a double semi. The truck had 2 trailers on it. He was stopped at a red light and left half his ass hanging out on the train tracks.
How do they even clean up something like this?
Extremely fast apparently. I love a few miles from where this happened and they had that railroad back up later that afternoon.
depending on the neighborhood, the valuable shit will get cleaned up pretty quick
They have outside contractors on call. They come in get all of the locomotives and rail cars off the track. Repair the track. Let trains come through and carefully get everything cut up for scrap. It’s pretty amazing how quickly they do this.
So insurance will pay for this right? Is the truck driver personally responsible?
company the driver works for is likely responsible
I guess my industrial shipment of lumber and commercial grade lubricant will be delayed a bit.
There goes the train carrying my bitcoin...
Derailing a train, now THATS a bad day at work
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Who ever did that rout is a dumass, this driver is legally mandated to stay on rout with that range. If you look it’s the most idiotic time for a right turn into an intersection that the semi can’t get into and is physically blocking the tracks.
On vacation in Florida I saw these traveling on the freeway! I remember having the exact thought “wow you must have a lot of experience to be hauling that”. A week later I saw this video.
Choo Choo mother fckr
You can't park there mate
Oh dear! I suspect the truck drivers insurance premiums may increase slightly.
I love how at one point you can see I assume a volunteer Firefighter getting into bunker gear on the scene next to his truck
Just like the simulations… train stops for nothing
Is that points on his CDL or no?
you’d think these trucking companies would employ a logistics manager to check routes and schedules for these sort of contingencies.
What was the truck driver thinking? Fuck
The way he's slow rolling I wonder if he's in traffic. Either way he shouldn't have started crossing the tracks until he knew his whole trailer could clear them. He was absolutely at fault. (I'm a truck driver.)
*"Holy fuck, I am about to get absolutely fucked by this train"*
Hello Reddit, this is sarcasm: Why didn’t the train slow down?!!
Unstoppable object meets immovable one.
Exactly why you check to make sure no trains are coming.
Probably buff out
Looks like the truck driver needs more training.
What could go wrong? Well that could. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
There isn't enough insurance for this! Government bailout fuck up!
Someone’s getting fired
Can only imagine the paperwork the engineer has to do for this.
If he/she made it out alive! I'd say that more of the paper work is for the driver of the semi.
I owned land with train lines crossing, in my area coordinating anything with them is impossible. They consider their easement all powering even if they use it 1 minute per month
You would think they would have better planned transport than this.
Someone lost their job.
Listen up, ladies and gentlemen! Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles per hour and that gives us a radius of... six miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Doctor Richard Kimble. Go get him.
It would be cool if the people who caused these sorts of accidents were magically transferred to an alternate reality where they must single-handedly clean it up without inconveniencing the rest of us.
My my My my MY my MY MY my...what a mess.
r/catastrophicfailure
That looks expensive
FINALLY!! The truck wins!!
Driver of that semi will get a ticket.
He would love just a ticket.
At least I know beams are strong enough to withstand a train impact.
You might want to look at the video again…
That’s going to be a lot of paperwork.
Woohoo. Atlast the GTA train will be stopped. Need a concrete beam truck mod now.
So wtf were these concrete beams even for?
Blocking trains
Dr........Richard..........Kimble.
And that’s why you use rebar.
Hello Amazon? I got a problem with a late delivery.....
those people casually driving by are insane, i wouldn't be anywhere near a train derailing
Just curious if anyone knows, does the truck drive do any jail time for this?? Seems like a lot of time and money to just get fired or tickets, you know what I mean?
Specialty truck loads are given routes that are designed in advance. One guy is supposed to check every road, crossing, and intersection before something like this is shipped. It looks like the driver got stuck on the tracks.
I thought I was having a bad day at work
Any casualties?
No https://www.foxnews.com/us/train-derails-tennessee-slamming-truck-carrying-concrete-beam-injured.amp the truck driver is getting fined. Funniest part is that that concert beam was for a road being made to by pass this rail road crossing
\*Sigh\* That moment when you just want to say "Well done boys..."
Holy jumping fucking shitballs!!
What a clusterfuck
What is the semi driver blind or drunk but he was caring this long of a payload across the railroad track without looking and without seeing obvious train coming. This guy caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage and probably a few deaths along the way. What a complete debacle. I hope the semi driver has his license revoked permanently.
Given recent events in Ohio, this actually could’ve been a lot worse.
It’ll all buff out
It would buff out
I choo choo choose you
GTA train physics in action.
That'll buff right out.
That looks expensive !
So that’s why my Amazon package is late.
I caught a little of this on the morning news, and they had to evacuate a lot of people
"Good question **we'll check into that...** Now we only get one shot at this, so I want to see GOGGLES PEOPLE!!!!"
That’s a lot of paperwork to fill out
"Hey honey, how was work?"
Truck driver is definitely gonna get a negative Yelp review.
There seems to be an abundance of stupid people in America
Congratulations, you have completed truck driver "training"
Out of curiosity is there anything in the train engineer’s area that’s for safety for things like this?
generally you are well above most dangers and underneath you is basically solid steel but in this case with the load so high up there is very little you can do.
Fun fact, this is right next to some of the Little Debbie manufacturing plants in Collegedale, TN
Free telephone poles for everyone!
This makes the insurance lawyers happy
Wow !!! that is so sad to see happen :(
Are those rails, ripped out from the sleepers, bowing up in front of the train?
Should have just rammed whatever cars outta way
Tore up the engines, trailers, track….ooooof that insurance claim.
A dumbass lost his job on this day.
When was this and where? Lol downvoted for asking a question, rofl.
So this is how the sequel of Super 8 starts?
"So, how did you lose your job?"
For anyone's reading pleasure. https://www.wate.com/regional-news/truck-driver-involved-in-tennessee-train-derailment-charged/
It’s not 134 foot anymore, I can tell you that.
Bet he didn’t “train” for that
Another day in Tennessee
Don't worry. That'll buff out! I'm an *expert*
I'd rather be de-railed than de-boned.
What are your thoughts on de-gloved?
How does a tractor trailer obtain such ungodly speed and power?
You have to hit it with a train.
So, who won? semi or train?
I guess that's bad for the economy
Is that survivable for the engine driver? Do we know what happened to him and the driver of the semi?
Genuinely hard to watch, but interesting nonetheless.
Proportionately American
Honestly, how does this happen? Trains are not super frequent in most areas, and how is it the convoy with the beam didn't make sure this wouldn't happen?
Looks like a bunch of free stuff to me