Fucking Morons Fucking Around Under a Fucking Moving Train

1:20 - He has been under there for some time, it won't take long for the rest of the train to pass....
Why try to rush out between the wheels? (for fucks sake)

Shane , once again you are doing god's work ! i think that you can thank Hollywood for giving them the idea . these things only work in the movies ! someone has to tell those idiots that Darwin never sleeps !

You see I in term of servicing and maintaining trains - the locomotives, rolling stock and passenger trains - I played my part, in a big team.

And I kind of know them back to front - and there is NOT much room under the traction motors on the locomotives - and the track, so there might be a locomotive at the back end of the train.

Secondly - there are all sorts of HEAVY DUTY big steel components underneath a train - and some times they can come loose at one end and be hanging down and be dragging along / bouncing along, over the ballast and sleepers underneath the train while it is moving.

When I see a train going past, some times it's just a train, and some times it's an inspection session, looking for faults and things that don't look or sound right.....

Like the brake linkage bars - that connect up the brake pads on each side of the wheel.... these are about 4" wide and 1/2 " thick and 4 feet long - solid flat bars of steel... I have seen one of those hanging loose dragging along on the ballast under a moving train.

I used to make and cut and extend these brake linkage bars...

So if that STUPID boy and his STUPID friend are fucking around under a moving train - there is an enormous amount of danger there....

It's the sort of shit that if it his you - you can easily die, and or it can drag and flip you and cause you to get caught up in all the other shit - crushed and spun into a ball of pulp and chopped up under the wheels.

Unless I was in a specially designed inspection pit, in a workshop or on a way, in the yards, I would NEVER get between a track and a train....

Not for reckless entertainment.... Never - No Way.

It's like instead of you stomping on a spider, the train is now you and you are now the spider....

Though to be fair, I think that there is room from the top of the sleepers and some light ballast (railroad gravel) to the top of the rail of some 8" at best....

And there is from from the top of the rail to the undersides of the railway vehicles.

I think the general design principle is that if anyone falls onto the railway, and keeps their arms and legs off the rails, and they lay down flat - everything should be able to pass straight over the top of them, with a bit of clearance to spare.

So technically - you should be all right laying on the track.... and having a train pass over the top of you.

But if you notice the underside hopper doors (yellow bits) passed over him with not much room to spare....

Add on the issues of low hanging and loose components or things like tree branches getting lodged up underneath into the components while still hanging down - just above the tracks.... There can be unforeseen dangers..

However - there can be MORE ballast over the sleepers in some areas, by say 2 or 3" and the trains - the locomotives can follow a dip in the track, the suspension and wheels drop into it, then the locomotive, and then the track rises sharply in height, and the locomotive is still going down while the wheels and suspension is coming up - and the suspension bottoms out and the cow catcher / flipper at the front hits the tracks....

So the sections of the cow flippers that hit the tracks are cut away with a little extra clearance..

You can see the cut away cow flipper here.

https://youtu.be/EhDN6JiRZng?t=45

And here is some shitty looking track.

https://youtu.be/XK8ULTK0F9U?t=345

Although these MINOR points are RARE.....

Not everything is a simple assumption - and simple assumptions in high risk situations, with almost no room to spare, is a bad thing.

And with trains being made of very thick and heavy steel - and they weigh like say 120 metric tons and the sheer inertia - from say 3 locomotives pulling 2000 tons of freight in wagons and tanks....

A 1.5 metric ton car hitting you at 40 Kmh or 30 miles an hour causes generally fatal kinds of injuries...