Trains - Darwin award

This should be a mandatory training video - for passengers, train crews, train workers, and the public in general....
I am not horrified, but it's hard to watch... "Just fuck....." Like people walking across the tracks etc., and not even registering that there is a train coming ... and not even bothering to look left or right....

The deaths - well that is tragic.

It's the stupid that is hard to swallow.

Jesus fuck.....

Saving this video.

To quote a friend, "Yeaaaaahhhhhh" or was that "Fuck Yeah".

When I used to be a part of a big team rebuilding locomotives, I would not call it frightening as in "piss my pants" frightening, but frightening in the sense, that if you and any locomotives, carriages or rolling stock, were to connect in any kind of meaningful way - you were basically fucked.

Kind of like smashing a mosquito with a brick....

When they dismantle a locomotive for servicing, they give it a train version of a formula 1 pit stop - they bring the locomotive in, uncouple all the connections and lift the locomotive with cranes or jacks, and separate it from it's bogies - the motors, wheels and frames that they all run in.... under the locomotive.

Have a look at this... follow the link - and zoom it into full size at the bottom of the picture...

https://railgallery.wongm.com/....newport-workshops/D3

This is what bogies look like - except the pictures are very hard to find, and the UK locomotives and bogies are much smaller than the Australian ones...

This one is about 2/3rds the size of an Australian bogie....

And the ting is that when you see up close, a locomotive being disassembled - and seeing the huge bogies up close...

You think, "If you get hit by this shit - your really just fucked". Hence my policy of always keeping at least an outstretched arms length away from the edge of the sleepers under the railroad track - when the locomotives and rolling stock etc., are passing you at low speed.. Probably 2 or 3 meters is even better, just in case you stumble and fall near the railroad track...

And here are all these brainless cunts standing near the end of the sleepers, when a train is coming , and at a fairly decent speed too... "Mosquito - meet house brick". Fucking brainless cunts.

http://www.carlswatson.com/Tra....ins/Galleries%202008

Brutal...but necessary!

Music: Strapping Young Lad - from the album "City"