Absolutely beautiful and chilling. Reminds me of being on a humid, late evening walk almost exactly 20 years ago in my hometown, I'm about 90% sure there was an NS B32-8 leading with one of these on it.
I’m an engineer for Amtrak and I do the same thing. I duck, wear big glasses, pull my hat down, whatever it takes to get my face out of the picture. I’m not sure if any of these buffs work for a living but I’d imagine they wouldn’t like it if I came to their office, or cash register, or whatever and shoved a camera in their face while they are working. Besides for us it’s a liability thing. These goofy foamers need to be a little more respectful of people’s privacy and think of how they would feel if the script were flipped. But then again I guess I can’t ask retarded people to use common sense
Good lord when did railfans become so entitled? If a crew didn't wave when we were kids we didn't sit and whine about it. Now every little thing gets put on social media. And to you guys who post stuff like this about unfriendly train crews, do you really not understand why some crews won't? Not to mention the fact that we do have jobs to do up there. My main goal as an engineer isn't to look for the cameras.
Yea if you don’t wave to kids you’re kind of a dick. I’m an engineer too, doesn’t inhibit our jobs to wave, but oddly enough putting a vest in the window (blocking your vision) does! If your main goal as an engineer is to stay away from cameras and not safely run a train, the fuck are you doing?
I'm a driver for a contract transportation company. The crew report any kids playing around the tracks to the dispatchers. In my area there were kids racing trains on bikes & atv's, in another spot they were playing chicken. Locomotives weigh around 425,000 lbs. each. In case of a derailment you should be more than 20 ft from the tracks so at least you have a chance to run away.
Cool, I’m a *union* locomotive engineer and 11 years ago I wasn’t playing chicken or racing trains. Thanks for the refresher on locomotive statistics and extremely uncommon mainline derailment scenarios in a popular train watching spot 👍
Hope you've changed your idea of what constitutes a safe distance from a moving train. In the video you appear to be standing well within the rail corridor and if it was Australia.... within the danger zone (within 3 metres of closest rail).
@@metra202 3 metres is 9.8 feet. It's a distance that makes allowance for idiots who don't realize that locomotives and rolling stock are wider than the gauge of the track they're running on.
Thanks! I have a few horn recordings to fire off here and then I’ll dig through the archives and see what all I have. There’s quite a bit of content from over the years
Back in the 1970s I worked at a steel mill in Western Pennsylvania. I was so young they put me out on the tracks to flag down the train. The train crew invited me in for a couple of pulls off the bottle they kept up there! I left that train a much happier man!!
Good times! In the early 80's in central Maine, my brother and I were standing by the road in one of our parent's hayfields. The town dump truck drove by and ole Calvin Marston (RIP) held up his Budweiser as he drove by. My ole man (RIP) always drove with a beer between his legs, all through the mid and late 70's. They got him in 1980, that put a stop to that habit quick.
Make sure to wear hearing protection when doing your hobby. That "FoamHead" driving the train was trying to blow your eardrums out. Also a Canon DSLR with a Zoom 300mm telephoto lens will get some great close up photos of the train crew and also take great video. Tamron has some great affordable zoom & telephoto lenses.
There's an engineer here in Ohio that got his face messed up after falling into rail. Maybe it happened back in his conductor days. He still puts his vest over the window to this day.
The fact there is a "debate" over this is kinda dumb. Some people don't want their picture taken. Some people do. In the end, life still moves on and technically the video still captured what it wanted. The train.
What's wrong here besides you trespassing and putting yourself the crew and that whole community at risk ? You don't have the first freaking clue of the nature of the job or the risk you impose upon yourself and the community get off the property and let them do their jobs witch them having to take extra precautions that your not there to sabatoge something . what an idiot you must be. Foamer !
Dangerous. Railfanning rule #37T clearly states: “Any railfan must be 30-50 steps away from any moving train. The speed is a major factor and should be taken seriously. Failure to obey the rule will result in a fine of $200-$1000 for trespassing in railroad property”
