dont photograph on train tracks....

[Tailgunner]

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Ooh, Ah, Impressive :thumbup:


I can't top a steam locomotive but how about a Big Boy Engine...this keeps up, I'm going to have to process my track track photos...oops.

 

[Tailgunner]

 

[ratssass]

'Midnight Rider' Movie Crew Member Hit and Killed by Train - NBC News

 

[DarkShadow]

You don't even have to be on the tracks,just standing to close one can be pulled under the train from back draft.My brother in law retired from Metro north and my dad from Amtrak. The things they seen or stories told of accidents from trains are far greater then being hit by one at high speeds. How about a human body being coupled between two cars and split in half but live long enough to suffer.

 

[EIngerson]

Did anyone else catch that it was the guy posing for the photo that was killed and NOT the photographer?

 

[ratssass]

"....a little more to the right......look out into the distance.....aaaaaaaaand,that's a wrap!"

 

[bribrius]

some nice pics in this thread!!!!
on topic though. Spent a lot of time walking the tracks, cousin and me hung out at rail yard a little as kids. Grew up putting change on the tracks for the train to flatten them. Old man showed me how when I was like 7. Feeling the rails for vibration (which don't always work). walking backwards to listen for a train. jumped a couple slow moving boxes more than once to cross the city. im still here. And walk the tracks still in summer carrying on what my old man did with me putting change on them for my kids. (don't let them on the tracks though).
My recommendation. Stay off the tracks unless your in a slow m.p.h stretch where you have time to mlove or IT WILL HIT YOU. I have never even contemplated walking a Amtrak in a 60+ zone that's like standing on a highway. But roads are FAR more dangerous than rail. You can usually hear a train ahead of time. occurred to me the other night while I was standing partially on a road to get a pic.

 

[bribrius]

Watch this video. See how quickly they sneak up on you. The dopplar effects makes it so you don't hear them until they are almost on top of you.

yep. seen that baby trucking threw right before old orchard and taken it to boston.. I've been on that track but sure wouldn't walk it for any long distance. In your favor though is knowing the time schedules if one really felt the need to be on that track. Have to be a real good reason for me to think about hanging out on it though. You can hear it coming but it only gives you about a 6 to 8 second reaction time id say.

 

[bribrius]

I know I know...
"that would neeeeever happen to meeeeee..., im a careful photographer when I take my overly cliche and way overdone snapshots illegally on traintracks..."

you know..except for this poor guy.

Man struck, killed by train while posing for picture | www.kirotv.com

you know why? The woman wouldn't be quiet long enough for them to hear the train comin!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!! My wife follows me up on the tracks I have to keep telling her to hush so I can hear because she talks non stop. shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. "blah blah blah" hunny! shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! "blah blah blah " shhhhhhhhhhh hear that? "hear what?" Exactly . so shhhhhhhhhhh!