Woah ... Train smashed into Semi truck in Pecos, video

[Herbie Hancock 7486]

Wait, what?  If that proves to be true, there are more than one persons who need to be prosecuted.

I’ll take my lumps if it is disproven, but currently I have no reason to doubt the information I’ve been given.

[Murfdogg21 4563]

Will this impact my Amazon delivery before Christmas?

[Brisketexan 106860]

40 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Will this impact my Amazon delivery before Christmas?

I wouldn't worry about that.  Bezos will just require his local crews to work 23 hours a day instead of their normal 22 hour shifts.

[Deej 77753]

54 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I wouldn't worry about that.  Bezos will just require his local crews to work 23 hours a day instead of their normal 22 hour shifts.

That divorce ain't gonna pay for itself.

[Pato del Muerto 53420]

58 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I wouldn't worry about that.  Bezos will just require his local crews to work 23 hours a day instead of their normal 22 hour shifts.

 

4 minutes ago, Deej said:

That divorce ain't gonna pay for itself.

Teamsters may not go for that this week

[Steel Shank 9552]

Maybe this is all just a big misunderstanding?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11860]

36 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

Maybe this is all just a big misunderstanding?

That train sure laid some pipe.

[Steel Shank 9552]

No doubt. Very erotic.

[Iceman 2978]

You're in Pecos Texas, you know the flatbed trailer is high centered on a rail crossing.

Nobody had a big fucking tractor to take care of shit in 45 minutes?  I guess canteloupes farm themselves.

I mean, besides calling the train folks at UP.

Neither of those things happened?

Edited yesterday at 03:14 AM by Iceman

[JohnnyRage 1617]

4 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Will this impact my Amazon delivery before Christmas?

Yes-ish. Supposedly packages from California destined for parts of Texas. Don't see any obvious in the derailed cars picture though.

Edited yesterday at 03:57 AM by JohnnyRage

[Da Fino 2820]

2 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

Maybe this is all just a big misunderstanding?

There’s a decent chance that it was called in but UP thought it would be cleared in time. PSR relies on keeping those things moving. 

[atomheartbevo 90610]

2 hours ago, JohnnyRage said:

Yes-ish. Supposedly packages from California destined for parts of Texas. Don't see any obvious in the derailed cars picture though.

Oh fuck, you're saying Santa may have to run down the nearest Target or Wally-World?

[Samson's Wig 3229]

My grandfather had two train accidents in his life while living in a small town with fast trains and zero signals, signs, alerts, etc.   Both times, it happened at night, and the intersection had no lighting outside of whatever moonlight might be shining.   The first time, the train hit him as he crossed right in front of it.  The second time, he hit the train because he didn't see it.

 

Both times, he was drunk.

[CycleTex87 3020]

RIP to the train employees.  Sucks that they saw this coming (presumably), and nothing they could do about it.  

The object hit is a natural gas fractionation tower for a gas plant being delivered for installation, somewhere in the Delaware Basin.  Some project manager somewhere shit his pants because his project just took a 8-12 month vacation.

[Pato del Muerto 53420]

13 hours ago, Iceman said:

You're in Pecos Texas, you know the flatbed trailer is high centered on a rail crossing.

Nobody had a big fucking tractor to take care of shit in 45 minutes?  I guess canteloupes farm themselves.

I mean, besides calling the train folks at UP.

Neither of those things happened?

I also have to wonder if that’s a product that needs to take that road. Don’t those kind of wide or oversized loads pre-plan their route to be sure there are no issues like narrow lanes or sharp turns, low bridges, or I don’t know hill crests with high point issues?

[High Plains Drifter 11185]

50 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I also have to wonder if that’s a product that needs to take that road. Don’t those kind of wide or oversized loads pre-plan their route to be sure there are no issues like narrow lanes or sharp turns, low bridges, or I don’t know hill crests with high point issues?

 

See that would take intelligence, pre-planning, work, and common sense. So the answer to your question is either "no" or "yes, but it was pre-planned by lazy idiots." 

 

 

[Deej 77753]

1 hour ago, Samson's Wig said:

My grandfather had two train accidents in his life while living in a small town with fast trains and zero signals, signs, alerts, etc.   Both times, it happened at night, and the intersection had no lighting outside of whatever moonlight might be shining.   The first time, the train hit him as he crossed right in front of it.  The second time, he hit the train because he didn't see it.

 

Both times, he was drunk.

Yeah, it was the lack of signals and darkness. 

[RPM 26603]

(sniff) I coulda got the truck off there in 2 minutes with a few wood blocks.

[Samson's Wig 3229]

4 hours ago, Deej said:

Yeah, it was the lack of signals and darkness. 

lol.  I was just setting the scene for the reveal at the end.  It was definitely his fault both times.  He's long passed, so he won't mind me saying so. 

[fattyflattie 4640]

5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I also have to wonder if that’s a product that needs to take that road. Don’t those kind of wide or oversized loads pre-plan their route to be sure there are no issues like narrow lanes or sharp turns, low bridges, or I don’t know hill crests with high point issues?

Unless there's a way to barge it, it's going to go over road or rail.   Those towers are too large for rail, even if they did want to deal with the +/- 6 week schedule the rail offers you.  Having done (and hated) doing heavy haul for a living for a spell, I can tell you that the rail roads were far and away the most difficult of all entities to deal with.  They largely give 0 fucks about what you need to do to cross their tracks (typically removal of the arms/fixed overhead lights), charge out the ass to move them (think 15-20k for a 2 man crew to come swing them in for you to pass in 10 mins, then swing them back) and will try and push railpro's on you at any opportunity.   So unless you are with one of the premier heavy haul outfits, most of those guys just do what they need to do as far as the RR crossings go.   The only attentive one I ever got was on a haul south of Atlanta out in the middle of nowhere, out of dozens of interactions with several lines.    Those towers dont sit on shelves, @CycleTex87 nailed it, someone going to have a lonely foundation on a site somewhere.

[jimmyjazz 47070]

6 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

somewhere in the Delaware Basin.

Wow, that dude was LOST.

[CycleTex87 3020]

8 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I also have to wonder if that’s a product that needs to take that road. Don’t those kind of wide or oversized loads pre-plan their route to be sure there are no issues like narrow lanes or sharp turns, low bridges, or I don’t know hill crests with high point issues?

Yes, it’s called a route survey and it’s absolutely done for this kind of load and the route is planned meticulously. I don’t know why the guy high centered on the tracks but sometimes things come up that is unexpected or whatever.  No idea why they can’t call the railroad (if that in fact didn’t happen) and warn any train traffic.  It’s on the trucking company though to get the load there safely. 

[CycleTex87 3020]

I will also say that that train track along I20 past Midland/Odessa, Monahans, and Pecos is VERY busy like all day and all night trains are rolling through there. There was an accident some years ago where a parade got stuck on the train track in Midland, and the train came through and hit the trailer that had a bunch of disabled veterans, killing several of them.  Terrible.  

[Pato del Muerto 53420]

So stopping a train means more than stopping one train, huh. 

[CycleTex87 3020]

Indeed. 

[ztejas 44154]

Maybe these guys schemed the truck getting stuck on the tracks.

[cmontexas 3340]

CSB I used to be a UPS driver. Well I had never really driven a standard but I had proved myself to be a competant warehouse worker so they overlooked my struggles with the transmission during the training period in anticipation of me figuring it out and becoming a hard working delivery driver.

My first day on my own was a Friday and the supervisor who trained me had off that day. Also because it was Friday the driver on the route next to mine had an early request for that day so a significant chunk of his route was shifted over to my route. No big deal I thought I'll just go deliver it.

This section was right off Vickery Blvd in Fort Worth next to 183 and led to a bunch of apartments. I was coming back from that area and turning back onto Vickery when I stopped at the light short of the railroad tracks. The light turns green, I start to go, I fuck up the clutch operation and the truck dies out. Right on top of the railroad tracks. The cars behind me went around me and gave me dirty looks.

Right as this happens the rail crossing lights and buzzer start going off. The arm of the railroad crossing comes down on top of the UPS truck. In front of me traffic is moving 45 mph+. Finally I get it started and in reverse and back up off the track. I could see the damn train coming.

The next Monday I told this story to my supervisor/trainer. He told me to never tell anyone that story lol