Comment on Train Surrounded by Flames in Armstrong, Ontario
Cronization@lemmy.world 4 days agoThat other train that passed had a clear track, and they were waiting their turn on a side rail to use the track the other train was coming the opposite way on. Many many places only have one set of rails, there ain’t two-way traffic everywhere. You probably don’t want two million-ton vehicles to smash into each other in the middle of a wildfire.
orlyowl@piefed.ca 4 days ago
Thank you!
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I had the sound on and watched it a couple of times and had no clue either.
The vial (passenger trains in Ontario) get bumped all the time for freight trains )
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
During the video you can hear them mention a few times that they really need to get going and right at the end the other train passes thus allowing them to finally get out of there.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
They tell the passing train to speed up and the other train tells them “they are notching up” meaning they are adding more throttle or power to the traction motors.
These two, the locomotive engineer and conductor, will probably lose their jobs or face severe discipline from CN for using their cell phones while on duty and posting this to social media.
I can’t imagine how terrified they must have been, you can hear it in the engineers voice when he talks to the other train crew. Apparently the train had dangerous/flammable cars close to the locomotives and that made it even more terrifying.
They both got out of there without injury and nothing happened to the train.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I though they were waiting on workers at the other end of the train. Dropping a car or connecting cars. Freight trains can be very long