Machines | Dump Truck Breaks Gate! & Amtrak 19 Blows through! (Bessemer AL) 5-8-13
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Craziness in Bessemer as usual, where it seems as a death trap at crossings all through town, as some one was just killed by Amtrak 19 in West Bham AL 2 days ago. This dump truck, which I assumed panicked once the gates were down, he decided to floor it & smashed the gates, & Amtrak 19 flew by on ags#2 moments after between 70 & 80mph, crushing some of the gate, I think the crew had ducked down, just in case, but I reported it to the dispatcher & NS PD moments after, to notify a maintainer & trains. CRAZINESS!
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engineer looked at dude like "ain't nothing I can do fam" kept on rolling.
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At least crescent 19 was on the furthest track away from you otherwise there would be a huge impact.
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best part of the vid was the idiot running onto the track trying to get 19 to slow down lmao
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Oh shit the arms coming down! Fuck it!
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i think the dump truck saw the train then said "oh s@#$ i have to wait" then said "f@#$ it" and went through . dump truck 1 Amtrak & gate 0
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Eh, just a tap.
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And then just today Amtrak 20 hit a dump truck somewhere in this area.....
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CottonBeltSD40T Must Watch This.
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Good Lord! That dump truck broke the crossing gate!
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Busted a gate but it was csx's fault signal worker didnt activate lights just dropped the gate and heard a crrraackk and saw it laying on the ground signal worker begged me not to file a police report but did anyways guy got cited for improperly flagging an intersection
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This is the first time I've come across this and I must say I'm very disappointed in this guys lack of judgment. Then I saw the date and realize he did this only two days after my friend and her son were killed by an Amtrak train for trying to cross the tracks. This video proves that people running the yield warnings in Birmingham is indeed a bad habit that maybe news channels and papers should bring more awareness about. Sad to say my close friend and child lost their lives doing this and people still learned nothing.
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Did u report the gate?
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cool! good it wasnt bad
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Was on a Tri-Rail train in south Florida that hit a crossing arm a few years ago. Probably the same thing with a truck driver. Fortunately, the engineer was able to slow down in time, and we crawled through the crossing with the gate scratching the right side of the train (left a small white line across the entire length of the train). Coming back, the conductor had to flag the crossing while CSX repaired it.
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it was not big moe
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Hey do you know if it was Big Moe and the Cool Crew at the controls of this train?
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SUre was!
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I know!
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Dumb Ass He Know He was Wrong for That Truck Drivers
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Thank Goodness that Amtrak 19, wasn't on the other tracks, if it was, going to have big Problems