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[buckeyefarmer]

You went back to verify the tractor was hauling - - - > MELONS.

Or Whoppers.

 

[Diggin It]

Train vs dump truck .... everybody loses.

3 killed, dozens hurt in Amtrak train crash in Missouri

Three people were killed and dozens others were injured Monday when an Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed in a remote, rural area of Missouri.

apnews.com

This is something most cityfolk don't understand:

"Six medical helicopters parked nearby were waiting to transport patients.

Close to 20 local and state law enforcement agencies, ambulance services, fire department and medical helicopter services responded, Dunn said. The first emergency responders arrived within 20 minutes of receiving a 911 call, he said."

They get used to responders arriving in a few minutes. Out in the sticks, 20 minutes is fairly quick and it can sometimes be an hour for first units to arrive and even longer for enough units arrive to be effective.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Heard about that on the radio yesterday, ugh, terrible.

 

[California]

Train vs dump truck .... everybody loses.

This is something most cityfolk don't understand:

They get used to responders arriving in a few minutes. Out in the sticks, 20 minutes is fairly quick and it can sometimes be an hour for first units to arrive and even longer for enough units arrive to be effective.

I don't think long response time is a mystery to anyone. Maybe there is a mistaken expectation that there are fewer things for their train to run into in a rural area.

I came upon a crash and hung around for a half hour before the nearest volunteer fire department mobilized and arrived. Lady in a Mustang ran the stop sign of a side road and t-boned a semi at its saddle tank. The flood of fuel greased all his right side tires as he ran over the hood of the Mustang, and braked. His gravel trailer swung around and took out the last axles of an oncoming gravel semi, then he was trapped in his cab as he jackknifed severely. That semi driver was injured but was talking to people who stopped. Driver of the semi who lost his last axle and I, went to see the Mustang lady who was spun off to the shoulder. Totally unresponsive. No obvious injury but we assumed she was dead. It felt like the whole afternoon passed before the VFD arrived.

I hope to never see anything like that again.

 

[Jstpssng]

I would expect a lot longer wait than 1/2 hour before a response in the places that I work. It might take 2-4 times that long just to get out far enough to make a phone call.

Years ago I was walking back to my truck when a young woman pulled up and asked my if I had a cell phone; she'd been hiking with her father and he'd fallen about 150 feet onto a frozen river. That was before lunchtime... it was nearly 4:00 that afternoon before the cavalry arrived.

 

[California]

I would expect a lot longer wait than 1/2 hour before a response in the places that I work. It might take 2-4 times that long just to get out far enough to make a phone call.

Years ago I was walking back to my truck when a young woman pulled up and asked my if I had a cell phone; she'd been hiking with her father and he'd fallen about 150 feet onto a frozen river. That was before lunchtime... it was nearly 4:00 that afternoon before the cavalry arrived.

Yeah similar at our mining claim deep in the Sierras. We heard someone calling help. He had run a half hour from the claim up the creek. Told us his daughter was bleeding from a chainsaw injury and his truck wouldn't start. His camp and ours were the only people in at least 20 miles. We immediately gave him the Wagoneer key to take her to Quincy, over an hour on logging skid trails out to the pavement but no civilization there, then similar to the clinic. We were left without a vehicle but we trusted him.

Next day we heard the story. This idiot had asked his daughter to hold a sheet of plywood while he chainsawed it in half. As he completed the cut he raised the saw into her arm. The clinic had stitched her muscles back together, later we learned it wasn't a permanent disability but she had enlisted as soon as she was old enough, to get away from the crazy.

 

[oliver1555]

Train vs dump truck

This is about fifteen miles from our farm. Very sad event. That crossing was slated for upgrade, but it hadn’t happened, yet. My son is a BNSF engineer and runs KC to Galesburg. It’s the main line from KC to Chicago. One track is open.

 

[oliver1555]

My son made the run from Galesburg to KC today. He said that crossing is elevated about twenty feet and visibly is pretty bad, both from the road and the rails.

 

[Diggin It]

Are these pre-made track sections or just piles of ties?

The dump truck is still there, but the train must be further down the track I guess. Even this shot doesn't shown the grade elevation.

 

[BravoXray]

Those are pre-assembled sections of new rails and ties to lay down.