I was looking on the net and I came across an article regarding train hopping . Just wondering what other people thought... it is obiviously dangerous and illegal. I assume that some people on the site work for certain rail roads and was wonder what the rail roads do to prevent people from hopping on freight trains. Cheers, P.S you won't catch me doing it... I am a good little boy. :teeth:
That should do it. I have just been watching Emperor of the North DVD. It is a show about professional train hoppers that has a graphic severed body in the opening scenes. And those guys are professionals!!
I'm not a railroader, but I've perused enough train-hopping sites as well as looked at a defunct site with graphic pictures of folks who messed up while trainhopping (last move they ever made)- they're not for the squeamish. Railroaders will tell you that they have a dangerous job (any job involving heavy machinery has the potential for severe injury or death), and it makes no sense for someone to risk life & limb acting out some hobo fantasy. And there are some real scuzzbuckets out there who care little for human life. Working in healthcare, I can even tell you some really juicy tales of pieces of human beings arriving in the ER. between you, me, and the fencepost, I'd ditch the site link. There are too many witless wonders out there who would try to hop a freight, lose a limb (if lucky) and tell some lawyer they got the instructions from a website (and our name comes up). Last time I rode a freight train, I signed a waiver and was the guest of the railroad. Next time I get a notion to ride a train, I'm taking Amtrak.
Maybe it would help get the point across if we post a photo of whats left after one of the guys/girls slip and fall? (I wont post a girl, but they also try to ride, at least one way.) Yes, the FTRA will throw you under the wheels alive as a warning to others. Admins. let me know if I should?
It's all good. I'm sure no harm was meant. Thanks for removing the link.:thumbs_up: Watash- unless you want some of the members to lose their lunch, I'd rather you didn't. Some of those pics can be graphic and greusome. Seeing the damage up close & personal is worse.
Ditto on that for sure! As a volunteer firefighter and first responder, I've seen close-up what's left after a railroad related accident, most of them because some idiot thought he/she could make the crossing before the train got there. I've also seen the end result of a would-be rider getting caught under the wheels. Saying it isn't pretty is an understatement and a half! There are times that I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat because of it. The best advice I can give is, don't do it.
I was a paramedic for close to 10 years. I've seen my share of "failed" train hops- and they are NEVER pretty. It's amazing what a train can do to the human body. My hats of to all the railroaders, they do a very dangerous job.
Yeah, the one about global warming really makes me mad. Thanks a lot political left wing with a misguided agenda that uses bogus science for bringing up a bad memory I am trying to forget. I really appreciate it...
Yeah, that Capitol One blurb is both irresponsible & silly. Heavy on both.... Kinda makes me glad I DON'T have a CapOne card.
The only plastic I carry (outside of DL and normal ID) is my medicaid card, food stamp card and bank card.
Back to the subject at hand: My first exposure to someone running afoul of a train was in Ft. Smith, AR. I was working graveyard shift at the hospital, and was asked to come to ER and draw a trauma. When I got there, I saw a patient whose head was wrapped in bandages and bleeding, and with only one arm. Seems he got drunk, went staggering down the tracks, passed out, and got clobbered by a KCS freight. Took his arm off, bashed in his skull. He lived for three days before he died. His torn-off arm was brought up to lab for placement in the morgue refrigerator- why, I don't know, but the dr. wanted a gross exam on the severed limb. I won't mention the poor MP switchman in Van BUren, AR who was caught between couplers of two freight cars, with a resulting severe prolapse problem (don't ask..............), or my friend who was a conductor on an SP freight that was involved in a head-on collision in Illinois, with the diesel of the other train coming up over the anticlimber and crushing the cab (and him in it) like a soda can- the pictures on the cab interior were on the net for a while........ And folks still romanticize this stuff?!?!?!?!?!? Selling credit cards by condoning (covertly) a dangerous stunt, making it "family-friendly" by including Grandma.......I can see it now: "Grandma got run over by a Big Ace......" Geez Louise.........
Yup. We can't allow responsibility, and common sense, to ever get in the way of milking money from our gullible public. :sad: Boxcab E50
The way I look at it today is: "They choose to take a 'Thrill Ride' ends in their 'Thrill Suicide'!" It is the same as taking dope. After taking a few 'hits', their brain begins to die, and they are no longer the person you knew. It was a choice they made on a one way track to oblivion. All we can do is walk away.
