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Trains fucking rule.

About this head to Union Station, this post saved my life.

🫣 this is why you NEVER park on tracks

Good thing he stayed with the camera, we would have missed out otherwise

That's good thing a foamer recorded it

I remember the old Q101 warning commercials It takes a mile for a train to stop at 80 mph and this is like 20 mph

The engineer would have ‘plugged it’ (applied emergency braking on the whole train), before the video started, because the engineer would have seen that the trailer was NOT going to be in the clear.

Full speed next time

thank you for posting this so i could warn my parents in time!!

Incredible!

Those trees are like "what did **I** do???"

So glad I wasn’t the only one like “who will think of the trees?”

www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... this happened in 2012 in the German town of Feuerbach near Stuttgart. Luckily, also outside rush hour.

La Grange Road, Illinois.

Correct.

Was driving South around 2:30 and the road was blocked at Ogden. Saw the container on its side but hadn't seen the video. It was still there on my way back home.

Getting home was awful. At least 3 crossings were completely blocked by the train.

you do not beat the train

LaGrange Road station?

It looks like it

Yeah

Right, but a coin will derail a train, right guys??

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i just passed through union station and they were advising everyone in the very crowded south waiting area to seek alternative transportation

Hahaha

very ope

UPW erasure

No, they were also telling people UP-W was an alternative.

They were giving bad info as well tho. The people showing up to OTC heading to naperville were told to go to winfield when they shoulda been told to go to wheaton.

Eh, I can understand why they would say winfield

UP-W was also explicitly honoring BNSF tickets, which I wish I had known ahead of time!

I just had a zone 4 monthly pass and asked the conductor ahead of time.

Yes Mr Rational. A dummy, I never asked anyone and just bought a ticket 😮‍💨

They're the same ticket tho

I will suggest from a consumer perspective that buying “Line / Zone” tickets does not imply that they are transferable across lines.

Yeah they do need to make that clearer. Lots of people were surprised when I told them as long as they had the right zones on their ticket, they were good to go

Exactly. It's a consumer search friction resulting from the UI workflow of "pick a line" and then "pick a zone"; they could just sell zone tickets, but that's not at all how they frame the offering to the public.

Metra is metra is metra.

I have heard a conductor say exactly that phrase!

Yeah 30-40 years ago that wouldn't be the case but now that isn't the case thankfully.

Maybe the Terms of Service allow it but it’s not a reasonable implication of the product offered through Ventra.

What? Yes they are, if they weren't transferrable then it would say that for that specific line.

I think that's James's point; when I look at my pass in the Ventra app it does say BNSF in my active ticket list. When you click through to the ticket screen itself it doesn't, but that's why I asked to make sure it was good on UP-W as well.

Oof, is the driver ok?

No injuries reported so far

oh hell...

I genuinely hope the driver is not injured, and also that they are never allowed behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle again, unless there was some crossing gate or signal error

This is also why railroad crews, even if physically uninjured, end up with PTSD.

I wish I could turn off quote tweets, y'all people don't need to say shit all the time lmfao

Because there's a lot of people who don't ever click on anything, here's hopeful screencaps for later readers. You can do it with every post individually. You can do it with every post after you post. You can have a default for all your posts (which you can change individually later!). See pics.

bsky.app/profile/hsrg...

That is one of my posts indeed

There is a *repost* button there for a reason.

Quote tweets are off because you people keep repeating the same joke and blowing up my notifs.

Man now I don’t get to access the quotes

You *can* turn off quote tweets if you want

Also, you can disconnect them for those already quoting

wait how

It's off, thank you!

Go to the … under the post, go to interaction settings

I don't normally bother with that! 😭😭

You can turn them off globally in your settings too

I'm fine with quote tweets, just normally don't have this many for whatever reason

The vehicle wars have begun

Optimus Prime KIA

It's always been happening here!