Get on board the Train, rail, locomotive and train modelling thread

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Scarier side of trains, a man had some type of medical event that resulted in him veering off the road and up onto the train tracks, UHP officer passing by was able to get him out of the car just in the nick of time (rescue was caught on the officer's dashcam):


Story on the incident: DeseretNews.com :: Utah trooper pulls unconscious man from vehicle 1 second before being hit by train

 

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That is scary. Speaking of



these are the Shinkansen after Japan’s latest typhoon

 

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Oh and the story just got more intense, the train engineer has spoken out, due to being short-staffed that morning, the train left a little bit late. On a normal day, the train would've reached the area where the car was on the tracks about 3 minutes earlier and this would've had a much worse ending

KSL.com: Train operator 'unsung hero' in nearly fatal crash on train tracks

Crews were short-staffed that morning, which made Nelson five minutes late to the train.

On a normal day, the train would’ve gone through the area of the accident about three minutes earlier.

“That means I would have most certainly hit the car and this would most likely be a fatality accident,” he wrote on Facebook.

When Nelson passed the southbound train that morning, he could see a light near the tracks but wasn’t sure what it was until he was less than a mile away — that’s when he realized there was a car on the tracks.

He immediately turned on the emergency brake, prayed he was wrong and wouldn’t hit anything.

“(Nelson) responded quickly and decisively,” said Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky, who called Nelson an “unsung hero” in the incident.

The brake was activated when the train was 21 seconds from impact, Arky stated in a news release.

In those 21 seconds, the train slowed from 79 mph to about 30 mph.

For a split-second, Nelson thought the train would stop short of the car, but “trains take a long time to stop,” he noted.

As the train came closer, Nelson could see someone trying to get the driver out of the car. He couldn’t see police lights and didn’t know at the time that it was a trooper helping the man.

Barely even one second before impact, Nelson watched Correa successfully haul the man out of the car.

“By being attentive and diligent, (Nelson) slowed the train just enough to buy the trooper the few precious extra seconds needed to extricate the driver from the vehicle on the track,” Arky wrote. “In our eyes, he is also a hero and we plan to recognize him for his quick thinking and the action that he took which saved two lives.”

 

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The ETR 300, also known as “Settebello” was a fast electric train operated by the Italian State Railways starting from 1952. Thanks to its aerodynamically low-drag profile, it boasted a maximum speed of 200 km/h (120 mph). Here it is seen at Milan’s Central Station. via RetroFuturism

 

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Wow that’s stunning!

 

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Ecudorian trains

 

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1939: Streamlined New York Central ‘Hudson’ locomotive at the World’s Fair in NYC, famous Trylon and Perisphere structures in the background, from Jay Kirsch

 

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