Two Trains Collide Head-On

1. seb
   August 16th, 2009 at 3:27 am

   This is crazy footage, nice find.

2. Matthew
   August 16th, 2009 at 7:23 am

   Anyone else having serious issues with this site ever since the front page shows like 50 posts? For me the site is now unviewable.

3. JimRL
   August 16th, 2009 at 9:28 am

   No problems for me and I have a 4 year old PC plus slow wireless connection, maybe an upgrade is in order Matthew.

   Where were the guys who were filming this? I was expecting to hear screaming of some kind.

4. Brad
   August 16th, 2009 at 10:25 am

   I have problems all the time. One PC is about 7 years old and its impossible on there. The other is brand new and its still some what difficult with it.

5. Foreigner1
   August 16th, 2009 at 10:32 am

   Is the an OOhhhh SH...!!!!-experience or what?

   That guy that jumped out- how fast will he had to run when he saw that his train keeled over after him...?
   

6. Justin
   August 16th, 2009 at 11:46 am

   @JimRL: I imagine that this is something similar to a dashboard camera device. I don't think anyone was just sitting there filming.

7. Tibo
   August 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

   The complete report about this accident is available in pdf.

   http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2006/hq 200648v.pdf

8. sc0tty
   August 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

   Reminds me of my life.

9. JimRL
   August 16th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

   @ Justin

   That's what I thought until I read.

   '...the crews in the train with the camera on board were seriously injured.'

10. douche
    August 17th, 2009 at 12:11 am

    JimRL

    you're so stupid. just read it and think about it for one second. "crew" does not mean camera crew

11. Alex
    August 17th, 2009 at 12:16 am

    @Matthew - we used to have 50 pages in Neatorama's Front Page, but not for years. It has been 30 posts for quite some time now.

    I don't know why you're having trouble - Because of the length, Neatorama isn't easy to load for those without high speed Internet access.

12. Captain Fatty
    August 17th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Now that's what I call a real Blue Screen of Death...

13. star13
    August 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Crazy!

14. Harvey
    August 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    @Tibo: Thanks for the PDF! The train with the guys who bailed in the video were the ones at fault because they failed to slow or stop for multiple signals. What's worse is that the injured members of the train with the camera reported that none of the guys who jumped came over to help them after the accident. The reason they didn't jump was that they were travelling too fast and thought that they might be able to get the engine on to the other track just before being hit.

15. Winston Smith
    August 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Chewie! Lock in the auxiliary power, full reverse!

16. DarthMoo
    August 17th, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    The report shows that the conductor for the east bound train had cocaine in his system. There is also concern that the angle of the sun made it difficult to see the color of the signal. I hope the injured crew feel better sooner then later.

17. Supposed Eric
    August 21st, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Since someone's commenting based on partial reads of the report, I'll comment based on my read of the report...

    The chemical found in the EB train's crewman was a metabolite of cocaine and it is unknown how long ago the actual cocaine might have been taken or if the person was impaired.

    The railroad's attorney, a government agent, a railmen's union rep and others were aboard a locomotive that did a reenactment at the same time of day within a short time after the accident which seems to show that the sun was not a factor, according to all who were aboard the loco'. These observations were correlated with calculations from the US Naval Observatory as to the time of sunrise and so on. They were operating in the early morning, and of course the sun rises in the east. According to the sketch the rails run directly north-south, so the Sun is shining perpendicular to the direction the driver would have to look. It's hard to imagine the sun being much of a factor.

    What I don't understand is how the crew didn't operate on the assumption that they were meeting another train that they were going to have to wait for. If you're going to the movies and the traffic light in front of the cinema appears green, you still go into the cinema parking lot, because that is the plan. You don't go speeding past the cinema because the signal is green. In a similar way, the errant train's failure to wait seems at odds with the idea that the plan was for that train to wait for the second train before proceeding.

    @W. Smith: Full reverse would have worked about as well for the trains as it did for the Titanic. Nice reference though.

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