Dumb luck – Train strikes rig and driver walks away like nothing happened

We have a fax freight train that runs down the street in downtown Tampa and they are trying to pass a no horn law..I don't see that ending well lol. Skip to 1 minute in and it gives you an idea of the area, I'm surprised more people and cars don't get hit by it

 

I love the end where he points at the gate and appears to blame it lol.

 

Were they OUT of their minds when they did that? I saw a similar setup in Alabama, and it just freaked me out. Unbelievable.

 

I'm guessing the the tracks were there before the city built up (the drawbridge looks really old). Real estate is so valuable in Tampa that having a freight train run down your street is acceptable lol.

 

There are several towns where trains are used in a city. Yes, the town grew up around the tracks. Instead of banning the train horn, it would be easier to alter how the horn is used. The engineer is merely trying to follow protocall with a train at a crossing. Two long blasts followed by one short followed by one long blast on the horn. The last blast of the horn will end when the front truck has cleared the intersection.

What the town might want to do is to petition the railroad to have what ever engineer to not sound the horn for long blasts when operating in the city street.

 

You honestly learn to ignore it. I have tracks that run 1/4 from my house on one side and about a mile on the other side and I don't even notice them anymore.

 

The South Shore Line is synonymous with street running in Northern Indiana passing thru Michigan City.

 

I did not know that. I've only been to Michigan City a handful of times. And I guess not in that area.

 

Cool!!!

 

Yup. One of the last inter urban railroads still in existence in the U.S.
South Shore Line - Wikipedia