BRKG Raw: Train Hits Tractor-trailer Stuck on Tracks (Midland TX)

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Ovendoctor

Inactive
the trailer got ''high centered'' on the crossing
the driver could have dropped the trailer and at least saved the tractor :shr:

Doc.:groucho:
 
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WalknTrot

Veteran Member
Yup, that was my concern, too. The folks in the front engine. Yikes. They saw it coming a long way off, but those trains don't slow down without a lot of real estate behind 'em.

If the truck driver would have had time, maybe could have dialed 911 and dispatch might have been able to get hold of the RR. Those guys all have radios and cell phones.
 
Burrito

Burrito

Veteran Member
I can't get over how the driver took the time to shut the door and then appears to place his hand on the finder or engine and say goodbye with the train almost upon them. He's RIGHT next to the rig when it was hit. DAMN! :eek: :eek:
 
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Rabbit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I had one of our rigs stalled on railroad tracks before, and I've had big rigs on the way to our facility bottom out on the tracks before. There was a makeshift shortcut across the tracks into our industrial park and trucks were always getting stuck there (none of mine). The first thing you do is call 911 and alert the railroad to stop any trains headed that way. Then you call a wrecker. If you can't see a train coming there is time to alert somebody, thank goodness we never had a truck hit. I've had railroad dispatchers yelling over the phone, but what ya gonna do?
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Dennis and a couple others can tell you if he COULD ACTUALLY "drop" the trailer if it was high centered on the crossing....Different stresses and forces on the 5th wheel and all of that...
 
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