This wasn't the drivers fault. It was the guys fault for standing in between the coaches and the 30 class. You aren't supposed to do that!! You wait for the engine to come close enough to the coaches for it to be coupled up. The idiot should have used his brain and his common sense.
The problem probably stems from tighter curves on narrower gauge track but I don't think roads like the Durango Silverton have much problems with the automatic couplers. I can see the desire to keep the historical accuracy angle. To mount american style automatic couplers one would have to do extensive body modification to the frame ends of the rolling stock.
You have to wonder why they have been so reluctant to adopt a automatic coupler system like the US has had for the past century or more. A bit of historical anecdote. Back in the early history of american railroads. Before the automatic coupler came into use. A man would get a railroad job, typically coupling with link and pin. A relative would take his first pay and purchase some fine linen. So there would be something proper to bury him in. The rate of accidental death from crushing so high.
The Guy should not have been between the carrages.
There was no direct communication between him and the engine driver via radio.
Everybody standing about had not a fuckin clue what to do..
The public should be shooed away and the Guy sent to doctor/Hospital for immediate assesment + accident report should be made to advise and ensure against a repeat of such a stupid and blatent breach of safety protocol..
that kid in orange shirt got a good view,,imagine if it was worse,my old man was on the railways for 40years,,used to tell us storys back in the day when people were crushed between the couplings,doing shunting,,,,ouch
Standing between coaches and locos when coupling is common practice. Usually there are buffers on both loco and coaches though which allows just about any man to stand there. In this case it would have been a smart thing to not stand there since there was no protection at all.
Oh well, he survived and it's easy to say now after the fact... all i know is i wouldn't wanna stand there when any kind of heavy metal is about to move. Rather safe than sorry!
The Shunters at Central stand in that position when they are hooking up the urbans. So he obviously applied the same work practice to this situation without doing a proper risk assessment.
I remember asking a driver to do exactly that when I was coupling up once, what in f***s name was I thinking of. Sometimes we do stupid things. Fortunately he couldn't hear me calling him on.
Surely mathematics would have said "hm, nah clearly the distance between the buffers and the carridge is far smaller than the distance round my fat arse and gut. Could have been a lot worse.
Looked like he got caught between the tender and the striker plate of the passenger car, as the car doesn't have buffers on it... at least that diaphragm is sprung and has some give to it.
You'd think after all these years, they'd have outlawed those hook-and-loop couplers in favor of automatic knuckle couplers...
His buddies didn't seem so urgent to check on him, I would have been pretty upset with the ever so chill response by them. Not good, I hope he is ok though.
1)Ensure with the driver it is safe to go "under".
2)The driver should be absolutly 100% sure that there is nobody "under" before moving.
3)As few people as possible should be involved in shunting operations and everyone should know precisely what they are doing and not be running round like headless chickens and generally causing chaos and confusion!
this is why america (all i know that uses this) has couplers, not little hitches like on the back of a dump truck. all you gutta to is connect the air hose, not hard
I think they should send him on a shunting course. O.K. Drive' - ease up. Alright to go between? Then go under ...... AFTER THE BLOODY TRAIN HAS MOVED NOT BEFORE!!! Surprised there aren't any buffers on the coaches though.
I've never worked with trains, and I've only ridden on them 4 times (Going somewhere and back.) I still think it's rather obvious that you don't stand between two cars when they're pushing them together. I think it's up there with putting a fork or knife in a electric socket.
And that fuckwit lets the little boy stand there and watch, they are all fuckwits and thats from someone with 30 years shunting experience!! I neary shit when the first guy walked between the loco and the wagon!!
You do not stand between coupling carriages/locmotives that don't hav buffers! We lost a shunter at Ariah Park a few months later in a similar incident.
Was the driver told it clear to back up? If he was the worker should have moved out the way, if not, then why on earth did he move it back? Or was it a break issue?
2: a steam locomotive opens and closes for steam at the top of the boiler. This means that once it starts moving and the driver turns off the steam, it continues to accelerate with the steam already in the pipes between the boiler and the pistons. This nasty and unpredictable feature makes moving steam locomotives just a little bit somewhat tricky. (diesel hydraulic suffers from the same issue with pressure buildups at start)
maybe he should do what we do at the east somerset railway let th train back up to the carriages then make sure the brakes are on the climb underneath couple it then go out
There is a lovely thing here in the USA we use called knuckle couplers you don't have to stand between the cars to hook them together so there are no pancaked workers.
It's near impossible to change now but you are right. It would avoid some accidents and knuckle couplers can handle greater force. However most accidents are gone after the no alcohol politic appeared.
Personally I don't mind standing in between because I'm protected by buffers. If the engine fails to brake then it slams into the wagons (with applied brakes) and nothing happens. The problem in the video is missing buffers and mixing coupler types is always an issue.
Strewth Bruce! I can confirm he was taken to Wollongwallah Creek in my Ute, where we met the flying doctor who checked him over and said he was a drongo. had a few Castlemaine xxxx tinnies, then watched Home & Away
What on earth were they doing trying to couple a locomotive with buffers to a bufferless carriage with a transition link! This is pretty basic stuff, another few c.m. and it was all over for this bloke. And, even if succesful, once underway and the coaches bunch, what is there to stop the link from coming off (over) the drawhook? This is amaturish stuff alround.
I know nothing about working with trains, but I think it would've been wise to step away from the train, let it move in, then do what he was TRYING to do. Lol I hope he didn't have claustraphobia cause I think that would've triggered it XD
He should be taken to hospital and never allowed back.
You can not have idiots working near trains.
What did he think would happen when 60plus tons of railway engine squeezes up to how many 30ton coaches.
Also there were plenty of people there that should have stopped it from happening, all standing around not taking responsibility while watching someone almost get killed.
He shouldn't been there in the first sake,that makes the fucken idiot ???? the shunter !!!That also shows the reputation of him in Public,,once again shouldn't been there at all,.
It is so easy for you all to comment when you were NOT there!
The shunter WAS TOLD NOT TO GO IN BETWEEN THE TRAIN AND THE ENGINE. If we had refused to move the engine the shunters would go on strike crippling the yard.
Also we just stood there because there was absolutely nothing we could do until the diver eased off the train (turning the reversing wheel is not quick). We could have had 3 injuries if we entered the space illegally like he did!
Thinning of the herd. You have to take into account that things don't work as advertised or hoped for. This guy isn't even close to being safety conscious.
Thats why all carriages should be fitted with either buffers or diaphram plates, as the carriage in question was a N type sitting car it should have had full width buffing/diaphram plates
That accident could have been much worse! I found it hilarious the way his colleagues just stand around laughing as he swears his head off in front of the little kid! :)
@WhiteJarrah Not true. In Korea(or China im not sure) there is one train line that is working with old trains only. its something like running museum used to transport people and for tourism.
with these style of couplers you have to stand between its what's known as a link and pin coupler the workman had the clevice in his hand on the car is a bar that it connects to which in turn also connects to the locomotive the reason the railroads in the state moved away from them is the very reason you see here too many death due to crushing
This guy and his crew are pathetic!!! Any Fool knows not to stand inbetween rail cars like that when connecting cars. His crew Never seemed concerned about his safty. If that was my buddy getting crushed I would have screamed at the engeineer to move forward!!! I only heard one spectator ask if he needs help. DAMN GOOD THING THIS GUY DIDNT POP LIKE A WATER BALLOON WHILE THE KID WAS WATCHING.
just to sort things up here u lot in the states did not invent the "knuckle couplers" as u call them u stole the idea from a BRITISH RAILWAY which had small enines (which ran on 2ft gauge track) although the couplers look different they work in the same way and they were around years before the first railways in the states. also that man is a twat i work on a steam railway as loco crew and i know for a fact that standing in the 4ft (the middle of the track is DEADLY NEVER DO IT HE GOT LUCKY.
In early American railroading, (mid to late 1800's) we had link-and-pin coupling, similar to this system, that required the trainmen to hold a link between coupler pockets as the cars came together., and many men lost their fingers in the process of coupling trains. Our modern automatic knuckle couplers should be a world standard., coupling/uncoupling is done outside the train. They go in only to connect the air lines, (& power cables on passenger trains).
sally read a chain letter and did not pass it in the chain letter it said she will die the next day at 2:25 exactly u know what happened to her...nothing she went on with her life and forgot about it plz stop posting idiotic things and just watch
:copy and paste this so we can clean up the whole chain letter fad from you tube
I know I shouldnt, because I do work for a railroad and I know how bad this could have went but.. lmfao, what was he trying to accomplish between the locomotive and the wagon? I know you can couple up that way, but why did they pick the biggest guy to stand there? Oh well, he is fine, funny as hell, but scary at the same time, great video! I imagine that happens quite often with those chain link couplers.
This wasn't the drivers fault. It was the guys fault for standing in between the coaches and the 30 class. You aren't supposed to do that!! You wait for the engine to come close enough to the coaches for it to be coupled up. The idiot should have used his brain and his common sense.
GOD GAVE HIM A BRAIN FOR A REASON!!!!!!
EastwoodBirds 1 day ago
The problem probably stems from tighter curves on narrower gauge track but I don't think roads like the Durango Silverton have much problems with the automatic couplers. I can see the desire to keep the historical accuracy angle. To mount american style automatic couplers one would have to do extensive body modification to the frame ends of the rolling stock.
morg52 3 weeks ago
You have to wonder why they have been so reluctant to adopt a automatic coupler system like the US has had for the past century or more. A bit of historical anecdote. Back in the early history of american railroads. Before the automatic coupler came into use. A man would get a railroad job, typically coupling with link and pin. A relative would take his first pay and purchase some fine linen. So there would be something proper to bury him in. The rate of accidental death from crushing so high.
morg52 3 weeks ago
@morg52 Yes but there a pain in the @ss as they wont couple on sharp bends and are bloody heavy.
Forevagrey 3 weeks ago
Accidents dont just happen they are caused!
The Guy should not have been between the carrages.
There was no direct communication between him and the engine driver via radio.
Everybody standing about had not a fuckin clue what to do..
The public should be shooed away and the Guy sent to doctor/Hospital for immediate assesment + accident report should be made to advise and ensure against a repeat of such a stupid and blatent breach of safety protocol..
MrMorry123 3 months ago
guy shouldnt have been in there, n wat bout the rest of them, oh its fine, fuken idiots
defiant18 3 months ago
Not what a 4 year old should witness. A man getting crushed and swearing all round.
Mikal2475 5 months ago
what was this idiot trying to proof his superman
mayimbin 6 months ago
that kid in orange shirt got a good view,,imagine if it was worse,my old man was on the railways for 40years,,used to tell us storys back in the day when people were crushed between the couplings,doing shunting,,,,ouch
typo368 7 months ago
naaah she be right
typo368 7 months ago
What an idiot
toddcfghjk 7 months ago
wot a dick why would you stand there dahhhh, hes flaut, better not go to compention, hes after money!
graystrainspotter 8 months ago
@graystrainspotter because he was trying to do he job and the fucking train driver back up too far that aint his fault!
xLSDxMonk 7 months ago
@xLSDxMonk comon scence really wait till the train hits wots is coupling to then reach or climb under the buffers then couple them up.
graystrainspotter 7 months ago
Damn!!! It's good he had those people there to tell the engineer to pull forward. Thank God for the Janney Coupler in the U.S.
csx5400 8 months ago
"Should I call an ambulance?!"
"Nah."
cryst1meth 8 months ago 3
@cryst1meth I was thinking the same
HankMCsuckIT 7 months ago
he was just way too fat for that kind of job.
rotacon 8 months ago
Good time to tell him he in a bad stop
I dont care who you are experienced or not
If it look like a bad stop, well you know were
This is going.
ykb946 9 months ago
JUSt A WaSTE OF TIME
Alkesh18year 9 months ago
Standing between coaches and locos when coupling is common practice. Usually there are buffers on both loco and coaches though which allows just about any man to stand there. In this case it would have been a smart thing to not stand there since there was no protection at all.
Oh well, he survived and it's easy to say now after the fact... all i know is i wouldn't wanna stand there when any kind of heavy metal is about to move. Rather safe than sorry!
RealCadde 9 months ago
It has to be real he kept looking to make sure it wouldnt move on him but took his eyes off to quick!
sweetismami28 9 months ago
How long does it fn take to say move it back people looking stupid!
sweetismami28 9 months ago
isn't a passenger car supposed to have buffers on it?
WNxRadeon 10 months ago
what an idiot. Its a huge train with poor breaking, not a little car.
1111Davo1 10 months ago
That's what happens when your a dummy!
brianbyrne31 11 months ago
Shouldn't have been standing there. Should have waited at the side with the other 2 guys and then coupled up when the train had set back.
CFRailway 11 months ago
Ok, to all of the people making "big people" jokes and saying that they need to hire "skinnier" people, I'm sorry, but that's just not funny...
Omahatica 11 months ago
This is why I recommend changing to knuckle couplers.
operazanotaijin 1 year ago
sorry look at the way he is standing and......never mind ITS NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
atcwiz 1 year ago
@atcwiz Its real. The assistant(s) have to do this every single time the train couples up. Its a very risky job.
SaltineCrackaAss 11 months ago
"Should someone call an ambulance?" "Nah, fuck it" best part
ks10301 1 year ago
worlds strongest man!
princee786 1 year ago
And this is why we have the FRA..
Amtrakboy32 1 year ago
You should never be in-between the loco and coaches like that. He could have been killed
barry8472 1 year ago
Seams to me they just need to hirer thinner people. = )
Ryanofweird33 1 year ago
Damn! They need a shunter's pole much?
crazyracer12 1 year ago
thats y you dont go between the loco and train while its coupling up
SteamMad 1 year ago
What inexcusable language around children.
There was nothing for others to do.
robertgift 1 year ago
@robertgift It is pretty funny how everyone starts swearing like sailors when the child runs between the cameraman and the guy getting squished.
mubd1234 1 year ago
Why knuckle couplers are better.
donjuandonjuan 1 year ago
@donjuandonjuan Yeah!That's why the U.S.got rid of the old link and pin system 100 some odd years ago!!
gebass6 1 year ago
Why not duck down so anything simply passes over you? Plenty of room.
Was the guy actually hurt, or just squeezed a little?
Or did he get pinched a little by something protruding from the engine?
robertgift 1 year ago
@robertgift sounds like he got a good squeeze to me.
donjuandonjuan 1 year ago
@donjuandonjuan Yes. Maybe just a good squeeze. You would think he would know enough to know better.
robertgift 1 year ago
@robertgift I, agree obviously in his case it was a big no lol.
donjuandonjuan 1 year ago
Hahaha self is the man
ButtheadBongHole 1 year ago
Sorry, Ariah Park.
Jollygreenslugg 1 year ago
How did this happen after a man was killed doing the same thing at Temora a year or so earlier?
Jollygreenslugg 1 year ago
would not of happened if the carriages had got buffers too!
HAZZASIB 1 year ago 2
The Shunters at Central stand in that position when they are hooking up the urbans. So he obviously applied the same work practice to this situation without doing a proper risk assessment.
colsul 1 year ago
Why doesn't the coach have buffers?
JanitorMaster 1 year ago
That geezers screaming his bollocks off and then
"Shall we call an ambulance?"
"Nah.... "
Fuck working with them cunts!
kamelion7 1 year ago 2
I remember asking a driver to do exactly that when I was coupling up once, what in f***s name was I thinking of. Sometimes we do stupid things. Fortunately he couldn't hear me calling him on.
brucesterman 1 year ago
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Thats a FAKE VIDEO motherfucking boy !!!!!! FUCK YA
ButtheadBongHole 1 year ago
wtf why didnt anyone get the kid away that can haunt them
bbygirls 1 year ago
he's swearing in front of a 5 year old
Fatblob6 1 year ago
Say it with me know Knuckle Coupler. You don't have to stand between the cars to hook em up.
traindude70 1 year ago
Should stand back line before put the rejoins on the railway!
EMMAWONDERLAND1 1 year ago
The dudes in the background were laughing. FAKE
ellasamd 1 year ago
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whers the fat controler
TheRobbo1982 1 year ago
wheres the fat controller?
TheRobbo1982 1 year ago
Wow, that's got to hurt! :(
ThomasRules8391 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but its common sense not to be between a live train when its about to move, however its being moved
iranair777 1 year ago
Really, what an arrogant idiot.. lucky to live :/
MrDenizen 1 year ago
what a fucking idiot
gothicskull13 1 year ago
Good old health and safety:
Should someone call an ambulance?
Nah
choochooguy63601 1 year ago
pro shunting work there kids
BallBagsification 1 year ago
Surely mathematics would have said "hm, nah clearly the distance between the buffers and the carridge is far smaller than the distance round my fat arse and gut. Could have been a lot worse.
reddieseled 1 year ago
that was so fake
nimitzopsoi 1 year ago
@nimitzopsoi how tha ... was that fake??
ownerfate 1 year ago
Lol all the time I thaught - this must be a spam video cause the guy between the train and wagon will leave the area for sure - but he didnt ^^
PlaygroundJoe 1 year ago
Looked like he got caught between the tender and the striker plate of the passenger car, as the car doesn't have buffers on it... at least that diaphragm is sprung and has some give to it.
You'd think after all these years, they'd have outlawed those hook-and-loop couplers in favor of automatic knuckle couplers...
mlavender480 1 year ago
he's alright..call his mama
gb74wa 1 year ago
lol
Negnative 1 year ago
OMMMF, Talk about been caught between a rock and a hard place
NewController01 1 year ago
@NewController01 or yet a carrage and a 4 ton steam loco
ownerfate 1 year ago
@ownerfate
4ton,???? no no no no no
more like 100 ton
andyg3 1 year ago
@andyg3 yea 100 ton engine and coach but would he been safe if there where buffers on the coach....
ownerfate 1 year ago
His buddies didn't seem so urgent to check on him, I would have been pretty upset with the ever so chill response by them. Not good, I hope he is ok though.
brooklynlulu 1 year ago
OUT OF THE WAY YOU BIGOT KID
MatTtackable 1 year ago
not the place to fool around i didn't know whether to believe if it was serious or just a prank!
Trainbuff2008 1 year ago
The video is indeed serious.
WhiteJarrah 1 year ago
@WhiteJarrah for this job you need trained people and not hobby players
centralisstt 1 year ago
@Trainbuff2008 i know i was the same, but damn that must have hurt :S hope he was alright....
slymills 1 year ago
@Trainbuff2008 Train engineers and workers do NOT play pranks like that. Are you really that stupid???
TheMrBlinx 1 year ago
LOL!
TheXavib1 1 year ago
wheres the safety inspector..
permenentway 1 year ago
the dumb bastard was just pullin ya wire
bonzo874 2 years ago
lol the all just stand there
branden390 2 years ago 6
@branden390 well they can't fucking do anything cant they...
BigAussieBloke69 10 months ago
If your standing inbetween the trains then your gonna get sqaushed.
xAnToZx 2 years ago 8
ha way to walk it off
adictpunk88 2 years ago
Now you know why in the USA, we have automatic couplers and did away with the "link and pin" style couplings.
Glad he wasn't seriously hurt.
amtk415w 2 years ago 2
hit it with your purse, crikey!!
scootdog5 2 years ago
This ladies and gentle men you should always:
1)Ensure with the driver it is safe to go "under".
2)The driver should be absolutly 100% sure that there is nobody "under" before moving.
3)As few people as possible should be involved in shunting operations and everyone should know precisely what they are doing and not be running round like headless chickens and generally causing chaos and confusion!
That guy was UNBELIEVABLY lucky!
Paraffinmeister 2 years ago 2
this is why america (all i know that uses this) has couplers, not little hitches like on the back of a dump truck. all you gutta to is connect the air hose, not hard
MBTArailfan1996 2 years ago
That happens a lot and not only with trains. DO NOT STAND BEHIND IT, YOU RETARD!!
fmdsv 2 years ago
lol what a dip shit...i supose he wouldnt have been crushed if the carriage had buffers. But even so bit of a dump ass standing behind it...lol
dcg12b 2 years ago
help him you dumb fuck
LiamKroes 2 years ago 2
I think they should send him on a shunting course. O.K. Drive' - ease up. Alright to go between? Then go under ...... AFTER THE BLOODY TRAIN HAS MOVED NOT BEFORE!!! Surprised there aren't any buffers on the coaches though.
krisjende 2 years ago
rofl, wtf was this guy thinking... he needs to go on a diet if hes gonna try that maneuver.
"nah he's alright" bahahaha "real men" at work :)
AnonyMooseanSquirrel 2 years ago
"Somebody call an ambulance?"
"Nah."
mubd1234 2 years ago 2
I've never worked with trains, and I've only ridden on them 4 times (Going somewhere and back.) I still think it's rather obvious that you don't stand between two cars when they're pushing them together. I think it's up there with putting a fork or knife in a electric socket.
DrPepperandOreos 2 years ago 2
hey look, the train is going to hook up to the cars, should i move??? fucking dumbass
andrewoozoo 2 years ago
the train was not gonna hook up he was going to put somthing on it and the hook up but went to far
steamupboy 2 years ago
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andyg3 2 years ago
And that fuckwit lets the little boy stand there and watch, they are all fuckwits and thats from someone with 30 years shunting experience!! I neary shit when the first guy walked between the loco and the wagon!!
bigkiwial 2 years ago 2
get on the floor you dickhead
mndtkr 2 years ago
He should buy a lottery ticket , could have been worse.....
yambo59 2 years ago
At least he was wearing a high visibility vest.
Panarail 2 years ago
Really guy do you need a clue to realize who the fucking idiot is?
levi79 2 years ago
...
The mind simply boggles.
Would this be an example of a "drongo"?
IonOtter 2 years ago
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defenderization 2 years ago
Jackass lmao
Blakeyboyz 2 years ago
What an idiot...come on man, are you completely stupid? Pin 'em up then go in between.
RRConductor7 2 years ago
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That little kid is hott.
StanleysFirstLove 2 years ago
Hmm lets just break every rule in the book then. At least he had the honesty to start calling himself a fucking idiot!
brucesterman 2 years ago
idiot
kasperinfo 2 years ago
You do not stand between coupling carriages/locmotives that don't hav buffers! We lost a shunter at Ariah Park a few months later in a similar incident.
albert3801 2 years ago
people get killed doing that its just not worth the risk
7607987600 2 years ago
the choice terms of phrase just about some this up!!!! (f***ing idiot is about right)!!!
7607987600 2 years ago
Was the driver told it clear to back up? If he was the worker should have moved out the way, if not, then why on earth did he move it back? Or was it a break issue?
Marillionmad 2 years ago
Hah thats just stupid, I work on a railway and I dont get how anyone could think that would be the least bit safe!
canadianfreerider 2 years ago
I see two reasons why this happened:
1: the wagon lacks buffers
2: a steam locomotive opens and closes for steam at the top of the boiler. This means that once it starts moving and the driver turns off the steam, it continues to accelerate with the steam already in the pipes between the boiler and the pistons. This nasty and unpredictable feature makes moving steam locomotives just a little bit somewhat tricky. (diesel hydraulic suffers from the same issue with pressure buildups at start)
tymmur 2 years ago
maybe he should do what we do at the east somerset railway let th train back up to the carriages then make sure the brakes are on the climb underneath couple it then go out
omnibus360 2 years ago
#1 ouch that would SERIOUSLY hurt
#2 yes we realise that's his job but it still would hurt
#3 i think that whoever filmed this is probably the smartest one of everyone there :P
kanochain 2 years ago
what a prick turn to the side dickhead
pickmehair 2 years ago
There is a lovely thing here in the USA we use called knuckle couplers you don't have to stand between the cars to hook them together so there are no pancaked workers.
maybe you guys should consider using them!
traindude70 2 years ago 2
It's near impossible to change now but you are right. It would avoid some accidents and knuckle couplers can handle greater force. However most accidents are gone after the no alcohol politic appeared.
Personally I don't mind standing in between because I'm protected by buffers. If the engine fails to brake then it slams into the wagons (with applied brakes) and nothing happens. The problem in the video is missing buffers and mixing coupler types is always an issue.
tymmur 2 years ago
Strewth Bruce! I can confirm he was taken to Wollongwallah Creek in my Ute, where we met the flying doctor who checked him over and said he was a drongo. had a few Castlemaine xxxx tinnies, then watched Home & Away
bobnuthall 2 years ago
Crushed ?
SuburbanDon 2 years ago
What on earth were they doing trying to couple a locomotive with buffers to a bufferless carriage with a transition link! This is pretty basic stuff, another few c.m. and it was all over for this bloke. And, even if succesful, once underway and the coaches bunch, what is there to stop the link from coming off (over) the drawhook? This is amaturish stuff alround.
LMatters1 2 years ago
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LMatters1 2 years ago
who can all of you comment when you are not shunters
gava3801 2 years ago
I know nothing about working with trains, but I think it would've been wise to step away from the train, let it move in, then do what he was TRYING to do. Lol I hope he didn't have claustraphobia cause I think that would've triggered it XD
thephoenix4ever 2 years ago
Amazing video, He so lucky to be alive.
He should be taken to hospital and never allowed back.
You can not have idiots working near trains.
What did he think would happen when 60plus tons of railway engine squeezes up to how many 30ton coaches.
Also there were plenty of people there that should have stopped it from happening, all standing around not taking responsibility while watching someone almost get killed.
steamy4you 2 years ago
that is his job he is need there to couple the cars together
jrcobb1994 2 years ago
sry bad english
jrcobb1994 2 years ago
because he is too fat.
ridingTheRail 2 years ago
how sutpid is he?
your ment to go inbetween the loco and carriges after it has buffered up!!!
so i think we all know who the "fucking idiot it" is.
bineees78xx 2 years ago
Safety First , orrr last!
sbianchi11 2 years ago
lol right
FutureMarine2017 2 years ago
He shouldn't been there in the first sake,that makes the fucken idiot ???? the shunter !!!That also shows the reputation of him in Public,,once again shouldn't been there at all,.
MZ1428 2 years ago
How ironic, you're calling him an idiot, and yet you have yet to learn proper grammar.
zez700 2 years ago
You tell me zez700,,,Learn Proper Grammar !!!!
Its not hard to work out what i meant,Others out ther would have know what I meant also !!!
Its not like metro rap crap hiphop Ya Bro crap you hear in this young age society,,,,
The Fact is the Shunter should have NOT been there,,,,,Atleast he was a Buffer Cushion between the old girl steamy and the Carraige !!!!!!
So what your Next come back ?????
MZ1428 2 years ago
I guess he didnt get three step lmao
yadkinrailfan99 2 years ago
It is so easy for you all to comment when you were NOT there!
The shunter WAS TOLD NOT TO GO IN BETWEEN THE TRAIN AND THE ENGINE. If we had refused to move the engine the shunters would go on strike crippling the yard.
Also we just stood there because there was absolutely nothing we could do until the diver eased off the train (turning the reversing wheel is not quick). We could have had 3 injuries if we entered the space illegally like he did!
3112fireman 2 years ago 6
You should have stopped him from entering, and prevent the driver from moving, it was your train.
You neglected to call for medical assistance.
Your comment about Shunters going on Strike or allowing a near death experience are you SERIOUS?
You are all just as guilty/slack for letting it happen !
pumoill 2 years ago
Thinning of the herd. You have to take into account that things don't work as advertised or hoped for. This guy isn't even close to being safety conscious.
oracle2world 2 years ago
si ese tren lo pilla lo menos que le da es hipo paqueteros
junitosplay 2 years ago
I've seen rail men do this before and it always made me cringe to see them in there and this proove's I wasn't just being a fanny what a pillock
blobby1972 2 years ago
i read the comments and i was laughing my head off, especially the punch 1. amazing video mate
wkdstuffonly 2 years ago
Thats why all carriages should be fitted with either buffers or diaphram plates, as the carriage in question was a N type sitting car it should have had full width buffing/diaphram plates
signaller44 2 years ago
LOL when two Aussie traits collide!!!
Mateship + "Shell be right"
Atheeizm 2 years ago
That accident could have been much worse! I found it hilarious the way his colleagues just stand around laughing as he swears his head off in front of the little kid! :)
megacrab 2 years ago
Ease off!
(shit)
Reverse FFS!
Well, you shouldn't be in there anyway!
megacrab 2 years ago
So nice of his colleagues to just stand there and not help their mate. I'd have punched them I think!
jenzeldd 2 years ago
It wasn't so much they could do, you don't move a steam locomotive that easy...
Rotknife 2 years ago
Should Somebody call an Ambulance!?!? NO!! She'll be right. SO Aussie..
sydcrazi 2 years ago
I didn't know those old trains still ran
ManOfMeans 2 years ago
"I didn't know those old trains still ran"
They don't. They bring them out on special occasions.
WhiteJarrah 2 years ago
@WhiteJarrah Not true. In Korea(or China im not sure) there is one train line that is working with old trains only. its something like running museum used to transport people and for tourism.
Balanar6236 1 year ago
with these style of couplers you have to stand between its what's known as a link and pin coupler the workman had the clevice in his hand on the car is a bar that it connects to which in turn also connects to the locomotive the reason the railroads in the state moved away from them is the very reason you see here too many death due to crushing
kix96fan 2 years ago
Damn he was lucky ! Talk about unexperienced !
I would have layed down. But maybe i had died if i had done that xD
PoppingSanta 2 years ago
This guy and his crew are pathetic!!! Any Fool knows not to stand inbetween rail cars like that when connecting cars. His crew Never seemed concerned about his safty. If that was my buddy getting crushed I would have screamed at the engeineer to move forward!!! I only heard one spectator ask if he needs help. DAMN GOOD THING THIS GUY DIDNT POP LIKE A WATER BALLOON WHILE THE KID WAS WATCHING.
speeddemon1971 2 years ago
who holy shit man that workman is really tough and strong man!!!
smackdown1233 2 years ago
aussies are tough as nails, not even a train could crush us!
hespey 2 years ago
just to sort things up here u lot in the states did not invent the "knuckle couplers" as u call them u stole the idea from a BRITISH RAILWAY which had small enines (which ran on 2ft gauge track) although the couplers look different they work in the same way and they were around years before the first railways in the states. also that man is a twat i work on a steam railway as loco crew and i know for a fact that standing in the 4ft (the middle of the track is DEADLY NEVER DO IT HE GOT LUCKY.
plewsy2105 2 years ago
In early American railroading, (mid to late 1800's) we had link-and-pin coupling, similar to this system, that required the trainmen to hold a link between coupler pockets as the cars came together., and many men lost their fingers in the process of coupling trains. Our modern automatic knuckle couplers should be a world standard., coupling/uncoupling is done outside the train. They go in only to connect the air lines, (& power cables on passenger trains).
maddennis55 2 years ago
the really need to get the AAR couplers that we have in north america.
tractorman55 2 years ago
omfg this happened at sydney terminal?!?!
im like... always going that way O.O
Meggie1707 2 years ago
i would of thought there would be a spacer block just the right length for the chain link coupler to attach without introoding that space
nebuli878 2 years ago
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Sprt3n 2 years ago
...a chain letter to figh chain letters...that's like the dumbest idea ever on youtube
doldei 2 years ago
I know I shouldnt, because I do work for a railroad and I know how bad this could have went but.. lmfao, what was he trying to accomplish between the locomotive and the wagon? I know you can couple up that way, but why did they pick the biggest guy to stand there? Oh well, he is fine, funny as hell, but scary at the same time, great video! I imagine that happens quite often with those chain link couplers.
CWREmployee 2 years ago
Bless us all....
For those ho walked in late, I have previously added a comment as to why he was in there during the move. Not a great practice, but essential.
mattc17933 2 years ago
Australians...
bless em
dfcvda 2 years ago
"should someone call an ambulance?....
No"
Haha what a response.
W1JL 2 years ago
Man, that's gotta hurt.
disneyrangerblue02 2 years ago
Hes calling the driver an idiot, hes the idiot, for standing between a locomotive and railcar
Bitis11nasicornis 2 years ago