OPERATION LIFESAVER - Sly Fox and Birdie

[TheChai0628]

This keeps reminding me of Final Destination

[bailleytonningtv]

@wilek LOL

[Stuntpilot22]

Man, the locomotive keeps changing throughout the movie!

2:12 GP-40

2:57 B36-7

3:02 Rs-3

5:21 45- ton switcher

5:56 I don't even know what that is...

[wileyk209zback]

@Stuntpilot22 I think they are supposed to resemble GP38/GP40s or some kind of generic switcher. All the freight trains I see in my area use the GP40s (CSX)

[TaleSpinTV1990]

How come they never issued this on DVD the New Flash Animation version is too modern

[cstoczyn]

This Is From 1991

[tpirman1982]

7:41 - I sure hope that car was completely insured.

[cstoczyn]

@tpirman1982 What Does Insured Mean?

[tpirman1982]

@cstoczyn You know, car insurance.

[cstoczyn]

@tpirman1982 Oh, I Get It

[wileyk209zback]

@tpirman1982 I often suspected Sly Fox may have deliberately had it destroyed as an insurance fraud attempt! :P

[cstoczyn]

Who Voiced Birdie And Sly Fox?

[SerafinaCastaway]

@cstoczyn Oits Twelve as Sly Fox and Jeanette Barnhouse as Birdie

[cstoczyn]

Birdie As Wilkins

Sly Fox As Wontkins

LOL

[cstoczyn]

Dead As A Door-Nail

LOL

[Peenut2k7]

Why do I watch this while playing Mario Kart 64?

[trainguy3985]

5:16 "I think I'll go for choice...#2. YAAAAAHOOHOOHOOO!

[Konanarian]

You're seeing the light, my friend.

[trainguy3985]

"I think I'll go for choice #2"

[geomodelrailroader]

I remember this from head start Sly did somethings you should never do. 1. 1:05 placing junk on the tracks. 2. 2:42 throwing rocks at trains. 3. 3:40-6:25 hoboing (jumping on rolling stock) 4. 4:40-4:59 walking on the tracks. 5. 5:29 going into a tunnel. 6. 7:30 parking on the tracks. all of this is dangerous don't do it.

[KevlarNinja]

I liked it. Very well put toghther.

[TheFiremansavage]

Poor Sly, he lost his bike and his car, Damn.

[wileyk209zback]

"Wow, this one has a gate and red lights and bells!"

Uh, pretty much ALL of them nowadays do, Sly Fox.

[radioboy75]

@wileyk209zback Where do you live? I'm guessing in a city. Out in the country where most crossings are on gravel roads, there are only crossbucks.

[wileyk209zback]

@radioboy75 I do live in a rather urban area, where there is a very high number of trains passing through (like 25-30 trains a day), and the passenger trains go 70-80 miles an hour.

But you are kinda right. Many of the crossings in my area used to only have the lights and bells, but they upgraded them with gates when the passenger trains started going through.

[TORNADOKENNY207]

Sly could have just laid himself against the sides of the tunnel. Just like YOUNG PINK did in "PINK FLOYD THE WALL"!

[LetsRollProductions]

I saw this in Kindergarden and to this day I was looking for it!

[TVRM610]

I remember watching the video at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in the upstairs theater before they turned it into a show room.

[Stuingtion]

5:50 Run away!

[wileyk209zback]

(5:00 - 5:26) That's kinda like "Stand By Me!" Now all we need is Sly Fox yelling "TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!!"

[Stuingtion]

5:50

[Sam599815]

Anyone know the name of the song that plays at the ending credits?

[RIRRmuseum]

cont:

Give kids some credit. Also it allows them a bit of "comic relief" while having to take in some very serious subject matter for the first time in many cases.

I am glad to see that this video is now available on youtube as it is just impossible to "get" this OL presentation with the limited number of volunteers visiting schools.

[wilek209]

Anyone else notice this video seems to reuse a LOT of animation in it?

[Konanarian]

@wilek209 Yes.

[MADDOG6400]

It's true what they say. You can find ANYTHING on YouTube!

Haha, you uploaded this on my birthday!

[priestpilot]

If your car stalls on the track, and there is no train coming, you can also call the emergency telephone number found at the crossing, and refer which crossing it is, which should be a number found as well. That way the dispatch can halt any train coming that way.

[wilek209]

That's right. The crossing number is usually located on the signal equipment/relay casing, but you still should get out anyway. But if a train IS coming, forget trying to flag the engineer, they wouldn't be able to stop the train in time, and you should take cover behind something in the direction of the approaching train.

[wilek209]

I noticed Birdie refers to the crossbuck as "sign with an 'X.'" I assume the producers figured little kids wouldn't know what "crossbuck" means? I guess Birdie could've said, "You'll see a sign with an 'X,' also called a 'crossbuck.' That means stop and wait if a train is coming!"

Also, cars usually don't explode like that when a train hits them like shown here, but when they do, like in "Train Wrecks," the car will instantly become scrap metal!

[johnyboy087]

I saw this in elementary school, presented by NJT. That actually encouraged me 2 do all this stuff anyway. There tracks infrequently used in my town, and during the 3rd week of 8th grade I was walking home on them and a train came, so I ran to the next block. Good times Good times

[menslady125]

6:09....very scary!

I haven't seen this whole thing since I was a kid, though. Thanks for putting it up.

[wilek209]

"If I weren't a cartoon character, I'd be dead as a doornail!" LOL

[menslady125]

Well, that may be funny, but the message sure isn't.

[wilek209]

That's for sure.

[springofpiesucks]

BTW wouldn't the producers think that a character getting run over by a train would be too violent? at least there was no blood and foxy didn't die but still.

[wilek209]

Why not? They showed Wile E. Coyote getting run over by a train MANY times!

[springofpiesucks]

but this was made especially for younger kids and imagine the idea of a person getting run over ringing in a little kids head.

[wilek209]

Little kids probably also saw the Road Runner/Coyote shorts with the same thing happening. I know I saw it a lot too. Besides, it's done here in more of a slapstick manner instead of something more realistic and bloody, and how he mentioned if it were real life he'd be dead as a doornail. (Well, if the train were carrying dip, then he might be dead.)

[springofpiesucks]

LOL kids would have to have seen "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" first than this and then they'd get it.

[cstoczyn]

@wilek209 Long Live Wile E. Coyote!

[cstoczyn]

@wilek209 Where's Roadrunner When You Need Him?

[cstoczyn]

@wilek209 HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[mkrgolf]

wilek209, you need to upload "Wanted: The Great Bagel Thief" NOW!!!

[wilek209]

NOT RIGHT NOW. Please stop asking me over and over; I will get to it eventually!

[3dkidsartfairs]

I saw this in Kindergarten at Edgewater Public Elementary, it was presented by Florida East Coast Railroad.

[wilek209]

When I saw this, it was in fourth grade at the Downey Elementary School, presented by the MBTA (they just opened a new commuter rail line going through my town). Since then, I look both ways even when walking across the pedestrian railway crossing at the commuter rail station when the lights aren't flashing!

[wilek209]

At 7:31, Sly Fox just deliberately parked his car on the railroad tracks and let the train hit it! I don't think it really "stalled" there. Maybe he just wanted to see what happens when a train hits a car, or was he trying to collect insurance fraud? ;)