RAW Video: Amtrak Empire Builder #8 Blows Horn Hard for Trespassers near Bridge at East Monroe.

Title and Annotations said it all. My handling of the camera is not entirely perfect, but shows it all.AMTK 203 East is leading Amtrak Empire Builder #8 blowing the Horn Hard for some trespassers near a bridge at East Monroe. At the time, the 2 trespassers were standing on the tracks. When the train cleared out, the 2 trespassers came back to the tracks with 3 other friends. Me and couple other citizens called Monroe PD and the Amtrak Engineer informed Seattle East DISP of what happened.

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• BNSF
• Scenic
• Subdivision
• Amtrak
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• 203
• Empire
• Builder
• East
• Monroe
• Trespassers
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• Horn

[trainlover98]

wat state

[NWPhotographyDirect]

@trainlover98 Washington State.

[bnsfjay]

E Main st?

[NWPhotographyDirect]

yep. MP 1768.2 I believe.

[ANDREWAMTRAK]

Would be more interesting if he plugged it, but they usually don't until after they have hit the person.

[trainkids]

Nice one dude! People will never learn!

[incongruousme]

It's interesting reading some of the comments, it might not have been as close a call as we seem to have become accustomed to, but I know if I was that driver, I'd be pretty spooked by people wandering around the tracks like that, cause you just don't know what they're going to do.

[MrGarrett223]

Trespassing seriously? you should see my wall. uprr no trespassing.

[Rofocowboy84]

Camerawork seemed fine to me...

[paulgrem]

Yikes ,, Scary and maddening. I ride round trip on the Empire Builder once or twice a year from Chicago. Those kids don't realize what a really BIG deal that is to be in the RR RoW at train time.

I live 200 feet from the tracks that I ride to Seattle here and there are suicides and stupid drivers more often than people think. Great sense of urgency and danger in this video.

[trainlover98]

@NWPhotographyDirect oh thanks

[NWPhotographyDirect]

@csxES44DC No, he didn't apply the e-brakes, however, yes, he did apply the brakes, but he didn't stop. He just slowed down a bit.

[CoastStarlight11]

Very hard core!

[SLSF1522]

Great video! You should see the people down at Titlow Park in Tacoma, I counted 8 people on the tracks at once, there were a bunch of teanagers holding eachother down on the tracks(before any trains came thankfully). Then this guy took his girl friend down this cut in the hillside I over-heard them talking and she asked what if any trains came, and he said that he would be able to here it in the rails, it would have been a show it they had to jump into the blackbery bushes along the roadbed!