Police arrest woman and put her in Police car parked on RR tracks.

[Coal Dragger]

Not surprisingly, I'm 100% good with all that. I just feel bad for you guys, the only people who see things as F'ed up as what LEO's see on a regular basis are train engineers. Things made worse by the fact that you know you are just along for the ride, there is no emergency lane to try and switch to. I've seen a lot and done a few things but I probably couldn't do that job, I'm unable to feel that helpless and reconcile it with the way things are. Having spent a bit of time growing up in the midwest I've had opportunity to watch a train try and stop because of an emergency and I know how long it takes. There is only so much the guy at the front can do it and takes longer than most suspect for it to happen.

As with most things, kids are always the worst when it happens.

I’m lucky in that regard, I run in a very low population density area and we don’t have a lot of public crossings at grade. So I have had a few close calls, but no impacts yet. I say yet, because sooner or later it’s going to happen.

My younger brother is also an engineer and has 7 less years on the job, and he’s already hit 2 cars. Luck of the draw, but he works in a more urban area. Fortunately no deaths on his hits, just totaled cars.

[SteyrAUG]

I’m lucky in that regard, I run in a very low population density area and we don’t have a lot of public crossings at grade. So I have had a few close calls, but no impacts yet. I say yet, because sooner or later it’s going to happen.

My younger brother is also an engineer and has 7 less years on the job, and he’s already hit 2 cars. Luck of the draw, but he works in a more urban area.

Might be because the engineers I knew were from the 60s to 80s and there were fewer safety features around crossings. I've met a few triple aces, they drank a lot off duty.

[AndyLate]

My nephew was killed by a train one night. They think he crossed the tracks behind a train when it had passed and walked/ran into the path of a second one coming from the opposite direction.

Not as dumb as parking a cruiser on the tracks and locking someone inside.

Andy

[Coal Dragger]

Always a high risk passing another train at a grade crossing in multiple main track areas. Some people will drive around the gates once they think the train is gone, only to discover too late that another one is coming they didn’t see.

[Diamondback]

Might be because the engineers I knew were from the 60s to 80s and there were fewer safety features around crossings. I've met a few triple aces, they drank a lot off duty.

I know of a former NS guy who had a hit and the doc told him "retire from train crew today, or next one you're gonna have a fatal coronary at the throttle."

[ThirdWatcher]

I cannot imagine the horror of sitting handcuffed in the back of a police car, doors locked and a freight train is bearing down on you and there’s nothing you can do to escape... and after you’re injured, the LEO’s that arrested you are more interested in resuming their search than rendering aid. Deliberate Indifference will ultimately get you fired every time. Break out the checkbook...

[Budget]

My nephew was killed by a train one night. They think he crossed the tracks behind a train when it had passed and walked/ran into the path of a second one coming from the opposite direction.

Not as dumb as parking a cruiser on the tracks and locking someone inside.

Andy

We had two troopers killed almost the same way, just in a car. Pretty much a case of blue light fever. Tragic but avoidable.

[titsonritz]

It's not like the damn things swerve at you.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

I know the female officer in the video. She tried to get hired with my agency and did a ride along with me. We were not impressed.

In a way I’m not surprised, and yet I’m shocked at the same time.

Bad time to be a cop in Colorado as it seems some of our brethren are out to convince the country that we are all retarded.

And anyone who parks on a train track after the year 1800 is retarded.

[lowprone]

Idiots with guns and arrest powers, what a country !