Don't pick a snowball fight with Amtrak

The reason they were caught off guard is that there was no App to predict it.

Information is no substitute for experience. The latter brings wisdom. Its the difference between knowing "about" something (Oh, I'll just Google it) and knowing why something occurs...... its physics.   Do we still teach physics in high school?  

I'll admit someone should ask why there was all of that snow on the tracks at the platform. Glad there were no serious injuries.

Earl   

Hot Water posted:

Terry Danks posted:

Guess I'm a contrarian on this one.

Sending a train at speed through a passenger loading area when the tracks are high with snow? I'd say that had there been injuries that, yes, a lawsuit would not have been out of order.

 

Maybe you are not aware that the train in the above video was scheduled to STOP AT THAT STATION! Due to the conditions, the passenger train over-shot the platform and had to back up a bit. Thus, the train was NOT "at speed" going through the station. Lets not forget that it is WINTER and that area had just gone through a blizzard with accumulations of over a foot of snow with VERY high winds.

Yep old thread... But we  were discussing the  yard  transfer movement in another thread and I mentioned  weather might have been a factor and the engineman had to throw the reverser into reverse  to get stop. and No I don't   believe Weather was a factor.

Having said that...... A foot of light snow can disable or   diminish the train & engine brakes if you don't keep the shoes hot. It that what happened in this Video.? I think so . Even the best of Engineman can  be caught with their pants down.

This  apparently was  a scheduled stop.  

I would be pea ed  off is one of my family members was injured in this stunt.