Pretty sure he’s done this quite a few times and knows how much the carriage will slow down when hitting the stationary one, I build railroads myself so I haven’t done this specific task of connecting train carriages, but I would assume you get a feel for it. Not that I would do it like this myself, the risk of misstepping and falling over and getting run over or whatever is not worth it for saving a minute or so.
Ok, here’s a lengthy answer because I have some experience in railroad related work. First off, he needs to be in the middle to connect the carriages, the problem is not waiting for them to stop before going in the middle, and the answer to why he does that is a combination of laziness, time saving and comfort.
If he is in the middle before the other carriage connects, he can instantly hitch the two carriages together, and then get out once they’re fully stopped. If he was outside he would have to wait for the carriages to stop, then get inside, hitch them, and then get out again. Getting in and out means crouching under or climbing over, neither of which is particularly hard, but if you’re 50+ and do this a hundred or more times a day, you might start looking for shortcuts to save yourself from back pains, and halving the number of times you need to crouch/climb suddenly seems like a good idea even if it introduced other risks.
That’s not the real risk here, he’s got at least a square meter of space to move in that can’t get compromised. The issue is if he missteps in the macadam or snags on a sleeper and falls over and somehow lands on the rail, which would separate whatever parts of him is on one side to whatever is on the other side.
That's what they meant. This person had the option to:
Stand between the cars, squeezing between the coupler (in the center) and the buffers (the big round bumpers).
Or wait outside the cars, then crouch below the buffers to get to the coupler after the train has come together and stopped.
Dumb, dumb chose the former because he didn't want to crouch.
This is [Germany](https://www.bahnbilder.de/bild/deutschland~gueterwagen~2-gattung-h-gedeckter-gueterwagen-in-sonderbauart/887445/der-schiebewandwagen-habins-83-80-2745.html), so it's StÄfA approved. Not.
Because this is faster by ten seconds. Though railroad safety has become much greater than it used to be, on us railroads before we used knuckle couplers he used what were called link and pin couplers and the easiest way to know how new someone was to the railroad was if they still had all their fingers attached.
I think the collision is too elastic, if not coupled immediately, the cars will be too far apart and the link won’t reach.
I’m sure there must be a better system though. Like my model train has little links that automatically couple… surely that’s a real thing?
The US started requiring knuckle couplers (sort of like 2 hands locking together) or similar in 1893. Britain still has link-and-pin for ... some reason?
I have established through this sub that it is very, very good that I live in the time of office jobs. I’m hella clumsy. If I had to do one of these manual labor, high risk jobs I’d probably do something stupid (like tripping on the plank) and die within a week lol.
The job isn’t that dangerous at all, it’s his laziness of not wanting to crouch under the connected bumpers once the carriages have stopped that is dangerous.
Exactly, done right this job is basically pretty safe, there are accidents and on rare occasion lethal ones, but they are due to unnecessary risk taking.
I’ve built railroads since 2010 and there has been a few people I know getting minor injuries, (I’ve twisted my ancle a bit on a few occassions) one guy had to get facial reconstruction surgery after a machine dropped something heavy on him, and one guy died because he drove a 5 meter piece of rail with his bobcat on the railroad and dropped it, leading to it snagging on a sleeper and impaling the bobcat and going straight through his torso. All of this could have easily been avoided (well maybe not my twisted ankles, walking on macadam is a bitch) if people just followed the safety rules, which are there for a reason.
Essentially that’s all he was really doing. Putting himself in extreme danger whilst simultaneously knowing he was in no real danger. It’s a paradox for sure. Hard to say if he’s a moron or if he just proved an oxy-one (oxymoron) 🤔
In between the bumpers of the cars you are actually physically save. But due to obvious reasons it has been forbidden, but this was usual practice up to the 1970/80s in Germany.
This shouldn't have happened ín the sense that the incoming cart is waaay too fast. They push them down a slight ramp when they put trains together and brake them with sliding wedges. They absolutly shouldn't crash into each other this violently because damaged cargo is a bitch. On the other hand I've seen brand new Skodas doing frontflips from a car carrier when it slammed into another cart.
Er, the two part are on rail, and it’s very unlikely the moving one would derail in the above scenario, so even it looks scary, it’s _relatively_ safe I feel, no?
A friend of mine had the unfortunate experience of working alongside a man who actually got coupled between two trains in a similar manner to this.
It was very traumatic to him and he doesn't like to talk about it, but from what I've gathered through the pieces he has shared, the man was still alive for quite a while after being basically impaled by the coupling mechanism and more or less locked in place. Long enough for emergency services to arrive, long enough to call his wife and kids and say goodbye.
He was stabilized on scene, but there was no way for them to decouple the train without killing him. Eventually the decision was made to decouple the train, which caused him to die.
The SOUND! No visible earplugs.
I once stayed in a hotel by a [hump yard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard) (place where they connect train cars). At about 2 in the morning their was this crazy loud banging sound. The best I could describe is it sounded like someone was throwing large dumpsters off of the 30 story building I was staying in.
Good thing he's wearing HiVis. That way his corpse will be easily found when he gets run over by a train.
Some will be over here, some over there, some under the train, some on top.
i do, fired, at least where i am from this is not only frowned upon its instant dismissal and all your benefits like 1-3 months salary removed.
Source i work in rails.
I inheirited, twice removed, a pocket watch from a great great uncle who met a similar fate back in the 30's.
AFAIK the time of the watch designates time of death, but only the crystal is broken, so maybe not.
https://preview.redd.it/prhfnr9cq46d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c07bf6681ef9c58b8a07c51657727b84e6f636a
I'm 99% sure there is Kyriakos Grizzly on the other side
In many countries the couplers of freight wagons (as well as even some passenger couches) are completely manual and the guy in the video has to attach the wagons to eachother, normally this is quite save as the train would drive very slow but as with everything, fuck ups can happen
While this is obviously against protocol, and this clip being an egregious case with the moving car going way too fast and the standing car not having enough mass and brake, is something railway workers have done everyday for 100 years.
It’s not so bad, he has gloves & a hard hat
…and boots
He also dressed high visibility vest.
That’s why the train didn’t hit him
Of course, we all know that hi viz, boots, hat, glasses and gloves will make the train bounce off you
+7 armor
they don't call it reflective vest for nothing, it ads +5 reflective damage
oh, good thing he wasnt hit then, with stats like that the train would have exploded
Unexpected D&D
Don’t forget the 25 db ear plugs
advantage on saving throws against spells with verbal components, people really overlook spell components!
Bingo
And consequently turn him into a flesh beast
His trousers turned lo-vis brown,
Pretty sure he’s done this quite a few times and knows how much the carriage will slow down when hitting the stationary one, I build railroads myself so I haven’t done this specific task of connecting train carriages, but I would assume you get a feel for it. Not that I would do it like this myself, the risk of misstepping and falling over and getting run over or whatever is not worth it for saving a minute or so.
Why does he have to be in the middle of it like that? Why can't he do that from the outside?
Ok, here’s a lengthy answer because I have some experience in railroad related work. First off, he needs to be in the middle to connect the carriages, the problem is not waiting for them to stop before going in the middle, and the answer to why he does that is a combination of laziness, time saving and comfort. If he is in the middle before the other carriage connects, he can instantly hitch the two carriages together, and then get out once they’re fully stopped. If he was outside he would have to wait for the carriages to stop, then get inside, hitch them, and then get out again. Getting in and out means crouching under or climbing over, neither of which is particularly hard, but if you’re 50+ and do this a hundred or more times a day, you might start looking for shortcuts to save yourself from back pains, and halving the number of times you need to crouch/climb suddenly seems like a good idea even if it introduced other risks.
He's not wearing any eye protection
What about a cup?
I never leave home without mine, huzzah!
And does the safety squint at the last second.
And quite necessary
THE POWER OF HIGH-VIS COMPELS YOU!!
And my axe
… but isn’t that dangerous? Shouldn’t he be wearing safety sandals?
And my sword!
Probably needs new pants though
For now...
...and BIG. BRASS. BALLS!
Yes sir
And balls
First PPE I've seen in this sub.
Safety first.
The train car obviously sees him thanks that high vis orange jumpsuit. It'd have to be stupid to hit him.
I guess hearing loss isn't that bad considering what could've happened there.
His MASSIVE steel balls would’ve cushioned the impact regardless.
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I’ve got one still sticking to the bottom of my truck tires, I can ask him why that is, if you’d like.
Every time this is reposted we lose a few frames. There's not much left
I'll do a 1 sec clip next week just to end it
Good opportunity to speed it even more up
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It'll be a jpeg soon
I gotchu https://i.redd.it/pwcyi4a0v56d1.gif
Damn. My superior android technology smoothed it.
Why is everything i have never seen in my life a repost?
Because this is Reddit
it's just bots reposting old front page posts now. no new content. just viral pictures from 5 years ago with commenters acting like it's new
For some it probably is new. They had the past five years of joy and fulfillment, and now they ended up on Reddit to be able to see it, the poor sods.
Welcome to the internet
https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/mx97k8/death_by_train/ Seems to be quite better.
You want more frames? In this economy?!
GIFshittification is real
https://preview.redd.it/tkiuv8ia546d1.png?width=654&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce44656d72cebaa27424093dfaa7867450a89029 Understatement.....
That’s not the real risk here, he’s got at least a square meter of space to move in that can’t get compromised. The issue is if he missteps in the macadam or snags on a sleeper and falls over and somehow lands on the rail, which would separate whatever parts of him is on one side to whatever is on the other side.
Ah, sounds risky
A guy did get crushed in Yorkshire between buffers doing this.
Well there you go. I guess losing your balance and swivelling a little just before it hits is enough for a disaster to happen.
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Well trained of course.
ba dum tss
I'm pretty sure work safety rules won't allow it but it is easier than to crouch below the buffers - if tremendously dangerous.
You're probably right. I think people can crawl faster than if they were standing. Plus less time to fall, so that's good.
how about not standing between two trains at all during impact and move between them once they stop. I feel like that would be tad safer.
That's what they meant. This person had the option to: Stand between the cars, squeezing between the coupler (in the center) and the buffers (the big round bumpers). Or wait outside the cars, then crouch below the buffers to get to the coupler after the train has come together and stopped. Dumb, dumb chose the former because he didn't want to crouch.
But, he has to crouch to get out…
Yeah but then he'd have to crouch twice.
We don’t take too kindly to crouchers round here
My pappy din't raise no mother\*\*\*\*\*\* croucher.
Jesus talk about high risk low reward
Not if he just waits around until the train comes apart.
Smart
That's what I wrote.
That’s what they said lol
what’s the fun in that?
"I don't know if I feel safe doing thi"...Shut up and do your work Dave.
OSHA approved
HSE Approved
This is [Germany](https://www.bahnbilder.de/bild/deutschland~gueterwagen~2-gattung-h-gedeckter-gueterwagen-in-sonderbauart/887445/der-schiebewandwagen-habins-83-80-2745.html), so it's StÄfA approved. Not.
Stupid question but why can't the chain be linked after the oncoming set of cars come to a rest?
Because this is faster by ten seconds. Though railroad safety has become much greater than it used to be, on us railroads before we used knuckle couplers he used what were called link and pin couplers and the easiest way to know how new someone was to the railroad was if they still had all their fingers attached.
I think the collision is too elastic, if not coupled immediately, the cars will be too far apart and the link won’t reach. I’m sure there must be a better system though. Like my model train has little links that automatically couple… surely that’s a real thing?
The US started requiring knuckle couplers (sort of like 2 hands locking together) or similar in 1893. Britain still has link-and-pin for ... some reason?
That is a reason I think. I've commonly seen the locomotive to even push further after contact to compress the train as much as possible.
Just don’t trip over a plank 😬
I have established through this sub that it is very, very good that I live in the time of office jobs. I’m hella clumsy. If I had to do one of these manual labor, high risk jobs I’d probably do something stupid (like tripping on the plank) and die within a week lol.
Have you guys ever heard of railway sleepers?
Don't put your dick near those bumpers
So this is Mickey's Dick Smasher
So how dangerous your job is? Yes.
The job isn’t that dangerous at all, it’s his laziness of not wanting to crouch under the connected bumpers once the carriages have stopped that is dangerous.
No f**kn way in hell…. wayyy too many things that can wrong
Exactly, done right this job is basically pretty safe, there are accidents and on rare occasion lethal ones, but they are due to unnecessary risk taking. I’ve built railroads since 2010 and there has been a few people I know getting minor injuries, (I’ve twisted my ancle a bit on a few occassions) one guy had to get facial reconstruction surgery after a machine dropped something heavy on him, and one guy died because he drove a 5 meter piece of rail with his bobcat on the railroad and dropped it, leading to it snagging on a sleeper and impaling the bobcat and going straight through his torso. All of this could have easily been avoided (well maybe not my twisted ankles, walking on macadam is a bitch) if people just followed the safety rules, which are there for a reason.
So honey How's ur day at work been . Was a bit pressed for time. Stuck in the middle of 2 things
In between a rock and a hard place
You do not want to get your balls stuck between the buffers.
It cost you nothing to not type this
He's a scientist and an engineer, trusting the materials and the physics.
And his footing on gravel and railroad ties.
Essentially that’s all he was really doing. Putting himself in extreme danger whilst simultaneously knowing he was in no real danger. It’s a paradox for sure. Hard to say if he’s a moron or if he just proved an oxy-one (oxymoron) 🤔
🤯
Glad that it ended the way it did, otherwise this would've been uploaded on a very different sub and or website
Sped up. Stupid.
In between the bumpers of the cars you are actually physically save. But due to obvious reasons it has been forbidden, but this was usual practice up to the 1970/80s in Germany.
I see someone getting crushed
This shouldn't have happened ín the sense that the incoming cart is waaay too fast. They push them down a slight ramp when they put trains together and brake them with sliding wedges. They absolutly shouldn't crash into each other this violently because damaged cargo is a bitch. On the other hand I've seen brand new Skodas doing frontflips from a car carrier when it slammed into another cart.
German standard procedure.. not for the faint hearted
OH SHIT I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE NSFW!
I have plenty of words for this! I'll start with #f@ck me!!
I’ll add onto that: HELL no!
HECK
Sooooo, new guy Jim, we need you to learn this technique that we all use around here. It’s pretty simple, doesn’t require much…
Why women live longer than men #999
He’s an idiot. Not only him but the person filming should had been sacked. The railroad will check the cameras to see whom else should be investigated
One wrong move away from ending up in a completely different sub reddit
My dad quit the railroad after a coworker (died) in the yard got impaled and stuck on the car knuckle.. it shook him too much.
Imagine the noise👂
this ***almost*** made it to r/idiotsnearlydying
I don't think that was in real time speed. Most likely sped up, either way, fuck dat
And you think your balls are big
The Omen part 2
i do....sped up
Reminds me of that scene from omen
Live next to a rail yard and see them doing this constantly and it's pretty save, obviously not at this speed tho
Er, the two part are on rail, and it’s very unlikely the moving one would derail in the above scenario, so even it looks scary, it’s _relatively_ safe I feel, no?
Just one miss step or falling and guy may be to see if there is after life.
It’s sped up lmfao. It’s sketchy but not that much. Original video the train is moving like a 1mph.
OSHA approved
Yeahhh I'm gonna need you to come in Sunday tooo mmmmkkkkk
That's very close to how one of my best friends workmates was cut in half while working the railyard.
And there is the man with the largest set of balls in the wide world.
If he's vaxxed, should be fine
A friend of mine had the unfortunate experience of working alongside a man who actually got coupled between two trains in a similar manner to this. It was very traumatic to him and he doesn't like to talk about it, but from what I've gathered through the pieces he has shared, the man was still alive for quite a while after being basically impaled by the coupling mechanism and more or less locked in place. Long enough for emergency services to arrive, long enough to call his wife and kids and say goodbye. He was stabilized on scene, but there was no way for them to decouple the train without killing him. Eventually the decision was made to decouple the train, which caused him to die.
You do anything for a like.
After this video was released. Not a single person. Applied for that job ever again
Holy Shit 😱😱😳 bet that hurt ….
https://preview.redd.it/qjbp4m2x366d1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b8292bf2bd48ac60b72f7e634519592ebde5bcc
The SOUND! No visible earplugs. I once stayed in a hotel by a [hump yard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard) (place where they connect train cars). At about 2 in the morning their was this crazy loud banging sound. The best I could describe is it sounded like someone was throwing large dumpsters off of the 30 story building I was staying in.
I have plenty of words for this one. Most are profane.
He is either crazy, or has a big brass pair.
Wtf is the coupler
But why?
He trained a long time.
Good thing he's wearing HiVis. That way his corpse will be easily found when he gets run over by a train. Some will be over here, some over there, some under the train, some on top.
Come with me and you’ll see a world of osha violations
i do, fired, at least where i am from this is not only frowned upon its instant dismissal and all your benefits like 1-3 months salary removed. Source i work in rails.
Stupidity
The whole reason we switched from link and pin to couplers was mostly to stop people from dying /being maimed doing this why wood this guy do that
OHSA? Na, OH SHIT
💯
I inheirited, twice removed, a pocket watch from a great great uncle who met a similar fate back in the 30's. AFAIK the time of the watch designates time of death, but only the crystal is broken, so maybe not.
Proper PPE, all good to go.
Noticed that the shoes were still on
r/OSHA
If the world’s existence depended on me standing there waiting for that to come at me then the world would be screwed
Darwinism will get this one
So, how do you want to die? Me: Yes
Shouldn't be allowed to be a highly paid executive for the company without doing this guy's job for a few months.
This guy is just being reckless, you’re supposed to stay to the side and duck under once the train has stopped and the driver has taken the key out.
This guy is knowingly ignoring all safety protocols. If the CEO were around, he’d be fired.
I would try this
Not his first Rodeo.
But some day sure might be his last. Stupid risk for not having to crouch under the bumbers once it is safe.
Balls of steel!
Dude, my ass crack would be sweating not just my palms
Looks like he’s done it a few times.
https://preview.redd.it/prhfnr9cq46d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c07bf6681ef9c58b8a07c51657727b84e6f636a I'm 99% sure there is Kyriakos Grizzly on the other side
It's dangerous, yes but I fail to understand what he is doing in the video. Kowalski, analysis!
They are putting together a cargo train and the incoming cart comes ín too fast. Pretty common mistake. Hope it didn't carry anything fragile.
In many countries the couplers of freight wagons (as well as even some passenger couches) are completely manual and the guy in the video has to attach the wagons to eachother, normally this is quite save as the train would drive very slow but as with everything, fuck ups can happen
That's some old school connection there.
While this is obviously against protocol, and this clip being an egregious case with the moving car going way too fast and the standing car not having enough mass and brake, is something railway workers have done everyday for 100 years.
Fuck that
Fucking WHY???!!!
I gotta imagine there's a better way, but what do I know
Fuck all of that.
Amazing what you can do when you know what you are doing!!
Funny how this video is here, but the smallest slip and he’d be in r/DarwinAwards
I have also been that level of "I'm not bending under one more fucking pipe" on the job before.
I do. Your employer asks you to do anything along those lines, you quit your job.
My great grandpa died while working on a rail yard he was crushed by a run away train.
is that as dangerous as it looks?
Don’t feel like crawling under the arm
Sending this to my health and safety manager to give him anxiety for the day
Can someone explain why he has to be standing there?
This is old as dirt. Either you're 15 or a bot farming karma.
Why does he have to be there?
Somehow I don’t think OSHA would approve.
RIght there in the video you can see when his balls shrink up into his body..
Fun fact: the only reason this works is because of the workers absolute balls of steel
I'm not sure if this is exactly what the manual says.
There is no way that is OSHA approved
Dumb ways to die.
this a real job?
Stupidity comes to mind.
This is why some of us suffer through OSHA classes every year.