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Looks like a perfect spot for a new bridge!

So, if they can see whats about to happen, why do some people wait until the last second to move from danger?

>> ^spaceisbig:

So, if they can see whats about to happen, why do some people wait until the last second to move from danger?


Yeah, more than a few times that guy came awfully close to wining a darwin.

That was somethin.

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Agreed.

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>> ^spaceisbig:

So, if they can see whats about to happen, why do some people wait until the last second to move from danger?

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Great, so he got it on film. Now he is on the wrong side of the washout away from his trucks. Its ok, I'm sure he can just wade across...

^No way! Those saggy rails could have supported the weight of one human-Bet he walked across after, eh?

Now you see it, now you don't!

^I think so too. I know I would have gone across, once I saw the rails were holding. I wouldn't have recorded it either because CN would have busted my hump about putting myself in danger.

Damn nature, you don't give a shit about twain twacks.

"I think so too. I know I would have gone across, once I saw the rails were holding. I wouldn't have recorded it either because CN would have busted my hump about putting myself in danger."

Yeah dude, his lunch box was in that truck!

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Aggregate fail.

Too bad the video quality's not better. Can barely tell there's water there..

I have to agree with his observation his crew saved a life or two. There's no way in Hell a fully loaded train would have stopped in time.

...and as for why people don't run away at the first sign of danger? 52,620 views and counting.

Well, that's your problem right there -- you built your railroad over a river without using a bridge.

I don't think the camera man was being too stupid. He was a better than average camera man for this type of situation, too. Usually there's some sort of repetitive "Oh God", or heavy breathing, or excessive camera shake.

>> ^messenger:

^I think so too. I know I would have gone across, once I saw the rails were holding. I wouldn't have recorded it either because CN would have busted my hump about putting myself in danger.


Not a smart move,I think, the railroad ties (the crossbeams/sleepers) are not built for hanging from the rail, but rather as resting blocks, and to keep the rails from pulling apart. They propably have some vertical hold, but I wouldn't bet on it, infact, you can see one of those closest to his side has already fallen off by the end of the video.

Well, to my Fermi eye, that hanging section of rail and ties weighs several orders of magnitude more than I do, especially the right one which looks like it has poured cement ties rather than wood, so I'm not worried about that. Also, I'd have put most of my weight on the rails, which is where the strength obviously is.>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
Not a smart move,I think, the railroad ties (the crossbeams/sleepers) are not built for hanging from the rail, but rather as resting blocks, and to keep the rails from pulling apart. They propably have some vertical hold, but I wouldn't bet on it, infact, you can see one of those closest to his side has already fallen off by the end of the video.

Not an engineering fail, as the rails remained intact with no support.

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Sounds like Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys got a job at CN.

>> ^sawtooth:

Looks like a perfect spot for a new bridge!


Won't happen. They'll wait for the runoff to go, then rebuild it. And I can't see them getting an easement from the county to put in a bridge--too expensive too. Simply put, here in Northern Ontario we had a lot of winter snow, and a lot of rain recently and it's built up in low-lying areas making mini lakes. Anything north of about Barrie you start running out of dirt, clay, gravel and so on. And you're getting into the shield, with no where for the water to really go.

It's not eia here, more like newsman spirit (notice how he's careful to stay on the rails when moving away).

That reminds me . . .

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