Yesterday, I saw a video of a train getting hit by a tornado. It was SO MUCH GODDAMN QUIETER THAN PEOPLE HAVE LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE.
I mean, it wasn’t like a library during the height of COVID. There was some noise. But people have been telling me for decades that tornados sound like 500 freight trains all humping each other at full speed. And the thing the tornado was hitting was a whole-ass other train, on top of that shit! And it was being filmed from INSIDE THE FUCKING TRAIN!
But nah, it was just kinda loud. Not even really. You could still hear the train motherfuckers talking and shit.
Yeah, but these guys were the actual train engineers. Normally, they also shouldn’t be taking photos, because they’re supposed to be, like, steering the train or whatever…but there was a tornado. So they were kinda off the clock.
Well, I hope they WERE still on the clock. I mean, I hope they got paid for that whole day. They were just doing the correct thing by stopping, rather than trying to outrun the tornado and making a bad situation worse.
I guess that would have been pretty ironic, though. If train dudes tried to outrun a tornado that same way that dumbasses try to drive though train crossings, right ahead of the train.
Trains are way quieter than you think. People get killed taking these kinds of pictures all the time.
They’re really fun pictures, but it’s surprisingly dangerous.
Yesterday, I saw a video of a train getting hit by a tornado. It was SO MUCH GODDAMN QUIETER THAN PEOPLE HAVE LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE.
I mean, it wasn’t like a library during the height of COVID. There was some noise. But people have been telling me for decades that tornados sound like 500 freight trains all humping each other at full speed. And the thing the tornado was hitting was a whole-ass other train, on top of that shit! And it was being filmed from INSIDE THE FUCKING TRAIN!
But nah, it was just kinda loud. Not even really. You could still hear the train motherfuckers talking and shit.
Union Pacific has a whole website dedicated to begging people to stop taking photographs on tracks.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/safety/photo_safety/index.htm
https://www.slrlounge.com/tracks-trains-not-senior-photos/
Yeah, but these guys were the actual train engineers. Normally, they also shouldn’t be taking photos, because they’re supposed to be, like, steering the train or whatever…but there was a tornado. So they were kinda off the clock.
Well, I hope they WERE still on the clock. I mean, I hope they got paid for that whole day. They were just doing the correct thing by stopping, rather than trying to outrun the tornado and making a bad situation worse.
I guess that would have been pretty ironic, though. If train dudes tried to outrun a tornado that same way that dumbasses try to drive though train crossings, right ahead of the train.