Western Railroad Discussion > Oil Train Protester Attempts To Stop Delivery ...

... But gives up and has a drink.

1) One of a zillion Canadian immigrants, trapped on the wrong side of an oil train in the Tacoma Tideflats.

2) So like every other birdbrain inconvenienced by a train, he goes under.

3) and this was what so important that he had to risk is long neck!

Steve Carter
Gig Harbor, WA
My Photography

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I actually had a yearling moose do that the other day. I was making a hook on a yard track which had a coal train parked on the adjacent track. The moose darted across the yard and right in front of me as I was about 8 car lengths from the hook. I figured he'd have nowhere to go when he came fact-to-face with the coal train so I stopped the movement to give him a chance to do an about-face and retreat. Instead, he hauled ass across the front of my cut then got on his knees and dove under the coal train between two hopper doors. He never slowed down and popped right out the other side. Fortunately there was nothing coming down the main on the opposite side of the coal train. It was over in a few seconds and I resumed putting our train together. Never saw anything like it in my life.

It's okay...I'm sure he has Aflac!

Well, that's one way to do it!

Jim

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> It's okay...I'm sure he has Aflac!


LOL.....!!!! :<)

Some geese aren't so lucky! Back in February, I was at Portland Union Station in the evening, waiting for a train to take me home to Eugene. As the train pulled into the station in the twilight, two guys in giant reflective rain jackets instantly ran to the front snowplow of the train and pulled something off...in the half-light it looked to me like part of the coupler or a piece of pipe, and I wondered if there was something wrong with the train. Nope, as they walked past me on the platform it turns out it was a gigantic, dead Canada goose! Happy rails to you,

Tor in Eugene

I've hit Canadian Geese while flying, they are NOT my friends...

Well written post... thanks!

My daughter shared center field with a bunch of them at an early morning game. About the 3rd inning, they all took off like the bombers heading for Europe. She was not a happy fielder!

They can be dangerous in the air - ask Capt. Sullinberger (sp?). I have had to dodge pelicans landing before - they don't get out of your way either.

Jim B

Oil protestor?

What a hypocrite! He is a messy bird.

They would have found me on top of the closest coal car. I'm not going to get in the way of a 1000lbs animal


trainjunkie Wrote:
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> I actually had a yearling moose do that the other
> day. I was making a hook on a yard track which had
> a coal train parked on the adjacent track. The
> moose darted across the yard and right in front of
> me as I was about 8 car lengths from the hook. I
> figured he'd have nowhere to go when he came
> fact-to-face with the coal train so I stopped the
> movement to give him a chance to do an about-face
> and retreat. Instead, he hauled ass across the
> front of my cut then got on his knees and dove
> under the coal train between two hopper doors. He
> never slowed down and popped right out the other
> side. Fortunately there was nothing coming down
> the main on the opposite side of the coal train.
> It was over in a few seconds and I resumed putting
> our train together. Never saw anything like it in
> my life.

jimB Wrote:
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> Well written post... thanks!
>
> My daughter shared center field with a bunch of
> them at an early morning game. About the 3rd
> inning, they all took off like the bombers heading
> for Europe. She was not a happy fielder!
>
> They can be dangerous in the air - ask Capt.
> Sullinberger (sp?). I have had to dodge pelicans
> landing before - they don't get out of your way
> either.
>
> Jim B

Ask the now dead crew of Yukla 27. An E-3C AWACS plane that hit a flock of geese and crashed right after takeoff from Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska.

Several years back near BENICIA, CA we hit a geese at 79mph in it literally exploded on the windshield of our F59PHI. Not a pretty site.

Frontrunner Wrote:
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> Several years back near BENICIA, CA we hit a geese
> at 79mph in it literally exploded on the
> windshield of our F59PHI. Not a pretty site.

Geese can fly pretty fast when they care to. I understand 40-45mph is typical. If he's flying east at 40mph and you're heading west in your F59PHI at 79mph, that's a pretty good cannon ball hit.

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> Frontrunner Wrote:
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> > Several years back near BENICIA, CA we hit a
> geese
> > at 79mph in it literally exploded on the
> > windshield of our F59PHI. Not a pretty site.
>
> Geese can fly pretty fast when they care to. I
> understand 40-45mph is typical. If he's flying
> east at 40mph and you're heading west in your
> F59PHI at 79mph, that's a pretty good cannon ball
> hit.

I haven't taken physics in over 35 years, but IIRC that would be a closing speed of 119 mph (you add the two together) if it were a direct head on collision. Big Ouch!! A good cannon ball hit is right!

I suspect maybe they were both going the same direction (closing speed of 39 mph? subtract the lesser) or at least at some angle a lot less than the 180 degrees of a head on.

I almost forgot, the angle the windshield on the F59PHI would also likely factor into diminishing the effect, even a direct head on, eh? Not that the bird would survive.

At any rate (no pun intended), these pics call to mind the expression "dead duck".

Greg



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Ask Dave Winfield, the ex Yankee, He had an incident with them
up in Toronto.

Jim

I hit a starling at 70 miles an hour on the interstate, broke the grill on my Jeep. I thought someone backed into me and broke it till at my next oil change they said they emptied all the feathers out of my air filter.