Passenger Trains > Railfans splattered by snow- why?

A  phenemenon I've noticed on YouTube are guy's getting blasted by snow from passing trains. Passenger, Freight, Rotary plow etc...
Seems crazy risking ballast and fallen storm debris coming out like a bullet in any given direction destroying a nice camera or sending you to the ER 
Is this a right of passage in Geeekdom or simply a baptism into the world of posting winter train videos?



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/19 19:52 by Molino.

It's for that "look at me, look at me" 15 seconds of social media stupidity. Nothing more.

Molino Wrote:
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> A  phenemenon I've noticed on YouTube are guy's
> getting blasted by snow from passing trains.
> Passenger, Freight, Rotary plow etc...
> Seems crazy risking ballast and fallen storm
> debris coming out like a bullet in any given
> direction destroying a nice camera or sending you
> to the ER 
> Is this a right of pasage in Geeekdom or simply a
> baptism into the world of posting winter train
> videos?

Anybody who gets close enough to the track to get spattered by a train is close enough to get nailed BIG TIME.

djansson Wrote:
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> Anybody who gets close enough to the track to get
> spattered by a train is close enough to get nailed
> BIG TIME.

You don't even have to be that close: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4487707,4487708#4487708

Yeah, that was me :^). 

kevink Wrote:
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> You don't even have to be that
> close: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/rea
> d.php?1,4487707,4487708#4487708
>
> Yeah, that was me :^). 

Picture standing there five feet from the track with train order hoops.

TAW

I've seen railroad rotary plows throw ice chunks the size of bowling balls over 100 feet.  Get hit with one of those and you probably won't get back up.  The regular "skiff plow" on locomotive can throw chunks of ice, etc. quite a distance when the locomotive is running at track speed.  I've seen railfans standing too close to the track angling for a Darwin Award on that one, too.

Some of us pay the price so that others might someday say, "Jeez, what a Maroon- nice picture, though..."
SR

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3fzqlCOB8    this was not my intention to get sprayed that day

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1315113,1315113#1315113   RS12394 took a good hit off camera in this one

In 1974 the rotary worked over the Belt Line branch in Buffalo and dumped so much snow on a garage it completely fell down.  Could it kill you, yes so stay clear.

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> Some of us pay the price so that others might
> someday say, "Jeez, what a Maroon- nice picture,
> though..."
> SR

What a Maroon! ;)

Great picture Bugs, I mean BoilingMan.

Nathan

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That’s UP (SPMW) 222 about 15min before it failed.
TRAINS paid me for this one because of the news value-
Heck, it nearly covered my deductible!
SR