Passenger Trains > Cascade Engineer Nearly Impaled by Tree

This was mentioned a couple days ago here. But this news article which should not be blocked, has frightening pictures of the tree inside the cab next to where the operator was sitting. Thankfully the engineer was not hurt.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/wa-windstorm-amtrak-engineer-nearly-impaled-by-tree-hitting-train/

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Extremely  fortunate.   

Guess Amtrak management has another reason to curtail operations when storms are predicted. Wind and rain equals a lot of fallen trees.

Valleyman

How would've he made out in one of those new Amtrak engines?

Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
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> How would've he made out in one of those new
> Amtrak engines?

You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 

PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain and include a diagram what locomotive or cab car will prevent an object from coming through a window.

No really, please explain.

Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will probably complain the engineer can not see.

I think the railroads have been lax in clearing trees that represent a hazard to the ROW.

Even the old "ghetto grates" over front and side windows would not have with stood this tree at 60-80 mph

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longliveSP Wrote:
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> Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How would've he made out in one of those new
> > Amtrak engines?
>
> You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 
>
> PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain and
> include a diagram what locomotive or cab car will
> prevent an object from coming through a window.
>
> No really, please explain.
>
> Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will
> probably complain the engineer can not see.

Yup. One night the BN New Westminster (BC) local hit a lumber truck at Ferndale (WA). Because of the angle of the truck on the crossing, the lumber traveled endways through the front windows of the lead GP38, filling the cab (with the crew ducked well below that level).

TAW

The engineer was hurt, but the injuries were only minor.  He was treated at a local hospital and released.

longliveSP Wrote:
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> Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How would've he made out in one of those new
> > Amtrak engines?
>
> You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 
>
> PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain and
> include a diagram what locomotive or cab car will
> prevent an object from coming through a window.
>
> No really, please explain.
>
> Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will
> probably complain the engineer can not see.

??

I was merely wondering how the newly designed engines could offer safety protections against injury compared to older models. I can't understand how that elicited such a response on this forum. Rant and conjecture aren't helpful when someone asks a question.

Thankfully, not his time to go...

Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
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> longliveSP Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > How would've he made out in one of those new
> > > Amtrak engines?
> >
> > You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 
> >
> > PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain
> and
> > include a diagram what locomotive or cab car
> will
> > prevent an object from coming through a window.
> >
> > No really, please explain.
> >
> > Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will
> > probably complain the engineer can not see.
>
> ??
>
> I was merely wondering how the newly designed
> engines could offer safety protections against
> injury compared to older models. I can't
> understand how that elicited such a response on
> this forum. Rant and conjecture aren't helpful
> when someone asks a question.

Your question is similar to say someone asking if a Ford car would have been safer than a Chevy car when someone threw a rock off a bridge overpass of a freeway and the rock went through the window of the Chevy car.

The rock is still going to go through the window. 

Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
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> longliveSP Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > How would've he made out in one of those new
> > > Amtrak engines?
> >
> > You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 
> >
> > PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain
> and
> > include a diagram what locomotive or cab car
> will
> > prevent an object from coming through a window.
> >
> > No really, please explain.
> >
> > Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will
> > probably complain the engineer can not see.
>
> ??
>
> I was merely wondering how the newly designed
> engines could offer safety protections against
> injury compared to older models. I can't
> understand how that elicited such a response on
> this forum. Rant and conjecture aren't helpful
> when someone asks a question.

Oh, don't take it personally. He has a long history of condescending and arrogant, aggressive, rude responses to people who ask simple questions or give their own personal opinions on a subject. And that's just it. They're personal opinions that no one, including him, is required to agree with. Don't bother providing proof to him on something he asks for proof on. I have found that when he is publicly proven wrong on here and facts and proof are provided to contradict what he says, he shuts down and doesn't respond. Just an internet bully. Best not to engage.

TAW Wrote:
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> longliveSP Wrote:
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> > Peter_Hawtrey Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > How would've he made out in one of those new
> > > Amtrak engines?
> >
> > You know-it-all attitudes crack me up. 
> >
> > PLEASE, for the benefit of everyone, explain
> and
> > include a diagram what locomotive or cab car
> will
> > prevent an object from coming through a window.
> >
> > No really, please explain.
> >
> > Oh wait, you want no windows. But then you will
> > probably complain the engineer can not see.
>
> Yup. One night the BN New Westminster (BC) local
> hit a lumber truck at Ferndale (WA). Because of
> the angle of the truck on the crossing, the lumber
> traveled endways through the front windows of the
> lead GP38, filling the cab (with the crew ducked
> well below that level).
>
> TAW

Was this incident the logging truck incident that happened at the now removed 2nd Ave crossing?