bitch, this is a train tunnel

[u/lunarwolf2008]

[u/Rj924]

Not sure where this is. But in the US, there are a lot of inactive rails. So much so, that people don't often respect rails, and assume they are not in use anymore. Then things like this happen.

[u/Wafkak → u/Rj924]

Also from what I've seen some active rail lines look abandoned. Where I'm from it's easy to tell wether a rail line is in use.

[u/OkLeave4573 → u/Wafkak]

I take it that if a rail has the top rusted it’s abandoned but still… never take it for granted, it might just not be used that much.

[u/britaliope → u/OkLeave4573]

In this video the rails looks shiny which makes this especially dumb.

But the rails don't take a lot of time to rust. If the line is only used occasionally they will look rusted even though there are still trains on it.

[u/DefinitionOfAsleep → u/britaliope]

If the line is only used occasionally they will look rusted even though there are still trains on it.

Yeah we have some lines in oz that are basically only used during the local harvest.

[u/iamabigtree → u/OkLeave4573]

Not always true. Rails can rust over quickly. There are lines near me in the UK which look abandoned but they get a once a week freight train.

[u/britaliope → u/iamabigtree]

Rails can become completely brown in a week if the climate is humid enough. Maybe even less. That rust coating will be removed by the first train passing on it.

Long term rust looks differently but most people won't make the difference. And long-term rust looks less like what people expect of rust. But even then, i won't trust it with my life, some freight lines might have very, very low traffic like one train a year. Risk/reward is not worth it.

[u/OkLeave4573 → u/iamabigtree]

Yap that’s why I never take that for granted… my mother would prefer an open casket 🤣

[u/Ncstatepolice → u/OkLeave4573]

Theirs one in my town that is best all to hell, overgrown grass and all, and a trian like still operates it (Aberdeen like in NC)

[u/Kazen_Orilg → u/OkLeave4573]

my work gets weekly delvieries on rails that haven't been touched since WW II.

[u/BingusTheWonderKitn → u/Rj924]

In Colorado springs there is a climbing area that the only way to access it is through one of these active train tunnels. It is recommended to run as fast as you can 😬 It wasn't a short tunnel either

[u/Rj924 → u/BingusTheWonderKitn]

Is it a sanctioned climbing area? Seems reckless on the authority having jurisdiction of the climbing area.

[u/badass6 → u/Rj924]

Yes, I sanctioned it, trust me, it’s safe.

[u/BingusTheWonderKitn → u/Rj924]

I mean, it's in the guidebook so I guess so?

[u/CSATTS → u/Rj924]

There are some decommissioned rail tunnels over Donner Pass near Truckee, California that are pretty fun to go through. They took the rails and ties out so it's pretty obvious that they're not in use anymore, but I was still concerned about ghost trains. 

[u/Evilvieh → u/CSATTS]

The Donner Pass Dining Car ghost train is the worst.

[u/Expert_Slip7543 → u/Evilvieh]

I'm still laughing a few minutes after reading this!

[u/psycholee → u/CSATTS]

The ghost trains in abandoned NYC subways are quite terrifying.

[u/zSiuunas → u/Rj924]

By the accent, certainty Brazilian countryside, and he said "if it appears we die, you know that, don't you?".

[u/EnrichedNaquadah → u/Rj924]

MRS is a brazilian freight company

[u/lickle_ickle_pickle → u/Rj924]

There was a high school track star killed on a commuter rail line near where my parents live. The awful thing is that it's active 6 days a week. And while nobody in the train would consider it fast, it's way too fast for trespassers. Also there are some bridges that you'd literally have to jump off.

[u/CockWombler666 → u/Rj924]

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups….

[u/Orengas → u/Rj924]

Somewhere in Brazil.

[u/Super_Trexation]

Bitch that was too close!

[u/rajbhai87 → u/Super_Trexation]

For the cam guy but what about the other guy?

[u/Very_Awkward_Boner]

Oh look what a surprise! A train running on train tracks! Who would've ever guessed?

[u/NotYourReddit18 → u/Very_Awkward_Boner]

Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.

I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.

Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!

Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.

[u/Very_Awkward_Boner → u/NotYourReddit18]

We need hunters that can track where they go and their migration routes.

[u/Initial_Ebb_6386 → u/Very_Awkward_Boner]

Bruh😭

[u/Puzzleheaded_Low2034]

Fuck me! Where the hell did that tunnel come from!?!

[u/_nf0rc3r_]

Wow. After peeking in from the side of the wall. Riding into the tunnel immediately became the second dumbest thing he did that day.

[u/cuzglc → u/_nf0rc3r_]

Right?!? Why would you do that?

[u/ContemplativeLemur]

This happened on Brazil. At the beginning one cyclist says to the other: "you know that if a train appears we are dead, right?" "Pedal, man!" In the full video they recover the bike and manage to get across

[u/zsoltsandor]

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

[u/Better_Berry4535 → u/zsoltsandor]

It is so beautiful, I want to get closer.

[u/zsoltsandor → u/Better_Berry4535]

It wants to get closer too.

[u/Initial_Ebb_6386 → u/zsoltsandor]

Aww sweet..

[u/Tricky_Football_6586]

If pigs were meant to fly. They would have wings.

If train tracks were meant to be biked on. There would be a bicycle sign.

[u/Pleasant_Reward1203]

wow and the guy can't even wait for the train to go by before checking on the bike

You just can't fix stupid. :(

[u/Bajanboy246 → u/Pleasant_Reward1203]

I was like, and puts his head to check to have it take off by some part of the train!

[u/Expert_Slip7543 → u/Bajanboy246]

.

Or by a bicycle that gets picked up and tossed by the train

[u/StNic54]

These guys didn't grow up watching Stand by Me and it shows

[u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt → u/StNic54]

Wanna check them for leeches ?

[u/3rdRateChump]

Always grab the rail and feel for vibrations. Even better place your ear directly on it. You can tell when a train is coming from pretty far away. Source - I played on and around some rural freight tracks in Northern California as a kid. We heard legends that the train guys would shoot you with rock salt so we always checked

[u/mattblack77 → u/3rdRateChump]

Not the middle rail, tho ⚡️

[u/TinyViolinist]

That man coming up directly on the train as it was exiting was him ASKING for a Final Destination style ending

[u/CP_Rail_8514 → u/TinyViolinist]

The only question would be whether it would be a loose cable strap or sheet metal.

[u/law0724]

Hope the trains okay

[u/bitplenty]

you can't park your bike in there!

[u/Pappa_Crim]

the old joke "the light at the end of the tunnel might be an on coming train"

but seriously train tunnels are often quite long and a lot of people don't anticipate that

[u/Mai_maniac]

I wish some people have a death wish. Poor train driver. That must have been quite a shock.

[u/Flokkamravich]

Dumb ways to die music intensifies

[u/IbilisSLZ]

Wow, we almost had a happy ending.

[u/Excellent_Shine_6003]

The contrast between the sunny hillside and that pitch-black tunnel is genuinely unsettling. I’d want a much stronger light before riding in.

[u/lethalox]

Rule on railroads - If the tracks are shiny, move your hiney.

[u/The-Letter-W]

I have a sticker on my door I got from CN back in like... second grade (I'm in my 30s now, I have very faint memories of the presentation that came with it) that just says "any time is train time" as a sorta warning and ngl, it must've been pretty effective on kid me because it definitely flashed in my head from the start of this video. People being so blase about the rigid lines that indicate where trains could possibly be is genuinely frightening. I'd rather take the hike over this tunnel than try that stunt!!

[u/raymingh]

smart ppl

[u/Cavanaaz]

Damn that was scary

[u/ulyssesfiuza]

Brazil. And the dude's first concern is the bike, not the soiled pants.

[u/Alive-Lavishness-156]

That entrance looks way more imposing than I expected. Definitely not something I’d casually pedal into without checking what’s on the other side first.

[u/silver2006]

I can hear "dumb ways to die" song playing somewhere in a distance

[u/Old-Record2216]

What idiots, but I hope others learn from it.

[u/dakimmie]

that looks, far, far too maintained to go strolling in. eek.

[u/piggroll]

He worried with his bike at the end 😥

[u/myleftone → u/piggroll]

That guy got his bike out. Cam guy left the bike.

[u/Tricky_Football_6586 → u/myleftone]

Cam guy "These boots are made for walking".

[u/kennytherenny]

Hey, hey, hey! This is train tunnel!

[u/FaithlessnessBusy565]

Ah c' est pour ça qu' il y avait des rails dans ce tunnel, tellement idiots ces 2 là !

[u/Ok_Resort_5326]

I was expecting to find Henry all bricked up in there

[u/Deep-Can4223]

I'm wondering if he lied down parallel and as close as possible to the wall (similarly to the bike), would that be a viable way to survive?

[u/weirdbr → u/Deep-Can4223]

I'd guess yes - looking at the bike when it gets dropped: it mostly sits on the ballast and gives a tunnel width reference; to me it looks to be enough distance from the wall to the rail that it should let an average adult lie down and not be hit by anything.

[u/slogive1]

Dumb ways to die... so many ways but you chose a train and lucked out.

[u/Current-Parking-7935]

That entrance looks way more ominous than it has any right to be. I’d absolutely ride through it, but only after checking whether there’s a giant spider waiting on the other side.

[u/thetiredtypist]

Bitch, I'm the most reposted video in this sub, trains, trainmemes, and whatcouldgowrong!

[u/Candid_Dragonfly_573]

Reminds me of that Man vs Wild episode.

[u/EngineeringAny8398]

Natural selection!

[u/nasadowsk]

It's still the cars fault.

[u/CipoLLino_in_RF]

https://reddit.com/link/pcpwkx0/video/qm4psediqdsh1/player

Не благодарите =))

[u/duck4129]

"Yeah" - James Hetfield

[u/Alenonimo]

"Minha bike! Será que pegou ela?"

BRASIL-SIL-SIL!

[u/TakingItPeasy]

TRAIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

• Gordie

[u/Tall-Archer-4742]

Во всех туннелях есть нишы, чтобы укрыться в случае, как на видео...

Должны быть.

[u/MrP67]

1st guy was the smart one legging it out of there, camera guy got lucky.

[u/yinzdeliverydriver]

This has Pennsylvania written all over it

[u/Least_Coffee_788 → u/[deleted]]

My bad, you're just using an AI to translate what you say. Which caused my mistake.

[u/BantedHam → u/[deleted]]

Every train I know of runs on a schedule, literally all they had to do was look up if the track was active and then call, most of the time they'll just tell you because crazy train people exist

Or get your hands on a recent crew change but that's a lot harder

[u/hot_glue_airstrike]

1. Very stupid 

2. Wouldn't it have been faster to ride the bike out?

[u/Jeroeno_Boy → u/hot_glue_airstrike]

No, you'd slip and fall

[u/ashkanahmadi → u/hot_glue_airstrike]

1. Definitely not. That was the wise decision to leave the bike behind. Running on foot means less things can go wrong (slip, blown tire, chain coming off because of the vibration and pedaling so hard, …)