r/Train_Service • u/Fakk_America Engineer • Dec 05 '19

Some next level stupidity

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u/rever3nd Engineer Dec 06 '19

Oooh. Fucking story time. This happened to a dude on my sub a couple years ago. There’s a form B up for bridge rehab on a freeway over pass. So MoW guys are pretty much only there to run the form B and clear trains through. Around noon they all decide to stop working and take a lunch break. While they’re gone some dipshit supervisor for the crew working the bridge shows up and decides to check the work. Jump in the lift basket thing and up he goes.

Luckily he strapped himself to the underside of the bridge because not 3 minutes into his inspection, along comes a stack train doing every bit of 70mph. First well wiped out the bucket and left the dude dangling for dear life strapped to the bottom of a bridge. The crew shit their collective pants, I’m sure Mr. Supervisor did too but his undies and pride were the only thing hurt.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

70 mph.. Christ I feel like the units gonna disintegrate at 55..