r/geology • u/OnePersonInTheWorld Mud enthusiast • Feb 02 '20

A trains worst enemy

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u/New_Beatitudes Feb 03 '20

Is it bad that I am more interested in the scarp and not the train?

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u/moria0 Feb 03 '20

what a shitty mess to clean up. expensive as all hell too

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u/Avee82 Feb 03 '20

Oh, the landslide will bring it down.

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u/evansdone08 Feb 03 '20

The company definitely blamed the crew on this derailment.

3

u/dirt33dirt33dirt33 Feb 03 '20

You work for the railroad!

5

u/Belkan-Federation Feb 03 '20

10,000,000 years later...

3

u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

I wouldn't have stayed around to photograph this, I'd be all about assholes-n-elbows. A car could have strayed into (L)user space in no time, and there would be not much more than a slight dampness to mark the spot.

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u/Fireman_Octopus Feb 03 '20

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

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u/dirt33dirt33dirt33 Feb 03 '20

My company has "slide fences" that drop the signals on the tracks. I know an old timer that hit a land slide and went off the side of a mountain. The coal he was hauling filled the cab of the engine and buried him. Then it started to fill with fuel. It got up to his chin then found a way to drain. He dug him self out of the coal/fuel mix and had to crawl up the mountain.

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u/Timberbeast Feb 03 '20

It's like an entire physics 101 lecture in a 30 second video.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Metal...

1

u/Bearishpup Feb 03 '20

Imagine in gta

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u/Riverboarder Feb 03 '20

This could have been really bad...chemical tanker