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DiggerDick
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Is that called splitting a tractor?
Eldon (WA)
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Consequences of a "Sound-Guard" cab......
At least it looked like the driver survived. I have seen two other train versus JD wrecks. One very similar to this had a mounted field cultivator on a 4440 and tore the front off right back to the cab. The driver walked away...allbeit with dirty drawers!
The other was not so lucky...he was in a 4440 and the locomotive hit him dead on at the rear axle. They picked up that tractor in buckets.
The other was not so lucky...he was in a 4440 and the locomotive hit him dead on at the rear axle. They picked up that tractor in buckets.
Anonymous-0
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What happened to the operator?
RandyB(MI)
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More than likely was on a cell phone too! Got ta screw up pretty bad to get hit by a train.
Anonymous-0
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2 sets of trax Makes me wonder ,way too many train /car wrecks happen this way . it is a honest mistake that nearly got me killed 25 yrs.ago . i backed up fast and damnear hit the guy behind me!!! .,Is this tractor accident like my Near miss accident? Was there a train on the 1st Track , that the tractor operator waited to pass , when,upon passing ,tractor supposed all Clear and proceeded to cross the 1st track only TO REALIZE THAT ANOTHER TRAIN ON THE 2ND TRACK WAS APPROACHING from opposite direction ,THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM, and a terribly honest and many times fatal last mistake ..
I have been an engineer for 18 years now. In 2001 we hit a late model 4020 Deere with a factory cab doing 40MPH with a loaded unit grain train. It basically happened just like this one...everything ahead of the cab was gone. It was one of the worst winters I've seen on a January day. It wasn't that the driver didn't see us, but the road was covered in ice, and when he hit the brakes, the tractor just slid. He jumped out into a snow bank in the ditch, and walked away with just a sore knee! The rear of the tractor was still standing upright as it was attatched to an old honey wagon.
With all the snow build up around the brake shoes and the extreme cold temperatures, it took us a half mile to stop on a steep uphill grade with the brakes in emergency! Upon inspecting the locomotive, I found that the only damage was that the concussion from the impact burned out one of the ditch light bulbs. There was also some green paint on the snow plow pilot, but it was not bent. Those are built out of 1/2" or 5/8" rolled steel and I guess it takes more than that to bend one. The front half of that poor old 4020 was in about 100 pieces!
With all the snow build up around the brake shoes and the extreme cold temperatures, it took us a half mile to stop on a steep uphill grade with the brakes in emergency! Upon inspecting the locomotive, I found that the only damage was that the concussion from the impact burned out one of the ditch light bulbs. There was also some green paint on the snow plow pilot, but it was not bent. Those are built out of 1/2" or 5/8" rolled steel and I guess it takes more than that to bend one. The front half of that poor old 4020 was in about 100 pieces!
Farmall M Beginner
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A little ways from here somebody thought it would be fun to park a front end loader backhoe on the train tracks. They laid the backhoe arm in the middle of the tracks, just for a train to hit it full of hazardous materials.
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ted regentin
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Some of the 'gallows' humor is awesome!!!
Anonymous-0
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The first place you go blind is in the eyes.
Goose
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A neighbor was killed a number of years ago at a crossing by a grain elevator a mile from my house.
He was driving a JD 4020 pulling a loaded gravity wagon. No one ever did figure out why he hit the train, he should have easily been able to see it. At his age, he could have had a heart attack and been done for before he hit the train.
Worst of it was, his daughter-in-law was approaching from behind in a loaded grain truck and witnessed the whole thing.
He was driving a JD 4020 pulling a loaded gravity wagon. No one ever did figure out why he hit the train, he should have easily been able to see it. At his age, he could have had a heart attack and been done for before he hit the train.
Worst of it was, his daughter-in-law was approaching from behind in a loaded grain truck and witnessed the whole thing.
Anonymous-0
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A guy near here was hit just like that on a 806 IH. He was pulling a semi-mount plow, no cab, he just sat there until the train stopped, he said he was so close to the moving cars he just knew he would be pulled in! The tractor owner was behind him, hard to say who was scared the most. Good thing the steering shaft broke cause they had to pry his hands off that steering wheel!
always bad when this happens,i never assume anything with 2 tracks[or more] in the west here most rural grade crossings do not have warnings or droping arms on them, when waiting for a train to pass, i let it get fully clear and down the rails enough to see both ways for a good distance trains here may be a mile long with up to 5 engines on the front, takes them awhile to go by and another train could easily approach on the other track without being seen due to being blocked from view by the first train, but out here they dont run too close togeather usually about 30 minutes or so apart
Russ from MN
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Last fall one of my co-workers drove a loaded sugar beet truck in front of a train near East Grand Forks. At first it sounded like he might survive but he had so many internal that he died after about 3 days. It was just at sun-up and the train was west bound, and the crossing did not have arms, as most field crossings are. It sure made the rest of us more careful crossing the tracks.
That's why it's so imperative that a person in that situation listen for an approching train.
The engineer has to blow his whistle for every grade crossing. There's even a "Whistle Board" posted at the side of the track long before he gets to the crossing to remind him to start blowing his whistle.
That's why the old train adage, "STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN" is a life saver.
Of course, there are many who actually see the train but still try to beat it to the crossing because they don't want to wait for it to pass.
They may not realize that the train may be going 70mph, but because the train is so big it doesn't seem like it's going that fast.
All the engineer can do when he sees what's about to happen is immediately put the train into emergency (locking up air brakes), and then just ride it out. It may take a mile for it to stop because of all the tonnage behind, pushing the locomotives.
The engineer and the other train crew members are then helpless, and all they can do is hang on and ride it out and watch the horrible sight unfold before their eyes.
There are many times after a crossing accident, especially in the event of fatalities, that the train crew has to have therapy to help them get over the tragedies they witness.
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