Working rail roads and their tracks.

[WinterDeere]

Why on earth would on stop on tracks behind another vehicle?? Then do you hope n pray a train doesn't come?

Could have been that it was too late to stop ahead of tracks, when light changed and car in front of him stopped unexpectedly. Drivers of cars rarely consider the position into which they're putting any truck in their rear view mirror... if they even ever look at their rear view mirror.

 

[ArlyA]

One heck of a good video on how a modern stream locomotive worked. I wonder the volume of man hours it took per year to keep them running?

 

[ArlyA]

When I talk to schoolkids about tornadoes, I sometimes mention that there hasn't been an EF5 tornado in the US since they've been alive — 12 years.
That's not the case anymore.
After months of analysis, the NWS determined a North Dakota tornado back in June did meet EF5 criteria.
The EF5 tornado near Enderline, ND on June 20th produced winds of at least 210 mph. The most notable damage was a tanker car weighing ~40 tons thrown nearly 500(!) feet off some railroad tracks.
Three people were also killed.

 

[BravoXray]

One heck of a good video on how a modern stream locomotive worked. I wonder the volume of man hours it took per year to keep them running?

A few years ago I read an article that said the large locomotives of the 40s and 50s required as many hours of maintenance as the number of hours the were operated, and some even more.
When diesels arrived, it was a whole new ball game, check the oil and water and drive it.