KINGREAL Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Originally posted by epic787: your pretty sick. accidents like arent funny. i think this thread should be closed! haha...what a loser!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay-Burner Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 thats why you never put pennies or quarters on the tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munk Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Once, I was on a train that ran over two dirtbikes. One kid had gotten his rid caught in the track so the other came over to help him and his bike got stuck as well. They saw our train coming and ran like hell. While we waited for another engine to arrive (to pull us to a station), one of the conductors hung out in the food car showing me flicks from an envelope in his attache - all of wrecked trains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unknown Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 http://www22.brinkster.com/threethreesix/derail14.jpg'> train derail circa early 1900s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 "i figured the rest of you would think they we're funny or cool..." ...they are....r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICIOUS->147 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 2003, January 31, Waterfall rail emergency A four-carriage double decker Tangara train left the rails and smashed into a sandstone cutting in the Royal National Park, 4 km south of Waterfall between Sydney and Wollongong at 7:25 am on Friday 31 January 2003. Seven people, including the driver, died in the crash, and 43 people were injured, 21 of those seriously. The train had picked up 79 passengers by the time it left Waterfall station on the Sydney - Port Kembla trip. The next station it was set to pick up passengers was Helensburgh. Surviving passengers say they became frightened as the train picked up speed heading into a sweeping left-hand bend about 2km from the Waterfall station. Its vibrations are said to have woken sleeping passengers. Passing a 50 kmh speed sign (the train was estimated at doing between 90 and 100 kmh), it came out of the bend and left the tracks, crossing the city bound lane. Lurching violently, it pulled down one stanchion and then another before ploughing into a siding with a sickening sound. The front of the train flew into the air coming to a rest 400 m from the corner. The impact tore the side out of the front carriage and tipped the last two onto their sides. The first call to 000 was made by a 19 year old passenger only minutes after the crash. His first few attempts were treated as a hoax by the emergency telephone operators. It wasn't until he had found another survivor to verify his story that he was believed. There was another hold-up in the rescue efforts when emergency services responding to the train disaster from the south side of the crash claim they were delayed by up to 10 minutes because they could not open a padlocked gate. Three ambulances and four police cars had to wait until a four-man Rural Fire Service crew from Helensburgh arrived with bolt cutters. The paramedic at the scene stressed that he did not believe the delay cost lives. More than 100 police officers, 80 fire-fighters, 120 NSW Ambulance Service officers, 65 State Emergency Service officers. Workers from the State Rail Emergency Unit, RTA traffic management and the Salvation Army, and flight crews from the Westpac helicopter and NRMA Careflight were involved in the rescue operation. Rescuers had to carry equipment such as: heavy metal-cutting devices, thermal imaging equipment, listening devices and cooling fans 1.5 kms along the tracks to get to the train, because dense bushland and high embankments on both sides of the crash site made vehicle access difficult. The impact of the train brought down electricity cables, which further complicated the massive task of rescue workers. A triage centre was set up close to the site to assess and stabilise victims before evacuating them to hospitals around Sydney. Some victims were carried fist by hand and then by four-wheel-drive before being received by ambulances. By late morning, police had established a temporary morgue area next to the triage tent. DNA tests, dental records and fingerprinting were used to identify the bodies of most victims, due to the extent of their injuries. Medics also tagged passengers with green tape for minor injuries, red for serious injuries and white for the dead. After investigations, it was found that a sophisticated black box-style recorder was installed in the train, but was not turned on. This would have helped investigators in their efforts to determine the exact cause for the derailment a lot sooner. The dead victims of the train crash included the male driver, 53 from Unanderra; 49-year-old male from Sans Souci; 40-year-old of Granville; 48-year-old male of Padstow Heights; 62-year-old male of Figtree; 35 year-old female of Mortdale and a 38-year-old male from Cronulla. The Waterfall crash was the worst rail crash in Australia since the infamous "Day of the Roses" 26 years ago when 83 people were killed in Granville I think I was on this train, It terminated at central I got off and it went back south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICIOUS->147 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 This thread hasn't been closed in like 8 years... [/img] [/img] Waterfall Train Disaster^ [/img] [/img] Some classics^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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