Railroad Engineers, What's The Creepiest Thing You've Seen At Work?

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[Legacy-swbv]

I love how the stories mostly feature paranormal experiences, dead bodies, body parts, collisions, animal hits, suicides, and strange/insane people, definitely creepy stuff; but then there's just that slow chug by "The pounder" absolutely punishing his junk.

[Kikilang]

I had a friend who said, "There was this train moving slowly by him, and his friend. They thought, 'Hey we could go for ride.', and we jumped on the train." After they got on the train, it picked up speed, and didn't stop all that day, and kept going until the next night." When they got off the train, they were in Canada, and hundreds of mile from the American border. They they didn't have money, and tried to make some, but couldn't find any way to make money so they could call home. I didn't hear how they called there father, but I was sure it wasn't the police. Their had to take two days off to go get them.

[stuligin]

When I was a trainman, I had an idiot of a conductor let loose 12 cars of tallow at me in the yard when we were switching. The fool didn't know the lie of the yard, so they actually picked up speed. As I tightened the third brake I looked, saw we were less than 20 feet from the sitting grain hoppers, and jumped off. Total destruction. Had a train car fly right over me. Could have touched it. Took out three tracks, bout twenty cars. Conductor got off cause he was the nefew of the train master. Engineer and I got twenty demerits each. Decided on a new career.

[reuben]

My great great grandfather had tracks through his property.

Every morning he would go out and jump onto the side of the moving train and hang on the side until he got to work. He never got caught.

He did get frostbite a few times, but the man had already been on board a Navy ship that was Torpedoed and sank, a little frostbite wasn't going to bother him.

[TheArmoredGroundhog]

i'm not an engineer, but i provide transportation for train crews. i've seen a few things after dropping off crews. sometimes i have to go up goat trails or access roads to get to the tracks rather than go to the yard or station. i was taking a crew to pick up a military train and it was late at night (0100-0300 time frame). it was raining all night, but wasn't a storm. we got to the crew change point, the relief crew got off and the other crew got in the van. since it was a military train, and it was carrying electronic stuff, we were told to stay until it left (to watch over the rear end of the train, Railroad Police watched over the head end and the middle). we're just sitting there waiting for it to leave and the sky just lights up, like lightning. it wasn't a quick flash, it was almost pulsating. there wasn't any thunder after, which the conductor even noted. never saw it again the rest of the night and didn't happened before that time.

Also work a yard shift (drive crews around yard to throw switches, couple/decouple cars, etc). a pack of Coyote hung around the west end of the yard, crews have reported atleast 4 of them that live in the woods between the yard and a distribution warehouse. i was told to go to the far west end of the yard so a crew could shove some cars down there. i saw 2 of the Coyotes, they were in the middle of the road and ran across the tracks back into the woods. the creepiest part was seeing their eyes glowing in the bushes or hearing them run through bushes.

[silntknght]

The cop chasing the dude branch raised over his head got me WHEEZING!!

[bmolitor]

the woman screaming around 2:00 may have been a fox. They make some absolutely hair-raising human-like sounds.

[stolasgoetia]

Okay that Dominos one isn't creepy it's epic.

[kym]

A friend of mine lives next to the railway track in our small town. One of our friends thought he would climb aboard the grain train at the wharf and ride it the 3 kilometres to our mutual friends house and jump off it out front of his house because it always seemed to be moving slowly the times that we watched it go past. So he manages to climb on the small ladder on the last carriage without being spotted and gloating to himself for coming up with this brilliant free transport hack prepares himself to disembark at said friends house. Apparently we all miscalculated the actual eyeball guesstimation speed over the years and sadly our mate watched on as his planned destination quickly sped by far to fast to dismount. I might add that it was 11pm during winter and old mate unfortunately didn't have a plan b and now came to the realisation that the next stop was 90 kilometres up the coast and he now had to do it perched precariously on the small ladder.
Unbelievably he fessed up to us about his wayward trip and gets mercilessly ribbed still to this day.

[rayshelld]

Had a friend who was married to a man she adored. He was a cheater big time. After 20 years of marriage he finally broke her heart and spirit for the last time. She drove her car to the RR track pulled in from of a train, and watched it come. Engineer tried to stop train, but it of course hit her. The engineer was the husband of another friend of mine. He said it was the creepiest terrifying thing he had ever witnessed. He said she just sat there with a smile on her face. It didn't kill her but messed her up for the last 15 years of her life where she lived in nursing home. Ahole husband kept messing around with any woman that would have him for years. But he was wealthy so guess that helped him in his one night stands. He never married even after his wife died. Saddest funeral I ever went to. Only 6 people where there. Guess people forgot about her after 15 years.

[Stackedwithcash]

I found a severed doll by the tracks once

[gustei]

Title "Creepy things that happened to railroad engineer"

The music;

[james]

2.51 - UK here, whilst in the cab of a mainline train leaving York for Newcastle as the train pulls away as well as me and the driver we have a staff trainer and 3 student drivers in the cab, the trainer points to a house on the right and says ' take note of that white house on the right...' I was expecting him to carry on with the usual as the cab passes that the train is clear of the station and you can apply more speed etc, But no he carries on ' on warm and sunny days there's a woman there that sun bathes naked - keep a look out for her'.

[BlackGoldSaya]

I have crawled under stopped trains and once one started moving. So that was dumb. Also dragged my bike under one

[paranoiaprincess]

The story about the bride, I just feel SO bad for the husband!

Imagine living the rest of your life knowing that the person you were ready to marry not only left you at the alter, but they had rathered be literally hit by a train, than marry you. (I know my grammar here is atrocious but I couldn't find another way to word this. Hell, I'm pretty sure rathered isn't even an actual word >.>)

Thay has got to be the most depressing thing anyone has ever had to feel, ever!

[timothyfreeman]

My uncle was working working for the Detroit railroad about 27 years ago. He wasn’t sitting on the edge of a car while it went into a tunnel he was crushed between the concrete wall and the moving rail car. Definitely a closed casket funeral.

[TwiggyHetfield]

My dads an electrician. Some time before I was born he, my uncle (his foreman at the time) along with a couple other guys were running some lines in the NYC subway. As they're walking along through the tunnels this odd stench starts wafting from in front of them. My dad goes "Man, what is that god awful smell" My uncle stops & tells my dad & the guys to turn back. Dad tried to protest because he wanted to get the job done but my uncle wasn't having any of it. When they got back my uncle called the cops. Yeaaa turns out there was a dead body in the tunnel and my uncle had come across a few on the job. According to my dad "You never forget what a dead body smells like. Ever."

[unocarb]

When I was a coroner assistant I used to pick up the pieces from the tracks..ive seen everything from cut up like a surgical knife to el splat..also the sausages, the wheels roll the body into an unrecognizable ball of meat, some with facial features "intact" I really loved my old job, so many cool stories..

[tonystrainsandgames]

My great grandfather was a conductor for the rock island and he saw his fair share of suicidal people and animals this was back when steam locomotives were still a very common sight and he also felt with a few hobos during the depression

[FTom]

If I saw a man whacking it at the side of the tracks I don't think I'd ever manage to get rid of the image in my head