Moose hit by train

[cav58d]

http://www.break.com/index/moose-cant-outrun-train.html

A couple months back I remember this topic coming up, and some of our Canadian bretheren to the North said this happens quit frequently?  So much that you can list yourself as a contact to pick up the carcass and have the meat?

[JB73]

dude that's just a dmn shame.

poor thing was running for it's life.

I didn't even hear them trying to blow their horn just yelling "get outta there"

[Meatwad]

"Get out of the way you bastard"


Actually applied the brakes on the train, but neverless it went "splat"


at 10 seconds you can hear the horn and the locomotive's bell

[cav58d]

If this happens on a fairly regular basis, i'm sure there is some policy to be followed by the crews....Does that involve breaking prior to a strike?  Furthermore, does it require the train to come to a full stop after a strike?

[Meatwad]

Im not sure, but they seemed pretty upset over hitting it at the end

[texasmom]

on a similar note, friends of mine were driving to alaska; they hit a moose with their car. Broke the drivers neck!

[Fishu]

Originally posted by texasmom
on a similar note, friends of mine were driving to alaska; they hit a moose with their car. Broke the drivers neck!

My cousin's dad bought a pickup truck with the bars so that wouldn't happen. Supposedly it's just annoying to clean up the mess after a hit.

[culero]

Originally posted by Fishu
My cousin's dad bought a pickup truck with the bars so that wouldn't happen. Supposedly it's just annoying to clean up the mess after a hit.

We call those "mata-burros" here

[storch]

not a moose but a steer.  we were doing business in the domonican republic I was driving back from the town of santiago de los caballeros to my hotel in puerto plata after dark.  this is in a remote place in a third world country there is no highway lighting.  up a head in the distance I see two pinsalamanders of greenish reflective light at about windscreen height so I slowed down, boy was I ever glad I did.  he just stayed there looking at my lights and chewing his cud.  I turned off the headlights and tapped him with the bumper and off he went into the darkness.

[C(Sea)Bass]

trains hit animals on a regular basis. they are so heavy the cant stop worth a crepe so stuff gets squished. a large animal such as a moose would most likely cause the crew to have to preform an airline test, which on all but the most modern locomotives requires stopping and walking the length of the train. and the most logical reason for not blowing the horn is that the loud noise could cause the animal to stop in a sort of "deer in the headlights" reaction.