moose tries to outrun train

[iluvmy300]

Hopefully this is not a double post.

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

This might be considered off-topic so mods feel free to move it.

 

[exmeathead]

Think that there would have been any useable meat?

 

[the_big_mike]

they didn't sound too remorseful!

 

[BIGREDD]

Those guys see that hundreds of times in their careers... it gets old.
They can't exactly slam on the brakes ya know.

 

[Chronos]

I would have love to see the cam from outside the train. Stupid moose

 

[mommabear]

That's a shame.

 

[kevin.303]

i love the comments that people make on those sites;

" they didn't try very hard to avoid it"

IT'S A F**KING TRAIN!!!

 

[fogducker]

did he punch his tag

 

[todbartell]

happens a thousand times or more each winter in Canada I bet

ravens gotta eat too

 

[GeoTrekr]

i love the comments that people make on those sites;

" they didn't try very hard to avoid it"

IT'S A F**KING TRAIN!!!

But trains have horns. I didn't hear one once in the vid Unless that moose was high on some B.C. Bud, wouldn't the train's horn 5 feet from it's ass get it to move?

 

[Lazy Ike]

Not just Moose but Grizzly too! I think it's clearly time to ban Trains!

 

[Amphibious]

But trains have horns. I didn't hear one once in the vid Unless that moose was high on some B.C. Bud, wouldn't the train's horn 5 feet from it's ass get it to move?

they don;t get out of the way of my little suv on bush roads. even when I use horn. I have the luxury of a brake. trains don't.


approx 1200 moose are hit by trains yearly between McBride & Terrace, BC.

 

[Steeleco]

"squashed donkey!!" It is a shame, but Darwin works on critters too

 

[kevin.303]

But trains have horns. I didn't hear one once in the vid Unless that moose was high on some B.C. Bud, wouldn't the train's horn 5 feet from it's ass get it to move?

i 've also heard time and time again that an air horn be it truck or train, will actually confuse a moose, thinking it 's call of another moose.

 

['Boo]

Stupid moose

No, not stupid just going on instinct. It is running on 6-8 inches of snow down the centre of the track while the snow banks on the sides of the right of way are 4 or 5 feet deep. It knows it will get mired in deep snow the moment it gets off the beaten path so it does what nature programed it to do - outrun it's pursuer. Unfortunately trains are faster than wolves.........

As a side note we see the same phenomenon every winter with snow machines running on plowed logging roads in high snowfall areas. The riders end up being unable to get up over the banks when they meet a truck coming the other way. Unlike the moose - who knows s**t about trains, or logging trucks, the sled riders are the "stupid" one as they should know better.

 

[Turbo]

But trains have horns.

Using an air horn in the moutains during the winter would cause an avalanche!!!!!

 

[nermal]

they didn't sound too remorseful!

Don't you have audio on your computer? They clearly had fingers crossed for the yearling.

 

[GeoTrekr]

Using an air horn in the moutains during the winter would cause an avalanche!!!!!

I just saw an episode of Hazard Pay the other day where they were filming an avalanche crew setting them off with Howitzers and fertilizer bombs. One of the quotes was "It's a popular myth that avalanches are triggered by sound".

 

[MHUNT]

Well that was depressing

 

[tootall]

When I was at BCIT for my steel fab apprenticeship, there was a guy in my class that was a "carman" (railway term for steel fabricator) from CN in Prince George.
Part of his duties included hosing off the loco after it hit a moose.
Yuck.