Yeah, but these guys were the actual train engineers. Normally, they also shouldn’t be taking photos, because they’re supposed to be, like, steering the train or whatever…but there was a tornado. So they were kinda off the clock.
Well, I hope they WERE still on the clock. I mean, I hope they got paid for that whole day. They were just doing the correct thing by stopping, rather than trying to outrun the tornado and making a bad situation worse.
I guess that would have been pretty ironic, though. If train dudes tried to outrun a tornado that same way that dumbasses try to drive though train crossings, right ahead of the train.
Union Pacific has a whole website dedicated to begging people to stop taking photographs on tracks.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/safety/photo_safety/index.htm
https://www.slrlounge.com/tracks-trains-not-senior-photos/
Yeah, but these guys were the actual train engineers. Normally, they also shouldn’t be taking photos, because they’re supposed to be, like, steering the train or whatever…but there was a tornado. So they were kinda off the clock.
Well, I hope they WERE still on the clock. I mean, I hope they got paid for that whole day. They were just doing the correct thing by stopping, rather than trying to outrun the tornado and making a bad situation worse.
I guess that would have been pretty ironic, though. If train dudes tried to outrun a tornado that same way that dumbasses try to drive though train crossings, right ahead of the train.