I feel I should point out that the BNSF line around Tacoma does not go through Point Defiance Park and uses a tunnel in Ruston to turn back south. (the reason it even went to Ruston in the first place was to serve the old Asarco Smelter)

"unscheduled station stop on highway I-5" sounds like something the ESDT would do on the regular

"You do NOT get to royally fuck up then tell ME that you don't have to do the very thing that would have prevented the fuckup in the first place!" is such a badass slapdown

You know, that FRA man employed something that's part of the training curriculum of Cockpit Resource Management for the airlines.  Specifically, the "This Is Stupid!" statement.  The short version is that if one member of a flight crew thinks that they're trying to do something that's just an inherently bad idea, but the other guy refuses to listen, the proper procedure is to break them out of their little mental bubble by just yelling, "This is stupid!" as loud as you can.  And they specifically say that you can throw in the F-bomb for emphasis to make it even more effective.  (The goal is to shock the other pilot into pausing and thinking about it again.)

An FRA guy drops the F bomb twice during a professional meeting, and the guy getting chewed out shut his mouth. That's the kind of stuff that SHOULD be in a Hollywood blockbuster.

12:32 - 12:42 "YOU DO NOT, GET TO HAVE A UNSCHEDULED FUCKING STATION STOP, ON INTERSTATE FUCKING FIVE, AND TELL ME YOU DONT HAVE TO DO ANY TESTS!" - Undisclosed FRA Man

"Unscheduled station stop on Interstate 5" is quite the one liner. I am forever using this for anything i physically can use it for within context.😂

Wow. For Amtrak dude to argue that they don't need anymore tests, knowing exactly what the public perception was at the time. In that instance, you redo every test and invent a few new ones, and you fight like hell for YEARS to regain public trust.

Oh Lordy, I've heard about that wreck on other channels. Plainly Difficult has covered it. FRA dude putting the F in the FRA, good for him.

12:50, that's one hell of a one-liner, Mr. FRA man

Spent 34 years as a state regulator.    We are trained to get the point across using strong diplomatic to language but sometimes an F 💣 is necessary...LOL.

"unscheduled station stop on highway I-5" has the same energy as rocketry "Rapid Disassembly"

13:47 So basically she said "Oh no... Anyways"

Anyone else disappointed that the Scray FRA encounter at the museum was "The FRA sent over a nice man"

You know what's crazy? My new girlfriend, whom I've only been dating for about 2 months, was involved in that wreck before I knew her. Other than a few bumps and bruises, all she got out of it was a broken toe. Thank God. She was towards the back of the train, so her car actually landed on the highway off of that bridge. Not to disrespect the families of the deceased, but thankfully, there were only 3 fatal casualties. I actually thought it was more before seeing this video. Great video, though. That FRA quote sounded like it came straight out of "Unstoppable".

That 30 seconds of stunned silence was the perfect time to raise your hand, and say absolutely deadpan, "I second that statement" put your hand down and just be like  😐 until someone else spoke.🤣

12:50 That's an understandable F-bomb. If I heard someone say "Yeah we don't need to do more work on this" after an accident like that.
I would love to be part of the FRA if it meant I get to yell at people when they mess up THAT badly.

I'm hereby going to refere to any train wreck as an 'unsceduled stop at *somwhere*'

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