I’ll repeat this from the ES&D train crew post:
The fucked-o-meter makes its triumphant appearance

I like how the Eye of Sauron only shows up when a train is fully not working (or the R/C thing.)

I imagine a flaming eyeball warping towards you and very sincerely going “why is my choo choo broken?”

It's crazy to imagine that the "where did the poop go" incident was only a level 8

Me: Ooh, a local museum doing videos, I'll watch a couple.
YouTube: All trains, all the time. You're a train guy now.

My dad used to work for a company that hauled sand for the sand towers at the yards but something that happened like all the time was the crew not knowing there was like a 1.8% grade coming up and they would run out of sand on the main and per their union policy they weren't allowed to move the train if it did not have sand, so they would just park it on the main. there are many dumb stories that started because of that.

"The loco is literally on fire!"

"Yup, that's a number 9."

Level 9: "Someone wrote a bad word on the wall in the bathroom!!1!"
Level 4: "Too many tags on the isolation switch. Isolation switch may not function or fall off."
Level 1: "This thing is F. U. C. K. E. D. fucked. Stay out of the electrical cabinet, do not start the engine, do not pass go, do not collect your paycheck. Clock out now and go home while you still can."

Level 404: the locomotive cannot be found. The locomotive may have been taken down or is temporarily unavailable. Check your comms equipment and try again later.

1:50 That poor brakeman. I laughed so hard I cried when I read that work order. Should have been a level 8 for real.

I once again bring up my comment from the member post (however I have edited it to fit the video"
"These are all great examples of mechanisms that locomotives use to keep themselves clean: Mechanics. Locomotives have a variety of ways to bring attention to them when in need of maintenance. Some ways are simple, such as breaking their own toilet. Some become completely suicidal and derail themselves (but these ones usually want to die, as they have either reached their prime or can't find a mate.) In this video we talk about all the different ways locomotives, like the mammals of the serengeti, which rely on flies to pick dirt and unwelcome guests from them, rely on mechanics to keep them in top shape, which helps attract mates to keep the population steady. In episode 5 of The World Of The Yard, we explore how locomotives attract mates, and the breeding cycles of locomotives."

(Queue intro)

There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Railway

“PTC is broken, let’s celebrate!”

That whole "I can't tell the stories on demand, mind goes blank" thing is why I'll actually stop in the middle of a stream just to jot the ideas down. lol.  It's ok, I only have a single viewer.

You forgot about the Class H defect. You let Hyce drive the train off the bridge.

As a class 3 engineer I can garuntee you a class 1 engineer would never be able to survive on our lines! Class 8 defects! Lol!

I had a couple defects due to miss-wiring. An SD9 that would shut down, kill the engine if you turned the the front number lights on. An GP9 that didn't drop its load until the engine RPM was at idle. That last one would also load if the generator field was in the off position. Fun, EH!

There is a former Reading GP-39-2 at the Reading railroad from CSX Cumberland shops. They did a fluid change and the prime mover wouldn’t start. When the museum got it they went over it and it turns out they overfilled the fluid by 55 GALLONS . Since then the locomotive is awaiting repaint into reading livery and still does switching at the museum. CSX doesn’t know that it works😂

Only missing the hidden level 0...
So broken, no repair, scrap it!

When you said "some were worse than others" I was expecting a picture of 1676

Instead of greasing the rails our shop guys will now bring out a little tray with rollers, jack up the locked axle (compressing its springs) and slide the roller tray underneath it.  You still can't move it very fast, this is only to limp it to the nearest back track, but it's way better and safer than skidding a locked wheelset over switches.