SP Cabride Video

[SSW7771]

Here is a video I just uploaded to YouTube that I converted from VHS tapes that my Dad filmed while working on the SP in Houston. Roughly have of the footage is from the Lufkin Sub. This also happens to be my first video edited and uploaded to YouTube.

[jagged ben]

Scary and exciting stuff.   
Thanks for sharing.

[wm-webb]

Scary and exciting stuff.   

That's what I was thinking, I wonder if the crew ever gets use to that?

[SSW7771]

That's what I was thinking, I wonder if the crew ever gets use to that?

No the crews do not get use to that. There are still several incidents that resulted in deaths that still haunt my Dad even though there was nothing he could do about it. On that note I have been trying to gather all of his videos and pictures and capture his stories from working on the SP. I have some pretty interesting items to share in the future.

[railnerd]

No the crews do not get use to that. There are still several incidents that resulted in deaths that still haunt my Dad even though there was nothing he could do about it. On that note I have been trying to gather all of his videos and pictures and capture his stories from working on the SP. I have some pretty interesting items to share in the future.

My friend Paul took early retirement when he felt he was "due" for his 16th death.  He remembered every one of the accidents-- one in particular still haunts him. The helplessness he felt was palpable as he described what it was like.  Besides the non-railroaders that get killed in grade crossings, or walking along the tracks, every railroader I've met has lost brothers in this line of work.

-Dave