Why Risk Your Life? 1940s Railroad Safety Film - Be a Smart Guy, Not a Dumb Dead Cunt.

This is actually a very good film, in that it's like a cross between combat training and mindfulness.

This being aware of all your moves, relative to your potentially very dangerous surroundings, and "mindfulness" - of "tuning into it", like what are you holding onto, where are you going to step next, what is coming your way, is there sufficient space and time - paying attention to it all.

The trainers - the people who put all their information into the film and recreated these events for the film are putting all that experience, as good advice, which comes from minor injuries like sprained ankles, torn ligaments, concussion, head injuries, fractues, broken bones, amputations, crippled for life injuries and death.

I used to build, repair and dismantle trains - locomotives and rolling stock (freight) - as one of a big team... AND I could shriek endlessly at whole issue of really bad it is to get it wrong around them or to get in their way, but I won't.

I'll say, "Just Don't".

I have seen them up close - the locomotive has center punched a truck stuck on a level crossing - a BIG truck full of grain etc., and the whole truck is torn into pieces... and they tow the locomotive back to the depot, fit a few external brake lines (big air hoses that connect the loco to the brake lines of the entire train) and some old guy is out there with an old bean tin with a wire handle, and some paint in that. And he has got his paint brush, painting over a few scrape marks on the front of the locomotive - with it's 1 and 3/8th's (32mm thick steel plate frontage - and this is after smashing straight through a big semi on a level crossing....

Just don't fuck with them - just don't.

And the whole industry of trains and safety and all that has been really worked on, to putting fine gravel around the shunting yards and other places where people (staff) and trains are in close contact, this and many other things.

But the first thing we got in first aid training was how to press our thumbs into the groin of another man, onto the BIG artery that supplied blood to his leg - because when people fuck up around trains, one of the very common injuries, is to get a leg or both legs cut off, when the train wheels run you over....

Frequently low speed, a bit of back ground noise - and you just happen to be in the way with your back turned etc..

Working in train repairs / servicing / refuelling / shunting etc... these things CAN and DO happen.

So this training film is not only most excellent for working around trains, but also for many other places, locations and industries.

It's REALLY good....

Enjoy.