I may be misremembering, but I vaguely recall qualified rail workers (drivers, brake, signal and switch operators, etc.) to be on the list of professions that qualify for a Blue Card to immigrate to the EU more easily.

Profits >>>>>>> Lives of the people

How are y'all going to walk out when y'all are required to schedule your time off on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays months in advance and in such a way that your time off is staggered between that of other conductors

@icantollie it's called a wildcat strike, the likelihood of it happening is incredibly slim as the union heads said they wouldn't support it.

Didn't congress keep you from striking last year? The fact that John's team didn't even mention this is egregious!

Well, it's really the personal greed and insecurity of the CEO. And they are usually the Chairman also, so there is nobody to put the brakes ( ahem ) on them.

in every fkn industry

@@Czechboundits more of a systemic greed i think, most of those who climb a bit higher up the ladder stop caring about individuals and start thinking in numbers, deals and opportunities

@@spookeymo Nope. A "system" isn't greedy. Only people are greedy. Peace and love

@@Czechbound with peace and love, the entire system is built to encourage greed

If they would’ve got Ringo Starr to narrate, it would’ve been a masterpiece.

I adore Matt Berry

Omg I just wrote to ask if it was him! Lol I don't know how in the world I could have doubted it. 😂😂😂

Late, but "Henry was so sad. Sir Topham Hatt had blood on his hands" is...amazing.

That incident left a mark, quite literally. There's a before and after Lac Mégantic, all over the province.. For those unaware, the sketch pretty much sums up what happened there..

Yeah, its actually even worse than he made it seem. Its absolutely horrific.

More lies. The governments of Canada and Quebec had jointly relaxed the operating rules specifically to assist the financailly dire MM&A to continue operating(*). They ran that train with the single crew member they were then allowed, and he had been working for 18 straight hours and didn't set the brakes adequately that night. ------------------ * fun coincidence: The Quebec provincial pension fund owned a 13% ownership stake in that very same, near-bankrupt railway when those operating rules were relaxed. Weird, hey?

I watched the utube of this trai derailment when it first game out . The wheel bearing overheated , the handbrake wasn't on right , the finger pointing . The story about the couples in the brewpub

It was fucking awful.... :(

It was so good

I especially liked the behind the scenes at the end

They did so well that at first I thought it was original show footage they just dubbed over. When it became clear they did it themselves I was blown away and couldn't believe how long it kept going.

I love that it was narrated by Matt Berry.

Shout out to Matt Berry for a brilliant narration, and to whomever cast him

If last week tonight was all there was on UKposts everyone would have UKposts prenium for free 😂

It's most likely permanent demonetization as soon as the channel was made

John oliver saying in the middle of his segment "this episode is brought to you by raid shadow legends. its a game i have been playing for a while now...."🤣

Ads are if money is needed. HBO doesn't need ads. It wants clicks. That is how advertising works. Pay networks uses your payment for operations.

​@@isaacbrown4506death penalty throwback

That's horrible! Hope you will see justice some day!

​@@michalandrejmolnar3715lol ❤😂

If your car stalls on the tracks I would have thought the first thing you should do is leave the car and go somewhere safe Unless there's a reason you can't do that in the US

Lol here in ks those little signs fall down and no one fixs them. Surely the non stop 50 mph wind won't tear shit apart

​@thebobbrom7176 unless you have the number on speeddial you'll have to get out to find out the number.

​@@thebobbrom7176 you get out of the car and call the number on the box to prevent a train from hitting your now-empty car

@@thebobbrom7176 lol imagine if your car stalling on the tracks was so common that you have the number stored in your phone

stop motion capture...

It was also an impressively faithful recreation of the writing style of the original Thomas the Tank Engine TV show.

yeah, the whole time watching it, I was wondering what sort of clever editing, or cgi they used to make it look so good, only to find out what I should have guessed: they actually just did it the old school way, and that's awesome!

I wonder if it has anything to do with the Scranton train thing. I'm sure being on his team has to be thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, really no idea what kind of diverse projects you are gonna be working on.

And so great to show the people and their effort that went in to making it. Very nice ending.

That means the problem is even worse than what they were saying and there is too much to cover. They might even revisit this issue like they have with others.

Yes! I'm sick of crappy hotels infested with bedbugs and roaches. I'm sick of sitting in that crappy hotel for 40hours! And how about those van drivers?! That's the most dangerous part of the job. Well ... That and the noobies that didn't get enough training and were accepted with felony records.

The amount of companies that rely on intentional turnover as a strategy really needs to be fixed as there seems to be no job category that doesn't suffer from this these days. Problem one always seems to be that we allowed companies to get way too big.

Are you covered by a union? If so that's a weak corrupt union.

@@chealsem I worked for UP. I remember staying in hotels with roaches, rats, mold, prostitutes, beds that smelled like urine, and front-desk girls who would offer their "services". One of my buddies got stung by a scorpion while sleeping in one of the hotels. A f*cking scorpion.

I never had any idea. My grandfather worked on the railroads but that was at least 70 years ago. Maybe the Greatest Gen just saw that as normal after the war. Their kids and grandkids have woken up to the dangers of burnout.

Pretty sure this was 3d rendered

​@@brandonwei2430you can literally see them making the sets at the end???

Yeah, I was gonna say... seems like they custom 3D-printed the faces (and maybe the models too), really high effort for such a small part of an episode

@@brandonwei2430 You can see the layer lines on Henry's face at 25:00. Definitely custom 3D printed and painted.

I would like to point out that they did let that train out on the next episode

They didn't even mention the large number of hazmat cars they can carry before it becomes "hazardous"

@@frankgrabasse4642 As much as any talk show or podcast discusses how bad the railroad has become it NEVER goes far enough to really hammer home the problems. The problem is that even this video was 27 minutes long and barely scratched the surface. You could spend a few hours documenting just the most recent train derailments. Could spend days or weeks discussing the nuance and the examples. Could have months worth of interviews with railroad employees because for every one that makes it into a late night show like this there are a thousand more stories to be told.

​@@scopie49@dolphininvasion we had a 212 car UP train coming to pass us as we were sitting in a siding. They had a hot bearing on a detector so my conductor offered to check it for them. They told us their paperwork said empty flat car. It was a fucking loaded TIH car. Dispatcher ended up telling them to keep going to the yard 30 miles down the road maximum authorized track speed.

@@bperk3253 Is TIH inhalation hazard? Because I deal with those and they're scary as hell to be around even when they're empty cars. Blasting an extreme hazmat car on mainline at trackspeed is just death waiting to happen. And I've been saying it for over a decade. The ONLY reason the railroad hasn't killed more people is solely due to luck. That's it. In the last year we've had at least two close calls in my area where had one thing been slightly different we'd have 4 dead crew members on trains. Pure luck. Had multiple catastrophic derailments that landed in like a desert or something where no one got hurt. One just a couple months ago killed a driver on the highway. Crushed him. "How many people will die before we enact change?" The real question is how many people have already died and we've done nothing so far.

@@scopie49 yes toxic inhalation hazard. I think they told the DS it was empty but we thought for sure it was loaded. It raised the question of why don't they have the paperwork on it. This was like a week after e Palestine and people at the crossing were honking.. little did they know we were doing what that e pal crew didn't due to detectors

Stop this bs, that episode is always paired with him getting released in the next episode.

@@user-cr6qv1bn2u Tell me you weren't there watching it live on first broadcast aged 6, without telling me you weren't there.

Their "skits" are usually the worst part with their "star-studded" (yawn) cast. But this, this was creative comedic platinum.

And Matthew Berry too!

@@puppykitty6100this is the most bot comment im ever seen

​@@puppykitty6100 Who the fuck writes out (yawn) and expects to be taken seriously 💀💀💀

Hunter Harrison was the best thing that happened to railroads. Before there was so much waste. There still is. In Australia there are unmanned trains. And most mechanical, signal, and track work could be done by contractors instead of ineffective/inefficient union “workers.” Unions and the NTSB/FRA have been holding back the profitability for far too long.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@moroteseoinagethe point of those agencies is to protect people you are quite literally saying we should sacrifice uncountable lives just for a slight profit.

​@moroteseoinage , attitudes like yours are are not just "part of the problem"... they are the very source of the problem . The naivete of assuming that regulations and unions are part of the problem and that for-profit corporations have the best interests of the public at heart is dangerous.

@@jonathangwynne1917 found the communist

Thanks for such an entertaining video exposing the safety issues on today’s railroads. While I would not like to see the railroads go back to the old regulated days. The government seems like they have gone too much in the other direction. Letting the railroad do what it wants. If they just want to increase profits let’s run longer trains without proper safety inspections. They even seem to ignore their own safety equipment. In the case you showed of the Ohio derailment the crew did get a warning about an overheated wheel but the dispatcher told them it wasn’t bad enough to have them stop and inspect the train. Till the top officials get fined or lose their jobs without big payouts nothing will change on the safety issues.

I remember Shining Time Station too. That show had a villain whose mame was Mr. Schemer.

That show was delightful, from the WPA style murals inside the station to the puppets in the jukebox, and of course both of the Mr Conductors - I knew who Ringo Starr was when I was a kid because my mom was a Beatles fan, but when I grew up and found out who George Carlin was - haha!

And for getting Matthew Berry to narrate lol

@@lordmortarius538 I WAS JUST GONNA SAY!!!!

was looking for this comment

Technically not stop motion, but yes, hooray for this.

Yeah, they did a great job. But I am not proud of me, laughing through this horrible disaster!

According to the original book in which the story was based on, they actually built a whole another tunnel beside the one he was blocking up. So at least a few months. Probably reduced to a few weeks in the TV series.

Let's also remember, a train is not a person.

@@tabaxikhajit4541 in real life yes. within the context of thomas the tank engine, they may as well be.

I thought about adding a note that Henry did eventually get out! hahaha I grew up watching this show & still love it

thank you!! I will sleep tonight.

it's funny, I heard the voice and thought I recognised it... but it wasn't until he swore for the first time that I figured out who it was

Matt Berry is just the best. No contest. Toast of London is worth it for his presence alone (ok and Clem Fandango too) XD

Very cool to see the behind the scenes on the making of the skit.

@@luckycatOG Hello Stephen can you hear me? XD

@@holycowitsdave Exactly! As soon as I heard "What's the fucking hold up train?" I knew it was Toast

This deserves more likes

Signal boosting!

That's still hoping the next train is far enough away to brake, and that the company doesn't hold you liable for a delay. Absolutely important, but not good enough

I did not know this.

​​@@austinknight5881 It's wild to me that in the world of automation we live in, that there isn't any kind of sensor at most intersections indicating a blocked rail. The shareholders take home billions in profit while people die because we leave busy intersections up to the honor system. Absolutely wild.

It certainly makes you appreciate that we don't have more consumer trains in the US than we do. Sounds like the solution is really start from scratch and build up, and building the infrastructure from the ground up, regardless of if it is used for transporting materials by private companies, or if it is for public transportation.

well, yeah, you'ver never heard anyone use the words bomb train because no one does. Have you ever heard of the publication he's quoting? It's got as much credibility as Alex Jones. Pretty sure his staff just googled those words and took them from whatever source they could find.

if you inspect only 1% of the national rail network its not strange you haven't heard it. You probably haven't come around to the bomb tracks yet like the Hudson.

We say bomb train in TYE but it's usually specifically referring to ethanol or gasoline fuel trains not crude oil

I see you have a mission in these comments and I won't get in your way - you're doing fine without my help. but the article is by reporters covering railroad safety, and its pretty comprehensive for an article; there are many other pages they could've gone with on google, but I can't argue with your brilliant instinct, of being "pretty sure" about them taking it from "whatever source". however, the full quote is "On July 31, 2017, CSX assembled Train Q38831 in a rail yard in Chicago, destined for a city outside of Hyndman. It had five locomotives at the front and 136 cars trailing behind, about half hauling hazardous material: propane, isobutane, ethyl alcohol, phosphoric acid and molten sulfur heated to 235 degrees Fahrenheit. It was a bomb train, as some workers refer to them, given its combustible cargo. When it left the yard and traveled east, the train grew. In Lordstown, Ohio, workers added 28 cars. In New Castle, Pennsylvania, they added 14. Now the train was 2 miles long." @@matrixinterface

the fact that you don't understand this is a comedy show and don't notice the way he cherry picks his facts and quotes (there's a reason you only see 3 or 4 words out of an entire article) has made me give up any hope for this country as a whole.

And I think it's safe to say that I lose hope with this country everytime I hear that it's more important than a mentally ill 18 year old has a 'right' to legally own a semi-automatic rifle than it is for children to come home alive from a day at school.

...but to stay on topic. Have you literally read ANY of the replies on here? People that have actually worked in this industry that are validating the topics discussed on here? Not only that, but it appears this is merely the tip of an iceberg?Or do you just cherry pick from segments your hero Alex Jones & Tucker Carlson spew out? Or maybe your just bitter from the twisted ankle you suffered on Jan 6th still?

​@@matrixinterfacetell the people of East Palestine that the railways are fine.

​@@clariteyM, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

I'd like to see more of a Making Of for that than just what was shown at the end.

I was blown away on how much effort that must have taken

That type of animation is very time consuming and takes lot of hardwork. Kudos to team for keeping top notch quality.

Matt Berry! 👏 and yes, FREE HENRY

Free Henry!

Fired for beeing professional and dooing her job.If you mother was a nitwitt,or just played along...Really unfair.

While she doesn't have to work in a potentially life threatening position anymore, with the way NS handled it they probably didn't address the problems at all and got some other engineer working under the same conditions... One question, do rail strikes not happen anymore? I feel like rail workers have such great leveraging power when it comes to striking.

@@destituteanddecadent9106 There was a big one last year, I feel like it was all over the news in October/November.

@@destituteanddecadent9106 No the Government passed the Railway Labor Act, which essentially lets the Government step in as a mediator and force through an agreement. Usually to the benefit of the Railroad Carriers.

I was fired from a hospital I worked in for years after refusing to enter the Punishment Charges this one ER doc put on people he didn't like or thought was too much a bother. "We've got to teach these people a lesson." Actual quote. (His hassle was non-critical emergencies; usually people with no insurance or nowhere else to go. Standard!). His bonus trick was falsely claiming AMA after treatment so their insurance wouldn't cover it. Total evil SOB. Ended years of ER work for me, probably felt as bad as your mom for YEARS but as over 20 years have passed since, I regret the hassles it caused but would do the same thing today. Your mother may well have saved lives.

Middle management was created so the top guys can say they didn't do or know the decisions they have delegated to middle management.

Regulated.Polically I understand that less goverment is good..But...honestly?Freight trains filled of liquid gas and another explosive fuel tipes.Cars have more intervention.Try to fill your trunk with a hazerdous material and being stopped by the police...

​@@daniel-cr2je This is why less government is NOT GOOD.

It’s about time we re-nationalize the freight rail industry and bring back ConRail

@@ClementinesmWTF Nationalize all the railways !

PSR should be banned federally and the FRA given the same amount of power as the FAA

Why don't all the engineers and conductors across the Industry get in touch with each other and organize a strike. You guys hold ALL the cards. Unlike factory jobs and low skilled labor they can't just get scab workers to replace you guys. If it's truly as bad as it seems and I know it's probably worse then you guys really have a responsibility to act to not only protect others safety but your own as well. Seriously think about this and consider getting it started. I know a vast majority of the citizenry would overwhmingly support you guys once they found out how bad it is and the word is getting out. Do it man!!!!!

Since ‘16,000 feet’ doesn’t give most metric system users a good sense or idea of how long this train actually is: 16000 feet = 4876,80 meter…. 4,8 KILOMETER OF TRAIN!! Now THAT gives us a good picture of the truly shocking length of this train! (Since I am now intrigued by this (to me !!) unimaginable long train, I looked it up and found that the longest length allowed for a freight train is: 8 kilometers!! (5 miles) !!!! according to an article on the site of the New Scientist. According to Wikipedia the actual longest freight train ever was 18,000 feet = 5486,40 meter (so nearly 5,5 kilometers) I have worked daily as a ticket inspector (in Dutch: treinconducteur; not to be confused with the English word ‘conductor’, for that refers to the driver of the train (Dutch: de machinist) inside passenger trains for well over a decade, years ago, throughout the Netherlands. (Hence by fascination 😉) I just cannot grasp the concept of a train of such a length!! In our tiny country there are actual train stations that are less than 8 kilometers from each other! No need to even move the train! Just walk through the train to the other side lol! (Yes, I know: cargo vs passenger…)

Railway worker strikes have been broken up by 2 presidents in the US. One was very recent. Biden sent them back to work without a deal, but I heard he did actually get them their sick time. John Oliver even mentions that the scheduled sick time isn't a thing anymore at pnsf. Nevertheless, I really hate the idea that ANY worker can be ordered back to work. I wish they had all been able to just quit. FUCK these mega corps.

Dude, did you not listen to the news a year ago? Railroad unions tried that. Congress settled it to prevent a strike because fucking up supply chains costs billions to the economy. And this is what they have AFTER that.@@jedimindtrix2142

I live in the area you work in. I fly drones. I think everyone underestimates the impact the railroads have on air quality. I see the pollution in the air when I fly my drone. It's always most concentrated around railyards and the tracks. The fact that this is not even a part of the discussion is troubling to me. I can see the changing air quality in real time. I can't be the only one. You must see this. Speak out against it please or our kids won't be able to play outside in just a few short years.

I knew I recognized that voice from somewhere

*chefskiss* Sheer perfection!

Human form!

Best person they could have possibly got! I know that glorious man’s voice anywhere!

I KNEW IT

As a fellow American zoomer, same

@@tylerhackner9731 glad to see how many of us were raised on this show lol

I have no idea why, but Thomas the Tank Engine was randomly huge in Japan as well. It's very rare for a foreign kids' show to be dubbed and aired at all, and yet TtTE had a whole merch ecosystem of toddler t-shirts, lunch boxes, backpacks, you name it. Your comment reminded me about how puzzling it was 😂

@@destituteanddecadent9106given how prevalent trains are in Japan, that doesn’t sound too surprising that Thomas would be really popular there.

*Disclaimer*: The percy passage you're describing is from the Stepney book, and the steam engines weren't scrapped for being not useful anymore, they were scrapped because they were on the "other (British) railway", and said railway wanted to replace them with new Diesel engines. On Sodor the old engines just get rebuilt when they get worn down, most noteably: Edward, Skarloey and Duke.

Not to mention it only got to that point because the railroads dragged it out for 3 years past when the agreement was *supposed* to have already happened. By the time it was ratified it's almost time to start negotiations for the next one.

I wish it were just scare mongering and hyperbole, but the media is controlled by corporate interests.

UK gets railroad strikes almost every month. Yes it fucks over commuters, but it's necessary to force companies to improve working conditions.

@@macavitythemysterycatfucked me over once but I just took a train the next day at no cost so I can’t complain too much

@@macavitythemysterycat If only we could get rid of unions, so you didn't have to ask permission to strike, maybe they would happen more often.

i desperately wish there were more, better railroading jobs. i adore trains, and would love to work on one but with the few shitty jobs available, i honestly don't think i could.

Thanks for the info!

Before that it was 5 men crew with a caboose. 3 on head and and to on the rear.

​@@remingtonn_ cpkc is always hiring. Start at $49 an hour.

Thanks so much for the info about the silver/metal box. I had no idea about that.

I immediately texted my own dad, who used to watch the original Thomas and Friends with me and had very strong opinions on the quality of the miniatures.

​@@graciespaceycakes3714 I'm excited to hear what he thought about this

It’s finally completed: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/omKZg5p8aGp02Y0.htmlsi=zvKhYkcEbCrZmxPW

I was born in 93' and loved the OG Thomas the Tank Engine.

Hearing Matt Berry be the narrator was just perfect as well. It's always the way he says the F word

knew i recognized the voice

I just made a comment about this. Then I started scrolling to find more Laszlo fans.

I thought that was him.

@parsnipguy2986 It sounds very similar to Matt Berry but I believe the train is being voiced by Jackie Daytona, normal human narrator.

Stephen, can you hear me?

So many other problems like Amtrak's million+ minutes in travel delays did not even get mentioned here...I experienced a 10 hr delay once on an 8 hr train trip. Amtrak gave me a full refund though!

⁠​⁠@@AssBlassterI love trains but really don’t love getting stuck in the same spot for 40+ minutes, especially when I had plans for the rest of that day. Recently was supposed to be on a train that left at 12 and got there at 3. Ended up getting on at 2 and getting off at 6. Barely made it to pick up my runners bib lol. The length of those freight trains also becomes very obvious when your in a pretty area and one half of the view is blocked for an almost comically long time. I can’t imagine going from NY to LA, or Seattle to chicago (that’s the one I most often get a ride on the tail end). Think I’d go crazy if I had to spend an hour on some boring dusty plain in Wyoming, running on shitty Amtrak food and only using those horror story esque bathrooms.

No one with even a modicum of dignity should EVER ride on Amtrak

As an Engineer I can confirm this. I'd like to add that we do everything in our power to not block crossings if at all possible but the makeup of the trains can make that very difficult at times. We live in the communities we run our trains through so we don't like inconveniencing our neighbors.

@@toddr2265 Gotta figure the level crossings are wherever they need to be, not spaced for any particular length of train, whether it's 10 feet or 10 miles. At some point I'm sure there's only so much you can do.

And law enforcement overrules that. Considering they direct and control traffic as well.

Like, rolling up the window might have been the wrong move, but I can't hold the train engineer responsible for saying "No, I physically cannot move the train off the crossing, because I'm not allowed to move past that red light and the train is just way too long for this track route to begin with." It's not their fault the government is getting rail companies away with this level of blatant disregard for safety.

@@stinkinlincoln926 Local law enforcement is powerless to do anything about trains blocking crossings. They have no jurisdiction on railroads. Railroads have their own law enforcement agencies. Don’t believe me? call your local PD and ask them

"Yeah I was behind schedule, there was a fucking train blocking the way!"

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you were probably a strong Trump supporter. Typically Trump people hate regs and also complain when dereg destroys their health care and makes food prices soar and ruins their union that fought for and backed safer working conditions ....

​@@jasondenomme5177You good?

I'm sorry those two industries are so employee destroying ... They'll both be AI driven soon and there won't be any human even though for obvious reasons there should be . I used to feel bad for truck drivers until I drove across Canada and was almost murdered by them a few times and then they parked they're lazy asses in Ottawa to protest something I have no idea what but they were being pricks and now they wanna revolt because a criminal and rapist was ordered to pay an amount of money that only exists because people like them live the consumer vs employee driven rat race to begin with .... Sorry my point is you sound like a good conductor my first wife's dad was too different breed type gents . Thanks also that america has been turned into this industriel consumer driven ATM for the wealthy one percent and they can suck it .

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Only a God driven by his ego would need any of our insignificant worship to get through his day. Get a life before it's over

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 trains...we are talking about trains...

Post pictures

@@Cika044 Did you mean to post this? That’s embarrassing.

​@@Cika044I began laughing out loud 😂

@@AmazingMusicalArts I apologize 😔

I knew it sounded like Matt! That's glorious and absolutely fitting.

@@TaylorMcRae I thought he sounded familiar. Brilliant.

That IS him, isn't it?

Same. I'm an engineer and seeing that, my heart fell through my stomach.

I just want to underline what you say here: inspections happen *after* a fatality, hoping to prove that there wasn't a defect that could be used against them in court action, instead of *before* a fatality, hoping to catch defects that could cause a fatality and fix them so they don't.

@@rmdodsonbills And just imagine what the company does (or doesn't do) if they do find a defect that caused a fatality... I'm guessing they NEVER find that the company was at fault. And, @DreadEmpath69, I'm not saying that's your fault. I'm sure you report your findings as you see them, and then the company buries it, makes you sign gag orders under threat, etc, when the findings show they are at fault.

😢😢

​@@rmdodsonbillsI'll just say, this is a bit unfair, surely both inspections should be made.

Matt Berry’s narration is always amazing.

I feel like it had to be expensive as they don't even make Thomas the Tank Engine like that anymore. It's just CGI.

If we still had Carlin, it would've been the perfect time for him to resume his role as Mr. Conductor. And you know he would've!

This is as funny as the time they got Danny DeVito to talk about PFAS.

​@@iluvcamaros1912totally worth it. You know the tech crew had soooo much fun with this one! Hope there's a "Making Of" video of that to come out later

I forget what year it was, but I was about to buy some BN stock. My stock guy told me it was soon going to be BNSF and for some reason I decided not to buy. I was impressed by BN's track improvements and safety but I think I was leery of what would happen with safety with a big merger. Then by the time I thought about it again it had been taken private.

@@traildude7538 I did the same. Actually its stock went up in the 2000s. I probably ought to have bought some. But like you say, who knows. One big train wreck and I am sure it would crash, big time.

This behaviour is part of the problem. Corporate greed means for a big part to create revenue for the stock holders.

And it was worth it.

Yeah. And then the corporate overlords railroad companies charged even more than what they supposed to. Egyptian style!😮

And statistically also both employed AND made a lot of middle aged dads very happy to do.

And we wouldn't have it any other way! 😂

easily

Too bad they couldn't fork over the cash for Ringo to do the voice over! Sheesh talk about low budget crap! /s

That was epic!

I read your comment before I got to the end. However, I was NOT expecting that! It was amazing.

I agree, and also the whole story of the show before the end part is so extremely well told. This is one of the best political shows I’ve seen in recent years, and also one of the most entertaining shows overall I’ve seen. People who work on this show, know that you absolutely killed it with this one!

Really nice to see the RR modelers getting their work out to a broader audience.

Happens all the time in small towns. I grew up that way.

wow ok I guess you just dont care about the shareholders? the little guys of America

Where is the CEOs bonus money going to come from? You honestly expect them to live on *ONLY* a salary?! Are you a sadist?

@@misterjt961 I was hired at a Tech Startup and was awarded 40,000 Stock Options and a nice salary. Musk owns more than a billion shares of Tesla and that's not counting SpaceX.

@@arcanondrum6543 ok? Congrats?

😊

Smart man

I mean that should tell you all you need to know about the industry.

Wow. The worst part is, I assume he only kept the sheets they overrode him on. Those execs didn't choose danger over profits in a portion of those thousands of sheets. They chose danger in all of the thousands.

@@lizzyblitz07without saying too much, when you work in a position of this responsibility and know you are being undermined by forces up the chain of command.. you keep everything. Because you never know what will be weaponized against in the future.

Thank you! I knew I recognized the voice.

Too bad George Carlin is no longer alive, because having him on the role again would’ve been insane!

YESSSSSS! i could listen to him all day!

I bet the prop master had a lot of fun with that bit, too😂

he could play the part of the very randy narrator

And that Matt Berry narrated it is magnificent.

Absolutely wonderful, that was amazing.

That isn't stop motion.

@@Richardblue1963 I already wondered why it didn't "trigger" (non-trauma trigger) me, because I hate stop motion, especially if it is slow, like Wallace and Gromit, with non-fluid movements. Maybe I'm insane, but it makes me sick to my stomach to watch stop motion.

So this is always the question, why did you say yes? We really do seem to have a problem of people not thinking through job offers out of necessity. There's a deeper problem with bad jobs, in that, someone always seems to keep taking them.

Problem is people are becoming more asleep. One issue is social media and staring at the boob-phone.

People aren't always in a place of financial security that they can afford to say no. I've been there, and suffered for it. Plenty of others have too. That situation, in and of itself, is very worthy of discussion since it is reasonable to assert that it is an intentionally engineered situation to keep a large portion of the workforce in.@@mzaite

@@mzaite Sadly, not everyone can afford to not work, even for a little while ^^" Sometimes you need money now and don't have another choice.

​@@hew195050what? The problems now aren't because of phones! These problems like workers rights, consumer safety, and working conditions have been a problem for years. These things got worse cause of several things. The Taft Hartley act that hurt unions. Deregulation like happened in the 70's and beyond. And Austerity that has cut government oversight and inspection. The last things were helped alone cause of people like Supreme Court judge Lewis Powell who killed the consumer movement in the 70's and saved the corporate lobby industry by sending a letter to US chamber of commerce because he despiseed Ralph Nader work with advocating for seatbelts.

Dang, I was combing the comments to find out why the narrator sounded so familiar! Thank you! FaTHEEEERRR✊

It starts at 22:51, if anyone wants the time mark :D

Goddamn! No wonder he sounded familiar.

The man has a natural talent for comedy. He's got the deadpan timing of Leslie Nielsen wrapped up in an exaggerated posh accent that makes him sound like the first choice in a Shakespearian rendition of Airplane!

​@@enigmaforlornnow I want to hear a Shakespearian rendition of Airplane....damn it man.

Oh my gosh I love when people bring up "A Peoples History of the United States"! One of the best gifts I ever received!

"Safety first!"

It’s finally completed: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/omKZg5p8aGp02Y0.htmlsi=zvKhYkcEbCrZmxPW

And the grift continues ~

Honestly one of the best Last Week Tonight episodes of the year 🙌🏽

I've heard stories of guys getting coupled and even though it's not heard of nearly at all now, it was a big fear of mine that my husband would be when working in the yard.

I have a friend who, until recently, worked for a major class 1 railroad. The number of grisly accidents in the yards or switching is very under reported.

@SwordLily4 One of my earliest memories was my dad coming home late and sobbing uncontrollably. I was maybe 3 or 4 and he was rambling in shock. He was so descriptive. I was afraid to walk behind the vehicles in our driveway until someone told me he meant train cars. It took him several years to handle flashbacks after he left that job. For several generations, the men in our family worked in the yards. The deregulation in 80's and lack of corrective actions scared everyone in family. No one returned to RR occupations.

@jimo199966 If they report, the blacklisting is very real. No senator or congressman will touch RR's. Dad spent nearly a decade fighting for retirement while being a single dad to 3 young girls. Decades of service from my dad and grandpa, but their voice was taken away and many lives lost.

@ReseRain-xq9uo I'm not surprised. My wife's ex worked for Sante Fe as an engineer. When they wanted you out, you were out. It's going to be up to Congress and the WH to decide when enough is enough. Hopefully before a major population center isn't wiped out. The clock is ticking.

Tay immigrants

Anything Matt Berry narrates is instant gold

It's an information piece; unfortunately, there's nothing to be gained from this video other than awareness.

⁠@@EmpyreanLightASMRyes and no. the John Oliver effect is very much real

Well, with safety not even getting on the podium among the priorities, I'd say that spells quite clearly how (un)safe this job must be...

Ahhhhhhhh. The green liners on them fake American flags. Just like the blue liners. Or what happened in Uvalde, Texas. Where the origin of the yellow liners came from. The green liners doesn't represent prosperity,success,and goodwill to all good employees and their employers. It represents corporate greed. AND train wrecks!

I can only imagine 😬

I feel I need to correct something in your post: It's the 'Kleptocratic Kakistocracy of KKKorporati'.

Biden and Democrats forced an end to the union strike that would have made companies end this.

Without constantly cutting costs and increasing prices, the wall street fat cats wont get their dividends and splits and profits for doing nothing. We cant have that, can we? We need to make sure a very select few keep living the 'Kardashian lifestyle' while everyone else struggles to just get by living a meager, exploding train in your neighborhood lifestyle.

it's too late. Citizens United made sure of that.

⁠, Citizens United was enacted; it can be struck down.

It would seem that somebody, somewhere, is benevolent enough to realize that this show is a HUGE public service that should not be locked behind a paywall.

You could donate to the causes they tell about in the show

The jokes are bad but the topics are important

Once again money talks and bullshit takes the bus...or should I say the train😢

In case of emergency or in the event of a very long stop, can they not just disconnect 1 car, breaking the train up and pull forward enough to open the intersection?

Privatize the gains and socialize the loss. The American dream right there.

@@irtwiaos As Carlin said, "...you have to be asleep to believe it".

you can make a bingo card out of how predictable the themes have become

You are right. And I find it horrifying how many people still believe politicians when they talk about government interference and deregulation and how something is supposed to have effect A which in turn is supposed to trigger effect B which will then have effect C as a result and thus everybody wins (e.g. trickle down economics). Shouldn't we somehow have learned our lesson by now? And it's not just the "stupid Americans". I am from Germany and things are different here, but not entirely and it often feels like we're just lagging behind but ultimately end up in the same general direction.

They do exist for a reason... the paperwork itself. Silly for us to think they would read the paperwork and implement changes, but that isn't it's purpose. This way criminal executives can point to the existence of the paperwork itself as having 'done something!' For it isn't important what some experts have said needs to be done, just having a piece of paper protects the company from any criticism. After all, there was a policy, so it is clearly some lowly worker to blame!