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Video: Catching a moving train in Burma
A Reddit user submitted this video of people catching a moving train in Yangon, Burma. Note that the train doesn't actually *stop* in the station. The first woman gets an assist from a train employee as well as a man on the ground, who then has to run down the platform - in flipflops, no less - and catch the train with several bags to carry before it leaves the station. The video uploader explains that the train was running two hours late and had no time to stop, and the man had seven bags to get onto the train in less than a minute.
Imagine Amtrak (or even your local commuter train) adopting this new policy for late trains. Think you are intrepid enough to jump on a moving train with luggage?
Filed under: Asia, Burma (Myanmar), Video, Transportation
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leif Pettersen Feb 11th 2011 12:59PM
What I love about Burma is that while all this is going on, the dude is *smiling*! If that had been me, the air would have been thick with expletives.
ajschrod Feb 12th 2011 8:36PM
This was good, but if you're old enough to have ever seen old-time "brakemen" in action years ago, then you've really seen something! They would stick out a gnarled old paw and swing up onto their trains going 15 MPH like "no big deal"!
J.E.B. Feb 12th 2011 9:27PM
Whew! That was a close shave in Burma!
ebneila Feb 13th 2011 2:22AM
I'm not sure what that poor guy laying on the cross ties was trying to accomplish but he probably caught more viruses on the ties than a ride on the train. Older trains normally flush toilet matter on the ties while in trasit.