Didn't make it!!!
Guy tried to beat the train, by going around the barriers last night, in town. He lost and the train won. Helicopters were flying all around our place. Three news helicopters and one life flight helicopter. This happens about twice a year. The train wins every time. Last summer it was train vs. church van. Guess God wasn't watching over them that day. Took all day to find all the body parts.
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If the barriers are down at a rail crossing and you go around them,thats an IQ test.
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A woman that worked for me lost a son that way. And even more unfortunate, he took his wife and unborn child with him. I have my suspicions that it was a murder/suicide by train. He had some substance problems and had recently lost his job. If so, because of the lingering effects on the family, if his wish was to make all of them miserable - he succeeded. Bob
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So very sad and so very avoidable
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We had a few Darwin candidates, jump in front of the train and try to see if they can run across the tracks fast enough to make it. This isn't a freight train , this is the high speed train from Philadelphia to Atlantic city. I agree, if the gates are down and you drive around them, your IQ is lower then Bidens.
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Oakie: 30055378198811/comments/30055355966747
We had a few Darwin candidates, jump in front of the train and try to see if they can run across the tracks fast enough to make it. This isn't a freight train , this is the high speed train from Philadelphia to Atlantic city. I agree, if the gates are down and you drive around them, your IQ is lower then Bidens.
And that is Looooooooow.
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My oldest son is a huge train fan and knows more than a few engineers
They have told him they just close their eyes noting they can do
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We had a 65-yo lady in a powered wheelchair impatiently go around the crossing arms here this week after one train went by. The one going the other way turned her into sausage gravy.
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Fact: Tonnage rules in a crash.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Chlorine, in the Gene Pool. 🤔
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buddyb: 30055378198811/comments/30055355343003
If the barriers are down at a rail crossing and you go around them,thats an IQ test.
That is an absence of IQ.
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I stopped a man for going around a train's barricades. His excuse, in front of his young son, was that the had to get his son back to his "unappreciative" ex-wife in time. So I simply asked, "What would she do if your son was injured or killed by the train?" He admitted he had made a stupid decision (in front of his son) & I let them go. A better lesson learned than a fine.
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Trains always have the right of way, no matter what.
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It's just mother nature's way of weeding out the stupid.
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people are people and will always be inpatient. sadly, the RR is just one example where it destroys families. not just the dead ones but the living trying to deal with it
a less dangerous example like shopping they will wonder the stores for hours even stop and BS with friends and think nothing of it
but get to the check out lane and have to wait 5 minutes there ready to riot
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Back in 75' I had a 69 Plymouth Roadrunner. I was first in line at a railroad crossing waiting for the caboose to pass and I was going to punch it, there were no crossing arms back then, just the red flashers and stop sign. After the caboose passed I saw lights on the other track (it was night out) and I waited a second, just then another train roared through the crossing coming from the opposite direction, I would have been killed if I went through after the caboose passed. Those lights were from the engine of the oncoming train, glad I waited.
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I worked with a undertaker for several years he had left the family business as too many relatives were doing the same
A lot of stories as he grew up and lived in the funeral parlor his dad owned
Any way he said early on the worst accident he had to help with was a car loaded with a family was hit by a train
walking the tracks rounding up what was left especially the kids was the worst experience he had
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Trust me on this statement. When a train hits a car, truck or pedestrian, the train doesn’t win either. The train crew, even though it was an accident, will now have to attend an inquest and learn the names of the victims. Some crew members have a hard time dealing with it afterwards. You except it as an accident, buts there is always a memory of it.
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Friend worked in railway safety. There is a train/ vehicle collision average 1 per day. He said the unsaid part was the engineers that were in counseling post accident. Nobody ever thinks about the engineer sitting there looking at the vehicle they KNOW they are going to hit in a few seconds- and being unable to do anything about it.
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My uncle and both of his sons ,my first cousins were engineers. Uncle started out with Seaboard coast line . One crewed for Amtrak . They all had stories to tell about car/train wrecks . None good.
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we live about one mile from three sets of tracks not uncommon for the signals to malfunction no train for as far as you can see
I have seen it happen many times and the also seen gates knocked off I think they just have a break away or spring loaded system on them I am guessing by a large truck who was not going to sit there forever waiting on a repair team.
cars can maneuver around the gates easy trucks not so much
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