mercedeslove
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Yeah it's not safe to be out on the streets around here
http://www.theledger.com/article/20100329/...th-Amtrak-Train
http://www.theledger.com/article/20100329/...th-Amtrak-Train
Yeah it's not safe to be out on the streets around here
http://www.theledger.com/article/20100329/...th-Amtrak-Train
AlohaYeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car! But I can remember many times that I've read of a car hitting a train - and usually the train is on train tracks! (I know it's unbelievable that you may find a train operating on a train track! )
Yeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car! But I can remember many times that I've read of a car hitting a train - and usually the train is on train tracks! (I know it's unbelievable that you may find a train operating on a train track! )
Aloha MercedesloveYeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car! But I can remember many times that I've read of a car hitting a train - and usually the train is on train tracks! (I know it's unbelievable that you may find a train operating on a train track! )
Wait? Trains run on tracks. When did this happen?
next someone is going to tell me that wrestling isn't real.
That is unfortunate.Luckily she survived. Looks like the drivers seat was pretty intact. Bet she won't drive in front of a train again though.
But I've definitely been chased by trolleys down the street! :lol:Yeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car!
Priceless story. In model railroading circles it often is said that regardless of what cockamamey idea a modeller can come up with on his layout, there probably was/is a prototype (real) railroad that had already done it....... :lol:But I've definitely been chased by trolleys down the street! :lol:Yeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car!
The (former Red Arrow, now SEPTA) suburban trolley out to Media, PA, runs single-track down the center of the town's main downtown street to a terminus in the middle of the street. The tracks just stop, no bumper; the catenary just stops too. The trolley is supposed to stop about fifteen feet shy of the end of the tracks, wait fifteen minutes, and head back the other way (the line becomes double-track for passing/two-way operations just outside of town; it's only single-track in town).
Anyway -- and Rafi can back me up on this one! we rode the line together a couple years ago and got the full story from the motorman and saw the evidence! -- once, a trolley didn't stop. I don't know that he was necessarily "chasing a car down the street", but for whatever the reason, he didn't stop until he got a good five feet beyond the end of the rails and his pole had gone beyond the reach of the catenary!!! They had to get a tow truck to drag him back onto the rails. There are still grooves in the pavement beyond the end of the rails from where the flanges tore up the pavement.
So, if you're ever driving in Media, PA, watch out!!! :lol:
It happens here many times a day. :lol:I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car!
Who technically has right-of-way here -- the airplanes or the trains?! It's not like either one has much ability to stop for the other....It has also reminded me of my first base RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland where the main Londonderry to Belfast Line crossed the main runway. We had the distinction of having a sheep killed on the runway by a train.
I don't care who you are. This is pretty funny. Here's the aerial shot of the airport.Who technically has right-of-way here -- the airplanes or the trains?! It's not like either one has much ability to stop for the other....It has also reminded me of my first base RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland where the main Londonderry to Belfast Line crossed the main runway. We had the distinction of having a sheep killed on the runway by a train.
And whose brilliant idea was this at-grade runway crossing, anyway?! :blink:
The SHEEP had the right of way - everyone knows that! :lol:Who technically has right-of-way here -- the airplanes or the trains?! It's not like either one has much ability to stop for the other....It has also reminded me of my first base RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland where the main Londonderry to Belfast Line crossed the main runway. We had the distinction of having a sheep killed on the runway by a train.
Aloha MercedesloveYeah, I totally agree!
I can not remember the last time a train ran down the street chasing a car! But I can remember many times that I've read of a car hitting a train - and usually the train is on train tracks! (I know it's unbelievable that you may find a train operating on a train track! )
Wait? Trains run on tracks. When did this happen?
next someone is going to tell me that wrestling isn't real.
I have worked a few wrestling matches in my career and I can tell you they are real show. :lol: :lol:
Eric
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