Why don’t railroads take all the money we steal from the crossing gate program, and buy every employee a new Lexus SUV? I bet we would even have enough left over to purchase great big sheets of fly paper we could put down in front of grade crossings, and string really big rubber bands across the posts where the stolen gate would go.
See http/reallystupidstuff.from/mikesmind/lostinspace.com
Heck, we might even have enough left over for a industrial size roll of duct tape, and we could duct tape our friend to the front of a locomotive, and go speeding through all our crossings, giving him a real up close and personal view of grade crossing accidents.
Thats of course after we find out if aliens are really abducting people at crossings, and just making it look like a accident.
Go check out the board of directors driveways Unihead Ed. I think you done caught them.They just ain’t passing on down the line so to speak. But before you go takeing off in a train shouldn’t you know how to run one first Unihead Ed?
The railroads weren’t even smart enough to figure out how to operate snag nets—result—two dead boys—why? Because the gates were left turned off—How do I know? 6 cameras were hooked up to the University of Illinois botched experiment and caught the railroads in a big lie. The gates weren’t down to go around like would be the case 95% of the time if cameras were used and the smokin’ gun wasn’t hid. The nets weren’t bad the TDS running them are junk —illegal because they are NOT fail safe. Highly covered up by the FRA, NTSB, and railroads who sold the junk to the tax-payers.
Hi Ed
I didn’t know you liked talking to a brick wall.Some people just don’t get it and never will.Just look listen and live.
have a safe weekend
joe
Expect a train at any time , gates down or not,
I bet the horn was blowing, and I bet the head-
lights were on, any thing man makes is subject to
failure, dont trust the gates. Look Listen and live. jackflash
now if we can get other people to understand look listen and live that would be great!
stay safe
joe
Normaly I dont, I just wanted to see if the social pyschopath who uses both mike and missouri was as stupid as I though. He is, and like my parents taught me, I dont pick on the mentally handicapped. With all these smoking guns we seem to have hidden, we should be able to outfit a small army. Anybody feel like going hunting? And I want to know how you “illegaly park” a box car? What, was it more than 18’ away from the curb, or “parked” in front of a fire hydrant or in a fire zone?
Guess I should go to one of the web site promoted,
maybe try http://www.missourimissedhis/zoloft://moronsof america.rabidasaratsass/.dumbasdirt.
Besides, its kinda fun to imagine this guy sitting there, foaming at the mouth, wild eyed and jacked up on diet coke, spending all night looking up national enquirer style web pages.
Next, hes gonna swear we are all alien replacements put on train to kill humans in some sick, goverment backed CIA experiment, and come up with a web page to prove it. At first, it was agrivating and annoying to read the drivel, then, the more you read, the more you realize this guys flat out psychotic, lost in some conspieracy theory alternative reality.
Bluntly, I was bored.
You stay safe over the long weekend, too joe!
Stay Frosty,
Ed
Major highway slick with all kinds of sight obstructions so if you slow down SLOW enough to see FAR enough your going to get creamed from the rear. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/ProgMgt/Grants/Sight_Eng.pdf So the train was speeding for the sight distances given the kids. And you can take the whistles and throw them in the ocean with todays stereo systems, road noise, insulated vehicles, etc… Failsafe system failed. Plain and simple. And why should we be paying $150,000 for a junk piece of equipment? Europe uses a 4 code system so there are 4 back ups. The junk we have a coat of rust gets on the tracks and the train isn’t detected. Salt is put on the snow at a crossing causeing a dead short between the rails and the gates start doing there daily exercises. Up 1,2,3…down 1,2,3,… over and over with no trains around somebody comes around a corner and the gates are up about the same time the train arrives. Was the gate working? Well yeah but not when it needed to be.
well you kinda answered your own question there clown. If a kid has his stereo blasting there is no way he could hear a train coming.if they are on their cell phones or changing their radios would they notice the gates or sma***hrough them?You are trying to blame the railroad and/or railworkers for other peoples stupidity.Driving is privilage.If you arrive at the same time a train does at a crossing you lose.It’s common sense clown LOOK LISTEN and LIVE.
stay safe
joe
The kid wasn’t the signalman that left the jumper on the gates there clown. Train whistles have been proven worthless hundreds of times. Looks like the railroads would gotten the hint when they started have forked out millions.
Well no they know the hint and know it’s cheaper to kill’em. That’s what makes it cold, calculated, and pre meditated KNOWINGLY OPERATEING THE TRAINS AT EXCESSIVE SPEEDS WITHOUT THE PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT IN PLACE.
Loser
A illegaly parked rail car is one parked within 250 feet of the crossing. A well versed railtoader like you should know that Unihead ED. Now if there was a statute where two trains couldn’t occupy the same crossing within say 1/4 of each other this girl killed today would be alive or if the missing 2nd track occupied circuitry had been installed. Railroads and the FRA who are tucked in their pockets need locked up and the key thrown away.
Young woman on bike struck dead by train
The Associated Press
5/25/03 8:17 PM
MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) – A young woman riding her bike was struck and killed by a train Sunday afternoon just blocks away from emergency officials marching in a Memorial Day parade.
The unidentified woman, believed to be in her teens, waited for an eastbound train to pass before crossing the tracks but apparently didn’t hear another train coming from the opposite direction, Versailles Volunteer Fire Chief Dave Obley said.
“The trains were going across at the same time. She didn’t hear the westbound train,” Obley said.
Obley and fellow firefighters marching in a Memorial Day parade four blocks away responded to the scene within a minute at about 3:20 p.m. The firefighters hopped onto a firetruck and drove off the parade route.
“We scared a lot of parade people. They had no idea what was going on,” Obley said.
The victim was declared dead at the Juniper Street crossing in Versailles. The Allegheny County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy will likely be done Monday.
Loser
Checked my rule book to be sure but it says
cars are to be left no closer than 75 feet or
to be off any crossing warning circuts so as to
not activate them
hi clown
why was she on the other track? it’s so simple LOOK LISTEN LIVE.expect a train anywhere at anytime.my condolences to her family.clown you need to really get a life.
stay safe
joe
You are so pathitic, it wont do any good to tell you the facts but i will tell other as they have the right to know
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when we set cars out at spur tracks they only need to be back from the crossing 100ft. simple. enough but for your intelegents we should maybe move the custmor.
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the railroad i work for I know for a fact that the signals are set up to failsafe, if the crossing is shorted by salt and snow that does not keep the gates from working. the thing you are talking about is the island circut which is from the center of the crossing to 25ft either side of it. if a train is sitting on the crossing the gates wont time out like they do when you are approching the crossing slow. and if there is something else that goes wrong such as the starter circut the gates and signal will come on and stay on. your argument wont fly as the lod system like you are tallking about aint been used in 20 years
3)i stop and or slow down at all railroad crossing with lights and with out, i come home its on a major state highway and i have yet to be rear ended, and if i ever get rear ended i wont haft to pay they will. but your logic is no good as you say if you slow down or stop you would get rear ended , do you exspect to get rear ended if a train is there, or if the lights just come on and you stop, in your area probley so. as they seam to want to beat trains anyways so they wouldnt see you stopping so they could beat the train.
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I guess if i had the stereo up loud and the cell phone going windows rolled up insulated and blinders on so i could not see lights either i would get hit for ignoring all the warnings,
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speeding trains track speed is slower now thatn in the 60s and 70s and we have more accidents now to. If they tell me to run 70mph i will and your opinion wont mean nothing to me. oh and if you say that i hope i dont haft to endure the loss of my kids at a crossing i wont haft to my kids know a train will kill you and to stop and look before crossing
The new message. Fix the problem killers or shut down.
Take the stay safe off dip because your what they call a “dip”.
Listen up, I would kick you in the nuts if you had any. A thousand drunk drivers are more in control than a 60 mph freight train? You are clearly insane. I hope you find help! What do you do for a living by the way? I don’t expect a real answer from Planet Voltron.
hi
I went train watching today.I also paid respects as taps and our national anthem was played.This clown probably stayed in looking at www.whatever/Ican twist/in my mind.com.The parade went over a rail crossing everyone looked listened and lived!Amazing now isn’t it?
stay safe
joe
joe it is amazing a parade crossed the tracks and nobody got killed . but this other guys says that a truck going 1mph wont get out of a trains way. ive never crossed a crossing in a truck at less than 10 mph and as the laaw states not shifting on the crossing. he’ll you stop then get going a person walks at 5mph unless your name is missouri. look listen and live. operation life saver rules.
Looks like your in the wrong rulebook to me.
http://www.sdrm.org/faqs/rulebook/movement.html#6.32.4
6.32.4 Clear of Crossings and Signal Circuits
Leave cars, engines, or equipment clear of road crossings and crossing signal circuits.
If possible, avoid leaving cars, engines, or equipment standing closer than 250 feet from the road crossing when there is an adjacent track.