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Try Getting Around That Crossing! ☺
EMCS
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Try Getting Around That Crossing!
Those of us who like trains will probably never be involved in a railway crossing accident. I know that I won't; unlike some who race ahead to try avoid being stopped by a train, I slow down at railway crossings in the hope of being stopped by one!
But some people feel the need to try beat an oncoming train by going around the gates. Governments around the world encourage drivers not to do this. But some drivers need more than encouragement, as in the photo above, taken in an unnamed European country.
The photo got me thinking; has anything like that been tried in North America? All I could find is what they are trying on Denton Road, about 30 miles west of Detroit in Wayne County. In 2007, it became the first location in the U.S. to be equipped with unique retractable barricades that serve as warning devices at a railroad crossing.
http://tiny.cc/bx4jmw
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Those of us who like trains will probably never be involved in a railway crossing accident. I know that I won't; unlike some who race ahead to try avoid being stopped by a train, I slow down at railway crossings in the hope of being stopped by one!
But some people feel the need to try beat an oncoming train by going around the gates. Governments around the world encourage drivers not to do this. But some drivers need more than encouragement, as in the photo above, taken in an unnamed European country.
The photo got me thinking; has anything like that been tried in North America? All I could find is what they are trying on Denton Road, about 30 miles west of Detroit in Wayne County. In 2007, it became the first location in the U.S. to be equipped with unique retractable barricades that serve as warning devices at a railroad crossing.
http://tiny.cc/bx4jmw
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Safety 1st
$$Save$$ = new notice to maybe save you money
Comments
Better to let the dumbazz element remain self regulating.
With a mile and a half to stop, and a hundred ft to react, there is NOTHING the engineer can do to change the outcome. Nobody ever thinks about the poor SOB driving the train that KNOWS he is about to hit another one, and is powerless to do anything about it.
30 minutes later they were all 6 killed by a train.
I do not try to beat trains.
I saw 2 of them at the Pilot truckstop just north of Laredo, TX, a week apart. Next time I went down there they had moved the stop sign from past the tracks to before the tracks.