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If you hit a train or get hit by one...it was your time.

That is all...

I think Wabbi is contending that at a non-lighted crossing, a train was going through and this lady drove into the side of the train in the dark because she couldn't see it.

Not saying that's impossible but I'd be much more likely to believe "suicide by train" than "I drove into a train because I couldn't see or hear it as I came up on it already going across the road"

There is a town in Connecticut (Wallingford) with tracks running right through the middle of it. 2 or 3 intersections aren’t gate controlled and every year a resident gets smushed trying to beat the train. I have seen the after effects, not pretty. It amazes me with the amount of things that can kill you along the tracks (trains duh, high voltage) etc that so many tempt fate and play stupid games around them.

Two major railways ran through my home city - the Pennsylvania and the B&O - heavy freight and passenger traffic in that east coast industrial corridor. They ran N/S about a mile apart.

There were several grade crossings with gates/lights, etc. - and towers at most of them for the employees who watched for trains, turned on the flashing warning lights and lowered the gates. Most drivers were aware and alert, so even with the heavy train traffic there were few deadly incidents.

But, there always were drivers who, sooner or later, would try to beat the dropping gates, or swerve left/right to get around and through - simply to avoid waiting for the train to pass. I don't know the top mph of those trains highballing through town - but it was high/fast. The wrecks were predictable, the cars/trucks never won, and the easily inspected wreckage and carnage was unreal.

In those days, parents would make definite efforts to educate kids about the dangers and measures to be taken. The wise ones marched the kids down the tracks a distance after a wreck to see for themselves the results of carelessness or stupidity.

I had put away most of that memory until this thread popped up.

I should been clearer. The Lady that was killed slid on snow packed road.

The old train that ran thorough out town was black as night on the sides.

So, her fault?

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Big Ole black train shoulda have contrasted nicely with snow on the ground.
Even at night.
Slid right into that train on a snow packed road huh???
She musta ran into one of them below ground level RR tracks crossings and not the standard slightly or fairly inclined upward approach to a crossing due to track bed height.
Hmmmmmm.....




Pathetic save face attempt....


Nothing more.
But sure as fuuuk a whole lot less....

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Story changed to fit the questioning

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A young fellow in our Army Reserve unit got impatient, and passed a car stopped at a crossing, the first train was by, but another was coming.

Are you sure?

Pretty heavy object to hit, I’m surprised how well the nose of that train came thru it.

Out in west Kansas just west of Greensburg several years back a train hit a loaded wheat truck and derailed. Big loss as locomotive was almost new with less than 100,000 miles.

Yep.....

Then comes out with this one...

Not one story of someone getting nailed but another with a opened ending.


A 2fer!!!!


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Quaint schit choo choo train stories..
That is nice....


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The old lug nut rule, for sure.

Closest thing to that in these parts was a cop car got stuck on the tracks during a blizzard years ago. Cop radioed someone that called the railroad but it was too late. By the time the engineer got warned he couldn't stop in time. It was on one of those mainline tracks where the trains are going at high speed. At least nobody got hurt or killed.