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GoldenRivet · 05-15-10, 10:56 PM

... for fresh underwear

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1935679

Lord_magerius · 05-15-10, 11:04 PM

That made it onto the news over here, daft bast

Task Force · 05-15-10, 11:39 PM

I wish the trains here went accrost the RR crossings that fast... no more ten+ mins in traffic sometimes.

UnderseaLcpl · 05-15-10, 11:45 PM

Lucky guy. You'd think a trainspotter would understand the concept of double-track.

I have never understood the complete and utter disregard that people often demonstrate for their own safety when they are near railroad tracks. It just doesn't make any sense. Children play on railroad tracks, but they rarely play on the freeway (for long). Pedestrians generally look both ways before crossing the street and drivers usually stop at stop signs and red lights, but nobody ever pays any attention at the railroad crossings. How many times have you guys seen a car or truck parked across the tracks while waiting for a light to turn?

In the comparitively short time that I have been a railroad employee, I've even seen a case where a woman drove straight into the side of a moving train! How does a person who is not suicidal even manage to do that!? It's isn't like we paint the things in camoflauge! And even if we did, it'd be pretty hard to miss a 4,500-foot long 20-foot tall 150,000-ton wall of steel that literally shakes the earth when it moves, and blows a horn with around the same decibel level of a jumbo-jet's engine three times every time it approaches a crossing, and occassionally when passing motorists request it.

To add insult to injury, people who are hit by trains (or their next of kin) often sue the railroad for damages. Sometimes they have a "legitimate" claim... when signals malfunction or fatigued engineers and other crewmen simply don't see them, not that they could do anything about it, anyway. I fail to see how being hit by a train is any better a reason for compensation than being "hit" by a gigantic wall on someone else's property that has stadium lights and air-raid sirens on it, but the tort lawyers have figured out how to use FRA rules technicalities to make suits so expensive that we usually just settle. Even with the footage from the cab cameras we've installed, we still can't seem to construct a cost-effective defense in court. The whole situation is madness. Or possibly Sparta.

Task Force · 05-15-10, 11:56 PM

Yea lol... Ive never understood those people because when a train is comeing at you (they usualy use Dash 9s on the lines around here) Its kind of hard to not knotice.

Jimbuna · 05-16-10, 07:08 AM

I can't make my mind up if his facial expression is one of shock or ultimate coolness and calm....either way, he musy have been 6" at the most away from death

05-15-10, 10:56 PM	#1
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05-15-10, 11:04 PM	#2
Lord_magerius Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Right by the hydrophone station Posts: 724 Downloads: 96 Uploads: 0	That made it onto the news over here, daft bast __________________

05-15-10, 11:39 PM	#3
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I wish the trains here went accrost the RR crossings that fast... no more ten+ mins in traffic sometimes. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

05-15-10, 11:45 PM	#4
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Lucky guy. You'd think a trainspotter would understand the concept of double-track. I have never understood the complete and utter disregard that people often demonstrate for their own safety when they are near railroad tracks. It just doesn't make any sense. Children play on railroad tracks, but they rarely play on the freeway (for long). Pedestrians generally look both ways before crossing the street and drivers usually stop at stop signs and red lights, but nobody ever pays any attention at the railroad crossings. How many times have you guys seen a car or truck parked across the tracks while waiting for a light to turn? In the comparitively short time that I have been a railroad employee, I've even seen a case where a woman drove straight into the side of a moving train! How does a person who is not suicidal even manage to do that!? It's isn't like we paint the things in camoflauge! And even if we did, it'd be pretty hard to miss a 4,500-foot long 20-foot tall 150,000-ton wall of steel that literally shakes the earth when it moves, and blows a horn with around the same decibel level of a jumbo-jet's engine three times every time it approaches a crossing, and occassionally when passing motorists request it. To add insult to injury, people who are hit by trains (or their next of kin) often sue the railroad for damages. Sometimes they have a "legitimate" claim... when signals malfunction or fatigued engineers and other crewmen simply don't see them, not that they could do anything about it, anyway. I fail to see how being hit by a train is any better a reason for compensation than being "hit" by a gigantic wall on someone else's property that has stadium lights and air-raid sirens on it, but the tort lawyers have figured out how to use FRA rules technicalities to make suits so expensive that we usually just settle. Even with the footage from the cab cameras we've installed, we still can't seem to construct a cost-effective defense in court. The whole situation is madness. Or possibly Sparta. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

05-15-10, 11:56 PM	#5
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Yea lol... Ive never understood those people because when a train is comeing at you (they usualy use Dash 9s on the lines around here) Its kind of hard to not knotice. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

05-16-10, 07:08 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I can't make my mind up if his facial expression is one of shock or ultimate coolness and calm....either way, he musy have been 6" at the most away from death __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!