I think they're onto something. In EVERY train wreck I've seen, the accident could have been avoided if the train just swerved out of the way. Those Engineers must have one helluva lobby and union because I've never seen one of them get called on this.

Fark 'em. It takes a special kind of retard to try and beat a train.

What gets me is these people have no consideration for us commuters.

/makes me late for work

Well, in fairness to the people getting hit, those trains keep coming out of nowhere.

If only there were some way to recognize the paths trains travel on...

My cousin (12) got hit by a train a few years ago. I don't think any of these things would have prevented it.

ManateeGag: My cousin (12) got hit by a train a few years ago. I don't think any of these things would have prevented it.

Sadly, you're correct. I see people walking around the gates (not going under them) all the time.

As a stupid kid growing up in north Jersey, we used to hop a freight train all the time to go a few towns up and back because we knew that the train only came by twice a day on this set of freight tracks.
/still stupid and dangerous

We must rail against train deaths!

Also... Safety Along Railroads Leadership Oversight Committee SARLOC.



/No, no. ACC, not OC.

It would be better not to have trains, then people could not be hit by them.

The same argument is true of cars, after all. Also, if there were no children, they wouldn't keep getting killed all the time, see how easy that is!

It's all okay because the governer lady said, "I'm sending in more trains"

Or you could just remember that trains can't swerve. They're kind of required to travel on those metal thingys stuck to the ground. And also that they'll be gone soon and then you can cross in comparative safety.

garandman1a: Shortly after 9/11 on a trip back from the city, I saw a guy step in front of an Amtrak express. It looked like someone threw 200 pounds of hamburger against the train instead of a human.

If not for a shoulder and arm remaining intact about 100 yards, and the head remaining intact about 200 yards from where the train eventually came to a stop you would never have known that what was hit had once been human.

What really gets me are the suiciders, giving the engineers the freak by jumping right at them, splatting themselves and making 2000 commuters late for work.

/selfish bastards
//jump off a farking bridge, at least they'll find something for your family

//5 for me in my 22 years of commuting by train.. average was three hours late

iheartscotch: Anymore, I see gates come down on all 4 sides of an intersection. You really have to be trying to get hit most places. But, then there's the crossings where it's just the railroad crossing sign; stopping and looking would help. Just stop trying to beat the train; whatever has you in such a hurry isn't worth dying for.

Just outside my place is a railroad crossing with four gates as you describe. About two years ago a car lost it's front bumper getting hit by a train (and part of the engine to where it wasn't drivable, but there were no injuries). I was absolutely amazed how fast the train came to a stop, but to this day I don't know how the car managed to get itself into a position where it could get hit like that. It had to have been inside the gates, but just the front half, which meant the gate was sitting on top of his car before he was hit. After he was hit, the whole car was outside the gates and there was no damage to the gates, just adding to the confusion.

New Jersey teens getting hit by trains is a bad thing?

/I'm missing something here

Make Stand By Me mandatory viewing for kids. No more trestle deaths.

RepoManTSM: Worst Name I Ever Heard: Mock26: Monorail! Convert all trains and tracks to elevated monorails!

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, 6-car monorail!

What'd I say?

But isn't their Is there a chance a track could bend?

Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

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What's the Line? Does this Line not have any double deckers?
On the North Jersey Coast, that's all we have for rush hour.