Reflectorization of Trains to Prevent Motorists

[Terry Collins]

I think they might be a tad hopeful.

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Hazmat 101 News - January 2005

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Topic: Mandatory Reflectorization of Trains Aimed to Prevent
Motorists
from Running into Trains

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Clipped from another newsgroup and plonked here as I'm sure
we all appreciate how futile this effort will be.

<wait for comment by usual car loving trolls>

 

[aeek]

I think they might be a tad hopeful.

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Hazmat 101 News - January 2005

I think they could do better in ensuring that level crossings are not jokes.
eg. travelling thru Junee a few years back(bike in the back) there is a rail yard right next the crossing.
A train rolled forward and triggered the crossing, rolled back and they parked it.
5 minutes later, and the crossing was still going and I, um, ....

 

[TimC]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 12:08 GMT, aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> A train rolled forward and triggered the crossing, rolled back and they
> parked it.
> 5 minutes later, and the crossing was still going and I, um, got hit
> by the invisible train still going through the crossing.

IFYPFY.

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[aeek]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 12:08 GMT, aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> A train rolled forward and triggered the crossing, rolled back and they
> parked it.
> 5 minutes later, and the crossing was still going and I, um, got hit
> by the invisible train still going through the crossing.

IFYPFY.

(translation?)

Fortunately the damage it inflicted was equally invisible.

 

[TimC]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 23:45 GMT, aeek (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> TimC Wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 12:08 GMT, aeek (aka Bruce)
>> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> > A train rolled forward and triggered the crossing, rolled back and
>> they
>> > parked it.
>> > 5 minutes later, and the crossing was still going and I, um, got hit
>> > by the invisible train still going through the crossing.
>>
>> IFYPFY.
> (translation?)

I fixed your post for you.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical
chemists know it.
-- Richard P. Feynman

 

[aeek]

I fixed your post for you.

but I like to freewheel, sob.

 

[flyingdutch]

I think they might be a tad hopeful.

...............................................................
Hazmat 101 News - January 2005

The January 2005 issue of The Hazmat 101 News (TM) is now online at
The
Hazmat 101 Web (TM).

Topic: Mandatory Reflectorization of Trains Aimed to Prevent
Motorists
from Running into Trains

........................

Clipped from another newsgroup and plonked here as I'm sure
we all appreciate how futile this effort will be.

<wait for comment by usual car loving trolls>

maybe they could place little reflective tabs all ove rthe train to make it resemble,
oh, i dont know... Hey how about making it look like a big meancing diesel TRAIN!!!

that way nobody would go in front of it...

F"QUICK! Form a sub-committee to positively restructure this issue to implement a world's best practice paradigm so that moving forward no inbred git stands in front of a train. tears..." Dutch

 

[Terry Collins]

flyingdutch wrote:

> maybe they could place little reflective tabs all ove rthe train to
> make it resemble,
> oh, i dont know... Hey how about making it look like a big meancing
> diesel TRAIN!!!
>
> that way nobody would go in front of it...

ROFL. hopefull aren't you. Everyone thinks those things can stop like a
car.


Have they removed all the low level pedestrian crossings at Melbourne
train stations? I can remember how people played chicken every morning
with the local trains, just so they would not miss their train {.
LLPedXings all gone now. which means I have to clunk, clunk, clunk......
the bicycle up and over the overpass.

A cousin who is a fireman/driver said that once the train driver can see
you, it is too late to do anything. Of course, he was talking about
driving freight of a night time.

And if you think those invisible trains can not do any damage, then
think again. There are lots of dead cows that died on the tracks that no
one admits hitting. (How the hell did the railways expect the train to
actually avoid a cow on the track? they would "bung" the drivers for
it.)

 

[aeek]

And if you think those invisible trains can not do any damage, then
think again. There are lots of dead cows that died on the tracks that no

It was invisible because it didn't exist, purely a figment of TimC's imagination.
The train that had triggered the signal was still in plain sight, parked in the rail yard.