Posted on 03/03/2014 9:19:40 PM PST by Political Junkie Too
What would the train operators have to “cover up”??? If you’re on the freakin’ tracks, you’re trespassing in the first place.
I was talking to an engineer down at the Redondo facility back a few years while I was marveling at the fact that a pressure washer didn’t get all of a guys skull contents off a train after he’d been struck by the Coast Starlighter at ~90 mph. He said he feels sorry for the cows and coyotes ‘cause they just don’t know, but the people he gave up on long before... They’re “just stupid”...
-PJ
You are right.
I’ve learned that some people are deficient, and the underlying thing to that is that it makes them feel superior—even happy—that although a misfortune happened, it didn’t happen to them, and they don’t know better than to laugh or judge.
Do you really believe this poor child deserved to die for a mistake like the one she made?! Really? Damn but if you are not a piece of work.
At 35 MPH the wave front effect would be noticeable, they usually run about 50 where allowed, they can run faster.
Depending on schedule, they do not stop at every station, and in the express section of a run can easily be at 50 MPH fairly near a station they are not scheduled to stop at.
How sad. I used to live in downtown Martinez.
Amtrak goes thru Martinez, there is a station there. BART doesn’t go thru there.
Eddy currents, going down each side of the train? Trying to visualize this.
It was a Burlington Northern freight train. Burlington Northern freight trains go within half a mile of my house and they only seem to do 30-35 mph - that’s on a straightaway that parallels the freeway.
When we were kids, when the train would go by, we’d often run down to the tracks and stand about 10 ft away and watch it go by.
I’m sure a fast-moving train would produce buffeting air currents that might cause a person to stumble or fall, but I’d be very surprised if that freight train did.
At the most, she deserved to have the living sh*t scared out of her.
That fateful night the car was stalled
upon the railroad track
I pulled you out and we were safe
but you went running back
Teen angel, can you hear me
Teen angel, can you see me
Are you somewhere up above
And I am still your own true love
What was it you were looking for
that took your life that night
They said they found my high school ring
clutched in your fingers tight
I often notice, as a truck breezes by me on the left at high speeds, a kind of “push” from the bow wave immediately followed by a collapse in pressure which draws my car back alongside the truck as it passes. A quick correction on the steering wheel is sometimes needed to keep from angling into the rear wheels of the truck.
Check out pictures of dolphins who have learned the neat trick of riding with a water ship’s bow wave to conserve their own energy. Just behind the wave, the current is angled opposite to the forward wave and anything caught behind the wave crashes into the ship.
That’s what I think could have happened to the girl.
Shame on you. You probably don’t have kids, do you? You essentially applauded the death of a 14 year old girl. Perhaps she was trying to get her cell phone because her parents would have flipped if she lost it. Perhaps she didn’t have the knowledge of trains because she was ONLY 14 YEARS OLD.
What about those ‘bullet trains’ in Japan which do 200mph+? That must be one hell of a frontal wave!
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