Meanwhile, the bridges in West Virginia don't go anywhere..
Posted on 02/21/2018 11:35:17 AM PST by csvset
Everything in the black areas are either part of a tree line or an empty farm field.
“...where they are forced to interact with an increasingly incompetent driving public”
I’m having the same problem
Yeah, the roads in Virginia usually disappear into black space.
Because they couldn’t wait the 2 minutes it would take for the short Amtrak train traveling at 1 mile per minute to clear the tracks?
Meanwhile, the bridges in West Virginia don't go anywhere..
It happens all the time. Nobody was plotting to take out the republicans using a garbage truck. It is foolish to waste time thinking such a thing.
Don’t give up hope! Near Fredericksburg, VA there was a “bridge to no where” on Route 3 that was finally connected to a new bypass.
“Right. Have you heard the train horn when approaching an intersection crossing? Doesn’t matter if you have your windows up or radio on you can hear it from miles away.”
They don’t blow the horn from miles away.
The horn sounding rule is 15-20 seconds before the crossing, or 1/4 mile before the crossing for trains at 45mph or better.
At 61mph, the Amtrak horn sounded less than 15 seconds before impact.
I would have used a cement truck
Or a gas/diesel hauler
Now, admittedly, the blow post for the south crossing was DIRECTLY outside our bedroom window, so you could say I had a dog in that fight. But after a few weeks, we slept right through it - even in mild weather with the windows open!
Took awhile to get used to NOT hearing the horn after they installed the new crossing!
Not fishy - couple of reasons. This is from my personal experience as my husband and I witnessed a near miss at our local crossing, which is 2 blocks from our house.
The crossing was under maintenance and closed, barricades up. Idiot in a jeep drove AROUND the barricades and onto the crossing. Promptly got stuck, wedged between the edge of the asphalt and the rail. Just as we drove up to see what was going on, we heard the horn.
My husband ran up while I turned our truck around and got out the tow strap. The driver was FROZEN behind the wheel like a deer in the headlights. My husband had to physically unbuckle him and DRAG him out of the driver's seat, yelling all the while.
Fortunately for all concerned, the train was under a go slow order because of the crossing maintenance, and he had enough sight distance to throw all the brakes on and stop about 50 feet short of the crossing. That engineer boiled out of the cabin - he was like a little banty rooster and he was cussing mad! You have to imagine my husband (a big guy - 6'6" and about 250 with a bushy red beard) and the conductor (who was not as big but big enough) talking this itty bitty engineer out of trying to rend the idiot driver limb from limb. It was funny afterwards but not very funny at the time.
I used to investigate crossing accidents for the old Southern before they merged with C&O . . . most don't end so happily.
Rather a quick conclusion on your part.
I’m not buying it without significantly more info.
That must be back in the days of Thiele the Crossing-Keeper, dude sitting in the guard shack listening for the whistle on the down train . . . pretty much well before I was born, and I'm 62 . . .
Just talking out my hat, here, but I’m assuming the majority of felons are from drug crimes. Really not the best choice for someone to have access to my trash, what with boxes from electronics, etc., and used medication packages, etc., in my trash. Oh, well. It’s not like the job usually attracts the cream of the crop, though it did around here, for a long time. For years, our little town had the same old guy picking up our trash. If his wife, who was ill, had a medical appointment, he’d get out and start his day at 3 a.m., so he’d be sure to get his work done that day. Salt of the earth. Finally the town contracted with a major company. Automated, of course. A robot in a self driving truck could do the job. Progress. I guess. If Heaven were a twilight zone episode, I’d pick “Willoughby”.
Buy tinfoil. Lots of tinfoil.
What are you, some sort of Deep State stooge?
No. I have just spent more time out in the real world. Running the train is a common occurrence for truckers. Some times they lose as in this case.
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