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Another Florida Brightline train crash leaves 2 dead in Melbourne (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jan 2024
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Gore1FL
(22,426 posts)1. Trains can't stop, but you can.
When I worked for Union Pacific, the company certainly had it's share of deahts and injuries. As I recollect, as a percentage, over 95% were non-employees trespassing or ignoring signals.
2naSalit
(96,518 posts)2. I lived in a couple...
RR towns and been friends with several workers and engineers, one of which was qualified to operate steam engines. He had a couple nightmares about accidents in his career, those things stay with you.
IronLionZion
(48,564 posts)3. Bigger gates like the quad gates in the video might help
since stupid people keep going around the gates, they need gates that people can't drive around.
MyOwnPeace
(17,295 posts)4. And isn't that a shame......
SOMEBODY (company - state - consumers) has to pay because you just can't fix STUPID!!!!
Wonder Why
(5,549 posts)5. This is Florida where down crossing gates are only a suggestion.