Never Stop on a Rail Crossing

[HUGH]

Here's an old diesel loco, about 125 tons, flattening a car on a level crossing. This was a publicity offering from the BBC to UK drivers who are dim enough to try and dodge the barriers and lights. There are still many unmanned, private crossings where you are supposed to phone the signalman to obtain permission to open the gates and cross.

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[NQ6U]

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[PA5COR]

That's a totally f*cked up car...

[W5BRM]

It'll buff out

[wa6mhz]

My Town Car could have survived it. The train woulda derailed!

[W7XF]

Care to prove that theory, Pat?

Didn't think so.

[KC2UGV]

Care to prove that theory, Pat?

Didn't think so.

I'd like to see him test it, personally.

Regarding the collision, I was a bit disappointed at the end... Looked like the train was going to cut through the car, completely. I was disappointed it didn't.

[wa6mhz]

watch the last 30 seconds of this movie clip. Thats the way the Town Car will go out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dYElSI_Dk

[KK4AMI]

That locomotive ended up wearing that minivan like a "bug bra".

[KG4NEL]

http://i.usatoday.net/news/gallery/2010/n100513_day/07n100513-pg-horizontal.jpg

To be fair, this took an excavator on a lowboy trailer...

My office overlooks a stop for that train and a few level crossings. Every few months someone will run the gates and not make the other side...have never seen someone hit, but have seen a few with the passengers getting out of the car in order to lift the gates over the vehicle and drive out.

[K0RGR]

We had a couple kids here who went to prison for stealing the Railroad Crossing signs from a nearby town. An unsuspecting motorist came along and got creamed by a freight train.

[N8YX]

I always stop at crossings...because you never know what neat consist you might happen to see as the train passes. With many of these I wish I had had a camera.

[VE7DCW]

I always stop at crossings...because you never know what neat consist you might happen to see as the train passes. With many of these I wish I had had a camera.

Yes.......... unless of course it's a 150 car coal,sulpher,grain or crude oil tanker unit train. :mrgreen:

[K7SGJ]

It'll buff out

A little Bondo, a little paint, no problem.

[NA4BH]

The train made that van its bitch.

[NQ6U]

I like the way the hood (that's American for bonnet, Hugh) flies off more or less intact.

[VE7DCW]

I like the way the hood (that's American for bonnet, Hugh) flies off more or less intact.

......and the hood ornament stays attached to the hood.....that's what I call quality! :mrgreen:

[HUGH]

http://i.usatoday.net/news/gallery/2010/n100513_day/07n100513-pg-horizontal.jpg

To be fair, this took an excavator on a lowboy trailer...

My office overlooks a stop for that train and a few level crossings. Every few months someone will run the gates and not make the other side...have never seen someone hit, but have seen a few with the passengers getting out of the car in order to lift the gates over the vehicle and drive out.
A useful crumple zone on the front to protect the driver, the rest looks intact.

[HUGH]

I like the way the hood (that's American for bonnet, Hugh) flies off more or less intact.

The car manufacturer was so proud of his vehicle that the only robust part was the company badge.

Ah yes, "hood" and "trunk" and so on. The only problem I ever had was with "Z", if you don't call it "zee" many people don't comprehend!

[NA4BH]

I like the way the hood (that's American for bonnet, Hugh) flies off more or less intact.

They copied that from the movie Vanishing Point when Kowolski ran into the bulldozers.


And around here we call the bonnet, Neil

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Neil Bonnett

[suddenseer]

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Don't let bees in your bonnet.

[NQ6U]

And around here we call the bonnet, Neil

But he's dead, Jim Bob. Was he hit by a train?

[W7XF]

But he's dead, Jim Bob. Was he hit by a train?

Hit by the Minnesota Bushtit.

[K0RGR]

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I drove through a flock of them once - put a big hole through the grill of the '88 Olds Delta 88.