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    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.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    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.
    Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AF5TY View Post
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    The train made that van its bitch.
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    I like the way the hood (that's American for bonnet, Hugh) flies off more or less intact.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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!
    Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4NEL View Post


    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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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