I can't think of a single incident where a vehicle has beaten out train.
Hell a Barrett magazine full of Raufoss .50 bmg would do it if you put them in the right places!155mm
The first funeral I went to I was 16 years old. Classmate of mine had just gotten his DL and was taking his mothers car for a spin in the dark in a rural part of South Texas and was killed by a train at a crossing with no lights or signs. That was pretty common where I grew up in 1975. The no lights and signs part that is.I'm normally not caring what y'all come up with.
This train stuff is different for me.
I lost some friends and fellow linemen a long time ago.
4 guys in a (new at that time) extended cab truck. Wire spool trailer hung up on an unimproved crossing. One guy got out. 3 died in a fiery wreck. I attended 3 closed casket funerals in one day. I've never trusted a train crossing signal since.
Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and walks off laughing.
I need to do a better job at this. I cross a train going home. I catch myself just blowing through the crossing without looking sometimes. Bad habit.I'm normally not caring what y'all come up with.
This train stuff is different for me.
I lost some friends and fellow linemen a long time ago.
4 guys in a (new at that time) extended cab truck. Wire spool trailer hung up on an unimproved crossing. One guy got out. 3 died in a fiery wreck. I attended 3 closed casket funerals in one day. I've never trusted a train crossing signal since.
Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and walks off laughing.
IIRC, it was somewhere around Dunlay circa 1976 when I was driving my Dad's Cadillac, windows up, radio blaring, with 6 girls carrying on 8 conversations at the top of their lungs. It was about midnite and we were on some little piece of pavement out in the boonies. I came up to a train crossing that was not just uncontrolled but heavily wooded on both sides. You couldn't see if anything was coming or going. (ETA - In that moment, I actually didn't know it was a train crossing. I started slowing simply because it was a huge bump in the road.)in the dark in a rural part of South Texas and was killed by a train at a crossing with no lights or signs.
I can't think of a single incident where a vehicle has beaten out train.
Vehicle with the most lug nuts wins.
Trains don’t have lug nuts.