Train times three...

[graygun]

...or stopping for the same train three times...well almost.

Last night I had to stop for the same train twice,just missing a third stop. It's just the relationship between two roads and the track over about a two mile distance.

First was at an uncontrolled point about 100' before the road met a T. Right at the T (same direction the train was going) and just missed having to stop about a mile later. About another mile and the road and track have changed relative positions and had to stop again. It was kind of funny,weather was cool and just traveling home from a walk at a park. :lol:

 

[Sin6Sec63451022]

There's a life lesson in there somewhere.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Has anyone raced a train along a road that crosses the tracks at some point up ahead and lived?

 

[Pat-inCO]

Be glad the trains in your area are not like the ones coming down from
the coal mines at Paonia (CO). They come down with 120 cars fully
loaded. Let's see 120 cars at 60 feet each would be 7,200 feet, or
1.36 miles long. You would have had a bit longer wait.
(they bring out two per day with two "empty" ones going back up) :shock:

 

[Dan in MI]

I have waited for the same train 3x more times than I'd care to count.

As I think of how to explain it I just realized the tacks are the hypotenuse of three ever larger right triangles that touch at a the points of the second triangle.

 

[coach]

The same thing can happen with the light rail from Hunt Valley near me. It snakes around the office and industrial parks heading toward the city. It never gets faster than about 45 mph. A democrat boondoggle that seldom has more than a few riders on board. The good thing is it's only a few cars long, but all the crossings have gates

 

[nvbirdman]

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin' for a train
Feelin' near as faded as my jeans

 

[CGDustDevil]

Has anyone raced a train along a road that crosses the tracks at some point up ahead and lived?

Yeah - Everyone who ever made a silent movie!

 

[gramps]

No trains in my county :shock: :lol:
gramps

 

[737tdi]

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin' for a train
Feelin' near as faded as my jeans

Which version? Joplin or Kristofferson?


Karl

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Has anyone raced a train along a road that crosses the tracks at some point up ahead and lived?

Most of the cars in the time period of the GREAT Passenger Trains could not keep up at train speeds of 90-100+mph.
What a thrill it was as a long time RR Kid to be in the car with Dad driving along next to a Heavy Pacific like the Crescent Limited or a Hudson running at high speed and being able to wave at the passengers. Another thing from the past that kids probably don't do anymore.
My grandfather worked for the Southern Pacific during WWII until he got hurt. One of the first things I remember as a 2-3 year old was him singing Casey Jones to me so I would go to sleep.
I still have several HO trains that I have on display. The Heavy Pacific Crescent Limited is one of them.
The last real train, been on several narrow gage ones,I rode was the City of New Orleans Chicago, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

[Bull Barrel]

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin' for a train
Feelin' near as faded as my jeans

Which version? Joplin or Kristofferson?


Karl

The answer is YES since no matter who is singing, Kris was the author.

 

[coach]

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin' for a train
Feelin' near as faded as my jeans

Which version? Joplin or Kristofferson?


Karl

The answer is YES since no matter who is singing, Kris was the author.

I go back and forth about which version I like better depending on which one I just listened to.

 

[Fox Mike]

Has anyone raced a train along a road that crosses the tracks at some point up ahead and lived?

Most of the cars in the time period of the GREAT Passenger Trains could not keep up at train speeds of 90-100+mph.
What a thrill it was as a long time RR Kid to be in the car with Dad driving along next to a Heavy Pacific like the Crescent Limited or a Hudson running at high speed and being able to wave at the passengers.

I remember traveling through Georgia on US RT 301 in our '51 De Soto and 'racing' the trains. We were traveling an unheard of speed of 70 MPH, the train was leaving us, and my mom was hollering at my dad to 'SLOW DOWN!'. Never raced one to a crossing...yet.