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Your post reminded me of this idiot who killed her children.Trying to cross a runway while an aircraft is on takeoff roll is like trying to beat a train to a crossing. If it works, you're fine, but if it doesn't...
I think we are up to about 55 people who have been killed by the new high speed train that eventually will run from Miami to Tampa via Orlando. The most common cause of death are drivers trying to beat the train across the crossing. It can be going 80 MPH, so it's faster than they are used to. But there have been a few crashes that were purely accidental. In some areas the track runs down the middle of a divided highway. Cars going in the same direction as the train will have it overtaking them from behind and they make a Left turn at the crossing intersection just in time to get hit by the train. How many times do you look BEHIND you when you are making a Left turn from a one way road?Your post reminded me of this idiot who killed her children.
The easy fix there should be to make it much more difficult to circumvent the barriers. Barriers should cover the full width of the road, with fences or permanent barriers at the sides of the roads. That's what they do in Europe.I think we are up to about 55 people who have been killed by the new high speed train that eventually will run from Miami to Tampa via Orlando. The most common cause of death are drivers trying to beat the train across the crossing.
That is not an economically feasible idea for the US, which has thousands and thousands of RR crossings, marked and unmarked, gated or ungated. I have family in the RR business, one of them attends to those gates, crossing lights, etc. Other family members work on the tracks, drive the trains, etc..The easy fix there should be to make it much more difficult to circumvent the barriers. Barriers should cover the full width of the road, with fences or permanent barriers at the sides of the roads. That's what they do in Europe.
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Turns out that the authorities at the airport in Peru placed the airliner flight crew under arrest immediately after the mishap. Investigation so far has revealed that the fire truck exercise was approved and carried out under the proper regulations but that the control tower had directed the fire trucks to hold in position, not proceed onto the runway By the way, it seems that two fire trucks were involved in that mishap.
International airline pilots have to learn English. I doubt that is true for firemen at airports.
Not that I'm aware of, my stepbrothers (2), and three nephews all work for the BNSF in N/C Missouri. Stepbrother #2 was an engineer from Ft. Madison IA to Chicago, while my older stepbrother was a track inspector across N/C Missouri, and his sons still work for BNSF, one is an engineer, another is an electrician (works on gates, signals, etc.) and the third is on a track gang, fixing track wherever it needs fixed, from Montana down to Texas. A cousin did the same track gang thing, but is retired now, as are my two stepbrothers. All of them are now farming, as a hobby, and to make more money for their families.Any block operators? That was my craft.