THE BRIGHTLINE HUNGERS
>>2028924Do like the N&W and Southern did, buy hood units and run them long hood forward
>>2028924Based. Fuck firefighters.
OUTTA DA FUCKIN WAY FIREBITCH
CHOO CHOO MUDDAHFUKKAH
>>2028927Why not just run some old b-units on the front to ensure maximum carnage?
>>2028952Gate was down, a freight train had cleared the crossing but a Brightline train was approaching so the gates stayed down and the fire truck drove around a car waiting and entered the crossing (crossing is for a two-lane street). Fire truck driver probably assumed the gates were malfunctioning and staying closed when they should have opened after the freight train.
We should recreate the Crash at Crush with an Acela and a Brightline
>>2028951That should really help the department's response time metrics.
>>2028969Why don't they make a fire train and just have a really really long ladder and hose?
>>2028954I really feel like FEC/Brightline should for their own sakes put an indicator showing which direction trains are coming from to stop people from assuming that the gates are malfunctioning.
>>2028955We should tax cheeseThe Cheese Tax! The Cheese Tax!You got to pay the ch33se tax every time you're cookingWhen the cheese drawer opens this puppy comes lookingThe rul3s are the rules and the facts are the factsBut when the ch33se drawer opens, you gotta pay the tax
>>2028995Maybe people should be more patient.
>>2028995You think people in florida look at signs on the road?
>>2028995or maybe people should have the common decency to not cross while the gates are down lmao this is not a problem in non-retarded countries
>>2029032>in non-retarded countrieslike uh,uhhh......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMYH9dlxpM
>>2028995They should charge the firefighters on that vehicle with trespassing and reckless endangerment (or whatever the terms are in local law). Send the entire surviving crew of the vehicle to jail. Trains Don't Fuck Around And Nor Should Train Companies.
>>2028954proof that firemen are retardsonly thing they do right is wash their trucks all day
>>2028954Gates were up
>>2029272Why do you lie about something you can see with your own eyes?
>crashing into idiotic Florida cagersSo fucking based.
>>2028937#afab
>>2029344Simply epic, Chang.
I wish the brightline a very happy new year, may it devour the unroadworthy in far greater numbers
>>2029275Based on the ugly yellow building on the left, it's clear that the train was traveling northbound and hit the fire truck at SE 1st Street.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Delray+Beach,+FL/@26.4595764,-80.0709475,187m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88d8dffc90ec6ae3:0xc7780128536eb8b8!8m2!3d26.4614625!4d-80.0728201!16zL20vMHJxMXE?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3DHowever, the gates are designed at SE 1st Street and every other Brightline crossing that unlike regular crossings, there are gates on all four sides, so if one was down (correctly) and the others went up, they really WERE malfunctioning.
>>2029545Why didn't you pull up street view and look for yourself? They're "quad gates" but the gates on the left side are small and only for the pedestrian portion. The main gates only cover the the near side portion. So, no, the gates didn't malfunction. The firetruck just drove on the wrong side of the road to go around them.
>>2028924Why did all Floridians become retarded when the Brightline started operating. We've always had freight and this shit never happened. And it still only ever happens with the Brightline. Why?
>>2029602Brightline is way faster than freight
>>2028995But what if the indicators are malfunctioning?
>>2029615The change of this happening in a given hour should be less than 1 in 100,000,000 for a proper system.
>>2029552The way that the gates are designed seal off the crossing completely. Here's a normal, rural exit where there isn't any additional gates and will only cover one lane (a car could maneuver around these). The place isn't specific but is there for transparency reasons.
>>2029685Are you retarded?
>>2029552>>2029685As illustrated, here is the angles drawn on. Notice that in this case, the gate is much shorter to cover only one lane.
>>2029552>>2029688...uh, scratch that, it looks like it really DIDN'T cover the other side after all.
>>2029689>the little gate for the pedestrianscute
>>2029689If someone is on the crossing when the gates close, you really do want them to get clear.What you don't want is for fuckwads to go round the barriers after they've come down. Train don't stop for that, not 'til afterwards.
>>2029699>If someone is on the crossing when the gates close, you really do want them to get clear.Great point! In multi track crossings where the tracks are seperated a bit, you'll even have certain gates not come down. In this case, if a train is coming on the near track, the second gate on the right won't come down.
In Yurop we don't have this problem Once again superior American infrastructure saves the day
>>2029891>Manned grade crossingsWe automated ours decades ago
>>2029897It's an automated crossing. The signal box you're looking at is a historic building, so it's left intact while the crossing is controlled from a larger signal box elsewhere.
>>2029898Damn straight. If it was manned then there would be three shifts, about a dozen people, permanently on strike.
>>2029945yeah, as opposed to those dozen people being unemployed for the last 10 years
