Train videos

[Kalphiter]

Wow, that is some crazy stuff there.
Was anyone injured?

http://www.transitblogger.com/lirr/lirr-president-releases-a-statement-on-recent-accidents.php

Two derailments/hits in 5 days.

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[Rughugger]

If the state gets it's collective heads out if it's ass, we'd have a nice little metro rail spanning from Duluth to Minneapolis. My grandpa loved trains too and now and then I catch myself staring at them with childlike wonder. :3

[yuki]

Recently around where I live, some group of dumbass teenagers tried to beat a train by racing through the crossbars. As soon as they hit the track they got loving OWNED. The car was turned into a casserole and dragged a mile down the tracks. All 4 teens in the car died, but I can't say the driver didn't deserve it. The light basically screams "STOP HERE OR YOU WILL GET HIT YOU loving MORON" but he tried anyway.

I call Darwin Award maybe.

[Kalphiter]

If the state gets it's collective heads out if it's ass, we'd have a nice little metro rail spanning from Duluth to Minneapolis. My grandpa loved trains too and now and then I catch myself staring at them with childlike wonder. :3

There are big plans for going into Grand Central on the LIRR
This also requires
http://www.mta.info/lirr/News/2008/ThirdTrack.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Line_(Long_Island_Rail_Road)#Third_Main_Line_track
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14lirrli.html?fta=y

Extent of where track will be added


The main line has a lot of trains and when the extension to grand central comes in, it will be chaos. a train comes every 3 minutes at rush hour, adding grand central trains will be chaos.

(green = extent of station)
(red circle = railroad/rod crossing)

New Hyde Park, has 3 road crossings.



Mineola, has a whole mess of crossings.(the very end of the station is shown)


That mess of dirt is a new underpass which is already completed
http://www.transitblogger.com/transit-news/grade-crossing-in-mineola-to-soon-be-gone-forever.php

Mineola is a very congested place. A crossing that was removed along time ago was named the most dangerous crossing in the US. I believe it remains the most dangerous stretch of track in the U.S. It's a very dangerous set-up of roads.

[JimJam]

I hope you're not someone who still thinks it takes one of these trains a mile to stop at 80MPH.

That's what the train vehicle you made does.

[Kalphiter]

That's what the train vehicle you made does.

I know.

Just hold your horses. Brakes in Torque weren't meant for trains. They don't work like a train's.

[Kalphiter]

Bump