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  1. M813rc

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    In youth, the ability to devise and implement experiments frequently surges ahead of the ability to objectively evaluate all of the possible outcomes and consequences. I am frequently surprised that my friends and I survived our teen years, and I see I am in good company! Unknown if it was by...
  2. M813rc

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    Hopping trains - seems it was a common thing in our youth. Back in my Marine days when I was stationed on Camp Pendleton, there were still freight trains running up and down the coast to San Diego, etc. My buddy Isaac W and I used to spend a lot of our liberty days in Oceanside or San Diego...
  3. M813rc

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    You are exactly right on this. Trying not to be too technical here - there is X amount of energy that the train is going to impart on the police vehicle (and vice versa, but the energy being applied Tahoe-to-train is meaningless in this instance!). How that energy transfer happens is very...
  4. M813rc

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    When I was a collision reconstructionist, I was invited by Union Pacific to ride in the cab of their E8-powered business train to get the driver's point of view on level crossings. We did a short trip, about 85 miles, through Austin and all the other towns between there and the other side of...
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