Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning

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• LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I know the same amount of information after reading the article as I did before. That “article” could have been a headline.

  Train collides with tractor trailer - no injuries - details still unknown

  I feel disrespected by that article. Harrumph.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s incredible how little that train slowed down (if it did at all).

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Think of the mass of a freight train carrying over a miles worth of material behind it. Then a truck

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t even know how that gets started. Let alone stops.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These things take miles to slow down, usually tens of carriages loaded with metal, liquid, and whatever else.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FREIGHT TRAIN

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  • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well that looked like a three locomotive formation, unless one of those is something else.

    Who knows how eternally long that train is

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dipshit driver just standing there almost got wiped out by his truck being whipped around like a piece of tin foil. If you’re in that situation, you run

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No one was hurt. The truck could have been disabled somehow mechanically.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OP means the truck driver was standing right there watching this go down. Yeah, he should have run, not because the truck whipping around was predictable, because nothing is predictable in such an impact.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like bottomed out on the track. Those car carriers have a pretty low deck.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Choo choo im a train.

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did anyone else’s parents tell them when they were growing up that it you put a coin on the tracks you could derail the train?

  Yeah… About that…

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  • pleasejustdie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to flatten coins that way all the time as a kid. Did it on dates, worked really well. First time I heard that was on a date and I laughed a bit too hard I guess, didn’t work that time.

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    • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was at a railway museum once when some boy scouts were there for a visit.

      The museum staff were very careful to tell them to never flatten coins on a railroad track (it could derail the train!)

      Yeah, and doing nothing could too (i.e. lack of maintenance).

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My dad took me to the tracks to flatten dimes. He was an engineer, never taught me bullshit.

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• GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No parking!

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Council is getting really aggressive with this new campaign.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine what that sounds like and feels like for the engineer

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like a sneeze

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• Pappabosley@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Poor guy at the car yard having to call his customers and explain what happened.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you get videos to play in the post, OP?

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• neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where was this? It looks familiar…

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  • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everywhere, USA

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