The Most Hardcore Railroad Crossing Ever

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  @philtkaswahl2124 · 1 year ago

  Being in the Philippines, I realize "dude with a durian who tells me things I didn't know about" is not as narrow a category as it would be for other people.

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• BO

  @bootblacking · 1 year ago

  It's bizarre to me that people still try to beat trains through crossings. You're going to lose, and lose big.

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  @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXRunQaOpI&amp;t=511">8:31</a><br>One more error, according to a signal maintainer who worked on this signal, the skull did not flash. A white light illuminated it.

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• MI

  @michaelcockburn9273 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Wow, imagine installing that scream recording...guess the old guy was kind of messed up before he died.&quot; &quot;Uh...according to his schedule, he never installed the scream recording....&quot; Each time someone dies there, a new warning feature mysteriously appears, more shocking than the last. In desperation, the town turns to an exorcist. Exorcist: &quot;Maybe just don&apos;t get hit by trains?&quot;

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  @michellybells8657 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXRunQaOpI&amp;t=533">8:53</a> I&apos;m watching this from Japan, and here our train crossing gates DO have light up arrow signs at gate level, which show you which direction the trains are going. They point in the direction that the train is moving to, not where it&apos;s coming from.

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• LE

  @leoncaw326 · 1 year ago

  We need to bring back Memento Mori in our designs. Some people will ignore, but as a culture it would keep us humbler. 😆

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• JO

  @johnny-smith · 1 year ago

  Bro really took the criticism about the intro being too long and gave it a 5-minute preamble too

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• TU

  @tuckeryoung3881 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXRunQaOpI&amp;t=427">7:07</a> big missed opportunity not calling it &quot;the skull and crossroads&quot;

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• JE

  @jessicabonnen2157 · 1 year ago

  In my hometown in gulf coast Texas, it used to be commonplace for trains to stop for lunch in town. The only issue with this was that they&apos;d stop directly across the main road in town, which is the best way to get to a neighboring, larger town.<br><br>For many years this was a real nuisance but not particularly pressing, until one day, while working in the yard, my great grandfather had a heart attack. My grandfather called an ambulance and they picked him up quickly, but it being lunch time, they were stopped on their way to the hospital in the larger neighboring town. My great grandfather passed away, waiting in the back of the ambulance for the engineers to finish their lunch.<br><br>After his death, the case was picked up by a young lawyer who had just moved to town to start his own practice. He argued, obviously, that it was a pretty terrible idea to let trains stop for an hour each day across the main thoroughfare in town. The court agreed. The trains were no longer allowed to stop across the road. <br><br>The lawyer ended up having kids of his own, one of whom ended up marrying my mom (the granddaughter of the man who died stuck behind the train). When I was a kid, my dad would take us to flatten coins at those very same tracks. <br><br>Now, there&apos;s an overpass over the tracks. Probably for the best.

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• TH

  @TheTuerespendejo · 1 year ago

  The funniest thing they teach you in driver education is “trains always have the right of way” <br><br>Like… who would argue otherwise 😂

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  @ChristianJiang · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXRunQaOpI&amp;t=454">7:34</a> it just occurred to me that I’m so used to seeing B&amp;W pics from that era that I never imagined how brightly coloured that period of time must’ve been in real life

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• JU

  @just_a_hoverfly · 1 year ago

  The rising barriers are not the most extreme system we have. On rail routes that have high speed trains there is an additional set of gates that are made out of a solid steel tube and are made to stop a fully loaded semi from getting on the tracks.

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