Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

This is the Central Illinois railroad. It gets used two times a day, Monday through Friday. In order from north to south.

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Andrewsaxamophone wrote:This is the Central Illinois railroad. It gets used two times a day, Monday through Friday. In order from north to south.

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I'd like to see proof of that. At some of those locations, there are cars parked right next to the tracks, close enough that it looks like a train would clip them.

Here is your proof...
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Heh, at that one crossing I thought I was watching one of those wacky Mexican crossing videos. Where everyone's darting across to beat the train, and the engineer is laying on his horn terrified there's going to be a crash...

cabman701 wrote:I'd like to see proof of that. At some of those locations, there are cars parked right next to the tracks, close enough that it looks like a train would clip them.

I apologize... I didn't mean to make it sound like I didn't believe you... poor choice of words. That is an aweome video though. I've seen a few pictures of that engine on RailPictures.net.

Jeez I would never ride a box car like that guy did in the video. If he fell off riding the front like that, he would be instantly crushed. It wouldn't be hard to imagine, either. All that would need to happen would be the engineer applying the brakes just a bit too hard and boom...game over. He also stepped off the locomotive all wrong.

Doesn't look that bad for 1-2 weekly trains. I've seen worse track conditions than that on semi-active lines.

Go ahead if you want to get it.

popibros1 wrote:ok ill try

Yeah... that would be cool with the triangle gates and all.

Since I own one of those...they are pretty solid. I will admit though...I don't care for the design. Looks like somebody made it in their backyard. They should of at least made it two sided...