slantvaliant
slantvaliant Dork
12/20/11 11:17 a.m.

Train tracks, railroad crossing guards, flashing lights, bells ... Maybe you shouldn't drive around the guard to cross the tracks just yet.

Polar Express vs Mustang

N Sperlo
N Sperlo SuperDork
12/20/11 11:31 a.m.

Women...

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 11:32 a.m.

6 cylinder automatic?

93EXCivic
93EXCivic SuperDork
12/20/11 11:38 a.m.

$20 says they were texting.

cwh
cwh SuperDork
12/20/11 11:44 a.m.

Darwin Award candidate.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
12/20/11 11:44 a.m.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I bet it was because he couldn't hear that bell ring. See... because you have to believe to... oh berkeley it. Nevermind.
Brotus7
Brotus7 Reader
12/20/11 11:54 a.m.

The train was going 8mph.....

Barring a mechanical failure of the car: If the crossing is 20ft wide, and the Mustang was idling at 10mph, and is 20ft long, then the car cut out around the barrier when the train was a mere 30 ft away.

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 11:57 a.m.

Engineers...

Salanis
Salanis SuperDork
12/20/11 12:04 p.m.

Inertia is a bitch.

oldsaw
oldsaw SuperDork
12/20/11 12:07 p.m.
from the comments section: The definition of a "railroad crossing" was a mistake a motorist never makes twice.
pinchvalve
pinchvalve SuperDork
12/20/11 12:10 p.m.

More proof that all Mustangs should be V8 GTs.

N Sperlo
N Sperlo SuperDork
12/20/11 12:12 p.m.
Salanis wrote: Inertia is a bitch.

Well stated. You made me LOL. Good work.

Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
12/20/11 12:14 p.m.

Maybe she was trying to get Tom Hanks autograph.

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 SuperDork
12/20/11 12:15 p.m.

You can hardly blame the woman. Most grade crossings are very ambiguous. There's only the dinging of the bell, the flashing red lights (who could know what THEY mean?) and a barricade.

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 12:18 p.m.
1988RedT2 wrote: You can hardly blame the woman. Most grade crossings are very ambiguous. There's only the dinging of the bell, the flashing red lights (who could know what THEY mean?) and a barricade.

Plus, trains are, you know, bigass...

oldsaw
oldsaw SuperDork
12/20/11 12:21 p.m.
Woody wrote:
1988RedT2 wrote: You can hardly blame the woman. Most grade crossings are very ambiguous. There's only the dinging of the bell, the flashing red lights (who could know what THEY mean?) and a barricade.
Plus, trains are, you know, bigass...

Childhood flashback?

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 3:34 p.m.
oldsaw wrote:

What scale is that exactly? I'd love to have one of those.

Gearheadotaku
Gearheadotaku GRM+ Memberand Dork
12/20/11 3:49 p.m.

Who keeps blowing their horn at me? Ok, Ok, I'll go....

Donebrokeit
Donebrokeit Reader
12/20/11 4:27 p.m.

Nice pic oldsaw is that you? if so can you enlighten us on this set up?

Thanks Paul B

oldsaw wrote:

Childhood flashback?

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 7:14 p.m.

Sweet mother of God I want to ride my own train around the yard.

petegossett
petegossett GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 9:01 p.m.

I remember going to an auction when I was a kid. The estate's owner was a major railroad buff - to the point of having an actual narrow-gauge steam locomotive circling his property!

For some reason I couldn't talk my dad into buying it...

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/20/11 11:25 p.m.

I never understood why people have to go around train barracades. It never ends well. The train might not get you this time.. but eventually it will hunt you down

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid Dork
12/21/11 1:04 p.m.
mad_machine wrote: I never understood why people have to go around train barracades. It never ends well. The train might not get you this time.. but eventually it will hunt you down

"Woo Woo?

Woo Woo?

Oh No! That's a Train!"

Sky_Render
Sky_Render Reader
12/21/11 1:12 p.m.
pinchvalve wrote: More proof that all Mustangs should be V8 GTs.

Bravo, sir.

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
12/21/11 2:01 p.m.
what the reporter said: She was visibly shaken, according to those on the scene, and was transported to Covenant Medical Center, were she was listed in stable condition, according to authorities.
what the reporter wanted to say: She was visibly shaken, according to those on the scene, and was transported to Covenant Medical Center, were she was listed as having E36 M3 for brains.

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