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Re: LIRR accident in New Hyde Park |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Sun Oct 9 16:35:00 2016, in response to Re: LIRR accident in New Hyde Park, posted by Jersey Mike on Sun Oct 9 13:04:58 2016. Eh. The work train may have been projecting only so much into the train's path. If the locomotive overlapped the EMU's path by ten inches, it's going to gouge out a max of ten inches from the train. That said, I'd rather be in a stoutly constructed car vs a tin can when my train runs into heavy equipment.The flip side of this is that commuter rail isn't very good on 'gas' (btu of energy consumed) despite having enormous advantages over rubber tire IC engine motor vehicles. Pop 3 friends in a Dodge Hellcat or just yourself in a Bolt and you've easily beaten the total energy use of a commuter train (you gotta count the 2/3rd empty reverse trip the thing makes, etc). No cupholders and trunk space on the train, either. |
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