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Teen Dies Playing Chicken With Trains: Tragedy Strikes San Lorenzo High School (VIDEO, PHOTO) No, he'll be remembered as a kid who got killed playing chicken with an Amtrak train. A "kind, caring and sweet boy who always put others before himself" doesn't create a tragedy for the crew and...

How many people will stumble onto AU looking for porn, thanks to this post?

What would a radiation detector do if it went by the_traveler?

Putting the political propaganda aside, the real issue is an excess of DHMO.

So long as the carriers are not the engineer, conductor, and other train staff . . .

This may clarify things for people unfamiliar with the distinctions. The Quiet Ones

Affected, not effected.

Andrew Sorenson, pot head I'll leave it to everyone else here to debate the pros and cons of pot legalization.

After Mussolini got the dubious credit for getting the trains to run on time . . .

More The RTD operates bus and light rail in Denver. Comment posted in response:

Include a tourniquet in your travel kit if you go train-hopping.

From Paulus' link: Sounds like Tucker is trying to throw Berk--if you'll pardon the expression--under the bus.

The procedure at Mountain View station also applies at Martinez, CA, AFAIK. The gates cry wolf if a train is approaching, but if the train stops, the gates go up, the bells stop ringing and the lights stop flashing. Then, when the train starts to move, the signals and gates are again activated...

Yes, those state-startling station platforms can wake you up. :D Well, it's made out of steel. What else would they call it? The Steel Bridge in Portland is a double-deck vertical-lift bridge on which the lower (railroad) deck can be raised while sailboats and the like pass underneath without...

DHMO has caused some serious problems, however. It resulted in numerous cancellations and delays on The Empire Builder a couple of years ago, IIRC. I don't recall if those issues resulted in anyone being led off the train in handcuffs however. I believe another kind of DHMO excess at least...

And therein may lie the problem with "quiet cars": their use reduces the flexibility and adaptability of limited equipment. Many people like to visit and socialize with others while on the train; that's what makes train travel more appealing than almost any other type of transportation. If the...

I have mixed feelings here. I understand that the woman did a dumb thing, but did she believe that the crossing signals had been activated, and remained activated, by the stopped train? That sometimes happens, meaning that people could conceivably be waiting for a train that is not coming (or is...

The_traveler, of course, takes train-hopping to an entirely different level. I'll bet the BBC didn't feature that in their documentary.

Are you talking about the kiss statue?

Do you get extra AGR points if you bring a bag of Purina Reindeer Chow?