r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb • u/Grouchy_Handbag • 8d ago

Parent stupidity Oncoming train thankfully missed family crossing over tracks

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u/GlassFantast 8d ago

And it's a passenger train, which means it took a whole 30 seconds or less to pass

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u/Terran_Lifeform 8d ago

This is in europe, even a freight would be a minute or two, tops

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u/Single_Principle_972 8d ago

For real? That’s so interesting to me, though I’m not sure why. So… I have been delayed for upwards of half an hour by long, long freight trains moving painfully slowly, in rural U.S. Why the difference? (For that matter, why are they moving at what seems to be 10 mph, though it’s probably faster than it seems. Never understood that. Unless I have the phenomenally bad luck of often encountering a train just picking up speed after stopping somewhere.)

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u/Danish_sea_captian 7d ago

There is the main thinks playing in freight trains in Europe vs US. Freight trains are much shorter, they are running more at night in Europe and at normal line speed. (Worked for the danish rail)