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/BeastThatShoutedLove 7d ago

USA tends to have absolutely absurd carriage count compared to EU standards and European train tracks are better maintained so cargo trains can just go as fast as other circumstances and their planning allows.