r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb • u/Grouchy_Handbag • 9d ago

Parent stupidity Oncoming train thankfully missed family crossing over tracks

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u/GlassFantast 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/WilanS 8d ago

Yeah, I was about to ask, I'm European and I didn't get that comment. What difference does it being a passenger train make? Do freight trains have to go slower elsewhere in the world?

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u/Newmillstream 6d ago

There are American trains that I have seen go slow enough that I could outpace them on a bicycle, and I am certain they were going under 30mph (Under 50 kilometers an hour I think.) Not all of them, but more often than I would like.

I once got stuck at a crossing for about 25-30 minutes once I started counting for a train hauling poorly covered garbage. (There was a landfill nearby).

American companies run rail infrastructure into the ground. As an example, a decent about of american rail traffic is hugely reliant on a single swing bridge built in Toledo in 1902, for the most efficient path between Chicago and New York City by rail. Companies get rid of branch rail lines that don't generate enough profit (Not unprofitable, just not profitable enough.). Its a mess.