THE BRIGHTLINE HUNGERS

>>2028924 (OP)
Do like the N&W and Southern did, buy hood units and run them long hood forward

>>2028924 (OP)
Based. Fuck firefighters.

OUTTA DA FUCKIN WAY FIREBITCH

CHOO CHOO MUDDAHFUKKAH

>>2028927
Why not just run some old b-units on the front to ensure maximum carnage?

>>2028952
Gate was down, a freight train had cleared the crossing but a Brightline train was approaching so the gates stayed down and the fire truck drove around a car waiting and entered the crossing (crossing is for a two-lane street). Fire truck driver probably assumed the gates were malfunctioning and staying closed when they should have opened after the freight train.

We should recreate the Crash at Crush with an Acela and a Brightline

>>2028951
That should really help the department's response time metrics.

>>2028969
Why don't they make a fire train and just have a really really long ladder and hose?

>>2028954
I really feel like FEC/Brightline should for their own sakes put an indicator showing which direction trains are coming from to stop people from assuming that the gates are malfunctioning.

>>2028955
We should tax cheese
The Cheese Tax! The Cheese Tax!
You got to pay the ch33se tax every time you're cooking
When the cheese drawer opens this puppy comes looking
The rul3s are the rules and the facts are the facts
But when the ch33se drawer opens, you gotta pay the tax

>>2028995
Maybe people should be more patient.

>>2028995
You think people in florida look at signs on the road?

>>2028995
or maybe people should have the common decency to not cross while the gates are down lmao this is not a problem in non-retarded countries

>>2029032
>in non-retarded countries
like uh,
uhhh......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMYH9dlxpM

>>2028995
They should charge the firefighters on that vehicle with trespassing and reckless endangerment (or whatever the terms are in local law). Send the entire surviving crew of the vehicle to jail. Trains Don't Fuck Around And Nor Should Train Companies.

>>2028954
proof that firemen are retards
only thing they do right is wash their trucks all day

>>2028954
Gates were up

>>2029272
Why do you lie about something you can see with your own eyes?

>crashing into idiotic Florida cagers

So fucking based.

>>2028937
#afab

>>2029344
Simply epic, Chang.

I wish the brightline a very happy new year, may it devour the unroadworthy in far greater numbers

>>2029275
Based on the ugly yellow building on the left, it's clear that the train was traveling northbound and hit the fire truck at SE 1st Street.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Delray+Beach,+FL/@26.4595764,-80.0709475,187m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88d8dffc90ec6ae3:0xc7780128536eb8b8!8m2!3d26.4614625!4d-80.0728201!16zL20vMHJxMXE?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

However, the gates are designed at SE 1st Street and every other Brightline crossing that unlike regular crossings, there are gates on all four sides, so if one was down (correctly) and the others went up, they really WERE malfunctioning.

>>2029545
Why didn't you pull up street view and look for yourself? They're "quad gates" but the gates on the left side are small and only for the pedestrian portion. The main gates only cover the the near side portion.

So, no, the gates didn't malfunction. The firetruck just drove on the wrong side of the road to go around them.

>>2028924 (OP)
Why did all Floridians become retarded when the Brightline started operating. We've always had freight and this shit never happened. And it still only ever happens with the Brightline. Why?

>>2029602
Brightline is way faster than freight

>>2028995
But what if the indicators are malfunctioning?

>>2029615
The change of this happening in a given hour should be less than 1 in 100,000,000 for a proper system.

>>2029552
The way that the gates are designed seal off the crossing completely. Here's a normal, rural exit where there isn't any additional gates and will only cover one lane (a car could maneuver around these). The place isn't specific but is there for transparency reasons.

>>2029685
Are you retarded?

>>2029552
>>2029685
As illustrated, here is the angles drawn on. Notice that in this case, the gate is much shorter to cover only one lane.

>>2029552
>>2029688
...uh, scratch that, it looks like it really DIDN'T cover the other side after all.

>>2029689
>the little gate for the pedestrians
cute

>>2029689
If someone is on the crossing when the gates close, you really do want them to get clear.
What you don't want is for fuckwads to go round the barriers after they've come down. Train don't stop for that, not 'til afterwards.

>>2029699
>If someone is on the crossing when the gates close, you really do want them to get clear.
Great point! In multi track crossings where the tracks are seperated a bit, you'll even have certain gates not come down. In this case, if a train is coming on the near track, the second gate on the right won't come down.

In Yurop we don't have this problem

Once again superior American infrastructure saves the day

>>2029891
>Manned grade crossings
We automated ours decades ago

>>2029897
It's an automated crossing. The signal box you're looking at is a historic building, so it's left intact while the crossing is controlled from a larger signal box elsewhere.

>>2029898
Damn straight. If it was manned then there would be three shifts, about a dozen people, permanently on strike.

>>2029945
yeah, as opposed to those dozen people being unemployed for the last 10 years

Ho come burger seem to have problems with leve crossings every other day?
Like, the object approaching you is the size of a house

>>2031226
People who drives cars have been conditioned to assume that consequences are for other people to worry about (specifically, the insurance company and the people who designed the airbags and crumple zones), hence they will just blindly plow into collision-ripe scenarios knowing that 99.99% of the time, their assumptions will prove correct. Trains are an edge case which is why it's so funny to watch car people face the consequences of their actions for once in their miserable NPC lives. It's too bad more of them aren't dying grisly deaths for the delight of onlookers.

NOM

Half of their locomotives must be out of service for repairs at any given time.

>>2031226
315 grade crossings between 235 miles and a train that goes 110mph when most people are used to seeing them go 30mph

I actually don't think you have as many crossings per mile anywhere else

>>2031249

the /n/ cyclist fears his apex predator, the 2012 ford expedition

>>2032669

>>2032684
Why doesn't the FEC grade separate?

>>2032811
Because it would cost a fortune and people would complain about their crossings being closed. Why don't you people understand things like this cost money?

>>2032814
>cost a fortune
On the ex-Pennsy, there is an excessive amount of crossing points under Main Line, including a fair number that are now just hiking paths because nobody lives there and the road's a distant memory but the tunnel wasn't filled in ever.
But many of these are 8 feet vertical clearance or less and one lane. Maybe the FEC could do that, and sink the crossing roads instead.
>rip out grade hardware
>dig a shitty one lane underpass
>reinforce with basic bitch girders it doesn't collapse
>half-ass some hot-mix to the edge of the property boundary at no more than 8 feet wide, no shoulder
>make the municipality or town or state (depending on the crossing) deal with connecting the half-assed macadam back to the roadway, and deal with signalling car traffic

>>2032815
>sink the crossing roads instead.
IN SOUTH FLORIDA ON THE COAST

The rest of your post shows you are obviously retarded and have no idea what you're talking about.

>>2032816
If the road floods, it's literally not the railroad's problem.
That's the point of sinking the road (not the railroad, and no bridges) and making the crossing as dogshit as possible. It would be an ass move if FEC did something like that, but externalizing all of the costs of the other transport method is one way to limit the cost as much as possible.

>>2032817
Your entire line of reasoning is that of a child's. You have no idea how the world works. Please stop posting.

>>2032669
I bet that retard believed "lights are for cars" until he finally found a vehicle who wouldn't slam on the brakes for him.

>>2029610
>>2032684
Brightline only travels at 110mph in the exclusive right-of-way section along highway 528 (new track constructed specifically for Brightline between the CSX track on the coast and Orlando International Airport).
The shared section on CSX track forces the trains to slow down to 65-70mph (max). Freight gets up to that speed around Palm Bay/Melbourne all the time.

>>2033626
Brightline doesn't share track with CSX. It's FEC.

>>2028924 (OP)
Another one yesterday in Jensen Beach, Martin County.
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/martin-county/2025/02/24/2-flown-to-hospital-after-jensen-beach-brightline-car-crash-feb-23/79995552007/

Is anyone keeping a running tally of Brightline's carnage?

>>2034946
The FRA does.

https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/query/HwyRailAccidentSummaryByRR.aspx

Here's January 2020-November(it lets you pick December, but I don't think there's data for it) 2024.

>>2034957

>>2034958
>>2034957
I forgot it opened earlier than 2020. With all the data we can see the COVID drop.

Looking at google maps some of these grade crossings look exceptionally retarded.

>>2036431
this one right infront of a very busy intersection

>>2034909
crossing at this intersection. How hard would it have been to build a viaduct?

>>2032669
Seems like there's a bunch of these intersections/grade crossings. It looks like it would be easy to get stuck on the tracks if traffic is busy.

>>2036433
>How hard would it have been to build a viaduct?
Peak /n/ retardation

>>2036448
Nigga just build a bridge the ancient romans could do it it's really not that complicated.

>>2036455
PEAK
/n/
RETARDATION

>>2036433
If you mean for the railroad, the project would never happen because fuck building new rail ever in this country.
If you mean for the road, the approaches are (obviously) fucky with the roundabout configuration and our bridges fall down anyway.

>>2036455
>the ancient romans could do it
The ancient romans had slave labor. The modern construction crew requires a pay stipend and things like water breaks. Meanwhile, the east coast railroads in the US were half built with fallen Irishmen in the track ballast.
Railway viaducts are lost technology at this point, like Greek fire.

>>2036485
>our bridges fall down anyway
Can you name even five American bridges that have collapsed that weren't hit by something or set on fire?

>>2036492
1 pittsburgh
2 Schoharie Creek Bridge
3 Hoan bridge
4 FIU pedestrian bridge
5 Mianus River Bridge

>>2036534
So over 600k bridges in the nation, you have about 10 bridges collapse over the last 45 years. Not exactly "bridges falling down" numbers.

>>2036614
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge#Collapse
This one was just too many fucking cars on the fucker, which was too old.

>>2036534
How many in Yurop?

First fatality of the year just a few days ago in Fort Pierce. Apparently they blew the horn multiple times yet the "pedestrian" still failed to get off the tracks, seems suicidal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-dead-brightline-train-crash-170654445.html

>>2032815
Yeah, you can't dig down in Florida, it rains too much, the soil is too porous, you're too close the coast, and the water table is too high for it to work. The best part of the FEC is also the biggest annoyance, which is that it runs exclusively through the highest-density coastal urban core of the region.

It's too new. Are you going to take the risk of spending billions in infrastructure for a service that might not be around in 10 years?

>>2037836
>Yeah, you can't dig down in Florida, it rains too much, the soil is too porous, you're too close the coast, and the water table is too high for it to work.
Huh?