Can they go after the Fuller Warren bridge in Jax, too? And probably all the other bridges there, too.

About 15 years ago I worked for a company in Jacksonville, FL. We had a rail engineering group that did a lot of work for CSX RR. One of my old schoolmates was a project manager at CSX and campaigned to rename a crossing. It was called Ni**er Creek Bridge. I think that maybe sometimes we SHOULD rename things. I’m…

I saw a forest green Jag the other day. It was beautiful largely because it was unique.

Not entirely sure I disagree with that.

Some systems engineer who’s way smarter than me needs to write a comprehensive “For Dummies” guide to PTC to explain why it’s so difficult to implement and to implement correctly. So many moving parts.

Positive Train Control (PTC) would do this. That’s literally what it’s for. This train didn’t randomly lose GPS signal, the PTC wasn’t functioning.

Don’t much have to worry about killing hobby pedestrians.

This is PTC (positive train control). The FRA mandated that all rail needs this by the end of 2018. It’s already been pushed back once. It most assuredly will be again.

I like your screen name.

I work for a transit agency. They’ve installed PTC, it basically drives the train itself - knows where it is so knows how fast it’s going and knows how fast it’s going and can apply brakes or throttle as necessary. Was recently told a story about one area where there’s a school adjacent to the tracks just beyond a…

As soon as she said securing our borders she lost all credibility. Not that she had much to begin with. These people doing this are Americans. You can put a damn dome over the US and keep everyone else out and they would still be happening.

I’ve experienced this. It’s fantastic. Husband was driving and trying to get across three lanes of traffic to get into Express Lanes - it’s tricky and difficult and he was trying to do his best. Asshole gets pissy about it (didn’t cut him off, just drifted toward that lane before realizing someone was there - blind…

So much this. Thank you for writing this.

Pull ups are hard. Someday I will get back into it.

A glass roof feels... unsafe.

Railroads usually require the installation of a sacrificial facade beam when the bridge has low clearance. I would assume that these trucks are actually hitting one of those instead of the bridge. I have a hard time the bridge would withstand repeated collisions of this nature.

If only there were signs and flashing lights to warn drivers!

You taught me a new word today.

Holy shit.

That’s like my nightmare. However, if the riders were to try to evenly distribute their weight and then rock in the opposite direction of the lift chair, they could have dampened the swinging to some extent. I’m not sure how competent my brain would be to think that up if I were on that swinging nightmare, though.