Video: don't block the level crossing (no matter how small the train)

[jamesontheroad]

This video was taken at Hermann Park in Houston, Texas a few days ago. A car queuing to enter the parking lot stopped on the miniature train tracks as the barriers dropped in front and behind.

http://youtu.be/B4ztJPUehdY

Apparently no injuries to all concerned, but proof that when it comes to level crossings, even a miniature train beats a car!

[youtube]B4ztJPUehdY[/youtube]

 

[DJL]

That should be shown to potential drivers to educate them on the dangers of levels crossings!

 

[cjp]

This video was taken at Hermann Park in Houston, Texas a few days ago. A car queuing to enter the parking lot stopped on the miniature train tracks as the barriers dropped in front and behind.

http://youtu.be/B4ztJPUehdY

Apparently no injuries to all concerned, but proof that when it comes to level crossings, even a miniature train beats a car!

I do not understand why the train driver did not see the car and react in time to stop the train - these miniature trains do not travel fast.
The entire thing smacks of unsafe working practises and "Heads should roll"

 

[455driver]

I do not understand why the train driver did not see the car and react in time to stop the train - these miniature trains do not travel fast.
The entire thing smacks of unsafe working practises and "Heads should roll"

Another know all! :roll:

A car parks on a level crossing, gets hit by a train and its the train drivers fault! You really dont have a clue do you!

The train driver would have put the brake in as soon as he saw the car blocking the line, the brake would then take a few seconds to apply, the train would then slow down, by now the train is in the side of the car.

How fast do you think the train should have stopped/ what sort of distance should it have been able to stop in?

A train doesnt stop as efficiently as a car but hey what do I know, I just drive trains for a living!

 

[Zoidberg]

A bit of coverage in the Mail; includes a photo from a different angle.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ure-train-collides-car-nearly-flips-over.html

A miniature train that has ferried passengers around Houston’s Hermann Park for nearly 50 years smashed into a car on Sunday.

Video shows the car sitting on the tracks just in front of the oncoming train near the Houston Zoo.

And while the train is small, it appeared to pack a punch as it nearly flipped the car over.

It’s unclear why the car was there, but logic would follow that someone decided some train tracks were an appropriate place to park a car.

At one third the size of an old steam train, the replica 1863 C.P. Huntington doesn’t look all that daunting.

But the owners of a gold Honda Accord are no doubt wishing they’d had more respect for the locomotive’s power.

Thankfully, no one was injured in the collision, but one man can be heard calmly telling fellow passengers to ‘hold on,’ prior to impact.

One child’s well-timed groan at the end of the video sums up the experience appropriately.

 

[michael769]

but proof that when it comes to level crossings, even a miniature train beats a car!

personally I'd describe that as a draw!