Coconut in the Corner Pocket: Brightline 3, FLA 0

[Veer_G]

Faster than a speeding locomotive ... NOT.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/1...-new-high-speed-train-during-preview-run.html

I wonder what you use to get something like that off your windshield?

 

[308pirate]

Operating speed

• 79 mph (127 km/h) Miami – West Palm Beach
• 110 mph (177 km/h) West Palm Beach – Cocoa (planned)
• 125 mph (201 km/h) Cocoa – Orlando (planned)

America's definition of "high speed train" is about 100 mph short of the rest of the world's. What a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[Veer_G]

America's definition of "high speed train" is about 100 mph short of the rest of the world's. What a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

 

[bogeybrown]

America's definition of "high speed train" is about 100 mph short of the rest of the world's. What a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

It's apparently still fast enough to smoke people trying to beat it at a crossing?

 

[1J04]

Natural Selection at it's finest.

*insert blonde joke here*

 

[Veer_G]

It's apparently still fast enough to smoke people trying to beat it at a crossing?

.45 ACP: can you outrun 900 fps? Or, shot placement, baby.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

At that speed her body most likely exploded after contact. They'll be walking around picking up body parts for sure.

 

[Veer_G]

At that speed her body most likely exploded after contact. They'll be walking around picking up body parts for sure.

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[308pirate]

At that speed her body most likely exploded after contact. They'll be walking around picking up body parts for sure.

Kinda like those red sprays I see on the freeway where a semi vaporized a deer?

 

[Veer_G]

Kinda like those red sprays I see on the freeway where a semi vaporized a deer?

A Tartare Glaze of Venison on Asphalt.

 

[QuickNDirty]

I asked my train electrician friend what they use to get that stuff off of the locomotive. Will let y'all know what he says.

 

[QuickNDirty]

Per electrician

So, fun fact. Union labor won't do that job. They call in contractors or Mexicans. Usual method is to dig out the bigger chunks with sticks or something. Then hot pressure wash, and hope the cancer from the locomotive kills the AIDS in the blood

Only short lines or very small shops use high strength cleaners. EPA gestapo gives the nut smack to the big railroads for using shit that works.

 

[Veer_G]

Note to self: Avoid the liver at Mexican restaurants if it's only on the occasional special.

 

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America's definition of "high speed train" is about 100 mph short of the rest of the world's. What a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

I literally do faster than this in traffic on a near daily basis...

 

[ArmyJerry]

I rode a train in Pudong China that was moving at 450 kph, the next track over has sister train going other direction at same speed, did this trip about 20 times over a few years. Few months after my last trip there one came off the tracks they slowed them down to 400 kph. Loved the speed, train build by some european company, maglev type train. much faster than any other bullet train I ever rode n anywhere else in the world.