On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:39:01AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:39:28 -0700, > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 07:23:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Just in case you *aren't* being sarcastic, or there are people on > > > > the list from places that are far, far from subway trains: yes, > > > > subways have their own dedicated tracks. Of course, when the power > > > > goes out, the Amtrak control stations go dead, so there is a > > > > slightly higher possibility of 2 passenger trains plowing into each > > > > other. > > > > > > Not really. Every railroad out there, including subway and commuter > > > systems, stops and proceeds slowly for signals. > > > > ...in exactly the same fasion airliners lands smoothly on their > > destination runway, instead of swatting down high rises. > > Don't be an idiot. There are no steering wheels on railroad engines. > They run down tracks. That's all they can do, unless the tracks are > damaged, somehow. And then, the whole train doesn't "jump" to another > track, and keep on going...
...it spreads itself over *all* the tracks, sideways, so any other train approaching that point is likely to come to grief in the wreckage. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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