Hey @Ed Kapuchinski - have you seen these?

[Philip H]

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/507178

[tom mann]

Wow

[davefoxx]

Dare I say, those look nice!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Oh *****. I knew they were happening but had not seen them.

Damn, those look nice.

FEC has had some really classy paint schemes, except for the pretty boring one that spelled out their name in Arial Black on the side of the hood.

[C855B]

Wow! Sharp! Very nice!

[packers#1]

That is absolutely HAWT

[POVC]

 

Quick, send that photo to Matt at FVM and beg for them in his next run!

Tim

[nkalanaga]

Those are nice - and visible.  No excuse for not seeing one at the crossing!

[peteski]

Those are nice - and visible.  No excuse for not seeing one at the crossing!

Sure there is: Looking down at the smaht phone while texting, while listening to loud music through headphones. 

[nkalanaga]

OK, I'll rephrase that:  no VALID excuse.  Stupidity may be an excuse, but not a valid one. 

Many years ago, out in Pasco, WA, we had a driver run into a BN freight train at the A Street crossing.  Broadside, into a boxcar, in the middle of the afternoon, on a clear, sunny day, sun behind him, perfectly straight, flat street, crossing lights flashing.  He claimed he couldn't see it.  The police claimed he was drunk.  He wasn't hurt, the train wasn't damaged, his car was totaled.  The news media had fun with that one.

[Philip H]

growing up we had a similar incident in Baton Rouge in the 1980's - guy in a VW van broadsided the Fire Department's tiller drive ladder truck, which was responding to a call with lights and sirens.  the VW guy claimed he didn't see it - the tiller driver said the vw bounced off the side like a mosquito and he was tempted to tell the engineer up front to keep going.  They did stop and render aid, but I sort of sympathize with his point.

[delamaize]

growing up we had a similar incident in Baton Rouge in the 1980's - guy in a VW van broadsided the Fire Department's tiller drive ladder truck, which was responding to a call with lights and sirens.  the VW guy claimed he didn't see it - the tiller driver said the vw bounced off the side like a mosquito and he was tempted to tell the engineer up front to keep going.  They did stop and render aid, but I sort of sympathize with his point.

There is a reason I refer to our lights and Sirens as the "do something dumb lights." Because, it never fails, flip'em on, people do something dumb.

[jnevis]

There is a reason I refer to our lights and Sirens as the "do something dumb lights." Because, it never fails, flip'em on, people do something dumb.

I can attest to that!  Lady hit us in an ambulance while we were making a U-turn, at night, lights/siren, on an empty four lane road.  We started the turn to the left and she was behind us.  Instead of going right and around she went left and hit us square in the rear axle.  A foot or so either way we were probably going over.  Myself and another medic were unrestrained getting gear at the time.  She went into the door and I hit off the side, but was padded.  She and her daughter were unrestrained and could have been flown out if the weather hadn't been bad.  Lady a few cars back stopped and was arguing with the Deputy and Trooper that we should have been held at fault because we were making a U-turn in the middle of the road.  Deputy asked if our lights were on then rolled up the window.  Trooper didn't even go that far.

OP- Those are really nice, to bad wrong coast