Metro-North Train Caught On Camera Slamming Into Tractor-Trailer In Rockland County

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  1. Bud A.

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    Another truck loses a contest with a train.

     
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  3. Chinatown

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    That's an Abilene Motor Express truck.
     
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  4. Mike250rs

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    WTF was that driver doing?

    Can see the concrete wall directly in front of the tracks forcing him into a 90* turn that is impossible to make.
     
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  5. Dale thompson

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    Staying in the truck once the gates went down kinda looks like a suicide attempt.
     
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  6. Linte_Loco

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  7. lovesthedrive

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    They are wooden cross boards. They come down on you you have two choices, both mean breking a crosing arm. Crossing arm is far cheaper than getting the trailer cut in two. That is unless you wanted a new trailer.
     
  8. mjd4277

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  9. Infosaur

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    Lol, the Rockland line. Metro North's idiot cousin they never speak of. It actually runs on NJT rails below Suffren. I wasn't even aware they ran service much father up the line, but then there's been lots of growth up that way.
     
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  10. x1Heavy

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    Concrete wall wins.
     
  11. Long FLD

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    Looks like he can make the corner now that his trailer is shorter.
     
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  12. HoneyBadger67

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    It doesn't pay to get off the truck routes in NJ. Probably following a GPS and no backup plan for when he missed his turn.
     
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