Tour of Georgia Better Organized than P-R?

From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."


Sigh.

Jim

You mean for a bunch of Bi Cyclers in tight pants touring JoJa
wrote in message
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From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."


Sigh.

Jim

wrote:
From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."

Sigh.

When they say "difficult railroad crossing," they mean
difficult for the train, not the riders.


It might be done but it would take an enormous amount of political
juice to hold up a real freight train. CSX waits for no man -
we are talking about an organization that insists on its inalienable
right to truck tanker cars of WMD within a mile or two of
the dome of the Capitol, and prevails.

"They do things differently in Belgium" -PvP

Charles wrote:
You mean for a bunch of Bi Cyclers in tight pants touring JoJa
wrote in message
oups.com...

From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."


Sigh.

Jim

wrote in news:1145472952.245573.177840
@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:

From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."


Don't believe everything that you read. If you think that a train
was stopped on that route, then start short selling the stock.

No WAY...

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William O'Hara

William O'Hara wrote:
wrote in news:1145472952.245573.177840
@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:

From cyclingnews' coverage of the ToG second stage:

"14:34 EDT 42km/144.9km to go
The riders will tackle what is listed as a difficult railroad crossing
up ahead. Last year a freight train actually had to stop to let the
race go past."


Don't believe everything that you read. If you think that a train
was stopped on that route, then start short selling the stock.

No WAY...




Dumbass -


You are corrrect.

Due to Newton's Second Law of Motion, trains, once they are started,
are impossible to stop.


thanks,

K. Gringioni.

Kurgan Gringioni wrote:

Dumbass -


You are corrrect.

Due to Newton's Second Law of Motion, trains, once they are started,
are impossible to stop.


thanks,

K. Gringioni.

Reminds me of a story from a few years back. One of my nieces was
asking me about track racing, and how you stopped the bikes since they
didn't have brakes. I told her you didn't stop.

My Mom chimes in, "well, dear, of course you do or else you'd still be
riding the damn thing".

Kurgan Gringioni wrote:

Due to Newton's Second Law of Motion, trains, once they are started,
are impossible to stop.


Newton's 2nd law also applies to people posting to usenet.

--
Bill Asher

Kurgan Gringioni wrote:
Due to Newton's Second Law of Motion, trains, once they are started,
are impossible to stop.

William Asher wrote:
Newton's 2nd law also applies to people posting to usenet.

I'm not sure one can explain usenet behaviour using classical mechanics.
Something more random and irrational is required, similar perhaps to the
study of Brownian motion of blondes.

Due to Newton's Second Law of Motion, trains, once they are started,
are impossible to stop.

Like perpetual motion? Cool. But how do they unload the trains or
change crew?

Of course, a photo doesn't tell us if the train really stopped, but it
looks pretty big to me:

http://velonews.com/slideshow.php?article_id=9770&image_id=14446&dir=/images/dom/


Jim