Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Brick

On the ride home, a group of teens just outside of the Rouge Hill GO station threw a brick at the train as it sped by at a speed of 110 km/hr. The brick made contact with the window next to where I was sitting. The sound it made left my ear ringing and when I realized what had happened, I felt dizzy and sick because if it wasn't for the interior pane of glass to absorb the remaining force of the impact, I'd probably not be here right now or would have been seriously injured.

I no longer can make myself sit in a window seat and this incident has only further convinced me that we are becoming more of a society made up of people who are morally bankrupt.

8 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 at 12:33 AM

    GO Trains do not travel at 110KM per hour. Even the newest additions to the fleet are not capable of hauling a consist at that rate of speed.

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  2. Cindy Smith, Editor, Education for the Driving MassesFebruary 28, 2010 at 7:19 AM

    Can you help me out by providing the top speed then because we were travelling pretty fast.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 1, 2010 at 9:36 PM

    From what I've seen, the top cruising speed of a GO Lakeshore East Train is about 80 km/h.

    Measured using a GPS.

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  4. Cindy Smith, Editor, Education for the Driving MassesMarch 1, 2010 at 9:56 PM

    They will go faster.

    According to GO Transit who kindly answered an email from me early this morning and I just hadn't gotten around to updating this yet, the MP40 locomotives (the newer ones shaped like a bullet) have a top cruising speed of 150 km/hr but rush hour peak is 133 km/hr.

    Average cruising speed is 100 km/hr and as fast as 120 km/hr which explains why people driving west/east on the 401 can drive in tandem with a train, or can pace it, or have the train disappear from view ...

    The older Bi-levels have a top speed of 133 kph.

    If the top cruising speed was only 80 km/hr, it would take a lot longer than 45 minutes to get from Oshawa to Union (with all stops to Pickering). 7:55 to 8:40.

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  5. NoraApril 17, 2014 at 1:14 PM

    Hey Cindy!

    Just killing time by reading through some old TCT posts and I just realized that I was on that very same car, same train, same time - I remember this very well (as I recall, we had to evacuate the car because of concerns that the window would suddenly collapse, having been shattered by the brick).

    A near-meeting all those years ago LOL.

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  6. AnonymousJune 21, 2015 at 2:28 PM

    That glass is made to withstand a 22.

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  7. GeorgeJune 21, 2015 at 10:53 PM

    Bullet proof glass? Now that's funny.

    It's double tempered glass made the same as a windshield, just twice as much tempering.

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