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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I once rode an excursion on the Clinchfield RR, and they had just, a few days earlier, had a head-on collision of two freight trains inside of a tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the wreckage had been pulled out of the tunnel and was piled up outside near each end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an awful predicament that would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would be no way to jump and get away from the crush, and the tunnel would hold the trains in a straight line, so nothing could deflect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the force of both trains would go right to the point of impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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