Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat! To : alt.tv.er From : rhythmking2004 Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 15:21:04 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:05:27 -0400, "Sharon" wrote: >> What I don't get is why they were on country roads in the first place >> to hit the thing. > >It looked to me that they were driving a state highway. Not all states have >6 lane super highways from point-A to point-B. > >Even the New York State Thruway has its share of car/deer accidents. I can >drive 40 miles to the next city and routinely see 6 roadkill deer on the >side of the road. > >-Sharon OK, but that still doesn't explain why they would have been doing that. If they wanted to get from Chicago to Colorado in the shortest amount of time, they should have been on an interstate. And I-80, which goes from Chicago to at least Reno, IS a 4-lane interstate (two lanes each way), and looked nothing like that. .