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Intercontinental coast to coast side by side train track.

One train leaves NY city at 6am (eastern time) for Los Angles. It travels at 200 mph and stops for an hour every 4 hours.

Train leaves LA at 3pm Pacific time. It travels at 400 miles an hour and stops for two hours every 3 hours.

When they meet, which train is closer to NY city??
 

ohioboy said:
Intercontinental coast to coast side by side train track.

One train leaves NY city at 6am (eastern time) for Los Angles. It travels at 200 mph and stops for an hour every 4 hours.

Train leaves LA at 3pm Pacific time. It travels at 400 miles an hour and stops for two hours every 3 hours.

When they meet, which train is closer to NY city??
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A figment of someone's imagination. Any train plying between NY and LA is not "intercontinental".
 
Notice after intercontinental , I said "coast to coast". "Continent to Continent" is not "coast to coast" combine the whole sentence. Anyway it is a joke/riddle not a Doctoral thesis.
 
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Notice after intercontinental , I said "coast to coast". "Continent to Continent" is not "coast to coast" combine the whole sentence. Anyway it is a joke/riddle not a Doctoral thesis.
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Exactly. And how does one solve a " joke/riddle"? By finding the "joke/riddle", that's how. My answer: Any train plying between NY and LA is not "intercontinental". That is my answer.

If a plane crashes on the NY-N.J. state line are the survivors buried in NY or NJ? Find the joke/riddle.
 
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ohioboy said:
Never mind, you are making a big flippin deal out of it for no other reason but to play mind games. I'm UNwatching this thread, pound away.
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I'm not playing any games. I gave you my answer to your riddle. What's the problem? You are upset because I didn't give you the right answer? Seriously, what is happening here? :unsure:
 
ohioboy said:
Intercontinental coast to coast side by side train track.

One train leaves NY city at 6am (eastern time) for Los Angles. It travels at 200 mph and stops for an hour every 4 hours.

Train leaves LA at 3pm Pacific time. It travels at 400 miles an hour and stops for two hours every 3 hours.

When they meet, which train is closer to NY city??
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haha... you got me at Eastern & Pacific time....:ROFLMAO:
 
I personally know AMWHACK non NEC service is incapable of going more then 80+ MPH on a good day. Sometimes a train will show up unusually late and at times it never shows up or even stay on schedule due to crew issues, equipment failure, and/or various train orders, grade crossing accidents, derailments, host road hostility, track warrants, plant problems or even operating crew outlaw time violations. In smaller rural areas the stations are unmanned so the passengers have not one clue as to what's going on.

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Well, there are unknown factors in solving this problem. First is Amtrak. the only time Amtrak trains travel over 20 miles an hour is when they are derailing. When the train left NYC, there's a two hour delay getting over the Hudson- that's standard. Then it rained-Amtrak trains do not run in the rain. About 10 miles out, there's an engine problem, -at least a four hour delay. So if an Amtrak train left LA, and one left from NYC, when would they meet? Ahhh, that is the sound of one hand clapping. With Amtrak, there is always hope.

BTW, my brother, who is terrified of flying, rode Amtrak from Florida to NYC He's the one , who told me Amtrak doesn't run when it rains. He was stuck for six hours sitting on a track during a rain storm. He would get 8888 faced drunk, and fly after his endless train trip.
 
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Well, there are unknown factors in solving this problem. First is Amtrak. the only time Amtrak trains travel over 20 miles an hour is when they are derailing. When the train left NYC, there's a two hour delay getting over the Hudson- that's standard. Then it rained-Amtrak trains do not run in the rain. About 10 miles out, there's an engine problem, -at least a four hour delay. So if an Amtrak train left LA, and one left from NYC, when would they meet? Ahhh, that is the sound of one hand clapping. With Amtrak, there is always hope.

BTW, my brother, who is terrified of flying, rode Amtrak from Florida to NYC He's the one , who told me Amtrak doesn't run when it rains. He was stuck for six hours sitting on a track during a rain storm. He would get 8888 faced drunk, and fly after his endless train trip.
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OH so they call British Rail ''Amtrak'' over there huh ? :sneaky: BR don't run if there's wet leaves or even the slightest drift of snow on the line either :rolleyes:
 
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