Steam & Excursion > Scariest Airport in the World? (Steam Railroad Related)

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/airport-considered-scariest-world-why-013120400.html


Not Likely. 

Victor Baird
 

"is considered ..."

Another useless-but-popular bit of English.
Is it just Americans that like it so well?

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Not Likely. 
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> Victor Baird
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Havana's Jose Marti International Airport had a similar runway grade crossing up until about 1981. 

I don't know who set the criteria on what's scary and what's not, but I can think of at least a half dozen airports with commercial airline service that are more scary. As in get you killed scary.

There is a posting on here about Plant 42 in Palmdale, California where the railroad crosses a taxiway:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?18,5603135,5603282#msg-5603282

 

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com

webmaster Wrote:
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> There is a posting on here about Plant 42 in
> Palmdale, California where the railroad crosses a
> taxiway:
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> https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?18
> ,5603135,5603282#msg-5603282
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>  

The track in question was an industrial spur that served the one of the aircraft plants at the airport.

timz Wrote:
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> "is considered ..."
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> Another useless-but-popular bit of English.
> Is it just Americans that like it so well?

Code for click bait.

Who handles dispatching for the railroad passing the runway?

Air traffic control?

Posted from Android

Thought there was another on Gibralta also, but it is a major road. Winston Churchill Avenue
Regards,DK

No doubt the same as any other vehicle that wants to enter a runway -- call the tower or ground control and get permission.

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> Who handles dispatching for the railroad passing
> the runway?
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> Air traffic control?
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> Posted from Android

The Ground Controller up in the tower, they control all of the other ground traffic in the Aircraft Movement Area.

This.

Victor Baird


timz Wrote:
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> No doubt the same as any other vehicle that wants
> to enter a runway -- call the tower or ground
> control and get permission.

What nonsense.  Just because a railroad crosses the airport?   Want challenging airports,  try Juneau, AK and Quito, Ecuador,  to name a couple I've been in/out of any number of flights.  Juneau on a cloudy (or worse) night is an E-ticket ride.

Midway airport in Chicago had a railroad track running across the middle of it in the 1930s.
 

Chicago was unusual -- in the 1930s it was
a half-mile north to south with the BRC (?)
along its north edge. Then they doubled the
airport to a mile square, but they didn't pave
the railroad -- there was pavement north of
the track, but the runways weren't continuous
across the track. Think there was an accident
or two.

The track got moved north circa 1941.

masterphots Wrote:
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> What nonsense.  Just because a railroad crosses
> the airport?   Want challenging airports,  try
> Juneau, AK and Quito, Ecuador,  to name a couple
> I've been in/out of any number of flights. 
> Juneau on a cloudy (or worse) night is an E-ticket
> ride.

The old airport at Hong Kong with that fly directly at the mountain and turn at the last minute approach, that was an E-Ticket ride.

Scariest to who?  Not pilots, if they are equipped with eyes.  Try LaGuardia at 5 on Friday afternoon in a thunderstorm if you want scared.  Or Washington Reagan anytime the helicopters are running.

PHall Wrote:
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> masterphots Wrote:
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> > What nonsense.  Just because a railroad
> crosses
> > the airport?   Want challenging airports, 
> try
> > Juneau, AK and Quito, Ecuador,  to name a
> couple
> > I've been in/out of any number of flights. 
> > Juneau on a cloudy (or worse) night is an
> E-ticket
> > ride.
>
> The old airport at Hong Kong with that fly
> directly at the mountain and turn at the last
> minute approach, that was an E-Ticket ride.

Don't have to go overseas to find one this can be seen in the cockpit in one video down to minimums without seeing the ground. Then another video shows the same exact approach same view without clouds. An aircraft has to have permission from the airport to take off towards the mountains. Aspen CO is bad enough that many corporations will not allow there equipment to even fly into it in good weather instead have to land at Vale/Eagle airport. But this thread was about rail roads crossing runways to start with.

PHall Wrote:
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> masterphots Wrote:
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> > What nonsense.  Just because a railroad
> crosses
> > the airport?   Want challenging airports, 
> try
> > Juneau, AK and Quito, Ecuador,  to name a
> couple
> > I've been in/out of any number of flights. 
> > Juneau on a cloudy (or worse) night is an
> E-ticket
> > ride.
>
> The old airport at Hong Kong with that fly
> directly at the mountain and turn at the last
> minute approach, that was an E-Ticket ride.

Remember the chedkerboard painted on the mountain to aid pilots knowing where to turn?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/06/25 09:11 by masterphots.