While the outter glass panel could well have been broken by a projectile such as a baseball, I highly doubt if same happened to the inner made of Lexan.

Here you go: http://www.gelexan.com/gelexan/

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Originally posted by JONATHON:
...one time I was talking with a Passnger and he said that one time while ridding the Train, a base-ball smashed threw one window and then out a nother, dont know how a single ball could break threw 4 window panes,...

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You are right to be skeptical. I think your fellow traveler was pulling your leg. I think it highly unlikely that a baseball could do what was described. The glass is designed to be bulletproof. I'm sure it is baseball proof. Even if it somehow managed to penetrate bulet proof glazing, the chances of it getting through the opposite side is highly unbelievable, especially if the train was moving.

One time I was driving on a freeway in San Francisco. A truck ahead kicked up a rock that hit my windshield right in front of my face. It cracked the windshield slightly, but the rock bounced off harmlessly. That was with single pane safety glass. I estimate the combined speed of the rock and my windshield were in excess of 100MPH.

Im sure they arent wasting their time throwing balls at train windows.

Besides they'd have to be very close to the train considering the amount of speed that the ball would lose as it floats through the air.