Bill,
About 10-12 years ago I had a long face-to-face discussion with a reporter
from the Morris County Daily Record about such an incident in Madison. I
told the reporter that one aspect of the story that had been ignored was
the psychological impact on the railroad engineer. I told her that it must
be terrible for the engineer to deal with it and that I wondered at that
time whether the rail industry (or NJ Transit) had a formal program to help
rail engineers get through the psychological aftermath of such an accident
which, of course, was no fault of the engineer. Well, she blew me off,
saying that maybe she'd do a story in a year or so, which of course was
nonsense. Her reaction was that of total denial, as if it weren't
important at all. So, Bill, I don't quite understand your reaction since
I'm actually extremely sympathetic to the plight of engineers. I'm sure
you share my concern. As such, my discussion point had nothing to do with
the initial posting, but rather an incident that occurred in South Orange
circa 1973 (well within the E-L years).
Chuck
bill guimes
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Re: (erielack) Two killed by passenger trains within 48 hours
12/01/2005 01:28 PM
Please respond to
bill guimes
Charles:
1. Unless you are a Locomotive Engineer, you have no business
commenting on or pontificating about railroad fatalities.
2. Quite frankly, if it happened after 11:59 PM, March 31,
1976, it
has no relevance on this forum. That's when the EL ceased to exist.
Bill
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