There are laws against trespassing. Railroads are private property. If people opt to disobey the law, they suffer the consequences. It's tough to stop somebody intent on causing others injury, death, or playing chicken with a train. I believe if you went to the trouble of fencing in the ROW, it would pose more of a challenge to trespassers and the like. From my experience with those types, I ignore them. They tend to go away. Bill Dad wrote: > Paul, > Altho most of us really DON'T want to heare about such diststeful > topics, I think they DO need airing in order that SOMETHING will be done > about folks who trespass on RR tracks. I mean fencing, trespass warnings, > etc. On TRI-RAIL, I had a guy leap out from behind a boxcar on a siding next > to the mainline while running at 60 mph. He tore open his shirt & stood in > the middle of the track like Superman. I didn't even have time to take my > hand from the throttle & grab the automatic brake valve when he jumped out > of the way. I don't think the nose of the F-40 was 20 feet away. What's the > point of even reporting this sort of thing??????? Hopefully to keep others > from making such foolish mistakes. I told my condeuctor that one day we'd > make official reports of all such events - in one RT Miami to West Palm > Beach & back (140 miles / 70 each way & 70 grade crossings of 6 lanes or > more) we wrote up 18 incidents....trespassers, cars running around gates, > SCHOOLBUS stopped on tracks & gate coming down on top of it. I assume most > of us don't hear about 1/2 of these incidents. Most guys after running iin a > densely builtup urban area want to go home & crash - not make out reports. > Besides as one of my fellow engineers put it "The company will be mad at > us". - -- Be a Locomotive Engineer: Its the most fun you can have with 3000 HP The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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