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[skydragon]

I don't think that I'd like living there. 8-o

And last run through so good night.................CULz

For that and other reasons. lol

Couldn't a train be disconnected at a junction for emergencies?

I suppose that is a better way of putting it. They will disconnect one of the cars on one side and then pull ahead.

Are they required by law,perhaps,to move at that reduced speed through a populated area?

But it goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. All exits are blocked. You see it on the track, turn around to try another way, BLOCKED, turn around and try the last way out, BLOCKED. Seriously, I would have used a missile launcher after years of that dam* train.

 

[skydragon]

Still would take some time to disconnect the cars.

I don't know about the speed. I know Amtrax moves pretty good through some of the small towns but the tracks don't through the town itself.

SLOW....because they go back and forth messing with the cars. It isn't that it is moving forward all this time. Back and Forth.

And I thought they could only a block a road for a certain amount of time.

If there is a law then they break it a lot around here.

There is a law. They break it constantly.

 

[jj2]

Got a cop that is a friend? Have him give him a ticket!!!!

 

[skydragon]

Got a cop that is a friend? Have him give him a ticket!!!!

From what I have heard they have been fined many times. When they first fined them we were all very happy but it didn't change anything. I really wonder if they ever pay them or if as usual they get to wiggle out of it.

 

[jj2]

Well if I lived there and had to get out for some emergency and couldn't, I have them in court!!!

 

[NancyR]

a lot of times the rr's have little choice over what they do where, they are regulated as bad if not worse than the truck drivers

 

[boardopboy]

Locally, we have (had) some of the busiest couple of RR crossings in the States. After numerous citations, A few of the RR companies that used the lines got together with the city and turned the problem crossings into bridges. One of them, they actually sent the road UNDER the crossing. Kinda cool actually. These days there are no roads that physically cross RR tracks anywhere in my town.

 

[Reddhott]

afternoon all
boy it sure is cold out brrrrr!
come on spring!!!!!!!!
stay warm!

 

[Elnroth]

Locally, we have (had) some of the busiest couple of RR crossings in the States. After numerous citations, A few of the RR companies that used the lines got together with the city and turned the problem crossings into bridges. One of them, they actually sent the road UNDER the crossing. Kinda cool actually. These days there are no roads that physically cross RR tracks anywhere in my town.

Did you just give an example of government working?

 

[boardopboy]

Did you just give an example of government working?

Yes, but not without the intervention of the private sector!

 

[jj2]

Did you just give an example of government working?

Shocking isn't it.

 

[skydragon]

Shocking isn't it.

Well, if you use the word "government" and "working" in the same sentence it is a shock.

 

[jj2]

Oh so true and logic is a rarity too!!!

And night all................CULz

 

[thehangdude]

My town has a more normal government. They just launched a study into the effects of fixing the "I got railroaded" problem. (Terre Haute Urbanized Area Railroad Corridor Study)

To find out what we (government) should do for the next 5-20 years, they spend $471,112. This money is only for the study. It actually solves no problems.

Local trivia: Infamous bank robber, John Dillinger, declared he would never rob any banks in Terre Haute because there were railroad tracks over every exit road.

 

[jj2]

And just think of what they could actually fix with that money.

 

[skydragon]

My town has a more normal government. They just launched a study into the effects of fixing the "I got railroaded" problem. (Terre Haute Urbanized Area Railroad Corridor Study)

To find out what we (government) should do for the next 5-20 years, they spend $471,112. This money is only for the study. It actually solves no problems.

Local trivia: Infamous bank robber, John Dillinger, declared he would never rob any banks in Terre Haute because there were railroad tracks over every exit road.

That is typical. I swear they do studies on what to do a study on.

Interesting about John Dillinger. He would have hated Horicon. lol

 

[jj2]

Basically it's a lot of wasted money!!!!!!!!

 

[skydragon]

Basically it's a lot of wasted money!!!!!!!!

Without a doubt.

 

[jj2]

I think government and a lot of the big shots in big companies spend 3/4 of their time discussing stuff.

 

[skydragon]

I think government and a lot of the big shots in big companies spend 3/4 of their time discussing stuff.

Yeah..........government=how to waste money. Big Corps=how to get the money the government is wasting.