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- From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Subject: Re: Stupid People (Grade crossings)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175634.16097@spock.UUCP>
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- References: <1992Nov7.181832.27959@steam.rome.ny.us> <1e475kINNc1q@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov15.042209.12804@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:56:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.042209.12804@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
- >In article <1e475kINNc1q@gap.caltech.edu>, pvmason@cco.caltech.edu (Peter V. Mason) writes:
- >> BTW, boneheads along the SP cut along Mission going east from LA
- >> used to throw rocks at the trains. Since they were about eye-to-eye
- >> with the cabs, they managed to prang a couple of engineers. Does this
- >> happen elsewhere?
- >
- >Apparently so. The ``Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide'' notes
- >the presence of rock shields on some Amtrak engines on the Northeast
- >Corridor.
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- _All_ MBTA engines have rock shields. At least I've never seen one without
- them. Does Amtrak own the MBTA's F40 units, or do they just run them? The
- few older F units I've seen on the MBTA have the shields too, but I've never
- seen them on anything painted in Amtrak colors, so far as I recall. Has
- anyone? Where?
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