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- From: scott@svl.cdc.com (Scott Gerken)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Stupid People
- Message-ID: <49782@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:47:15 GMT
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- zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN) writes:
-
- > If we lived in a world that worked the right way, the rail road would
- >be preparing to take legal action against the driver for tresspassign,
- >damage to their locomotive, loss of revinue do to having the main shut
- >down, etc..
-
- They sometimes do. When I was going to school up in Chico one of the Teacher
- Assistants had a 3 wheel motorcycle. One day he was riding down a dirt road
- in an orchard and came to the SP main line. The dirt road crossed the tracks
- and continued along it's way. The problem was this crossing was not a legal
- crossing. The farmer, would just drive over the track at this point to get
- to his trees on the other side. Thus, there wasn't a grade crossing. Being
- that the private dirt road crossed there the TA thought it was ok to cross
- there. Well you can guess what happened. His motorcycle got caught part
- way accross and a SP train came along. Well, lets just say the motorcyle
- is now history. The last I heard SP was threatening to sue him for the amount
- of revenue they lost for having the main line shut down for the half hour
- it took to fill out the paper work. I graduated from Chico and left before
- it was settled, so I don't know what happened.
-