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- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bony1!billg
- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Re: Grade crossings, etc. (was Re: Deaths on Railroad Prop...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.160053.12986@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <2934845282.2.p00258@psilink.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:00:53 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <2934845282.2.p00258@psilink.com> "A.J. Janschewitz" <p00258@psilink.com> writes:
-
- >The number of people who fail to stop for flashers and posted crossings
- >is amazing. For about three years, I was a part-time police officer in
- >one of the towns through which the train travelled, and knowing the
- >schedule, I would often meet the train at one of the grade crossings
- >while on patrol.
- >
- >At roughly one out of ten of these meets, I would also end up pursuing
- >and stopping a vehicle that had run directly in front of the train,
- >ignoring the stop sign, and the obvious noise of the bell, whistle, and
- >strain for the slight grade coming from the approaching engine.
- >
- >The driver's most common excuse was that it was just a tourist train, so they
- >didn't think they *really* had to stop. (?!)
-
- Did you leave them with a "souvineer" of their experience? =B^)
-
- A summons is a much better souvineer of playing chicken with a train
- than a lost limb.
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-