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- From: mikel@dosbears.UUCP (Mike Lipsie)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: rail car capacity
- Message-ID: <1562@dosbears>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:53:44 GMT
- References: <C1DH8L.7v6@news.fai.com> <1993Jan26.015211.2762@s1.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan26.015211.2762@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- > Maybe I should have been clearer. It looked like there wasn't
- >much of a railing; maybe to about a foot or so. If there was a
- >standard-height railing on the upper floors of the CalTrain passenger
- >cars, then I may not have noticed it (I've never stayed long up there
- >because the windows there are so Ikky).
-
- [Aside: The windows are just as ikky on the lower level. Maybe
- Amtrak will speed up the replacement schedule.]
-
- The view from below is a bit decieving. There is a rail a little bit
- lower than most people's waist and then the storage shelf is about
- head level. There is enough metal there to keep you from accidentally
- falling through. In fact, it is a bit difficult for some of the
- children (read:brats) to crawl through.
-
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