Happened to notice a picture posted on the web site today of smiling individual walking or standing between the rails. Did any one also notice the unit in the background with it’s ditch lights on? Where I work that would be good for a 6 month vacation. Unit may not have been moving, or may have been a job briefing for the red zone. Still it does not project a very good example to others to stay clear of track.
When I first read this title I thought it was going to be about low flying birds and high level Catholic priests…
Pictures capture an instant in time. Without knowing the situation it is dificult to comment whether it was safe and/or permitted. I’ve looked for the pic, do you remember where it was? I personally think that more responsibility needs to be placed on the end user (in this case the viewer) to use common sense.
For example, I have seen numerous car/suv commercials that show people driving off road or through construction sites as detours or short cuts. You see them passing in no passing zones, speeding down empty city streets, tailgating, and many other unsafe and illegal procedures. I expect that, as the viewer, I would have the sense to recognize that I should not zoom through a construction site, dodging moving front-end loaders and rotating excavators, just to beat someone to a restaraunt.
In the same sense, I would think that, as a society, we should hold the viewer of the picture responsible for his/her actions if they walk down the tracks in front of a moving train and not place the blame on the picture for showing someone standing on the tracks in what appears to be an unsafe situation.
To be safe, though, you could put a caption on it: “Do not attempt this at home, since most trains will stain the carpet.”
A link would be nice.
I’m in the gauge all the time - moving from one side of the track to the other. Unless all of the switchstands are on the same side, you don’t really have a choice sometimes. As to standing there with a smile - hey, this is a tourist line. People take your picture on a regular basis…
Could he be talking about Mike’s photo in the latest “Trackside” installment?
If that’s the case, I’d say he’s standing outside the gauge anyhow.
And St Louis Baseball:)
Or canazar’s pigskinners.