I find CSX in vilolation of no running lights on the rear of the train—no whistles on the rear of the train----no road guards on the rear of the train—and driveing backwards across city street without beepers going off on a commercial vehicle.
Rule#1-who cares
Rule#2-who cares
Rule#3-who cares
Believe it or not these are the Code of Operating Rules for M&M. It is published in the book I wrote titled “WGABS about M&M”
I can give you 2 differant answers to your qquestions. this is what you would like to hear call a cop and have the railroad and the crew ticketed for the m&m infractions. or the logical one is there is no such thing as running lights for trains other than a end of train device a flashing red light or red reflector. but if its a cut of cars there is no reason for it. also a red flag is suitable for end of train. I have no idea what a road gaurd is. as far as backing up over city streets its fine not a violation of any kind. and there is no need to have a beeper or a horn on the rear. and as far as those beepers go i wi***hey stick those up the manufacture back end. they are anoying and serve no perpose if you watch what you are dooing they wouldnt need them. (never mind that last staement these are the same people who dont stop look listen or live)
A red flag means nothing to the public. If your load is sticking out more than 5 feet you put a red flag on it. A crossing guard is like a person in a red vest with a stop/slow paddle sign in their hand. a train whistle is like a train whistle. Running lights include head lights/ditch lights. Backwards means a reverse movement authorized by WHO? The train crew that wasn’t there? Goober on the other side of the train with the little belt pack he forgot to put under the train wheels? Who authorized this train movement with a truck in the way?
What goober was stupid enough to put his truck in the way of a moving locomotive?
A train needs no authority from the public to operate on its right of way, its private property, and we can move in any direction we chose to, without your permission. We have the legal right of way. What part of that do you fail to understand? And if the crossing, in your opinion, needs a guard, please feel free to don whatever silly red, green or in your case, most fitting, yellow vest, your mickey mouse ears, and come on down.
Oh, and your home made rules will get you killed someday, try reading the GCOR, the current edition, april 02, 2000. The real railroad rules, instead of the nonsense you come up with. Sure you dont want to go and bother air traffic controllers?, I hear they fall asleep a lot. And allow airplanes to fly over your house, without your premission, and dont provide umbrella gaurds
on your roof to protect you from falling debris.
By the way, say hello to Ralph Nader for us.
And are you ever going to work up enough cajones to tell us who you really are, and who you work for, or are you just as much of a coward as mike p?
The Unihead Ed
Sounds like Goober belt pack operator was on the wrong side of the train dorko. Even tractor trailor drivers have their co-drivers get out and check what they are backing over. Called common courtesy and giveing a HOOT literally what they are running over. You don’t have the right of way — you have the common law duty to have the train seen and heard. Now get to bed because tommorow you might impress someone with your dribble.
J,
This is really funny.
Yesterday, I printed up a persons postings, in chronological order, and sent them with my middle daughter, who was spending the night at a friends house. Her friends father and I have know each other on a personal and professional level for 20 years. He is a profiler who does work Texas Rangers, and the local office of the FBI.
He just droped off my daughter, and his findings.
Man, this is really rich.
I wont mention any names, due to not wishing to embarass the person profiled, besides, they do a fine and outstanding job of that all by themselves.
White male, middle age.
5’9" to 6’ tall.
Weight 230 to 250lbs
Brown hair, thinning with male pattern baldness since early teens.
Wears glasses to drive.
Left handed, but forced to write right handed as a child. (got to ask how he got that)
Married, but divorced within two years of marriage, no children.
10 grade education, may possess a high school equivelency certificit.
Chronicly unemployeed, but is currently employeed in shift work, or assembly line work at slightly above minimun wage with no apparent carreer path .
Lives alone in a apartment, no pets, no hobbies.
Drives pre 1998 mid sized coupe or sedan, blue or black.
Social outcast since early childhood, lacking in social skills, due in large part to parental insistence.( had to call him on that, means he’s a mammas boy, she kept him inside and wouldnt let him play with the “bad” kids)
Psychological.
Subject suffers from chronic clinical depression since puberty.
May have undergone involuntary treatment as a adolescent, but as an adult, no longer does so on a voluntary basis.
Deivant behaiviour.
(based on writen material only, no vocal sample offered)
Content analysis indicates no latent homosexuality, but does indicates a supressed Oedipus complex, in conjunction with a distinct fear of personal contact outside of immediate family.
Logic proces
co-driver for a semi?I know some people drive in teams but most are still on the road themselves and BOOM what was that?well they cant read too well can they?They just turned their trailer into a heap of scrap metal.the viaduct is is only 10’8".That red light coming home no the truck driver was in too much of a hurry to eat lunch at the truck stop almost tipped the trailer over going around the corner.No missouri these people here really do give a hoot about what goes on in the real world.But you don’t live in the real world do you clown?
stop look listen and live
stay safe
joe
well sorry to say you are wrong again its 4 ft. and anything you say means nothing to the public or anyone here. oh and movements are authorized by me. if i am controlling the move its me. so come on and look me up next time i am shoving ill exsplaine to you what you think you know and set you straight on the rules. running lights are the cab lights in the engine and the stairs the head lights are just that. head lights. and ditch lights are optional. you dont haft to have them. and goober did just fine with the remote box. didnt hit on guy the stop look listen and lived. good day i think.
Wait a minute, lets see if I have this straight.
The blasting horn, ringing bell, loud as a small jet engine locomotive dosnt make enough noise, so that a crummy little beeper makes some kind of difference? And we dont have “running lights” thats on cars, trucks and boats. Phsst, I will let you in on a secret, we dont have brake lights or turn signals either.
And what was the goober doing stopped in the middle of a railroad crossing? another “stalled” truck? Thoses silly things, they never seem to stall anywhere else but in the middle of a crossing. Wi***hey would quit doing that, its hard on the paint.
Ed
By the way, whats your real name?
Ed, I logged on at work and showed his postings to a Investigator who is currently studying to be a Internet profiler. He was fasinated with His postings for this is the kind of material they study in class. (Different subject but pattern of writing is the same.) He could not come up with a discription of what he looked like but did say this Guy is definetly a Lonesome Loser who is useing his computer to get attention. He plans to show his instuctor.
TIM A
Ask if he can come up with how my buddy discovered he was a lefty, my buddy said the chances we high due to certain errors in spelling and style. Lefties have a harder time with the style because certain functions on keyboards are on the wrong side for them.
The profile my friend did is several pages long, with a lot of anotations and refrences, rather complete given all he had to work with were the postings. And I edited it some, because cabforward is right, younger readers dont need to read what a Oedipus complex is, but it makes sense. My buddy said at first, he though the “subject” may still live at home, with his mamma, but the times on some of the posting indicated he lived alone, momma wouldnt have let sonny stay up that late.
Keep me tuned in, I would love to see what yuor friend comes up with.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
What’s the profile on the greedy railroad operators who killed almost a thousand people a year and spend NOTHING on safety equipment? Who when install and sell safety equipment to and for the tax-payers make a small fortune in overcharges. The profilers will probably have to go down below the whale dung to find this info.
At least drunk drivers have a excuse and show some remorse.
They didn’t know what they were doing where the robber baron rail lords know EXACTLY what they are doing because after killing people for 180 years in this country they are VERY GOOD at it. So good that even some of the Jennys of the world take up for the Jack-asses.