Heard this on the radio this morning:
In law in Washington State says if two trains approach each other at a crossing, they both must wait until the other goes through.
Maybe this would explain a lot of slow downs in the Pacific Northwest [:P]
Any others out there?
Several states used to have full-crew laws of varying descriptions, almost all of them have been repealed or are restricted in such a way as to no longer be applicable.
Different Industry, but some states have laws that state truck drivers can only have white sheets on their bunks. Another state has one on the books where truck drivers can’t wear tennis shoes while on duty.
Strange, but true!
No tennis shoes while on duty does not strike me as dumb. It’s actually an excellent safety regulation for protecting your feet.
Dumb laws? Don’t forget the hundreds of “Quite zones” across America.
I love the absurdity of the above statement!!
…they both must wait for the other…
Perhaps when the combined mass of two trains creates a temporal distortion, a rip in the fabric of space-time occurs, thereby allowing each one to go before the other one, while at the same “time”, allowing each one to wait for the other. Otherwise, they will both be trapped in a causational loop for all of eternity.
Although, if that were to happen, think of all the overtime…
Protect them from what? The logbook falling off the dashboard?
There was a law on the Kansas books that that read: .“When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up until the other has gone.”
An Indiana law prohibits attacking trains.
In South Dakota you cannot place fire crackers on the tracks, especially if you’ve lit them.
No one may show the movie “THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY” in Montana.
Nebraska train crews may go muskrat hunting.
A number of states had specific guidelines for the number of cuspidors needed in stations and cars.
Los Angeles prohibits firing on jack rabbits from the rear platforms of trains.
It is a crime in Rhode Island to operate a passenger car between the engine and a car of dirt.
In Mississippi you may not put soap on the tracks, but in Alabama you may not salt the tracks.
In Arizona a train must stop in the desert to give water to anyone needing it.
A Florida train must stop anywhere a doctor wishes to get off.
Any Minnesota railroad car is a building.
In Washington State a dog must be carried on the cowcatcher of all trains to scare livestock from the tracks. Only the Walla Walla and Columbia roads ever followed that law.
First: Union Pacific follows the Kansas law to the letter!
Second: South Dakota does have a wildfire problem, in June ,July, August and September.
Third: Montana must have had movie critics in their legislature![swg]
Fourth: UP crews need something to do while waiting to get moving again (if at all)
Fifth: Cuspidors? hmmmm they’d only be needed in “dippin’ country”! (GIT-R-DONE!)
Sixth: LA is full of wackos!
Seventh: Rhode Island wants to protect railroads from paying “mixed train” wages to crews!
Eighth: Mississsippi…“What’s that there stuff called 'agin?”, Alabama? protecting the environment.
Ninth: UP trains are almost always stopped, so why not give water to an illegal alien on his/her way north?
Tenth: Try getting a doctor to get on a train!
Eleventh: This law is also in the books in the NYSSR, so they can tax it!
Finally: The Brotherhood of Railroad Dogs once had one very strong union!
There is more to trucking than just getting into the cab, turning the key, and driving.
Really! I did it for 8 years and never had a problem with my choice in footwear.
I was thinking that if you were a local driver, and did alot of unloading, you might want to wear something a little more substantial, but then my UPS driver showed, and yes he was wearing black tennis shoes.
Not a law but a rule here. On the U.P. MoW employees cannot wear red shirts while working on the tracks. The reason being that a red shirt could appear to be a red BOARD to an approaching train crew. Okay, makes sense? You don’t want a crew dynamiting the train. Here’s what doesn’t make sense–Train crew members can and frequently do wear red shirts. Say a train crew member is working on the ground…Wouldn’t he/she look just as much like a red board as an MoW employee?
Wasn’t Montana the last State to rescind the caboose requirement?
In Missouri, its illiegal to operate a train of more than 10 car with one locomotive.
In Pocatello Idaho, its illegal to frown!
Here in Wyoming it is illegal to take a photo of a rabbit from January to April
You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd.
Brian (KY)
But you can be happy if you’ve a mind to.
Allright-that triggered a repressed memory. In 1982, I moved from S.D. to Gillette, where I lived for a few years. In Gillette, if you were from S.D., the locals simply refered to you as a rabbit choker. No one seemed to ever know why. Is this some sort of Wyoming colloquialism? And is that tied in with the January to April photo ban?[(-D]
you just buckle down, hunker down, and DO IT, Do IT, Do IT![{(-_-)}]
Now, lets not be confusing natural laws with those passed by the legislatures.
There is a story that a in the 60’s in Indiana they tried to repeal the law of gravity.
But it is not as bad as it sounds…
It seems one of the less mathmatically inclined members of the Solon introduced a bill to change the value of Pi to exactly 3, so that farmers could more easily calculate the volume of their silos…
A more worldly memeber of the same Auguest body attached an admendment to repeal the law of gravity, with the comment that “As long as we are messing with the laws of Nature, lets do something really usefull”.
The measure was defeated, fortunatly.
I didnt really believe this story, until a Hoosier named Earl (Dont confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up) Butz made his debut as Secretary of Agriculture…
Dont suppose it was because they were short on chickens?[:-^]