The Posh Cleveland Clinic is next to NS,CSX and the RTA Subway in University Circle…no problems there…
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has a number of Hospitals next to PRR right of ways…no problem there…
As a matter of fact I was born in Illinois Central Hospital, smack dab next to IC’s Chicago lakefront tracks. If I remember correctly, my mother’s room had a perfect view overlooking IC’s roundhouse and beyond that Lake Michigan if she cared to look. Aside from the third eye on the back of my head, the location had absolutely no effect on my birth. [:)]
BTW, does anyone know if there was an affiliation between the hospital and the IC railroad?
I live within six to eight blocks from Avera McKennan Hospital and the BNSF has a spur line which runs past the hospital, and it sees a fair amount of use every week. This spur line serves Eggar Steel and a wholesale lumber yard in the same general area, and I firmly doubt that the trains which run over this line have any negative effect on the health of either McKennan’s patients or the hospital staff itself. And I personally think that the Mayo Clinic’s objections to the DM&E’s rail-upgrade project are not valid. They don’t have a leg to stand on, especially if the trackage in their area is rehabilitated.
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Was born at MacNeal Memorial Hospital in Berwyn, with a front entrance that is 150 feet from and facing the BNSF Chicago racetrack. Probably the first outside noise I heard was a five-chime whistle off one of the CB&Q’s Northerns blasting out of the Cicero Yard, a half-mile east. The historic Berwyn Metra station is 100 yards west of the grade crossing.
Later had surgery at MacNeal after breaking an ankle playing college football, requested and received a room with a 24-hour view of the trains.
The point is – never. NEVER have heard anyone voice a concern about the proximity of the tracks to the hospital, which has 362 beds. Tracks were there first.
Maybe the powers that be at Mayo need to be themselves examined, for they are exhibiting symptoms of raging paranoia and delusional grandeur.
OK, now I’ll just sit back and wait for some chujek whose life is devoid of meaning to hijack this discussion for his own purpose.
There are people like that? Here? On this forum?? No way!!! [:D] Poppa, are you serious?? [:-^]
In Spokane WA, both Deaconess and Sacred Heart hospitals are right next to the I-90 viaduct. If you have a north facing room on the upper floors, you could spit out the window and hit a vehicle 9 times out of 10.
You so sure about that? I mean its seems that are a ravid rabid railfan today…you caught it at birth…
Apples and oranges isn’t it?
On one hand, the variant of “everybody else is doing it” really isn’t a convincing argument.
On the second, even if it was (a convincing argument), these other hospitals are not in the position where the status of the RR adjacent to their facility is pending change. Otherwise they too might feel a need to become involved.
LOL, Charles Manson was born at Cincinnati General, and look at how he turned out.
Mayo Clinic Claims that the vibrations from the railroad will interfear with its instruments used in research…Say is not UMASS Hospital in Boston Located next to the Red Line Subway? And are they not a research Mayo Clinic Claims that the vibrations from the railroad will interfear with its instruments used in research…Say is not UMASS Hospital in Boston Located next to the Red Line Subway? And are they not a research hospital?
Heck, the CTA goes right through the University of Illinois Medical Center (which is probably as reputable a research facility as Miracle Whip…I mean, Mayo), and I’ll bet the Pink Line runs more frequently than the DM&E ever will. Of course it isn’t coal trains. For that matter, I don’t think there are any intervening streets between the BNSF Racetrack and Hinsdale Hospital, where my granddaughters were born.
The BNSF runs through a shallow cut there, about 150 feet from the hospital entrance. BTW the foot/street bridge there is a nice spot for shooting east bound trains. [:)]
Don’t forget that I290 and the CTA Blue Line run right along the north side of the hospital complex as well.
Bert
The Louisiana Steam Train Association (LASTA) yard is directly accross the street from Ochsner Hospital, and nearly next-door to Ochsner’s new pediatric clinic, in a suburb of New Orleans. LASTA’s yard tracks connect along the back edge of the pediatric clinic to Illinois Central and New Orleans Public Belt tracks. I think this area gets a good bit of intermodal traffic, plus the occasional passing of SP 745 and its consist. There’s a ling to a map toward the bottom of http://www.lasta.org/. Dave
In Chicago Heights the UP (Ex C&EI then MP) main goes right by the east side of the hospital and the EJ&E runs about a block south of the building.