What if you, like me, found a CPR switch lock tossed into a refuse dumpster adjacent RR property? It was in there, laying atop a bunch of other junk including an old push mower the RR was OBVIOUSLY discarding? When you put your trash out on the curb it’s technically open to anyone who wants to take it by law. Isn’t this the same thing?
Good keep fighting the fight![:)]
stay safe
Joe
dharmon: Railroad police are licensed federal marshals, complete with badge and gun. They try to stay within the railroad boundaries and work with the local police agencies. They can pull rank on the locals but prefer the good neighbor approach.
Train Guy 3: If you need help with the OLI people in Ohio, have JoeKoh relay your info to me. We just taught awareness basics to surveyors at Lima and are working on Columbus next year, we can get people to you. Your Ohio OLI Coordinator is retired State Highway Patrol’s Sheldon Senek.
For Pete’s sake - GET RID OF THE TOPEDOES! (Things that old abused are potential bombs that can go off with just a change in temperature or pressure!!!)
Mudchicken
I think were getting down to the nitty Gritty…
Look i fount today half-a=broken old CPR light that was lying 6 feet, 9 inches away from the railroad…
Oh yeah well i found a one-one/thousandth of an inch of old CPR wiring used for signals where they going to use it?
Oh yeah well i found a door handel off an old EMD f Series locomotive… 8 blocks away from the RR tracks
You see where i’m going with this…
Look if you take an RR spike, Big deal… If you come with a dumptruck and fill it up with spikes… That is a big Deal!
If you take TORPEDOES off of RR property, first off, did you know they are explosive? Yeah they could cause abit of damage… so maybe it wasn’t a good idea to have taken those… I know i wouldn’t have!
Look the RR will never miss 1 spike,. they’ll miss 100 or 1000 but not one…
Thet will miss 1 Dwarf signal… They’ll also miss 100, or 1000 of those too
Just use commonm sense, But do stay off busy Railraod corridors.
Yeah i knew those dern things were very explosive. The main reason i took them was for the kids at the trailer park. I probably shouldn’t have taken them. Those things have now been disposed of by an Army CORPS engineer.
Train Guy,
First, good job.
You removed a serious danger to the foot traffic there, and if said traffic consist of a lot of younger kids, you may have saved some kids hand or eyesight.
By the way, its a federal offense to have those in your posession without a federal license, and also a crime to transport them.
(yes, railroads have a license and permit for them)
But you showed a lot of what Mookie and Modelcar are looking for, common sense, by turning them over to someone qualified to dispose of them correctly.
Next time, try calling the railroad instead, and place the burden on them to remove the danger.
Only if they fail to correct the problem should you act, and then you should call you local police, they are trained, (or should be) to handle things like this.
Still, you should be commended for first identifying a danger, then removing the danger so others stay safe, then turning them over to someone qualified to handle the problem.
All in all, a good job.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
Good job, there!! Ed’s method mentioned above is best for you to use. As Mudchicken said, a change in airpressure is sufficient to set them off, and when one goes, they all go. The railroad is required to keep them in blast proof containers, which are in turn placed in blast proof lockers just in case something happens that they blow.
Speaking off federal offenses… I had a close call before. I let my FCC license run out and didn’t have 2 of my transmiters registered. Thank goodness for no Fed. guys at my train watching spot. My bud let his run out and the FCC had a few letters sent to his house. We didn’t start having problems till after 9-11-01, I assume it’s just a precauion.