Here’s something you don’t see every day.
There was something wrong with that train a RR employee does not talk a WALK for the heck of it. Especally in a heavilly traffic area sorry as soon as the rest of the caase comes out the CRF will lose this one.
LOTS OF LUCK (SIC).
Yeah, there was something wrong wit the train. Do they thik an engineer would WANT to block a crossing and walk a something thousond foot train?!
Well, looking at the area, this is the only crossing and access road for miles, so I can understand the frustration. I will reserve my speculation, though, until more information comes out, if ever.
Well, I would be interested to here the railroads side in this, this story seems to be all about the renaissance festival and nothing about the railroad. I know where this crossing is, and trains do not normally stop here, and I am pretty sure there was an announcement in the GTB’s General track bulletins, about the festival and watching for people crossing the tracks and not blocking the crossing.
I also have a hard time believing the engineer was the one walking the train! Maybe the reporter needs to go back to school and learn how to write a story, rather than just making inflamatory statements.
The story quotes the legal filing. The railroad wouldn’t comment. How’s that “imflammatory”?
I think I understand what this is about,but I don’t see the article.???
“Intentionally Blocked”
“Leisurely Stroll”
Maybe that’s in the suit, but the article could have simply said “stopped for an unknown reason” and that a crew member was “walking the length of the train.” The story perpetuates the suits’ supposition that the stop was a malicious act on the part of the railroad or employees thereof.
My guess is an unexpected emergency application. The rules say you have to walk the train…
The suit shows a total lack of understanding by the general public about how railroads work. I’ll bet you those attendees at the festival would have a keener appreciation of many of the luxury items imported from China did not make it to their stores due to some rail related problem, or if their BMW cars did not make it to their dealers for the same reason, or if the electricity that powers their CD players and flat screen televisions did not materialize due to the trains not delivering the coal to run the power plants!!!..THEN THEY WOULD APPRECIATE THE RAILROADS, HEY?
It is kind of like the trucking industry is treated also. No one realizes that without both the RR and trucks this whole country would stop running within one week or less.
Ah yes,the ignorant public! Sometimes, I feel like this society is getting less knowledgeble everyday. If you dont know anything about the railroad industry, DONT ACT LIKE IT.
Alec
…I wonder if some of the problems with the public blaming the R R’s is not some of the railroads fault themselves by purposely trying to run their business like they don’t exist.
Public in general, has no idea what or how they operate and do business.
What has to be done to educate the public?
Have a Discovery Channel and TLC channel reality show about railroads that is like the show “Dangerous Catch”?
Andrew
Very familiar with the subject. Somebody is grandstanding again, trying to force others to spend money to advance his narrow interests.Almost feel sorry for Walt D.at BNSF having this waste his time dealing with this kook.
Mooks, Carl, Chris, Ed and a few others have heard my “hope they have another firetruck” story that happened at the urging of this clown in 1988. (Told it to my boss this morning and almost left him on the floor)
Boss Hen happened to get caught in the traffic jam on that Saturday morning at Larkspur. Figured that it was an aparent UDE and just waited.
It was just a few months ago that Larkspur threatened to sue the Renaissance Festival over utilities issues. (too cheap to pay for sewer and water support for RF that did not benefit anyone else). Before that, RF threatened to move the event elsewhere.
The organizers of Renaissance Festivals have lately gotten into the act of moving their fairs if they can not negotiate to their terms.
Andrew
…Emergency brake application, anyone?..
They pretty much fail at picking their fights!
I’ll bet those jack-booted DM&E thugs are behind this lawsuit![;)]
BTW - If we pitched a battle royale between the Mayo Clinicians and these faux Knights in Shining Armour, who’d win?
True but he is the only person on here that makes me need to have 3 hours of mandatory FPS threapy after dealing with him. LOL
What does a train in emergency have to do with DM&E. Did the engineer here there were DM&E workers heading to Wyoming in that traffic? Maybe they were transloading an ISO container into a boxcar? Or maybe, just maybe, the conducter got picked-on by the Black Night and seeking revenge for this insult!![;)][(-D][(-D]