Your feelings about this Amtrak Beating

[BDT_in_Minnesota]

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

Try that nowadays, and you’d get your boots sued off! Yes, they knew they shouldn’t be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity…let’s fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn’t stop!

That engineer has an obligation for not only his own personal saftey, but the saftey of EVERYONE on that train…I wouldn’t stop either…

BDT

[Midnight_Railroader]

Let’s see. You have 70 tons of metal around you and you are ten feet above them and you get out and confront them. I suppose on day offs he goes to the bad part of town and confronts gangs also. Sorry he got hurt but one of the stupidest things to have done I have ever heard of.

Plus, you have cell phones and radios to call for law enforcement–those guys with guns, you know?

[Newyorkcentralfan]

Deport them Punks kids to Iraq, that will teach them.[2c]

Yeah! We should do things just like the Soviet Union. During WW2 they had punishment battalions which they put in the front lines and let the Germans take care of the problem. Good thinking, comrade!

[Newyorkcentralfan]

My thought exactly! The whole incident could have been avoided had the engineer not stopped.

Consider it an impromptu exam on Darwinism for the track walkers.

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

[Newyorkcentralfan]

You don’t announce that you ran them over on purpose to whomever is investigating the incident. Duh! As for not stopping. You just hit the brakes too late to make a difference.

Try that nowadays, and you’d get your boots sued off! Yes, they knew they shouldn’t be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity…let’s fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn’t stop!