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Pastimes : Ya'll have a GooGoo Cluster & take a load off

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To: JeffA who wrote (25724)	8/23/2013 10:18:10 AM
From: CWolf	Read Replies (1) of 26417

You'll probably pay closer attention to that crossing at least for the next year, then it'll be back to zoning out with the radio blaring. You got lucky. The conductor obviously saw you and wasn't in the mood to have you mess up his train and all the paper work he would have had to fill out. Plus we'd all miss you. Seems to me, since railroads typically control which crossings have signals, etc, the county ought to put some pressure on them to at least put flashing lights up if not a crossing guard (bar). Every crossing in GA has lights and crossing guards, even the dinky ones. Of course, it took several horrendous accidents to make that happen after the state stepped in and made it a law. The trains that pass thru our town... right through the middle of it... are either CSX or Amtrak most with somewhere between 100 and 300 cars and moving at least 40mph. At least once a year, CSX comes in and upgrades the crossings, lights, etc. I've had a friend or two get $500 tickets and 6 points from skirting around the bars before the train gets there because they were in a hurry... dumb, wouldn't you say.

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