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Comment on Amtrak crash is the latest in a string of accidents over the past few years by Little Birdie
Little Birdie
Comments for MyCentralOregon.com – Horizon Broadcasting Group, LLC
RAIL SAFETY MANUAL FOR DUMMIES
Article 1---Train crews don't pass your sight stopping distance
because your brakes suck and you have no steering.
ARTICLE 2---MARK WELL THE MAIN LINE because who knows who is going to
be working the switch on the wrong side of the tracks.
Article 3 --- Have all main lines on the OUTSIDE track so something
can't go wrong two ways.
So the train going north starting at Dixiana Road with a 10 mph speed
limit for 6 months ---has a crossing signal to check---a track signal
which was dead in 2011 right in the crossing signal lights---and a
"W" whistle post for Pallet Drive crossing---the overpass view shows
a pole mounted spotlight on the switch on the other side of the tracks
which the manual for Dummies says a sitting train would block the
light.
Google map 33.9049711,-81.0668294
33.9154838,-81.0620867 Dixiana Road August 2011
1825 0.004654 634687X CSX SC LEXINGTON CAYCE PALLET DRIVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS
12 2 60 NO 2 53
1687 0.005470 634693B CSX SC LEXINGTON CAYCE DIXIANA RD 0 0 0 0 0 GT 10
2 10 YES 2 478
(06 22 2017)
What's really scary is the street view of the next overpass which was
made by robbing a beaver dam for the support props.