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[quote user="vsmith"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="CNW 6000"] There certainly was commentary on this letter.  If you follow the link below you'll read what I and others said about this.<a href="http://forums.thenorthwestern.com/viewtopic.php?t=14234">http://forums.thenorthwestern.com/viewtopic.php?t=14234</a> [/quote]In the discussion in this link, "Investigator" makes a big point about crossbusks being equivalent to yield signs, and it is true that you can't yield to something you can't see.  So, in that framework, the argument about black tank cars being hard to see has validity.  But the argument collapses when you introduce the stop sign, which this crossing had.  Stop signs are equivalent to yield signs with the added requirement to stop.  You have to stop no matter whether there is something to yield to or not.  Furthermore, stop signs usually have advance warning signs, so they give you time to react.The discussion sure demonstrates how the FRA reflector mandate feeds right into society's growing "it's not my fault" culture. [/quote]Geez, wont do any good, you could cover the entire sides of every freight car in reflective tape and some idiot will still hit it and claim they never saw it....This character "Investigator" sure as hell sounds like the guy who used to infect this forum like a fungus named Misery, oh wait thats "Missouri", who used to rail that every crossing point in the country was a murder site and that all railroad employees were akin to serial killers and was so viceral in his venomous bile that he got bounced off the site completely. The guy was really off the rails. I think he was the first guy we actually begged Bergie to bounce, quite an honor.[/quote]I agree that reflectors are largely the wrong cure to the problem, although it is true that they might be the saving grace in some unfolding catastrophies.  However, my larger point is that the reflector mandate represents an admission on the part of the industry that running into trains is partly the fault of the railroad.  Whereas, according to traffic law, running into a train is never the fault of the railroad.   When you read the above-linked discussion, you can see that the ones who believe the Friendship, Wisconsin fatal crash was that railroad's fault for blocking the crossing are the same ones who are demanding reflectors.
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