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[quote user="selector"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Bucyrus:</div> <div></div>   ...  Does that mean that the railroads were irresponsible prior to the trend of putting reflectors on the sides of cars?    </blockquote> Not at all.  Once the problem was identified, call it a defect in human engineering, it would have been irresponsible for nobody to do anything.  Highway safety types would have suggested remediation of some kind, and presumably one of the recommendations would have been to place a few reflectors on the sides of rolling stock so that they could be more visible at dark, uncontrolled, level crossings where only crossbucks indicate a potential hazard...an oncoming or a transiting train.  Heavens knows the warnings to motorists seem to have become more obvious, more attention-getting. <blockquote>Crandell</blockquote> <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] When you say that once the problem was discovered, it would have been irresponsible to do nothing, are you suggesting that the problem of drivers having trouble seeing trains fouling grade crossings has just been discovered and has thus resulted in the reflector mandate?  <o:p></o:p> If so, I don’t understand your conclusion because drivers have been running into the sides of trains for 150 years.  Some railroads began reflectorizing the sides of their rolling stock and locomotives 60 years ago.  So clearly the problem must have been understood long before this reflector mandate, and yet the industry, as a whole, did nothing.  How can you say they were not irresponsible?
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