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Ok Ive been avoiding this thread like the plauge but I hapened to run across an slight problem. Yes I have seen a few dangerous X-ings...but I can count them on 1 hand. <br /> I was on an tourist railroad aproching a X buck Xing in an residential neighborhood. We where doing no more then 20 mph and I saw a car lockup there breaks at the last second....only to fly pass us to drive 4 houses from the track. I had to laugh...the only reason the street car did not hit her was because he was looking out for morons who dont pay attention at the Xings. Aparently it hapens all the time! I watched the car drive more then 500 feet on both sides of the track and this person obiously knew that this track was there She lives in the neighbor hood! We had bells & horns on the cars but you can only do so much. <br /> <br />Freways have fences, dividers, on ramps, off ramps, trains in most areas dont have that. Rember trans are barely suported by the government, roads are full government projects this makes any comparison between the two very dificult! <br />B safe <br />Icemanmike-Milwaukee
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