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Old Dead Head Ed lieing out both sides of the key board. What gave you away Dead Head was the drug test. Railroads save a small fortune every year because drug tests are not required. Let's see probably 10,000 accidents, incidents a year times two crew members, times the hospital costs, times the down time of the train, times the relief crews that would have to be brought in, paper work, and if the employees actually tested positive watch out bank book. Yep Ed all the other CDL drivers get tested but not train crews. Big bucks in high places you know. <br /> <br />But then there is the WHY the gates were on the snail tracks with great sight distances to start with. Another trick the railroads use is to waste the safety funds on snail tracks? Why you ask Dead Head Ed? Liability. See if those gates were on a 70 mph track and they failed and were proven to have failed it costs the railroads 30 times what it would cost them if they blindside a driver when cross-bucks are in place. <br /> <br />Then you used a Volvo for the vehicle in your make believe fairy tale Dead ED Head which is the wrong vehicle for your scenerio of a collapsed vehicle. Volvos don't collapse. They have steel plates in the sides to prevent that. <br /> <br />What do you mean never looked? You were only going 30 feet per second supposedly.The sight distances weren't a mile like you said there Ed Dead Head. What about the standing equipment that had to be in the way there illegally Ed. That's always the problem when somebody is hit. Like somebody won't look going around a gate. <br /> <br />The reason the crews get sued is to keep the cases out of Federal court where the settlements are lower you dip. They don't put that in the book do they? Who wrote the BOOK? Oh the same people who have the worse safety record in the WORLD. Why don't you give melancholy monarch, myopic mike, and the missouri mule the trial docket number of this case you phony so we can check out your explicate details. <br /> <br />Who goes to the movies in the daytime anyway you goof ball. You must be way down under the whale dung. You really need to take some lessons on how the low life should write a fake railroad story!! <br /> <br />And the brakes the train crew hits a switch lowering the rubber friction pads that make contact with the very pourous substance that has been applied between the tracks which makes the train stop in a reasonable distance and then the outriggers go out and dig down into the earth createing a drag stop after the poarachutes are released to catch air friction and then the retro rockets kick in. Oh I bet you are talking about the skateing rink brakes the railroads use though where Fred and Barney stick there feet down through the floorboard? <br /> <br />
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