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What Edhead is saying as long as the tracks will hold up the weight and the trains don't go flying off the curves they go as fast as they want and the heqq with anything or anybody that gets in the way at crossings. <br /> <br />http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/media/twgreport.htm#663 <br />Supposedly gates are to be at all sight obstructed crossings with train speeds above 40 and lights at all other crossings under 40. Until the high speeds >79 mph (the FRA are idiots) then quad gates are to be used. So there are 78% of the crossings MISSING the proper crossing equipment for the rediculous train speeds the FRA has set. The Amtrak speeds are nothing about Amtrak who only owns 750 miles of track but the freight that follows the 79 mph passenger trains at 60 mph. So basically to save the railroads a few bucks on crew labor and the crews are dumb enough to become the speeding bullet through the illegally protected crossings.
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