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News Wire: FRA to hold regional workshops on right-of-way trespassing

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:03 AM

A friend of a friend just posted on FB some wedding pictures shot on what was clearly active track (nice and shiny).  I commented as such and I think my comment was taken down.  People just don't want to get it.

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:59 AM

........And there are wide areas of the country that are not covered by the meeting sites.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:26 PM

Be advised before you click the link that none of the six sessions have actually been scheduled yet, so there is no hard information on them.  Neither is there a link to the upcoming FRA symposium on grade crossings November 19th; this would be useful as it appears to be difficult to find information on this directly.

There is a link to the previous Newswire story September 25th, but it is not available to non-subscribers.  That should be fixed if the hotlink is to be retained.

If you are interested in this topic, some of the information and resources in the PowerPoint presentation from the joint safety conference September 24th might be interesting or useful.

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:05 PM

CHICAGO — The Federal Railroad Administration will hold six regional workshops in response to an alarming increase of the number of fatalities along railroad rights-of-way, in or near locations where such incidents are most prevalent. FRA Tresp...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/10/09-fra-to-hold-regional-workshops-on-right-of-way-trespassing

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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