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Just to be clear:1)   I am not advocating reflectors.2)   I think the FRA reflector mandate is a bad idea.3)   I am not saying the railroad was at fault in the Houston crash.The point that I am trying to make about reflectors might best be understood by using, as an analogy, a point made by Ed B. about upgrading crossing protection.  Ed said this in a prior post above:--------------------------------------------------------------------------"Railroad can not alter what Tdot decides...they can't just decide a grade crossing needs to be upgraded and go fix it up...that leaves them open to law suites when someone gets in an accident at a different location, then points to the crossing the railroad upgraded and says" You should have done this one also...you fixed up that one, so you should have fixed up this one also."Arbitrarily deciding to up grade a crossing creates more liability and problems than it solves."------------------------------------------------------------------------- My point about reflectors is almost identical.  That is, if someone runs into a freight car without reflectors, they can argue that the railroad should have had reflectors on that car because other cars have them, and the Federal Railroad Administration has stated that cars without reflectors are more dangerous than cars with them.This argument is bound to emerge, and it will take accidents like this one in Houston to bring it about.
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