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First I'd like to mention that I'm not a railroad employee, just a fan. And I'm not American, an ex-brit now a Canadian (or as Jesse Helms likes to say, I live in Soviet Canuckistan). So I also happen to be socialist. This is relevent because the fact that railroads are 'evil capitalist corporations' has no bearing on this discussion. Do you think that state run railways don't hit people on grade crossings?, I ways deeply affected as a 6 year old child when a classmate lost his legs to a train. Who was to blame?, his parents, not the state run railway. Even if a railroad ran for the public good and nothing else, it there to fulfill a purpose, to get goods and people from point A to B. We have police, firemen, nurses and the military to protect the people, we don't (or shouldn't need) the railroads to do this too. Many of the posts I've seen refer to incidents where the victims were aware of the train and this didn't seem to disuade them from thier suicidal course of action, so what improved warnings do to protect these people?. The whole arguement boils down very simply. Trains don't have a choice about changing velocity (direction or speed). People do. ergo the responsibility is thiers and thiers alone. How can we fix this problem, more education such as operation lifesaver. Will this work?, partially, some people can be taught better habits, but the issue is far larger than the scope of OL. More and more people are refusing to accept personal responsibility for thier actions, this is what must change. There will always be people who are too selfi***o think of the consequence of their actions and the Railroads and Governments will never be able to do anything about it. Graham
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