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Do you really want to live next to the tracks???????
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Recently, a set community of $235,000 townhouses were built less than 200ft from one of our interlockings in Maryland. Now, we run on the average 136 trains a day Mon-Fri, and, I bet those people buying those homes didn't have a clue. Most trains are running through there at 125mph, and, with an 80mph crossover. I can't believe the real estate developers didn't erect a fence to keep the kids from wandering over to the tracks. What a treat they're going to be in for when the undercutter and other assorted track maintainence machines work there --- at night! The sad part is, the potential loss of life for a child who happens to wander up onto the tracks and gets struck. There are other safety scenarios to consider, too, with kids....a kite that may end up in our overhead 11,000V and 138,000V power lines will conduct that power through the kite string. At one time, that area was just woods (a tree doesn't stand a chance now-a-days!).
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