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Lawsuits or no lawsuits things are not going to change in Conroe. Take it from some one who was born and raised in rural East Texas. I even know several of the officers in the sheriffs department in Conroe and even if they are hit with a lawsuit they will just leave the railroad alone and play their power trip games on someone else. <br /> The system that is in place there has been in place since as far back as even any of my relatives can remember and it won't change just cause of a lawsuit. It needs to change but people in East Texas don't like change as a general rule. <br /> This is also the same general area that back in the early 80's a local cop chased down a Mopac train with lights and sirens and gave the engineer a ticket for speeding. The train was going 15 miles over the highway posted speed limit sign. 35 instead of 20. The railroad contested the ticket and for six months the engineers we told to blow the horn from one end of town to the other... constantly. Since at the time this was a MP main that traveled mainly at night this was quite an eye opener for the town. Ticket dropped.
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