"If in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout..."
This train ran through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona - but only in California did it create a politico-media panic.
I love the comment about concern over adequate braking. Will someone take that technologically challenged bozo aside and explain to him how air brakes work?
And, of course, we have the nay-sayers from the union and the anti-business party. I'm sure they couldn't be pursuing agendas of their own...
As for the longest train - how long was that humongustring of coal hoppers N&W ran clear back in the dark ages? I seem to remember a figure of something like five miles.
Of course, since it didn't enter California, as far as these people know it didn't exist.
Chuck
If this was such a big concern, then where were the reps from Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona?
Presumably it had to go through these states as well to get to California. Unless maybe in addition to being a monster, it is also a phantom train. With the ability to appear and reappear wherever and whenever it wants to. This time it chose to appear in California
You've got to like the engineer brotherhood union reps comments as well. Did anyone remotely think he would be in favor of a monster train? Come on. The possibility of job loss is a real threat, so you know the union won't support it at all. Almost reminds me back to the days when B units were developing.
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
Any wonder the State of CA is $40 billion in the hole?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/safety-traffic-concerns-raised-when-35mile-freight-train-rolls-through-la-basin.html
"The state Public Utilities Commission raced a team of personnel to Imperial County on Saturday to monitor the train as it wound its way toward the Inland Empire."
My train videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/karldotcom
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