QUESTION FOR A PROFESSIONAL RAILROADER

[AntonioFP45]

Wow! Some of you gave him some good answers, but I was surprised at some of the "flaming". Apparently Jeremy might not have been aware that his question "dug up" some apparent past animosities.

Hope it's behind us.

Jeremy, just for your info here in Florida "open country areas" most "hot shot" freights run at 60mph (though I've seen some engineers "push it closer to 70!)". Amtrak is limited to 79mph.

[daveklepper]

Hay guys, can we can the personal invective, please, and just stick to the technical issues? We all love trains, and we all have common enemies who don't. Most of the technical answers seem correct to me. There are various classes of track and on some of the worst, top speed can be limited to as little as 4 miles per hour (walking speed) with the poorest Government classificiation 10 mph. Then there are the intermodel high speed trains and the Tropicana Juice train that do go 79mph where the track is appropriate. If anyone knows of regular freight operations faster than 79mph, it would be news to me. But I do go back to that experience I had in the obs car of the Silver Meteor, about 1961, going north from Jacksonville where we were doing an even 100 on track that the timetable said was limited ot 79. Dave

[Anonymous]

DUHHH!

[wabash1]

someone brings back a post that is over a year old and the new guys jump all over the guys that have been thru the M&M saga. then these new guys ( rail fans) wonder why they get no respect in the field by us railroaders. and further more, why people like me wont give them the time of day out in the field. and turn them in when they get in the way of operations ( switching moves) instead of letting us get done before we invite them up on the engine. and getting back to the crossing issue mike and missourri wants a device made that will let the public know how many sec it will be before the train gets to the crossing. so they can determine if they can beat the train. I for one ( and maybe some other railroaders here) when going somewhere dont want to be stopped by a train i want to get where i am going and do what i want to do. but i am not going to take a chance on getting killed just to get there. i will stop and watch the train as i do everyday and get there a few minutes later..... alive . but as long as we have idiots out there we will always hold people up at crossings waiting on the meat wagon to take the bodies away of the guys and girls who didnt beat the train. I get paid for 12 hrs to sit at the controll stand it dont matter to me if i do it getting into the yard or 1700ft past the point of impact at a crossing. you choose.

[tree68]

Hmmm... Thought it was odd to see "Missouri" on a post, but didn't check the date...