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best website to get a locomotive trace
Posted by Soo 6604 on Friday, April 7, 2006 2:27 PM
What is the best site to get a locomotive trace of all railroads engines?
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, April 7, 2006 3:08 PM
I doubt anyone will help you here. Employees have access to this info and shippers can trace there shipments but John Q Public does not need to have access to this info. The railroads do not need there resources tied up by railfans for entertainment purposes. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Railroads are not in the bussiness of entertaining railfans.
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Posted by PBenham on Friday, April 7, 2006 4:15 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

I doubt anyone will help you here. Employees have access to this info and shippers can trace there shipments but John Q Public does not need to have access to this info. The railroads do not need there resources tied up by railfans for entertainment purposes. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Railroads are not in the bussiness of entertaining railfans.
There is another reason and that is that in the more paranoid parts of the country, information like that could land you in jail as a terrorist! So, be careful, and be discreet! Homeland security=[:o)]. But they have the power and the continuing erosion of our freedom caused by the real terrorists,sadly persists.[V]
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, April 7, 2006 4:26 PM
[:(!] Yup, The terrorists are winning. Or the government is winning because of the terrorists. Or the government is the terrorist. Or is that scare-orists......Gives me a headache.[:(!] I don't know what's worse, the government takeing away our rights or the citizens for alowing them to do it. It makes me so angry [:(!] that people think turning this country into a police state is going to stop terrorism. It's not, they will still find a way if they are determined.
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Posted by PBenham on Friday, April 7, 2006 4:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

[:(!] Yup, The terrorists are winning. Or the government is winning because of the terrorists. Or the government is the terrorist. Or is that scare-orists......Gives me a headache.[:(!] I don't know what's worse, the government takeing away our rights or the citizens for alowing them to do it. It makes me so angry [:(!] that people think turning this country into a police state is going to stop terrorism. It's not, they will still find a way if they are determined.
AMEN, Bro, AMEN!
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, April 7, 2006 4:52 PM
I like Clint Eastwood's line in Unforgiven,"Anyone takes a shot at me and I'll not only kill them, I'll kill there family, there friends too, and I'll burn your house down". Something like that anyway. Sometimes the best defence is a good offence.
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Posted by sanvtoman on Saturday, April 8, 2006 2:33 PM
The only problem with the Clint Eastwood analogy is that he is acting.Those lines are not his personal views. At least that is what he says in interviews.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:12 AM
Try working in the airline industry. Practically strip searched daily just to go to work.

Oh ya, you can track any airline flight on the internet..........go figure.

Mike in Tulsa
BNSF Cherokee Sub

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