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[Ron61]

Wes,

Unless your track crews around there do better than here I would be worried abut that too. We have a lot of derailments at the Dunsmuir Curve and most of them are caused by two things. The train going to fast and a rail being loose. I don't think they even have a maintenance crew here any more like they used to that was responsible for so many miles of track. Now they wait until a train derails and send out an investigation team to tell them that a rail was loose or that a tie had rotted so much the spike could no longer hold.

Ron

[AMF]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Wes,

Unless your track crews around there do better than here I would be worried abut that too. We have a lot of derailments at the Dunsmuir Curve and most of them are caused by two things. The train going to fast and a rail being loose. I don't think they even have a maintenance crew here any more like they used to that was responsible for so many miles of track. Now they wait until a train derails and send out an investigation team to tell them that a rail was loose or that a tie had rotted so much the spike could no longer hold.

Ron

I think the general public has no idea how many train wrecks there are each year in our country.

I'd considered traveling by train a couple of times, until I really researched it and I learned that A) It's not as cheap as you might think (in many cases it's more expensive) and B) It's not as safe as you might think.