Blog: March 2015

Tomorrow Holly and I head off to Orlando to start the wind up to the ASLRRA 2015 Connections convention.  This will be (I think) the fifteenth time I have attended the convention, and in that time a lot has changed.  When I first attended in 1998, I was a 30-something railroader that really did not know much beyond the confines of the railroads in New Jersey, and was just starting to learn about how railroads relate to their Class 1 partners.  By 2002 (I didn’t attend the meeting in 2000, and the 2001
Ok folks, tighten your belts and hold on tight, this one is going to be a full on rant.This has to stop.  What, you ask?  People believing that if they stop their vehicle on a grade crossing that a magical bubble of protection will lower around them and keep them from harm.  Get over it people, that won’t happen, and in fact, you and your vehicle will probably be turned from a three-dimensional object into a quite flat two -dimensional one.  You will also put the crew (and passengers if it is a passenger train) at risk of injury or death.Bottom line:  if it is a grade
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