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Title: Many train crashes to come?
Post by: rabbidrabbit on January 27, 2005, 10:27:46 PM

Amazingly... or maybe not...

California Train Wreck Spawns Possible Copycat Bid

Thu Jan 27, 8:10 PM ET
   
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By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A suicidal California man could face the death penalty for triggering a rail crash that killed 11 people, authorities said on Thursday, and they described a possible copycat attempt by another depressed driver.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050128/ts_nm/crash_train_dc

Title: Many train crashes to come?
Post by: rpm on January 27, 2005, 10:32:39 PM

This is already a problem for railroads. I have 2 friends that are engineers for 2 different railroads. Both said this happens weekly, you just don't hear about it.

Title: the solution in 1 word
Post by: anton on January 28, 2005, 01:05:44 AM

Overpass.

Title: Re: the solution in 1 word
Post by: Delirium on January 28, 2005, 07:19:31 AM

How do you pay for it when your state can't even pay the electric bill? Make the tax payers pay for an already failing rail industry or just put the nail in the coffin and make the rail industry pay for it and go under?

Don't get me wrong, I think the railroad industry needs a boost from the  Federal government like the airlines did. You can move goods and people alot cheaper on the railroads than you can on any regular road.

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Originally posted by anton
Overpass.

Title: Re: the solution in 1 word
Post by: Fishu on January 28, 2005, 07:34:08 AM

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Originally posted by anton
Overpass.

If someone wants to make suicide by getting his car wrecked by a train, he doesn't need a road for that.
Good luck making a car proof fence all along the railroad tracks.

Title: Many train crashes to come?
Post by: lazs2 on January 28, 2005, 07:56:38 AM

"How do you pay for it when your state can't even pay the electric bill? Make the tax payers pay for an already failing rail industry or just put the nail in the coffin and make the rail industry pay for it and go under?

Don't get me wrong, I think the railroad industry needs a boost from the Federal government like the airlines did. You can move goods and people alot cheaper on the railroads than you can on any regular road"

Why would you need to subsidize something that can move goods and people cheaper than anything else?

lazs

Title: Many train crashes to come?
Post by: Mickey1992 on January 28, 2005, 08:18:18 AM

The commercial railroads certainly don't need any (more) money from the government.  Most railroads have more business than they can handle.  Orders for new railcars are being delivered a year late in many parts of the country because business is so good.

Passenger rail is another story.