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<blockquote data-quote="JRSherman" data-source="post: 2474136" data-attributes="member: 13432"><p>I went to work for BNSF last year as a conductor/switchman and was shocked to get to learn how many people do this. As much as people in Claremore hate us, I hate that town for this reason. </p><p></p><p>People are abnormally crazy around the tracks. While returning a train to Tulsa, a man was walking directly down the tracks in the same direction we were traveling at 40mph. Constantly blowing our horn, he waited until we were roughly 30 yards away before removing himself from our path of travel. </p><p></p><p>Last Christmas Eve, en route to Ft. Scott, we left the yard and started into downtown Tulsa. Approaching Elgin St, I kept thinking that a pair of headlights was in the wrong place to be on the road. I talked to my engineer and we slowed down and stopped, agreeing a car was on the tracks. Sure enough, a drunk had turned directly onto the tracks after closing time. </p><p></p><p>The one that still gives me chills, though, was shuttling a train out west of the yard to a siding we call Shirk, almost out to Keystone Dam. There are some curves just west of the yard with a 30mph limit, which we were close to. Coming around one of these curves, we were 15 seconds from 3 generations of a family taking pictures on the tracks. They split, just in time, but I would have loved to slap the picture taking mom of this group, as she literally stayed 3 feet off the track. If we would have had a wide load, or loose straps, overhanging boards, anything that can be commonplace dangers, she would have been dead in the face of her entire family. By the time we would have got stopped and been able to report it, she would be beyond help. </p><p></p><p>If you don't belong on them, just don't get on them. Help us help you stay alive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRSherman, post: 2474136, member: 13432"] I went to work for BNSF last year as a conductor/switchman and was shocked to get to learn how many people do this. As much as people in Claremore hate us, I hate that town for this reason. People are abnormally crazy around the tracks. While returning a train to Tulsa, a man was walking directly down the tracks in the same direction we were traveling at 40mph. Constantly blowing our horn, he waited until we were roughly 30 yards away before removing himself from our path of travel. Last Christmas Eve, en route to Ft. Scott, we left the yard and started into downtown Tulsa. Approaching Elgin St, I kept thinking that a pair of headlights was in the wrong place to be on the road. I talked to my engineer and we slowed down and stopped, agreeing a car was on the tracks. Sure enough, a drunk had turned directly onto the tracks after closing time. The one that still gives me chills, though, was shuttling a train out west of the yard to a siding we call Shirk, almost out to Keystone Dam. There are some curves just west of the yard with a 30mph limit, which we were close to. Coming around one of these curves, we were 15 seconds from 3 generations of a family taking pictures on the tracks. They split, just in time, but I would have loved to slap the picture taking mom of this group, as she literally stayed 3 feet off the track. If we would have had a wide load, or loose straps, overhanging boards, anything that can be commonplace dangers, she would have been dead in the face of her entire family. By the time we would have got stopped and been able to report it, she would be beyond help. If you don't belong on them, just don't get on them. Help us help you stay alive. [/QUOTE]
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