Every one, and hundreds of others without trespassing or endangering anyone.
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Not according to the article. But hey, I won't turn you in. ;-)
A railroad crossing on a country road.....no gate, lights, just a sign stating to be careful of trains. The quintessential "Stop, look & listen" rural railroad crossing.
It IS true that the Railroads own the right-of-way, and anytime you are standing on their tracks, not in their rolling stock, you are trespassing. For whatever that's worth...
It IS true that the Railroads own the right-of-way, and anytime you are standing on their tracks, not in their rolling stock, you are trespassing. For whatever that's worth...
Very nice photos of tracks. My husband and I just got back from our first train trip and I'm ready to go again. We had a wonderful time and we're able to get some fairly decent photos of our travels. I took a snapshot of a lady train conductor and she wasn't very happy so I won't post her frowning face on here. Smiling.
I took a snapshot of a lady train conductor and she wasn't very happy so I won't post her frowning face on here. Smiling.
Gee, mine was much happier, and even ordered some prints! Trains are a great way to travel -- it's too bad we've let our system degrade so much ... :-(
I am 61 years old and have been around trains, tracks, stations, subways, trolleys and the like my entire life.
These very large machines do *NOT* sneak up on you.
You pretty much have to take leave of a great deal of common sense to get hit by a train.
I'm sorry to hear about people getting hurt or killed to any degree, but when I hear of someone getting hit by a train, I pretty much have very little sympathy.
You *MUST* deliberately place yourself in mortal danger in order to have something happen.
There is absolutely no such thing as getting accidently hit by a train. You had to have put yourself in that position.
I will amend the accidentally getting hit by a train comment to stipulate trains normally running on the tracks. A derailment does have dire consequences to people and property that cannot be foreseen.
You pretty much have to take leave of a great deal of common sense to get hit by a train.
I'm sorry to hear about people getting hurt or killed to any degree, but when I hear of someone getting hit by a train, I pretty much have very little sympathy.
You *MUST* deliberately place yourself in mortal danger in order to have something happen.
There is absolutely no such thing as getting accidently hit by a train. You had to have put yourself in that position.
I'm sorry to hear about people getting hurt or killed to any degree, but when I hear of someone getting hit by a train, I pretty much have very little sympathy...There is absolutely no such thing as getting accidently hit by a train. You had to have put yourself in that position.
Well, yeah, you had to have put yourself on the tracks, no doubt about it. You can't "accidentally" fall off a cliff either if it comes to that. But what you're saying, I'm pretty sure, is that you have to be totally zoned out and oblivious to not discern and heed the warning signs of an oncoming train. This is true. But in this case, the gal SAW the train coming, she DID move to avoid it, and she got killed by a train going the other way on the parallel track which she DIDN'T see or, apparently, hear. So it's not quite that cut-and-dried...
I do acknowledge that being on the tracks at ALL in a place where it was busy enough that trains would be going back and forth on parallel tracks is pretty lame :-( Heck, I limit MY train-track photography to overgrown, out-of-service sections of roadway, and I still get paranoid goosebumps when I do it. Of course, I'M deaf which adds a whole other dimension of risk to the equation. I drive penny crazy when I step into the middle of vehicular road to shoot a picture, even though I'm jacking my head back and forth like a nervous nutthatch the whole time :-)
But what you're saying, I'm pretty sure, is that you have to be totally zoned out and oblivious to not discern and heed the warning signs of an oncoming train.
That is *NOT* what I'm saying. I am saying that to a certain degree, you're making a conscious choice to *IGNORE* the warning signs of an oncoming train. The damn things are just too large and noisy, and bright, with the headlight to not be seen from far away enough to get out of the way.
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is true. But in this case, the gal SAW the train coming, she DID move to avoid it, and she got killed by a train going the other way on the parallel track which she DIDN'T see or, apparently, hear. So it's not quite that cut-and-dried...
Um, yeah....it is cut & dried. Again.....she stepped in front of the train she moved away from, and didn't ensure that where she was going was clear. Tragic, a meaningless loss, but unfortunately, nobody's fault but her own.
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I do acknowledge that being on the tracks at ALL in a place where it was busy enough that trains would be going back and forth on parallel tracks is pretty lame :-(
No. It was reckless, irresponsible, and inconsiderate. There is now a train driver that gets to live with being the instrument of her death for the rest of his life. It wasn't his fault. There was nothing he could do. Do you think that will enable him to sleep better?
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Heck, I limit MY train-track photography to overgrown, out-of-service sections of roadway, and I still get paranoid goosebumps when I do it. Of course, I'M deaf which adds a whole other dimension of risk to the equation. I drive penny crazy when I step into the middle of vehicular road to shoot a picture, even though I'm jacking my head back and forth like a nervous nutthatch the whole time :-)
I love to shoot trains, tracks, stations and will continue to do so. However, I will also operate under the idea that if I f*ck up, I could die.
My cousin's ex-husband, my niece's bff and my husband's great aunt all died on train tracks. (The last mentioned on a country line in the days of steam trains.) There is a suspicion of suicide about all of them, but that can never be known for sure.
Whoa, Jeb... We're actually not in disagreement on anything. Or at least, not on anything you've posted in THIS thread :-) I'm just a tad bit more diplomatic than you... Give the lovely Viv a smooch for me, willya?
