From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Clark F Morris  wrote:   
   >866013149e <866013149e@interpring.com> wrote:   
   >>"conklin"  writes:   
      
   >>>The woman was obviously confused.  Her cafr was dinted, so she looked   
   >>>at the damange and then decided to go forward rather than back.   
   >>>Or stay put.  And why was that third rail traveling along the roof   
   >>>the cars where you could see it as it went between car 1 and 2?   
      
   >>There are highwaye grade crossings on railroad tracks with third rail   
   >>power? As in anyone can walk right up to the third rail and get fried?   
      
   >Easiest to do in Chicago where there is no protective cover on the   
   >third rail.  Ride the Pink, Brown (Ravenswood), Yellow (Skokie) or   
   >Purple (Evanston) lines to the first station on ground level and walk   
   >to the nearest street with a grade crossing.  Warning, this could   
   >hurt.   
      
   Clark, Evanston "L" has two grade crossing. The rights of way are protected   
   with track gates and has been since conversion from trolley wire to 3rd rail   
   in 1973. It's a terminal area so the track gates aren't an operating obstacle.   
   Normally, they're undesireable on heavily traffic railroad mains.   
      
   All rapid transit line grade crossings are protected with pyrimid-shaped   
   pieces of wood to keep hooved animals wandering from nearby pastures off   
   the right of way, a project that has been 100% successful for 120 years.   
   Human beings aren't that smart.   
      
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