From: w.d.hines.unspammed@ns.sympatico.nospam.ca   
      
   On Mon, 12 May 2014 09:34:31 -0400, conklin wrote:   
      
   > "Wayne Hines"  wrote in   
   > message news:g91cv.19665$6A3.2249@fx29.iad...   
   >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:55:07 -0400, conklin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Nobody"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:dg10n9tiqf5j54neb363vthpi3jqc61igh@4ax.com...   
   >>>> On Thu, 08 May 2014 21:28:47 GMT, Wayne Hines   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Thu, 08 May 2014 08:44:50 -0400, conklin wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> The press is reporting today that the Feds are in fact going to   
   >>>>>> give those living on the routes of trains hauling crude oil some   
   >>>>>> warning of the dangers they might face.  Or at least that seems the   
   >>>>>> intent. Given the profit involved to the carriers, I am wondering   
   >>>>>> why the Feds don't also insist on track upgrdes on those routes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Perhaps there is no need for track upgrades on those routes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>gwh   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Thank you!   
   >>>   
   >>> Crappy track is ok with you.  Work for a RR?   
   >>   
   >> George, in addition to being an expert on airport finances, are you   
   >> also a qualified railroad track inspector?   
   >>   
   >     You act as if train derailments are acts of God, not dependent on   
   >     bad   
   > track.  As long as the RR industry assumes accidents are normal and   
   > victims can be paid off with a few dollars after 5-10 years in court,   
   > then it is just a cost of doing business and things will never be   
   > improved.   
      
   George, it's obvious you know little about rail accidents. "Bad track" is   
   not the only cause of derailments.   
      
   >Airline accidents are approached quite differently and last   
   > year no one died in domestic airline accidents.   
      
   That depends on your definition of "domestic airline accidents", or have   
   you forgotten about the three people who died when that 777 crashed on   
   landing at San Francisco.   
      
   > That would translate   
   > into zero oil train derailments.  But right now no one cares about oil   
   > trains.  As is obvious with your posts.   
      
   Wrong again, George.   
      
   gwh   
      
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