From: w.d.hines.unspammed@ns.sympatico.nospam.ca   
      
   On Mon, 12 May 2014 19:49:18 -0400, conklin wrote:   
      
   > "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   > news:lkqk0n$j50$3@news.albasani.net...   
   >> conklin  wrote:   
   >>>"Wayne Hines"  wrote:   
   >>>>On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:55:07 -0400, conklin wrote:   
   >>>>>"Nobody"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>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.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>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.  Airline accidents are approached quite differently and last   
   >>>year no one died in domestic airline accidents.  That would translate   
   >>>into zero oil train derailments.  But right now no one cares about oil   
   >>>trains.  As is obvious with your posts.   
   >>   
   >> No one acts as if derailments were acts of God. It's just that no one   
   >> at all believes you until we hear the facts. You're unwilling to wait   
   >> for facts.   
   >   
   >    Oil trains derail, that is a fact.  Already railroads route oil   
   >    trains   
   > over their "best" track to lower risk.  But the best track today is not   
   > up to very high standards.   
      
   George, do you know anything about standards for classification,   
   construction and maintenance of railroad track?   
      
   gwh   
      
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