Speed

[Robert E. Rathke]

Ken,

To comment on your last sentence: I always thought that only PAT's
CATENARY SUPPORT STRUCTURES were overbuilt :-).

Bob 10/16

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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:25:11 +0000 Kenneth and Tracie Josephson
<kjosephson at sprintmail.com> writes:
>Jim Holland wrote:
>
>
>> - ALL of this is backyard running in very close quarters.  You may 
>stop
>> cars with crossarms but there are children all over the place - will 
>they
>> stop for crossarms?  It is far too congested an area.
>>         Then you have the Beechview Streets - Broadway.
>>         Then you have three long trestles, downgrade, long blind 
>curves
>> and several stops.  You can't get going 40 mph in case you have to 
>stop
>> at one of the stops and you can't see clearly around the curves.  
>Signals
>> won't prevent hitting something else on the tracks and the tracks 
>have
>> been common ground to many people for most of the century!
>
>Jim's common sense prevails to end my argument!!! I am embarrassed to
>admit I am a safety officer at a county hospital. I have to admit, the
>residents near the tracks never entered my mind. Thanks for bringing 
>me
>to my senses, Jim. But your rebuttal adds to my contention that the 
>line
>is way, way overbuilt. Ken J.

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