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  1. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    Happy ending, so a great story, ODAddict,! Because that adventure could have gone SO wrong. Wonder if we all earn points in Heaven for the things we decided not to tell Mom?
  2. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    Just reading something the other day about "calm", and how it was described as a superpower. Emotions tangle up thinking. But emotion is a hard thing to tame in us peoples. Taking railroad crossings seriously is always good sense, plain and simple. Here's the clip:
  3. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    The world IS imagined, otherwise we'd still all be living in trees. Imagine that
  4. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    In a right kind of world, the country would be broken up into a grid: - of rails (for long-haul travel), with - a smaller grid of roadway inside each square of rail, for (short-haul) distribution and travel That approach could keep these two (incompatible) systems separated. But don't hold...
  5. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    25 years of firefighting, and my brother recently retired as a captain of a company down in North Carolina. It was an episode that he said broke him, and told me he had to get out: - Responded to a highway crash, a mother and her two young children. No survivors. It was the last in a career of...
  6. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    Hey, Ferroequinologist, I meant to circle back and apologize to you. I was stupid as a kid (not saying I got over that either), and the things I did might have turned wrong, and for more people than just me. Now, finally, I get it. That statistic of yours (every two years), shouldn't happen...
  7. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    If I'm lucky enough to make Heaven, Mom will likely meet me at the Pearly Gates, saying: - "You did WHAT??!!!" And across her knee I'll take the beating I deserve. :doghead:
  8. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    ColdWarrior, I love you, man, you know it. BUT, you are not going to out-stupid me!! So, yeah, we were also probably about 13-years old at the time, just three of us that day if I remember right (the "gang" varied from about 3-7 kids total). The Potomac River takes a bend at Point-of-Rocks...
  9. Another Ahab

    RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY - Sheriff Officer Hit - could have been any of us.

    Just now, stumbled here on this thread. Sobering... About 4-5 of us regularly played on trains. We would jump the freights from Point-of-Rocks MD (where they slowed) ride them up to the the switching yards in Brunswick, jump off and then hop a return train back. Stupid. We were kids in our...
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