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TwilightGardener

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1. Railroads actually have their own security services that prevent

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2014, 05:37 PM

Sep 2014

tampering with the tracks or switches. Someone needs to clear the tracks here. Sorry, my husband works for a railroad as a conductor, and all she's doing is taking away the work hours and pay of good union employees.

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***Action Alert*** Oil Train HALTED! [View all] eridani Sep 2014 OP

Railroads actually have their own security services that prevent TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #1

What, you think that train is going to magically disappear and the crew needed to move it... ret5hd Sep 2014 #2

You don't get called for a train when trains aren't moving. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3

I'm betting the crew wouldn't want to be on one of those trains when they eridani Sep 2014 #4

No--my husband opposes the one-man crews that BNSF is trying to pull off, in particular. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

So it's OK to let wheat rot for the sake of oil that benefits no Americans? eridani Sep 2014 #6

That's the problem with having only one Class 1 railroad for a whole state. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #7