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TwilightGardener

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

Tue Sep 2, 2014, 07:41 PM

Sep 2014

Totally unsafe. His union needs to vote "no" on that plan. Combine one-man crews with oil trains and unsound tanker cars, and you're looking at another catastrophe. That said, oil trains move every day and have been for some time--railroads aren't going to stop moving trains of oil, or coal, or what have you, and there are real, regular people who would be affected by the unlawful shutting down of rail operations (plus it's a federal crime, I believe). The way to deal with it is through Congress and the FRA, get them to pass the appropriate public safety laws.

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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