Trouble On The Tracks
Discovry Times Web Site Story
An intricate web of railroad tracks crisscrosses America for nearly 200,000 miles, carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers and 40 percent of all the freight in the United States. On average, one person a day is killed at a railroad crossing.
Did anyone see this show on the Discovery Times Channel? I came away with the impression that it was a hatchet job expose on the railroads. They did make the case that some of the railroads have tried to cover up grade crossing accidents claiming that they have gone so far as to erase tapes of radio conversations between engineers and dispatchers after an accident. I would have been more inclined to give the entire story some credibility had the source been someone other than the New York Times. They have not proved to be fair and accurate in their reporting on other industries and topics so I took this “report” with a large grain of salt. None the less it was interesting.
An intricate web of railroad tracks crisscrosses America for nearly 200,000 miles, carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers and 40 percent of all the freight in the United States. On average, one person a day is killed at a railroad crossing.
Did anyone see this show on the Discovery Times Channel? I came away with the impression that it was a hatchet job expose on the railroads. They did make the case that some of the railroads have tried to cover up grade crossing accidents claiming that they have gone so far as to erase tapes of radio conversations between engineers and dispatchers after an accident. I would have been more inclined to give the entire story some credibility had the source been someone other than the New York Times. They have not proved to be fair and accurate in their reporting on other industries and topics so I took this “report” with a large grain of salt. None the less it was interesting.
posted by Ken / WA3FKG at 9:53 PM
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