BNSF Rail Guy Wrote:
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> City resident Wrote:
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> > There are huge issues (race, community - policy
> > relations or lack thereof, economic
> opportunities,
> > equity and others) associated with the event
> > leading to the trial and creating potential
> > conditions for riots in Ferguson and elsewhere
> in
> > the nation and all some of you can think of is
> how
> > it will impact railroads???
>
> I am sure that Norfolk Southern doesn't consider
> the safety of employees as trival and local
> managers have already made plans for the
> possibility of civil unrest in Ferguson causing
> the line to be closed.
>
Nothing in my commentary was meant to address how Norfolk Southern would respond to this situation and I do not have any issue with how NS would prepare for this issue. This is not a Norfolk Southern discussion forum. It's a railfan discussion forum.

As stated before, there are so many topics more worthy of discussing such as Amtrak's added Thanksgiving service, NS taking over a D & H line in the Northeast (mentioned by pdxrailtransit), progress of restoration of Heber Valley #618, lack of progress on UP 4014, investigation of sleep patterns of Metro North Engineers, Florida East Coast's new locomotives, an Amtrak excursion on the former Reading November 8 & 9 or SP'c C-9 locomotives.