BOB2 Wrote:
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> Yes, diesel and fuel oil emissions, coming from
> all uses, not just locomotives, actually do
> contain small amounts of known carcinogens. And,
> breathing in large amounts of diesel particulates
> is associated with developing emphysema. In my
> career, I've known a thankfully small number of
> rails who've developed emphysema and lung cancers.
> But, as you rightly noted, this is completely OT
> (it's about food mostly, or did you actually read
> it?) and has nothing whatsoever to do with trains
> at all. So what's your point exactly?

Last week there was a Prop 65 ad run in our local Monterey Herald by the UP, BNSF, Amtrak and Caltrain warning of diesel emissions near facilities and showing a map with Roseville, Stockton, Oakland etc. I had never seen such an ad by the railroads before.
C