Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> The owner of the truck involved in the earlier
> road crossing crash between the gravel truck and
> Amtrak that kille
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This is probably one of the safest railroad crossings anywhere except for the few bad genes of the truck driver involved. I seem to recall you can see for 15 miles in all directions. You'ld have to be
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Wait until one of the defense attornies asks the question. Mr. Trucking Company. How many times have your trucks crossed that track at that location in the last five years? How many times has your dec
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Typical behavior of a company whose 2 out of 3 trucks were able to stop at the crossing. A trucking company sued an Amtrak engineer in a well known Florida incident that happened in 1993. That truck
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Dumb trucking companys huh!
Trains probably have been going over that crossing faster than Amtrak does, long before anyone had invented a truck.
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The owner of the truck involved in the earlier road crossing crash between the gravel truck and Amtrak that killed Amtrak conductor Laurette Lee and 5 passengers says the crossing did not provide adeq
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Unfortunately, I know this crossing way too well, as I have railfaned out there in the 1990s frequently as well as ride Amtrak through there. The speed limit on the highway 95 at this crossing is ind
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Bob...
I have been looking at the RGJ web site primarily and I have noticed on other news sites that there were some conflicting statements between the Nevada Highway Patrol saying 2 fatalities and
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Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 152 - 07/12/10
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Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 22 - 01/30/10
This day in Railroad History
January 30, 1905
The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake was completed in Jean, Nevada, twenty miles west of Las Vegas today
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