- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: amtrak347@a...
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:12:22 EDT
- In 1987, when I was working as engineer on trains #821/#304, the speed limit thru Lockport was 79 MPH and thru Lemont was 50 MPH. Always a thrill passing thru Lockport at 79 wondering if we would hit
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00007.html (6,827 bytes)
- 2. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Howell <tubaman21@y...>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:20:58 -0700 (PDT)
- The reason I ask is someone was just killed two blocks south of the public landing on Saturday. I think I remember someone getting hit by the Public Landing a while back. I do know that during Canal
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00013.html (8,266 bytes)
- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: Aeolus3@a...
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:33:41 EDT
- << The Lockport police gave Amtrak a speeding ticket one year. >> DeKalb IL tried that a number of years ago.... They tried to give a speeding ticket to a C&NW Falcon. It didn't work too well. On the
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00014.html (6,810 bytes)
- 4. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Holding <hold-on@s...>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:29:09 -0500
- List trains for parades, foot races, city festivals, etc These are generally whistle and toot orders with speed restriction often added. Some times even this does not help sjh -- Original Message --
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00020.html (9,391 bytes)
- 5. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: "Tim Fleck" <tf5077@p...>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:46:51 -0500
- People, The law of plain simple COMMON SENSE applies wherever and whenever you cross railroad tracks. It's not like you can't hear a train coming it's just as loud doing 90 mph as it is 35. I feel fo
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00022.html (10,806 bytes)
- 6. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:34:09 -0800
- Tim's point is well taken but needs at least a little qualification in an era of welded rail, light-weight equipment, and all the other refinements that make today's trains much quieter than their pr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00038.html (9,974 bytes)
- 7. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: "JOHN FISHER" <fisherjohnf@m...>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 08:10:02 -0500
- On a similar note, in our neighboring city of Madison, WI the enlightened leadership has passed an ordinance banning the use of train whistles by the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad as it passes throug
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00041.html (10,791 bytes)
- 8. Re: [BRHSlist] Amtrak Speed Limits (score: 1)
- Author: Aeolus3@a...
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:27:36 EDT
- << Of course the railroad tracks/crossing were there long before the arrival of the whining members of the community. About 10 years ago in the Chicago area the ordinance banning the use of train whi
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-10/msg00044.html (7,218 bytes)
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