Look for Crescent #19 to be late today

[GaSteve]

Here's the story

Amtrak status showed down 45 minutes departing Atlanta - not as bad as I would have thought.

 

[Pat Harper]

Thank goodness it wasn't the Crescent who hit that lady! But I can see that if the freight train was ahead of the Crescent, the delayed freight train would have an effect on the Crescent that would have had to wait until the freight train could proceed on.

Who in their right minds would try to cross the tracks in front of a freight train? Don't they realize the train is not able to stop in time?

 

[TLC]

Thank goodness it wasn't the Crescent who hit that lady! But I can see that if the freight train was ahead of the Crescent, the delayed freight train would have an effect on the Crescent that would have had to wait until the freight train could proceed on.

Who in their right minds would try to cross the tracks in front of a freight train? Don't they realize the train is not able to stop in time?

The article states the frieght was northbound, the Cresent #19 would have been southbound.

 

[GaSteve]

Thank goodness it wasn't the Crescent who hit that lady! But I can see that if the freight train was ahead of the Crescent, the delayed freight train would have an effect on the Crescent that would have had to wait until the freight train could proceed on.

Who in their right minds would try to cross the tracks in front of a freight train? Don't they realize the train is not able to stop in time?

The article states the frieght was northbound, the Cresent #19 would have been southbound.

Yes, but they stopped all rail traffic for the investigation.

 

[jdcnosse]

Who in their right minds would try to cross the tracks in front of a freight train? Don't they realize the train is not able to stop in time?

An idiot who's in a hurry. I was helping out a local university with a parking survey, and there was a set of tracks that ran across basically the two parking lots I surveyed; I got stuck waiting for a freight train for a good five-ten minutes at least. Of course I was in no hurry, I just let the train pass since I actually have common sense. lol

 

[guest]

Thank goodness it wasn't the Crescent who hit that lady! But I can see that if the freight train was ahead of the Crescent, the delayed freight train would have an effect on the Crescent that would have had to wait until the freight train could proceed on.

Who in their right minds would try to cross the tracks in front of a freight train? Don't they realize the train is not able to stop in time?

The article states the frieght was northbound, the Cresent #19 would have been southbound.

Yes, but they stopped all rail traffic for the investigation.

Pat stated that the frieght was ahead of the Cresent. Of course thay stopped all traffic.