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Originally Posted by Est.July.4.1776
That said, when I was a younger man I used to walk along the tracks in my home-town. I never considered train hopping, but I would watch them go by. When I was twelve or thirteen I was picked up by the railroad police- to this day I still have the letter that the railroad I currently work for sent to my parents about the dangers of me walking on the tracks.
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I won't go into all the "bad" things my friends and I did regarding railroad tracks and trains in my hometown.
We had three main lines that go directly through my town and they must slow down to get through town.
Illinois Central, Union Pacific and CSX
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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
I'm guessing you see idiots at railroad crossings all the time?
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We would have been these folks.. and not just at crossings... teenage boys in a podunk town with nothing to do but play on the tracks.