Re: NSWGR Timber Trestles

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:42:36 +1000, The Morphetts
<grahamm@onthenet.com.au> wrote:

>You're out trainchasing and you decide to walk through a tunnel so you can get
>in place for your next shot - but the train is closer than you calculated and
>before you know it, you have a raging 38 behind you entering the tunnel at +/-
>70MPH. You can't get to one of the workman's safety thinggies in time and the
>tunnel is quite narrow - there's a good chance you'll be hit by the train if
>you stand against the wall. Having prayed, how do you save yourself?
>
Not only would you have a raging 38 behind you; you would also have a
raging train crew. 
You lay down as close to the tunnel wall as you can and hope that you
survive long enough to write a letter to the train crew apologising
for scaring the daylights out of them. Not only are you tresspassing
but you must have left your brain at the mouth of the tunnel. No one
except a rail employee in the execution of their duties has any right
to walk through a tunnel on an operating railway. This would rank as a
super-dumb idea.



Cheers

Krel

Steamfreight 99 at Victorian Goldfields Railway - July 17-18 1999.

VGR website http://www.castlemaine.net.au/~vgr/

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