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re: Explosion Felt In Houston
Posted on 1/24/20 at 2:48 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 1/24/20 at 2:48 pm to LSUFanHouston
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There's a railroad about 2 miles from my house. A schedule changed and a train that used to come through mid-day now rolls through around midnight. Blaring their horn because of safety reasons. Our local elected officials talked to the railroad about going back to daytime, railroad basically told them to F off.
Interstate commerce.
Was involved in a rather large derailment once and an Illiois State Trooper (sergeant) demanded my drivers license. The other cops around about spit out their coffee when I told him no, he wasn't getting my drivers license.
Handed him a card provided by the railroad that says why we do not have to provide them with that information. He flipped out and said "This is not your license!" I told him to read the part along the bottom.
"See where it says CFR 49? CFR stands for Code of Federal Regulations. You have no jurisdiction."
As he stormed off with his rookie in tow the other cops and firemen were all smirking and later said they were surprised I told the guy to pound sand. They didn't know either.
Railroads are all federal. Locals can scream all they want..
Oh, and if you don't like the horns don't buy a house by the tracks. They've been there long before you were thought of.
This post was edited on 1/24/20 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 1/24/20 at 2:50 pm to BuckyCheese
You couldn't just be normal and give him your license?
Posted on 1/24/20 at 3:12 pm to BuckyCheese
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Locals can scream all they want
In my dealings with the rail companies this has been the case.
Local officials get told to freak off...and the RR's aren't even nice about it.
I've seen a few state officials be able to get some movement, but only when their party was in power in DC.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 5:25 pm to BuckyCheese
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