by Bracdude181
Around 20 people jumped onto the train at County Line and they were riding it!
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Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:54 pm Around 20 people jumped onto the train at County Line and they were riding it!Dangerous. Stupid.
Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:06 pm @Hear my train a comin Behavior like this has been the norm in Lakewood for many years. Used to be a lot worse though. Lakewood had lots of gangs before the Israelis moved in, (Bloods, Crips, etc) and from what I’ve heard they would try to take lumber from the train while it was moving, or commit other, more heinous acts. I’m honestly surprised we never had a shooting incident.If you got any pics of people hopping on top of the train, post them. Always interesting to see pics of people being complete idiots.
Truthfully it has been quite a while since a group that large has attempted to ride on the train. Fortunately that’s about as bad as it gets now maybe aside from the people walking down the trains and when they leave their garbage on the ROW. They’ve even left heavy appliances in the track gauge at times!
Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:54 pm Around 20 people jumped onto the train at County Line and they were riding it!You know the rule...post a photo or video or it never happened. Hearsay evidence rarely holds up in railroad court...
Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:07 am @JohnFromJersey With the current amount of customers and how often they need service, I doubt we will see more than twice a week service down here.If the sand trains ever come with the Gateway Tunnels, *maybe* we will see a train or two a day for a few years while they build it.
As for attracting customers, C&D only gained one customer on the lines they took over. HK Logistics in Port Colden. Another two customers they had no longer get shipments by rail, and I am unsure as to why. Both were very small customers though.
Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:57 pm @JohnFromJersey I think C&D kinda does that in Ringoes on the Black River and Western.Probably. Once Plate F is allowed I'd imagine they can do all sorts of things.
Actually you’ve just reminded me of something. NS recently started a new thing allowing “intermodal style services” to be done with boxcars. Maybe C&D could do something similar? Idk