Do you guys really hate us?

I appreciate you taking all the extra traffic you can off the road.I like trains and the people who run them.

 

I had two uncles years ago that were worked the "Headend" for the S.P. out here in Oregon.(two things should tell you how long ago it was, First it was still S.P. and second their road engines were gp9's) at any rate before I got out of high school they both tried to get me to hire on,but no, just HAD to learn how to drive a truck. would have been retired by the time I was 50. I think how life might have been different from time to time but don't regret my choice. No, I don't HATE trains, or anything else for that matter( well, maybe lima beans) there is no reason for drivers to dislike trains.

 

If I had it to do again I would have been a union freighthauler it would be nice to have a pension and be retired.Sorry for the highjack...

 

Trains pay no highway taxes, burn the lowest grade number 2 oil they can buy, dont have to stop a weigh stations or get a dot level 1 inspection,make two to three times more than the average trucker, dont need number plates or a state registration, and have the right of way always. They dont need jake brakes to stop them but they can still blow their horns anytime of the day of night when entering a crossing but we have to shut our jakes off anywhere theres a cow being milked or a condo on a hillside. No I dont hate trains, just like I dont hate New York, its the yankees I hate.

 

Hi, myself i m fasincated by train's both old steamers , my favorite , and the modern day train, i wanna say orgen mayby or somwere out west theres a hill, i wacthed a very long train, it corscrewed all the way up the moutain, my only regret was i didnt have my vidio camera,but this debate about train's verse truck's been going on since there was buggy days, meaning the freight was hauled in a buckboard wagon , verse trains of that eria, the shippers knew they get more on the train , so they went that route, i made more with jb then reg freight, van, by just going too the yard, rail yard, pickup a dumpy, then go en delv too the jb yard , i could do this mayby 5 times a day too keep me busy, before my reg load,Everett

 

Why do trains run their brights when meeting oncoming traffic?

I know they can be dimmed, they do it in Canada. In the states, they just blind us.

 

Run out west along 2 and 52. The train runs along the highway. I flash the brights, but it does no good.

Just turn all of my brights on and hope for the best. Usually cannot see because of their lights.