Joe Arbona
Joe Arbona
ask people prayers railroad safety send stay thoughts
We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.
low trains weight
Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.
family prayers thoughts
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the woman's family.
heavy looking mile train
You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.
context engineers family knowing painful poor shook within witness
One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.
time work
It's just going to take us a little time to work through this.
arms care certainly intention rather taken terrible wait
It's certainly not our intention to inconvenience folks. But it's better for them to wait for the arms to be taken care of or repaired rather than have a terrible incident.
agreement figure fit trying
We're just trying to figure out how this will fit into that agreement.
avoid best concern industry level near tracks tragedies train
You have no idea what level of concern this industry has for pedestrians. The best way to avoid tragedies like these is not be near the train tracks at all.
heard time
This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.
arms coming maybe occasional somebody start typical
It could be that the arms start coming down as (drivers) are going through. Maybe it's just somebody bumping into it. This is typical equipment, and you could have an occasional breakdown.