BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Your comments are without even a semblance of courtesy, unfounded, irrelevant, unnecessary and unwanted. You seem to live to deride your fellow human beings.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

Do you mean Wrongy?

Did you read HIS post to me? Do you approve of that?

mcpo_ewcm

Laura72568 Loc: Anderson TX

This happened about 20-25 miles from my house...it's been all over the news here. I remember attending Texas School of Professional Photography and ALL of the instructors stressed the importance of NEVER shooting on railroad tracks. I only wish the photographer had learned of or realized the danger before this tragedy happened. Such a sad, sad story...

Laura72568 Loc: Anderson TX

True!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

You mean like this?
--Bob

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drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

Last I knew all trains were actually electric. The diesel engine was there to run the electric generation machine and last time I was near a train it made a lot of noise as it rattled down the tracks.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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It is my habit that I usually do not rebuttal.... However=

I did post photographs to show what a true abandoned line looks like. I is around THOSE that I make photographs with others.

oregonfrank Loc: Astoria, Oregon

I don't appreciate your willingness to characterize me as either ignorant or stupid, especially based on a single post. I am ok, however, with disagreeing on my use of the term stupid. Further, I am not willing to perpetuate personal attacks by characterizing you on any major dimension. The main purpose of my post was to counter the notion that individuals who are victims of rail road accidents are of lesser intelligence or lesser value. Very intelligent people still die climbing mountains, driving too fast, scuba diving, sky diving, etc. The major factor, in my view, is not low intelligence, but rather lack of information and experience, something we all experience in some areas of our lives. I also do not accept the implication of the post I first responded to that individuals of lesser intelligence are of lesser value. In fact, all of us are less intelligent than at least some others.

adamsg Loc: Chubbuck, ID

Having been a citizen of the great state of Texas for 20 years, I happen to know that area well. Having lived within 35 miles of Navasota, I observed a rather casual attitude on the part of some local residents to the very great danger posed by trains. Unsignaled grade crossings are one example. If one stopped to check carefully before crossing, you could be honked at by someone in a rush, or get flipped off. Both UP and BNSF operate some long trains (coal drags from strip mines between Bryan and Huntsville). In a full emergency stop, such trains can take well over a mile to stop.

Sadly, this young lady didn't seem toile the danger of standing between two sets of tracks on a joint use mainline. Wherever you live, never forget that trains are something to treat with great respect.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Well said.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

You may not appreciate it, but the fact is that you are ignorant in this instance about the definitions of ignorance and stupidity and the differences between them, although that can be corrected. Mr. Google can help you with that. You should also note that I did not characterize you as stupid, in fact I stated that you were not stupid. Perhaps a little remedial work on reading comprehension would be of value to you as well.

We are all ignorant about some things, no matter how intelligent each of us may be. There is no shame in being ignorant of some things. A lot of things, then possibly. Some of us have the ability to learn, and some do not, or at least some very slowly and some not very much at all.

We can all make mistakes, some of them can be characterized as stupid mistakes. We can also make what we think are good decisions and yet are based upon ignorance of any given situation. Some decisions can be fatal even if some calculation of risk is involved. In the case of this young lady she didn't appear to know how to calculate the risk. Sad, but she still went splat. A waste of an otherwise promising young life.

However, I offer you no apology since it was your own lack of knowledge that put you in this situation. Perhaps you should stick to taking photographs which appears to be a stronger suit for you. Your eye of the forest is a compelling image.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Saw that article today myself. Active tracks is not a place for a photo shoot.

Don

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

I know of some "dead tracks", they have trees growing in them.

photon56 Loc: North America

I think actions like this is irresponsible. Self preservation comes first.