Yo, Chuck: > > About 10-12 years ago I had a long face-to-face discussion with a reporter > from the Morris County Daily Record about such an incident in Madison. I > told the reporter that one aspect of the story that had been ignored was > the psychological impact on the railroad engineer. Why would you care? The last thing an engineer needs if for some busy body to worrying about how he feels about an incident. I told her that it must > be terrible for the engineer to deal with it and that I wondered at that > time whether the rail industry (or NJ Transit) had a formal program to help > rail engineers get through the psychological aftermath of such an accident > which, of course, was no fault of the engineer. Well, she blew me off, > saying that maybe she'd do a story in a year or so, which of course was > nonsense. Why would she talk to you in the first place. You were not the engineer...... Her reaction was that of total denial, as if it weren't > important at all. So, Bill, I don't quite understand your reaction since > I'm actually extremely sympathetic to the plight of engineers. You don't know how I feel after such an incident. Furthermore, it's none of your business. Or anybody else's, unless I make it so. This is a sore subject with me, at least. My advice to all members on this list is, that unless you are a Locomotive Engineer, leave all references to fatalities where they belong: not here. Bill - -- Be a Locomotive Engineer: Its the most fun you can have with 3000 HP The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
This HTML page is © 2000-2009 Blue Moon Online System and The Railfan Network
This page and the data contained therein may not be reproduced
for any form of commercial use without the explicit permission
of J. Henry Priebe Jr. or his duly authorized agent.