(Source: Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2025)
About 10 times each day, giant freight trains pass along a narrow section of track along the Sacramento River in far Northern California where engineers on the locomotives regularly tense up with stress.
“Every single time, it’s a near miss” of a train hitting a person, said Ryan Snow, the California State Chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “Multiple near misses, every single run. My nightmare is that a family that isn’t paying attention gets hit. We’ve been lucky that we haven’t had any fatalities caused by a trespasser strike. The worst thing an engineer can do is hit somebody.”
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