Comment EI-1592
Received or sent (printed as 7/22/2005)
Docket # 34672 Union Pacific Railroad proposal to increase train traffic from Rockview, MO to Dexter, MO I want to register my complaint about the Union Pacific Railroad wanting to run more trains through Chaffee. I cannot get across the tracks with the number of trains now. They block the two crossings in town for more than theie allotted fifteen minutes. Sometimes there will be two going in opposite directions, causing further delays. This is very trying when I have to be at work at a certain time. Then there is the element of an emergency situation. Ambulances, fire engines, police cannot get to a certain place if the trains are blocking the crossings. This has happened in the past several times. More trains will only add to the problem. The noises they make when they go by is very loud and annoying. The wheels squeak, the motor in the engines roar loudly, and the whistles can be heard across town. There would never be any peace if more trains were running through. In the past, there have been trains with chemicals and strong-smelling vapors leaking out causing concern about poisonous fumes. If an accident or derailment happened anywhere along the route, it would affect a lot of people. Then there is the chance they would be blocked by a train in order to save themselves or to help others. It is bad enough as it is now. If the railroad cannot take care of the problems it has created now, then adding more trains is just adding more fuel to the flames. NO!!! I don't want any more trains running through Chaffee! John Nation
Submitted by: John Nation · Chaffee, MO
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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