•January 25, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

In last week’s column I fielded a letter from a reader who feels headlines are often unfair to trains or, presumably, the engineers who operate them.
That’s understandable, given that trains cannot stop on a dime or swerve to avoid collisions. And that leaves people crossing tracks or their vehicles generally at fault when a train comes into contact with someone or something.
Former state Rep. Paul Froehlich came up with a few options he thought would cast the train and engineer in a better light:
• “Car stopped on tracks causes train collision”
• “Truck driving around lowered gate gets hit by train”
• “Train hits pedestrian running across tracks”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.