It always seems that disasters come in threes. This is probably wrong but I don't know. The common cause in two accidents was unprotected rural grade crossings. I don't know how railroads can fix this since there are thousands of these crossing throughout the country. We probably don't hear much about an accident when a freight hits a vehicle because so few people are involved. I would think that there are many more vehicle / freight train accidents than Amtrak accidents just because there are so many more freight trains operating every day. NH Joe
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