Right on Track
Tree clearing program is critical to train service
By Patrick White
Kids have a natural love of trains - from Lionel to Thomas the Train, it's fun to drive or push the locomotives around the tracks and imagine the joy of traveling the open rails. If only it were so easy for adults. Out in the real world, operating a train system and network of tracks is a massive undertaking, a 24-hour-a-day job where the workplace is spread over hundreds and even thousands of miles.
One critically important maintenance task that passengers probably seldom pause to consider is tree clearing. Keeping the rights-of-way along tracks open is absolutely ...
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