[ihc] Re: To tell the truth

["T.R.E.Jr." <T_R_E_Jr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

---If it makes you feel any better, the legal maximum speed limit a cargo
(government) train can be going is 60 mph. So regardless of what he said it
could be going on the track, if no laws were being broken, the train could
have been traveling closer to what you said. Just thought I would pass that
lil' tid-bit of info regarding transportation laws.

---FWIW, the speed limit for passenger trains is 45 mph.

---Thank you,
-T.R.E.Jr.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hofstetter" <hofs@domain.elided>
To: "T.R.E.Jr." <T_R_E_Jr@domain.elided>; <jma@domain.elided>; "Ryan Moore"
<baradium@domain.elided>; "ihc-digest" <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: To tell the truth


> >---I practice truth. Sometime my words may not come out right and if you
> >picked, you might find contradictions, but if brought to my attention, I
> >will try to set it straight.
>
> Well, this is going to really surprise my buddies who gather with us
> each Spring in Death Valley, but I have exaggerated a few times for
> the sake of emphasis, and the making of a good tale.
>
> I was putting on a slide show one time for about 50 of my photo
> students and folks that had traveled with us on Death Valley
> adventures. I was illustrating some close calls that we'd had and got
> sidetracked into a story about a friend of mine who was following me
> up a trail where I had just crossed a major train track. His Land
> Cruiser got stuck between the tracks and he was no sooner stuck than
> a train going down hill came around the corner of the mountain and
> knocked his vehicle high in the air and off to the side of the track.
>
> As I was telling the story, I said that the train must have been
> going 70 or 75 m.p.h. because it was going downhill. This old fellow
> hollered out from the audience, "I was a train conductor for 45
> years, and the maximum that train could have been going on that track
> was 50 m.p.h."
>
> Kind of took the starch out of my story. He, now 10+ years later, is
> still trying to get back on my good side. <g>