They do this shit at least 3 times a week here in south Mississippi, and its a fucking freight train with over a hundred train cars usually.

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    Trains don’t park on open lines? Excuse me, that’s exactly what I’m posting, they most certainly do, multiple times a week here!

    This time they blocked both intersections in our area, blocking even the typical detour people are accustomed to using when this shit happens.

    And it’s also a shared rail, shared between long freightlines and also much shorter Amtrak passenger lines. At least Amtrak doesn’t park and block a hundred vehicles across multiple intersections…

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      3 months ago

      You call this parking. It’s a bottleneck. There are solutions. Underpasses. Overpasses. Better rail infrastructure. Unfortunately, higher taxes.

      Write up your frustration and take it to your local, state, and federal politicians.

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        How do you even do that? Like literally write to politicians?

        I’m literally signed up for Ezell’s Edge, but it’s just an automated publication, they don’t read a fucking thing.