Move Your Van! NYSW Schuyler Street Utica 1/22/19

[ut-1]

An age-old drama unfolded today on Utica's Schuyler Street when NYS&W's UT-1 waited for a motorist to move his van:

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[CarterB]

Shoulda just 'scraped by' !!! LOL

[DutchRailnut]

since crew represents the company, that would not be a good Idea and would not give good publicity.

[CarterB]

since crew represents the company, that would not be a good Idea and would not give good publicity.

Understood, but sure woulda been fun to watch!!!

[SST]

Wish My neighborhood had a live track going down the center.

Definitely In My Back Yard!

[lvrr325]

Why do they do if they can't find someone to move an offending vehicle, call a tow company?

[eolesen]

What the crew wanted to do....

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[CarterB]

Yeah!! That's the ticket!!

[BR&P]

Greetings from the south 51 degrees and sunny!

ONCT had vehicles towed on at least 2 occasions, once a hunter parked foul of the main, another time a party goer parked across the track in the parking lot in Victor. NYSW probably did the same.

[DutchRailnut]

railroad is in a public street , so if parking is legal there, and railroad tows a car they have a good change of a lawsuit.
and a case of bad publicity.

[phillyrube]

Back in the 70s they were still running freight around Norfolk Naval Station. Tracks highly marked. Block a train, get your base parking permit pulled, 1 day per minute.

[BandA]

You are supposed to park within some "x" distance of the curb. It is hard to judge with the snow banks, so the owner of the van probably had no clue, plus the track is not visible. The railroad should definitely be able to tow cars fouling their line. My question would be, is the horn rated for continuous duty cycle? Take a photo, call the tow truck, blow the horn, knock on the neighbor's door (since the crew is just sitting), definitely have the police issue a parking ticket! Police can run the registration and call the owner using any contact info they have... PIA but these things happen!

EDIT - after watching the video, what a moron! A lazy moron!

[oibu]

railroad is in a public street , so if parking is legal there, and railroad tows a car they have a good change of a lawsuit.
and a case of bad publicity.

I'm quite confident no jurisdiction would find in favor of the vehicle owner having been "legally parked" while in physical obstruction of a rail line engaged in interstate commerce (or anything else, for that matter). Also bear in mind NYS&W has its own police, who I would expect would be involved in some capacity if the local PD was not. I'm sure the legal-ese of street trackage is a nightmare, but at the end of the day the fact that the RR is in the street does not make it irrelevant and subject to closure at any time as a result of the random whims of any and all other users.

[ctclark1]

What the crew wanted to do....

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Operation Lifesaver should change their slogan to "Trains don't give a f*** about your car"

Despite what train crews try to tell their locomotives.... Those pesky multi-million ton trains just don't want to stop.

[D Alex]

Those "trains hitting cars" videos are strangely entertaining.......