There are pros vs. cons about OSHA down here and I'm sure
the Canadian equivalent on your side of the border.
That said, what does government labour policy have to do with
CPR steam, 3101 in particular? I'd love to hear/see something
of 3100-01 when they were assigned to the ATLANTIC LTD. running
via the Int'l Of Maine Div. across Maine. Omer LaVallee's
IOM book is one of the finest RR books ever published. It's
only marred by the lack of a 3100 photo owing I'm sure to the
ATLANTIC's nocturnal passage through ME during the brief period
those engines were assigned there.
John
John Hutchins, P.O. Box 595, Littleton, MA 01460-0595
--- bcclogg@xxxxxxx wrote:
From: "Brian Clogg" <bcclogg@xxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: K1a - 4-8-4 #3101Construction Video
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:41:15 -0800
right on Joe
Brian Clogg
Cariboo Western Railway
You're right, Robin, it happened. The problem is that a lot of guys
actually think that today's safety rules are a lot of nanny-state
nonsense.
Somebody on this list made a comment to that effect and the discussion has
arisen from that. THAT attitude is pretty upsetting to some of us and we
are not going to 'get over' our objection to it any time soon. Those of
us
who've had to work under these conditions have seen too much blood and
harm
done, waged too long and hard of a fight just to watch the American
corporations and comfortable white-collar society turn back the clock now,
which they are most assuredly attempting to do. Moreover, if you had a
look
at the workplaces in Asia and the third world where the western
corporations
have transferred their manufacturing, you'd see that conditions there are
far worse than even those of Angus in 1928. Clearly, that doesn't bother
a
lot of people in this part of the world, but it should and I guarantee
that
at some point we are going to pay dearly for that lack of concern.
