A 'Death Train' Is Haunting South Florida

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4. Growing up, I lived for a time in a house with larged treed backyard that dropped down a woody

and brushy ravine to traintracks. At the tender age of 7, I remember joining my sister and my Dad fighting a serious brushfire ignited by the train (old style) traveling by sparking as it went. I like trains and wish we had a modern network, but even the old-timey trains could be hauling dangerous gaseous cargo or other goods in those lines of freight cars. And when they are that loaded, they couldn't stop if they wanted. Even as a very young child, I could see how easy it would be to get trapped on the tracks and would beg my Mom not to try to move across right before the gate came down at an intersection (or like others I'd seen, drive around). From dangerous cargo, unintentional fires igniting, deadly track intersections, or just foolish people taking risks, we need regulation and oversight. With the new high-speed trains, this only dramatically increases. Unfortunately, not heeded by Trumpists...