Trains and tracks

Today’s light weight,  yet noncontroversial post takes a not so in depth look at train tracks in St. Paul.   It has pictures which as everyone knows is how we non-writers keep our blogs going.  It works well with the non-readers who visit this site too.

We have train tracks in St. Paul.  I guess we need them for the trains to run on.  This particular set runs along the Mississippi River and goes to the Ford Plant.  Trains come through up to six times a day but are only allowed to 10 miles an hour through town.  They are not permitted to sound their horns at crossings because we are more civilized than that in St. Paul.  The boats on the river sound their horns but that is different.   If the boats stopped sounding their horns I would miss it.

For a more in depth look at rail transportation in St. Paul and in all of Minnesota, and some nice big maps too,  please visit the MN Dot Rail pages.   Please don’t forget that It takes a fully loaded freight train traveling at 50 miles an hour 1.5 miles to come to a full stop.  I wish I would have know that before I took the first picture.  I think the train was only going 10 miles an hour because it was in St. Paul and it did stop before it hit me.

My husband read this post and he let me know that it is lame.  According to him it is so lame that it needs a cane.  Interesting comment I had him pegged for the type who would just look at the pictures.