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Is anyone REALLY surprised?? Does anyone REALLY think any of this is anything new???
I am surprised people were actually arrested. Instead of the usual: Max out on retirement via a phony disability and play golf from age 50 for the rest of their lives.
I just don't get all the shock, surprise, and outrage here. There have been corrupt LIRR employees for decades. Let me tell you a little story:
When I was younger, around 17 (16?) (many moons ago!), I was dating an LIRR engineer. He engineered both electric and diesel trains. I wasn't working and used to accompany him to work on an almost daily basis. Well, being the alcoholic that he was, who do you think was actually engineering those trains? Yes, me. The 17 (16?) year old girl who was never formally trained or anything else. Yes, he taught me how to "drive" the trains, taught me the signals, where to slow down/speed up. I even had my own set of LIRR keys.
They can drive a train. This is nothing new. There was a story awhile back of another teenager (a boy who was just friends with train operators, not banging them) who used to drive subway trains.
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When I was younger, around 17 (16?) (many moons ago!), I was dating an LIRR engineer. He engineered both electric and diesel trains. I wasn't working and used to accompany him to work on an almost daily basis. Well, being the alcoholic that he was, who do you think was actually engineering those trains? Yes, me. The 17 (16?) year old girl who was never formally trained or anything else. Yes, he taught me how to "drive" the trains, taught me the signals, where to slow down/speed up. I even had my own set of LIRR keys.
Also, many many years ago, one of them allowed my seven year old son to drive the train.
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When I was younger, around 17 (16?) (many moons ago!), I was dating an LIRR engineer. He engineered both electric and diesel trains. I wasn't working and used to accompany him to work on an almost daily basis. Well, being the alcoholic that he was, who do you think was actually engineering those trains? Yes, me. The 17 (16?) year old girl who was never formally trained or anything else. Yes, he taught me how to "drive" the trains, taught me the signals, where to slow down/speed up. I even had my own set of LIRR keys.
Also, many many years ago, one of them allowed my seven year old son to drive the train.
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Back then, it was 'cute' to show little kids the engineer booth or to let them snip tickets or whatever but I'm sure the engineer wasn't sleeping or blind drunk and allowing your son to drive the train completely on his own or reading signals or anything else.
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