Comments on: Atmore’s Traffic Nightmare: Most Railroad Crossings Closed For Another Week

By: Duke of Wawbeek

Duke of Wawbeek — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:20:41 +0000

Those tracks have been there a long time.

Many of Atmore’s problems can be defined by the crossing of that land boundary.

By: X-Correctional Officer M. Singleton

X-Correctional Officer M. Singleton — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:39:37 +0000

This reminds me of back in the day when the Warden left the Deputy Warden in charge of the camp, there was total caousse! Calm down, just kidding there Mr. Rick Hetrick! I passed by there today and it was backed up a bit. I have worked around the RR at I Paper and they have very strenuous guidelines that they have to abide by that may not make much sense to us but I can assure you they are putting safety first! I gave gotten aggravated with them at times at work until I saw first hand what they were doing. I’m not affiliated with them or trying to take up for them, all I’m saying is when all this is over I pray that everyone entering or passing through that area will make it through safe! All we have is time anyway! Just be Safe!

By: Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:11:25 +0000

Thank you for the heads up…will go the northern route to make the afternoon movie and be on time!!

By: AC

AC — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:22:19 +0000

I’m sure that no one is more inconvenienced by this that CSX. Can you imagine the money they are losing, not only in maintenance costs, but in downtime? They do not HAVE to coordinate with city officials or anyone else, they own the tracks and the right-of-way around those tracks, They could have closed ALL the intersections if they so wanted. Remember the railroad built Atmore as well as Brewton, Flomaton, and most other small towns in this area, not the other way around.

By: ch

ch — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:53:46 +0000

Everybody calm down. Leave early, take some snacks, put on your fav. tunes and be thankful you don’t live in Atlanta or further north.

By: William

William — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:08:32 +0000

>>>Would’ve been nice to see a story like this BEFORE hand so people could make plans for getting to work.

Story was published at 12:05 am Thursday.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:28:52 +0000

Would’ve been nice to see a story like this BEFORE hand so people could make plans for getting to work.

By: Frye

Frye — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 02:49:29 +0000

I hope they get these tracks fix because i tore up two of my tires before they closed the tracks in the city is not gone pay to fix my car

By: CSX friend

CSX friend — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 01:51:24 +0000

Thank you CSX for supporting the safety if our community. I for one am sick of all the complaining about these poor men who are working as hard as they can to improve our towns crossings and making them safer at no charge to Atmore. I agree it is a terrible inconvenience , but would rather deal with that for a short time instead of a train derailment! Keep up the good work CSX!!!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:17:42 +0000

Would you rather have a derailment with damaged tanker cars? Continuous rail replacement does not allow for only night work. Requires crosstie replacement and gravel replacement then replacement of pavement. I don’t work for CSX but I would bet $$$$$$ that they are not replacing these rails for the heck of it. It is a safety related problem, ie: the old rails and ties are wore out and will be unsafe soon.