Talk:Railway spine
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[edit] Symptoms?
What are the symptoms of this disease? The name suggests some sort of back issue but it's never clear exactly what it is. I'm also going to make this a stub.RSido 04:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Deleting inaccuracies
I'm deleting most of this paragraph for historical inaccuracy:
Train travel in the 19th century was a hazardous and potentially lethal activity. Train schedules were virtually random, telegraphs had yet to be invented and so there was no way to communicate problems on the line, and in many parts of the eastern U.S there did not even exist a standard time between different cities by which to coordinate schedules. The result was hundreds of railroad crashes. Exacerbating the problem was the fact that railway cars were flimsy, wooden structures with no protection for the occupants. Railway collisions were a common occurrence.
There are half a dozen inaccurate or misleading statements here; but I'll leave it up to someone else with a greater interest in this topic to rewrite this unsourced article.
Also, I'm deleting the (italicized) POV phrase in this sentence: "The railroads, at the time run by men seeking quick profit, rejected these claims as faked. Textorus (talk) 01:32, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
