Quotes by Joe Arbona

“It could be that the arms start coming down as (drivers) are going through. Maybe its just somebody bumping into it. This is typical equipment, and you could have an occasional breakdown.”

“Its certainly not our intention to inconvenience folks. But its better for them to wait for the arms to be taken care of or repaired rather than have a terrible incident.”

“We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.”

“One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.”

“You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.”

“Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.”

“You have no idea what level of concern this industry has for pedestrians. The best way to avoid tragedies like these is not be near the train tracks at all.”

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the womans family.”

“This is the first time weve heard about this proposal.”

“Its just going to take us a little time to work through this.”