Windy City LSA
Service Attendant
Today I saw a 15 second commercial aimed at the general pubic conerning rail safety. At the end, it is "revealed" that it's Metra that provided the commercial. I'm guessing it's aimed at the silly people who try to beat trains in various ways. In part it's grim footage of mangled bikes, cars, etc. Speaking for myself, I never recall seeing such a commercial. (I'm NOT claiming there has never been one! ) It made me quite happy to see it. Having worked on passenger trains and even having had the opportunity to sit in a locomotive imagining what it would be like to see a human rail obstruction and furthermore imagining the terror of the engineer to experience this...it made me especially happy. For anybody in the Chicagoland area, I saw this on channel 23 (cable 223-Me TV) Just thought I'd share.