All the best fishing spots are a walk down train tracks.

I still miss the Cosmic Muffin

Yes, but you should do it anyways.

Unenforced? Yes. Big difference from unenforceable.

I came here to just say this like uhhhh what? Like the train companies want people walking on their tracks so they can happily run us over

I don't like any radio shows that feature primarily talk on a music format station. Sports radio, sure. NPR, great. Morning drive time shows on music stations? Uniformly garbage.

I don't even remember the last time I actually listened to the radio.. when did Pandora come out? About that time..

It’s a solid argument.

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Lived 20 years near a RR and never knew that. A kid did lose his leg trying to hop a train. He was always a kid doing stupid stuff like that but even after that no one ever mentioned walking the tracks was illegal I used the side from riding my horse thru town.

My grandma had a cat carved on their back fence gate post because after she fed her family and workers she fed the rest to people during the depression. She also tried to help with sick animals and took in my Uncle Bill from the streets of Philly during the Depression. My dad brought him home to feed him and Gram just took him in. I never knew he wasn't blood kin until he died. I am so proud she was like that. Gives you something to aspire to.

You guys still listen to the radio?

Oops. I birdwatch a bog off of the tracks. I had no clue and grew up with trains running thru my town. We always hung out by the old train stations.

Who the fuck puts a sports radio segment on an alternative rock station? I don't listen to the radio for music anymore because of crap like this. It would make more sense for a station like WHEB that already has shitty talk show segments and no new music so they don't really lose anything like WCYY does.

Technically yes , but practically unenforceable. Worst that happens is you claim ignorance if you get caught and get a warning. I got busted on the tracks near Thompson's point trying to shortcut and the Portland PD just told me to not do it again.

I would avoid doing it in town but if you are in the woods somewhere it's doubtful anyone is going to give you shit.

Glad i have Audacy and can listen to pretty much every major cities rock stations. You can too since it’s free.

I've listened to them since I lived in Mass in 2014. To each their own though!

Garbage.

Stand By Me vibes

It sucks. Love cyy otherwise tho

Gawd awful. I want Robin Ivy to tell me Mercury's not retrograde.

Are we talking active tracks only?

Isn’t there a group that makes gas powered rail cars and explores abandoned tracks? I always thought that’d be fun but wouldn’t want to get arrested doing it.

technically, yes, it is trespassing on railroad property. It is selectively enforced in my experience.

Yes, as I was busted by a track maintenance fellow while searching for my lost cat. He told me he could fine me, even though he didn't. The track was in a heavily touristed area (right next to Red's) and though there is a constructed opening in the chain link fence, people are not allowed to walk on the tracks.

Took 6 weeks but we found the cat and she was living there, by the tracks.

I grew up in CA and we always walked on the tracks, crossed over the tracks etc. No one ever said anything. But I guess it was technically illegal and 20 years later a pedestrian bridge was constructed and cost several million dollars (and had to be ADA compliant though how a wheelchair could get to that bridge was beyond me). Maybe they paid for it out of the fines?