About 50 yards walk on the railroad ties or on the side. Enough straightaway to see the train in the distance or to be alerted once the railroad tracks start sizzling
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Altair 4
What did it look like once you got to the top? Did you need to walk on the actual ties, or was there sufficient room to walk safely along side? Just curious.
Where I grew up, my friends and I walked to school (yes, it was uphill in both directions) and crossed a high pedestrian trestle over the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. Sometimes, we'd just cross the tracks and walk on the access road that followed along side of the tracks. Used to wave at the engineers when we did that. 'Course, that was a long time ago and...
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