Citing lives at risk, BLET urges UP to allow trail to stunning waterfall in Northern California | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Citing lives at risk, BLET urges UP to allow trail to stunning waterfall in Northern California | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

(Source: Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2025) About 10 times each day, giant freight trains pass along a narrow section of track along the Sacramento River in far Northern California where engineers on the locomotives regularly tense up with stress. “Every single time, it’s a near miss” of a train hitting a person, said Ryan Snow, the California State Chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “Multiple near misses, every si…