This week is National Rail Safety Week, a week-long awareness campaign supported by the Operation Lifesaver, Inc. non-profit. This week is important as it raises awareness of the need for rail safety education and how to keep save near highway-railroad crossings. Last year there were 2,216 highway-railroad crossing collisions with hundreds of deaths across the country. As part of the awareness campaigns of past, OLI issued this 36-card set in 1993 with locomotives from the major companies and catchy slogans on the back on how to stay safe around railroad tracks. In the early 1990's anything and everything was printed on trading cards and this set was no exception. This "Limited Edition" set is a must have for rail fans like myself. Remember:
- Railroad tracks are meant for trains, not walking laines. Look, Listen and Live!
- Trains and games don't go together. Find a safer place to play.
- It only takes your car about 200 fee to stop at 55 mph. A train takes 8000 feet to stop.
- When you approach a highway-rail grade crossing turn down your radio so you can hear the train whistle.
Probably the most famous train-track movies out there has to be Stand By Me
A. Back to back posts? Nice buddy.
ReplyDeleteB. These cards are cool.
C. 2,216 collisions? That's a lot.
Might not see back-to-back too often. The early 1990s were the Wild West of cars production. Anything and everything was fair game.
DeleteThose are cool cards.
ReplyDeleteMy house is actually just a couple hundred metres from the site of the worst rail disaster in Nagoya history, a Meitetsu passenger train derailed on a bend in the track in the late 40s and dozens onboard were killed. I go past a little memorial to it everyday on my morning commute. Fortunately its a lot safer now (I also ride that train quite often)!
Oh wow, that is crazy. I had not heard of that accident, but am going to go look it up right now. Glad rail safety is much better these days.
DeleteCard Boarded just wrote about train cards today:
ReplyDeletehttps://cardboarded.blogspot.com/2020/07/1995-sparta-train-cards.html
Thanks for the link! Will look at it now.
DeleteNot sure trains would have been my first choice for a subject to put on trading cards, but they do make a classy-looking set, don't they?
ReplyDeleteThese are pretty interesting and unique for sure. Anything that was put on a trading card was collected in the 1990s. I would have been pretty stocked to get a set of these.
DeleteGreat post!
ReplyDeleteI actually haven't seen this set in all of my recent searching for train cards. I'll have to get myself one. I love 90's trains as that's what I was into the most as a kid back then.
There seems to be one seller out there with a bunch of sets. These do bring back some good memories. I was a huge train buff back in the 1980s and 1990s. Still love them today.
DeleteIt's amazing that that many collisions with trains still occur. One would think that most people know by now that you're not gonna win when you go up against a train!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the statistics were mind blowing that collisions still occur. There still is a need for rail safety these days it seems.
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