This is the railroad that experienced problems with farmers and cattle and changed the laws of Alabama regarding citizens and passing trains. The railroad developed image problems with local residents because of their bullish "We don't care" attitude.
Trains running at all hours of the night, loud whistles, and excessive speed and noise irritated a lot of the landowners living along the route. Plus, leftover anger from years earlier when the landowners felt the original railroad company had stolen portions of their land to build track.
The local landowners soon banded together and placed salt of the tracks to draw their massive herds of cattle onto the tracks, resulting in frequent and unexpected train derailments and chaos for the railroad. This was a common practice on the portion that ran from Shelby Springs to Columbiana to Childersburg.
And at times. Finally, the State of Alabama passed a law in forbidding shooting at trains, destroying tracks and bridges and placing salt on tracks to attract cattle for the purpose of derailing trains. There was no mention of breaking the specific law being a "Capital Offense". I suppose if the act of the offense caused death, then capital punishment could apply. It was a bit of a stretch but still a strange story.
Would such normal spillage constitute a breach of this law? And, what would be the penalty -- and just WHO would be cited, and for what? This law doesn't sound very realistic in our day. The act and other orphaned acts were automatically and collectively repealed by adoption of the Code of Alabama see Section Therefore Alabama has no such law today.
However, Alabama does have a law against criminal tampering of utility property railroads being included in the definition of a utility for this purpose ; thus, obstructing railroad tracks could give rise to a felony charge under Section 13A of the Code. I suspect other states have a comparable statute. This shows up quite often on morning DJ shows, where the regularly regurgitate the same old features over and over. Many of what they call silly laws are actually sensible laws that they cannot understand.
At one time Alabama was an open range state, which meant that farm animals were not required to be fenced in. The animals roamed at will, and anyone who harmed a farm animal was responsible for the damage, and this included trains striking cattle. It was a common scam for farmers to put sick livestock on the tracks so they would be struck by a train.
Afterwards, there was no evidence that the animal was ill so they would get market value for a healthy animal. If an animal was tied to the tracks, it is possible that the railroad would find the evidence rope and could win a court case. Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death. This is illegal for obvious reasons, putting salt of railroad tracks can cause them to rust resulting in possible serious train accidents.
Railroad tracks are private property. They are not public property. It is illegal to shoot on railroad tracks. It is virtually impossible for the railroad companies to cover every inch of track with signs that warn them that they are trespassing.
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