Your March cover showed poor judgement by depicting a young boy balancing on a single rail of a railroad track. Besides being private property, railroads have many inherant hazards for children. There is often rail overflow with sharp slivers and other hazards along the track including track spikes and anchors where a barefoot person could cut his feet. Many of the stones used for ballast are crushed granite or trap rock with razor sharp edges which could cut a person's feet.
Children can be suggestable and a picture is worth a thousand words.
You also show him with a pipe in his mouth and what appears to be a tobacco pouch in his right hand front pocket. I love your magazine, but I was appalled to see your March cover. I worked for a major railroad for 31 years and fortunately never had to investigate any of these tragedies. Railroad property is not a playground. Robert Davis Thayne, Wyo.