[RP TownTalk] Scary CSX train incident - be careful

[Dwight Holmes]

I had posted of a similar incident that happened to us in May of 2014.
Mayor Archer replied at the time "This is an example of the classic "double
train" danger that has historically been a serious difficulty for train
safety engineers.  Knowing that this continues to be a problem, even at a
modern, guarded gate is indeed troubling."

I had copied MARC on that posting and got back the reply that they had
forwarded it to the engineers.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Sarah Wayland <sarah.wayland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This was posted on the Hyattsville HOPE list this morning. This is very
> scary. Please be careful at the railroad crossing on Queensbury.
>
> Also, there is phone number posted on the gates that you can call if
> there's a problem. If you see something like this, please call that number
> right away. (I wish I knew the number, but I'm not over there right
> now....)
>
> -Sarah
>
>
> 2a. Scary CSX train incident - be careful
>     Posted by: "Susan Guardado / VSG PT" sguar at yahoo.com sguar
>     Date: Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:42 am ((PST))
>
> Yesterday coming home at 3:24 p.m. with a car full of kids, I was driving
> down Queensbury and the lights turned on at the Riverdale train crossing.
> My little one loves trains so I stopped at the stop sign and waited for the
> gates to lower so we could see the train pass.  After the gates lowered, we
> sat there for 4 to 5 minutes without a sign of a train anywhere.  We made
> jokes that is was an invisible train.  Then the lights turns off and the
> gates went up.  I started to drive slowly across the tracks.  All of the
> sudden with warning the gate in front of us came down and then the lights
> came on and the gate behind the car started to lower.  I put the car in
> reverse and barely got out.  The gate hit the top of the car and with
> seconds and FAST train flew in front of our car!!  H.S.
> I tried to remain calm for the kids but that scared the hell out of me.
> What happened?  I called the Riverdale police to report this incident, but
> I had a restless night thinking of this incident.  I am going to follow up
> with CSX today to make sure they check that crossing.
> Please be careful at that crossing.  In all my years here, I have never
> experienced anything like that.  If anyone thinks of other place to report
> this, please let me know. I did notice in our Hyattsville Times that in
> early February of this year, they were going to be inspecting that specific
> crossing for the Quiet Zone they are putting in place - but clearly it did
> not pass inspection!
> Susan
>
>
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