[RP TownTalk] Scary CSX train incident - be careful

[Dwight Holmes]

OK, upon reading the original message more carefully, I see that the
situations were not identical - in our case there were two trains a couple
of minutes apart - thus the "double train" danger.  But in this case there
was no train initially, then the gates went up, then the train showed up.
Yikes.

For what it's worth, there's a guy out there now in a CSX truck who was
over by a box on the crossing gates when I drove by.  Could be a
coincidence.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>>
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