Yesterday, while looking for David Hiles' new yahoo gropu (Riverdaleparkies) i discovered there's a rail buff's yahoo group called <span class="ygrp-grdescr">Riverdalerailfans (</span><span class="ygrp-grdescr">
Riverdale Railfans Association)...<br><br>One of the list members has posted this video clip on youtube of a very near miss at our RxR crossing last month:<br></span><span class="ygrp-grdescr"><br>
</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmra0WpCIDA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmra0WpCIDA</a><br><br><span class="ygrp-grdescr">Seeing this sure makes you appreciate why the train engineers might be a little horn-happy! I'm guessing they see this kind of nightmare-in-the-making unfolding right before their eyes way too often. And it makes me appreciate our town officials who have been pushing to get an upgrade to the crossing gates -- Presumably, when that actually happens, this particular kind of stupid act will no longer be impossible.
<br><br></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmra0WpCIDA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmra0WpCIDA</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy. But we cannot have both."
<br> --Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1916-39)<br>~~<br>Will the Washington Gnats break the Mets' Lousy record?:<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2m6f43">http://tinyurl.com/2m6f43</a>