<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Dwight Holmes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I had posted of a similar incident that happened to us in May of 2014. Mayor Archer replied at the time "<span style="font-size:12.8px">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 </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">gate</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is indeed troubling."</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I had copied MARC on that posting and got back the reply that they had forwarded it to the engineers.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Sarah Wayland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.6px">This was posted on the Hyattsville HOPE list this morning. This is very scary. Please be careful at the railroad crossing on Queensbury. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.6px">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....) </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.6px">-Sarah</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">2a. Scary CSX train incident - be careful</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Posted by: "Susan Guardado / VSG PT" </span><a href="mailto:sguar@yahoo.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px" target="_blank">sguar@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> sguar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Date: Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:42 am ((PST))</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Yesterday coming home at 3:24 p.m. with a c</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span>ar full o</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">f 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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">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. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">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!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Susan </span><br clear="all"></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="410" style="font-size:13.6px;width:5.7in;border-collapse:collapse;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><tbody><tr style="height:26.5pt"><td width="96" style="width:95.55pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_WsXUJf7Td7clpWbmhXemRkRVk&revid=0B_WsXUJf7Td7bU5DYW9aaDBWaTJWdGI0bUx6SnFYeFFxRG1RPQ"><br></p></td><td width="315" style="width:314.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(69,129,142)">Sarah Wayland, Ph.D. | <a href="http://www.guidingexceptionalparents.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com</span></a><br>Supporting students with learning differences & their families</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-size:13.6px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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