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Saw an interesting - and somewhat unsettling - situation at the CSX grade crossing on my way to work this morning. As I was approaching around the bend, I noticed the crossing gates were down and flashing. Cars were 'sneaking' across from the other side, weaving in between the closed gates. I groaned, thinking that the gates were malfunctioning again (happens all too frequently), but as I glanced to my left I saw a SD70MAC less than 3 feet from the road. It was on the passing siding, waiting for a higher-priority train to pass. Apparently the loco was too close to the grade for the engineer to manually raise the gates back up. While I waited for the opposing traffic to clear, I suddenly heard a loud blast from a 5chime - also from the left! And there it was, a 3-unit consist on the main line heading westbound (SD40-2 in YN2 scheme, SD40-2 leased unit in some faded red paint, and a GP40-2 in the stealth scheme). Those horns really DO serve a purpose...![:O]
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