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<p><font size="3" color="#000000">Hey, all - first post - </font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">I got tired of the news choppers above my house (I work from home) and noticed the trains moving slowly outside my window so I threw my camera in the car and went to check it out. </font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">It was bad and sad -- when I crossed the tracks at Finley the UP westbound had the crews out and were examining the trucks and left side running gear, which told me it was a car collision. </font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">The westbound stopped 1/4 of a mile from the strike. The car was a mess.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">I enjoy the photos on www.railpictures.com so I took some photos of the stopped freight and two of the wrecked car. After I found out the lady didn't survive, I decided not to post the photos because it seems kind of ghoulish to me.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">I live three houses down from the main and am used to hearing the trains go by, so often I don't even notice them. Funny how strange it is when I'm hard at work and notice the different sound of a commuter train all wound out but moving at 5mph.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">Incidentally, 1/8 mi. from where the train was parked is a bridge over the DuPage river where, in the 70's I'm told, a car full of chemicals derailed into the river and killed all the fish down to the Fox river.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">The spot where the train stopped is popular with suicides -- there have been two or three there so far this year. The last one apparently waved at the crew as he stood in front of the oncoming train.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">On a lighter note, I've been trying to convince my wife for years that the silver doghouse at the tracks is where the guy who operates the crossing signals lives. His address begins with "MP..." and when the UP trucks are there, he's got company inside. She never believes me.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">mxr </font></p>
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