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what csxengineer98 said, that's funny. OK , maybe not altercation, what about incident? <br /> Last year about the last of August I guess, we were interchanging some empty covered hoppers back to CSX. The interchange track only holds 9 cars so I have to split the BUSY 4 lane highway and drag the rest across and tie em up. Well, this day there were about 12 or 13 cars, so I lign the switch, remove the derail, and start stopping traffic. Meanwhile, I got the train backing towards the highway. This is always the exciting part, you're standing there in the middle of a 4 lane by yourself, trying to get these idiots to stop and the bottom car is approaching. <br /> Fastfoward, we get em all stopped and I get up and ride the bottom, and stop 1/2 car short of the next crossing. Go in 3 step start tying hand brakes. I can already hear horns blowing as I walk the 9 cars to a cut. After I get to the cut point I can see traffic backed up half a mile. Release 3 ahead 3. We clear the crossing yet some *** clown is still blowing the horn. My engineer usually gets down and turns the air so I can bust it. Well it being a hot dry day and lots of gravel and debris at the edge of the crossing, it was only fair that the yokl sitting in traffic blowing at me get a nice gust of dusty air and gravel blown through his window. Hey it was only fair.
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