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I get the shakes when I read these stories and realize what a wonderful town I live in. We have dual tracked main coming thru and all sorts of trains come and go. People here stop when the gates go down and lights flash and wait. Once in a great while you will see someone obviously stressed go around the gate. With that said, I have to relate a story of what happened one day in Virginia. There was a triple track main line down near Norfolk (30 miles away) and the day was bright and clear. I stopped and looked to the left for a bit. Nothing. Swung to the right.. nothing. Looked left and listened hard could see 3 miles down both directions nothing. Crossed the tracks with my flat bed and up to the right turn 300 feet away BOOM 5 desiels roaring with a massive highspeed train blasted my doors off and scared me out of the cab of my 18-wheeler. The time frame of looking was a minute or so and to see nothing that far in both directions and now this. You can never be too careful. Back to my town... the reason people stop is sometimes the railroad does rolling meets. You have the first train a unit train fly by going northbound at 40 mph and a few seconds later as the gates start to raise up get caught by a unit stack train going 70 mph also going northbound with the whistle screaming; intent on passing the slower coal. Good luck! Look, Listen and Live Lee
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