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This story happened to me back in '98 or '99 I belive. A couple of weeks earlyer I saw "Danger on the rails" docomentry. I was on my way to work and had to cross a single set of tracks. The tracks paralle Barnet highway, and river road connected to it like a "T" It's got traffic lights and only one vehicle can be at the line, then the tracks behind you, the the rest of the cars behind that. <br /> <br /> So this doughhead decides to stop right behind me. I was the first car at the light. I noticed he had a big "NO FEAR" sticker across the top of his windshield. <br /> I thought nothing of it, and turned to my right to look at the guy next to me in the lane next to me. This was at ten at night, and the roads were a lil frosty in mid fall. All was quiet as we waited for our light to turn green so we could turn left. <br /> So I looked left down the dark tracks, fiddled with my radio then looked to my right again at the car beside me. Then it happened! everything turned white!looked back to my left to see the triangle of lights comming at the poor sucker stopped behind me. I pulled ahead as much as possible hopeing the guy behind me had a nought room. I looked back at him and he was motioning me to pull ahead more. If I did that I'd get hit by traffic on my left. <br /> <br /> Then the bells started to ring, Guy behind me starts to panic as he touches his nose of his car to mine. <br /> <br /> Light turns green for us as the train starts blaring his horn. I litterly stood on the gas only to have my front tires spin on the frosty pavement. but I do inch forward. <br />I back off and give my Honda civic type R just a little gas and we start going. <br /> <br /> Dunderhead behind me had four seconds to spare. The train was a CN, witch means they haul butt were ever they go. Not like CP, were they poke along. <br /> <br /> Nobody got hit that night, and as I drove to work I saw the guy behind me and I had to say to my self "Yeah man, NO FEAR, JUST TOTAL TERROR."
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