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You can tell here in Brunswick that many people dont think. CSX recently put up a fence because of the amount of [idiots] trying to cross before the train. Commuters race the gates, and then pass through them when the trains are trying to back into the yard, and we have had many close calls, and one incident within the past 5 years. The incident was a deaf woman, who had come to town for some coffee, and had parked in the commuter parking lot between two pairs of mainline tracks. On her way to her car, she crossed the tracks on one end of the station platform, instead of walking to the crossing just at the other end. I am glad I wasn't at work that day, or I would have seen what they had to wa***he tracks off and keep the one set of tracks closed for two days because. <br /> <br />Another problem causing CSX to put the fence up is the [idiots] who come and act carelessly at the city's railroad festaval. The museum has an excursion on a commuter train and CSX still runs full force as well throughout the two days the event goes on. 3 cases: One woman decided she wanted to cross (at the same place the above woman did) instead of going to the crossing. her one obsticle: the commuter train (then boarding). Instead of goung around the train at the crossing, SHE WENT UNDER IT!!! even though it is a 2-3 track line, and a CSX freight could come through on the other side. she of course was caught before completely crossing under the train. Scene 2: a man and his son were waiting for the excursion train to come in to the station for boarding. as soon as they heard the horn and saw the lead locomotive, I heard the gentleman tell his son, as i also heard the clank of coins, "put these on the track, son." I then turned (I was working as an assistant collecting tickets) and saw the man hand his son five coins. i of course stopped the boy, and told them both that it was #1 Dangerouse, and #2 Illeagal. Finally, scene three is all of the people at the event who want to go to their car, but dont want to go the extra 100 or so feet to the road crossing, and run over the switch (Yes i said a switch, turnout, whatever) on the CSX main line. But what could have happened if #1 the excursion left with the woman under it or a CSX was coming behind it just as she came out, #2 the boy was too slow and got sideswiped, or #3 people got caught in the switch and hit by a train? <br /> <br />My last point, if a cat can't cross the track in front of a train without being sliced in half (Sorry all of you cat lovers, but I have seen that) then how can we expect ourselves to?
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