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To: AnAmericanMother
No, didn't skid out of the way. Train and vehicle connected and we were dragged down the track for anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 mile.

All survived.

I am leary of icy hills.

556 posted on 06/10/2009 12:29:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Holy CATFISH, Andy!

Glad you lived to tell the tale.

Glad EVERYBODY lived to tell the tale. So was the engineer, I'm sure. They are 100% helpless when something like that happens.

We live right next to a busy crossing, have for about 15 years, several close calls but no actual train-to-vehicle contact while we've been here. A bunch of us did actually bodily DRAG a Jeep Wrangler off the crossing under the headlight of an approaching (and frantically braking) train. Fortunately CSX was under a go-slow order at the time, or we never would have gotten him clear in time. The engineer had a few choice words for the driver (it was 100 percent his fault, he drove around two barriers and a "CROSSING CLOSED" sign - it was closed for a reason, the asphalt had been removed. He hung his front bumper under the first rail.) My husband told him to go right to church as soon as he had changed his underclothing . . . .

557 posted on 06/10/2009 3:54:51 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: muawiyah

Wow. That’s quite a testimony.


565 posted on 06/10/2009 5:41:59 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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