Why we blow whistles engineers story

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

I was blowing the whistle almost constantly due to the close proximity of the crossings. As we started up the grade towards Route 173, we could see the "snitch lights" illuminating on the sides of the roundels, indicating the signals there were activated and working properly. I had just come over Ida Avenue and no sooner finished whistling it when I began my sequence of two longs, a short and a long for Route 173. By this point my speed was starting to increase and I hit 42 mph.

As we closed in on Route 173, an auto rapidly approached and Brian, my conductor, yelled "that son of a b---- is going!" He was across and gone in an instant.

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[battalion51]

All I can say is wow.

 

[AlanB]

All I can say is wow.

Agreed.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

it scares the hell out of me when we get close calls.I had 1 about 2 weeks ago i was voiding a form A restricion and repeting it back to the dispatcher when i looked up i saw a semi truck trailer on the tracks about 200 ft from us we were doing 60mph and my engineer put it into emergency and i said oh sh&% on the radio we missed him by less then a foot. :angry:

I am still on edge from my tresspaser accident back in Oct 2004