I had a great time at the Danger Train outing yesterday! Quite tiring to this sedentary bureaucrat and my camera was full, so I bailed after the meal and went home to relax. Meeting with everyone was fun, and the food was good. What more could you ask for? (Aside from a safer train, that is.)
I’m working up a full post to follow this one (will be late today or this evening before it’s ready) but I thought I’d leave readers with these two pictures:
As Ann says, when you turn on Main, the tracks are right there! (I love the sign in the upper right. “Well, duh!”)
And yes, we almost witnessed an accident because an idiot driver turned left in front of the train!
But here’s the part that made me cheer when I looked at the photo this morning. Look at the traffic light! Remember, I’m taking this photo from near the front of the train, which is in the intersection at this point….
This was not the only time it happened. I saw another green, and a yellow, but my memory chip was full by the time I saw them. I was disappointed that I’d missed getting such a picture–only thanks to Mr. Moron Driver, I hadn’t after all.
I’m going to add that second one to my flickr page, with credit to you (of course).
Do you have a flickr account by any chance?
I can create a flickr group for this sort of thing if there’s interest.
I’ve been trying to access my Yahoo account to set up a flickr account, and I appear to have botched it; I set up one a while back but can’t get my username/pw right. BTW, please check the contributor forum over at bloghouston if you haven’t already — its urgent!
Well it could be green going that way. That way is away from the train (and there is no train on the other tracks).
What is important is if the opposite light (the one that would be behind you) is red or green.
Wait, no, I was a bit confused. After looking at the other pictures now I get it.
As we discussed over at Bloghouston, the light could have been out of synch because we were delayed in the intersection, but if so, that means there is either no method of actually detecting where the train is, or the equipment/programming is faulty. Look, railroads have been putting automatic crossing gates on tracks for 50+ years, don’t tell me we can’t control a traffic light too.
In fact, I know we can, because it’s done elsewhere in the city where railroad tracks and intersections are in close proximity. Maybe we need to fire Frank Wilson and hire whomever is running Burlington Northern-Santa Fe?
Not that they’d take the pay cut.