On a crisp, cool September 11th morning, an inbound Metra slows to stop at Main Street station. The flag in town has been lowered to half staff for today.
The engineer of the Westbound California Zephyr waves to the flagman at Forest Avenue, who was sent to gaurd the crossing after I called BNSF. The maintenance crew arrived very quickly and replace... (more)
After I called BNSF about the broken-off gate here, they sent a flagman who got out of the cab of this F40 at the crossing. The F40 blew it's horn many times here and then proceeded. The flagman s... (more)
The flagman does his job while the maintanance crew connects the new gate to the crossing mechanism; the old broken gate is now on the roof of the truck.