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The Bored Redhead vs the Train
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The Bored Redhead vs the Train I currently live in Old Brooklyn, Ohio. I love it. The views of the city by my house, even driving through the Steelyards! ---  --- I took my 21 yr old to work this morning to pick up a new toilet seat at Target for my husband. ( giggles ) I got my Chai Tea. ( I'm always so happy with Chai Tea. ) -- and once again. BAM. I make it just in time to get stuck by that coal train again. I was on this road called Jennings, between Dennison and Harvard. Bob Marley was<b> singing </font></b>to me telling me not to worry, be happy... I had, two days prior been stuck by another coal train there for a good 20 min as well.... No problem. I was singing, drinking my tea, took a selfie to send to my hubby to tell him I came prepared for the train wait today. STARBUCKS!!! Then it hit me as I saw angry people turning around after 10 minutes. "I wonder what the law is? " I thought it had to be like no more than 10-15 min. Actually, Ohio state law is they can't block the road for more than 5 minutes. The train, is breaking the law. Hmm, how to arrest it.?. "I wonder who enforces that?" I google. I call the police. "I'm wondering if you could help me.... " giggle. I just have to know things, I swear. It's not them -- you have to call the train company. What logic is that? I ask myself. Wouldn't that be like calling the parents of a murderer? Ok. I won't question that. I'll call -- we will call my BUDDY. He was a police officer locally that worked for some train before that. I wanted a second opinion. He answered me and then said. "Why. What -- are you doing.?? " -- I told him I loved him and hung up on him. ( Laughs ) "Hmm, what train company is this, NS with a ?" Northfolk Southern Railroad. Hmm.. what number. I was already on the company's webpage. Ethics and Compliance - YES - that sounds good! I call them speak to this really nice lady that tells me all about how the company has their own police that handles these situations. I get their number ---- Have some more tea... I call them. Talk to this really nice guy that sounded like I sound sometimes. ( In Dispatcher, he to had that beepy thingy on his line. ) He wasn't a dispatcher. I asked. He says he is about to call them though to find out just WHAT is going on. ( He sounded just like me again when I'm hunting down the issue at work... ) He got my number and said he'd get right on it. I wasn't angry at all with anyone with this company - I was happy go lucky. People think they need to get angry, but they really don't. The opposite helps a heck of a lot more. Just -- FYI. I thanked him telling him it was good because it was now going on 40 minutes and I see 3 semi trucks behind me, a city bus and oh boy -- this cab of another semi without a trailer turning around and going up this incline 10, hill of a road not made for semis that cars have been using to get around this train from the other side. This -- could be really bad. -- Anything you could do sir would be great. I later told him the same thing happened on Tuesday at 7pm if he was able to look into what train that was. I informed him the odds of that happening to me in a 3 day period is a little ridiculous. It needs to stop. I did go back to enjoying my tea.. happy the semi made it up without incident. ( That road takes this sharp turn at the top.. my imagination was showing me such scary things.. ) Scary things that never happened.  I text my husband telling him about that crazy semi. "That driver has some balls. " he replied. ( We had both seen a snowplow this winter go off that road at that sharp turn and down on it's side on that hill under the overpass. )I take another picture of the train sitting there, the time. Someone knocks on my window, I jumped a little. I was all -- huh, that was fast.? How'd they know it was me? I joke to myself since I was taking pictures. It's a black gentleman asking me if I thought it would be illegal to walk around the train. ( I wonder if he heard me on the phone. ) I informed him it is illegal for the train to sit here for more than 5 minutes, it's now oh -- going on 50 minutes. So- if you should have any issue -- tell them that. I told him to go far enough around - it may back up.. He goes, makes it safely. I see an other guy climb through the train ( up and over inside ) and go on his way. ( Reminded me of when me and my friends would jump on to trains back home for a ride. ) Then I hear the air brakes and see the train just fly off the tracks.... and I laugh. You see, I have video of it's previous pace when it moved the 2nd time.. before it stopped the second time.. and then that move. It's comical to me just how fast one can go when you give the right person enough knowledge to share.And then I was laughing at myself. Bored Redhead. with another ----"LEARNING OPPORTUNITY!!" So there you go, if you are ever stuck by a train for more than 5 minutes in Ohio -- call the train company. They'll get right on them. Your welcome. |
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