Way to go Christy

Where else do you expect the trains to stop?

Christy is dumb like a fox though. You have to read the article to find out what the problem is with trains stopping on tracks, which means ads load on the page, meaning revenue for the site, large bonuses for executives, and increased job security for Christy (maybe with a small glass trophy at the end of the year )

The tracks near my home have become a pretty serious issue. We are close to the yard, so loading/unloading happens 3-4 times per day (that I can tell). Unfortunately, the wait time is typically 30-45 minutes, blocking a pretty heavily traveled road in the area. I've learned to essentially ignore this roads existence and avoid it regardless if I know the train is stopped. The detour adds about 5-7 minutes depending upon where I am headed, so no big deal to me.

For people not familiar with the area/train, they sit...and sit...and sit. Luckily there's a nice taco truck on one side so there's one way to burn up some time.

-John

I live in Central Illinois and have dealt with this before. I was once stopped in Gibson City completely trapped (pulling a 36' gooseneck so couldn't turn around) for nearly an hour. I guess if I was in a hurry maybe I'd have been upset but it was kinda relaxing to just sit there. It is more enjoyable watching them amble past slowly though.

We have an app at work to show our work orders and status.  Like I get to a job and I change it to show "On Job".  They used to have a status to show we were doing training but they labeled it "Train".  Every time I got to a train track that was closed due to a train I would go in "Train" status.  I'd get calls asking why I was doing training in the middle of my workday.  I'd respond that I was waiting on the train to go by.  Sadly they removed that status from the app.