Virlon Wrote:
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> The victim was a 30 year employee. He was a
> surfacing gang foreman. It is thought that he
> might have thought the surfacing machines, tamper
> and such might have been holding the gates down.
> The news reports, as usual, have it wrong. Those
> reports said he was sitting on the crossing, but
> in fact he drove around the gates not knowing that
> Metrolink was close.

For those of you not familiar with the area and are scratching your heads wondering how a Metrolink train could be on the same track as MofW machines, here's the skinny:

There are three parallel tracks at the Temple Avenue crossing: SCRRA (i.e., Metrolink) main, UP main and UP siding. A UP System Gang had Track & Time on the UP main track and siding. The Metrolink train came through on its own track.