| Some locals had tried to ride in the gauge, despite there not even being enough snow to cover the railheads, and had managed to wedge the ski of one of the sleds in the frog for a switch on the passing siding. I was actually getting ready to run down and flag the train at one of the crossings further down, but they arrived before I could. Fortunately, due to a series of closely-spaced grade crossings and the fact that they were stopping at Remsen Depot, as well as the fact that one grade crossing was froze up and the brakeman had to swing down and flag the crossing, they were moving at a very low speed and stopped short. The snowmobile was eventually freed and they got out of the way after a brief delay. They were fortunate it happened here, and not somewhere else where they move at a much faster speed and aren't preparing to stop. |