STEPH DEROSA: BROKEN NEWS >>>

After a sunny mid-morning walk along Ruston Way today Bandito Betty and I decided to quench our hunger and thirst at The Spar. As we relaxed at our favorite back corner table and ordered our beers, a train was pacing a slow crawl through the intersection just outside the window. Soon the train stopped, completely. For about 20 minutes the train stood still, occasionally moving a few feet backwards, then a little forwards. Back and forth, then at a stop ... back and forth, then stop. This went on for a while. We figured the people waiting both in the cars and on the sidewalk were getting really antsy.

Soon our suspicions were confirmed as we witnessed people solving the problem in a most dangerous way. This girl did the (somewhat) smart thing and crawled through the train, unlike the other gutsy walkers who ducked under the train cars. Would you do that?

Soon a speeding Amtrack came blasting past as the other train stood still on the tracks. I don't even want to imagine what could've happened to the train-dodging pedestrians.

For the next five or 10 minutes after the Amtrack passed, the slow train went back and forth a few times, eventually moving on.

This right here folks is news-worthy train coverage. Exciting!