ARLINGTON-WEST END, Ala. (WIAT) – CBS 42 is Your Voice Your Station. A Birmingham woman in the Arlington-West End neighborhood called us for help after she said she had a close call with a Norfolk Southern Train when the crossing gates never went down.
The close call happened at the tracks at 15 th Place Southwest. Gladys Rancher said she was on her way to the post office when she saw the Norfolk Southern train coming.
“I didn’t know whether to get out of the vehicle or leave the vehicle,” Rancher said. “At that point that was going on in my mind.”
On September 26, Rancher said the Norfolk Southern train was headed toward her, too close for comfort.
“Close enough for the arms to have gone down before anyone approached at that particular time because the train was coming and so the arms still never went down, and the train still passed,” Rancher said.
After calling police and Norfolk Southern, she called us that same day in a panic. She said there were two people behind her – and the instinct was to back up.