Semi-truck ran crossing gate causing train damage, Winona MN
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TrafficA semi-truck ran through the crossing gate near Mankato Avenue in Winona, causing damage to the gate. The train then struck the damaged crossing gate. No injuries were reported.
Audio|Heard on: Winona Area Railroads
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02:42
Transcript:
00:00
We just hit a crossing gate.
00:02
Oh boy. It's never easy.
00:05
Yeah, I'm sure they were trying to beat it.
00:09
Your train look good anyway.
00:11
Oh good, thanks.
00:12
Let me know what Gary says.
00:14
What's going on here,
00:20
over? What's going on here, over?
00:31
Uh,
00:33
truck ran a Mankato and then we hit a crossing buck.
00:40
Understood.
00:41
We'll be AOSOS if you need rides over.
00:45
All right, thank you.
00:50
I don't think there's any restriction for running backwards, but I believe it's a penalty they come from a vice president that you're not required to run backwards out of your initial terminal.
01:01
They should allow you to, uh,
01:04
Wyatt at River Junction, though.
01:06
Okay, that's what we were thinking to, well, Wyatt at River, thanks for your help.
01:15
Jason Ross is the one that put that out at that notice.
01:20
Cross.
01:21
Okay.
01:22
If there's something in the contract on it too, or am I mistaken?
01:25
Yeah, there is somewhere, I believe there is, yep.
01:28
Okay, I thought it changed when y'all went out really.
01:32
Did, but that wasn't changed, so it would be in the Red Book.
01:36
Got it.
01:38
Senator 10-Trak, the doctor's out of.
02:00
We're just going to grab both the cuts now and drag them up to the east end and tie down that case.
02:06
What was that, Travis?
02:08
I said we were just going to grab both of the cuts now and drag both of them up to east end and tie down their second one here.
02:15
Yeah, that would make sense.
02:16
They could make a cut between seven and eight.
02:25
Go ahead, over.
02:28
Uh,
02:29
semi-ran Mankato, and he hit damage the crossing gate on the engineer's side, I guess to be the north side.
02:39
And as a result, the train hit the crossbucks.
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Location mentioned:
Mankato Ave, Winona, MN 55987
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