Re: Advice ? Don't do it.

El Coke is right on it with that post. I have
walked in there just as have many others. Take
Otto Perry, for instance, was there this
particular day. I grew up around RRs
and Otto was certainly no stranger to them, but it is still a very risky business, especially there. As El Coke said, motor cars and trains, too, are right on you before you can hear them.
I scared the heck out of the motor car driver who
ran just ahead of the train. I saw him and backed away from the track but when he saw me he grabbed the brake and slid every wheel for the half second or so it took him to
realize that I was in the clear. I don't want
to know what went thru his mind. All of us, Otto included, were trespassing and the motor car operator had no reason to expect to come around a High Line curve and find a nut with cameras around his neck standing right beside the track.
With today's legal atmosphere I wouldn't do it again.
A thought provoking memory of that day is that
when the train finally arrived I could see it coming around the curve before I could hear it.
Jim