Traffic Trapped Cars on Ill. Train Tracks

meanwhile back at the railroad , a position is staked out

i'd have gone with the omlette and broken eggs position myself.

it has the advantage of being true.

A Metra spokesman said the vehicles shouldn't have been in the train's path in the first place. A large sign above the tracks reads: "Long crossing. Do not stop on the tracks."

"It's right above the gate" said Metra spokesman Patrick Waldron. "If you followed that sign you wouldn't have been on the tracks."