Overworked Engineer Stops Train at Crossing
From Times Wire Reports
A freight train conductor who said he had exceeded the number of hours he could work stopped his train in a downtown Pottstown intersection for two hours and refused to move, police said.
The engineer, whose name was not released, told police he was instructed by his supervisor to stop the train after passing the intersection.
But he didn’t pull the train far enough forward to raise the crossing gates.
Police and fire officials directed traffic around the gates until a second engineer arrived and moved the train.
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