Got stopped by a train again this morning. As I was coming up to the crossing a few miles outside of town I saw it off to the left. It got to the crossing just before I did so I sat and listened (rolled down the window today as the temps were in the low 20's (-5 C)). The train was heading the same direction I was, in the summer I can usually race ahead and beat it to the crossing in the little town up ahead. This train was a long one and going pretty fast. We got a bit of snow last night and the roads are kind of slippery so I had to take it easy. Up the hill on the bend there was a van in the ditch, one wheel was suspended about three feet off the ground. At the turn there was a car with a crumpled fender in the ditch. As I came over the hill in the next town I saw the engines going by below. I sat and watched the train go by again. Good thing I like trains.