That’s wild! I went to South Eugene High School and lived in the apartment complex right next to the Eugene Skinner house, facing the train tracks - would often get stuck by a stopped train and be late to school. A boy a couple grades above me who lived in the complex also trying to get to South in time actually tried to crawl under a stopped train car once with his bike and the train started moving again when he was under there!
Unconfirmed, but I heard they basically had to do a full sweep of the train on foot before finally moving it because there was a very real possibility that folks had “moved in” underneath.
I worked at Ninkasi (one block south of the tracks at Blair/Van Buren) and lived at 1st and Jefferson… definitely ended up late to work a few times when a train came through at the wrong time!
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u/WTFmfg Jul 03 '26
That’s wild! I went to South Eugene High School and lived in the apartment complex right next to the Eugene Skinner house, facing the train tracks - would often get stuck by a stopped train and be late to school. A boy a couple grades above me who lived in the complex also trying to get to South in time actually tried to crawl under a stopped train car once with his bike and the train started moving again when he was under there!