Group trespasses on railroad tracks near Main Street, Rochelle IL
A man and a group of about eight people trespassed on active railroad tracks near Main Street in Rochelle, Illinois. This caused trains to stop and created a safety risk.
Audio|Source: Northern Illinois Railroads
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Transcript:
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We just had to come through a stop coming through CQY75.
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We got a pedestrian walking in the middle of the crossing area.
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Our mile force wizard at the crossing east. There's a pedestrian walking in the middle of the tracks.
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Was he just crossing like trying to beat the train or is he like trespass?
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He can stand it in between the tracks.
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All right, is that westbounder clear of where he's at?
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No, he's not.
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All right, your stop short,
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and there's a male standing between the tracks at the crossing near Main St.
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Yeah, they're running now for this next cross.
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All right, you got a description.
00:55
It seems to be all black male with long hair, white gym shoes, just running,
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trying to cross over.
01:07
All right, Bergmanel, long hair, uh, tissues, looks like he's trying to cross over towards the south side or north side.
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Okay,
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copy that. I will get it reported over.
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Excuse me. That's fine.
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Sorry.
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All right,
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timebound the car of the westbound train, over.
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That's correct at Main Street.
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Rochelle.
01:41
Okay,
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let me talk to that train.
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7773, Y703 Main Track number 2A, 8-4-0.
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Statute 12 over it.
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UPA-378-E.
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Go ahead, over it.
02:13
Yeah, now it looks like we got a group of pedestrians over here at Main Street.
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Somebody else just tried to cross over.
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Okay, copy that.
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How many do you think of it?
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At least eight.
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It's all, could be more.
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Okay, copy that. You're thinking they're trying to get on the train or just cross through?
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I don't know.
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The guy, the first guy, crossed through.
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Now that's a group of them, I don't know if they're just out here playing because the train is stopped.
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I don't know what's going on.
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Okay, copy that other.
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Bres.
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...their... ...you know what... ...weller...
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Yeah, go ahead. It's 3-7-8.
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Where were these people at?
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There was a group of people who were not trespassing, but there was a single trespasser at about 74.8,
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who, the train that was going into Global 3,
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was, you know, was on the crossing in between the track, track 1 and track 2, so I put the train into emergency.
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I'm going on it now. That trespass was clear.
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All right, sir, if you're on the move, trespass is that clear? Yeah, right here. Is that correct?
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Yeah, that's right. All right.
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See you.
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