Train blocking street crossings during parade in Fort Payne, Fort Payne AL
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Road ClosureA train is blocking several street crossings in Fort Payne near Gault Avenue North. Officers are coordinating traffic and monitoring the train's movement during parade activity. The train is causing road closures at multiple points and may be stationary for a time.
Audio|Heard on: Fort Payne Police
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07:23
Transcript:
00:00
This is 142.
00:01
Get a status on the train.
00:12
142, any unit, get a status on the train.
00:20
Passing 6th Street and Gault Avenue North.
00:23
Jim.
00:32
1.02, 137.
00:36
137.
00:38
That truck, about to turn left.
00:40
See you down the trailer line.
00:44
Take it before.
00:46
Okay.
00:47
Fort. Forty-two big, so he advised the train station area at this time.
01:00
Careful.
01:03
101, where is the train station area at?
01:09
The engine should be just 4 5th Street north.
01:17
Just keep an eye on that, if it...
01:20
Let me know if it's not moving in the next five minutes or so.
01:26
Careful.
01:27
102, 101.
01:30
101.
01:32
It's a short like work crew.
01:33
They may be trying to get that sidetrack over close to first.
01:38
First.
01:45
101 to 102.
01:49
102.
01:51
Do you think it's longer than Bill Street to 8th Street? Uh,
02:00
maybe, I'm not sure.
02:03
101 day. One's working 8th Street north.
02:07
130, 101 is blocked at 8th Street north.
02:29
104. 103. 103.
02:30
102.
02:34
The end of it is coming to you.
02:45
Okay,
02:50
board.
02:51
One-o-one, four pain on two.
03:00
One-o-eight.
03:01
One-one, one-o-eight.
03:13
101 108 on 2
03:31
1301, 1301, the terrain is moving now
03:36
104 125, 142.
03:49
Go ahead.
03:53
125. 142.
03:56
Go ahead.
03:58
About to approach 4th Street, North.
04:03
104, appreciate it.
04:04
Got some large gaps back here.
04:06
We're doing okay right now.
04:08
104.
04:12
101, 142.
04:16
142. It clear through.
04:21
You can see if everything is 104 right now.
04:31
The train made it all south.
04:36
Negative.
04:37
It appears it's stopped down here.
04:48
Can any unit see the front end of the train at this moment?
04:57
142 101. I think the front is just past 3rd Street south.
05:14
Tand4.
05:20
101,
05:22
125.
05:26
Is still the street still blocked by the train by the train?
05:32
Negative,
05:34
it is not.
05:43
104.
05:45
1.11-146. Is the 1st Street crossing blocked?
06:00
1047.
06:03
109.9. Can you...
06:05
104.000. 4.000.
06:07
4.
06:10
104.
06:19
101-108.
06:21
10.8.
06:24
Are you 106?
06:27
I'm here in having clear traffic or correction.
06:31
People at the back of the parade.
06:34
104. Can you get somebody to check? It looks like the train is going to have first street blocked.
06:43
I think they said Bill Street's open.
06:45
I've...
06:47
We just need to see if there's going to be any vehicles or people that's going to have to get across the first street to the other side.
06:53
If so, we're going to have to stop them going.
06:58
10.4. 147, you can you be 106?
07:02
Yes, sir.
07:05
104. Can you be at 84?
07:07
104.
07:10
It's still a while before the parade's over.
07:14
I just keep a check on it.
07:16
It looks like it might be a way it was described.
07:19
It might be a work train.
07:20
Please stop for a while.
07:22
Two more.
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Location mentioned:
Gault Ave N, Fort Payne, AL 35967
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