About 1:45 this afternoon, an adventure fell into my lap. As I drove, I watched a heavily loaded flatbed semi hit the huge railroad arm and lights on the north side of the intersection of Gregg and Township. He stopped and then accelerated, tearing the entire steel assembly loose and onto the tracks. All the lights started flashing emergency. I pulled in on the opposite side of Gregg. For some reason, I had the feeling the semi was not going to stop. He turned right, heading away from Meeks and down the side road with no exit. I’m certain he did not realize there was no exit when he turned to direction. By then I was running across traffic. He turned around due to no exit and headed back toward me. Due to the weight of the semi, he couldn’t accelerate quickly. I stopped to tell the people in the Meeks parking lot what happened and that the railroad signage weighed at least a ton and would require heavy machinery to get it off the tracks. Hoping that no trains were headed from either direction, I chased the semi until he came to a stop. Whether his version is the same or not, he would not have stopped had I not offered to jump up on the step rail at the side of the cab and accompany him to wherever he was trying to go. I did not have my cape on but I was ready for more adventure if it became necessary. Paraphrasing politely, he initially claimed he did not know he had taken down the huge steel railroad sign and arm. My eyes told me a different story. Again paraphrasing the heat of the moment, I told him to wait until the police arrived. 

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