Local Man Sighs As He Sits At Lansdale Train Crossing

Photo Credit: Brett Sayles by Bone Jawnson LANSDALE, PA > Last Wednesday evening, local Class C driver and organ donor Joseph Callahan let out a heavy sigh as he sat at the intersection of Fifth Street and Cannon Avenue, waiting for a freight train to lumber past. This wasn’t Joseph’s first run-in with our area’s most notorious time thief. Just last month, he found himself stuck at that random train crossing on Orvilla Road in Hatfield Township—right in the middle of the day, on his way to a podiatrist appointment. “It just kept moving back and forth! Where was it going? What was it doing?!” Joseph exclaimed as we commiserated about the always-untimely freight shuffle that seems to exist purely to test the patience of area residents. Having moved to the North Penn area only five years ago, Joseph Callahan was completely unprepared for the iron maze he’d unknowingly signed up for. Allegedly, his real estate agent forgot to mention the night-and-day steel traps that spring shut ...