Woman Killed By Train In Ames
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Corner of 13th and Ontario 
. Ummm...13th becomes Ontario @ the T-Intersection with Hyland but whatever.
Anyway, that's just a terrible story.
. Ummm...13th becomes Ontario @ the T-Intersection with Hyland but whatever.Anyway, that's just a terrible story.
13th and Hyland... how do you even end up on the tracks if you're near there? IIRC hyland doesnt cross the tracks, and the tracks dont cross 13th at street level..
Sucks, probably is a student, not been a great few weeks.
Sucks, probably is a student, not been a great few weeks.
Kinda what I was thinking...... there is no reason to be up by the tracks.
Wonder if she was walking on the tracks or trying to cut through to I don't know where :sad:
Yeah, thats the odd thing... if you're heading north from campustown, crossing those tracks is only going to get you to the golf course...
One of my hobbies is photographing trains and I usually go to that exact spot a couple times each summer. From the street side there is no path that I'm aware of, you really have to want to be on the tracks to get there. Lots of heavy brush and sticker bushes.
The tracks are level with the intersection, albeit north of the intersection. 13th drops way off heading east to go under the tracks. There is a clearing north of the Hyland/13th/Ontario stoplight, easily accessible on foot.
There is a clearing but to get down on the tracks you have to go through some heavy brush and it's not all that easy.
Being that its still spring, would the brush really be all that heavy this early in the year?? I'd imagine that you can access it fairly easily right now, without having to walk through a lot of vegetation.
I kind of thought that too, but if you're going to kill yourself, are you really going to stand on railroad tracks waiting for a train to come?
Ames has an out of whack number of people being killed due to wandering on to the tracks compared to other towns. Working for the railroad and being from Ames, it's extremely frustrating that people just can't seem to get it through their heads that railroad tracks are very dangerous and they need to stay the **** off of them. They seriously have been throwing around the idea of fencing in the entire tracks through Ames so that people will keep off of them.
probably wouldnt be a bad idea.
Though if it is statistically a high level in ames, how fast do the trains move through ames compared to through other towns? They book it pretty fast through ames, maybe they should be slowed coming through town.
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See College Station, TX...only took one Foreign student to openly committ suicide (and of course 1000's walking across daily) on the tracks through campus for the fences to go up. I think it's a good idea, expensive, but good.
You're probably right, I usually don't go down there till summer when the growth is at it's peak.
That still seems way too fast for trains, in town. I remember the trains absolutely flying through when I lived there...faster than just about any town of that size that I've seen in Iowa.
Of course, if you get hit by the train it isn't really going to make a difference, but I'm pretty sure they could stand to dial it back a bit before roaring through a town when you have tracks sitting right in the approach to stoplights where people will be slowing down...not stopping I hope, but slowing. Always seems like the trains in Des Moines are not going as fast.
Re: Female ISU Student Killed By Train In Ames
Register article says she was an Iowa State student, what a tragic semester.
Woman fatally struck by train in Ames | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
Register article says she was an Iowa State student, what a tragic semester.
Woman fatally struck by train in Ames | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
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