All is well when it ends well, but this entrapped car almost caused an accident near Eng° Marsillac some day in the early nineties. Alexandre Saraiva, one of the locomotive engineers, tells: We were in a Santos-bound freight train, between Eng° Marsillac and Evangelista stations, when I saw a man waving frenetically ahead of us, over a hill. As he used the same warning signals we use in our railroad we decided to slow down the train. As we reached the top of the hill, we could then see the car entrapped over the tracks. It was an official car of the São Paulo city municipal service that was returning from a mission in an Indian settlement; its driver decided to cross the tracks off-road, in a place without grade crossing. The car's axles hit the tracks and stuck there. When the driver heard the horns of our locomotive approaching he run over the hill and signaled us. This photo was shot by Alexandre Saraiva, from Santos SP.



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