a railroad crossing in maple ridge, british columbia, a canadian logging town about an hour outside of vancouver is a known danger zone for truckers. i am going to say there are probably four or five hits in the 25 years that i ve worked here. kirk works at walden forest products, a lumber company right near the ryll road crossing where 20 commuter and freight trains barrel through each day. most of these trains are going between 80 and 100 kilometers an hour, which is between 50 and 60 miles an hour. on july 25, 2008, one of walden s security cameras catches a tractor trailer pulling up to the railroad crossing just as the gates are going down. i could see the train coming around the corner and the train must have been doing about 55 miles per hour. ian woodruff is driving a tractor-trailer right behind the one on the tracks and watches as