On Monday afternoon, Shannon Jacobs was sitting on the front porch of her home here with her daughter and 1-year old grandson when she noticed an Amtrak train coming by.
It was a familiar sight for Jacobs, a resident of the area since 2017. She lives roughly a half-mile from a crossing and usually notices the trains. There were also dump trucks throughout the day Monday that had been heading over the crossing, bringing materials from the levee.
She didn’t notice anything unusual — at first. Then she described seeing a “great big cloud of dirt” near the tracks.
