Did you know that November is Safe Crossing Month? Safe Kids Canada has created a cool YouTube video that gives tips about being safe around train tracks. Check it out and share it with your kids and friends!

Picture it, your child has been hired to deliver weekly flyers for a family friend’s business and he is happy to have the chance to make a little money. Another older child is showing him the route and giving him tips. Your son is surprised to learn that part of the route includes using a dirt path that leads right across the neighbourhood railway tracks, which has been used as a short cut for years to reach houses that the business wants to access.

As a kid living in a mining town in Northern Ontario, watching an ore laden train go through my neighbourhood was a regular occurrence. And I often used the train tracks as a pathway to the local shopping mall. It was very handy, it was always clear of snow in the winter and it was a direct route from my backyard to the mall. At least it was, until they put up a fence about 10 years ago, long after I had moved away.