Trestles:  In the mid 80’s we went surfing at Lowers (Lower Trestles) with a friend.  After surfing for a couple hours we were  walking back to our car.  We started following some guys who seemed to have a different way back from the beach.  So we were behind trestle and walking up the back when we came across them stopped in the path.  They said that “this” way is good but have to stay right along track.  When we got to the top (on the trestle) by the track it’s pretty wide…say about 6 feet out from the train track but as you walk North the space narrows.

 Once we were on the bridge the track is two, maybe three feet max from the edge of the trestle.  We were about half way down trestle and one of the guys turns around and says, “Here comes the train.”  Now the railing is about waist high.  The train came by and we had to hold our boards over the rail and lean over railing. The train creates a powerful sucking motion trying to pull you back under the train. The train came super fast and we had almost no time to react.  We had to hold onto the railing as hard as we could to keep from getting sucked back under there.  I thought for sure we were going to die.  My friend was watching me and thought I was throwing my surfboard over the rail so that’s what he did.  Unfortunately he threw his surfboard into the disgusting part of the lagoon.  Worse yet he had borrowed my board…so it was my board down in that crap. 

After the plane past we were all in shock that we were still alive.  We asked the other guys how many times they had done this and they said it was their first time!  Man our adrenaline was pumping for a long time after that.  Unfortunately for my friend he still had to go down and fish the board out of that disgusting water. 

 A couple days later my dad (who was a cop) called up.  He said, “Greg, I understand you almost got hit by train.  Evidently another one of my friends was below watching the whole thing.

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