Austin Glass kept getting stuck at the train crossing on Barton Avenue and Ormond Boulevard when he came up with an idea for an app. “I started thinking, there’s got to be a way to know if a train’s there and if it’s stopped and what it’s doing,” Glass said. Glass, a former Coast Guard officer and Luling resident, set out on a four-year journey to create an app for St. Charles Parish residents to monitor train crossings. “It was a lot of trial a…
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