It typifies the militancy of Heus. Those railways, they had to and would come. Her partner Pim, Sam’s father, asked her. “He said: you would do me a favor if you put railway barriers there. I can’t do it, it’s too heavy for me.” Heus entered the fight, as she describes it. “If someone asks you to do that, I think you’ll be empowered to do it.” People told Heus that she would not succeed. “Then I thought: I will certainly succeed.”