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Here we go again. Blame the train!
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Why don't these people admit that they actually committed hara kiri by running through the stop sign, and the crossbucks? Even the town's mayor said that in a recent meeting, so he's ordered that crossing be closed permanently! [url]http://kdvr.com/2018/02/11/teens-deaths-prompts-railroa...
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Thought this dood would cum in his shorts...
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...or shit himself right there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkeRJC4xVE He's obviously got way tu much time on his hands! Jeezuss!
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Another dope loses his car!
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Ya gotta wonder how these duds get their licenses. Or where? http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article196702599.html
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Siemens SC-44 Sprinter on head end. Now on I-5. Had P42DC 181 on rear. The curve as viewed southbound: https://goo.gl/maps/3HAd2fzFbxx Talgo tilting trainset. The Tombstone sign. (T is for Talgo) Last "reported" WiFi speed from Cascades web site is 81 mph. Some of the carnage:
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Italy's Amtrak crash.
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Many similarities to the Washington state crash, except for the highway being blocked... https://www.thelocal.it/20180125/two-dead-and-ten-seriously-hurt-as-train-derails-near-milan
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Firery crash at CP's Port Coquitlam yard with a tanker truck
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One of those hard to figure out how it can happen kind of story. Just saw the story on 11pm CBC Vancouver TV news and it was quite an inferno. Here is the story and pictures. Mercury conjunct Pluto aspect. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/port-coquitlam-fire-1.4499457
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Bad day for BNSF train crews at Monroe WA and Seattle WA
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Turned on my bedside radio early Tuesday morning to "the news" and laying there half asleep there not one but two stories about BNSF freight trains in fatality collisions with pedestrians roughly the same time in the morning 5:45-6:00AM. Completely unrelated other than it happened during a New Moo...
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An old guy passes...
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Not just any old guy. Nope, one of Uke's heroes, and the father of GF Diane Davis. "Big" Bill Davis of Portland, OR passed early this morning at home, in his favorite chair, of congestive heart failure. Bill was a machinist, working on steam locos om the former Delaware and Hudson railroad, D&H, wh...
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More Indian Railways news
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This is incredible! The engineering, planning, and costs... Puts that ridiculous Seattle tunnel to shame! The Indian Railways Train to Kashmir has been a dream since the British ruled India in the 17th. and 18th. Centuries Most of these lines were completed by 2015: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
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What.. No crossing blasts?
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Apparently this group of local citizens banded together, and forced their will upon the railroad. Which leads to this question; How long before some dope staring down at his iThingie, or listening to his iThingie, with ear buds, doesn't hear, or see the oncoming train, and is splattered across the p...
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Christmas Train derails in Oregon
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So if you were wondering when the "Shadow Period" of MIR started...December 1th. http://www.kgw.com/news/local/train-to-christmas-town-derails-with-200-aboard/496258920
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Somebody needs ta clue this asshole in...
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...so he knows what he's looking at! Not everything on rails is a boxcar, or a tank car! Dammit! http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2017/12/major_freight_train_derailment_shuts_busy_nj_transit_line.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured Yep. This one went ta ground in a couple d...
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...about GE-unk locomotive business. They wanna shed their schitt...and get back to their 'core' bizness... Light bulbs, home appliances, medical devices, and lending money. How in the fuck do ya come to a point like this after 110 years as a business leader, and an original member of the Dow-Jones...
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Krinksylvania.
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At the capital city Olympia... Protesters are busy in a futile attempt to stop trains from carrying oil (fracked oil especially/specifically) through their city. Sheesh, not again! Most of these folks drive cars fueled by gasoline. How else do they travel to the capital to protest, or attend city c...
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106 Reindeer kilt by Norway trains last 4-days
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That seems like a lot. Maybe Reindeer do crazy things closer it gets to Christmas. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5119463/106-reindeer-run-killed-trains-four-days.html
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Portland. Maine. This time.
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http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/18/downeaster-train-hits-car-stuck-on-tracks-no-one-injured/ How the fuck do ya get your car 'stuck' on the tracks? Apparently people are more imaginative than we know! Which leads to this; What would Jeezuss do? Go ahead ask...
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More of the same...
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...weather. Non-stop precip. In liquid form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Thz5Gap7cc
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Ya say ya wanna sue 'em? Call Bob Pines first!
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He knows all there is ta know about suing, and winning large sums of money from the railroads for 'personal' loss. So ya lost both legs eh? Well after all you KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the railroad planned this! And chopped off your legs. On purpose! http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
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Holy crapola! A tie as a weapon?
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That's overkill ain't it? http://www.lex18.com/story/36754859/police-man-beat-lexington-woman-to-death-with-railroad-tie That dood must be huge! Just liftin' one strains the brain! Damn
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Livingston. Montana. And the legacy of the NP, BN, BNSF, and now MRL
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Nice old (toxic) town. Kinda of a tourist trap these days, but its railroad past still haunts the town. And with Trump's gutting of EPA, it's likely to be polluted forever... http://tinyurl.com/ybyknbfu
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They weren't killed, so that's okay right?
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It happened on LAMCO this time, so the usual Harry man Award goes out da winder this year! well nobody really cares anyway! http://tinyurl.com/ybx6lzsr Wait, wait...the Harry man Awards don't exist any more, right? LAMCO hasn't won one for a loooong-ass time anyway, have they? Not since David Good...
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AMTK fulfills a suicide at Bellingham WA
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This story could have slipped through the cracks if it weren't for my weekly phone call to my mother in Bellingham. She says did you hear about the young woman that got kilt by an AMTK train in Bellingham...no. So nothing on the TV news or in the newspaper I saw about that. This happened Oct 9th with Sun/M...
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Anybody know this dood?
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Apparently somebody knows him, or knows of him, or about him. He put in 30 years of service with CSX, or a predecessor outfit. Most likely after his military service, which included TWO tours in Vietnam. https://portcitydaily.com/2017/10/03/obits-john-l-johnny-peele-205067/
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FRA HOURS OF SERVICE APP NOW AVAILABLE VIA IPHONE
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FRA HOURS OF SERVICE APP NOW AVAILABLE VIA IPHONEThe Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has now made their Hours of Service (HOS) App available for download in the iPhone app store. Those wishing to download the app, should search for FRA HOS Manual.The HOS app was developed to provide users wit...
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BNSF ballast train
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She was running towards Spokane after some main-line work along the Pasco cutoff. BNSF main follows the former NP route, which ran towards Pasco from Spokane. These pics were along I-90 at Sprague Lake east of Ritzville -- Edited by Uke on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 11:28:38 PM
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