Always bad timing when a train derails in your area. Now first reaction by authorities is to evacuate all residents within a certain area and sleep in cots in local high skoolen gymnasium on the eve of "Happy Thanksgiving". Would think most of the residents in this area of Kentucky spend days cooking/...
Don't see him around here tu much, he must have tu many irons in the fire, discovered another one today: -- Edited by Cy Valley on Thursday 16th of November 2023 06:52:54 PM
https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/train-derails-in-northwest-atlanta-burns-off-1200-gallons-of-fuel-fire-officials/85-d8f409f5-3670-4d56-b683-ba7bb17014ef-- Edited by Calvin on Friday 17th of November 2023 10:38:17 AM
This place west of Winnemucca NV a dry lake bed where "The Burning Man Festival" has been held for many years now turned to disaster with heavy rains. The mud situation so bad 70,000 attendees cant leave. Any attempts is met with getting stuck. This years Burning Man Festival held with Mercury and Venu...
Stockton Diamond is a fairly new webcam by Southwest Railcams. Great location but terrible light most of the day. Live radio to help with train locations. This another lesson for railroads which have empty Centerbeam flatcars in their train. These centerbeam flatcars were 50 deep in the train but g...
Crapping on the floor on a passenger flight just not acceptable. Do we need to put up signs on how to crap on an airplane. Yes. ANOTHER Flight canceled due to 'defecation' incident...
Not sure but this the famous "Joint Line" used by BNSF and UP south from Denver. I'm not sure who is responsible MOW. Southbound BNSF coal train going over I-25 and the bridge collapses over the freeway derailing a lot of coal. Huge mess. Traffic on I-25 backed up many miles. train wreck shuts down I25...
Not a teacher but still, she was taking care of his case with some very instructional counseling. Anyone here up for some counseling? COLUMBUS, Ohio A 24-year-old Ohio woman who was a social worker for a national group that works with children has been arrested after she was accused of having sexual...
Color blind? Flawed tests?OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The federal government has joined more than a dozen former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train.T...
I guess Texas is not flat as a string of boxcars escape the yard onto the mainline and gain speed. Dispatcher tells crew on a train heading for the speeding boxcars to "abandon train". They did. BNSF has enough locomotives to replace the one that got the brunt of the damage I'm sure. This accident seems t...
Just got off the phone with our newest retired guy. Sending him his dues refund and reporting his retirement to the Union. I told him that the Division will have a party. I told him it's not for him, we a celebrating because it is a big deal for us. It's better than a Christmas Party. He is selling his ho...
Oh Wow. These are the things that could happen if you are traveling during MIR. Hopefully you arent the passenger with explosive diarrhea. The whole plane needs a scrub down. Passengers on this flight will never forget it. DELTA FLIGHT ABORTED AFTER DIARRHEA BLAST DRIPPLES DOWN AISLE...
No real surprise being its "MIR" and all. This one a big one shutting down trains all day. The age where dispatchers send GTB's and track bulletins right to the lead engine of your train. Add PTC and other things that work when the computer is working. All NS hotshot Ztrains or other hot trains going to mi...
Have to say I dint know anything about this group. Keep hearing the name in the news especially with the Russia-Ukraine war going on. Are they good guys or bad guys. The answer is complex but Russia seems to benefit most from what the Wagner Group does. Where the Wagner Group goes is to stop something and...
