Engineer avoids disaster after vandals tamper with CP Rail locomotive
(The following appeared on the KFYR television website on May 5, 2009.)
BISMARCK, N.D. The Minot Police Department is looking for any information regarding the tampering with Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives.
Early Sunday Morning between 3:30am and 5:00 am, someone entered two Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives parked on the siding railroad tracks near the 1100 block of Eastern Avenue.
The suspects were able to manipulate the controls of the lead locomotive and move them out onto the main tracks.
At 5:50am a freight train carrying large amounts of hazardous materials, including anhydrous ammonia, was forced to initiate the emergency brakes.
The engineer of the freight train saw the locomotives and was able to stop the train 100 feet before striking the other locomotives.
Anyone with information regarding this case should contact the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 852-7463.
Thats why I hate dark territory....or...why I love Signalled territory..(He should have been able to stop without Emergency if he was going Restricted...But I guess the appearance of another locomotive in a curve, (especially if ya dont know what track its on), could trick ya a little..
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