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Uke · Cured

Other news today. Railroad news that is.

Uke · Cured

Somewhere near here

https://www.mapquest.com/us/tx/bertram-282030769

Snippy · Force Majeure

Mapquest?

Put a screenshot on your MySpace feed.

Uke · Cured

MySpace? Is that one of them so called 'social-media' websights? Where all the younger than *** (Who is old) do hook ups, hang outs, and hot dog roasts... Because if it is, *** don't want no truck with MySpace. They can track yer ass by going there, and snooping around for maps and schitt!

Probably best to stay far away from it, even if ya just go look for a map. They will track ya and hunt ya down just like that Nugent guy!

Uke · Cured

Iowa. Right. Idiots Out Wandering Around. Not this dood. Not no more anyway. His wanderings ended abruptly due to a train. He was on the wrong tracks. That's our guess.

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Alton Telegraph

Iowa man dies on railroad tracks in Alton after being hit by train

By Linda N. Weller - lweller@civitasmedia.com

As seen Friday, a man was killed about 10 p.m. Thursday night along this set of tracks west of Chessen Lane and near Alton Steel. Despite the efforts of Alton police and firefighters to revive the man he had suffered severe trauma, including the loss of an appendage. A coroner pronounced Jeremiah J. Greene, 37 of Alton dead at the scene about an hour later.

John Badman | The Telegraph

ALTON A man who East Alton police recently had chased off railroad tracks as he played a guitar died Thursday when he was hit by a train in Alton.

Jeremiah J. Greene, 37, of Alton was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. Thursday at Alton Steel, 5 Cut St., by Madison County Coroners Investigator Sakina T. Hall. Greene was not an employee of the steel mill.

An Azcon employee called 911 after observing a body on the tracks, and a police officer did chest compressions until the Alton Fire Department came, but they could not revive him, said Chief Jason Jake Simmons of the Alton Police Department. He had been gone for awhile. He had severe trauma to his body, and one appendage was cut off. They then contacted the coroners office.

The train killed the man, who had an Alton address but who Simmons described as a transient from Iowa, on tracks that he said are owned by American Steel Co. The body was located on tracks off Cut Street, about 500 yards west of Chessen Lane, Simmons said. The employee called 911 shortly after 10 p.m., with scanner traffic calling the situation, a man down on the railroad tracks.

Information was not available as to when a train struck the man.

East Alton police helped identify him, they had chased him off the railroad tracks while he was playing guitar, Simmons said. The chief could not say why the victim was in the Alton area.

He showed up in our town a few weeks ago, he had no family connection here, Simmons said, but Alton police already were familiar with the man. We had an incident with him last week at One Stop Shop (1106 Milton Road), he said, characterizing it as a crisis intervention team response.

The Madison County Coroners Office said the man died as the result of multiple traumatic injuries. Routine toxicology studies for the presence of alcohol and drugs will be performed. The death remains under investigation by Alton police.

-- Edited by Uke on Sunday 30th of April 2017 09:07:48 PM

Uke · Cured

Okay, how about a little trip down to Tennessee? Shall we see what nooz concerning the railroads happened this week in the "Volunteer State".

Let's

Pickup truck rolls over, lands on railroad tracks

Posted: Apr 29, 2017 5:51 PM PST Updated: Apr 29, 2017 7:31 PM PST

By WRCB Staff

Photo Credit: Lt. Johnson

HAMILTON COUNTY, TN (WRCB) -

A driver was sent to the hospital after their pickup truck rolled over and ended up on the railroad tracks.

Officials with the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department said it happened around 3:30 on Saturday near Lee Highway and Edgmon Road.

First responders said the driver was out of the pickup truck and had to be pulled up with a ladder because of the steep incline and the nature of the injuries. They contacted Norfolk Southern to shut down the railroad tracks.

Collegedale police said the driver is in stable condition. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

No details as to how, or why the p'up just happened to get loose, or 'flip' onto the tracks. Absolute mystery. The driver however is 'stable'! Yep we'll bet!

Uke · Cured

Okay off to Alabama we go. Another vehicle 'flip' Just for the hell of it. Another total mysterious roll over. But this time, the driver actually walked away...sorta.

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Car flips onto railroad tracks; driver avoids serious injury

By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer
Apr 28, 2017 Updated Apr 28, 2017

MUSCLE SHOALS When Muscle Shoals Police Chief Clint Reck got to the scene of Thursday mornings accident, he was thinking the worst.

A car left the roadway, went down the median past the guardrails, then down an embankment, before landing upside down on the railroad tracks.

I looked where the car was, how it looked and I thought someone was dead, Reck said. Thankfully, I was wrong.

The wreck, which occurred at 7:35 a.m. on Woodward Avenue, caused traffic delays and a detour, and took more than 90 minutes to clear up.

Police said Ronald Steele, 72, of Elledge Lane, Tuscumbia, was injured when the 2008 Buick Lacrosse he was driving left the highway and crashed on the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks about 40 feet underneath the overpass.

Reck said because of the condition of the embankment from the recent heavy rains, a service truck was used to get down an access road to the vehicle and bring Steele up the embankment.

There was no way an ambulance was going to get down there, and it would have been difficult bringing him up on a stretcher, the chief said.

Authorities said Steele was transported by ambulance to Shoals Hospital, where according to hospital officials he was treated and later released.

One emergency official at the scene said Steele had several cuts and scratches and a broken arm.

Reck said once the victim was removed, it took time for crews to get the car off the rails.

We had to shut down the southbound lanes and get Norfolk Southern to close the rail lines, the chief said.

A crane was used to lift the car off the train tracks and up and over the bridge rails onto the roadway, where it could be loaded on a trailer and taken away.

Reports indicate Steele was traveling south when he left the roadway just past the traffic light in front of Lowes. The car traveled inside the guardrails, continued down the embankment, going between two large concrete barriers before slamming nose down onto the railroad right of way and flipping over onto the tracks.

We had two train engines that we had to stop, and its a wonder there wasnt a training coming through when this happened, Reck said.

He said a witness who was traveling north saw the car leave the roadway and thought it was going to cross the median into the oncoming traffic.

"It didnt," Reck said. "It went straight down the embankment. If it had been a few inches one way or the another, it would have probably slammed into the concrete barriers beside the train tracks, Reck said. Its still amazing to me how this all happened and it turned out the way it did."

-- Edited by Uke on Sunday 30th of April 2017 09:32:36 PM

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You'd think it was MIR or something.

Uke · Cured

Hardly. Stupidity plays a larger role than we know. call it what you will, it all boils down ta the same thing; Your too damn stupid to be allowed to operate a motor vehicle! Simple solution, do not allow idiots to have licenses!

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