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ROANOKE HAPPENING

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ROANOKE HAPPENING
Posted by STEVEL on Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:35 PM

WATCH WEB CAM AT ABOUT 8 PM   AN AUTO CARRIER TRAIN CAME TO STOP ABOUT 30-40 CARS

EAST OF WEB CAM.  A WHILE LATER AMBULANCE WENT BY EAST BOUND AND STOPPED JUST EAST OF WEB CAM  VIEW(COULD SEE LIGHTS FLASHING OFF SIDES OF AUTO CARRIERS. 

THREE NS TRUCKS SHOWED UP.  AMBULANCE LEFT AND NOW COUPLE OF RR MEN  ARE CHECKING TRACKS   AND/OR TRUCKS OF AUTO CARRIERS TO THE MOVING WEST FROM THE

EAST EDGE OF THE WEB CAM VIEW.  ANYONE FROM ROANOKE AREA KNOW WHATS GOING ON???

THANX,

STEVEL 

855 PM   MORE RR TRUCKS STILL LOKING UNDER CARS AND AT TRACK,  FIRE TRUCKS SEEN

PULLING AWAY TO SOUTH THEY HAD BEEN HIDDEN  BY TRAIN PREVIOUSLY.   ABUT 6-8 MEN OUT THERE NOW 

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Posted by Beach Bill on Friday, December 17, 2010 2:24 PM

The Roanoke Times listed:

"

Published on December 13, 2010. Article 2 of 407 found.

Page: A8

photo - 1. & 2. Three Norfolk and Southern train cars jumped the tracks Sunday evening in downtown Roanoke between the O. Winston Link Museum and the Taubman Museum of Art. No one was injured and no hazardous waste was spilled, said Officer B.W. Hughes of the Roanoke Police Department. The cars were carrying Chevrolet vehicles. Photos by SAM DEAN The Roanoke "

Bill

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison

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