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Wrecks?Well.Sometimes it's days before they are found; if at all. Especially if they are alone and have no one looking out for them.I recall coming up on Flagstaff in I-40 once, the skies were veiled in glowing fire to the south and west along the railroad. I never learned what happened there until the next morning but there had been a hazmat fire on the line and they had to shut it down. It was better to stop for the night in safe haven than to risk a detour in the Arizona Mountains on small roads.If everything is working as it should across the entire railroad, somebody somewhere will ask about such a such a train... eventually.If both trains were totally destructed and the crews killed, the simple absence when enough time has passed beyond both train's expected schedules will be sufficeint to create enough interest in what happened.I totally believe the radio call scenario. OH S_____!!!! JIM JUMP!!!! then silence. That silence will be filled soon enough after the wreckage and bodies quit falling from the skies.The finest in communication gear across the skies, space and land usually carry a bad word as a very first and possibly the only sign something is wrong.Trucking radios first sign of really serious trouble somewhere within range is usually a vile or bad word shouted with a tone of great fear or understanding of thier fate. It would be left to those that heard it to figure out and count heads among each other to findout who or what happened.Sometimes nothing happened until someone walked on two feet 10 miles to a phone to get the word out. That would take a few hours.Other times ive broke down somewhere before the days of cell phone, satellite or anything and simply sat. Someone.. usually my boss will get angry, then motivated then curious to findout what the heck happened to me or my rig. I lost two days one time this way but I was eventually discovered and the problems were fixed.I think back to the war years where large parts of the ocean were unpatrolled and ships were sunk or things happened that never got documented except for a log entry, ship lost presumed sunk with all hands.Maybe one day someone will find that ship and figure out what happened.
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