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News Wire: Stored cars roll away in Montana

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Monday, August 21, 2017 8:41 AM

HELENA, Mont. — Approximately 40 empty well cars stored on an old Great Northern Railway branchline in Montana rolled downhill this week blocking access to a neighborhood north of Helena. The Helena Independent Record reports that the cars rol...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/08/18-bnsf-rolling-cars

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, August 21, 2017 9:45 AM

Guess Montana can thank the vandal brakeman community!

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Posted by NDG on Monday, August 21, 2017 2:52 PM

Thank You.

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Posted by schlimm on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:13 AM

BaltACD

Guess Montana can thank the vandal brakeman community!

 

Maybe the senile, oxygen-deprived EHH was disoriented and thought he was along a CSX line?

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