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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by enr2099</i> <br /><br />The E&N Railway's Victoria Subdivision runs past a high school in Qualicum Beach, BC. All trains running past this school are equipped with video surveylance equipment to catch kids throwing rocks at the trains, at passenger trains(no freight service on that part of the Victoria Sub), the latest incident at this location was a kid had put a football sized rock on the tracks, when the passenger train came by it kicked the rock up, severing the fuel line on the Budd RDC. The engineer managed to get the train to the Qualicum Beach station where buses were waiting to take the passengers the rest of the way to Courtenay. Freight deliveries that day had to be cancelled as they had to send the Geeps to Qualicum Beach to rescue the dead RDC. <br /> <br /> Another incident I remember hearing about at this section, some kids had loosened the bolts on a rail joint, removed the bolts and the fishplates, there was no train that day, an MOW highrail spotted the missing bolts and fishplates the next morning and repaired the joint before the RDC's came through a couple hours later. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br /> <br />WHAT are these people thinking? Are they trying to kill someone? [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] <br /> <br />Sounds like it is time to bring in the police and have them ride the train too. <br />
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