NEWS FLASH! Train vs. 3 pedestrians on ex-Conrail Chicago line.

rich747us

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Posted by rich747us on Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:47 PM

I just heard about this a few minutes ago on the news. A train struck 3 pedestrians along the CSX main in Fairport NY, near Rochester (formerly the Conrail Chicago line) near MP 361. Here's the news website report link. http://www.rnews.com/

When there's a tie at the crossing.....YOU LOOSE! STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE! GOD BLESS CONRAIL!</font id="blue"> 1976-1999 (R.I.P.)

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rich747us

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Posted by rich747us on Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:03 PM

Update: 2 of the 3 confirmed dead. Let's hope and pray #3 has learned his lesson.

When there's a tie at the crossing.....YOU LOOSE! STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE! GOD BLESS CONRAIL!</font id="blue"> 1976-1999 (R.I.P.)

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:09 PM

Ouch...

LC

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:19 PM

According to local news the three may have been on the tracks after being involved in a "bar brawl"...

LC

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Sterling1

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Posted by Sterling1 on Friday, December 24, 2004 10:58 AM

Jeez, if your going to leave a bar or something or other after a celebration, why don't these people go to some place other than a RR track. Unless you're seriously drunk then that's your call. . .

Then again why would anyone be senseless enough to walk down a RR track . . .

"There is nothing in life that compares with running a locomotive at 80-plus mph with the windows open, the traction motors screaming, the air horns fighting the rush of incoming air to make any sound at all, automobiles on adjacent highways trying and failing to catch up with you, and the unmistakable presence of raw power. You ride with fear in the pit of your stomach knowing you do not really have control of this beast." - D.C. Battle [Trains 10/2002 issue, p74.]

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Sterling1

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Posted by Sterling1 on Friday, December 24, 2004 11:01 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Ouch....

LC

OUCH is right, maybe some thinking before this incident would have helped if these people were paying rational attention to their surroundings . . .

"There is nothing in life that compares with running a locomotive at 80-plus mph with the windows open, the traction motors screaming, the air horns fighting the rush of incoming air to make any sound at all, automobiles on adjacent highways trying and failing to catch up with you, and the unmistakable presence of raw power. You ride with fear in the pit of your stomach knowing you do not really have control of this beast." - D.C. Battle [Trains 10/2002 issue, p74.]

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eolafan

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Posted by eolafan on Friday, December 24, 2004 1:42 PM

Three fighting on the mainline tracks after a bar brawl, sounds like we may see this on COPS some Saturday evening on Fox network.

Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 24, 2004 2:49 PM

According to today's Rochester Democrat-Chronicle there was a group of five who were expelled from a bar near the tracks for brawling and the fight carried on out onto the CSX ROW.

LC

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TrainFreak409

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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Friday, December 24, 2004 7:59 PM

What a place to fight. You would think, even though drunk and blind with anger, they would still hear the blast of an airhorn. Unless, they were deaf with stupidity.

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tree68

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, December 24, 2004 8:29 PM

It's those beer muscles. Make you invincible.

Of course, this is the railroad's fault for building the tracks so close to the bar..... (What's the smiley for extreme sarcasm?)

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dwil89

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Posted by dwil89 on Friday, December 24, 2004 8:43 PM

Reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago that luckily turned out okay... I was up in Cresson, Pa and an Westbound General Manifest had stopped just West of the MO Interlocking to cut off its helpers. Over the radio, the rear helper reported that there was someone laying on the ballast next to the train, and the rear helper crew spotted him as the train came to a stop. Of course, it appeared that the person may have been struck. The Dispatcher was preparing to call the authorities, when the Helper crew called back and told the Dispatcher that the guy was okay....' He looks like he's drunk...one of his buddies came up and "drug" him off the tracks' So the person apparently was a bit inebriated, and must have walked up trackside after the head-end passed the location, and simply passed out next to the train.....Dave Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown

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