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CN/IC coal train derails in Southern Ilinois, off overpass, onto Interstate 57 below!!!

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BNSFNUT
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:37 AM
It was lucky that no body got killed or injured.
But when you hear about a derailment you should ask your self if I had been track side taking photos, would I have be alert enough to get the out of the way or would my last shot been of the car that got me?
Remember railfaning can be a dangerous hobby. Stay alert stay back!!

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

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locomutt
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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:04 PM
Man,
luckily no one was killed,hope injuries were not serious.
That REALLY did have the potential to be a VERY bad one!

Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!

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UPTRAIN
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Saturday, July 10, 2004 8:46 PM
Yeah, if ya read the article, it mentions that in the last paragraph. [:D]

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:27 PM
I'm starting to think that the CN does not like S. Illinois. Didn't they just have a Haz Mat derailment last year? Tamaroa or something like that.[?][:0]
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:09 PM
Anyone want to take some coal home?
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2004 1:54 AM
Wow, there was sure potential there for it to be a LOT worse.

Luckily nobody was killed.
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2004 11:40 PM
Even though there wernt any serious injurees...god bless the people who got injureed by this inncident.
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UPTRAIN
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Friday, July 9, 2004 11:29 PM
No.

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jeaton
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Posted by jeaton on Friday, July 9, 2004 11:08 PM
Do you know what church that trucker attends?

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics

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UPTRAIN
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CN/IC coal train derails in Southern Ilinois, off overpass, onto Interstate 57 below!!!
Posted by UPTRAIN on Friday, July 9, 2004 10:58 PM
Read the story here http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=2018776 . Devastating isn't it, 1 person got minor injuries, a trucker driving through falling debries.

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