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BNSF screws up
Posted by greyhounds on Sunday, September 25, 2016 5:45 PM

 

 
 
 
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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Sunday, September 25, 2016 7:01 PM

The website won't show the image.

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:04 PM

This is as far as I got to seeing the image: Description: You are not allowed to access the document you requested.

Wahh!

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Posted by greyhounds on Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:14 PM
"By many measures, the U.S. freight rail system is the safest, most efficient and cost effective in the world." - Federal Railroad Administration, October, 2009. I'm just your average, everyday, uncivilized howling "anti-government" critic of mass government expenditures for "High Speed Rail" in the US. And I'm gosh darn proud of that.
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Posted by dakotafred on Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:22 PM

How 'bout just telling us what happened?

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:38 PM
greyhounds

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Posted by kgbw49 on Sunday, September 25, 2016 10:36 PM

Verifying what others have said about the link - it doe not deliver any content.

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Posted by greyhounds on Sunday, September 25, 2016 10:45 PM

Forget it.  It was a joke.  It wasn't that funny.

Someone had photo shopped a picture of a locomotive made to look like a auto that had been stripped.  It is up on blocks with the trucks removed.  It's a BNSF locomotive with the title "Train left overnight in Chicago."

My title suggested that the BNSF made a mistake by leaving it sit in Chicago overnight.  

My bad.  I apologize.

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Posted by Buslist on Sunday, September 25, 2016 11:17 PM

greyhounds

Forget it.  It was a joke.  It wasn't that funny.

Someone had photo shopped a picture of a locomotive made to look like a auto that had been stripped.  It is up on blocks with the trucks removed.  It's a BNSF locomotive with the title "Train left overnight in Chicago."

My title suggested that the BNSF made a mistake by leaving it sit in Chicago overnight.  

My bad.  I apologize.

 

 

That's been on Face Book for a while now.

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Posted by tdmidget on Monday, September 26, 2016 12:17 AM

Our time has value, y'know. This had absolutely nothing to do with trains, other than lame humor.

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, September 26, 2016 3:39 AM

The Erie-Lackawanna Chicago story in the Autumn Classic Trains says what you wanted your picture to say and says it loud and clear.

But let us face it, that is a very small part of the Chicago population and neighborhoods.  I wonder what the railroad, probably CSX, does agout the problem today.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, September 26, 2016 12:48 PM

It Would have been more convincing if they'd left the eyes off it...

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Posted by MikeF90 on Monday, September 26, 2016 4:33 PM

It is obvious from the above link that the picture is stored on someone's private email account, which is not a publicly available link. Therefore, it is time for a ....

PIcture posting tip:

- Upload your digital picture(s) to a photo hosting service such as PhotoBucket. I won't mention a few of the larger services as they are >3X as annoying as PB. Google Docs also can be used, but the links are ridiculously ginormous. Some of us don't use Facebook, and navigation for non-users is infuriating.

- Provide the direct link from the above service in your forum post.

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:13 AM

aAAaaaaaaaaaa And Chicago is  not one of the ten most dangerous cities in the USA.

 

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