QUOTE: Originally posted by 88gta350 Hope this isn't a repost, but I saw commercials tonight for Friday's episode of Numb3rs. They didn't reveal much in the short commercials, but it is supposedly about a terrorist/psycho targeting the country's trains.... sabotaging tracks, leaving buses in front of trains, etc... Seems pulled right out of the headlines with all the recent incidents, although I'm sure the episode was filmed months ago. For thos who don't know, Numb3rs is another in the long line of "police dramas", like CSI, Law and Order, etc.... Focuses on an FBI agent and his genius brother who solves crimes with math, basically.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp I wonder how many people who watch the show will be calling 911 anytime they see someone near the tracks.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by PaulVincent BNSF or UP would never let FBI agents in a yard without "Railroad Cop" escorts;
QUOTE: Originally posted by PaulVincent 3. Part where they went over photos from other wrecks: The CSX GE is stopped just past the broken bridge, with its cars over the bridge, standing normally.
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Actually, that was an actual picture. The same picture was in either Trains or some other (lesser) railroad magazine about four months ago.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater The other thing that I didn't like was how they portrayed the young railfan that they interviewed at the railroad museum about these accidents. I wanted to throw a rock at the TV when he said to the girl (whom he'd only know for a few minutes and was with a guy), "Accidents are just one small part of railroad history. Perhaps you'd like to find out more over dinner?" We aren't a bunch of geeky losers like that!
QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH The engineer's attitude about riding it out and that joining the birds is dishonorable sounded more than a little like a captain going down with his ship.
QUOTE: Originally posted by PaulVincent . 3. Part where they went over photos from other wrecks: The CSX GE is stopped just past the broken bridge, with its cars over the bridge, standing normally.
QUOTE: Originally posted by radivil QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater The other thing that I didn't like was how they portrayed the young railfan that they interviewed at the railroad museum about these accidents. I wanted to throw a rock at the TV when he said to the girl (whom he'd only know for a few minutes and was with a guy), "Accidents are just one small part of railroad history. Perhaps you'd like to find out more over dinner?" We aren't a bunch of geeky losers like that! Don't get worked up about it. There's two things at work here: 1) Every last hobby is protrayed this way on TV. I'm not sure why. Video gamers complain about how TV protrays them. Astronomers do the same. EVERYONE does. I'm sure out there some stamp collector is complaining about how a stamp collector was protrayed in some sitcom episode.
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