anniversary of 9/11

[Anonymous]

On that day, I came down the stairs, turned on the TV and watched with horror what went on in New York and then they said one had hit the Pentagon. My heart stood still, for you see my middle boy is in the Army and had just reported in June for duty at the Pentagon. It was terrible trying to call to find out if he was OK. I was sick with worry until I finally heard his voice. I had been praying, "Not again" for my oldest son was killed when they bombed the Marine barracks in Beriut.

[Trainnut484]

God Bless The USA.

Please take a moment or two of silence to remember the victims of the tragic events that happened two years ago today

Take care[:)]

Russell

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson

Erik my shot of W&S 911 with the flag was a conventional ASA 64 slide taken on a cloudy day with a camera which I later learned was in fact damaged. On top of that our scanner has been taken "off line" for the time being.
I believe my railfan buddy Deputy Keith Schmidt however has already contacted you about his digital equivalent and hopefully he has gotten it to you already. I believe Keith's photos from that day already appeared on his website "The Powerton Report" named for the spot in southern Milwaukee where we railfan regularly. He changes the photos regularly. I believe by the way that the locomotive was damaged and is no longer on the active roster of the W&S.
Dave Nelson

Dave, thanks for putting Keith in touch with me. I appreciate it.

Take care,
Erik

[dknelson]

Erik my shot of W&S 911 with the flag was a conventional ASA 64 slide taken on a cloudy day with a camera which I later learned was in fact damaged. On top of that our scanner has been taken "off line" for the time being.
I believe my railfan buddy Deputy Keith Schmidt however has already contacted you about his digital equivalent and hopefully he has gotten it to you already. I believe Keith's photos from that day already appeared on his website "The Powerton Report" named for the spot in southern Milwaukee where we railfan regularly. He changes the photos regularly. I believe by the way that the locomotive was damaged and is no longer on the active roster of the W&S.
Dave Nelson

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson

not too many days after 9-11 I was railfanning the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad in Horicon WI. the local freight came into town powered by Engine No. 911 (a GP18 I think) and the crew had attached a huge American flag to the front railing. Looked very impressive even when they backed up to do their switching.
Maybe the railroads should search out their own engines numbered 911 and do something similar
Dave Nelson

Dave, sounds like a good Photo of the Day for the Trains.com home page for September 11. Do you have a digital version you can e-mail me? ([e-mail]).

Erik

[Anonymous]

I remember that sad day[:(]
I was a freshman in high school and i first heard about what happened from the bus driver, but but i only heard that the airport was shut down. And then our teacher told. We watched CNN covrage all day in school. Even though it was happening thousand of miles away I was very scared. And then someone spread the news that another hijacked 747 Korean jet was headed for Anchorage. The downtown was completely evacuated, lines on the highway from suburbs were tens of miles long. We also have two military bases here so we had F-15s flying over the city. Turned out that the pilot of the 747 did not mean that the plane was hijacked, it was a question to confirm four hijackings on the East Coast.
Last year we had a citywide minute of silence, buses and cars pulled over at the time the first plane hit the tower.
God Bless all the victims.

[David3]

[:(] I also remember 9/11 very well, I got up at about 6:00 for school(starts at 7:30). I went to school then right after passing period we got into the room sat down, then a teacher came into the room. We were expecting a new student that week, so we thought he arrived and that teacher told ours that he's here. But then my teacher had a sad look on her face, and she said...... A plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center. [:(][:(][:(]
Then she turned on the news and all of a sudden another plane came out of no where and hit the other tower. We basicly watched the news all day in school because of that, and the school was also locked down. When I got home I didn't even feel like watching the Rochelle webcam. I will never forget that day for the rest of my life. [:(][:(][:(] David

[Anonymous]

I remember 9/11/01 very well. I got up at 6:45 like I usually do and sometime around 7:00 I turned on the TV and it was showing the smoke coming from the one tower. At that time the announcers didn't know that it was caused by a plane hitting it. They suspected that it could have been a bomb like the first attack in 1994. Then the second plane came. I remember thinking for a brief half a second that the towers must be pretty tall for a plane to be flying by. Then it hit. I almost didn't know what to think. I watched the rest of that morning until I left for school and saw the towers collapse. I remember going to school that day and everyone talking about it. There were some people who hadn't even heard about it. We had two minutes of silence that morning and there was a TV set up in the library for students to watch while out of class.

For those of you who don't know, besides being a railfan, I'm also a toy train collector. Earlier that week I had bid on a tinplate O gauge Marx SP diesel set on ebay. The auction ended on the morning of September 11th and I won the item. I had no idea when I bid on it that that train would end up being something more than just another train in my collection.

9/11 will become for my generation the equivelant of the "Where were you when Kennedy was assinated?" for the baby boomers. The world's certainly changed a lot since then. 50 years from now people will still be talking about what they were doing on that day.

I'll certainly think back when Thursday comes and I'll be sure to give that Marx train a run. May God bless all the families and friends of the victims!

[JoeKoh]

My sister was very close to being on a flight but it was scheduled for 9/12. We had a moment of silence at work last year.everything stopped.You could hear a pin drop.I will keep taking train pictures and if I see anyone or anything out of place my phone be speed-dialing 911.
stay safe
joe

[Trainnut484]

The second anniversary is coming up next week (Thursday), and a lot has changed since the first anniversary...ie the Iraqi war. I think the economy will improve by this time next year.

What will you be doing on the second anniversary?

Take care[:)]

Russell

[Anonymous]

Here's what I did yeaterday:

I woke up just in time for the Moment of Silence. It was the first time I have cried before 9 AM in my life.

I went to class. Not one mention of 9/11 in the entire hour.

I sat in front of a TV in the student lounge as they finished up the reading of the names at the WTC. After they were done, I listened to some Mellencamp.

At noon, I participated in a mass balloon release. After that, I moved on.

I believe in marking a moment, acknowledging it, and going on with my life. Otherwise, I wouldn't get anything done.

Stevo

PS: Think about this, what did you do September 10, 2001?

[Anonymous]

I read every single one of the replies to the original message. It seems that everyone missed the point. Today, Sep 11, 2002, I went to work early, then attended a memorial. I did not lose any family or friends to the attacks, but since I serve in the Navy, I promptly reported to my ship with my wife in tears the whole way to the base. I went to sea immediately, without knowing very many details, especially how my family was doing. 3 months later, I returned home, very relieved to find out that everything was OK. So, in case anybody asks, I spent 9/11/02 appreciating the love and support of my family and appreciating the support of the U.S. military by the general public. I truly think that everybody needs to realize that Bin Laden, or whoever else was behind the attacks was not aiming to destroy our economy, or our 401k plans, or even the top brass at the Pentagon. They were trying to hurt us quickly and efficiently. We should all spend this day being thankful that we live to fight another day.

[Anonymous]

Just for starters, there should have been more security prior to 9-11. I know that these terrorists did not have anything as obvious as a bomb, or automatic weapons, but still, for three planes to be hi-jacked all at the same time?
Someone should have picked up on something. My God.
Todd C.

[Anonymous]

I remember way, way back the UP would place small American flags on all trains, were the marker or class flags would go, on holiday's or special days.

[Anonymous]

But the attack did. We lost over a trillion dollars in capital on Wall Street that day. We have lost much more since. Ask anyone with a 401k retirement fund....

The thing to do is hold our heads high, go about our business as usual, kill those who knocked those towers down, and eventually our retirement funds will reappear, the market will go up.

[csxns]

How is it the airlines fault.Dont understand.

[BNSFNUT]

The attack was ment to disrupt the ecomony of the USA and the world. If industies shut down and lost some income the attackers win agin.

[Anonymous]

I would bet my retirement check(RRB) that your are presently a working engineer working on a Class 1 earning at least $75,000.00 a year and working 4 hours a day 3 days a week. And to top it off your are about 40-50 years old.

[Anonymous]

Our national transportation policy (in all ways denying resources to passenger rail) is beyond belief. Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating WWIII, nor do I hope that it ever happens, but I am not sorry that that policy will be among the casualties.

[dknelson]

not too many days after 9-11 I was railfanning the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad in Horicon WI. the local freight came into town powered by Engine No. 911 (a GP18 I think) and the crew had attached a huge American flag to the front railing. Looked very impressive even when they backed up to do their switching.
Maybe the railroads should search out their own engines numbered 911 and do something similar
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

If anybody should halt operations in observance of the 9-11 tragedy, it should be the airlines.
Don't even get me started on how the govt. bailed out these multi-billion dollar companies when it was THEIR fault! Like I said, don't get me started........
Todd C.

[Jackflash]

Where I work it'll be just another day,
the RR's are to greedy to not run a train
oh, they might tell us to blow the horn at
10 AM or something like that, but I guarantee
we'll work !!!!

[Anonymous]

What is most people doing for the 911 anniversary?
Also will the RR still run trains like on a nomel day?