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<p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p>[quote user="Sam1"]</p> <p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p>Others have spoken of the poor San Antonia  (SAS )  station.  The following needs no comment.</p> <p><a href="http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/family-holds-funeral-man-killed-at-amtrak-station-5096.shtml#.U8InLu8g-hx">http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/family-holds-funeral-man-killed-at-amtrak-station-5096.shtml#.U8InLu8g-hx</a> [/quote]</p> <p>This is unfortunate.  The only bench that is outside of the station is under a flood light.  Moreover, there is a crew there from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to switch the through cars to and from the Texas Eagle.  Since he was waiting for a train to Louisiana, it had to be on a night when the Sunset Limited was carrying through cars for the Eagle.</p> <div style="clear:both;"><strong>[/quote]</strong></div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><strong>Since this happened on a day that the Eagle was cancelled to FTW would that have changed anything ?</strong></div> <div style="clear:both;"><strong>t</strong></div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote] The news story said that he was buried on Friday, July 11th, and he had been killed last Thursday, which would have been July 3rd, since presumably he was not killed on July 10th.</p> <p>Number 21 ran south on Wednesday, July 2nd. It had the through cars that were transferred to Number 1 on Thursday morning, July 3rd, having arrived in San Antonio Wednesday evening. The yard crew would have come on duty at 11:00 p.m. on July 2nd and worked the car transfers during the morning of July 3rd.</p> <p>Whether the yard crew was near the station is unknown. I am surprised, if the victim was sitting on the bench outside the station, which is the only one that I am aware of, that other people would not have heard and possibly seen his attacker, although if the attack occurred on July 3rd, as reported by the news, it would have been in the wee hours of the morning. Or that the station personnel would not have heard any outcry. However, he could have been somewhere else. Newspaper and TV reporters don't always have complete information.</p>
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