Today's TRAINS Newswire of this date 9/29/2010 has an Item referencing an AMTRAK Crossing accident in Crowley, La on 09/10/2010 involving a Tractor-trailer which was struck and cut in two.
The article mentions it was the CITY of NEW ORLEANS .
I read it a couple of times, and realized that it had to have really been off regular route to have been the culprit. It was about 115 miles from the closest point to Crowley,La. Most likely somebody had the story screwed up.
Link here to a more believable verson of what happened:
http://www.wdsu.com/r/25210038/detail.html
It was the SUNSET LIMITED that hit the semi,and the driver was booked for being under the influence of a controled substance, and failure to yeild at the railroad crossing.
FTL: "...Fourteen people on the train suffered minor injuries, but Broussard was not hurt. He told investigators on the scene that he stopped at the tracks and looked both ways but did not see the train coming..."
I think that fixes it!
I wonder: who wrote the original account that appeared on Newswire? If Rosemary Entringer (bless her soul) were still around, someone's ears would be blisered.
Johnny
Deggesty I wonder: who wrote the original account that appeared on Newswire? If Rosemary Entringer (bless her soul) were still around, someone's ears would be blisered.
Really fine answer, Johnny!
samfp1943 Deggesty: I wonder: who wrote the original account that appeared on Newswire? If Rosemary Entringer (bless her soul) were still around, someone's ears would be blisered. Really fine answer, Johnny!
Deggesty: I wonder: who wrote the original account that appeared on Newswire? If Rosemary Entringer (bless her soul) were still around, someone's ears would be blisered.
Thanks, Sam. Miss Entringer was indeed an asset to Trains. Those of us who remember her contributions (more often than not, they were unseen, as she was an excellent copy editor) appreciated her work. How many have read her account of going home from school, taking a RI suburban train from LaSalle Street after taking the L to near the station? Or her account of riding a Reading engine?
She was also a gracious hostess, taking time to talk with a reader who dropped in, without appointment, one day in September of 1968. She allowed me to read the proofs of Dave Morgan’s book on the 4501 (I later wished that I had caught his mis-description of the accommodations of the sleeper "Lake Pearl," since I had already ridden in that car), and introduced me to Frank Shaffer, with whom I had a pleasant conversation.
She is sorely missed.
And, had I carefully re-read my previous post, I would have written that the ears would have been blistered, not blisered.
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