2007 GREAT OHIO TRAIN ROBBERY

[Buckeye Riveter]

Read about the 2007 GREAT OHIO TRAIN ROBBERY at:

 http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=240362

and at

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-03.html

Thank God, nobody was injuried.  Haven't heard yet about propety damage.

[locomutt]

Very Interesting to say the least!! Am very glad no one was injured.

Buckeye,Thanks for putting that one over here. 

[GP-9_Man11786]

Here's MSNBC's version of the story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16666352/. Sounds like a case of Grand Theft Loco.

[Murphy Siding]

      First, let me say that what these boys did was wrong.  It was illegal.  I'm glad no one got hurt. But, as I read the news story, I found myself wondering if they did the traditional long-long-short-long horn at every grade crossing?

[Buckeye Riveter]

More details:

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-05.html

Apparently, the older boy is a member of a railroading family.

[CSXrules4eva]

Humm this is interesting. This sound like every Teenage Railfan's dream. Glad no one got hurt. It would be very interesting, if the two boys came up with an alibi that stated that, the reason why they took the locomotive was because, they thought they were playing a Train Simulator Game.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

I just finished reading this same story from another source. These kids were blowing the engine's air horns as they went past the police station.........which was not the brightest thing for them to do, because this tourist railroad only runs on weekends. And the police department had their windows open!

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[JoeKoh]

glad nothing and no one was hurt.hope they get tried as adults.

stay safe

Joe

[Train Guy 3]

I got a feeling this is gonna make John Boy and Billy's Dumb Crook News for the week.

[SchemerBob]

This is amazing. These two break into a shed and take a locomotive, after doing some switching!! I don't really see how these two could actually get the train rolling. Isn't there a way you can lock the controls with a key? Unless, of course, they left the key in it .

In a way, it does seem kind of fun to just hop in a locomotive and take off with it, but I wouldn't really feel comfortable doing it unless I actually owned the locomotive & track, etc. If you drive the train during a regularly scheduled run with a qualified engineer at your side telling you what to do, that's another thing. But just zooming off in the middle of the night...

[CShaveRR]

When I was 16, I not only knew how to crank up and move a dead locomotive, I'd done it--but never without permission.  Anyone who thinks operation of a locomotive is a game doesn't belong in the seat.  "Hummm"  I suppose they came to this trackside store in Logan with horn blaring, and expected the storekeeper to let the big guys buy some beer or something.  I'm just glad they didn't get beyond Logan.

[tree68]

In a way, it does seem kind of fun to just hop in a locomotive and take off with it, but I wouldn't really feel comfortable doing it unless I actually owned the locomotive & track, etc. If you drive the train during a regularly scheduled run with a qualified engineer at your side telling you what to do, that's another thing. But just zooming off in the middle of the night...

Almost like a simulator, but you can't just point at a switch with your mouse and change the points.....

One wonders how far they might have gotten if they had kept relatively quiet....

[SchemerBob]

When I was 16, I not only knew how to crank up and move a dead locomotive, I'd done it--but never without permission.  Anyone who thinks operation of a locomotive is a game doesn't belong in the seat.  "Hummm"  I suppose they came to this trackside store in Logan with horn blaring, and expected the storekeeper to let the big guys buy some beer or something.  I'm just glad they didn't get beyond Logan.

It said in one article that there was a derailer at the end of the line, where they were headed. Thank goodness they didn't go that far, or worse things could have happened.

[C&OFan1984]

When I first heard of this on Wednesday morning I could not believe my ears and eyes. I am glad that no one got hurt and no damage to the property as far as I know. To think that these two teenage idiots drove the thing for an amazing twelve miles. I'm just surprised that either one of them knew how to start the locomotive.