Train scare in San Diego

[Anonymous]

Hey,
Did you hear about the train scare in San Diego? I think there was a BNSF freight that was idling and looked suspicious. Officials found a note saying that the crew had reached the "dead on the law" (max hours: 12) and took a taxi.

[wctransfer]

Yep, over at Train-sim.com. Heres the link

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050708-1224-bn08train2.html

Alec

[Anonymous]

Ya,I already heard them talk about it on Let's talk Trains this morning. Freaky.
Allan.

[Hugh Jampton]

Yes,, I read about it on trains.com,, here's the likk:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40632

Alouicious

[Anonymous]

the media blew it way out of preportion, now that the whole country knows that leaving a locomotive on is a common practice, there will be idiots trying to hop on one and take off, once again a great job done by the media. WAY TO GO YOU MORONS!!

[wctransfer]

EXACTLY! And now, they say that buying Train SImulator shows you how to run a train [banghead]. If something happens, it should be there fault !

CNN
[#wstupid]

Alec

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be surprised if the governemnt will blow this out of proportion, just to appease the public. I'm not saying it will happen, I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised.

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wctransfer

EXACTLY! And now, they say that buying Train SImulator shows you how to run a train [banghead]. If something happens, it should be there fault !

CNN
[#wstupid]

Alec

MSTS might give you an "idea" on how to run an engin..but it will NEVER teach you how to run a train!!!
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

As I understand it, you couldn't drive a properly parked (as in, the departing crew had followed all the official proceedures) loco using your Train Sim skills - there's more to it than the controls in the game. MS deliberately left out some aspects of the electrical system and some proceedures (such as location of removable controls) in order to prevent their being accused of teaching people how to steal or hijack the real thing (after their experiences with Flight Sim when post 9/11 some dubious sections of the media claimed that the game was being used as a terrorist training aid). I know that on at least one MSTS loco I've "driven" there's a lot more to it than the game shows - was able to find out the rest with a little research but there's no way a casual gamer could hop onto a parked train and drive it away.

[spbed]

This was posted yesterday on this forum. Why the duplicate? [:o)][:p][:)]

Originally posted by zachar

Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR  Austin TX Sub

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