Train hits cattle

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greyhounds

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Posted by greyhounds on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:14 PM

Dog Food!

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espeefoamer

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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:01 PM

I'll take a rack of baby back ribs smotherd in BBQ sauce [dinner] [:)][:D]!

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Big_Boy_4005

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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:48 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Hush, you all. And don't any of you DARE bring roadkill to the Diner!!!!

But CW, this isn't "roadkill", it's "rail roadkill". Much tastier once you pick the ballast out.[swg]

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Randy Stahl

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 6:24 PM

Cattle and drunks seem to like falling asleep on the tracks it seems.....I wonder what the atraction is, or how they relate?
Randy

cherokee woman

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 6:19 PM

Hush, you all. And don't any of you DARE bring roadkill to the Diner!!!!

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adrianspeeder

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Posted by adrianspeeder on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:48 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm

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Big_Boy_4005

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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:17 PM

UP has to quit letting the grass grow on the tracks.[swg]

BBQ sounds nice., but if you can find a nice prime rib in that mess, it would be even better.[dinner]

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chad thomas

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Posted by chad thomas on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:27 PM

I thought we'd just set up the bbq on the front porch of the lead unit.[:D]

A little off topic...Up in Siskyou co. they have a program where road kill that is salvageable is distributed to needy familys.

locomutt

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:14 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

[:O][dinner]

Just don't bring them to the 'Diner',CW would have a FIT !!!!![:-,][:-,]

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chad thomas

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Posted by chad thomas on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:10 PM

[:O][dinner]

railroad65

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Posted by railroad65 on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:05 PM

And even though it’s not in his job description, he and his crew are responsible for cleaning it all up.

Bring the BBQ sauce, it's BBQ time.

ValleyX

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Posted by ValleyX on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:26 PM

You want to see a picture of that? Oh, no you don't, use your imagination, that's plenty good enough.

I once took out seven cows at once that had wandered away and out onto a bridge, the other four got off somehow. Thought that was bad enough, can't imagine 90. 90?!?!? Whoa.

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:15 PM

Why don't we ever get a picture of that??

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TheS.P.caboose

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Posted by TheS.P.caboose on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:14 PM

Back in 1984, while riding the Coast Starlight we came to a stop because of cattle on the track near San Luis Obispo.

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upchuck

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Posted by upchuck on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:08 PM

More DEAD COWS ON TRACKS...

chad thomas

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Train hits cattle

Posted by chad thomas on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 2:45 PM

From Altamont Press:

Train hits cattle

There’s really no other way to describe it.

“It’s just a mess. They must’ve been bunched up there and they hit them all in one spot,” David Zeller, who works for the Union Pacific Railroad, said.

During a thunderstorm Monday night, about ninety head of cattle from the Robert Walker ranch spooked and broke through a fence.

Thirty one head ended up on a stretch of train tracks west of Kismet, Kansas.

The train’s driver didn’t have enough time to stop and smashed into all of them.

“We had to get a lot of it out of the center of the track. It's just scattered everywhere down there. It's a pretty big mess,” Zeller said.

And even though it’s not in his job description, he and his crew are responsible for cleaning it all up.

In addition to the 31 head of cattle found dead on the tracks, another sixty or so had to be rounded up in places all over the county.

Cowboys caught two a mile east of Kismet. By noon Monday, thirty were still missing.

Zeller said he’s never seen anything like it. - Audrey Martin, KBSD-TV6, Dodge City, KS, courtesy Larry W. Grant