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270 stranded on powerless train in Labrador for 8 hours in freezing cold
CBC News ^
| Dec. 14, 2013
| CBC News
Posted on 12/14/2013 8:41:05 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: dsrtsage
That’s right.
Before we know it, these idiots will want people to idle their cars for an hour a day to raise the temperatures when it’s really cold.
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posted on
12/14/2013 9:46:36 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: dsrtsage
Aye, without global warming instead of the -30C temperatures, the mercury would have dropped to the much more life threatening -30.7CWe were travelling through Canada just after they went metric and heard a radio guy report that one woman called in, wanting to know that with the conversion, would the temperature there now be warmer.
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posted on
12/14/2013 10:01:02 AM PST
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: smokingfrog
You would think they would keep a few portable propane heaters onboard for just such emergencies.So then you'd have a train car full of dead people from the propane exhaust.
Eberspaecher hydronic heaters are the way to go. The should heat a car or two of every train with them.
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posted on
12/14/2013 10:04:40 AM PST
by
Mogger
(Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
To: Paladin2
Good map. I was trying to figure out how a Quebec to Quebec train run got stranded in Labrador. Checked my camping maps and Aha! Forgot about the nub.
Googled Schefferville, Quebec and discovered total population is 231. Now with 270 stranded on the train, the real question is has the whole town of Schefferville skipped town?
And then the train stops...Labrador Iron mines nearby... sounds like a job for Scully and Mulder.
;>)
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posted on
12/14/2013 10:11:24 AM PST
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: Paladin2
"The agreement between IOC and the three First Nations who own Tshiuetin Rail Transportation Inc. has resulted in the first aboriginal ownership of a railway line in Canada.
This railway (along with the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway line, Arnaud Railway, and Wabush Lake Railway) form an isolated railroad network, as it does not interchange with any other rail lines on the North American network."
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posted on
12/14/2013 10:22:18 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: rickmichaels
Bless the Canadians communities for their big help here.
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posted on
12/14/2013 10:45:42 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: Fiji Hill
(pssst...I think that was the joke)
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