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Chicago Train Derailment (Update: 1 death reported)
Fox News story ^

Posted on 09/17/2005 8:15:39 AM PDT by George from New England

Just heard the headline at 11 AM Eastern Time

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: accident; bushsfault; chicago; rail; train
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To: cgk

I wish I could identify the area. The press is saying 47th and the Dan Ryan Expy., but I don't remember if my train would travel that part of track. To further confuse things, there are two different Metra lines that run to Joliet.


21 posted on 09/17/2005 9:32:10 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: putupjob

They will probably criticize him for not having inspected the rails.


22 posted on 09/17/2005 9:32:22 AM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: George from New England

bush's war on trains begins...


23 posted on 09/17/2005 9:34:47 AM PDT by isom35
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To: putupjob

Where's FEMA? Where's the ice, water and food, people are starving..


24 posted on 09/17/2005 9:34:59 AM PDT by navysealdad
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To: isom35

It is the Rock Island line that runs through the south side of Chicago, Blue Island, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Tinley Park, Mokena, then on to Joliet.


25 posted on 09/17/2005 9:39:38 AM PDT by tgbluesky
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To: Rennes Templar

Of course only blacks were in the two front cars, right? /s


26 posted on 09/17/2005 9:51:36 AM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: tgbluesky

I hear that the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road.


27 posted on 09/17/2005 10:07:05 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: cgk
That looks like a commuter train. I take one just like it in Maryland (MARC). Very scary!

Prayers for those people...

28 posted on 09/17/2005 10:13:33 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: George from New England

Upon hearing of the Chicago train derailment, New Orleans mayor Nagin was seen running in circles, shouting "Mayors and children first!" Louisiana governor Blanco said she would get back to us on a statement sometime tomorrow, or the day after that...


29 posted on 09/17/2005 10:16:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: COBOL2Java

and Landrieu would slap Bush!


30 posted on 09/17/2005 10:20:59 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Loon Landrieu & Co good name for a flood control business...Motto:"We got dikes!")
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To: George from New England

It's been expressed in many different forms, but the media bias makes it all seem plausible: The train derailment is Bush's fault, because he should have never been President but instead a train engineer so that he could have prevented this accident. Now when anything goes wrong, just blame Bush-it removes all personal responsibility and makes you feel much better-if you're a liberal.


31 posted on 09/17/2005 10:34:05 AM PDT by Blowtorch
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Would that be the route with the train that hit Harrison Ford's prison bus , in the Fugitive?


32 posted on 09/17/2005 11:20:54 AM PDT by syriacus (To stay in power, Democrats need a MSM willing to lie about people + events + the constitution)
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To: Blowtorch

If Ronald Reagan hadn't laid off the air traffic controllers, none of this would have happened.


33 posted on 09/17/2005 11:22:14 AM PDT by syriacus (To stay in power, Democrats need a MSM willing to lie about people + events + the constitution)
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To: putupjob

"Has anyone criticized Bush yet for not being on site to help coordinate the rescue effort with the local officials?"

Hey...I live in Chicago. Any word on how I can get a $2000 debit card and a week or two on a cruise ship in Lake Michigan?


34 posted on 09/17/2005 11:24:48 AM PDT by toddlintown (Your papers please.)
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To: George from New England

The hard part will be stopping the locals from climbing up on the tracks and pretending that they have whiplash.

Typically, a CTA bus with only 3 on board and involved in an accident will usually have 20 or so "victims" being carried off the bus before it's all over.


35 posted on 09/17/2005 11:27:49 AM PDT by toddlintown (Your papers please.)
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To: George from New England

I hope there were no sailors on that metra train. Great Lakes Naval Training Facility is up there. My son just graduated from his Navy A-school at the end of July. He'd take the Metra into Chicago almost every weekend with his buddies. A lot of sailors took the metra into Chicago.

Praying for the safety of all on that train.

sneakers


36 posted on 09/17/2005 1:12:55 PM PDT by sneakers
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To: sneakers

Great Lakes is north of the city on a different line. This is a south side line.


37 posted on 09/17/2005 2:09:21 PM PDT by Starrgaizr
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To: Starrgaizr

Thanks. I don't know the lay of the land there very well!

sneakers


38 posted on 09/17/2005 7:34:21 PM PDT by sneakers
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To: SE Mom
It took place around 8:36 a.m. near 47th St. and Wentworth Avenues, police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said.

Any reports of looting?

39 posted on 09/17/2005 10:35:27 PM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Watching cradle-to-grave liberalism shred itself to pieces in the calming breeze of reality)
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To: sneakers

Great Lakes Naval is way north - in the far northern suburbs - compared to where this was (south side of Chicago).


40 posted on 09/17/2005 11:37:18 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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