Pipe bomb explodes at Hinsdale Metra station

Daily Herald ^ | 09/01/06 | Harry Hitzeman

[wideawake]

I can't even figure out with what suburban community you are confusing Hinsdale.

I'm confusing it with Hinsdale, IL.

By the Hinsdale Golf Club, where I would sometimes go when I was at the U of C.

Is there another Hinsdale in Chicagoland?

[wideawake]

I forgot that the Metra to 59th St. doesn't go up to Union Station.

[wideawake]

Oh, I know the Nation of Islam did not frequent Hinsdale. Just pointing out that if a Nation of Islam member wanted to make a statement against the "white devils", Hinsdale would be a likely target.

A well-off white community that isn't actually a gated community.

[Sensei Ern]

Nah, Baptists limit their pipe bombs to hubcaps and mailboxes...
oh, and the Village People, 'cuz they blowed up real good.

[prairiebreeze]

Interesting. Hinsdale is one of the wealthier west suburbs.

[1rudeboy]

Great. Maybe you are not familiar with NOI headquarters at 73rd and South Stony Island? Please tell me specifically the route you would take to get between the two points in 15 minutes. I'm curious because I'd like to try it . . . in other words, I'm not afraid to try it at 2AM on a weeknight with absolutely no regard for the law.

[wideawake]

Maybe you are not familiar with NOI headquarters at 73rd and South Stony Island?

I used to live at 59th and Harper.

You can't get between those two points in 15 minutes, I agree.

But you can go down 79th to Cork and get on the tollway to Hinsdale. That's like 10 miles on 79th St. and like 5ish miles on the tollway.

That 10mi on 79th is bad unless you hit greens all the way.

[1rudeboy]

Fair enough. Are you aware that the Hinsdale Metra Station isn't near the golf course you reference? That would add some more time. I didn't mean to get on you, but I was curious to see how you could do it. (Nickname: "navigator")

[wideawake]

Are you aware that the Hinsdale Metra Station isn't near the golf course you reference?

It can't be much more than a mile or two miles down Chicago Ave, right? I've driven past it.

And the station is closer to the tollway than the golf club, right?

[1rudeboy]

I'm only marginally familiar with the Hinsdale Metra stop (more familiar with others on the line), but I've walked the (immediate) area . . . my recollection is that it is not located in such a manner that one could approach it at a high rate of speed. :)

[jonascord]

HTHS Class of '69. I am pretty sure I'm the only one in my class to enlist. After the Marine Corps, never went back...

[Jack Wilson]

By the Hinsdale Golf Club...

This is Hinsdale trivia, but Hinsdale Golf Club is actually in the next town West, Clarendon Hills.

[jonascord]

There are, or were, three stops in Hinsdale on the Burlington Line. One under the Highway 83 bridge near the Lions club pool, the next is downtown that backed on Burlington St, and one east near the Hinsdale San, near County Line Road. The next stop was Western Springs, and you had already crossed over I-294.

The Hinsdale CC is up on 47th, west of 83 (now Kingery Rd), actually in Clarendon Hills, across from Prospect Park, and stretched up to Ogden Ave. 2 miles from downtown Hinsdale, minimum.

[syriacus]

I don't find it very likely that transcontinental commerce would be affected by some guy tossing a bomb into a wastebasket, and then boarding a Metra train.

Thank you for the reassurance.

[syriacus]

I don't find it very likely that transcontinental commerce would be affected by some guy tossing a bomb into a wastebasket, and then boarding a Metra train.

What if he tossed it at a switch?

Any way Argonne and Batavia are bigger targets.

[syriacus]

Pipe bomb found near train track, Sacbee News 18/02/2000

Two Amtrak trains were cancelled and a third was delayed for two hours while explosives technicians removed and then detonated a small pipe bomb from an area near a railroad track causeway Thursday in Yolo County.

The 6-inch piece of plastic pipe, about 1 to 2 inches in diameter, was found about eight feet from the track in the Yolo bypass area between West Sacramento and Davis at around 10:45 a.m. by a Union Pacific Railroad track worker.

[syriacus]

Pipe bomb in Antioch detonated by officials

Homemade device is found near train tracks, forcing them to be closed for several hours

Bomb squad technicians detonated a pipe bomb found near train tracks in Antioch on Monday morning.

City maintenance crews cleaning up the area reported finding the device at 8:16 a.m. near the Burlington North Santa Fe Railroad trestle on Fulton Shipyard Road, Sgt. Larry Hopwood said. etc.

[syriacus]

Very quick search shows other pipe bomb incidents along RR tracks. See posts 76 and 77 on this thread.

[syriacus]

Pipe bomb found near rail overpass in Frankford [PA]