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Officials: 4 Dead After Metro-North Train Derails In The Bronx
CBS NY ^ | 12.01.13

Posted on 12/01/2013 7:32:44 AM PST by Perdogg

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To: Gene Eric

Heard that earlier. seems that pulling would be the normal way or so conventional thinking would have one believe?

Grew up about a mile from there. Use to jump off the RR tressle into the headwaters of eastchester bay. That was over 50 years ago. Use to flaten out coins there too.


41 posted on 12/01/2013 11:49:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

See Post #39.


42 posted on 12/01/2013 11:51:22 AM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Sounds like Metro North uses their maintenance money the same way LIRR does. Paying fake disability claims.


43 posted on 12/01/2013 11:52:00 AM PST by ToastedHead
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

There are some significant curves around the Spuyten Duyvil station. Heading northbound from the station the line curves to the right while following the Harlem river, and then marks a sharp (by railroad terms) turn to the right where the line follows the Hudson River up to Albany. Speed through that set of curves would not vary dependent on what passenger equipment, unless it is bilevel (due to center of gravity), which I really doubt can get through the Park Avenue tunnels to Grand Central Terminal.
My guess is that the train went into the curve too fast.


44 posted on 12/01/2013 11:59:52 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Publius

I know that there is a certain practice of having a loco at either end....I do have a large post war lionel collection. that makes me an expert in......nothing.


45 posted on 12/01/2013 12:15:45 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I can imagine what I-95 will look like tomorrow.....as it takes up the ‘slack’ (I assume they wont have the RR ready for traffic by tomorrow...I could be wrong.)

glad I live on LI.


46 posted on 12/01/2013 12:20:08 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

The affected line goes along the Hudson, so it’s not I-95 that will be affected most, but I-87.


47 posted on 12/01/2013 12:25:00 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Perdogg

What I want to know is, how did it derail. I’ve been on the Metro North plenty of times, and their conductors are far better than those on the NYC public transit system, because they provide a smoother ride.


48 posted on 12/01/2013 12:28:05 PM PST by wastedyears (The Ender's Game movie was a stupendous, colossal, galactic failure to me.)
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To: wastedyears

As of now, it would appear that the operator entered the curve before the Spuyten Duyvil station at an excessive rate of speed.


49 posted on 12/01/2013 12:30:05 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

ok never mind....I grew up by the one that goes up into CT near the coast.


50 posted on 12/01/2013 12:30:57 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Publius

Is that the one Bob Petrie took to the office from New Rochelle?


51 posted on 12/01/2013 12:48:26 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Rob Petrie took the New Haven Railroad line, which was rolled into Metro North in 1970 along with the old New York Central lines. Everything out of Grand Central Terminal ended up rolled into the Metro North division of NYMTA thanks to the work of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

In the pilot for the "Dick van Dyke Show", Carl Reiner played the TV writer, and the title was "Man of the House". CBS liked the idea, but not Reiner as an actor, and producer Sheldon Leonard was looking for something for Dick van Dyke. Up until that point Dick had been doing guest stints, such as one on the old "Phil Silvers Show". This ended up being his shot at greatness.

52 posted on 12/01/2013 12:56:51 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: ToastedHead

I just hope they get all the train crew drug tested immediately and in person....


53 posted on 12/01/2013 12:57:25 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Perdogg

Sounds like Atlas is shrugging.


54 posted on 12/01/2013 2:48:37 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: ToastedHead

Or terrorists


55 posted on 12/01/2013 6:45:45 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Rome2000

We’d only hear about that if it was a “Tea Party Terrorist”.


56 posted on 12/01/2013 7:20:04 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“The conductor was given a 25-franc fine and the engine driver a 50-franc fine.”
What year did this happen? That was probably quite a bit of change back then! I’m surprised they survived-the coal car looks like it obliterated where the crew would be! (Unless they jumped off inside the station)


57 posted on 12/01/2013 7:21:52 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: jimbo123

That’s really uncalled for. We don’t know that. Don’t we always deride the RATS that jump to conclusions without having all the facts?


58 posted on 12/01/2013 9:37:43 PM PST by clarkster
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To: Perdogg

Any evidence of Amish involvement?


59 posted on 12/01/2013 10:08:51 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Frank_2001

22 Octobre 1895

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment


60 posted on 12/02/2013 3:29:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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