Posted on 06/13/2014 8:35:48 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
Is that a REAL picture??? OMG!
http://www.keithdannemiller.com/users/KeithDannemiller7098/images/KeithDannemiller70982300865.jpg
its as “real” as it gets!
hard to imagine, as it looks like somewhere in Pakistan or India
Amazing!
Other photos of the La Bestia
Where are the people actually crossing the border? Is it in and around the normal border crossings?
Or do they move up/down the border to more desolate/isolated spots to cross. It would seem like with
some estimated 60,000 coming in this year
that crossing areas could be determined and somthing done to block them. They would move to others
but at least some disruption to the flow might help slow this take over down.
Mexico see’s thousands of illegals on the La Bestia, or The Beast....Vendors setup shop selling goods .Mexico see’s nothing and knows nothing..A Marine makes wrong turn ,he tells them he has some guns he legally can own in U.S. and Mexico comes down hard on him.. WE all know he was abused by Mexico’s so called law enforcement... Treated like a P.O.W.. but let a train come through mexico with thousands of illegal aliens and it looks like a carnival side show...Once here they will not deport illegals for showing up without documents. Illegals can actual find document friendly city and get documents,job’s, bank accounts,cars,etc,etc...amnesty already started..Mentally Obama has passed it..
It really was amazing... this was in 1992 or 1993... and the railroads in Guatemala were tanamount to a time machine... They were running steam locomotives on special trains, and at one point the old head hogger sent the head end brakeman to the bar at a station stop to bring back a bottle of rum and cold case of beer for the engine crew... This engineer was 80 years old and like it was nothing as we are going down the track at 30 MPH (that was maybe good for 10...) he looks over to the brakeman and nods next thing there is a cold Gallo beer in the old head’s hand and with one deft motiin (like he’s done this every day of his 65 year long railroad career... because he has) he places the cap of the bottle on the handlatch of the Johnson bar (reverser lever), pops the cap, and then lifts the bottle to his lips, tipping his head back downing the whole bottle.
I can only describe it... being there was the only way to experience it.
They were still running on hand copied train orders copied at the stations over telegraph... as in you walk into the station and heard the clack clack of the sounder hammering away a Form 19 and there is the telegrapher in his visored brim... it was seriously a step back to American railroads circa 1900...
The only difference was all the men were 5’ tall latinos with distinctly Mayan features.
Good people. They turned over the locomotive to me and my friend John torun at one point... I fired and John ran... and the old hogger just smiled with a twinkle in his eye.
And it’s all gone now.
Absolutely real, many trains a day. It has been going on for years but until recently there was a few on each train, now they are packed.
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