Posted on 09/23/2019 10:41:46 AM PDT by Gamecock
A 'train surfer' was burned alive after he was 'electrocuted' travelling on the roof of a 155 mile per hour high speed electric train in Russia.
The Sapsan service was halted after passengers reported the smell of 'burning meat' in a carriage as the train was en route from St Petersburg to Moscow.
The driver stopped the train and a fire was spotted on the roof of the third carriage as passengers ran out onto a platform in panic, according to reports.
The cause of the blaze was found to be coming from 19-year-old Dmitry Mikhailenko whose body was trapped on the 4,000-volt pantograph - the apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train which collects power through contact with an overhead line.
Mr Mikhailenko had already passed away when rescuers reached him in Tver region on 4 August, say reports citing law enforcement.
Full details have only emerged now, including fears for a young woman who may have been with him.
Other 'train surfers' have expressed concern for Anya Morozova, 20, who has been missing since the incident and whose phone is off.
The Russian Investigative Committee transport section has launched a full investigation into the incident.
Russian Railways official Petr Potapov, said he caused a 'short circuit' on the roof of the train. The roof as well as his body was burning.
This isn't the only tragedy to befall so-called 'train surfers' - last year a man was decapitated in North Carolina while riding atop a passenger train.
The Metro reported that 24-year-old Varcy Locklear was killed when the vehicle went under a bridge. His body was discovered on the same day of the incident - 30 October - in Enfield about 128 miles away from the passing.
The train itself was Charlotte to New York Amtrak route. Spokesperson for the train company, Kimberly Woods, said: "Service on an Amtrak train was temporarily suspended at the request of local law enforcement.
I dont know how many are familiar with the Unit Trains made up of hundreds of open coal cars that run big coal runs into power plants.
Well rather than normal coupling these cars have rotary couplings. Imagine a car being able to spin completely over on its longitudinal axis and dump its full load in two seconds as it rotates.
Well that is what they actually do in a Car Dumper Building. Giant clamps come in from each side and then the whole thing spins. Its the noisiest thing you have ever heard.
Now suppose a dumb hobo climbs on that load of black coal and falls asleep and gets dumped to the conveyor hoppers 18 feet below. That actually happened at Iatan Power Plant north of Kansas City in the late 80s.
And he lived.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone have some bbq sauce?
Darwin is still at work.
Thank you, that’s better.
Be vewwy quiet?
To be filed in "statements that don't really need to be made."
The Adventures Of Ohms & Watts?
*Didn't know how many watts it would take to kill me, but I know how much was used.
I’ve heard those coal trains dumping at the Port Neal power facility near Sioux City, Iowa. From five miles away, you can’t carry on a conversation for the noise. I can’t imagine what it must be like right next door.
He still is more intelligent than some members of the United States of America’s House of Representatives. Who are they? Hank Johnson and Sheila Jackson Lee. These two make Cortez seem like a member on Mensa.
Not really related to your article, but I met an Anya Morozova from St. Petersburg during a port call in Haifa, Israel in 1997. So it was weird to come across her name so many years later. For a split second I thought, "Oh no! Oh wait, this one is only 20." Mine would be 39 right now. Wrong Anya.
Damn, I was just listening to that song about a half an hour ago.
Fits the scenario nicely.
Ladykillers, Emperor of The North (Pole),
Under Siege 2, From Russia With Love
I was actually in the building as it was operating. In an observation room, but same building. It was amazing how fast the actual dump-then-clamps-pull-forward, cycle back and grab the next car and yank it forward occurred. car to car maybe 12 seconds or less.
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