Posted on 09/27/2011 3:35:44 PM PDT by Bean Counter
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Oregon and Washington *ping* please!
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Main rail line shut down between Vancouver and Chehalis, Wash., after reports of track tampering
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2784332/posts
Muslim population of Chehalis, Wash?
That would be my guess.
Bufffett is likely on the hot line to the White House even now, whining about how "we had a deal, Barack!"
They are very careful not to explain what “tampering” means.
Scrap hunters just doesn’t make sense. It would take too long to rip up track and it would probably require arc cutting because the rails are in long sections. Too long for a vehicle to hull away without cutting. Plus need I mention the weight?
A couple of guesses. Starting with the most obvious, the Union Goons working just up the Freeway. Second guess would be the Leftist Freaks from Evergreen State College, one of the most radically left campuses in the country again located just up I-5 in Olympia. And the third, would me Islamic Radicals.
You think Buffett is Obama's buttboy and not the other way around? Really??
You just don't know how ol' Warren gets paid.
Yeah, that’s where all the longshoremen riots are happening. They’ve been blocking trains. Vandalizing track doesn’t require them to stay out on the track.
I’m betting on the union goons.
yeah, it’s the union. They were doing it last summer (’10) too. They were ticked off about the same thing then too.
While I am not claiming that enviornmentalists are smart, but causing the derailing of a train carying sulfiric acid and other hazardous waste is far worse than letting it pass through.
Longshoremen from Longview, WA most likely. They’re not happy that the Operating Engineers union is loading/unloading the new grain terminal in Longview. They raised a little hell down there after Labor Day.
Wow, 10 large for a reward?
Scrap metal seekers is not a likely option because no scrap yard in Washington or Oregon will accept railroad scrap of any kind, and will call 911 if you roll onto their lot with any.
Nobody in this area has had any beef with BNSF except the Local International Longshoremen’s Union. They have been involved with an escalating series of union protest actions over the past several weeks, and I believe this is just another one of theirs. No telling what they will be emboldened to try next.
Union Goons would explain why the local news is saying very little to nothing about it. KOMO and KIRO News the two largest news stations in the NW are saying nothing.
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