Posted on 02/14/2023 12:34:22 PM PST by DoodleBob
BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - One person died after a train crashed on Monday in Blount County, according to Blount County Sheriff’s Office Spokeswoman Marian O’Briant.
Officials were not able to confirm much information, but O’Briant said she would have more information on Tuesday.
This is a developing story.
I have driven through an unguarded crossing on Alcoa highway hundreds of times in Blount county.
Train crash? Those almost never happen. Right pete? Pete? Oh pete!
Maybe the government should mandate improved safety measures by the railroad corporations. I wonder which party would support that?
There seem to be a lot of train accidents recently .
Any possible insight or intel would be awesome.
Yes, it seems so. But I think it is just the media amplifying ordinary events. "Acid rain", "Alar Apples", "The Coming Ice Age", "Nuclear reactors", "Global Warming", etc. etc. Ridiculous scare stories, inflated and exaggerated for your viewing pleasure.
Two women Antifa members were convicted of domestic terrorism in federal court got trying to set shunts on the tracks of trains in the Pacific Northwest, mostly WA and Montana. They weren’t convicted as Antifa members, they were convicted as members of a Canadian anti-oil sands group, but it was their posts on an Antifa web site which alerted authorities. The activists out here are just not the brightest people. Since then, the activists sent out a more skilled terrorist, who actually derailed an oil train in Custer, WA, which caused a fire and forced the evacuation of the town of Custer. One of the trains that they derailed in Montana was a passenger train and people were killed.
Shouldn’t this be posted under “braking news”?
Looks like Antifa has been busy lately.
Source link says the deceased was walking on the tracks when hit.
SHARK WEEK!
Now its train accidents, last week balloons, what next, a pandemic?
I have driven through an unguarded crossing on Alcoa highway hundreds of times in Blount county.
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I live in Maryville (adjacent town) and that particular crossing on Alcoa Highway appears to be a very rarely used spur to tha Alcoa plant. It actually cuts through the greenway. The one where the accident occurred is (from what we coukd tell)in a rural area just west of Maryville near Friendsville. That is a main line toward (I assume) Chattanooga, much more heavily travelled and travelled at full speed. I hear trains on that track several times a day if I am outside.
No, pandemic is not ready to be back in the rotation. I'm thinking WWIII.
Suicide by train. We have them here on occasion, terrible for the crew, EMS and LEOs.
We always had plenty of work - wide range of causes of collisions. Most common probably people trying to beat the train to the crossing or not hearing the whistle on a sawbuck crossing (no gates or lights), then objects/animals/people on tracks, equipment malfunction/derailment was less common, but always made the news.
Any collision is horrifying for the crew. The engineer and conductor are merely spectators to the car or individual on the tracks - nothing they can do to stop in time. We had medical retirements from folks being traumatized.
That’s why you close your eyes. I was an EMT and they always told us to not look at what was happening but to react to it.
I was at a football game when my son was playing, I saw a player break his leg during a play and I just put my hand over my wife’s eyes.
FOOD plants became to common. Atlatas Shrugged!
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