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May 28, 2013

Explosions Rock Landscape as CSX Cargo Train Derails in Baltimore
— Ace

[Update - Andy]: Gigantic animated gif embed replaced with a still image to help page load times:

A gif from a witness' cellphone, via @johnekdahl

The cellphone video that gif is taken from can also be watched, here, but Moderate Content Warning for language including the N-word.

This is a cargo train track. Amtrak trains run on separate lines.

Live coverage of the aftermath from a local station, here.

Posted by: Ace at 11:46 AM | Comments (309)
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1 Is it just me, or is this hapening a bitt too much lately?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 28, 2013 11:47 AM (659DL)

2 No bears were harmed in the making of that video.........that we know of.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 28, 2013 11:47 AM (xmcEQ)

3 Anything known yet? Freak accident? Religion of Peace incident?

Posted by: bob_oso at May 28, 2013 11:47 AM (lHTEq)

4 Damn sequestration.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 11:48 AM (tY0y0)

5 I like trains.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 28, 2013 11:48 AM (8ZskC)

6 Has anyone received any statements from the Lutheran Community?

Posted by: Dr. Mr. Badman at May 28, 2013 11:48 AM (MlqTY)

7 Yes, lots of derailments lately..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 11:49 AM (f9c2L)

8 Would Obama admin admit if if they knew these were terrorist related? I don't think so..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 11:49 AM (f9c2L)

9 Was Michael Bay in the area by any chance?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 11:50 AM (8ZskC)

10 Fuckin' James Taggart and his fuckin' cronies.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 11:50 AM (/29Nl)

11 Wonder who he voted for in November--obviously Mitt. WE ARE SO SCREWED.

Posted by: ParisPaBooooosh at May 28, 2013 11:50 AM (WRQrd)

12 Good move, driving towards a fire with your baby in the backseat.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at May 28, 2013 11:50 AM (V40IZ)

13 Cue blame at ReThuGGliKKKan budjat cuttingz!!!!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 28, 2013 11:51 AM (dwArK)

14 Well, they can't blame Rick Perry for this one.

Oh, who am I kidding. Of course they can.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 11:51 AM (/29Nl)

15 Good move, driving towards a fire with your baby in the backseat.
Posted by: Clownf*cker at May 28, 2013 03:50 PM

That was insane. It was last thing I expected to see in the back seat after all that.

Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (FMbng)

16 The best part of that video? When they turn around to get out there after the explosion, the camera pans across the very small child in the car seat in back... Nice work guys. Get closer to a tower of smoke with the searing flames themselves reaching thirty or forty feet into the air with your infant.

Posted by: J. Wilde at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (LLmK4)

17 At least it happened in Baltimore where it couldn't do any damage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (8ZskC)

18 Two bridges have collapsed and now a cargo train explodes. Around the same time Obama is slammed with numerous scandals. Things are getting weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (aLkUb)

19 The idiots driving TOWARD the flames have a baby on board the car. At 1:30.

Posted by: Aquaviva at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (9FvOF)

20 Prayers for B'more... "Damn"

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 11:52 AM (rMutW)

21 What we need is a government agency tasked with rail safety.

Posted by: kreplach at May 28, 2013 11:53 AM (hjRtO)

22 reminds me of the guy who did the video of that fire in Texas. Who could have guessed there'd be an explosion?

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 11:53 AM (bJm7W)

23 1 Circa, Terrorism is over....this is just man made natural disaster

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 11:54 AM (rMutW)

24 These events just bolster the Democrats' argument for "investment" in high-speed rail. The low-speed ones are going too slow to stay on the tracks. Or something.

Posted by: Andy at May 28, 2013 11:54 AM (elLTo)

25 Moar infrastructure spending!1!!!11!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 28, 2013 11:54 AM (aLkUb)

26 Sequester, infrastructure, obstructionist GOP, damned anti-science tea baggers blah blah blah blah

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at May 28, 2013 11:55 AM (7ObY1)

27 PSA - when an industrial facility is burning - pressurized tank cars, storage tanks, silos, etc -- GTFA. Remember Texas a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2013 11:55 AM (CMlD4)

28 That guy in the white pickup has to go for new undies. And pants. And probably seat covers.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 11:56 AM (qyfb5)

29 Even Mrs. Jonas Dahlstedt's Lime jello and celery salad couldn't pull that off.

Posted by: Lutheran Caused Event Planner at May 28, 2013 11:56 AM (LYwCh)

30 I would say an LNG tank went. That is going to be a mess. Wonder what power lines, datalines, and pipelines run parallel with the tracks?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 11:56 AM (w5kAo)

31 We can expect more exploding trains as the Earth's temperature grows hotter.

Posted by: Algore at May 28, 2013 11:56 AM (8ZskC)

32 A train fire in Baltimore.

Good times.

Posted by: eleven at May 28, 2013 11:56 AM (KXm42)

33 Someone put a penny on the track.

Posted by: Ronster at May 28, 2013 11:57 AM (2SFSP)

34 When will you deniers realize that we will see more and more of this as climate change sweeps our nation?

Posted by: BSKB at May 28, 2013 11:57 AM (4KWOY)

35 Amish Bears are suspected in the incident. That or Tea Party Bears. But Bears, for sure.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 28, 2013 11:57 AM (71LDo)

36 Atlas Shrugged irl.

Posted by: real joe at May 28, 2013 11:58 AM (OooVx)

37 Anna - or ethanol

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2013 11:58 AM (CMlD4)

38 Any Bears sighted on any of these Cruise Ships lately? I suspect we are in for more Bear-related shenanigans.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 28, 2013 11:58 AM (71LDo)

39
Obama-phone.

I know it.
You know it.
Just admit it.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (nELVU)

40 17 At least it happened in Baltimore where it couldn't do any damage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 03:52 PM (8ZskC)

It's wrong that I laughed at that. And thank you.

Posted by: joncelli at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (RD7QR)

41 Owebama to rail against the CEO of CSX to be fired immediately for "acting stupidly" and "allowing the train to explode."

Posted by: © Sponge at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (xmcEQ)

Investigation will reveal that a Russian bear was operating the train.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (m2CN7)

43 On a side note, some property in Baltimore just increased in value

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (CMlD4)

44 36 Amish Bears are suspected in the incident. That or Tea Party Bears. But Bears, for sure. --- The bear tried to hide by disguising himself as a fancy rug. He's going to spend the next few years as Smoky The Bitch.

Posted by: When Animals Attack In High Speed Chases 2 at May 28, 2013 11:59 AM (zA7Zp)

45 That's what happens when they don't let people build switches out of Rearden Metal.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (/29Nl)

46 Any Bears sighted on any of these Cruise Ships lately? I suspect we are in for more Bear-related shenanigans.

ooh...I just thought of a new word. Wait for it....

Shenastigans.

amirite.

Posted by: eleven at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (KXm42)

47 We will shut all railroads down until their safety can be assured. It's for the protection of the enviroment and the American people.

Posted by: Baraka O'Preezy at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (tY0y0)

48 Ugh. Every time I follow a link to Mediaite, I end up seeing the comments. And every time I see the comments, I want off the freaking planet (it was on the Tantaros thing - there was a "why are liberals so freaking rude" article in some British paper and the comments were similarly un-self-consciously insane). I wish I could quit the news, I can't do much about it other than stroke out.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (qyfb5)

49 If that explosion happened in the yards of Baltimore. Well they will be picking train pieces from the bleachers at the stadiums. Plus scare the cr*p out of all the people in the Inner Harbor.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (w5kAo)

50 If obama had a son.....

Posted by: resist we much at May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (u0wJh)

51 Pro tip: >>> Don't drive your baby toward out of control fires of unknown origin.

Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 12:01 PM (VIaw0)

52 Good fucking thing that fire can't melt steel, otherwise that could've been a LOT worse.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 28, 2013 12:01 PM (xmcEQ)

53 The Transportation department will immediately have the person who caused the accident be named the head of an investigation team to determine how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 12:01 PM (m2CN7)

54 I have never met a Bear I completely trust. Just saying.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 28, 2013 12:01 PM (71LDo)

55 holy crap! I was there when CSX train burned tons of paper under the city. That was surreal. Like Steve King's the Mist.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:02 PM (QxSug)

56 Merovign, the phase jumping spiders in Rothe Valley will stroke you out also. But at least those can be killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:02 PM (w5kAo)

57 Clearly the eeeeevil Republicans fault for keeping Maryland from building explosion-proof buildings. And also, they LIKE train derailments, because racist...., or something.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:03 PM (aDwsi)

58 If it were plain and simple sabotage/terrorism, with advance warnings and evidence at the scene, do you trust that you'd ever be told? Barring an eventual cover-up investigation half a year later?

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:03 PM (ZshNr)

59 Owebama to give a speech expressing grief for those poor people of Botanical Gardens who experienced such a tragic accident.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 28, 2013 12:03 PM (xmcEQ)

60 the baby was a nice touch of degeneracy.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:04 PM (ZPrif)

61 Not that there's ever a good reason to drop an n-bomb, but why would a train derailment in particular necessitate one?

Posted by: Filly at May 28, 2013 12:04 PM (6/Qsn)

62 Fucking sequester strikes again.

Posted by: DangerGirl @deadlyestrogen at May 28, 2013 12:04 PM (GrtrJ)

63 18 Two bridges have collapsed and now a cargo train explodes. Around the same time Obama is slammed with numerous scandals. Things are getting weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 28, 2013 03:52 PM (aLkUb)

One bridge collapsed after a truck took out the truss. Another collapsed after a train collision where heavy freight cars knocked out supports. Let's not get carried away here trying to link up things like this; that is the way to the Chem-Trail room and all that entails.

P.S.: Use rubber in your deflector hat - aluminum only increases the potency of the government rays!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at May 28, 2013 12:05 PM (hLRSq)

64 OT from Twitter: Ryan Lizza @RyanLizza Posting a newly uncovered document in the Kim/Rosen leak case shortlyÂ… 2:38 PM - 28 May 2013

Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 12:05 PM (VIaw0)

65 well, yeah, I blame Paul Ryan for cutting the, uhhhh, Federal Department of Trains Not Blowing Up's budget. Because he can do that. Like he did to Benghazi.... although, now that I think about it, didn't Romney recently tweet something about how it's good that trains don't explode? That's what caused it. Hiisssss gaaaaafffeeesssss!

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:05 PM (QxSug)

66 The Train Tracks in the North East are FUBAR. I am surprised this does not happen more

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 12:06 PM (9Bj8R)

67 That video is funny as hell. Not the explosion, but the stoned idiots filming it. "Dayum. Roll da windows up."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:06 PM (lVPtV)

68 59 If it were plain and simple sabotage/terrorism, with advance warnings and evidence at the scene, do you trust that you'd ever be told? Barring an eventual cover-up investigation half a year later? --- Unless the train were carrying material from Fort Detrick, i doubt it was terrorism.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:06 PM (zA7Zp)

69 urban railyards are a major risk. of course, many urban railyards used to be on the outskirts of the city, but the city grew around them.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:06 PM (ZPrif)

70 Hold my bear and watch this.

Posted by: mugiwara at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (W7ffl)

71 OK - so where exactly was Jamie Gorelick at the time?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (IDSI7)

72 A nation this big with infrastructure this large and old ... something is gonna fail nearly every day.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (ZPrif)

73 51 If obama had a son.....

lol

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (lVPtV)

74 That guy's wife is gonna beat the living shit outta him when he gets home tonight.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (f9c2L)

75 I doubt it was too, but the new standard is that we only find out after a Congressional inquiry.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (ZshNr)

76 SheZow broke a nail, I think.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (/29Nl)

77 Jamie Gorelick was wearing a bear costume and playing conductor?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:07 PM (w5kAo)

78 That video was more amusing than the 7 episodes of Arrested Development I've made it through so far.

Posted by: Xander Crews at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (X7MDA)

79 Actually, in many places, Amtrak DOES run on the same tracks as the freight trains.

Also note; the majority of rail traffic travel on a "right of way" strip of land (owned for the most part by the operating railroad) that has little to NO security.

That's thousands of miles of opportunity for mischief with low chance of discovery or preventative actions.

And yes there seems to be more lately but in my experience of time, not that much. There have been some weird incidents (like that Metro collision near Norwalk, CT) but for the most part, derails are a recurring problem.

They can happen suddenly as the rail and cross ties can work for one train of a certain weight yet fail for another train of greater weight right behind the first.

That's what usually causes derails; track and ties wearing out and not being found out before disaster strikes. Remember I said thousands of miles.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (28TG+)

80 The roll up the windows was the only smart thing those idiots said or did.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (ZPrif)

81 Terrorism straight up.

Posted by: Hunker down and L.I.B. at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (Cs2tJ)

82 The train hit a truck on the tracks. Trucks try to outrun the trains on a regular basis. This is what happens when they lose.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (piMMO)

83 After watching this I'll be cringing in terror and shitting myself everytime I hear a train whistle. I'm sueing the railroads. Yeah, all of them.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 12:08 PM (tY0y0)

84 Train derailments, bridge collapses, exploding tanker trucks (well one that I know of, I81 in PA)... What next? Are we due to see another oil tanker run aground somewhere, to be followed by mournful Sarah McLachlan music being played over video of poor little birds and baby seals being scrubbed with toothbrushes and Dawn dish detergent to remove the oil from their coats?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/i][/b] at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (4df7R)

85 Lucky I had my Obamaphone to take this video! Dayum!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (f9c2L)

86 I quit watching before they showed the baby.

A baby was in the car? Plus, they sounded wasted.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (lVPtV)

87 david sirota tapping his foot, anxiously awaiting which way the national conversation is headed

Posted by: Nino at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (eyuLr)

88 The commentary on this video is going meme within the hour.

Posted by: Filly at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (6/Qsn)

89 ... and you all laughed when I made my documentary.. Idiocracy... Heh... we'll who's laughing now bitches..

Posted by: Mike Judge at May 28, 2013 12:09 PM (/jHWN)

Never understood why this wasn't the terrorist act of choice, an IED that will go off when a train passes over it. Too many track miles to prevent 100%, don't need to blow any of your guys up to pull it off and if you target a rail line thru a residential area you can rack up a body count.

Posted by: Joe at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (9r3GM)

91 This is a cargo train track. Amtrak trains run on separate lines.

Maybe, but I've ridden on Baltimore MARC trains that share tracks with CSX cargo.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (UypUQ)

92 I need to listen to this at home. It sounds nearly ambalamps level.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (/29Nl)

93 After watching this I'll be cringing in terror and shitting myself everytime I hear a train whistle. I'm sueing the railroads. Yeah, all of them.

This terrible incident has convinced me to give up my dreams of owing a farm.

Posted by: A Pigford Plaintiff at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (8ZskC)

94 Suppose you put a chunk of metal, like a tire rim, on a train rail, what would happen when the train hit it? Seems like any tarded 12 year old with a sick streak could do that.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (ZshNr)

95 "Dayum. Roll da windows up." Protip: When things are about to explode, windows down is the infinitely better option, unless the phrases 'face transplant' and 'multiple attempts at major reconstructive surgery' seems appealing.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (U2UQk)

96
That could never happen with high speed rail!

Posted by: Little Joey Biden at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (jKWYf)

97 93 I need to listen to this at home. It sounds nearly ambalamps level.

Wise move.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (lVPtV)

98 Haha, the two guys filming GTFO of there, no questions asked.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 12:10 PM (iPq1D)

99 88 david sirota tapping his foot, anxiously awaiting which way the national conversation is headed Whatever Sirota decides, there's sure to be lots of pointing at the camera. He's Mr. Pointy!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (7ObY1)

100 uhmmm, as I've always said, eerrrrummm, our infrastructure is crumbling and now. I am going. to use this incident. to play up that fact. There are those who ummmmmm. say. That we should cut all government spending and let things rust in place. I reject that argument. America must. spend all it can to reinvest in its infraaaaaa. structure.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (QxSug)

101 93 I need to listen to this at home. It sounds nearly ambalamps level. --- Which reminds me... I need to watch the Punch-Out version of the Oakland bus fight again.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (zA7Zp)

102 Guys, come on. You know what really happened is some mid-level staffer failed to pass the word up to Obama, which is why he needs more money for the oversight of these mid-level staffers.

Posted by: Austin in TX at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (lKVc4)

103 Update to my comment above, per Newsbreakers, it was, specifically, a garbage truck.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (piMMO)

104 But we have to use the trains, Warren Buffett didn't invest heavily in the railroads just so America could use trucks and a more efficient oil pipeline.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 28, 2013 12:11 PM (b9K4P)

105 The Train Tracks in the North East are FUBAR. I am surprised this does not happen more

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 04:06 PM (9Bj8R)

OT a bit, but read up on the transcontinental railway and the FUBAR involved in the whole project because of crony political capitalism. Then read about the Great Northern transcontinental line to see how it should have been done.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 12:12 PM (m2CN7)

106 The Socialist Governor of maryland, Martin "Mom" O'Malley, will blame the sequester and Republicans at the first opportunity.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at May 28, 2013 12:12 PM (wbmaj)

107 57 Merovign, the phase jumping spiders in Rothe Valley will stroke you out also. But at least those can be killed. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:02 PM (w5kAo) Nah I've fought several of those. But I'm going to have to dig back into the Fever Swamp of the game's forums to check the news - it seems like special abilities are behaving randomly - if they "nerfed" abilities by making them unreliable, it may be time to quit the game. Nothing more frustrating than Shit That Doesn't Work.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:12 PM (qyfb5)

108 Which reminds me... I need to watch the Punch-Out version of the Oakland bus fight again.

It truly never gets old. And there's always someone new who hasn't seen it.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:12 PM (/29Nl)

109 Has anyone received any statements from the Lutheran Community?

The church picnic scheduled for June 9 is still on the calendar. Outdoor worship service at 10, followed immediately by a potluck dinner: please bring your own table service and a dish to pass. Coffee and Kool-Aid will be provided by the Ladies Auxiliary.

Posted by: Saint Ivan of Rila Lutheran Church at May 28, 2013 12:12 PM (ZKzrr)

110 @93.. grognard.. it's ambalamps level for sure... It's tough to listen to... homeys speaking their Baltimore language... I know, I know... racist

Posted by: Yip at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (/jHWN)

111 Amtrack uses the same tracks as everyone else around here. Matter of fact you can tell its an Amtrack without even seeing the train, by the high pitched squealing noise.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (iPq1D)

112 This isn't terrorism. It isn't crumbling infrastructure. It was an asshole in a truck who thought he could outrun a train. Worse case scenario, the crossing arms weren't working properly.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (piMMO)

113 on the windows up vs down before the explosion I can see how up could be bad. But what about avoiding inhaling whatever chemical are spewing forth from the scene? Rolling up the windows and driving as far away as possible as quickly as possible seems the best idea. Main thing is -- don't drive toward the giant chemical fire so you can film it better.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (ZPrif)

114 I want the indigenous inner city peoples to do all of my news. If it's gonna be sad, It might as well be funny too.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (XIxXP)

115 and there are others who say. That we somehow manage to spend nearly $4trillion a year federally, that maybe some of that money already goes to infrastructure. Other people have uhhhhh pointed out. That state and local and private industries should. maintain these infrastructures. I've had those people shot. What we need now is what I've been saying since I last said we need 100,000 teachers and getting the rich to finally pay some taxes, their fair share really. Otherwise, well, our infrastructure will crumble around us.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:13 PM (QxSug)

116

At 1:31:

I always take the baby

To the explosion

Posted by: Haiku Guy at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (wKFky)

117 Too many track miles to prevent 100%, don't need to blow any of your guys up to pull it off and if you target a rail line thru a residential area you can rack up a body count. Posted by: Joe .......... Actually, it is extremely hard to derail a train. The Army did some filming of attempts to derail trains in an effort to figure what it took to derail German train shipments in WW II. You have to blow out a very large section of track to do it, and that takes lots of explosive... of course, this was WW II explosives, so it might be easier now, but C4 is hard to come by here in the states.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (f9c2L)

118 Hear the voices on the video.

Do they eat with those mouths?

Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (kqqGm)

119 This is why we need better infastructures thingys.

Posted by: SCoaMF at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (iPq1D)

120 But what about avoiding inhaling whatever chemical are spewing forth from the scene? Rolling up the windows and driving as far away as possible as quickly as possible seems the best idea. Main thing is -- don't drive toward the giant chemical fire so you can film it better. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 04:13 PM (ZPrif) I thought that was a quick smart move to roll up the windows. Chemicals bad.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (XIxXP)

121 115 I want the indigenous inner city peoples to do all of my news. If it's gonna be sad, It might as well be funny too.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at May 28, 2013 04:13 PM (XIxXP

Hmmm...excellent replacements for Shemp.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (lVPtV)

122 95 Suppose you put a chunk of metal, like a tire rim, on a train rail, what would happen when the train hit it? Seems like any tarded 12 year old with a sick streak could do that. Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 04:10 PM (ZshNr) Almost nothing would happen. At worst, your piece of metal would be cut in half or thrown out of the way. Even an entire car on the tracks would likely only cause mild damage to the train, but would not derail it (it's not that uncommon an "accident").

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:14 PM (qyfb5)

123 * watches video *

Hey, wow. I think the guy recording that video is my manager.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (UypUQ)

124 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:02 PM (w5kAo)

Since we're going OT, here's a linky to the artist I was listening to:

FUH ROH DAH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLPH9d-jsI

She has a bunch of video game inspired videos, including Halo, Zelda, and Assassin's Creed.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (v3pYe)

125 Unfucking believable. I bet when that fireball erupted, he could feel the heat instantaneously.

Hell, I was just a a restaurant where they served that flaming Greek dish (can't recall the name) at the table next to us. One waitress poured the alcohol on the plate, the other lit it, and the heat was fear-inducing...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

126 You have to blow out a very large section of track to do it, and that takes lots of explosive... of course, this was WW II explosives, so it might be easier now, but C4 is hard to come by here in the states. --- There's always the Stalag 17 method... Use a cigarette and book of matches as an improvised fuse and toss it into a munitions car.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (zA7Zp)

127 Suppose you put a chunk of metal, like a tire rim, on a train rail, what would happen when the train hit it? Seems like any tarded 12 year old with a sick streak could do that.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 04:10 PM (ZshNr)

Up here in NH a couple years ago we had a cargo train go off the rails because snowmobilers had been driving over the tracks and had built up an ice dam across the tracks as a result. We don't have a lot of rail traffic up here, so along comes this poor train, hits the ice, and FWIP! Off the tracks it goes.

It's remarkably easy, it appears, to derail a train.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/i][/b] at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (4df7R)

128 115 I want the indigenous inner city peoples to do all of my news. If it's gonna be sad, It might as well be funny too.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at May 28, 2013 04:13 PM (XIxXP)

What's funny to me is that these sorts react identically to a train explosion as they do to a card trick on the street by Criss Angel. Identically.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (/29Nl)

129 Ok.. here's the youtube video.. this is from 1944 http://youtu.be/D-8gV4DJZUw

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (f9c2L)

130 >>Matter of fact you can tell its an Amtrack without even seeing the train, by the high pitched squealing noise. That's Biden strapped to the front of the choochoo screaming "I'm on top of the world ...WEEEEEEE."

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2013 12:15 PM (g1DWB)

131 WE just want to get on the wire as fast as possible that there is NO WAY this was anything but an accident and in no way is going to be investigated as anything but. Just so you know.. Just an accident. Now if somehow this turns out to be a bomb planted by islamic terrorists, we'll bury that in a A23 story in the Baltimore Sun in 6 months. Thank you.

Posted by: FBI hurried denial at May 28, 2013 12:16 PM (/jHWN)

132 Update to my comment above, per Newsbreakers, it was, specifically, a garbage truck.

Poor driver. Assuming he's union, he might have to suffer a verbal warning and a 3 day paid suspension.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 28, 2013 12:16 PM (SY2Kh)

133 Now, if you put something heavy enough on a track on a turn, you might derail the train (*ahem*). But not a car wheel or something like that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:16 PM (qyfb5)

134

We have an administration that excels at only one thing...lying to us.

They've been caught, more than once, in covering up terrorist attacks.

So it's hard not to be a little suspicious, whenever events like this happen...especially when so many happen in a short period of time.

Terrorists used to claim credit for their successful attacks.

They don't do this anymore.

And when govt investigators could be tasked with covering up a terrorist attack...we are left to wonder.

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 12:16 PM (L35yH)

135 Not seen any cleric spells malfunction. Well in cooldoown and pressing button anyway. Though sometimes they will do a double flash.

The final Drider Prince boss was not too hard. Getting to him was pretty brutal and long. But the AI let me snipe/draw off his spider minions for easy killing. Then I merely kept running, healing, zapping until he died.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:16 PM (w5kAo)

136 Baltimore? Maryland? Disasters? Meh, couldn't care less.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (x7g7t)

137 uppose you put a chunk of metal, like a tire rim, on a train rail, what would happen when the train hit it?

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 04:10 PM (ZshNr)

That sucker shoots out the front like a goddamned cannon ball. Also..... it'll cut a Schwinn clean in half.

Dont ask......

Posted by: fixerupper at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (nELVU)

138 Dayum indeed!

Posted by: dananjcon at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (jvd3N)

139 One bridge collapsed after a truck took out the truss. Another collapsed after a train collision where heavy freight cars knocked out supports. Let's not get carried away here trying to link up things like this; that is the way to the Chem-Trail room and all that entails.... Mikey NTH

true BUT ... the MO train was a derailment which caused the cars to hit the bridge.

coincidences starting to pile up quickly

Posted by: GoldWingNut at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (kr8DU)

140 55 I have never met a Bear I completely trust. Just saying.
Posted by: dfbaskwill
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Nor I. The SOB's will arrogantly climb my cherry trees, and complacently eat the cherries while I am shaking my fist at them. That would be be bad enough, but apparently cherries act to almost immediately evacuate bear intestinal tracts, leaving a trail of bear-pooh bombs in their wake as they retreat

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (aDwsi)

141 The robocar future will have some benefits -- fewer idiots driving in front of trains, for example.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:17 PM (ZPrif)

142 Poor driver. Assuming he's union, he might have to suffer a verbal warning and a 3 day paid suspension. *** Risks his life, the life of the conductor and engineer, and multi-millions $$ worth of equipment to save a few minutes. Yep. A sternly worded letter and a time-out ought to suffice.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:18 PM (piMMO)

143 Chi-twn Jerry, what if you did something like drop/drag a good sized tree across tracks? Does it just stop, plow through? I've always ought rail was very vulnerable to no tech attacks. At least as far as schedule disruption, which is probably not a main terror goal. This one was garbage truck-related, just mulling potential vulnerabilities.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:18 PM (ZshNr)

144 Breaking: Admittedly racist right-wing blog AOSHQ links to video using N-word...

Posted by: Media Matters for Soros at May 28, 2013 12:18 PM (7UFw3)

145 I'll be damned. The new mattress set is here. I figured when they said "3:00 to 7:00" I'd be looking at 7:00.

*happy dance*

brb

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:18 PM (lVPtV)

146 I remember when my Dad explained to me as a toddler that the large things on the front of steam locomotives were called "cow-catchers", as they would deflect a large object (such as a bovine) off of the tracks, rather than have the train run over it and possibly derail.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 28, 2013 12:19 PM (wtvvX)

147 Rolling up the windows won't matter if the AC is going and they are letting fresh air in to mix.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:19 PM (w5kAo)

148

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 04:14 PM (f9c2L)

Those old OSS movies are up on YouTube. I was watching it just a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at May 28, 2013 12:19 PM (hLRSq)

149 137 Baltimore? Maryland? Disasters?
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Actually, 'Baltimore' and 'Maryland' are synonyms for 'disaster'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:19 PM (aDwsi)

150 "omething like drop/drag a good sized tree across tracks"

dragging a redwood might work

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2013 12:20 PM (CMlD4)

151 I'll be damned. The new mattress set is here. I figured when they said "3:00 to 7:00" I'd be looking at 7:00.

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If you even touch those mattress tags ...... that's an audit!!

Posted by: Eric Holder at May 28, 2013 12:20 PM (nELVU)

152 looks like someone taunted happy fun ball.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:20 PM (QxSug)

153 Some really fast trains should improve things.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:20 PM (sOtz/)

154 The rail system generally works great. Needs some investment. For example, we need a bunch of bridges raised so more lines can double-stack rail cars. Big efficiency boosts for double-stacked cars.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:20 PM (ZPrif)

155 I see the other answers now. Interesting. Not as vulnerable as I thought. Except for ice.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:21 PM (ZshNr)

156 144 Chi-twn Jerry, what if you did something like drop/drag a good sized tree across tracks? Does it just stop, plow through? I've always ought rail was very vulnerable to no tech attacks. At least as far as schedule disruption, which is probably not a main terror goal. This one was garbage truck-related, just mulling potential vulnerabilities. Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 04:18 PM (ZshNr) Search google for videos of trains smashing into cars and tractor-trailers. They go through them. While the physics dicate that they are slowed down, it is only ever so slightly.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:21 PM (x7g7t)

157 I blame Big Train.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:21 PM (QxSug)

158 That doesn't only happen with bears.

Posted by: Hilary "Stand Down" Clinton at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (7gwGw)

159 They may not actually be vulnerable, but the last time I was on Amtrak, it sure as shit *felt* like it was going to derail on every single bump.

Posted by: grognard at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (/29Nl)

160 And I see you decided to post the link....

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (hLRSq)

161 I am rushing back to Washington as fast as I possibly can to try and get some legislation through the senate with my good friend Chuck Schumer. We absolutely need bi-partisan cooperation immediately to rush through something... anything.. for the children.

I have been assured that the Senate majority leader has already worked something up and we'll vote on it and then read it . I'm sure it's all good. None of the wacko birds need involve themselves or the Tea partiers. This is serious shit.

Posted by: Senator McCain at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (/jHWN)

162 Baltimore is nasty. Spent some time at Hopkins. All the women had to use the buddy system going to their cars to avoid being raped. A very aggressive, rapey underclass in Baltimore.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (ZPrif)

163 This reminds me last year's Ellicott City, MD train derailment that crushed two college girls under coal.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 28, 2013 12:22 PM (UypUQ)

164 apparently cherries act to almost immediately evacuate bear intestinal tracts, leaving a trail of bear-pooh bombs in their wake as they retreat
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apparently cherries act to almost immediately evacuate bear intestinal tracts, leaving a trail of bear-pooh bombs in their wake as they retreat.

...damnit. Fixed.

Posted by: Hilary at May 28, 2013 12:23 PM (7gwGw)

165 Of course I've seen those train hit car videos! Totally blanked on them. Yeah, I guess a rim wouldn't do much.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:23 PM (ZshNr)

166 So how much of the rail system is now personally owned by Buffett?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:23 PM (ZPrif)

167 @126 The big fire on the lake at, eh, EPCOT. Can feel the heat blast.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:23 PM (sOtz/)

168 Poor driver. Assuming he's union, he might have to suffer a verbal warning and a 3 day paid suspension. He's on his way back to Central America. Honest to Gawd, for some reason my township allows five different trash firms to service my street. I have yet to see one driver, out of all five, that can see over the steering wheel. Yeah, 20,000 pound trash trucks with 4'11'' drivers. What can go wrong?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 12:23 PM (U2UQk)

169 We live in a third world country now increasingly run by third worlders. Get used to this sort of stuff happening with alarming frequencey.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (V1ZIU)

170 45 Breaking: Admittedly racist right-wing blog AOSHQ links to video using N-word... Soon to be posted as such at Lame Green Footballs.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (7ObY1)

171 yeah, there is so much momentum in those thousands of tons of steel barrelling down the track, trains go through obstructions like butter... except as today demonstrates.. not always!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (f9c2L)

172 I'll be damned. The new mattress set is here. I figured when they said "3:00 to 7:00" I'd be looking at 7:00. ---- If you even touch those mattress tags ...... that's an audit!! Mattress tags? Drone strike.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (p9JxP)

173

My uncle was an engineer with Santa Fe for over 40 years. He had some stories to tell. Had two trains derail on him. Neither one his fault.

Massive weight put into raw kinetic energy just barely controlled.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (tY0y0)

174 Posted by: Hilary at May 28, 2013 04:23 PM (7gwGw)

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All that for a period???

Posted by: fixerupper at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (nELVU)

175 "
I thought that was a quick smart move to roll up the windows. Chemicals bad."

I would worry less about the window then I would distance and elevation. Get higher, up wind, and far away quickly.

Posted by: Jean at May 28, 2013 12:24 PM (CMlD4)

176 Yeah, 20,000 pound trash trucks with 4'11'' drivers. What can go wrong? --- I see nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Hans Moleman at May 28, 2013 12:25 PM (zA7Zp)

177 That's nothing. Around here, we call that a "weekday".

Posted by: Detroit at May 28, 2013 12:25 PM (7gwGw)

178 very aggressive, rapey underclass in Baltimore. **** insert snark here...let's see a. you need to tell them that you are not their weapons. b. racissssss c. lifetimeTV told me that only white CEO's and football players do that.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:25 PM (QxSug)

179 >>>Hell, I was just a a restaurant where they served that flaming Greek dish (can't recall the name) at the table next to us. Markos Moulitsas?

Posted by: wooga at May 28, 2013 12:25 PM (edQgj)

180 Fight the man! Trains represent the 1%'ers! Trash trucks just haul the 1%'s trash !! truth to power or something...

Posted by: OWS zombie corpe at May 28, 2013 12:26 PM (/jHWN)

181 well, as long as the union thug in question learned a lesson, then no harm no foul

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:26 PM (QxSug)

182 Even an entire car on the tracks would likely only cause mild damage to the train, but would not derail it (it's not that uncommon an "accident"). Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile
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At the tracks about two blocks from where I lived, there was a train/car collision. I walked down to see what had happened. After a while, a cop came walking down the tracks from the locomotive end. Another cop at the scene was writing up a report. He asked the returning cop, "Damage to locomotive?", the other guy replied "Negligible".

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:26 PM (aDwsi)

183 One and only time I ever rode on Amtrack was from LA to San Diego, and the 75 stops in between. It was a two day trip. And of lot of that last part was just lying.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 12:26 PM (iPq1D)

184 174 My uncle was an engineer with Santa Fe for over 40 years. He had some stories to tell. Had two trains derail on him. Neither one his fault. Massive weight put into raw kinetic energy just barely controlled. --- A family friend is an engineer on the railroad now. The first day on the job, the instructor went all hard-ass on him, told him this would be the most dangerous job he'd ever had, and asked what he used to do. The guy replied that he was a former Marine who had just pulled tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think that was the response the instructor was expecting.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:26 PM (zA7Zp)

185 Live coverage of the Soyuz launch on right now at NASA TV. At the 5 minute mark right now.

Posted by: and irresolute at May 28, 2013 12:27 PM (DBH1h)

186 Obama Asks Pentagon To Draw Up Plans For No-Fly Zone Over SyriaÂ… And that is all they will ever be is plans. With Russia giving S-300 Surface to Air Missiles to Syria, obama would not dare do anything but talk.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 12:27 PM (9Bj8R)

187 Massive weight put into raw kinetic energy just barely controlled. Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 04:24 PM (tY0y0) One of mankind's greater achievements. The world as we know it isn't possible without freight trains.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:27 PM (x7g7t)

188 If there is a tank of chlorine in that mess. If it ruptures. It will stay low and against the ground, since heavier than air. This is why chlorine was one of the first chemical weapons in WWI, it was available and would sink into the trenches where the soldiers were.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:27 PM (w5kAo)

189 Obama Asks Pentagon To Draw Up Plans For No-Fly Zone Over SyriaÂ… And that is all they will ever be is plans. With Russia giving S-300 Surface to Air Missiles to Syria, obama would not dare do anything but talk. --- They said no-fly zone. They didn't say which country would be prevented from flying.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:28 PM (zA7Zp)

190 My uncle was an engineer with Santa Fe for over 40 years. He had some stories to tell. Had two trains derail on him. Neither one his fault.

Truly. These things can happen to anybody.

Posted by: Capt. Schettino at May 28, 2013 12:28 PM (8ZskC)

191 "rapey underclass" We have ways of making you tolerant.

Posted by: Sweden & UK at May 28, 2013 12:29 PM (sOtz/)

192 >>>The new mattress set is here. What did you get? Mrs. USA wants to replace the 12 year old bed. Just started looking and I have a bad case of sticker shock!

Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 12:29 PM (VIaw0)

193 This thread is as exciting as a championship soccer match . . . .

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 12:29 PM (VjL9S)

194 190 If there is a tank of chlorine in that mess. If it ruptures. It will stay low and against the ground, since heavier than air. This is why chlorine was one of the first chemical weapons in WWI, it was available and would sink into the trenches where the soldiers were. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:27 PM (w5kAo) This is in Baltimore. It would probably improve the place.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:29 PM (x7g7t)

195 183 well, as long as the union thug in question learned a lesson, then no harm no foul Posted by: joeindc44
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Absolutely..., we must learn from our ~~failures~~ ~~mistakes~~ experiences. This is no time to engage in partisanship.

Posted by: Barky Oblamer at May 28, 2013 12:29 PM (aDwsi)

196 This is exactly the type of accident my new monorail train system will prevent. No longer will trains hit anything ever. Of course, some on the right will call me crazy, but they are living in the past... the past of slavery trains and the confederacy and slavery boats that loaded onto trains...

Posted by: El Presidente Obama at May 28, 2013 12:30 PM (/jHWN)

197

167 So how much of the rail system is now personally owned by Buffett?

Not sure.

But he owns enough of it to have to worry about being a 'monopoly'...so he has sold off a couple of small lines.

And it's Berkshire Hathaway that is the official 'owner'...but Buffet controls it.

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 12:30 PM (L35yH)

198 The dudes who took the vid backed up pretty quick after the secondary...

It was all fun and games until shit status became REAL

Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 12:30 PM (/gHaE)

199 This is in Baltimore. It would probably improve the place. --- With any luck, the wind would carry it southwest to DC.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 12:30 PM (zA7Zp)

200 Chem-train to Munich?

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at May 28, 2013 12:30 PM (epxV4)

201 This is exactly the type of accident my new monorail train system will prevent. No longer will trains hit anything ever. Of course, some on the right will call me crazy, but they are living in the past... the past of slavery trains and the confederacy and slavery boats that loaded onto trains...

Posted by: El Presidente Obama at May 28, 2013 04:30 PM (/jHWN)

Why just ask the residents of Ogdenville or North Haverbrook!

Posted by: Austin in TX at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (lKVc4)

202
With Russia giving S-300 Surface to Air Missiles to Syria, obama would not dare do anything but talk.

Good.

Posted by: soothsayer, now with 20% less ruth at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (9Q7Nu)

203 Am-Ber-Lamps

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (LRFds)

204 Trains were used by Nazis. Reichwingers like trains. ergo, Reichwingers like Nazis. Of course we can just cut out the 'like trains' transitive and go right for Reichwingers = Nazis.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (x7g7t)

205 191 Obama Asks Pentagon To Draw Up Plans For No-Fly Zone Over SyriaÂ…
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Ha! A plan to keep Joe Biden out of his hair for a while. No way to get home but walk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (aDwsi)

206 No McCain meets freedom jihadis thread?

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:31 PM (sOtz/)

207 Linked from the train story is a better story: Naked Feminists To Muslims: Â‘Our Boobs Will Be Stronger Than Their StonesÂ’ And they are good looking for once.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (iPq1D)

208 Brandon if it traveled to DC, would affect Ft. Meade and Andrews AFB.

The wonks of the NSA running around in their giant cubes trying to find gas masks.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (w5kAo)

209 Dayum! Yet another thing I'll have to read about in the paper to find out about it. Sucks to be me.

Posted by: Bronco Bama at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (hHgxI)

210 One of mankind's greater achievements. The world as we know it isn't possible without freight trains.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 04:27 PM (x7g7t)

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Agree. Trains have always fascinated me. I love sitting along railroad tracks and watching them go by.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (tY0y0)

211 With any luck, the wind would carry it southwest to DC. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 04:30 PM (zA7Zp) It would be proof that God does exist, not luck.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (x7g7t)

212 Got it covered: V8181XA Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to explosion or fire on train, initial encounter V8181XD Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to explosion or fire on train, subsequent encounter V8181XS Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured due to explosion or fire on train, sequela ----- It's like I have a new damn toy

Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (fWAjv)

213 208 No McCain meets freedom jihadis thread?

That would be anti-establishment. We can't have that silly.

Posted by: Hunker down and L.I.B. at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (Cs2tJ)

214 If we had high speed rail, when shit fucks up, it'll diffuse the damage over a much wider area lessening its impact at any given point...

Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (/gHaE)

215 set da sheet on fah-er what d fueque is dat dawg

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:32 PM (LRFds)

216 I had some run-ins with both black and white Baltimore derelicts. Both were pretty hard-core and aggressive. The black ones seemed a bit more rapey (judging by what they said to my girlfriend) the white ones seemed a bit more murdery (judging by what they said to me). I think Camden Yards and Inner Harbor are quite pretty. But walk a few blocks away from the tourists and it gets ugly quick.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:33 PM (ZPrif)

217 S-300 is known in NATO as the SA-10 Grumble. There are some indications it even has limited ABM capability.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:33 PM (w5kAo)

218 I expect these type of problems to be a regular occurrence when California finishes it's bullet train somewhere around oh 2040

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 28, 2013 12:33 PM (b9K4P)

219 The guy replied that he was a former Marine who had just pulled tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 04:26 PM (zA7Zp) (pause) "This is going to be the second-most dangerous job you've ever had!"

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:34 PM (qyfb5)

220 205 Am-Ber-Lamps Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 04:31 PM (LRFds) No shit. I got a couple of seconds into it and had to turn it off due to the language. Not the profanity. The language.

Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 12:34 PM (fWAjv)

221 Unless they're ripped up for scrap, the rails will outlive the US government. Lord Homongus will put them to good use./

Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 12:34 PM (/gHaE)

222 Other than BNSF, what railroad does Berkshire own?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 28, 2013 12:34 PM (irlNU)

223 220 Adam Smith's IPH.

You misspelled "2400" dawg

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:34 PM (LRFds)

224 #37

My thoughts exactly. There's been a spat of high-profile train collisions/derailments, and infrastructure collapse. Right out of Atlas Shrugged. The looters have looted not just from the producers, but from the funds that serve the general public as well, just to have that much more to give to the various sorts of moochers. As in other areas, they've eaten the next season's seed grain.

Posted by: shillelagh at May 28, 2013 12:35 PM (hRzu2)

225 Daily reminder: This is a criminal regime.

Posted by: JohnKerryIsADoucheBag at May 28, 2013 12:35 PM (6sqK6)

226 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:33 PM (w5kAo) Checked the NW forums, last patch moved some ability triggers server-side, causing delays and unreliability. Seems to be hitting GF's hardest at the moment. YAY. Time to make a Romulan on Star Trek Online. Love the new intro menus / splash screens.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:35 PM (qyfb5)

227 @219 Allegedly ABM Treaty compliant barely. Of course that treaty is dead now.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:35 PM (sOtz/)

228 It was all fun and games until shit status became REAL

Posted by:@PurpAv at May 28, 2013 04:30 PM (/gHaE)

shit status became REAL....when the shit "blowed" up.

Posted by: dananjcon at May 28, 2013 12:35 PM (jvd3N)

229 So how much of the rail system is now personally owned by Buffett? Not sure. But he owns enough of it to have to worry about being a 'monopoly'...so he has sold off a couple of small lines. And it's Berkshire Hathaway that is the official 'owner'...but Buffet controls it. *** He owns the Burlington-Santa Fe which is ne of the two nig Class I rails in the west, the other being the Union Pacific. There are two large Class Is in the, CSX and the Norfolk-Southern. The KCS and the CN run pretty much down the middle with the KCS extending west and into Mexico. Buffet owns a large chunk but nowhere near a monopoly, not by a long-shot, and never will have a monopoly, not even in the west.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:36 PM (piMMO)

230 147 I remember when my Dad explained to me as a toddler that the large things on the front of steam locomotives were called "cow-catchers", as they would deflect a large object (such as a bovine) off of the tracks, rather than have the train run over it and possibly derail.
==========
Those worked when it was exciting to hear they'd built a train that could go a whole 25mph.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 12:36 PM (VjL9S)

231 222 RWC,

It's always best to remember that B'more is quite literally a different place....

the scum as was alluded to upthread are uniform in their anti-paladinhood just differ on methodology and preferred activity.

The vernacular expressed in the clip sounded precisely like the charming citizens I interacted with at the turn of the century.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:36 PM (LRFds)

232 A female Romulan commander?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:36 PM (w5kAo)

233 Shit. Just watched it all the way through. Would have missed the splodey.

Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 12:36 PM (fWAjv)

234 OT:

IT'S A DREAM JOB: Mark Rosenthal, who pulls in $156,000 a year as head of Local 983 of District Council 37, nods off at his desk during one of a series of postlunch naps that have outraged members of the unionÂ’s executive board.

Â“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,Â” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.

Â“Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, Â‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.Â’ HeÂ’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.Â”

NYPOST

Take a look at that fat POS will ya.

Posted by: Hunker down and L.I.B. at May 28, 2013 12:37 PM (Cs2tJ)

235 228 Mero.

Let me know when you're on and I can get a fleet started by having wife and boy handy...

I have a lvl 15 Rommy IIRC or can help you get into the Imperial Romulan Fleet

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:37 PM (LRFds)

236 Of course, if Republicans would knuckle under and become just like us mostly-peaceful Democrats, all these kinds of horrors -- these evil amateur videos with violence bad language -- would Go Away.

Posted by: Bronco Bama at May 28, 2013 12:37 PM (hHgxI)

237 Linked from the train story is a better story: Naked Feminists To Muslims: Â‘Our Boobs Will Be Stronger Than Their Stones� And they are good looking for once. I've got $10 on the stones & some linament.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2013 12:37 PM (p9JxP)

238 Greedy Costco Nostra CEOs who pay their struggling employees minimum wage caused this incident.

Posted by: Kozplay Kidz at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (2iU3x)

239 234 A female Romulan commander? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:36 PM (w5kAo) Bow chicka bow wow!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (qyfb5)

240 yup, the 400 pound union thug. I am amused by how the guy looks like what the socialist cartoonists draw up to show a rich, fat cat capitalist.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (QxSug)

241 234 Ms Puma,

Rather canonical actually I play a dame Romulan tactical officer yo.....

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (LRFds)

242 I think Camden Yards and Inner Harbor are quite pretty. But walk a few blocks away from the tourists and it gets ugly quick.

Yup. I screwed up and turned left instead of right where I-83 terminates when going to First Mariner a few weeks back and a block later I was on the set of The Wire.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (B/VB5)

243 Got lost once in Baltimore late at night. Driving through an area where each intersection had a lone black dude on the corner. I remember cause my gf got angry and called me racist when I told her they were obviously working for drug dealers as lookouts for cops. It was pretty much driving through a scene from The Wire. I was very worried the car would breakdown, the gf was oblivious of the danger we were in and mainly was afraid we were being "judgey" of the nice fellows standing on the street corners in downtown Baltimore at 1 am.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (ZPrif)

244 'I had a feelin' sumpin was gonna blow.' That's why Mr. Darwin 101 kept driving toward the fire with an infant in the back seat. And Republicans think we can capture this demographic?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 12:38 PM (U2UQk)

245 194 >>>The new mattress set is here.

What did you get? Mrs. USA wants to replace the 12 year old bed. Just started looking and I have a bad case of sticker shock!

Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 04:29 PM (VIaw0

It's a Serta pillow top with a layer of memory foam in the pillow top.

And I'm still laughing so hard over what happened with the two kittehs I can hardly type.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:39 PM (lVPtV)

246 246 Regular Moron,

we just have to disguise ourselves as deadly events and they'll flock to us...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (LRFds)

247 Those worked when it was exciting to hear they'd built a train that could go a whole 25mph. At 55 - 70 mph, it'd just grind your burger meat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (p9JxP)

248 Let me know when you're on and I can get a fleet started by having wife and boy handy... Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 04:37 PM (LRFds) Heh. I just started a Romulan, but I have multiple Fed and KDF characters. I think most are in fleets but I haven't been active.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (qyfb5)

249 Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 04:36 PM (LRFds) I'm familiar enough with Charm City to know to avoid it any chance I can. Amazingly came away un-beaten one night even though I was shit faced and lost for a couple of hours just wanderin' around.

Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (fWAjv)

250
200 The dudes who took the vid backed up pretty quick after the secondary...

It was all fun and games until shit status became REAL
Posted by: @PurpAv
--------------------------------
Dr. Ian Malcolm ( Jeff Goldblum ):
"That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (aDwsi)

251 STO is a lot more fun if one downloads Xpadder and maps out air and ground game controls for a 360 controller...

pew pew pew

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:40 PM (LRFds)

252 Ian and Flatbush, inner Baltimore in daylight is so run down and low rent along with all those one-way streets. Very easy to find yourself trapped, lost, and scared. Getting lost near Ft. Meade and finding a very secure antenna farm at the end of a road was nowhere as scary as that one trip through Baltimore.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:41 PM (w5kAo)

253 Is it just me, or is this hapening a bitt too much lately? Just a minute, I'm not done watching all the shark attack news from a few years back...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 28, 2013 12:41 PM (PMGbu)

254 If you are standing alone on a street corner in downtown Baltimore at 1 am you either are too stupid to know why everybody else is too scared to do that --- or you are the reason everybody else is too scare to do that.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:41 PM (ZPrif)

255 It was pretty much driving through a scene from The Wire. I was very worried the car would breakdown, the gf was oblivious of the danger we were in and mainly was afraid we were being "judgey" of the nice fellows standing on the street corners in downtown Baltimore at 1 am.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 04:38 PM (ZPrif)

Could have called her bluff and ask if she wouldn't mind getting out of the car and asking the nice young man for directions.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 12:41 PM (m2CN7)

256 246 'I had a feelin' sumpin was gonna blow.' That's why Mr. Darwin 101 kept driving toward the fire with an infant in the back seat. And Republicans think we can capture this demographic? Posted by: Regular Moron at May 28, 2013 04:38 PM (U2UQk) Well, they also think illegal immigrants are natural conservatives. So hey, why not.

Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 12:42 PM (fWAjv)

257 What did you get? Mrs. USA wants to replace the 12 year old bed. Just started looking and I have a bad case of sticker shock! Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 04:29 PM (VIaw0 Do NOT pay sticker price in a mattress store. They do not want you to leave without buying a mattress if you are shopping. The mattresses we got were 40% off - and we barely even haggled, only said 'we like these mattresses but want to check around'. I figure there is about $500 in labor and material in a high-end mattress. They have a lot of wiggle room.

Posted by: blindside at May 28, 2013 12:42 PM (x7g7t)

258 >>>It's a Serta pillow top with a layer of memory foam in the pillow top. Thanks. I'll be watching for your mattress review!

Posted by: USA at May 28, 2013 12:42 PM (VIaw0)

259 260 USA,

I use memory foam...mostly good but spouse says that leverage can be hard....

boom chok a wow wow

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:43 PM (LRFds)

260 112 Matter of fact you can tell its an Amtrak without even seeing the train, by the high pitched squealing noise. ---------- We call that "the sound of quality".

Posted by: Amtrak at May 28, 2013 12:43 PM (FzhYM)

261 I can't figure how the underclass will willingly risk electrocution to steal copper yet the manhole covers and rails haven't been touched.

I guess that'd be a sure sign that shit's really bad, when the smart people start stealing.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 12:44 PM (VjL9S)

262 220 I expect these type of problems to be a regular occurrence when California finishes it's bullet train somewhere around oh 2040

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 28, 2013 04:33 PM (b9K4P)

In the year 2040:

AP reports that a federal judge has placed an injunction on the operation of CA's new high speed rail. Environmentalist groups backing the injunction have stressed the need to complete an environmental impact study for endangered Spotted Owls, who have recently been found nesting near unspecified sections of high speed rail tracks.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:44 PM (v3pYe)

263 Enterprise Incident trailer.
http://youtu.be/oWTKh0WXgrg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:44 PM (w5kAo)

264 Yeah, I took her to a nice upscale event in downtown Baltimore. It ran late and leaving I took a wrong turn and I don't know Baltimore well. So I was semi-randomly driving through downtown Baltimore trying to find a way back to the highway.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 12:44 PM (ZPrif)

265 Baltimore's pretty safe, as long as you don't ride the busses. People be getting stabbed and shit in those bitches. It's pretty easy, though, to be safe there. You can figure it out for yourselves. Start at the inner harbor. stay within a mile of it. If you go to Fell's Point, just go to Canton. Basically, any where where they filmed the Replacements.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (QxSug)

266 What did you get? Mrs. USA wants to replace the 12 year old bed. Just started looking and I have a bad case of sticker shock! *** I researched, and researched, and researched and had decided on an $1800 Sterns and Foster when a little more research led me to the Mattress Factory. It's a company that was founded by former execs of the large mattress companies. I have been nothing less than completely satisfied with the mattress and even with a custom built-up box springs, I still paid only about $600. This was about 5 years ago, so the price may have risen a bit, but if there's one near you, I'd check it out. They build the mattress on-site so you actually get to tour the facility.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (piMMO)

267 I bought mine on sale on QVC. Free s/h and delivery/set up and removal of the old mattress and box springs.

I'm pretty pleased with the price, for a king.

Cat was hiding inside one of the old box springs, and delivery guy picked it up and she shot out like a rocket. Scared the crap out of him, and I nearly peed myself laughing. Then the other kitteh, who was hiding under husband's night stand, decided to GTFO and flew down the hall, nearly tripping the guy carrying the old mattress out.

I literally laughed till I cried. Could hardly sign the delivery forms.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (lVPtV)

268

117 At 1:31: I always take the baby to the explosion

---------

Baby's on fire

Take your time she's only burning

This sort of experience

Is necessary for her learning

Posted by: Brian Eno at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (FzhYM)

269 Still favor the dynamited (already dead) beached whale video. Oh the chunks.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (sOtz/)

270

As someone who makes obscene profits from the post-explosion/fire equipment purchasing rush by companies just glad it wasn't them this time, all I can say (in my best Monty Burns impression) is "Excellent".

Posted by: jwest at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (u2a4R)

271 inner Baltimore in daylight is so run down and low rent along with all those one-way streets

My GPS immediately auto-remapped, but the one-way streets being what they are I had to first drive several blocks farther into The Wire before I could turn around and get out again.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (B/VB5)

272 **AP reports that a federal judge has placed an injunction on the operation of CA's new high speed rail. Environmentalist groups backing the injunction have stressed the need to complete an environmental impact study for endangered Spotted Owls** whatever, just as long as we get to waste the $100 billion we got budgeted, we'll be fine. Do you think that 400 pound hard working union guy has some family members we can put in charge of this? I like the cut of his jib. Signed, xxoo basically every democrat ever.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (QxSug)

273

OK, watched the OSS video. You need to blow enough track so two wheels on one side are off the track at the same time and you will derail some section of the train, eyeballing the video around the 5:30 mark it looked to be about 4-5 feet. The bounce that was created seemed to become more severe as each car passed thru the break, and by the fifth car the train was derailed. Since today's freight trains seem to be longer than the 7 cars they were testing on, and travel at speeds over 25 mph that film doesn't fill my heart with hope.

A shaped charge at the base of the track to cut thru horizontally and two charges to cut horizontally and you have the break you need. And that isn't taking into account the damage you do to the wheels of the train that triggered the explosion.

Posted by: Joe at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (7pOq5)

274 Night train to Mundo Fine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (Quyce)

275 Exploding beached whale, why do I think of 'As God is my witness I thought they could fly.'

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (w5kAo)

276 NewsBreaker ‏@NewsBreaker 2m CONFIRMED TORNADO: Beaver Co., OK, 5 miles E of Beaver & moving NE at 10 mph.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (piMMO)

277 241 234 A female Romulan commander?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:36 PM (w5kAo)

Bow chicka bow wow!
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at May 28, 2013 04:38 PM (qyfb5)

You're going to have to pay Zen if you want her to be wearing a short skirt. Sneaky folks, Cryptic.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (oY6Yp)

278 What's a gif...is it similar to a yute???Baltimoron slang???

Posted by: Hot Civillian at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (ED/BE)

279 280 Conservative Monster,

NOT if you already have the Original Series Unis....

Sven<----unlocked everything but DS9 Unis...because "Sisko"

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (LRFds)

280 Bawlmer, Murleland

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (k68EQ)

281 Conservative Monster or be like some I ahve seen. Run around the maps with no armor on.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (w5kAo)

282 279 NDH,

Prayers...

I'll refrain from Ogabe snark

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:50 PM (LRFds)

283 284 Anna Puma,

if you wear the 22d cent Unis I don't think the armor shows up...dunno I just like the Alexis the Chick(tm) Stompy boots

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:50 PM (LRFds)

284 Prayers... I'll refrain from Ogabe snark *** Isn't that just what OK needs, another tornado?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (piMMO)

285 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 04:49 PM (w5kAo)

You played STO? We could have a fleet!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:53 PM (sGtp+)

286 @278 Exactly like that but falling cetacean chunks instead of poultry the size of a turkey in maybe a half mile radius. Old, but hilarious. Nobody was even hurt.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (sOtz/)

287

Posted by: Joe at May 28, 2013 04:47 PM (7pOq5)

--------------------------------------------

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to do this. One rail blown inward and the rail immediately across from that blown outward. Done.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (tY0y0)

288 Exactly like that but falling cetacean chunks instead of poultry the size of a turkey in maybe a half mile radius.

Old, but hilarious. Nobody was even hurt.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 04:54 PM (sOtz/)

The whale was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (v3pYe)

289 Actually I don't play STO. I was talking about NeverWinter.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (w5kAo)

290 288 Conservative Monster,

I have a fleet I'll give someone the 442d Bomb Angels...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (LRFds)

291 292 Ms Puma,

You *should* try STO it is fairly gnarly

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (LRFds)

292 They said no-fly zone. They didn't say which country would be prevented from flying. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 28, 2013 04:28 PM (zA7Zp) Good point!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (9Bj8R)

293 "beached whale blown up 1970" New to me five years ago.

Posted by: Beagle at May 28, 2013 12:57 PM (sOtz/)

294 @Sven:

We never see you on in Neverwinter! We need to get that guild rolling!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (oY6Yp)

295 This thread is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. As will be this comment. "I want the indigenous inner city peoples to do all of my news." -OSP This. With autotune. Subtitles would be helpful, though. "Actually, it is extremely hard to derail a train...." -Chi-Town Jerry Well, apparently one could employ a garbage truck. If one could time a speeding, fully-loaded cement truck just right to ram it into a specific tank car at a strategic crossing.... D'y ever drive around thinking how easily They could go after the infrastructure? I won't say more, but I see our weaknesses all the time everywhere. For the moment it seems we're rather lucky that so far most domestic terrorist incidents don't suggest a full-on organized offensive across the country has begun. Mrs on the other terminal just exclaimed, "The Department of Justice is completely nuts!" I'm always surprised she's so surprised, God love her.

Posted by: mindful webworker in training at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (U13jb)

296 New thread up.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (v3pYe)

297 297 Conservative Monster,

well "busy" I do have toons to use my boy has a 20 something trickster rogue...I have a rogue and Guardian up to 25...

I can hop on shortly as in "now"...wait one.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:00 PM (LRFds)

298 Isn't that just what OK needs, another tornado?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 04:52 PM (piMMO)

------------------------------------

There's nothing in the OK panhandle to damage. Except maybe sagebrush.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 01:00 PM (tY0y0)

299

There sure are a lot of trains and bridges and fertilizer factories derailing and collapsing and blowing up these days, aren't there?

Man-made global warming, obviously. I'm betting those rails were butter soft from all of the heat they've been storing...

Posted by: RobM1981 at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (lV1tZ)

300 @sven

Am not on Neverwinter at the moment. Maybe tonight or tomorrow night?

Me and Anna are L50+, so you got some catching up to do. = P

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (v3pYe)

301 I'll log lad in if need be to get a guild going but he has finals tomorrow so he has to study

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (LRFds)

302 or we can set a time....

Then Goof may be able to help....

She has a Cleric she's nursing along

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (LRFds)

303 There's nothing in the OK panhandle to damage. Except maybe sagebrush. *** that's so good to learn.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (piMMO)

304

Cruise ship fires...train wrecks...Baltimorons hard at work...smh...

Posted by: Hot Civillian at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (ED/BE)

305 Lots of comments about derailments, coincidence and such.
Here is a good novel about just exactly happens to the nations commerce when someone wants to take out strategic railroad bridges.

http://tinyurl.com/pr5wsud

Also, one of my favorite writers.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (f0/O2)

306 Funny how he asked the other occupants to "imagine a ni**a on fire like that".

Posted by: bulldada at May 28, 2013 01:30 PM (i9Wqh)

307 "That's thousands of miles of opportunity for mischief with low chance of discovery or preventative actions."

The City of San Francisco derailment in NV in 1939 and the 1995 derailment of the Sunset Limited near Phoenix come to mind.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at May 28, 2013 01:54 PM (vd7A8)

308 Having to excuse common language is more fascinating to me than the metaphor for the obama economy just caught on video.

Posted by: sTevo at May 28, 2013 05:27 PM (VMcEw)

309 >>This is a cargo train track. Amtrak trains run on separate lines.<< Fail.

Posted by: Skip Tracer at May 29, 2013 05:51 PM (2+bRt)

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