I saw this one on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20155039/. They stopped the train because the beer taps broke.[(-D]
It’s all about priorities! [bow] YA! BIER! [dinner] [(-D] [(-D][(-D]
Metra, take note! [;)]
(This may explain why soccer hasn’t caught on as well over here!)
Well do you blame them? Some things just take priority.
Soccer?! Real Americans don’t play soccer! [:)]
Dave
I like soccer! Well, I am half Japanese…[:D]
Love it! Those Germans really have their priorities right! [:D]
sounds to me like a good reason to have to stop a train…god knows that a soccor fan riot on a train due to no beer wouldnt have been good for the equipment… overturned railcars…riped up track… and god forbid of they got ahold of any of the crew… just look at how they are if there team losses over there… that stop is totaly a “safty stop”
csx engineer
You are asking for an “Original” excuse?
Fall of 1969, I was working Third Trick TO in a mountain station. A regularly scheduled (by TimeTable) freight had not reported in as expected. Dispatcher and TO’s tried for several hours to raise the train but to no avail. Other train movements were halted and the railroad came to a halt. Finally, between three and four hours after we had started looking for this train, the Conductor came on the TO circuit and when the dispatcher asked where the train was and why was he calling from the top of a telegraph pole, he said…
"We left (station name) with 65 cars and set them all out on the main line just East of Tunnel 6. The locomotives are West of the Tunnel and the head 10 cars are in the Tunnel.
Dispatcher: “How could you set them out there? There is no siding or spur!”
Conductor: “Well, Sir, everything was working well until we hit the slide at the West End of the Tunnel, and then we made 6 stops.”
Tunnel 6 was (still is) 250 feet long, and they had plowed through a collapse of the West Portal. All 3 SD-45’s were out of the tunnel in various stages of disassembly, 10 100 ton loads were in that 5 car tunnel and the balance of the train was either sitting on the ties or laying on its side – including the caboose. IIRC, about 5 cars actually stayed on the rails! The Conductor later said at the investigation that he didn’t know you could travel from one end of the caboose to the other so many times in sort a span of time.