I just heard about this a few minutes ago on the news. A train struck 3 pedestrians along the CSX main in Fairport NY, near Rochester (formerly the Conrail Chicago line) near MP 361. Here’s the news website report link. http://www.rnews.com/
Update: 2 of the 3 confirmed dead. Let’s hope and pray #3 has learned his lesson.
Ouch…
LC
According to local news the three may have been on the tracks after being involved in a “bar brawl”…
LC
Jeez, if your going to leave a bar or something or other after a celebration, why don’t these people go to some place other than a RR track. Unless you’re seriously drunk then that’s your call. . .
Then again why would anyone be senseless enough to walk down a RR track . . .
OUCH is right, maybe some thinking before this incident would have helped if these people were paying rational attention to their surroundings . . .
Three fighting on the mainline tracks after a bar brawl, sounds like we may see this on COPS some Saturday evening on Fox network.
According to today’s Rochester Democrat-Chronicle there was a group of five who were expelled from a bar near the tracks for brawling and the fight carried on out onto the CSX ROW.
LC
What a place to fight. You would think, even though drunk and blind with anger, they would still hear the blast of an airhorn. Unless, they were deaf with stupidity.
~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~
It’s those beer muscles. Make you invincible.
Of course, this is the railroad’s fault for building the tracks so close to the bar… (What’s the smiley for extreme sarcasm?)
Reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago that luckily turned out okay… I was up in Cresson, Pa and an Westbound General Manifest had stopped just West of the MO Interlocking to cut off its helpers. Over the radio, the rear helper reported that there was someone laying on the ballast next to the train, and the rear helper crew spotted him as the train came to a stop. Of course, it appeared that the person may have been struck. The Dispatcher was preparing to call the authorities, when the Helper crew called back and told the Dispatcher that the guy was okay…’ He looks like he’s drunk…one of his buddies came up and “drug” him off the tracks’ So the person apparently was a bit inebriated, and must have walked up trackside after the head-end passed the location, and simply passed out next to the train…Dave Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown