Oy vey

[nik_n]

Well, yesterday the fire department my dad belongs to was called out to the Nicholson Viaduct to rescue a base-jumper stuck in a Bitternut tree.

Article here.

In doing so, the thrill-seeker put a mixed freight into E-brake, slowed a intermodal, and delayed a few other trains as the rescue op was underway.

They guy was unhurt, but the State Police and the CP railway police were unhappy.

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

So why did they do anything with the railroad ? He was at least 200 ft. or so below the tracks - and some distance away from them . . . hard to see how he, his rescue, or anything else related to that could interfere with or affect the trains in any way. Do they stop the trains every time there’s a police or ambulance call in the town down below the bridge? [:-^]

Wonder what would have happened if he’d lied and said that he’d just jumped out of the usual sky-diver transport airplane on a Sunday morning, and wound up there by mistake . . . I’m not saying that he should have done that, nor excusing his being on or using the bridge at all - but he sure doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb !

• Paul North.

[samfp1943]

- Paul North said:

“… I’m not saying that he should have done that, nor excusing his being on or using the bridge at all - but he sure doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb !”

(Most likey, a remark to go down in the Annals of Understatement. Samfp1943 )

Thought I recognized the Bridge! (linked here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunkhannock_Viaduct

FTL: "…Tunkhannock Viaduct (also known as the Nicholson Bridge) is a concrete deck arch bridge that spans the Tunkhannock Creek in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the largest[clarification needed] concrete bridge in America when it opened, and remained so even 50 years later… It is 2,375 feet (724 m) long and 240 feet (73 m) tall when measured from the creek bed (300 feet (91 m) tall from the bedrock). The bridge was built as part of the Clark’s Summit-Hallstead Cutoff, which was part of a project of the Lackawanna Railroad to revamp a winding and hilly system. This rerouting was built between

[BaltACD]

You would be amazed at all the times the local authorities want rail traffic stopped. On my territory I generally get at least one request a night from somewhere on the territory.

So why did they do anything with the railroad ? He was at least 200 ft. or so below the tracks - and some distance away from them . . . hard to see how he, his rescue, or anything else related to that could interfere with or affect the trains in any way. Do they stop the trains every time there’s a police or ambulance call in the town down below the bridge?

• Paul North.

[nik_n]

So why did they do anything with the railroad ? He was at least 200 ft. or so below the tracks - and some distance away from them . . . hard to see how he, his rescue, or anything else related to that could interfere with or affect the trains in any way. Do they stop the trains every time there’s a police or ambulance call in the town down below the bridge?

Wonder what would have happened if he’d lied and said that he’d just jumped out of the usual sky-diver transport airplane on a Sunday morning, and wound up there by mistake . . . I’m not saying that he should have done that, nor excusing his being on or using the bridge at all - but he sure doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb !

• Paul North.

The reason the trains were stopped/slowed is because the mixed went across the bridge as the man was walking to where he jumped, the intermodal slowed because he was not sure where the man went, and the others were held because the CP rail police/State Police were searching for any accomplices.

And no, they do not. (Unless it was that one tie train that caught fire…)