[:D] Read about the 2007 GREAT OHIO TRAIN ROBBERY at:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=240362
and at
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-03.html
WOW…now that’s a story.
WoW! I Guess it would be hard to make a get away by train…they can just
follow your tracks!!![:P]
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I wonder how far they could have went? Do they have switch track control from the cab?
One major question comes to my mind; How do you stop a locomotive that weighs over 150 tons[xx(][?] The only way to stop a locomotive would be with another locomotive or string of frieght cars on the track to block the stolen locomotive.[2c]
Not sure but I don’t think that you have switch control from the cab, usually modern day switch control is done from a tower or office many miles away.
Lee F.
Or maybe they just gave up. All the sudden no security jail moves a notch up the crime belt.
Wes
Maybe the locomotive got stuck at the switch by being derailed.
Lee F.
Interesting that they named the boys in the article - I thought they were supposed to protect the privacy of minors?
More details:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-05.html
Apparently, the older boy is a member of a railroading family.
That clears some things up. That caboose is always parked in that yard. I bet that was a quite event pushing those cars around. It’s right off the main drag through the city (AKA RT 33).
Wes
What a story Buckeye . If that had been a First Class RR they would be in a lot more trouble I believe. A lot of Federal laws would have been broken then. Though they are really in a lot of trouble anyway.
Thanks, John
John, do you realize that when they hit Nelsonville, they coupled some cars to the engine and continued on towards Logan?
I read they were being sent back to their respective county juvenile jails. Theft of a train will be added to their listing of offenses.
I also understand that they laid on the horn the whole trip. This is the engine that they took for a ride.
Coupling up some cars and continuing…that’s what really makes it a great story!
underworld
i wish it was me that went on the ride but not with all the consequences they are facing.
Buckeye : yes, I read all the articles you had linked there, & they had to break locks off the switches it said. They would never break the locks that first class RRs use. They would need a key or a torch, especially our mainline locks, they are huge & case hardened & I believe run about 75 bucks or more each, I was told.
I heard there are games or simulators out there where you can run a train or fly a helicopter & after playing these & I’ll bet this stuff will happen more down the road. Boy, kids coupling cars up, if they don’t know what they’re doing they easily could have gotten killed or injured very seriously. I see they enjoyed laying on the horn, so that may have helped alert more people. if the reverser for that eng. had been locked up in the office or somewhere, they wouldn’t have been able to move it. A normal SOP on RR’s is always take it out of the eng.
Thanks, John
I know this is so wrong, but man - cool! This could be made into an interesting movie, that’s for sure! Sort of Thelma and Louise without the stupid ending!
Jim Fortner; Actually that WAS made into a movie called “End of the Line” Starring
Wilford Brimley and Mary Steenbergen! I have it. It’s a neat “little” movie about
saving a shortline from greedy “progressive” business interests. Try checking
around at video stores for old copies.
Oh yeah…It DOESN’T have any stupid ending like “Thelma & Louise” and NOBODY
got killed! Great family movie. Little bit of language, but that’s about it.
ChesBchRy Good to see you have a gig since Coke and that Max Headroom TV show! [:P]
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He’s (Max Headroom) a cool guy! [:D] I was into computers
before they were cool! (1960’s) He still shows up on SCI-
FI channel once in awhile. Glad some others remember him!
Heck, I remember him, and I’m “only” 30. Does that mean I’m not young anymore 