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Wyoming man sentenced for locomotive theft
Was the other employee that hit the fuel cutoff switch riding the engine the whole time? If he was, I’ll bet he has a harrowing story to tell also.
Never really could understand this as a function of being upset.
GEB,
The “another employe” can be plausibly explained.
Let’s guess which kind of employe would ride around a loop, tear up a track-scale, enter the mainline and travel 13 miles and endure 3 collisions with a stopped train?
Before taking corrective action.?
GEB, did the stolen locomotives hit the rear end of the stopped UP train?
Or the head end of it?
If the latter, the “another employe” was likely from the stopped UP traIn’s crew…
Fuel cut off switch is mounted on side of locomotive where it can be tripped by someone on the ground next to motor.
JMZ
Bingo, that’s why I suggested a head-on collision and activation by the UP trains crew.
Trick questions:
“Fuel cut-off switch” is mounted on the engineer’s side or fireman’s side of a locomotive?
Where do emergency fuel cut-off switches live on locomotives?
Are and were the fuel cut-off functions of the switches mechanical or electrical during the years the years, 75 years of E and F units?..
Sounds like the judge got some campaign contribution money before he sentenced this guy. This act definitely deserved some jail/prison time.
Sounds like he got sentenced in Southern California, the land of probation and no jailtime.
Does anyone proof-read this before it’s posted? “Former employee” should be former employer. “He then uncoupled two BNSF Railway and …” Possibly they were locomotives???
At least people attempted to stop the locomotives, according to the link below. The person who hit the fuel cutoff was indeed another employee of Rail Link.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/article_976dac28-50d6-11e4-b13e-001a4bcf6878.html
Nobody is going to try my “trick” questions?
Okay.
CLD,
Is there an explanation for the RailLink employe being at the location of the 3 collisions?
13 miles not 5, not 15 miles? did the RailLink employe ride the vagrant, vicious light engine?
No, Mr. Carlin, nobody is going to respond to your pompous, cryptic blathering. Not this time; not any other time.
OK, so the “HEADLINE READS Locomotive Theft”. I didn’t see that charge referred to anywhere else in the article. I’m NOT condoning what this guy did in any means, but I think the TRAINS staff might be “Hyping-Up” the headlines a bit. In order for a charge of “Theft”, I believe that property has to be taken from its rightful owner. That is, the locomotive would have had to be removed from railroad property. Now, since this is all but impossible, I believe that the actual crime would be less than “Theft”. Joyriding, vandalism, wreckless endangerment, I’d buy that. But “Theft?” I’ll still keep an eye on the local pawn shops for an big EMD anyway…
T.C.
WTC,
I traveled down that road you’re on, following someone who during DPM’s realm brought up the same logic.
What quelled me was a declaration that taking possession of somebody else’s property, depriving that person of it,defined theft., legally.
Say a person in your house’s living room took your weapon and murdered you. That person could also be charged in a court of law with theft.
CK of Wi.
:Pompous and cryptic…
I said they were trick questions…
How do you define cryptic?
Pompous?
excessively elevated?
The questions can be answered by any person who knows most 3-syllable words.
It’s not Lucius Beebe.