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Posted on 08/22/2006 5:30:44 AM PDT by MichaelP
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| Occurred : 1/14/2002 02:47 (Entered as : 01/14/02 2:47) Reported: 4/3/2006 11:51:27 AM 11:51 Posted: 5/15/2006 Location: Paintsville, KY Shape: Disk Duration:15 minutes |
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| Train Collision At exactly 2:47 a.m. on Jan. 14 02, while working a coal train enroute from Russell Kentucky to Shelbiana Kentucky, our trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as we struck an unknown floating or hovering object. I know it was 2:47 because my watch froze, and to this day shows that time. Along with my watch the entire electrical systems on both locomotives went haywire. Approaching a bend near milepost cmg 42 in an area referred to as the wild kingdom, for the many different types of animals spotted there, my conductor and I saw lights coming from around the way. This ordinarily means another train is coming and will pass on the other track. The outlay of the area is this, the river, #1 track, #2 track and a straight up mountainside, carved out for the laying of these tracks. I killed our lights as not to blind the oncoming crew. As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and thats when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something, the objects, (at least 3) had several "search" lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track. Metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle, no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. Approximately 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high. With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished into thin air. Our emergency brakes had initiated due to the loss of power and we stopped approximately a mile and a half to two miles after impact. Our power restored after we were stopped and we notified our dispatcher, located in Jacksonville Fla. of what had happened. We were told to inspect the cars to see if they'd hold the rail and try to limp into milepost cmg 60 which used to be the Paintsville yard which is no longer in full operation. We checked everything out and the cab of the rear locomotive was demolished and smoking, the second two cars looked as if they had been hit with a giant hammer but looked like they'd hold the rail. We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train. We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train. Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials. A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we'd be medically tested before we could leave. I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductors cellular phone. Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity. We were lead off property and told due to national security our silence on this matter would be appreciated. We were then put in a Railroad vehicle and taken to Martin Kentucky were we went throgh questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested. After all of this we were sent on to Shelbiana, where we took rest for 8 hours and worked another train back to Russell. Working back we passed by Paintsville, no sign of the engines, cars, tent, people, nothing. ((COMMENT/ADDENDUM FROM VISITOR TO NUFORC SITE, MAY 16, 2006)) For what it's worth, as a railfan I can say the terminology/slang the witness is using is accurate and how he describes the train's reaction seems likely. Since he says his dispatcher is in Jacksonville, FL, I can tell it happened on CSX. You might want to ask him about that and if he remembers the unit numbers or model. Locomotives last between 15-20 years unless they are totally demolished in a wreck. That means the units involved are most likely still in service and can, perhaps, be examined. Another FWIW would be the Portland, OR, railcams that operate 24/7 with some sky in the views. I doubt that they archive their feed but you never know. ((END ADDENDUM)) |
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Ping list FYI:
Tuesday AM, Coast to Coast has Dr. Stanton Friedman on to discuss the physics behind UFOs.
UFO-o-phobe!
Since there are no real UFO's it is not possible to fear them.
Only the level of derangement of those who claim to have seen them while sober.
Thanks thanks.
My beloved close relative was not working around figments of his imagination.
Nor was he working only around manmade "platforms."
Thanks for the ping Dave.
Definately not Freepers. No camera . No lap top.
Psych 101...Schizophrenics build castles in the air. Manic depressives move in.
As to your proof of UFO's. I once had a chicken that laid eggs with a U.S. flag on them. I swear it's true. It's true because I told you so. My dear realative swears it's true because I told him so, also. There! SEE!! That proves it. How could anyone doubt.
UFOOL is calling you.
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LOL, as long as it doesn't strike Mulder!!
Why are you so passionate about disproving UFOs? It's interesting but I don't see a need to slam people that believe they are real.
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I'm laughing! If that is Mulder, I didn't know he could dance so well!!
Psych 101...Schizophrenics build castles in the air. Manic depressives move in.
As to your proof of UFO's. I once had a chicken that laid eggs with a U.S. flag on them. I swear it's true. It's true because I told you so. My dear realative swears it's true because I told him so, also. There! SEE!! That proves it. How could anyone doubt.
UFOOL is calling you.
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I think I see a pattern here.
1. Off the wall assumptions reign in the service of the ego to defend against great discomfort and existential angst brought on by the frightening prospect of admitting that ET's et al exist.
2. These assumptions are likely akin to other assumptions being greatly eroneous about many things from evolution to a spouse's or significant other's comfort, trustworthiness, etc.
3. The enormous, seemingly chronic and wholesale distrust of one's loved ones is probably accompanied by a great emotional, existential distance between the ASS-U-MEr and the ASSumer's closer friends and sort of loved ones.
4. This unfulfilling considerable emotional distance likely winds up the ego to more religiously, fiercely, intensely insist on brazenly, illogically shooting down all and sundry notions which the least bit contradict the ASSumer's tidy little boxed constructions on reality.
5. Probably such ASSUmer's would find it super difficult to ask for directions; to trust any directions asked for and perhaps even to travel very far in unfamiliar territory.
6. Such anxiety ridden compulsive perspectives may at times leave said assumers fondling chicken eggs and pretending the ovoid fascination is partiotic.
7. Or, the compulsions may merely leave the assumer's salivating at the prospect of more ranting to do toward those who dare to construe reality differently.
8. It probably won't cross such an assumer's consciousness until it's too late . . . but such isolations brought on by such rigid, narrow, tidy little constructions on reality CAN, on occasion, make one more vulnerable to be abducted. Less messy when one isn't closely emotionally connected to one's social network.
9. And, it's clear . . . freaking out to such extremes against folks who just happen to have a trustworthy construction on reality different from that of the assumers . . . welll, it's just not a great way to win friends and keep them around longer than seconds to minutes. So, isolation CAN result. And, somehow ET's know such things. Or, at least, some researchers seem to think so.
10. But, all is not lost. The abudctions probably add to intergalactic science in some meaningful way. Or else the anal probes are just a way of assessing the new specimens for the inter galactic zoo. Or is it for their food locker?
LOL.
A "Little Gray"
I had to use a #444444 BG
It looks good on black. I can get rid of that 'flash' - if you want.
It's clear you are not able to write any better than you are able to think.
Thanks for the proof.
And how clever? of your use of the word assume. tsk tsk.
Is the Mothership behind Uranus? Oh my, that's almost as clever as your claptrap gibberish. TaTa
Why should I have to prove that something that doesn't exist, doesn't exist? I offer as proof, that no-one has ever produced one for examination. I also state that if all the real UFO's went away there would still be the exact same amount of sightings.
And your counter proof would be......?
Proof? I'm just here for the show. I was just wondering why it was so important to you to prove they don't exist.
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