Posted on 06/07/2024 3:54:56 AM PDT by Libloather
A 29-year-old woman in Hidalgo, Mexico is dead after attempting to take a selfie with a train bound for Mexico City, but got too close to the tracks.
The woman, who has not been identified, was part of a crowd to witness the final leg of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) 1930 Empress 2816 steam locomotive's journey, which departed from Calgary in Alberta, Canada on April 24. Last year, the cross-continental Final Spike Steam Tour became the first ever steam-powered passenger train in North America to traverse across Canada, the United States, and Mexico in a single trip.
In footage of the tragic incident obtained by TMZ, spectators can be seen excitedly chattering, holding up phones, and cheering as the speeding locomotive neared the crowd. However, at the last moment, the victim, who could be seen wearing an orange top, inched preciously close to the tracks with the train at her back as she held her phone in front of her. In an instant, she was knocked off her feet and tossed to the side of the tracks.
She was reportedly pronounced dead a short time later by first responders who arrived at the scene. The woman's family was said to have been with her in Hidalgo at the time of the incident.
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I was looking at a Reddit post the other day about an abandoned roundhouse in the high desert in Chile. Full of
Baldwin and German locomotives. The nitrate ran out in the mines and they just left them.
DARWIN CANDIDATE
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“I saw the video. Pretty brutal.”
Yes. Trains manage to be both the Immovable Object and the Irresistible Force at the same time.
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