'Train Surfer' Burned Alive On Roof Of 155mph Train Amid Fears For 'Missing Female Companion'

LAD Bible ^ | 8/8/2019 | Rebecca Shepherd

[KC Burke]

I don’t know how many are familiar with the Unit Trains made up of hundreds of open coal cars that run big coal runs into power plants.

Well rather than normal coupling these cars have rotary couplings. Imagine a car being able to spin completely over on its longitudinal axis and dump its full load in two seconds as it rotates.

Well that is what they actually do in a Car Dumper Building. Giant clamps come in from each side and then the whole thing spins. It’s the noisiest thing you have ever heard.

Now suppose a dumb hobo climbs on that load of black coal and falls asleep and gets dumped to the conveyor hoppers 18 feet below. That actually happened at Iatan Power Plant north of Kansas City in the late 80s.

And he lived.

[bgill]

Stupid is as stupid does.

Anyone have some bbq sauce?

[FLT-bird]

Darwin is still at work.

[csvset]

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, burn, MF, burn.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Thank you, that’s better.

[Kommodor]

Be vewwy quiet?

[StormEye]

"Shocking. Simply shocking!"

[LouAvul]

Mr Mikhailenko had already passed away when rescuers reached him

To be filed in "statements that don't really need to be made."

[Deaf Smith]

The train surfing couple had a blog?

The Adventures Of Ohms & Watts?

*Didn't know how many watts it would take to kill me, but I know how much was used.

[kenmcg]

Well at least he's in the running for the annual “Asshole of the Year Award”.....posthumously.

[IronJack]

I’ve heard those coal trains dumping at the Port Neal power facility near Sioux City, Iowa. From five miles away, you can’t carry on a conversation for the noise. I can’t imagine what it must be like right next door.

[sport]

He still is more intelligent than some members of the United States of America’s House of Representatives. Who are they? Hank Johnson and Sheila Jackson Lee. These two make Cortez seem like a member on Mensa.

[Amberdawn]

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[OA5599]

Other 'train surfers' have expressed concern for Anya Morozova, 20, who has been missing since the incident and whose phone is off.

Not really related to your article, but I met an Anya Morozova from St. Petersburg during a port call in Haifa, Israel in 1997. So it was weird to come across her name so many years later. For a split second I thought, "Oh no! Oh wait, this one is only 20." Mine would be 39 right now. Wrong Anya.

[OA5599]

Damn, I was just listening to that song about a half an hour ago.

[csvset]

Fits the scenario nicely.

[Pelham]

👍

[Phil DiBasquette]

Ladykillers, Emperor of The North (Pole),
Under Siege 2, From Russia With Love

[Phil DiBasquette]

[KC Burke]

I was actually in the building as it was operating. In an observation room, but same building. It was amazing how fast the actual dump-then-clamps-pull-forward, cycle back and grab the next car and yank it forward occurred. car to car maybe 12 seconds or less.