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Posted on 04/02/2020 7:50:18 AM PDT by Morgana
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say.
The Pacific Harbor Line train derailed Tuesday, running through the end of the track and crashing through barriers, finally coming to rest about 250 yards from the docked naval ship.
Federal prosecutors allege train engineer Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro intended to hit the ship, saying he thought it was "suspicious" and did not believe "the ship is what they say it's for.'"
The train crashed into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, smashed through a steel barrier and a chain-link fence, slid through one parking lot and then a second lot filled with gravel and hit a second chain-link fence. It came to rest after passing under a ramp leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge. The train remained in that position Wednesday.
No one was injured in the derailment, but the train leaked fuel that required a hazmat response.
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It’s something nefarious, according to the engineer’s neighbor’s dog.
Hope he is being considered a terrorist and is punished accordingly.
According to a FReeper with knowledge of the geography, he fell short by about 150 yards.
How rude
Stupid comment; he was born in the USA and attends a Pentecostal assembly. It looks far more likely he is a conservative than a liberal; just went full conspiracy; don’t go full conspiracy.
China is in cahoots with the various cartels you'd have to imagine
He will probably get less time than Stone.
That locomotive probably couldn't have reached the ship's pier even if it was traveling at 500 mph.
With one of those AOC rail lines that cross the oceans. 'n junk.
Stupid comment; his info is already on the Internet; looks like a right wing Pentecostal who bought into one too many conspiracies
Thank God Eduardo wasn’t an airline pilot.
I deal with over the road truck drivers everyday. There are some real crazy ones out there, there are some real stupid ones out there, there are many that spend their nights listening to Coast to Coast am and there are many that believe that Alex Jones is the second coming. The three that are left are good guys. Train engineers are not immune.
Maybe he thought he was going to Evel Knievel that thing...just fly off the dock unto the ship.
Well said. It’s just as likely this train guy was nuts or on some mind bending drug as he was a foreign agent.
There was a WWII sub crew who blew up a train, had a special battle emblem just for that. The specifics elude me and I am remote at the moment.
I’ve done that many times! Chose the wrong club or flubbed the swing.
Hello AAA, better send the big tow truck....
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