Posted on 10/16/2023 6:29:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg is lactating for baby.
The driver died, unfortunately..
One second, you’re minding your own business driving down the interstate, and the next second a train falls on you................
Travel Impacts
It would be a good idea to think about your commute if traveling between the two cities.
Colorado State Patrol advises anyone traveling south on I-25 towards Pueblo will be detoured at mile marker 110 onto Old Pueblo Rd and south to Colorado 47 on the east side of Pueblo.
If you are heading north from Pueblo to Colorado Springs and beyond, use Highway 50 to go west, then link up with Highway 115 through Penrose and on towards Colorado Springs to get back on I-25.
These detours could add a significant amount of traffic and time needed for travel.
Fossil fuel train wrecks are never accidental. Antifa has been using this tactic, along with wild fires for years, now. They even derailed an AMTRAC train in Montana because it ran on the same tracks as the coal trains.
Bridge at 38.388472, -104.619675
Looks old.
Imagine if it was a cargo train full of guns that derailed. The guns would have bone berzerk and would be loose right now wreaking havoc all across the nation... guns be dangerous! /s
Especially when they team up with SUVs.
Perhaps the truck driver misjudged the height of his vehicle in relation to the height of the bridge damaging the bridge and causing the truck to be stuck under the damaged bridge. Then when the train passed over it caused the damaged bridge to collapse on top of the truck.
Sad but I kind of expected that a train falling on your head wouldn’t be survivable.
Whoooo boy that would be turibble indeed! Complete anarchy
Because of Antifa dynamite exploding under the bridge supports?
Per Fox31 TV in Denver: Biden was supposed to be in Pueblo today. Now he cancelled.
Credit for a sane answer suggestion, but from the given photo, doubtful. The image of the bridge shows relatively intact metal structure of the ‘front edge’ that the truck would have hit first, and that part of the bridge looks unscathed.
Fearing an infrastructure failure, these coal trains are more common and much more concentrated on their routes. In Glenwood Canyon, CO, i have seen two 90-100 car coal/coal tar full tankers go through within a half hour, heading east, multiple trains both directions several times daily. Usually westbounds are faster and empty. And there is an attempt to increase oil tanker traffic
Not a crazed EV or anti ICE guy, but sending that much tonnage through a twelve mile canyon is insane. It’s not an energy issue., it’s a disaster “take a different route “ issue. Colorado River, interstate 70, Amtrak all share the canyon’s path. When it closes frequently for “minor incidents “, it is beyond just inconvenient. The alternate traffic route is four hours. The Colorado River is the same one that goes down stream to millions. A closure from a derailment, with ANY oil leakage would be beyond devastating.
FYI, i drive a Ford Expedition 4x4, that’s not going to change.
Most likely that coal train was heading to a coal fired power plant. Antifa would be a very good guess. Watch how fast the feds work to get to the bottom of this.
My guess is that they will have this solved by the 4th of never.
There are MILLIONS of miles of railroad tracks throughout North America. In many places the bridges/overpasses are in bad shape. That is why many old railway tracks are being abandoned. This is because the cost to repair them and bring them up to safety standards is more than that section of track brings in revenue in a five to ten year period.
For example, the Camas Prairie Railroad was purchased ten years ago for the SCRAP value of the iron rails. The company continued to run the railroad for another five years until the overpasses were so bad that the derailments were almost weekly. These derailments were happening even when the cars were only going 5-10 MPH.
Eventually, the government said either repair or abandon the line. They chose to abandon it. First thing they did was pull every piece of iron scrap out from Orofino, Idaho all the way down hill to Lewiston, Idaho.
Biden was supposed to be in Pueblo today but that has been cancelled.................
Not everything is a conspiracy. Derailments happen EVERYDAY on the US rail system. This is because old infrastructure. It comes down to simple return on investment. Most of these rail tracks were laid down in the 1800s. When labor was cheap. The cost to rebuild them today costs much more than these lines generate in revenue on a annual basis.
All of the major North American railroads(UP, BNSF, CN, CPRS, NS, CSXT) are major corporations. They make money by charging for transport of goods. Their profit is reduced by the cost to maintain existing rail lines. So, the less they spend on replacing ties, bridges, overpasses. etc the more they make. The more the CEO gets paid. The more their stock goes up in price.
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