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To: JustPiper

That is fine.
Just let me know how it's done.


3,621 posted on 07/09/2004 8:49:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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Two Teens Found With Syringes Containing Nerve Gas Antidote

POSTED: 9:06 am EDT July 8, 2004

LILLINGTON, N.C. -- Federal investigators are trying to determine how two teenagers obtained syringes containing a nerve gas antidote, Lillington police said Wednesday.

Excerptedhttp://www.wsoctv.com/news/3506067/detail.html

3,624 posted on 07/09/2004 8:59:54 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)
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To: Myrddin; JustPiper; WestCoastGal; All

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/9120979.htm

This is a link to an updated news report about the loaded coal train that derailed in Southern Illinois this morning.

snip:
>>Thomson said the train of three locomotives and 136 cars loaded with coal derailed as it crossed a bridge over the roadway. He said eight coal cars fell onto the interstate and four others derailed, but those did not fall onto the roadway.

It's unclear whether the bridge over the interstate gave way or the train simply derailed when it was on the bridge, he said.

Tom Zerrusen, a district engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the bridge seemed stable, even though a concrete walkway alongside the track crumbled when the train cars fell.

"There is no problem with the overhead bridge," Zerrusen said. "People can use the road as soon as we can get the coal removed."

Fleda McCoy, 46, of Murphysboro, had just merged onto the interstate going south when she saw the train derail.

She said she saw debris falling from underneath the bridge before the train cars fell off.

"It seemed like the track was giving away," McCoy told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Fragments and pieces of coal started hitting my car."

She said her car wasn't damaged, but she was shaken, having stopped only two car lengths back from the derailment.<<

Wouldn't a railway bridge that crosses a major interstate be subjected to very strict inspections of the bridges on a regular basis? Shouldn't there have been some early warning signs that the bridge was becoming unstable?

For some reason, this incident seems hinky to me.


3,627 posted on 07/09/2004 9:05:21 PM PDT by KylaStarr
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To: Cindy

No clue, you must mail JimRob


3,753 posted on 07/10/2004 12:16:42 AM PDT by JustPiper (You here to pee in my Wheaties?)
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