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To: Hulka
I've been doing the Metro thing for years

One Friday you ought to hop off at Takoma Station and join other DC Chapter members and friends at Walter Reed.

I hope the DC Chapter members who ride that Metro check in safe. Also, Red Line is the oldest part of the Metro subway system, IIRC.

Fox News running live coverage at this minute. Prayers coming from Dixie...

118 posted on 06/22/2009 3:52:10 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
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To: onemiddleamerican

I don’t know if this will end up being related to the incident, but there was a problem that caused a massive delay on the Red Line BEFORE the awful crash. A train was stuck before Tenleytown and it took almost an hour to get the following train (which I was on) to push it all the way to Tenleytown. Red Line was massively backed up between 4 and 5. Could everyone at Metro have been so distracted that they lost track of their equipment or were trying to rush things into service?

Prayers for those involved.


126 posted on 06/22/2009 4:00:37 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: onemiddleamerican
Red Line is the oldest part of the Metro subway system

That is the Western and Central Red Line. This is the Eastern side and is more recent.

154 posted on 06/22/2009 4:34:21 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: onemiddleamerican

Have done. . .admittedly a long time ago.

Thanks for the reminder.


170 posted on 06/22/2009 5:01:32 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: onemiddleamerican

“I hope the DC Chapter members who ride that Metro check in safe.”

We are on vacation. :) All safe and sound here. Hubby usually carpools, but does sometimes Metro (not Red line though).

Prayers for those on the trains and their loved ones.


218 posted on 06/22/2009 7:07:21 PM PDT by Cailleach
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