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Train crashes through Chesapeake drawbridge gate, dangling engine
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| 3/26/2010
| Staff
Posted on 03/26/2010 12:24:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
Chesapeake, Va. - An empty freight train crashed through a safety barrier at a raised drawbridge in Chesapeake this morning and the locomotive remains dangling over the Intercoastal Waterway.
A spokesman from the U.S. Coast Guard said the train spilled an estimated 1,700 gallons of diesel fuel into the water. The Coast Guard has closed the waterway while the spill is cleaned up.
Lt. Cmdr Robert Gore said crews are using about 2,000 feet of containment booms to contain the fuel.
Once the fuel is cleaned up the next problem will be getting the engine back on the tracks. Crews are not sure yet how that will be done and said one option would be to bring in a floating crane to lift the engine back onto the tracks. A final decision may not be made until tomorrow once engineers have finished examined the bridge.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bridge; diesel; rail; river; train; trainwreck; uscg
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BRAKING NEWS!...................
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:24:53 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(All politicians are POS. Some are just piled higher and smell worse.)
To: Red Badger
Obamacare is a trainwreck but the media never reported it that way.
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:25:01 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: GeronL
Video at link.............
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:25:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: GeronL
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:25:38 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: GeronL
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:25:50 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:26:24 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: b4its2late
or Toyota brakes?............
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:27:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(All politicians are POS. Some are just piled higher and smell worse.)
To: Red Badger
Was an engineer running the locomotive that's dangling....if so, what happened to him?
Great reporting.
Leni
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:27:23 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
To: MinuteGal
LOL.
I wonder what the crew of that train thinks of this report indicating that the train was "empty."
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:28:29 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: b4its2late
A texting engineer?
Rambling racks for king george’s tax with
an elephant engineer?
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: GeronL
That was a file photo. Always at the ready.
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:28:54 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: MinuteGal
If he’s smart, he’s in Canada by now...............
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: GeronL
To: Red Badger
Usually, this is not good.
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:30:21 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
To: maine-iac7
Whoa - check out that “Faces of meth” thingy there!
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posted on
03/26/2010 12:37:24 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Slump Tester
To: Alberta's Child
I wonder what the crew of that train thinks of this report indicating that the train was "empty." Desperately wishing it was true, I'm sure. They're in big trouble, and alternative employment options are few and far between these days, even for people who *didn't* royally screw up at their last job.
To: Red Badger
BRAKING NEWS!...................
lol
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