[dirtboy]

How many hostage crises, hijackings, or massive acts of sabotage have been carried out against trains in the U.S. (or using trains as weapons against, e.g., buildings) over the last fifty years?

Nice qualifier - in the U.S.

Now try Madrid, Tokyo and the UK.

So trains can be a viable terror target - and especially when they are more widely used, as some are doing here.

And comparing the difficulty of sabotaging track with a couple of hand tools from Home Depot to the difficulty of acquiring a surface to air missile shows you are just being an obtuse idiot.

Take it back to Germany where maybe they'll fall for it.

[alexander_busek]

[...] shows you are just being an obtuse idiot. [...] Take it back to Germany [...]

Thanks for taking this discussion to a new level. A little abuse and an ad hominem attack always help a debate.

Regards,

[GonzoGOP]

The 50 years was also an important qualifier. The UP City of San Francisco was destroyed by sabotage, but it was more than 50 years ago.

At about 10:32 P.M. on August 12, 1939, westbound train No. 101, consisting of 14 cars carrying 149 passengers, approached a bridge over the Humboldt River. Sometime earlier that day, someone had removed the splice bars at a rail joint 165 feet east of the bridge. The rails were pried out of alignment and deliberately re-spiked nearly five inches out of gauge.

Totals were killed 24 and injured 121. Probable cause was an ongoing labor dispute against the railroad.