Surely, this must be the result of police brutality!
Posted on 09/27/2011 6:56:03 AM PDT by Bean Counter
Vancouver, WA - A main rail line in the Portland-Vancouver area was taken out of service for hours Monday after officials received reports of track tampering.
The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office said about a dozen locations in a 60-mile stretch from Vancouver to Chehalis, Wash., were tampered with. Local law enforcement agencies were working with railway investigators.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe workers discovered the tampering about 11 a.m., said Gus Melonas, a spokesman for BNSF, which owns the line. Several Amtrak passenger trains were delayed as inspectors checked the tracks.
At least nine trains, including freight as well as passenger, were halted during the inspections.
The line carries 50 to 60 trains a day, Melonas said. They include 10 Amtrak runs, five each way between Portland and Seattle; as many as 40 freight trains, from both BNSF and Union Pacific; and various local and maintenance trains.
Melonas didn't elaborate on what the tampering reports entailed but said an internal police investigation was under way.
Monday afternoon, Melonas said, "We have determined after a thorough inspection that the line is safe for operation." However, he added that inspections would continue throughout the evening.
Trains were still operating below normal speeds, he said, and further delays were possible depending on later inspections.
Anyone who did this just committed an act of domestic terrorism in my view. They put any number of people at risk of serious injury and death if one of those Amtrack trains had derailed, not to mention the hazards of derailing any freight train.
Time to bring in the heavy guns on these guys. This incident is so far over the line there is no telling what these guys will stop at now.
Oregon and Washington *ping* please!
Being that this is SW Washington this could easily have been meth freaks stealing the metal.
I can’t wait for high-speed rail!!!!!
Time to bring in the heavy guns on these guys.
Agreed.
I would think that it would be one of the environmental groups, better known as tree huggers, other than amuslim group. The muslim mo is just blow up the damn train. The environmentals get their rocks off sabatoging and sitting back and laughting at the results.
Train tracks are very easy to sabotage and hard to protect.
Threats are very serious, whoever makes them better be put down soon.
Moslems or union thugs?
I had the same thoughts. What have been the whereabouts of the Longview Union Thugs during the past week?
Surely, this must be the result of police brutality!
They won’t, the unions get a pass....if it was normal citizens .... the swat teams would have had a sniper put a bullet in their head already
Now we know what Obama paling around with terrorists gets us when he is the President of the United States......it also says a lot about the Democrat Party
Bookmarking this brown shirt event for history
And...
No pat downs!
I live in the area. Felida is my neighborhood.
I’m willing to bet it was the union thugs, and it maybe time to fight fire with fire. Authorities aren’t going to do anything, not with the head Union-Thug occupying the WH. It may fall on average citizens fed up with their crap to hand out some reprisals. Your mother, MY mother could have been on that train, and has been before.
The irony is that the BNSF Railroad is owned by Warren Buffet.
For your information, the scrap yards in Washington and Oregon will not only not accept any kind of railroad scrap metal, they will call 911 if you pull into their lot with any on your vehicle.
Yanking back the irony curtain even further, this was most likely a case of union thugs who are pissed off at some of their other union brothers, who just put even more of their railroad union brothers at extreme risk, not to mention even more of their union brethren emergency responders among police and fire services who would have willingly risked their lives to go in and deal with a massive derailment.
This is still nothing short of urban terrorism, and it is far from over.
“Train tracks are very easy to sabotage and hard to protect.”
I recall as a kid putting pennies on the tracks and hiding in the bushes. At 9 years old we knew it was a FEDERAL offense to tamper with the tracks by putting pennies on them - AND destroying U.S. currency! But we would cast all caution aside and do it anyway inspite of (or perhaps because of) the risk of getting caught by the F.B.I.
Funny though - even then I would think how easy it would be (or so it seemed) to wedge a heavy bar or timber on the tracks that might derail a train. Of course, someone with a terrorist mindset can find all sorts of things/places that would be easy targets. (And yes - me as a 9-year old boy pretty much did have a terrorist mindset!)
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