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NTSB releases preliminary report on Virginia train crash involving Congress members
WTKR ^ | 21 Feb 2018 | Staff

Posted on 02/21/2018 11:35:17 AM PST by csvset

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To: cpdiii

It was a suicide attack!

Not.

It was stupidity. If it was an planned attack, there wouldn’t have been three people still in the truck as it got hit.


21 posted on 02/21/2018 12:05:57 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: shelterguy
Then why stay on the train tracks? If the crossing rail is down, why not just drive through it with the truck? There was a train barreling down on them, after all, why worry about damaging the crossing rail vs. losing your life? Sorry, but this is fishy.
22 posted on 02/21/2018 12:06:51 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Thank you! Finally!


23 posted on 02/21/2018 12:07:10 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: csvset

They really didn’t give enough views to understand what happened. The overhead (drone?) picture has weird irregular masked areas in it. Must be nothing to see hear. Let’s just move along.


24 posted on 02/21/2018 12:11:06 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SkyPilot

I’m following Q posts with interest, so this is not to denounce him. However, the man that dies was indentified on a local Virginia station and as a normal American husband and father. They also reported that the barriers at this RR crossing were notorious for “sticking,” according to neighbors.

My question about this train trip is who was paying for this trip for these congresscritters and their families? Let me guess...

Why couldn’t they have their meeting in DC without their families?


25 posted on 02/21/2018 12:11:08 PM PST by RealVirginia
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To: Major Matt Mason

If you go around the arms you can get off the platform. Tires can’t get over the rails and there you sit.

It happens all the time. No conspiracy here, just a truck driver who took on a train and lost.


26 posted on 02/21/2018 12:12:06 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: SkyPilot

Another good reason to dismiss Q.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 12:15:16 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: cpdiii

The reason I do not believe the incident was railroad sabotage is that no congressman out and about were shot


28 posted on 02/21/2018 12:15:19 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: SubMareener

That is a strange picture. Why the blacked out portions? I don’t know why there would be a need for that.


29 posted on 02/21/2018 12:16:37 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: max americana
That’s nice. Tell us something we dont know like what were the names of the 3 who were in the truck to start.

Moe, Larry and Curley.

30 posted on 02/21/2018 12:17:51 PM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I agree. I am not a believer in Q but I find the posts fascinating and entertaining. I think it’s because I want Q to be real. But I keep thinking we are being punked, either by the bad guys or by a politcal/news junkie.


31 posted on 02/21/2018 12:18:02 PM PST by RealVirginia
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To: csvset; ransomnote
According to Brenden Dilley’s Intel sources, a 12 member military tribunal panel was part of (original?) target of this train crash. Their travel was deliberately leaked by a dirty politician.

https://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/brenden-dilley-intel-source-part-2/

32 posted on 02/21/2018 12:18:25 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Major Matt Mason

He tried to beat the train and lost.

Pretty simple.

Happens all the time.


33 posted on 02/21/2018 12:20:59 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: SaxxonWoods

I don’t see a train crash that just happened to target most GOP members of Congress to be “another good reason to dismiss Q.” In fact, the contrary is more apt.


34 posted on 02/21/2018 12:21:03 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: shelterguy
It happens all the time. No conspiracy here, just a truck driver who took on a train and lost.

That's probably what happened.

Larry: "Hey Moe! The crossing gate's closing! We're gonna be late again! We'll be fired for sure!"
Moe: "Not if I can help it - I'll go around the gate!"
Curley: "But we'll get hit by the train!"
Moe: "Nah, it's probably a freight train - they're slow"
[truck gets stuck on the tracks]
Larry: "Moe! The train's coming fast! Gun it!"
[Moe guns the truck - it starts to come off]
Moe: "There, you numbskulls - see? I told ya we'd make..." CRASH!

35 posted on 02/21/2018 12:25:16 PM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: RealVirginia

The driver could have been dead/incapacitated before the collision. I have no proof of that. But I don’t trust these guys. Perhaps the “center wing tank” of the garbage truck exploded?


36 posted on 02/21/2018 12:25:17 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Major Matt Mason

To go around the barrier you have to drive over the rails without help of the crossover. Doesn’t always work, vehicles get caught on the rails often when this is tried.

If it was an attack, why 3 people in the truck? Only need one to drive. Why place the truck on the tracks on purpose and then sit in it and wait get smashed with 3 people?

It’s not fishy.


37 posted on 02/21/2018 12:27:27 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: COBOL2Java

It happens more frequently during harvest season around here. Fatigued drivers under a time crunch.

If you want to stop a train don’t use a truck. You will lose every single time.

It is funny yet sad that so many think this was some sort of attempt to get at the Republicans on board.


38 posted on 02/21/2018 12:29:50 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: csvset

http://wina.com/news/064460-drivers-say-train-crossing-had-problems-day-before-crash/

“Jane Rogers told The Associated Press on Thursday that she crosses the intersection almost every day. She says she got stuck there Tuesday because the arms were lowered even though no train was coming.

Crozet resident Gene Locke told AP he had the same problem Tuesday.”

The refuse truck driver likely assumed the gates were malfunctioning again, and tried to drive around them, but they were not malfunctioning this time.


39 posted on 02/21/2018 12:34:46 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: csvset

Plenty of witnesses reported immediately that that crossing was notorious for false train alarms. The gates would go down, bells ringing, lights flashing, and....no train. The locals said people often drove around the stupid false alarms.

This time it was real.

30yo trash truck drivers are not famous for brilliance nor impulse control. The trash guys are often convicted felons, a collection of guys also not known for impulse control. Hopefully was given drug tests. I’m glad the waste guys hire them—hey but for the grace...but this wasn’t some deliberate plot.

Q-laid drinkers need fo step back from Corsi and Alex Jones. They are nuts.


40 posted on 02/21/2018 12:37:23 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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