Posted on 03/22/2020 4:08:21 PM PDT by aimhigh
A man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track. The stretch of track affected was just before a bridge outside Frankfurt.
A train driver noticed "something unusual" while crossing the bridge early on Friday. Several trains had already passed over the section before the issue was discovered. Rail operator Deutsche Bahn described the incident as "sabotage". . . .
According to German news site Der Spiegel, the rails were five centimetres further apart than usual. This could have caused trains to derail and even send them plunging off the bridge.
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Maybe M. O’Hammed. Different than a guy with one ham on his shoulder..... MO’ Hamhead.
Mick o’Ham-Head...
That little Irish suicide bomber with the funny turban???
Yes. He survived Ottmuth and Buchenwald concentration camps—as a 16 through liberation at age 19. Singing songs and much else to survive.
And the “brogans” that hiss from the fuses in them. That dude the shoe clown is lifer at SuperMax ADX Colorado ( it think, maybe it’s Marion Max).
I would like to see the ware pattern on the Rail Head.
Just out of Previously Professional interest.
Well it’s high speed, not conventional railing....aren’t those top and side of the rail wheels which, as long as the gauge is precisely maintained, could not “jump” the rail. Hence a 2” width increase in one linkage (and maybe on a curve) section or the attachment of a continuous rail-— would result in a catastrophic derailment. Wonder what the section speed is in that area of track.
Not as a pro— but had several old kin who worked/drove for Burlington and the Burlington Northern.
I have written a bit of a geekfest reply to your post, if you wish to suffer it I’ll FReepmail it to you.
send when there is a follow up with more real facts like type of train. we’ll catch up but bet they wont give a name if he’s a muzzie.
Like the muzzie airline mechanic in Miami who sabotaged an airspeed device, he was just trying to guarantee a little OT for his buds.
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