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To: soccermom
derail trains? Hmmm... Remember about a year ago it seemed like every other week a train would jump off the track. It was considered tin foil to wonder if there was any terrorist involvement. It was all just the heat bending the track.
20 posted on 06/19/2003 2:18:31 PM PDT by TBall
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To: TBall
derail trains? Hmmm... Remember about a year ago it seemed like every other week a train would jump off the track. It was considered tin foil to wonder if there was any terrorist involvement. It was all just the heat bending the track.

What happened then is that FReepers with actual functioning brain cells looked up the statistics and there had been no actual increase in train derailments over the long-term average.

21 posted on 06/19/2003 2:23:36 PM PDT by John H K
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