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1 posted on 07/25/2013 3:21:25 AM PDT by markomalley
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2 posted on 07/25/2013 3:27:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Bush’s fault!


3 posted on 07/25/2013 3:32:26 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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I saw an article on this last night (nothing on FR, though it may be here), and that article listed recent train tragedies in Europe; amazing how many people have died on trains there in the last decade. And that doesn’t take into account train messes in places like India.

I first thought of Spain’s terror group, but this doesn’t seem to be that?


4 posted on 07/25/2013 3:32:40 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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The trains in Spain crash mainly on the plains


6 posted on 07/25/2013 4:50:15 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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I’ve ridden many times on Spanish trains. They are clean, comfortable and have remarkable on-time performance. I wonder if this train was running late and the driver felt compelled to speed up to arrive on time. Whatever the reason, this is horrifying.


7 posted on 07/25/2013 5:18:27 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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8 posted on 07/25/2013 5:27:02 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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But it’s a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
And from Lima it’s on a three mile grade
It was on that grade that he lost his air brakes
see what a jump he made

He was goin’ down the grade makin’ 90 miles an hour
When his whistle broke into a scream
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
A scalded to death by the steam

Then the telegram come to Washington station
and this is how it read
Oh that brave engineer that run old 97
he’s a layin’ in old Danville dead


9 posted on 07/25/2013 5:36:49 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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Yikes:


10 posted on 07/25/2013 5:39:36 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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Every kid who ever had a train set or slot cars knows this. Something went wrong with the controls or the driver.

They’re saying no terrorism, but why couldn’t it be?


11 posted on 07/25/2013 5:41:26 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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But one of the drivers has admitted that the train took the curve at a speed of around 190km per hour

Trying to show off some of his Fernando Alonso moves?

12 posted on 07/25/2013 6:01:34 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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"The driver of the train made a panicked phone call moments before the crash saying that the train was going too fast.

"I'm at 190 (kmph) and I'm going to derail!" the engine driver told the controllers of RENFE, the rail network.

Two men were at the controls of the train at the time, and it was not clear who had made the call."


Huh?!
16 posted on 07/25/2013 6:16:27 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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