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BREAKING: Five dead as high-speed train derails near French city
UK Express ^ | November 14 | Rob Virtue

Posted on 11/14/2015 8:06:49 AM PST by PghBaldy

AT LEAST five people have died and seven have been injured after a high-speed train derailed near the French City of Strasbourg, local media has reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; francetraincrash; parisjihadattack; strasbourg; train
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To: canuck_conservative
Derailment at a bridge crossing. Classic terrorist move. I’m saying this was no coincidence.

Bingo. If terrorists can get AK47s they can get their hands on railroad derailers.

61 posted on 11/14/2015 9:04:21 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: pepsionice

http://www.br.de/nachrichten/schleierfahnder-attentat-paris-100.html


62 posted on 11/14/2015 9:05:49 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
As far as I know this is first derailment in TGV's history and a quick web search turned up this on wiki: The safety figures for the TGV system are exceptional; there have been no fatalities in high-speed operation since service started in 1981

What a coincidence

63 posted on 11/14/2015 9:20:49 AM PST by BronzePencil (Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!)
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To: PghBaldy; Old Sarge; aragorn; null and void; Velveeta; Myrddin; Califreak; Salvation; ...

Article, # 50 , 57 , ... and photos

64 posted on 11/14/2015 9:27:39 AM PST by LucyT
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To: FourPeas

That’s terrible if it does turn out that the bridge jumped out there and struck this train. Sneaky bridges. And I here I thought they were all peaceful.


65 posted on 11/14/2015 9:29:15 AM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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To: PghBaldy

Inviting all those islamic “refugees” in and giving them all sorts of stuff is turning out to be a real game winner.


66 posted on 11/14/2015 9:29:55 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Theoria

Just happened to occur on a bridge and cars are scattered everywhere. Naw, nothing more than a mishap in the laboratory. Move along. Nothing to see.


67 posted on 11/14/2015 9:45:04 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Theoria; PghBaldy
Thanks for the OHI! Here it is -- post-processed to enhance visibility of soil disturbance:

The train left the tracks out-of-frame off to the lower left of the photo.

It appears that the front unit stayed almost on course, and the remainder of the train "whiplashed" out toward the adjacent rail line.

The piece of car at mid-upper right (at the end of the row of trees) appears to be the front end. If the initiation source was onboard, I'd look for evidence of the source in the engine unit.

The burning debris at the lower left corner of the bridge should contain some clues...

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It must have been nearly empty of passengers -- otherwise, the casualty toll would have been much higher, IMO...

68 posted on 11/14/2015 9:52:15 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA

If it was, indeed, traveling at TGV speeds, that would account for the front unit traveling almost airborne and almost in a straight line from the point of rail departure...


69 posted on 11/14/2015 9:59:12 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: FourPeas

Awful lot of damage for a “derailment”.


70 posted on 11/14/2015 12:04:01 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil
Awful lot of damage for a “derailment”.

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As I implied in #69, the mass of a train traveling this fast:

A TGV test train set the record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on 3 April 2007.

In mid-2011, scheduled TGV trains operated at the highest speeds in conventional train service in the world, regularly reaching 320 km/h (200 mph)....

can almost fly when it leaves the tracks. Toss in an elevated railbed and a canal -- and you have a recipe for mayhem...
71 posted on 11/14/2015 12:34:36 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: PghBaldy
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72 posted on 11/14/2015 12:38:50 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Kudsman

It looks like sabotage to me, based on the facts.
Too much smoke, smoke in too many places, too much damage of the wrong kind and in the wrong place for a simple derailment.
TWB


73 posted on 11/14/2015 1:06:25 PM PST by TWhiteBear (i)
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To: TWhiteBear
Simple derailment?

You call leaving an elevated railbed at over 200 mph a simple derailment?

Every point you made is wrong.

Put away your conspiracy theorist hat until you learn enough about simple physics to even try analyzing complex disasters.

See #68 for an introduction to analysis...

74 posted on 11/14/2015 8:50:01 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Theoria

Very interesting picture. Appears the motivepower, at lower left in the pic, left the tracks well before the bridge. I would imagine that the rest of the train did as well. Any more pics of the bridge itself?


75 posted on 11/15/2015 7:39:29 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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