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An Amtrak train with 183 passengers has been stranded in Oregon for more than 24 hours
CNN via msn ^ | 26 Feb 2019 | Christina Maxouris

Posted on 02/26/2019 2:27:43 AM PST by blueplum

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1 posted on 02/26/2019 2:27:43 AM PST by blueplum
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Paging Ocasio-Cortez ... cleanup on track 1....


2 posted on 02/26/2019 2:30:09 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Abortion - human sacrifice to the god of self)
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difference between this party and the Donner party? This one is worried about running out of diapers.


3 posted on 02/26/2019 2:30:20 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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In the 1960s, some local lumberjack would have come out....cut the tree in half, and hauled off the tree in a matter of three hours. I guess they are waiting on some lumberjack to arrive?


4 posted on 02/26/2019 2:30:46 AM PST by pepsionice
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Jeb! can fix it


5 posted on 02/26/2019 2:41:09 AM PST by heavy12773
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Will Eddie Willers please pick up the red courtesy phone, Eddie Willers


6 posted on 02/26/2019 2:42:01 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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I just bet they’re having fun...as long as the liquor lasts


7 posted on 02/26/2019 2:42:54 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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If it’s on the coast (the Seattle-LA run?), there’s really big trees there, like several feet in diameter - those take special care to take down. (But then that’s also logging country, so you’d think there would be somebody capable around there)

It happened to me about 20 years ago, near Whistler on BC Rail, a big hemlock fell across the tracks and we were stranded for 6 hours ... went through their entire liquor supply, free of charge of course


8 posted on 02/26/2019 2:44:58 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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My thought. Passenger trains are far more accommodable than airplanes today. They’re stocked with supplies enough for several days at least. They probably won’t have to resort to cannibalism.


9 posted on 02/26/2019 2:47:14 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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they’re waiting for the state to approve the destruction of a felled tree known to be the habitat of the spotted owl and three-toed ant. And the approval is pending receipt of an environmental impact statement on placing any felled tree parts on either side of the tracks, as well as effects of local demolition upon the surrounding wildlife and steps taken to mitigate such effects, filed in triplicate.


10 posted on 02/26/2019 2:47:42 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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I travel with sleeping pills.


11 posted on 02/26/2019 2:52:01 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true)
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Opposite end of country here, but we had many trees down past few days & some took forever to clear (one blocking a 4-lane state hwy) because they were so numerous. Hope the train passengers get out soon if they haven’t already.


12 posted on 02/26/2019 2:52:12 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Opposite end of country here, but we had many trees down past few days & some took forever to clear (one blocking a 4-lane state hwy) because they were so numerous. Hope the train passengers get out soon if they haven’t already.


13 posted on 02/26/2019 2:56:00 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Dagny Taggart would have got things moving by now.


14 posted on 02/26/2019 3:06:17 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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This is more of a snow story than a train being stopped by a tree. It seems like all the places that have been suffering from less snow for the last 10 years are finally getting it again. It’s all Cyclical.


15 posted on 02/26/2019 3:32:54 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Fake news, un-possible. Everyone knows this generation will never again know what snow looks like.


16 posted on 02/26/2019 3:37:00 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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Passenger Carly Bigby told CNN affiliate KOIN 6 the snack cart on the train is empty and people have run out of diapers for their children.

OH the humanity!!!!!!!

17 posted on 02/26/2019 3:43:17 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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They’re stocked with supplies enough for several days at least. They probably won’t have to resort to cannibalism..............

In 1972 or 73, my wife and I took AMTRACK from Chicago to DC. The food had been stolen from the train before we left the Chicago yards. Tornadoes devastated Cincinnati, knocking out all power. Our train was delayed and hand switched through town. 8 hours late to DC making a 24 hour run into more than 30. No food, no coffee, no liquor; the little kids really suffered.


18 posted on 02/26/2019 3:47:27 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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" (But then that’s also logging country, so you’d think there would be somebody capable around there)"

Democrats have spent the last 20 years diligently destroying the lumber industry, around here. Old growth forests are off limits, and while replanted trees are starting to get large enough for harvesting, finding young men who are willing to take the risks inherent in lumbering is harder, all the time.

The public schools in Oregon and Washington have spent a long time convincing children that a degree in gender studies is worth more than being able to set a choker.

19 posted on 02/26/2019 3:50:53 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Dixie Yooper
This is more of a snow story than a train being stopped by a tree.

A straight snow/train story minus tree:

https://www.southernminnesotanews.com/national-guard-rescues-crews-from-two-stranded-trains-in-freeborn-county/

20 posted on 02/26/2019 4:18:50 AM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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