183 passengers boarded the Coastal Starlight Sunday night for a train ride from Seattle to LA. They made it as far as Oakridge, OR where they are still waiting to be rescued, stranded in the snow. More
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I can’t wait until trains are the only legal means of travel………. for the little people.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Gee … I expected that to be a headline from 1907 or something.
Doesn’t the FedGov run Amtrack?
izlamo delenda est …
Should carry chain saws.
One passenger was actually only going three hours away. That’s right – a three hour tour. There, we got the obvious out of the way.
Running out of both food and water.
Unless there is an ongoing serious storm, which I don’t think is the case at this time, you’d think they could just do a helicopter drop of more food and water and other essentials while the rescue crews were trying to reach the train on the ground.
Diamond Lake (not too far from Oakridge) got 40 inches of snow Sunday night. So yeah, that’ll slow a train down.
Wyatt:
“Just sit rifght back and i’ll tell the tale, a tale of a real short course
That started at this station
Aboard this iron horse.”
Etc etc etc.
The trip between Seattle and Vancouver BC is often canceled because of mudslides.
Was Joe Biden on it?
I feel bad for those on that train.
Especially if Biden was on it. lol.
Drop a few pallets of humanitarian MRE’s. Make sure thy are halal, so as not to offend anyone.
On a bigger picture, out west we have exactly the same weather pattern we did in 1997. Totally saturated ground, reservoirs near capacity, a huge snow pack, and a low snow pack. And here comes the Pineapple Express. We’re suppose to get 6 inches of rain this week. They’re already issuing flood warnings.
So much for global warming.
Train disaster at Wellington kills 96 on March 1, 1910.
https://www.historylink.org/File/5127
Has the dam at Oroville been fixed? Sounds like we might find out.
“I can’t wait until trains are the only legal means of travel………. for the little people.”
…the reason lefties love trains so much, @Crackerbaby, is because with THEM in control, you have to STAY where they PUT you, except for when they are willing to LET you go at times and on terms THEY choose, and they can TRACK where you go, and WHEN that way, too…
“Drop a few pallets of humanitarian MRE’s. Make sure thy are halal, so as not to offend anyone.”
…HDRs (Humanitarian Daily Rations) are “culturally neutral” by DESIGN, @cfm990, so no worries there…at least they stopped putting them in wrappers that were the same color as cluster bombs, although – hopefully – that won’t be a factor in THIS case…
…DLA also has “Meal, Alternative Regionally Customized (MARC)” in their inventory that meet vegetarian standards, but nowhere NEAR the quantity that they have plain MRE’s in…they were made mostly for GITMO…
Donner party, dinner for 8.
The DLA pretty much has at least one of everything. Whether they need it or not.
Mark Twain. “Cannibalism In The Cars”.
The piece said they have food, just not the “kinds the (kids) are liking.”
To find all those people, authorities just followed their tracks.
Dagny Taggart could fix this.
@AbigailAdams FEBRUARY 26, 2019 AT 2:20 PM
“The piece said they have food, just not the “kinds the (kids) are liking.”
Yup; that’s Amtrack. The food may be disgusting, but at least it’s expensive.
I love traveling by train but three trips on Amtrak and meant three delays for one reason or another-not all of them caused because the government runs Amtrak.
I wouldn’t even mind the delays so much except at least half the passengers turn into instant assholes the minute there is any deviation from their plans no matter what the cause.
Sitting in a train on a beautiful spring day beside the Missouri River waiting for a washed out section of track to be repaired is still better than sitting on the tarmac in a crowded plane for two hours or more.
“…at least half the passengers turn into instant assholes…”
…they were most likely ALWAYS assholes, @majorityofone, they just didn’t announce it to YOU until they had something to bitch about, so no “turning” required…
“Not the food the
Kids like,” don’t worry, when they get hungry enough they will eat it and like it / or not.
Amtrak, I read somewhere they lose millions every year just on the over priced bugers alone.
How do you screw that up?
In the last century my mother was returning by train to California from visiting me in Oregon. The train got stopped in the middle of a forest fire which scared the passengers, rightly so. The train eventually made it through safely. Getting trapped in Oregon is almost as bad as being stuck in California these days.
Shades of Ayn Rand!
@Tony R
“Yup; that’s Amtrack. The food may be disgusting, but at least it’s expensive.”
I’ve eaten in expensive places and I’ve eaten where the food wasn’t very appetizing. I found Amtrak to be neither. Of course you (the taxpayer) was subsidizing my meal so that helps keep the cost down. Thanks!
Hit a tree my ass!
The damn thing derailed after it passed a billboard with Nancy Pelosi on it!