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Post by calzephyr on Jan 15, 2013 7:28:38 GMT -8
This story is taken from Yahoo stories today about a lady who drove a train. The picture that came with it shows the comuter train jumped the tracks and went into the side of a building. Interesting, she still thinks it is easy. You have to wonder what she thought when the train hit the building, since this could not be considered approved driving!! After all, she only drove it a mile and it left the tracks. Maybe she should consider how easy it is to drive a train, but not so easy to stop it! Larry news.yahoo.com/stolen-train-crashes-building-sweden-110546205.htmlSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A woman stole an empty commuter train from a depot Tuesday and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials said.
The woman was seriously injured in the early morning crash and was flown to a Stockholm hospital, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. No one else was injured.
Bystrom said the woman was arrested on suspicion of endangering the public.
Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stockholm.
She then drove it about a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about 30 yards (25 meters) and crashed into a three-story building.
Photographs from the scene showed the crumpled front car of the train buried deep into the structure.
"There were three families inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not physically," Hedenius said.
The motives of the woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear.
"We have only heard good things about her. We're investigating how this could happen, and why she did what she did," Hedenius said.
He said it's unclear how she got the keys to the train, but added that driving it is not that complicated.
"Generally speaking that's possible even if you're not a train driver," he said. "You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it." |
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Post by bnsf971 on Jan 15, 2013 9:30:49 GMT -8
Almost any monkey can drive a train, but it takes skill and experience to safely operate one.
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Post by calzephyr on Jan 15, 2013 13:57:15 GMT -8
Almost any monkey can drive a train, but it takes skill and experience to safely operate one. Amen to that! Larry |
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Post by rhpd42002 on Jan 15, 2013 16:20:57 GMT -8
I read that on the internet this morning and saw the one pic they posted with the article.  What a mess and it just goes to show, there's "crazy" everywhere.  |
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Post by grahamline on Jan 15, 2013 16:42:26 GMT -8
Driving skills acceptable, stopping skills in need of work. Sound someone's a few herring short of a school.
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Post by calzephyr on Jan 22, 2013 6:23:55 GMT -8
Driving skills acceptable, stopping skills in need of work. Sound someone's a few herring short of a school. I agree with that. It would be hard to make up stories more strange than the news stories that have become common place in the world today! Larry |
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Post by cvacr on Jan 23, 2013 12:54:02 GMT -8
Almost any monkey can drive a train, but it takes skill and experience to safely operate one. Just like driving a car. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 12:11:10 GMT -8
Getting the choo-choo without any train attached isn't too hard....its the picking of a brake handle to twist to stop said choo-choo which is the hard part.
I read the story and someone or multiple people need to get either fired or at least a time-out for leaving the reverser handle in the cab, and the cab unlocked and unsecured.
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Post by Brakie on Jan 26, 2013 4:54:00 GMT -8
While I worked on the Chessie as a brakeman I ran 3 GP9s with 47 cars of coal coming out of a hollow-of course the engineer was standing behind me and watching my every move and took over "the seat" about two miles from the junction where we would enter the Big Sandy sub division..
We broke several safety and union work rules but,he was among the very few that knew I was a train buff.
Of course the speed limit on that branch was 15 mph.
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Post by calzephyr on Jan 26, 2013 7:48:59 GMT -8
While I worked on the Chessie as a brakeman I ran 3 GP9s with 47 cars of coal coming out of a hollow-of course the engineer was standing behind me and watching my every move and took over "the seat" about two miles from the junction where we would enter the Big Sandy sub division.. We broke several safety and union work rules but,he was among the very few that knew I was a train buff. Of course the speed limit on that branch was 15 mph. I would guess that was exciting to run those units. I have rented the GP9E at Portola two different times and enjoyed running it with friends and the engineer from the museum. Without a train, it is easy to run it around their loop, but 47 cars behind those three units would change the dynamics of handling the train. Larry |
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Post by Brakie on Jan 26, 2013 17:01:52 GMT -8
Larry,All I had to do was keep the speed in check as we came out of the hollow it was mostly touch the throttle-just enough to maintain 15 mph and apply the train brake as needed..
I never will forget that day.
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Jan 27, 2013 1:15:15 GMT -8
Morning Gents, When I was a young steam engine cleaner during our lunch time meal break we would help the shed enginemen move light engines from the watering point down about 2oo yads over a switch and back onto a pit road where the firedroppers would clean or throw out the fire.One cleaner drove the large (to us) 4-8-0T to the switch then I was allowed to reverse the engine and bring it onto the pit. There were about another three engines in the queue waiting and on coming ontop of them maybe 4-6 mph I was told put the brake on !!!I didn't know wich wheel operated the brake and we bumped up to the rear of the queue. no harm done but some angry shouts from the firedropper who must have spilled hot coals and cinders onto the cab floor. Yes anyone can start a train/engine away it's the stopping of them that is important. When on shed duties usually the driver and fireman worked on their own, The driver moved the incoming engine under a coal spout then wheeled tubs of coal onto the spout and shovelled the cal into the tender. Then he would move the engine down for water then onto the pit. The fireman would after the fire had been seen to would move the engine into the shed and carry buckets of sand to fill the sand boxes up...nip to the shed foremans office and ask where the said engine was to be stabled...eeither off one of the two internal turntables or stop at the other end of the shed for the fitters to read and see if any minor repairs needed doing then onto several straight roads or onto the larger outside turntable.
14 engines was a days work and when you got your 7 engine (7 each) you were allowed to go home. I always used to live in hopes that when I signed on for a shed turn I would be put onto a main line turn.
James Brodie.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 19:27:53 GMT -8
About 25 years ago when I was a volunteer at the Illinois Railway Museum, I started engineer training, I was already a qualified trainman. I was doing some switching with the Armco Steel Lima LS-1200. We didn't use air on the cars and dead locomotives when we were doing slow (5-10 mph) switching. My "train" consisted of an EMD FP7A, three Rock Island commuter cars, EMD F7A, and the South Shore GE "Little Joe" electric. I was SO NERVOUS!!!! But having fun! We were on station track two and I was creeeeeeeeeeeeping up to couple to the South Shore Joe, when the CNW Belvidere local heading east was running by on the CNW's Belvidere Sub (CNW's line parallels IRM's). The engineer of the CNW train opens up his window and shouts "What are you going so slow for, speed it up!!!!". My brakeman that day replied back to the CNW crew "student engineer!!". I'll remember that day forever.  |
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Post by p42hogger on Mar 21, 2013 20:22:51 GMT -8
As a certified engineer I can tell you that you don't drive a locomotive you operate it!
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Mar 22, 2013 1:18:10 GMT -8
Dear Sir, May I disagree with your description of 'engine moving' drive/handle a loco and operate/work a train...drive in a sympathetic/feeling/understanding/harmonious manner/talk to it /cajole it/ never threaten/be disrespectful to it or you will come off second best . Operate to me must be a diesel term I was a certified (but not mentally) engineer too (and in the Military an A1 Engineer) and eventually loco Inspector--I can never get the American term right for this grade-Foreman of the road or something-I can stand being corrected as I still believe we can learn something new everyday. never did graduate to left hand platform white line edge painter 'cos I always got a right hand platform edge to do!...happy trails...J.B.
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Post by bnsf971 on Mar 22, 2013 8:24:29 GMT -8
James, I think what we call that here is "road foreman of engines".
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Post by calzephyr on Mar 22, 2013 16:16:18 GMT -8
As a certified engineer I can tell you that you don't drive a locomotive you operate it! Exactly!! That may have been her problem. That and a very short run. Larry |
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Mar 23, 2013 0:08:50 GMT -8
Road foreman of engines--I shall do my best to remember that title when I am playing--sorry operating my American models. In steam days and until I retired we were known as loco Inspectors although our job title was Traction Inspector and for some of us Traction and Train Crew inspectors. As a North Eastern man our dress was our own clothes then a railway macintosh and wore a trilby hat. Our richer relations on the LMS (spit) and other regions was a issued black/blue serge suit and a bowler hat and they even got a portmantoe-sorry don't know how to spell it. I carried my papers in the old pram bag off my eldest daughters pram and in it the usual 16' extension ladder-spare screw coupling-brake blocks -firebars and a slag shovel-I jest the slag shovel was too long! We always looked in our bags before we left the office as odd heavy items could have been placed in them!! Thanks for the info.
J.B..................Happy Trails. I maybe should play that as theme music when running the stock car train, courtesy of Roy Rogers.
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Post by bnsf971 on Mar 23, 2013 4:09:14 GMT -8
J.B..................Happy Trails. I maybe should play that as theme music when running the stock car train, courtesy of Roy Rogers. James, this may be a better tune to hum while rolling along with the cattle train: |
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