"E.T's Bicycle" (gatorjjh)
03/24/2014 at 08:11 • Filed to: None
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"E.T's Bicycle" (gatorjjh)
03/24/2014 at 08:11 • Filed to: None | 0
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"An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation's busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said.
The train appeared to have been going too fast as it approached the end-of-line station and didn't stop at a bumping post — a metal shock absorber at the end of the tracks.
The train actually climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk and then went up the stairs and escalator," Santiago said.
Dealing with the car on the escalator will be difficult, CTA spokesman Brian Steele said, and officials are still debating what to do. One option, he said, would be cutting the car up and removing it piece-by-piece. Steele estimated that it could be 12 to 24 hours to clean up the mess." !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Slave2anMG
> E.T's Bicycle
03/24/2014 at 09:34 |
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I suspect that when they get the first car off the platform/escalator that they'll find the car's front truck is hard up against the bumping post. The momentum of the car and impact lifted the car off the front truck and carried the car up/over the bumping post. Shouldn't be unexpected.
mycarneverruns87
> E.T's Bicycle
03/24/2014 at 10:12 |
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Authorities are searching for this man:
Arben72
> E.T's Bicycle
03/24/2014 at 10:20 |
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I'll be in ohare in a few hours... Looks like I dodged a bullet.