Western Railroad Discussion > Anti Coal Protest in Bellingham , WA

This is on the Bellingham sub North of Seattle. After they cleared this guy, three people had chained themselves to the train in the background. This caused a Two Amtrak trains and the Rocky Mountaineer to be delayed and the passengers had to be bussed to their destinations.
Photo from earthfirst journal.org. 
 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/16 11:10 by BN4364.

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I hope they got arrested and charged

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Marty Harrison
Knob Noster, MO

They would probably be the first to complain when the power went out.
Seems that they don't want any type of fossil fuel to generate electricity, would be nice, but not practical.
Wind and solar each have their positive and negative environmental and cost issues.
One day house roofs will be solar panels and generate power for the house and feed excess into the grid.  Fine when the sun shines.
Issues on cloudy days.
Maybe some day there will be cost effective fuel cells.
No perfect answers right now.
Pat
South Austin, TX
 

If I didn't come in on a restricting I don't see any reason to stop...

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If he turned the other way he could get a good shot of the northbound.

- L.F.

Instead of being a big pain in the @%%, maybe the guy ought to get a real job and perhaps come up with a better solution than burning coal. How much "fossil fuel" did the delay on the railway and emergency responders burn / waste let alone the bustitution dealing with this guy?   As far as chaining themselves to the train, "Conductor to the Engineer okay to pull"!!! Doug

Run over the bastard's!  I remember back in the 1960's when they were protesting the nuke trains running through here (Shelton, WA) - I knew the engineer on most of the white trains.  Often times he had a state patrolmen with him in the cab.  His instuctions to him were "what ever you do, DON'T STOP".

boomer Wrote:
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> If I didn't come in on a restricting I don't see
> any reason to stop...
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If that is the case you don't have the responsibility to be in the cab of the locomotive. Find a quiet job in a private cube where you don't need to deal with people.

As I've stated thousands of times: "We are TRULY surrounded by idiots!".

fehorse1 Wrote:
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> Run over the bastard's!

That's very easy to say while standing on the sidelines and you're not the one that's running over the bastards and then trying to sleep at night........


 I remember back in the
> 1960's when they were protesting the nuke trains
> running through here (Shelton, WA) - I knew the
> engineer on most of the white trains.  Often
> times he had a state patrolmen with him in the
> cab.  His instuctions to him were "what ever you
> do, DON'T STOP".

Give us a break! Even in the '60's the legal and civil implications in even a sliver of that suggestion would boggle the rational mind.

I remember about that same time (in the 60's), a Navy crew ran over a guy chained to the rails in California.  It cut both of his lergs off! 

Both Cascades, Nos 516 & 517 were probably full yesterday and the Rocky Mountaineer had close to 150 pax. So there's upwards of 600 people that their cute stunt forced to ride fuel-guzzling busses and how never again to ride a train. Add the thousands of dollars in recrew and bus costs to Amtrak and Rocky. The misfits who did this had to get there somehow, they weren't walking or pedaling. 
Dave in Missoula



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/16 13:16 by monaddave.

what a bunch fg f in idiots

So why can't the police, FBI, Federal Marshals, RR Special Agents, or County Sheriffs remove that idiot? He IS trespassing, right?????  The railroad MOW folks could pull that piece of scrap iron out of there in minutes.

Oh shut the heck up, if you can't understand that was a joke then you don't have the responsibility to be on the internet. I work freight, I deal with a handful of people....all who work for the railroad. They've never provided me customer service training or people skills, so get over it.

Well, I guess they did do an approaching others video a time or two. That might count.

fbe Wrote:
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> boomer Wrote:
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> > If I didn't come in on a restricting I don't
> see
> > any reason to stop...
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> If that is the case you don't have the
> responsibility to be in the cab of the locomotive.
> Find a quiet job in a private cube where you don't
> need to deal with people.

How come there are military responses against protesters who peacefully occupy a park, and these clowns can shut down a vital national artery, and just smile for the camera?

Darwin Award canditate.

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> Darwin Award canditate.

More likely a candidate for the house of representatives in the next election.

(which might be the same thing, but I digress)

Then it was a sick, pathetic joke with no place on this forum or any other for that matter.

The consequences to a crew who willfuly ran over a person on the tracks would be lifelong. The railroad would terminate their employment. Law enforcement would arrest them, prison time would be assessed and survivors would sue them for any assets they might have.

Grow up before you hit the (JOKE) button.

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Just push him into the water! lol