Western Railroad Discussion > TX-Stolen Derailer

During two separate news broadcasts on Fox News it was reported that the FBI has put out an alert regarding up to 9 Derail devices that were stolen in Texas. I tried to research more but could not come up with anything on Google. From the sound of the alert it seems the FBI may feel this is related to a terrorist group.

Brad

This sounds like old news that was discussed on Trainorders several weeks ago.

Hopefully, it sounds like ExEspee is right, appologies, tried searching here 1st time nothing, 2nd time....
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?f=1&i=228116&t=228116

Strange it has taken so long to hit the mainstream news,

Again appologies
Brad

Maybe the FBI should start reading Trainorders!!

What makes you think they don't? BWAAAHAHA

I heard a report yesterday on the radio, I don't recall which network, that indicated that the equipment stolen included re-railing frogs. The railroad (BNSF) that I work for has a notice posted concerning missing portable derails. As is often the case when the news reports railroad events, they may have gotten it wrong. How many other things does the media get wrong when reporting on things they don't understand?

>From: Matthew Reilly [mailto:Mreilly@a...]
>Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:41 AM
>To: Mreilly@a...
>Subject: SECURITY ALERT STOLEN DERAILS

Lets see, published on March 20th, Fox reports FBI concerned on or about May 8th.

Does anyone see a problem with this?

I got the alert through my railroad associates and passed it along to others (and TO news) on March 22nd.

-PRR 5711

Other than railroading, the media has a problem reporting on military events. Television news here in Los Angeles describes any sort of Navy warship as a "battleship". The small Coast Guard vessels patrolling the LA harbor area are mentioned as being equipped with M-60 "rifles" (machine guns, actually.) Anything with tracks is a "tank", including M-113s and Bradly AFVs. They get the railroading wrong, too, when they recently described the minor derailment of a "cargo train". When you hear obvious mistakes on TV, it makes you wonder what part they get wrong that is not so obvious!