Passenger Trains > 763 Incident

Noted at Goleta at 1:20 this afternoon. Any updates?

Cheers,
Jack

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Struck a person trespassing on the ROW near Chatsworth, resulted in a 3 hour (and one minute) delay. Train 784 was Cancelled north of LAX.

Jaanfo, thanks. An earlier search on the web failed to turn up anything.

Cheers,
Jack



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/10 18:31 by africansteam.

Why does this stuff take 3 hours???

cutboy2 Wrote:
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> Why does this stuff take 3 hours???

Because in a lot of (if not all) of these instances, the crew is relieved after the trauma of killing a person - meaning they could well be in a state of shock. Not a good operator at that point.

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

ATSF100WEST Wrote:
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> cutboy2 Wrote:
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> > Why does this stuff take 3 hours???
>
> Because in a lot of (if not all) of these
> instances, the crew is relieved after the trauma
> of killing a person - meaning they could well be
> in a state of shock. Not a good operator at that
> point.
>
> Bob
>
> ATSF100WEST......Out


For some, anyway.

JDE

cutboy2 Wrote:
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> Why does this stuff take 3 hours???


There's a separate thread on exactly this topic.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,2340971

I ran over a dog with the 1522 and that was bothersome enough without hitting and killing a person.
Damned Black Lab was running up the middle of the track ahead of us and kept looking back. I was ringing the bell, blowing the whistle and opened the cylinder cocks and he just kept running up the middle. All he would have had to do was jump off either side. We finally outran him. Sad.

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> I ran over a dog with the 1522 and that was
> bothersome enough without hitting and killing a
> person.
> Damned Black Lab was running up the middle of the
> track ahead of us and kept looking back. I was
> ringing the bell, blowing the whistle and opened
> the cylinder cocks and he just kept running up the
> middle. All he would have had to do was jump off
> either side. We finally outran him. Sad.

Sadly that's what most dogs do... they run the gauge of the tracks and usually won't deviate once they start. As for people, who knows?!

Most are on drugs/alcohol and/or suicidal. No one who runs trains kills anyone or anything. We are the unfortunate observers of these wholly preventable incidents and have to live with it for the rest of our lives. Some engineers turn to drugs/alcohol themselves to try and cope with the pain instead of getting help and moving on-that's what's truly sad.

Trespassers make the unfortunate choice of being in the foul and usually pay the ultimate price of their lives-- stay in the CLEAR and stay ALIVE.

BTW... Christmas is one of the worst times for depression and trespassers begin to appear in alarming numbers this time of year.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/10 23:57 by IC_2024.

IC_2024 Wrote:
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> BTW... Christmas is one of the worst times for
> depression and trespassers begin to appear in
> alarming numbers this time of year.


Well, this makes 3 strikes and 5 fatalities within a week for us here in SoCal. This has been a terrible week.

Steamjocky Wrote:
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> For some, anyway.
>
> JDE

LOL

Jaanfo Wrote:
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> IC_2024 Wrote:
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> > BTW... Christmas is one of the worst times for
> > depression and trespassers begin to appear in
> > alarming numbers this time of year.
>
>
> Well, this makes 3 strikes and 5 fatalities within
> a week for us here in SoCal. This has been a
> terrible week.


NJ Transit had a long run of suicides / trespassers this summer and fall. I wouldn't be surprised if they have extra security at some of the multiple strike places (Hamilton, Ridgewood, Paterson, etc) over the next few weeks.

The lack of daylight also depresses people along with the holidays.