Lansing man run over by train -- and lives
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Lansing man run over by train -- and lives
Curt mentioned this in the shoutbox:
I was just checking the news (WOODTV) and a train ran over some guy passed out on the tracks about 3:30 am this morning. He is supposed to be in the ICU in Lansing. Apparently he was sauced.
Looked on WOODTV, and here's the article.
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8300272
I was just checking the news (WOODTV) and a train ran over some guy passed out on the tracks about 3:30 am this morning. He is supposed to be in the ICU in Lansing. Apparently he was sauced.
Looked on WOODTV, and here's the article.
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8300272
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Hogger, I feel bad for you, and I hope that never happens to a train im on, but cold hard facts say it will oneday . Would you be so kind to inform us on the train you where runningHogger1225 Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:05 am Post subject:
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I was the lucky Engineer on that train.
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Coming north on B-28, two unit and three cars. Short stretch of tangent track just south of the CN diamond at Cedar. We saw what we thought was debris, (very common in that area) but when we got about 60 feet away we could tell it was a person. Was already in ful dynamic so put it in emergency. By the time we got stopped he was underneath the next to the last traction motor of the trailing unit. He was still alive when we got back there. Called 911, then informed the train dispatcher. Emergency crew were there within 6 minutes of running over the guy and we were on our way 38 minutes after it first happened. Glad he lived, otherwise it would have been #10 for me.
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lansing man hit by train
im from lansing i no what happened some guy got so drunk he passed out on the tracks and was hit at 3:30am by a norfolk southern train on the ns lansing secondary he is in stable condition he will be charged with trespassing on railroad property
lansing man hit by ns B28
ya infekt is right the tracks are pretty beat up
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They were cleaned up last year. Testimony to the fine people who are too cheap or lazy to at least drive around and fine somebody else's dumpster. Probably the same trailer trash that won't put a shopping cart back or who tries to sneak on railroad proprety to drop off their trash in the railroads dumpster or just drop construction debris flat out in the open. (True stories.)
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Lansing Man hit by NS B28 - NS Trashed tracks
wouldnt norfolk southern have to clean up the tracks though because they own them or not ?
I was out there last year, if that's what they look like cleaned up I guess its probably good I never checked them out before than . Seems like a lot of kids play on them there's so much junk around seems like they could be a dead line. The section from Cavanaugh to Baker reminds me of the tracks that come off CN that end around MLK Blvd, except as far as I know, those actually aren't used.Hogger1225 wrote:They were cleaned up last year. Testimony to the fine people who are too cheap or lazy to at least drive around and fine somebody else's dumpster. Probably the same trailer trash that won't put a shopping cart back or who tries to sneak on railroad proprety to drop off their trash in the railroads dumpster or just drop construction debris flat out in the open. (True stories.)
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ya that part of town has really been trashed by people i think its mainly beacuase it runs through a lot of neihborhoods in that area
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Baker street is not that bad. It used to be but people who don't really know the area continue to consider it a poor area or dangerous. Most of the houses through that area have been fixed up and rented out. I know because I did live in one of those houses and paid $900 a month. I guess I am low income because I only moved because I couldn't afford the "ghetto area" lol