[Scan-DC] Re: VRE runaway locomotive

[al]

At 08:00 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>The engine rolled from the train yard in Spotsylvania County and was
>eventually stopped just north of the Rappahannock River in Stafford.
>It was on tracks shared by both freight and passenger trains. It
>approached the Fredericksburg train station going about 10 miles per
>hour.
>
>VRE spokesman Mark Roeber says the public was not in harm's way and
>no other trains were in the way.
>
>Richard Rowland
>RichRowl at worldnet.att.net


  That "public was not in harm's way" statement sounds like total 
bull & probably made with a great sigh of relief !


al
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