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Originally posted by flashguy:
That dude isn't playing with a full deck. A Mercy Ship isn't even armed.

flashguy

A boat full of amputees?

I have toured its sister ship, the Comfort. It's impressive. Both were built from converted oil tankers, so they are huge.
Question: How does one purposely derail a train?

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In the aftermath of the train crash and Eddie Moreno’s arrest, his wife started a GoFundMe to ask for help

Of course she did.

And, homo sapiens being completely misnamed as a species, I'd bet it's not empty.

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Originally posted by NK402:
I have toured its sister ship, the Comfort. It's impressive. Both were built from converted oil tankers, so they are huge.
Question: How does one purposely derail a train?

Likely the end of the siding track for whatever pier the ship is at ends in the direction of the ship. So he likely punched the speed and just ran off the end and thought momentum would take him the entire way.

Well, I guess there is only one possible response to this - banning of all trains over ten cars in the State of California. Add the urban terrorism charge to that of train-wrecking and he's looking at spending the rest of his life watching trains on Youtube.

However, I'd just like to say, from a furriner's perspective, that's it's really heartening to see that the Golden Gate State can still produce wackos of such cosmic ineptitude.

The Little Engineer that Couldn't. I think I can, I think I can, just a bit outside.

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

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Originally posted by NK402:
I have toured its sister ship, the Comfort. It's impressive. Both were built from converted oil tankers, so they are huge.
Question: How does one purposely derail a train?

Likely the end of the siding track for whatever pier the ship is at ends in the direction of the ship. So he likely punched the speed and just ran off the end and thought momentum would take him the entire way.

If you look at the video and a map, looks like he sped up going around a turn, with the locomotive running off at the apex of the turn. He basically whipped the engine right off the track.

Well, you know, if you can take a train to Hawaii....

From the story sounds like he told the FBI all about his Loco Motive....

^^^

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
From the story sounds like he told the FBI all about his Loco Motive....

LOL...Most excellent...

You are doing it wrong

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Originally posted by flashguy:
That dude isn't playing with a full deck. A Mercy Ship isn't even armed.

flashguy

That is an understatement, this dude is only playing with one card and it's bent.

It’s really too bad he was taken alive - all he is now is an unwanted and unneeded distraction from the tasks at hand.

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That's, just, well, what in the world...?

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
his Loco Motive

well played.

How are they going to get the train out of there? Google-fu is showing a locomotive weigh a metric-shit-ton? You cant just put the thing on a tow truck.

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
How are they going to get the train out of there? Google-fu is showing a locomotive weigh a metric-shit-ton? You cant just put the thing on a tow truck.

They’ll use cranes to lift and move it.

I'd build tracks leading back to the tracks it came from and drag it on to the new tracks with a couple of bulldozers on each side. But that might be as effective as telling it to get off my lawn for all I know.

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Originally posted by Scuba Steve Sig:
Sounds like California needs to work on some train control legislation.

Nailed it Steve!

Dodgers fan!!