Train Derailment: scenario for Vigiliant Guard 09 exercise this week

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Train Derailment: scenario for Vigiliant Guard 09 exercise this week; is DC rail crash an accident or LIVE?
Topic Started: Jun 22 2009, 06:17 PM (212 Views)
JackD	Jun 22 2009, 06:17 PM Post #1
Posts: 262 Group: Members Member #253 Joined: 01/31/08	http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2009/06/13/news/latest/doc4a33362d2d999096548988.txt ".... train derailment"
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22205	Jun 22 2009, 06:35 PM Post #2
Arlingtonian Posts: 443 Group: Members Member #24 Joined: 01/14/08	well this just happened 2 hours ago: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Metro-Trains-Collide-Between-Takoma-Fort-Totten.html ETA: Quote: Two FBI agents are at the scene, News4's Jackie Bensen reported, and federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are on the way to the scene. FBI Washington Field Office spokesperson says The FBI agents are at the scene to provide mutual aid and support like evidence recovery or technical equipment, according to a spokesperson from the Washington field office. Nothing indicates criminal activity. i didnt know train derailments were typically under the FBI's jurisdiction... Edited by 22205, Jun 22 2009, 06:40 PM.



Lin Kuei	Jun 22 2009, 07:04 PM Post #3
Posts: 1,298 Group: Admins Member #5 Joined: 12/22/07	Quote: A six-car train headed toward Shady Grove apparently derailed between those Metrorail stations and was involved in a collision with another train heading in the same direction on the same track at about 5 p.m. today. The first train was stopped for an unknown reason. The second train crashed into the first and jackknifed on top of the first train. Two cars from one train appear to be on top of two cars from the other train.
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Boonedoggled	Jun 22 2009, 07:08 PM Post #4
Posts: 228 Group: Members Member #51 Joined: 01/15/08	JackD Jun 22 2009, 06:17 PM http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2009/06/13/news/latest/doc4a33362d2d999096548988.txt ".... train derailment" This train derailment occurred 660 miles closer to "the main exercise venue"(Des Moines, Iowa) in Rockford, Illinois. Quote: CHICAGO, June 19 (Xinhua) -- A freight train derailed Friday night in the U.S. state of Illinois, causing a large fire and evacuations, local media reported.
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Lin Kuei	Jun 22 2009, 07:16 PM Post #5
Posts: 1,298 Group: Admins Member #5 Joined: 12/22/07	Just out of curiosity, how often do trains (passenger or otherwise) derail in the United States?
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22205	Jun 22 2009, 07:49 PM Post #6
Arlingtonian Posts: 443 Group: Members Member #24 Joined: 01/14/08	http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Query/tenyr2a.aspx



JackD	Jun 23 2009, 01:07 AM Post #7
Posts: 262 Group: Members Member #253 Joined: 01/31/08	Boonedoggled Jun 22 2009, 07:08 PM JackD Jun 22 2009, 06:17 PM http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2009/06/13/news/latest/doc4a33362d2d999096548988.txt ".... train derailment" This train derailment occurred 660 miles closer to "the main exercise venue"(Des Moines, Iowa) in Rockford, Illinois. Quote: CHICAGO, June 19 (Xinhua) -- A freight train derailed Friday night in the U.S. state of Illinois, causing a large fire and evacuations, local media reported. Boone -- sweet catch. I'm gonna call & see if the National Guard or FEMA or DHS was involved in the response to the midwest derailment you cited..... why do "drills" and 'real-life" events coincide? for newbies: on 9/11/01, there were approximately 15 drills being 'practiced'... including planes off course, planes hijacked, malfunction of NORAD radar, and more. On 7/7/05 in LONDON, 4 bombs went off in the same locations at the same time that a private company was running a "drill" preparing for that same scenario... the highest fidelity 'training exercise' is the real thing. This endeth the lesson JackD out
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Lin Kuei	Jun 24 2009, 02:55 PM Post #8
Posts: 1,298 Group: Admins Member #5 Joined: 12/22/07	Quote: Among the dead was retired Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr. of Washington, a man whose career put him in far more dangerous situations than an evening commute aboard public transit. Wherley, a command pilot who logged more than 5,000 hours in military aircraft, gave the order to scramble planes over Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31519340/ns/us_news-washington_post/
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JackD	Jun 25 2009, 02:25 AM Post #9
Posts: 262 Group: Members Member #253 Joined: 01/31/08	Lin Kuei Jun 24 2009, 02:55 PM Quote: Among the dead was retired Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr. of Washington, a man whose career put him in far more dangerous situations than an evening commute aboard public transit. Wherley, a command pilot who logged more than 5,000 hours in military aircraft, gave the order to scramble planes over Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31519340/ns/us_news-washington_post/ That was convenient. (that said, a commuter train crash is a unpredictable method for any targeted assasination.... the majority of passengers were simply injured. That said, I'd check MajGen Wherley for small holes in his skull, as per Ron Brown autopsy in plane crash in Serbia..)
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