Trainwreck Part 2

Here is a link to a news report on CBC.ca that includes a photo of the crash site taken from the air:

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Lynda said she heard them starting to slowly shuttle cars past our place at about 2 a.m. I saw just one this afternoon after getting up for the day and it was crawling up the track. Perhaps another incident like this will bring a reduced speed limit for trains running through urban areas – I hope so. Anything that will further protect people, property and infrastructure. As you can see this could easily have taken out the overhead bridge.

Here’s another link courtesy of CityTVNews:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.citynews.ca/images/2009-06/jun0609-oshawatrainIYSMichaelDaCosta600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35135.aspx&usg=__3aBPFZJysxAY1Ad4ONAPS2NvT9Q=&h=418&w=600&sz=173&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=rlqeFa-LUhfMwM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Doshawa%2Btrain%2Bderailment%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26imgtype%3Dphoto%26as_st%3Dy%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

Ah well, the peace and quiet has been nice for those who appreciate it. It’ll be back to situation ‘normal’ very soon, I’m sure.

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