CBS Show Numb3rs

I just saw the commercial a couple minutes ago about a Train vs. Bus incident on the CBS show Numb3rs Friday Night at 10:00 Eastern. I've never really seen the show so I supose I might tune in on Friday if I don't have anything better to do (American Hot Rod is on at that time too )Anyways, I just thought I'd let you all know
-Dave, Secretary of the Scrap the SD60F federation!

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>Anyways, I just thought I'd let you all know
Thanks !!I saw the commercial a couple nights ago but I couldn't rememeber A - What the show was calledB - When it was on Now I know both !!Later
Tim Kent – 96th_Malice - Winnipeg Canada

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>>Anyways, I just thought I'd let you all know
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>Thanks !!
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>I saw the commercial a couple nights ago but I couldn't
>rememeber
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>A - What the show was called
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>B - When it was on
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>Now I know both !!
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>Later And for you Canadians, it's on Global

Matt Repino
Philadelphia, PA

*bing* Scenic Road...

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>And for you Canadians, it's on Global Haha No problem Tim! the commercial was litterally still on as I was posting
-Dave, Secretary of the Scrap the SD60F federation!

Former ALCo Schenectady, NY shop switcher #5, in North Creek, NY

You can e-mail me at davej8010@aol.com -or- hrrc_7324@yahoo.com -or- feel free to aim me.

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It looked more like, someone that worked on a railroad was killing people...using objects from the railroad? Dunno..

-Too drive to drunk

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I saw it also.It's a movie set for prime time and nothing more.Don't get all bent out of shape over some Hollywood Theatric crap about the railroads.Might not even be worth watching.Claude Debnam NS Piedmont Division Raleigh East

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YEah im not even watching it. American Hot Rod is better if you ask me
-Dave, Secretary of the Scrap the SD60F federation!

Former ALCo Schenectady, NY shop switcher #5, in North Creek, NY

You can e-mail me at davej8010@aol.com -or- hrrc_7324@yahoo.com -or- feel free to aim me.

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I was just watching it myself.... After they said something about the railroads covering up matience etc it make me think for a second....AEM7AC 920
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Having watched it, they took an accident that was very close to reality (remember the accident at the bottom of Cajon pass back in the late 1980s that then caused a big pipeline explosion a few weeks later? There was recently a National Geographic "Seconds from Disaster" episode devoted to it), and twisted it a little bit.In the real accident, UP maintenance was indeed identified by the NTSB to be the cause of the train running away because the engineers had not been told by the helper driver that some of the dynamic brakes were not working and the declared weights of the cars were not accurate either. In the CBS one, they said that something in the brake system wasn't working and the employee that was causing the copycat accidents had been blamed for the accident because the railroad had falsified documents to coverup maintenance mis-deeds. The engineer jumped from the train and was thought to have died in the accident and subsequent fire, but he was carrying out vengance on the railroads by causing these accidents years later. The engineer was finally caught while trying to kill himself and blow up a bunch of HAZMAT tanks at the top of the pass (don't remember which yard, sorry).Anyways, there was nothing in it bad about the railroads now, but it does echo proven maintenance deficiencies and communication problems that existed in the not-so-distant past of the railroads.

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I watched the first 20 minutes of the show before I felt the need to vomit.
What a concept!!
Lets see, we need to steal some TV's and appliences so we'll drive all over the country and stage train accidents so we can break into the loaded cars and steal stuff. The writers of this show must be smoking something funny.
Commercial TV is such a wasteland.

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G'DayWhat time of day and when is it on at Global??????? I wanna see it!Luc Doiron
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>I watched the first 20 minutes of the show before I felt the
>need to vomit.
>What a concept!!
>Lets see, we need to steal some TV's and appliences so we'll
>drive all over the country and stage train accidents so we
>can break into the loaded cars and steal stuff. The writers
>of this show must be smoking something funny.
>Commercial TV is such a wasteland.

I guess if you watched more than 20 mins of it you would have known that was a side story to the main plot which was laid out a couple posts up.

Frank Roberts
P&D Tractor trailer Driver for R&L Carriers
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"Sometimes I dream about being carried off by a big giant squirrel. Does that make me a nut?"

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I have mixed feelings about the show...I feel the side 'love-story' was really weak...And they really didn't research some of the stuff much.When they are comparing derailments at the beginning, they show a photo of the UP accident where UP dumped a SD70ACe demo into the Colorado river.
The photo they show is this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=67270
I wonder if Tyler Eaton was asked for permission.
They claim the accident occured in Seattle, Washington, and the train was carrying Plasma T.V's even thought it is obvioslsy a coal train. They also say that eight people were killed and the cause was sabatoge.Also, at the end, the nuclear waste is being held in regular black tankers...I don't know, it's a good concept for a show, but too much stuff is changed from the real world just to work in a tv show.

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