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Lost Canadian Train

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#1

Three days ago, National Canadian Rail announced that a train leaving Thunder Bay for Winnipeg completely vanished without a trace.

This is serious stuff. On September 17, 2015, the National Canadian Railway lost a 47 car train on its way to Winnipeg from Thunder Bay.

“You’d think all we’d have to do is follow the track … but it is not that easy,” Burton Lansdown, NCR spokesperson said. According to Mr. Lansdown: “Yes, we checked the last place we put it.”

If anyone sees the train wandering around looking lost, please call the company. No discussion of reward… yet.

#2

Call out Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and his Wonder Dog, King. They’ll find the missing train, for sure. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#3

I thought, with modern signal systems and GPS tracking, that dispatches knew where every trains was at all times. Huh? The train had to have a crew, maybe someone could find them and ask them where they put it. Its a bit big to hide in a car’s glove compartment or under someone’s bed.

#4

“This and That” is comedy.

#5

Bob McCown said:

“This and That” is comedy.

So its really not missing?? Whew I was like how do you lose a train…

#6

Bob McCown said:

“This and That” is comedy.

Awww, Bob, ya had ta go and ruin it. This has had a lot of folks upset for quite awhile. I smelled a rat with “National Canadian Rail.” (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#7

It had me going… I admit it. I heard someone mention it at our club meet and then Steve’s post and thought how in the heck. I got suckered.

#8

I dunno, The Penn Central lost 2 box cars full of mail for 2 years. So things can happen.

#9

David Maynard said:

I dunno, The Penn Central lost 2 box cars full of mail for 2 years. So things can happen.

Yeahbut that was PennCentral.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)

#10

At the newspaper we were getting all new desks, file cabinets, etc. and they were coming west in a boxcar. I don’t remember which railroad but the boxcar was put on a siding and misplaced. It didn’t turn up until spring. By then everything had a nice layer of rust!

#11

Frightening as it may seem, railroads lose big stuff all the time. Now, you or I would be hard-pressed to lose something as significantly large as an entire passenger train … But real railroads do stuff like that all the time. Box cars full of office equipment? No sweat! A flatcar loaded with a huge generator? Easy-peasy. But a whole string of passenger cars? Not so easy. But I’m sure some dork in a hump yard control center could figure out a way to do it!

#12

Not just railroads, my company lost a copier. They knew that they had it out on demo at an account of mine, so they wanted me to go to that account and “just wonder around and look for it”. Yea, like I can just go into the Allegheny County Jail, and wonder around looking for a lost Xerox machine. Yea! I will get right on that. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)