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2014-04-05 Home Front: WoT

Two Drug Tunnels, With Rail Systems, Found At U.S.-Mexico Border

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Besides he 73-year old tunnel madam, no thought given to a sting.... in which several of the dope runners might have been captured and interrogated ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-05 01:08|| 2014-04-05 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 This situation is begging for Cab-forward:

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-05 01:31|| 2014-04-05 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Eat your hearts out, Gazans!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-05 03:10|| 2014-04-05 03:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I doubt it costed millions of dollars to build

Posted by Bernardz 2014-04-05 03:20|| 2014-04-05 03:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Mebbe Masachusetts should've hired them for the Big Dig project.

Posted by Pappy 2014-04-05 08:31|| 2014-04-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Ship: love them Cab forwards. do any survive?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-04-05 11:12|| 2014-04-05 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 not the first collision

Posted by Frank G 2014-04-05 12:00|| 2014-04-05 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 There are a few I believe USNR. But pictures is one of Pappys imports. :)

H0 btw.

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-05 12:05|| 2014-04-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 USNR, yes at Sacremento:

I've never seen one in the flesh.

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-05 12:08|| 2014-04-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Eat your hearts out, Gazans!

Hah! Pikers! Out here we have rails, hoists, AC, satellite TV, coffee maker, USA vs. MEX friendly on, run by an elderly lady. Gazooks seem to have a time just keeping their peppers out of the goats.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-05 12:25|| 2014-04-05 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 thanks, I knew the pix was not of a full size and thanks for the Sacramento lead...... between that and the Big Boy I have a full plate of articulateds to visit.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-04-05 15:32|| 2014-04-05 15:32|| Front Page Top

#12 They should just pump a bit of H2S into these tunnels and let the druggies enjoy the smell/keel over dead.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-04-05 21:06|| 2014-04-05 21:06|| Front Page Top

#13 USN. The cab forwards were one heck of an engine. In the tunnels and snowsheds of the Southern Pacific Roseville Division over Donner Summit, they provided excellent visibility and prevented asphyxiation of train crews. The deck in back of the engine by the exhaust stack and ahead of the tender was called the monkey deck. Train bums liked it there because it was warm. Unfortunately a number of them died when the exhaust steam and smoke beat down on them in the tunnels and snowsheds.

I saw the last of them as a kid out of Martinez and on the Donner route. They had a presence and a very haunting whistle. Never forgot it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-04-05 22:54|| 2014-04-05 22:54|| Front Page Top

#14 AP: thanks, I knew some of that and have watched the few Youtubes out there. Being a Michigan boy, my steam was mainly Grand Trunk ( now Soo/CN) The Great Northern (now BNSF) had a similar smoke/fume problem with the Cascade tunnels, but they ran the smokestack along the top of the boiler and ended aft of the cab.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-04-05 23:08|| 2014-04-05 23:08|| Front Page Top

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