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2007-08-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian train derailed after "bang" on track

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 After "bang" on track? WTF kind of description is that? More like, "a train was blown up by IED". Jeez, who writes these?

Posted by gromky 2007-08-14 07:41|| 2007-08-14 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 A bang on the track could've been a broken rail - either under the train, or before it got there. Broken rails do not usually leave craters, though.

But if you wanna blow up a train, you do it just before the bridge, not right after it!

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-14 07:53|| 2007-08-14 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 well you can expect too much commn sense form the militants fighting in the Caucasus

Posted by Jesus saves 2007-08-14 08:09|| 2007-08-14 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 a crater about 2 metres (6 ft) across that could be seen on the bridge, where the rails should have been.

Perhaps the miscreants expected the bridge to collapse onto the road below, dumping the overturned train into oncoming traffic? Are there many cars on the roads 300 miles north of Moscow, nowadays?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-14 08:18|| 2007-08-14 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorta what I meant, TW. Either you blow the bridge, which is sometimes difficult, unless you're in Minnesota, or you derail the train before the bridge, so when it goes off the track, it tears down the bridge.

But after the bridge could be splodeydope logic.

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-14 09:20|| 2007-08-14 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Who knew the Amish were so active in Russia?

Posted by BA 2007-08-14 09:27|| 2007-08-14 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Well if the train would have been coming from the other direction the explosion would have been on the right side to cause the destruction that you talk about. Maybe they just got their timing of the train schedules off... instead of the south bound train they got the north bound train...

Blackvenom-2001

Posted by Blackvenom-2001 2007-08-14 11:11|| 2007-08-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 From the overhead power lines in the derailment pictures, it looks like that line had a single track, so the bombers were hoping to catch a train going onto the bridge (60 foot dropoff). The train was traveling at 118 mph.

Posted by ed 2007-08-14 11:53|| 2007-08-14 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 KOMMERSANT > PUTIN to personally supervise investigation and kept informed, + FSB to tighten security all over Russia. *Iff this were the Cold War I'd say Putin wants evidence and is getting ready to blame the USA, andor NATO = USA by extens.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-14 23:44|| 2007-08-14 23:44|| Front Page Top

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