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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 10:29 PM Jan 2013

Doesn't everybody really want to drive a train?

By GUSTAV SANDSTROM

STOCKHOLM—A young woman charged with cleaning a commuter train instead appears to have stolen the empty train from a depot and driven it until it derailed and crashed into a house in a Stockholm suburb, local officials said ... Bertil Grandinson, 71 years old, who lives on the top floor of the three-story building, woke up in the middle of the night from the loud crash, Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported. "It sounded like an air-plane crash. I rushed to the window and then I saw the train," Aftonbladet quoted him as saying ... "If you manage to get hold of the key, it isn't particularly difficult to get a train rolling," he said ... According to her colleagues at cleaning firm Caretia, the young woman, born in 1990, has been a well-liked coworker ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324235104578243423965348406.html

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Doesn't everybody really want to drive a train? (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2013 OP
Some people just wanna ride the train NightWatcher Jan 2013 #1
Yeah, that's why I bought this... PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #2
high on cocaine? datasuspect Jan 2013 #3
Trouble ahead. CrazyOrangeCat Jan 2013 #11
If they don't they should... Llewlladdwr Jan 2013 #4
I Wouldn't Mind RobinA Jan 2013 #5
When asked to comment, she said... pinboy3niner Jan 2013 #6
I hear that it's hard to stop a train. Arkansas Granny Jan 2013 #7
Nope, never had the desire. I just like riding on them. n/t RebelOne Jan 2013 #8
Ahem...I HAVE! trof Jan 2013 #9
Cool!! n/t CrazyOrangeCat Jan 2013 #10

trof

(54,256 posts)
9. Ahem...I HAVE!
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 07:32 PM
Jan 2013

Long story, but my great-aunt was a clerk for Southern Railway in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
She got passes and took me on trips.
She knew all the crews, and I got the grand treatment.
The conductor would take me on a tour of the whole train, kitchen, baggage cars, all the way up to the engine.
I got to sit on the engineer's lap and 'drive' the train.
Blowing that horn was a real rush.
One of my best childhood memories.

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