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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDoesn't everybody really want to drive a train?
By GUSTAV SANDSTROM
STOCKHOLMA 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
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)woo woo
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)datasuspect
(26,591 posts)CrazyOrangeCat
(6,112 posts)Lady in red.
Llewlladdwr
(2,165 posts)...although maybe not into a house.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)a train, but what I really want is a police car for a day.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)"I thought I could, I thought I could..."
Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)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.