07-18-2018, 09:00 AM
Good morning all, "hump day" so they say but for us retirees, it's just another weekday. Rain still in the forecast for a few more days, but there's little or no rain happening around here. Temps going up and will be pushing 115 by next week.
Enough about the weather, now for yet another local story, this one is train related. With all this rain between the Tucson and Phoenix areas, it kinda softened up the roadbed for the BNSF line that runs south of here just north of Tucson. Well, that caused a derailment, over 20 cars carrying trailers went off the tracks, most of them were UPS trailers, and so shipping boxes were all over the place and getting dumped on, exposing the contents. One thing they found, of all things, was a box full of pot. Gee, who ever thought that they would ship illegal drugs by this means? They shouldn't have much problem finding the sender and recipient though. The good thing is that no one got hurt in all this.
Enough about the weather, now for yet another local story, this one is train related. With all this rain between the Tucson and Phoenix areas, it kinda softened up the roadbed for the BNSF line that runs south of here just north of Tucson. Well, that caused a derailment, over 20 cars carrying trailers went off the tracks, most of them were UPS trailers, and so shipping boxes were all over the place and getting dumped on, exposing the contents. One thing they found, of all things, was a box full of pot. Gee, who ever thought that they would ship illegal drugs by this means? They shouldn't have much problem finding the sender and recipient though. The good thing is that no one got hurt in all this.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD