Train Incident Follow Up

I never did hear for certain what caused the train incident just east of Fernley last night, and therefore I only speculate that it involved the death of a trespasser on the tracks. Just before I went to bed, I heard that emergency services had cleared the tracks and the train was released to continue. After consultation with the dispatcher, the crew decided to take the train east (the direction it was originally heading when the incident occurred) to Hazen siding, which is easy to access by road, where a relief crew would be dispatched to take over the train and take the original crew back to Sparks. The line was reopened for normal operations, and Amtrak came through this morning about five minutes ahead of schedule.

And People Like This Vote!

Yesterday, one of the stops Lisa and I made while shopping in Reno was at a Savers thrift store, where she was looking for some blue jeans to use when working around the house, on cars, etc. After picking out a few that fit, we examined their used books. (I've been buying fat history books as reading material for my working trips to the Bay Area.) We ended up encountering an man in his 70s who spouted off some ideas that he sincerely holds but that boggled us.

( Wal-Mart is Owned by the Government )

Unfortunately, angry and ill-informed people convinced that they are living under a Communist dictatorship evidence the kind of ignorance and hate into which demagogues readily tap, as we see in the current crop of Republican presidential candidates.