Bull on tracks at Newark Penn Station

https://apnews.com/article/bull-train-t ... 221b0d0798

Quite the puzzling situation. Apparently it escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse and somehow made its way up the elevated track and into the station.

Moved to a sanctuary per NJT: https://www.facebook.com/NJTRANSIT/post ... HDuxcB7aRl

Someone must of had a cow over rail service...

I'm guessing it made it's way up to track 1 by climbing a stairway from the street onto the platform and then jumping onto the track or climbing down from the end of the platform.

MaRoFu wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:12 pm https://apnews.com/article/bull-train-t ... 221b0d0798

Quite the puzzling situation. Apparently it escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse and somehow made its way up the elevated track and into the station.

There is at least one slaughter house about two miles south of Newark Penn Station where the tracks are at ground level, so the steer could have entered there and trotted north to Penn.

There used to be a stockyard around there to which the PRR handled blocks of stock cars around 1960 -- I thought it was long gone.

Did anyone besides me flash back to a Merrill Lynch commercial?

CLamb wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:16 am I'm guessing it made it's way up to track 1 by climbing a stairway from the street onto the platform and then jumping onto the track or climbing down from the end of the platform.

It got into the ROW by Hunter

CL: Ricardo the Bull was photographed attempting to walk eastward on Track 2 - the inter-track wall between Tracks 2 and 3 along with the "dip" in the west end of the Track 2 platform is clearly visible... From what I recall Newark Station platform lengths can (or once could) accommodate 18 car trains...

What amazed me is just how much Media coverage Ricardo got for his escape - examples:
https://AccuWeather.com/en/weather-news ... ry/1604021
https://aol.com/where-did-ricardo-bull- ... 59643.html

Maybe Ricardo was trying to get to the Red Bull Arena in Harrison is just another thought about where he may have been trying to go to...He did "steer" clear of the PATH tracks with their third rail...He never got close to Dock Bridge with its open deck thankfully...Does anyone remember the instrumental song "The Lonely Bull" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (1962) which came to my mind reading about Ricardo's plight?
https://YouTube.com/watch?v=6uqPBZncL5Q&pp

Taking note to his pictured location on Track 2 there may have been a way if necessary to "corral" him by slowly running two light engines or equipment sets towards one another creating a "pen" that he could not escape from - tranquilizer darts did sedate him for his move off the NWK station tracks - was there any video or pictures of the Ricardo rescue effort by first responders and local animal control?

Let's just say Ricardo was "Bullish" on Newark that morning (with apologies to Merrill-Lynch)
All's well that ends well...MACTRAXX