• Man struck by train, East Stroudsburg - 6/28

  • Discussion about shortline operator Genesee Valley Transportation, operator of the Delaware-Lackawanna; the Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern, the Falls Road Railroad; Depew, Lancaster & Western; and the Lowville & Beaver River railroads. Official site: GVTRAIL.COM.
Discussion about shortline operator Genesee Valley Transportation, operator of the Delaware-Lackawanna; the Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern, the Falls Road Railroad; Depew, Lancaster & Western; and the Lowville & Beaver River railroads. Official site: GVTRAIL.COM.

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  by Otto Vondrak
 
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.d ... /906290320
By ADAM McNAUGHTON
Pocono Record Writer
June 29, 2009

EAST STROUDSBURG — A unidentified man sleeping on train tracks behind Kmart was struck and killed by a freight train on Sunday afternoon. Stroud Area Regional Police Cpl. Scott Raymond said the two men operating the train told police they saw the man on the tracks and tried to slow down around 4:15 p.m. They applied the brakes and sounded the horn several times but the man did not move. He died at the scene.
Thoughts go out to the engineer and crew.
  by Benjamin Maggi
 
Idiot.
  by RailKevin
 
Are railroad tracks such a comfortable place to sleep that now they may be considered an "attractive nuisance?"