I keep reading in the media that the economy is just swell, that there aren’t enough people to fill the growing number of jobs. Things are peachy all over.
And yet, crime keeps rising.
Here’s a good example of this, from the tauntongazette.com website.
>>CSX Train Derails; Taunton Police Investigate Theft Of Train Tracks
Taunton — A CSX railroad engine en route to a delivery in Taunton’s Myles Standish Industrial Park derailed Wednesday afternoon after thieves cut away two 8-foot sections of solid steel track, authorities said.
No one was injured as a result of the incident, which observers on scene said ranks as the most audacious example of metal theft in recent memory.
“It stopped a little too late and derailed — it just dropped down on both sides,” CSX trainmaster Mark Smith said of the four-axle GP40 engine that was pulling two cars and a rear engine.
The engine’s front wheels landed astride the tracks, but neither it nor the other engine and two cars, tipped over. The rear engine, with the two cars in tow, by late Wednesday managed to pull away, leaving the front engine mired in the dirt among shards of shattered railroad ties.
Smith, 52, said the slow-moving train derailed at 1:30 p.m. as the two-man crew was delivering goods to Agar Supply, a foodservice distributor located at 225 John Hancock Road.
Three hours after the derailment, Smith said it would be sometime in the evening before the engine could be lifted back onto the tracks.
He also estimated it would take two to four days for the gap in the rail to be filled and for a damaged section of bent rail to be repaired.
