[CBQ] This is news???

["dr strangelove" <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com>]

     I caught the Facebook news feed of the local station, WSIL,from back home 
in southern Illinois and saw this ...
"Witnesses say train cars come apart on tracks in Zeigler"
There was also a picture of a coal hopper (I guess they are gondolas 
nowadays??) 
They actually sent a news team to investigate the "incident".
     I don't know if this is more a reflection of modern social media or the 
lack of people's general knowledge about trains. It seems like when i was a kid 
this happened quite often and nobody would have paid attention to this. It 
would be sort of like "Semi has flat tire on back road".
     How often did this happen back in the old days? I seem to remember  the 
Mopac working on a busted draw bar and/or coupler in Scheller when I was a kid, 
interesting but not newsworthy.




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