Penn Central
Train Attendant
Murphy's Law always seems to treat VRE well . Every time something like this happens, there's never any major injuries or lawsuits, and everyone soon forgets it ever happpened. Now if only Amtrak had that kind of luck...
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/200...10102007/323732The Virginia Railway Express locomotive that rolled through the Fredericksburg area two weeks ago was unlike any other.
First, it pulled no cars.
But, even more unusual, no one was driving it.
The unoccupied, 118-ton engine was under repair in Spotsylvania County when it took off for a six-mile run on the CSX main line before it was stopped in southern Stafford County. It reached a top speed of 40 mph.